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…
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…
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…
Rogue on TV was a peculiar episode of Doctor Who, with three general categories of reaction. On the one hand, there were the disappointing people who took umbrage at the kiss between bounty hunter Rogue…
73 Yards was a deeply peculiar Doctor Who story on-screen. In its main storyline, it was an excellent riff on Russell T Davies’ epic Years and Years with an effective folk horror twist. But in…
Space Babies has been regarded by the Doctor Who fandom as everything from an oddish start for a Doctor’s first proper season to an experiment in tech-syncing of voice to mouth movement that doesn’t quite ever pull off its big trick, to a bit of an exercise in sloganeering space silliness – depending on which rabbit holes of internet fandom you fall down.
It’s probably fair to say that you never quite know what you’re going to get from the BBC Audio range in terms of Doctor Who. After all, in a sense, that’s a reflection of the…
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: BBC: Bill Bryson Written and read by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson is, for anyone just joining us, one of America’s foremost wits of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He made his name…
The world of Doctor Who has frequently been mined for Extended Universe stories. Whether they’re stories of the adventures the Doctor never had on screen – which have been the stuff of annuals and comic…
It knocks you back a step any time you remember that ‘New’ Doctor Who is 17 years old now. For those ‘Classic’ fans keeping score, that’s as far from An Unearthly Child as Tom Baker’s…
