1981–84
While in Doctor Who terms, it may be little more than a pantomime runaround that makes very little sense, I could never hate Dimensions in Time …
Courtesy of The Caves of Androzani, I know where I was at around seven o'clock on 16th March 1984 …
This won't be the last time in Doctor Who where a crack in a wall is an index of a crack in time …
Has there ever been a more apposite last line in Doctor Who than in Warriors of the Deep …
They say familiarity breeds contempt, in which case The Five Doctors should be my least favourite Doctor Who story and yet, for all its flaws, it's far too much fun for me ever to tire of watching it …
'If he's the best swordsman in France they must have terrible swordsmen' …
Given there's always been a strong presence of female voices in science fiction, it's a bit of a shocker that we had to wait until its twentieth season for a woman to receive sole writing credit on a Doctor Who story …
After Turlough's early histrionics with the Black Guardian and the ensuing soap opera between him and Tegan in the TARDIS, Terminus settles down into a fairly decent bit of hard sci-fi …
No-one in his or her right mind would mistake David Collings for Peter Davison -- even as battered and bloodied as Mawdryn is here when Nyssa and Tegan first meet him …
Michael Gough really deserves better than to be reduced to the kind of frantic hand-wafting that wouldn't seem out of place in the 'Diabolical Acting' bit of the Spanish Inquisition sketch …
Unfortunately, thanks to the many magazines and Doctor Who reference books that litter the house, my son knew all of the major plot points of Earthshock going in …
Black Orchid, by dint of it being set in Earth's past and containing no science fiction element, may well be classed by many as Doctor Who's first pure historical since The Highlanders, but it's a journey to a past that, as in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, probably never really existed …
What better way to follow the metaphysical complexities of Kinda than with a straightforward pseudo-historical romp …
