Galaxy 4 is unusual insomuch that it has an “official” DVD release with a reconstruction of its missing episodes, albeit one that is tucked away without fanfare …
Dr. Who! And the Daleks! On the Big Screen! In COLOUR! Now, I know what I said …
So, it’s taken a bit longer to get through than the first, but that’s two seasons down …
Coming into this marathon, The Time Meddler was my favourite First Doctor story …
The Beatles and Doctor Who: two of my favourite things! There’s something quite thrilling about seeing them together …
If you thought that dimension-slipping, non-linear story-telling didn’t arrive in Doctor Who until the twenty-first century, you’d be wrong …
After the wild and uneven fantasy on Vortis, Doctor Who gets back to doing one of the things it does best: pretending to be Shakespeare …
I have a friend for whom this is the absolute nadir of Doctor Who …
The Romans is tremendous fun! Well, perhaps not for Ian, who has to endure being a galley slave and a gladiator. Or indeed for Barbara …
Like David Whitaker’s previous two-parter The Edge of Destruction, this story has a particular dramatic function …
You have to give Terry Nation his due – he could certainly write an atmospheric first episode! Suicide, murder, decay, the suggestion of plague, a flying saucer, a sprained ankle …
I’ve always been a fan of Gulliver’s Travels, so the idea of miniature travellers interacting with oversized creatures and props was always going to appeal to me on some level …
So, in what seems no time at all (but has actually been just over two months), I’ve finished watching season one of Doctor Who …
One of the simple joys to be had watching these early episodes of Doctor Who comes from hearing characters speak without their resorting to glib one-liners …
The Sensorites is a rather odd – or should that be rather Ood – story to judge, sometimes being quite spooky, sometimes dragging out the action much too long, often feeling a bit silly, but at other times being quite poetic …
The Aztecs is a story I remember rather better than its predecessor, having seen it several times, although admittedly not since its original DVD release over ten years ago …
Before watching it again, I could remember absolutely nothing about The Keys of Marinus. I couldn’t remember how many times I’d seen it or even when I’d last watched it …
Nary a clip exists from any of the seven episodes of Marco Polo and whilst there are fan-made reconstructions out there I could watch, I’ve chosen to stick with listening to the off-air soundtrack …
OK, so I said a few weeks back that Doctor Who was rarely if ever as dark as An Unearthly Child. Well, this two-parter just about proves that wrong …
