Well. It finally happened. Russell T Davies lured Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter in the first era of Doctor Who, back into the on-screen show in The Interstellar Song Contest, written…
Let’s not beat around the bush here. Some Doctor Who full length novels and audiobooks miss the mark. Some are fine. Some are fun. And then, just occasionally, you get one that truly gets the…
There’s something innately dark about drama that restricts its participants to a single spot. Boom! in the latest series of Doctor Who showed that particularly well, but in Torchwood – Bad Connection, there are throwbacks…
For those who are new around these parts, first there were Doctor Who story novelisations from Target. Then, years later, in a more civilised age, there were audiobooks of those novelisations, read (at least usually)…
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…
The Nestenes and their avatars, the Autons are a villain (once a monster) with which it is increasingly hard to find Good Things To Do. The Octopoid Nestene, with its gift of malevolently animating absolutely…
It’s all fun and games till somebody’s ribcage cracks open, releasing a shedload of synchronised giant wasps from Hell. Actually, in Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps from GraphicAudio, the absolute reverse is true. The fun…
Doctor Who versus the Sasquatch? Yes, Babes! On a primal level, the title of this new BBC audio for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday sounds like one of the “factual” books of the late…
Before we go any further, this review comes with two confessions. Confession #1: Destiny of the Daleks was the first Doctor Who story I watched with the mindset of a fan. It was so amazing…
The Novel Adaptations range at Big Finish has always had a chequered history. Listeners with a long history of connection to the novels that in a very real sense kept Doctor Who alive in dark…
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…
Really terrific, top-tier villains in Doctor Who are phenomenally hard to come by. We’re sometimes lulled into forgetting that by just how many times the show has bottled a moment of intellectual or philosophical lightning…
