Unearthly Times

The Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee

1970–74

Doctor Who and the Ghosts of N-Space finds Sarah Jane Smith trying her hand at being a novelist …


Mar
06
2021

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

It still seems strange that Barry Letts would choose to set The Paradise of Death directly after The Time Warrior when there was plenty of room elsewhere for it slot into Doctor Who's eleventh season …


Feb
06
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

Prior to this marathon, I'd always found it hard to think of a weakest Third Doctor story.  …


Dec
31
2016
Story
074

The Third Doctor's bouffant is at its most magnificent here, which, given Planet of the Spiders is his swan song, is perhaps fitting …


Dec
17
2016
Story
073

Well, this was much better than I remembered …


Dec
10
2016
Story
072

For the second time in their three Third Doctor appearances, the Daleks seem superfluous to proceedings …


Nov
23
2016
Story
071

Yes, the dinosaurs are pants -- let's get that out of the way immediately -- but in contrast with a certain other Doctor Who story with the word 'Dinosaurs' in the title, at least the special effects are the only thing that is rubbish about the story. …


Nov
12
2016
Story
070

Thanks to Monty Python, I'm often tempted to yell 'Run away! Run away!' in a high-pitched voice whenever there's an ineffectual siege on a mediæval castle …


Nov
05
2016
Story
069

For the second story in succession, the Doctor changes clothes at an inappropriate time …


Oct
29
2016
Story
068

At times Planet of the Daleks feels like a lacklustre covers album: most of the original notes are there but somehow the magic isn't …


Oct
22
2016
Story
067

Frontier is Space is yer full-on epic space opera adventure Doctor Who-style …


Oct
15
2016
Story
066

The Five Faces of Doctor Who in 1981 was revelatory for me. Before it I'd had no idea that actors had played the Doctor prior to Tom Baker  …


Oct
08
2016
Story
065

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


Oct
01
2016
Story
064

That my overriding memory of first watching The Time Monster is being violently ill whilst it was on TV doesn’t necessarily reflect my opinion of it …


Sep
24
2016
Story
063

It’s … The Mutants – or how I learned to recognise ‘unpeople, undoing unthings untogether’ from quite a long way away …


Sep
17
2016
Story
062

The Sea Devils, having been repeated on BBC Two in the early 90's i.e. during my own nascent Doctor Who fandom, belongs to that group of stories for which I have a nostalgic soft spot …


Aug
13
2016
Story
061

Doctor Who gets to pretend to be Shakespeare again. OK, so it's Shakespeare with Martians and a monocular hermaphrodite hexapod …


Jul
30
2016
Story
060

Whilst I tend to favour the originals over the special editions on these Doctor Who DVD releases, the re-vamped version of Day of the Daleks on disc 2 does enhance the climactic battle in Episode Four …


Jul
09
2016
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