Warning: Contains Spoilers! I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this new series of Doctor Who, the first full series under the production deal between Disney+ and the BBC, as most of the pre-publicity was so insubstantial and fluffy … Continue reading Doctor Who – Space Babies: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! The phrase ‘you just can’t please some people’ could easily have been invented with Doctor Who fans in mind. They didn’t like the Chris Chibnall era, so they wanted it to go back to the way it … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! I believe that Russell T. Davies IS the Toymaker. Why? Well, come closer and I’ll explain. In the previous two stories, he presented elements that a certain type of person might consider ‘controversial’: Rose being trans, UNIT … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Giggle: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Very little was revealed about the second story in the 60th Anniversary trilogy, other than its title, Wild Blue Yonder, which didn’t give too much away. Unlike The Star Beast and The Giggle, no substantial clips of … Continue reading Doctor Who – Wild Blue Yonder: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Doctor Who Weekly was an important part of my childhood, as it was for many fans who grew up in the ’70s and ’80s. I distinctly remember my Mother bringing me home the very first issue when … Continue reading Doctor Who – The Star Beast: Review
Looking through the Doctor Who pages here on The Universal Omnibus, it suddenly came to my attention that they were a bit of a mess. Not everything was linked to where it’s supposed to be linked and there were a number … Continue reading A Whoniverse of Our Very Own
It’s perfectly understandable that any television series that has ran for six decades will suffer a little from changing attitudes. There are some Doctor Who serials of yesteryear that seemed perfectly okay at the time but now can’t be looked … Continue reading Is The Celestial Toymaker Racist?
For the debut of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor in 1984, Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner made an unusual and, in retrospect, quite unwise decision: instead of introducing the new Doctor in the first episode of a new season, … Continue reading Thou Craggy Knob! The Curious Case of the Twin Dilemma
For the twentieth anniversary of Doctor Who in 1983, we were blessed with the sublime The Five Doctors, a feature-length adventure that would go on to become a subject of warm nostalgia to even the most hard-hearted of fans. It … Continue reading Spinning Around (Or How to Watch ‘Dimensions in Time’ Without Vomiting)
I originally wrote this story many years ago for the original version of the Strange Skins fanzine, but it was never published. Then it almost became a talking book with the voice of the Ninth Doctor provided by the wonderfully … Continue reading ‘A Town Like Malus’ by Paul Ferry
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