Unearthly Times

The Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton

1966–69

Story
140

In many ways, The Two Doctors marked the beginning of the end for classic Doctor Who …


Mar
28
2020
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
Story
065

Nine years, one month and one week after its debut, Doctor Who celebrated its tenth anniversary …


Oct
01
2016

Two years! Two years it's taken to get this far. But as The War Games illustrates, there's something to be said for taking the slow road  …


Nov
23
2015
Story
050

It's strange to think that the Doctor has carried that little box with him throughout these adventures …


Nov
21
2015
Story
049

Perhaps it's the shared forename or initials but I've always thought of Robert Holmes as Doctor Who's Dean of Science Fiction …


Oct
25
2015
Story
048

I faced this return of the interminable lumber of the Ice Warriors with a dread similar to that I'd felt with its predecessor …


Oct
17
2015
Story
047

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about The Krotons is that it is the first contribution to the show by the writer who arguably became Doctor Who's greatest …


Sep
27
2015
Story
046

For this story, I was happy to have with me as guest blogger my son, who'd wanted to watch The Invasion for some time  …


Jun
28
2015
Story
045

I've suggested previously that I'm not a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland or stories that seem like stream-of-consciousness, anything-can-happen-and-probably-will flights of fancy …


Jun
14
2015
Story
044

You can't blame Henry Lincoln for someone using his ideas and turning them into something earth-shatteringly terrible. But enough about The Da Vinci Code …


Jun
07
2015
Story
043

It's almost twenty minutes before we see anybody else in The Wheel in Space – before that it's just the Doctor, Jamie and a robot …


May
02
2015
Story
042

It's a testament to the strength of the stories that precede it that it's something of a disappointment that Fury From the Deep is merely very good …


Apr
26
2015
Story
041

Strangely, given that it holds a unique place in this marathon – insomuch as I hadn't seen it before – I found myself with a certain reluctance actually to sit down and watch The Web of Fear …


Mar
21
2015
Story
040

When I was first planning this marathon, I did not expect to be able to watch The Enemy of the World …


Feb
28
2015
Story
039

I have to confess that I wasn't looking forward to The Ice Warriors: interminable hissing and dithering was how I remembered it …


Feb
08
2015
Story
038

The Abominable Snowmen is an apt corollary to The Tomb of the Cybermen …


Jan
31
2015
Story
037

I stopped watching Doctor Who in 1983, not because I stopped liking it, but because I moved away from the UK …


Jan
24
2015
Story
036

Is this a first in Doctor Who – someone at the outset knowing more about the Doctor (and Jamie) than vice versa …


Jan
11
2015
Story
035

The Faceless Ones certainly doesn't hang around to get started: within the first few minutes there's been a murder and Polly's been kidnapped …


Dec
24
2014
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