The Time Monster, as it appeared on-screen, is a story which embodies both the ambition of early 1970s, UNIT-based Doctor Who, and the failure of that ambition to be adequately supported either by the effects…
Audio: Audiobook: BBC Written by: Terrance Dicks Read by: Michael Troughton The Seeds of Death in at its heart an interesting story that cautions against the adoption of flashy new technologies that stand on the…
Written by: Donald Cotton Read by: Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Jamie Glover, Jon Culshaw, Clare Corbett, Maureen O’Brien, Louise Jameson. Donald Cotton was in no sense your average Doctor Who script writer. He was, if…
Written by: Andrew Lane Read by: Dan Starkey Andrew Lane, like other writers including Paul Magrs, has had the opportunity, story by story, to create a little pocket universe of his own. While Magrs was…
Written by: Terrance Dicks Read by: Dan Starkey There are, across almost sixty years, a vast variety of “types” of Doctor Who story. There are the ones where you need more information to make the…
Audio: BBC: Comedy Hosted by: Sarah Millican Elephant In The Room is proof, if proof were needed, that there’s no concept so odd that it can’t be turned into a BBC comedy panel show. Where…
Audio: BBC: Doctor Who Written by: Philip Hinchcliffe Read by: Jamie Glover Having scored a series-saving hit on his first try with the BBC’s new experimental time-travel ‘children’s show’ in 1963, writer Terry Nation (creator…
Hosted by Susan Calman There must, presumably, be a whiteboard in the back room planning hub of BBC Radio comedy panel shows that declares “There is no such thing as a stupid idea.” This is…
Written by Terrance Dicks. Read by Geoffrey Beevers. There are Doctor Who stories that benefit from being novelized entirely straight, simply transferring the on-screen antics to the page and letting the reader (or listener) revel…
Here’s the first thing to understand about Battlefield: it was now highly-successful novelist Ben Aaronovitch’s second televised episode of Doctor Who. His first, Remembrance of the Daleks, was simply extraordinary, opening Doctor Who’s 25th season…
Time and the Rani is a story that suffered from several pitfalls on-screen. For one thing, it was a regeneration story in which the outgoing Doctor-actor refused to film his half of the process, on…
In Bessie Come Home, Paul Magrs showed us what ultimately happened to the Third Doctor’s daffodil-yellow roadster Bessie in the years after she helped the stranded Time Lord save the Earth time after time after…
