Unearthly Times

The Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker

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 …


Feb
13
2021
Story
129

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 …


Aug
10
2019

To seven year old me, there was no Doctor other than Tom Baker …


Nov
23
2018
Story
115

Logopolis may have its faults as a standalone story but as season-wrapping finales go it's probably never been bettered …


Nov
17
2018
Story
114

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 …


Oct
20
2018
Story
113

Does E-Space have spiders? …


Oct
13
2018
Story
112

State of Decay, despite a couple of rather odd cliffhangers, continues the upturn in season eighteen's quality. …


Oct
06
2018
Story
111

It seems that the Time Lords have finally caught up with Romana …


Sep
29
2018
Story
110

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 …


Sep
08
2018
Story
109

No Doctor Who fan can be averse to change: it’s in the show’s DNA …


Aug
18
2018

For a story that was never completed, there seems to be an awful lot of versions of Shada kicking about …


Aug
11
2018
Story
108

You're either going to be in the mood for The Horns of Nimon or you're not …


Jun
23
2018
Story
107

"Oh, my fingers, my arms, my legs! Ah! My everything! Argh!" There, I thought I'd get the worst of it over with immediately …


Jun
02
2018
Story
106

I’d forgotten quite how obscene-looking the titular ‘Creature’ is …


May
26
2018
Story
105

It's hard to overstate quite how good City of Death is …


May
12
2018
Story
104

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 …


Apr
21
2018
Story
103

I've possibly laboured the point that this era of Doctor Who feels ahead of its time …


Apr
14
2018
Story
102

Biggest. Monster. Ever. …


Apr
07
2018
Story
101

Witty, exciting, inspired by a literary source, with a fabulous villain – The Androids of Tara is as-near-as-dammit perfect Doctor Who …


Mar
31
2018
Story
100

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 …


Mar
24
2018
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