1989-2005
Eighteen years ago today the BBC announced that Doctor Who was returning to our screens, bringing an end to what has become known to fans as the Wilderness Years …
By the time The Story of Doctor Who aired in December 2003, we'd known for three months that the show was coming back …
Scream of the Shalka was the most fully realised of Doctor Who's attempts at using the web in the nascent days of the twenty-first century …
Shada, Doctor Who's third webcast of the early twenty-first century takes the as-then-unfinished Douglas Adams tale and repurposes it for the Eighth Doctor …
Little did we know at the start of 2003 what Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary year would bring …
Real Time is, much like its predecessor (understandably, given broadband speeds at the time) of the limited animation ilk …
In which Steven Moffat shows us he never could resist his love of everything wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey …
In retrospect, given Destiny of the Doctors features Anthony Ainley's final performance as the Master, perhaps we should imagine this directly precedes the events that lead to his trial on Skaro and transformation into a kind of ectoplasmic slime …
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" …
Doctor Who and the Ghosts of N-Space finds Sarah Jane Smith trying her hand at being a novelist …
Not strictly speaking Doctor Who, of course, as it was part of Adrian Mourby's Whatever Happened to … series …
A more enjoyable celebration of Doctor Who than Dimensions in Time and arguably a more fitting anniversary present for fans than The Dark Dimension might have been …
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 …
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 …
When did geek anoraks start to hail from the West Midlands? …
I did watch Doctor Who's unaired pilot episode way back at the beginning of this blog when viewing the transmitted version of An Unearthly Child …
When the Doctor told Ace they had work to do, is this what he meant? …
I toyed with the idea of marking the end of the classic series with a post attempting to encompass my thoughts on twenty-six seasons of Doctor Who …