Star Flight, the latest BBC Doctor Who audio short trip by Paul Hayes, drips competence and class from every syllable of its hour and six-minute run time. It takes us back more than sixty years…
You know when you start a new John Peel Doctor Who story that you’re in safe hands – which is not as twee a prospect as it might sound. You’re going on an adventure in…
You don’t create a sitcom that can run for more or less two decades, with a decade’s break in between, by sticking to a single formula, a single iteration of the core idea. Series V-VIII…
Mission To Magnus is a historical oddity in Doctor Who terms. It’s a relic of a season of Classic Who that never came to be filmed – the ill-fated original Season 23, which was canned…
We love fan audio drama here at Mass Movement. We also love to reach out across the vortex to other podcasts and, to coin a phrase, lend them our lugholes. What can we tell you…
There’s a certain similarity in most of the reviews of The Return of the Doctor, the second story in the new Thirteenth Doctor audio series from Big Finish. Generally, you’ll read that while the first…
The two latest Doctor Who short trip audiobooks from BBC Audio are a neat pair, each showing a whole “type” of Doctor Who adventuring. Counterstrike, by Una McCormack, pitted the Doctor and Belinda against an…
There is a long and proud tradition in science fiction of terrifying tales where there is essentially no bad guy, but where systems engineered for a particular purpose will do it irrespective of any inconvenient…
Red Dwarf is probably the ultimate example of the brave little British sit-com that could – beginning in a low-budget, under-the-radar way, transforming itself several times along its lifespan, sometimes with better results than others,…
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster was the slightly deflated title given to the Target novelisation of the rather more zingy Terror of the Zygons, the first story of Tom Baker’s second season in…
What Still Remains is on first glance and first listen, a collection of deeply Doctor Who ingredients, woven into a story that is driven on by a slow if steady heartbeat of menace. The Seventh…
The Well, by Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall, was largely well regarded when it was broadcast as part of Season 15 (or Season 2, depending on your preference) of 21st century Doctor Who. Bringing…
