1963–66
I did watch Doctor Who's unaired pilot episode way back at the beginning of this blog when viewing the transmitted version of An Unearthly Child …
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 …
Nine years, one month and one week after its debut, Doctor Who celebrated its tenth anniversary …
What can I say about this first three and a bit seasons of Doctor Who that hasn’t already been said by countless other commentators …
Not unlike The Savages a few weeks back, I didn’t remember anything of The Smugglers …
It’s as if Doctor Who has arrived in the Swinging Sixties and simultaneously nicked one of the Third Doctor’s adventures …
The Savages is another of those stories of which I had absolutely no recollection …
If The Time Meddler was my favourite First Doctor story coming into this marathon, The Celestial Toymaker was certainly my least …
After a run of serials that are predominantly missing from the archive, and for the first time in many weeks, I was able to watch Doctor Who simply by popping the next DVD in the machine and pressing ‘Play’ …
… of St Bartholomew's Eve, to give it its (probable) full title, might well be the most serious-minded of Doctor Who's 60's serials …
From the outset it really feels as though you’ve landed in the middle of something truly epic …
Whenever I think of the story of the Trojan horse, I’m reminded of Red Dwarf and Dave Lister’s judgment on what we should take from it …
Galaxy 4 is unusual insomuch that it has an “official” DVD release with a reconstruction of its missing episodes, albeit one that is tucked away without fanfare …
Coming into this marathon, The Time Meddler was my favourite First Doctor story …
The Beatles and Doctor Who: two of my favourite things! There’s something quite thrilling about seeing them together …
If you thought that dimension-slipping, non-linear story-telling didn’t arrive in Doctor Who until the twenty-first century, you’d be wrong …
After the wild and uneven fantasy on Vortis, Doctor Who gets back to doing one of the things it does best: pretending to be Shakespeare …
