Never Forget Daleks
I naturally continued my tour of Dalek episodes of Doctor Who recently added to BritBox’s collection by watching Remembr…
Doctor and the Everything Else
The Seventh Doctor’s first season on Doctor Who was not his best. It was an improvement over the Sixth Doctor era due…
Responsibilities of the Doctor
The 2013 Seventh Doctor Doctor Who audioplay Afterlife feels more like a Tenth or Eleventh Doctor story than any audio…
Doctor of the Parliament
1963 continues to be a busy year for the Doctor in the 2013 Doctor Who audio play 1963: The Assassination Games. The…
Forbidden Word of the Daleks
It seems at the beginning of the 2013 Doctor Who audio play Daleks Among Us that it’s going to be a nice, paranoid tale…
A nostalgic dip into what might have been
Titan Comics’ Doctor Who range often leaves me with a strange taste in the mouth. They can be singularly awful. Parts…
Two Doctors in the hospital?
You might recall that the Seventh Doctor’s last stay in hospital ended when Dr Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook) killed…
Sontaran Pockets
Who would dare rip of the greatest warriors in all of time and space? None other than Grendel from Beowulf in the 2013 D…
Harsh Persuasion
It seems the galaxy always needs sorting out because of people who think the galaxy needs sorting out. Luckily we have…
Wolves Who Play Chess
Norse mythology is better represented in the 2012 Doctor Who audio play Gods and Monsters than it was in the previous…
Beowulf in the Blender
The blue TARDIS returns at last in the 2012 Doctor Who audio play Black and White. Several previous Seventh Doctor…
Radio Announcements and Uncertain
Dreams
In an alternate 1989 where Vladimir Kryuchkov took over the Soviet Union in place of Gorbachev, Hex and Ace find…
Back to the Blue House
I’ve said before I’m a sucker for stories about groups of characters trapped in a house or a ship or some place else,…
Not Seeing It Coming
The Seventh Doctor seems really confident he can save Nostradamus and the rest of humanity from destruction in the 2011 …
The Divide Between Hate and the Hated
Those looking for more stories about oppressed robots on Doctor Who can check out the 2011 audio play Robophobia by…
Cats of the Doctor
Ahead of to-morrow’s new Doctor Who, I decided to revisit Survival, the 1989 serial written by Rona Munro, who also…
Is Saturday Night A State Of Mind
Matt Smith had a spiel in one of his Doctor Who episodes that Eleven only does “big days”, like Saturdays for example.…
The Doom that Came to Infinite
Universes
Like nearly all Science Fiction and Fantasy franchises, Doctor Who has made its share of Lovecraft references, both…
Nobody Shouldn't Know Better
Some stories have very clever plots but have no depth, some stories have depth without especially clever plots. A Death…
Recurring
Fascism in Time and Space
Doctor Who audio plays often deal with sensitive topics the television series would never dare. For example, a series…