Planet of Fire, the penultimate story of Peter Davison’s TV time in the Tardis, had a lot to get done. It had to: Bring back Anthony Ainley as the Master, last seen trussed up like…
Snakedance was the second story in Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor’s tenure to feature a monster known as the Mara. Christopher Bailey wrote both, and in a sense, they offered something that has become fundamental to…
Early in the Fifth Doctor’s time on screen, one of the big questions faced by actor Peter Davison was how to differentiate his incarnation from the massive, infectious, striding performance of his predecessor, the longest-running…
There were seldom occasions in Classic Doctor Who when a companion was so thoroughly front and centre of the storytelling as Janet Fielding’s Tegan Jovanka was in Kinda, originally written for the screen by Christopher…
Audio: Audiobooks: BBC: Doctor Who Written by Terrance Dicks, and read by Janet Fielding The Silurians and the Sea Devils, originally created by Malcolm Hulke for a pair of Jon Pertwee Doctor Who stories in…
Time-Flight was…always a weird story. Before the era of stunt casting really got going, it was a story more or less written around the stunt casting of Concorde – the long-nosed supersonic plane that looked…
