Unearthly Times

The Wilderness Years

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 …


Sep
26
2021

By the time The Story of Doctor Who aired in December 2003, we'd known for three months that the show was coming back …


Sep
25
2021

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 …


Sep
18
2021

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  …


Sep
04
2021

Little did we know at the start of 2003 what Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary year would bring …


Aug
28
2021

Real Time is, much like its predecessor (understandably, given broadband speeds at the time) of the limited animation ilk …


Aug
21
2021

Doctor Who's first webcast is a curious beast …


Aug
14
2021

1999 must've been a slow year for me on the Doctor Who front …


Jul
31
2021

In which Steven Moffat shows us he never could resist his love of everything wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey …


Jun
19
2021

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 …


May
29
2021
Story
156

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" …


May
22
2021

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


Mar
06
2021

Not strictly speaking Doctor Who, of course, as it was part of Adrian Mourby's Whatever Happened to … series …


Feb
20
2021

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 …


Feb
14
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

When did geek anoraks start to hail from the West Midlands? …


Jan
31
2021

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 …


Dec
19
2020

When the Doctor told Ace they had work to do, is this what he meant? …


Dec
12
2020

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 …


Dec
06
2020