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…
The Horns of Nimon, bless it, was never a great Doctor Who story. On the one hand, it was a fairly lazy piece of construction by Anthony Read, borrowing hugely from Greek myth (as the…
The third of the run of Torchwood stories to catch us up with the alumni of The Impossible Planet, Torchwood: Oracle is the one that feels most closely linked to the original story. Not that…
In the second instalment of the three-story catch-up with the characters from The Impossible Planet, James Goss casts Zachary Cross Flane (Shaun Parkes) as industrial detective on a garbage reclamation planet. A garbage reclamation planet…
It was all the way back in 2006, as part of David Tennant’s first series as the Doctor and only the second year of the renewed show, that we first encountered something called The Torchwood…
Attack of the Cybermen is a Doctor Who story that has traditionally been characterized as “troubled.” The first adventure for the explosive Sixth Doctor after his tacked-on regeneration story (in which he throttled his companion,…
Written by Phil Ford. Read by Maureen O’Brien. The Waters of Mars is one of the best complete stories in the history of “New” Doctor Who. One of the special stories on the road to…
Written by Keith Temple Read by Silas Carson Planet of the Ood on TV was a Doctor Who story that wore its social conscience firmly on its sleeve, delivered intensely arresting visuals, showed the wonder…
Written by Chris Lynch Read by Terry Cooper It would be a big mistake to describe the love of dark and supernatural stories beneath the surface of ordinary environments as any kind of trend. MR…
Written by Kevin Clarke Read by David Banks Silver Nemesis, even when it was broadcast, was… a bit odd. As a story, it threw together elements like a Fourth Reich bunch of wannabe-Fuhrers, a couple…
Written by John Lucarotti, adapted by Jonathan Morris Starring Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Christopher Naylor, Terry Molloy In Big Finish’s brief run of re-adaptations of some of the scripts from Season 12 of Classic era…
Written by: Terry Nation Starring: Nicholas Briggs, Sadie Miller, Philip Hinchcliffe, Samira Ahmed Big Finish has always had a penchant for delivering lost Doctor Who stories to its audience, and often, they’ve worked very well,…
