1974–81
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 …
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 …
To seven year old me, there was no Doctor other than Tom Baker …
Logopolis may have its faults as a standalone story but as season-wrapping finales go it's probably never been bettered …
Watching The Keeper of Traken with the benefit of hindsight, there's a moment towards the end of Part Two that you'd swear was the Doctor realising who the actual villain was …
State of Decay, despite a couple of rather odd cliffhangers, continues the upturn in season eighteen's quality. …
Whilst it has been suggested that Tom Baker could be a bit prickly on the set of Doctor Who at times, it takes watching Meglos to discover it appears to be have been literally true …
No Doctor Who fan can be averse to change: it’s in the show’s DNA …
For a story that was never completed, there seems to be an awful lot of versions of Shada kicking about …
You're either going to be in the mood for The Horns of Nimon or you're not …
"Oh, my fingers, my arms, my legs! Ah! My everything! Argh!" There, I thought I'd get the worst of it over with immediately …
I’d forgotten quite how obscene-looking the titular ‘Creature’ is …
The Dalek dialogue is as dull and repetitive as ever and David Gooderson is no Michael Wisher, but there's still a lot to enjoy in Destiny of the Daleks …
I've possibly laboured the point that this era of Doctor Who feels ahead of its time …
Witty, exciting, inspired by a literary source, with a fabulous villain – The Androids of Tara is as-near-as-dammit perfect Doctor Who …
For its first half The Stones of Blood is a heady mix of English folk horror and Edgar Allan Poe: pagan cults, stone circles and birds that are augurs of doom …