1987–89, 1996
Twenty-five years ago today I would've been popping in the VHS tape of Doctor Who: The Movie and watching what would've been my first proper full-length Doctor Who story since becoming a "fan" …
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 …
When the Doctor told Ace they had work to do, is this what he meant? …
Whilst I know that strictly speaking this isn't the end for the Seventh Doctor, let's just say (if I may paraphrase the Fourth Doctor) that the moment is being prepared for …
In a neat parallel with An Unearthly Child, the Doctor's travels, for the time being at least, end with him back in contemporary London …
I almost watched The Curse of Fenric when it was first broadcast …
Even in a show as literate as Doctor Who has been over the decades, Ghost Light stands out as one of its most richly allusive stories …
Although it's not without its flaws, one thing I really like about Battlefield is how it handles its big revelation …
You hear tales of people running away to join the circus, but running away from the circus? …
Although I like a lot of music that is jazz-influenced, I long ago reached the age where it's OK for me to say 'you know what, I don't really like jazz all that much' …
In The Happiness Patrol, the Doctor displays a degree of ruthless efficiency worthy of the Spanish Inquisition …
With Remembrance of the Daleks it feels as though many of the most promising aspects of the previous season's Seventh Doctor stories have clicked into place …
Ah, Ace! The quaint swearing, the inability to remember that the Doctor's title is not Professor, the teenage terrorism …
Delta and the Bannermen, as with Paradise Towers before it, shows a lot of promise, although, much like its predecessor, it suffers from a clash of tones at times. …
At almost no point does the incidental music complement the action in Paradise Towers. And yet …
Why does the Doctor regenerate at the beginning of Time and The Rani? Too much carrot juice? …