The “cosmic hobo” with his Beatles haircut, recorder and 900-year diary facing monsters alongside his Scots companion Jamie McCrimmon and one of three screaming dollybirds? Or the master of manipulation, gently edging his friends and enemies alike into carrying out a particular action or task? Or was the Second DoctorRead More →
K-9, the Most fantastical fantastic machine with a brain there ever was. He could do anything! Unless it involved rolling over a paper clip or walking on grass. But seriously he was the companion so nice they used him twice. Looking at the general idea of K-9 I can honestlyRead More →
Last week, we brought you the first part of this discussion into the Doctor Who 2005 series, featuring contributions from artists Carolyn Edwards, Andrew Skilleter, writer and performer Barnaby-Eaton Jones, writer Jean-Marc Lofficier, Kasterborous designer Anthony Dry and Kasterborous contributor Brian A. Terranova… this week, we’re also joined by artistRead More →
We’ve travelled to the 19th century and met Charles Dickens; we ventured in to the distant future and met the Moxx of Balhoon and the Face of Boe; we watched London get invaded by aliens twice and met the last Dalek… and then again thousands of years later. Doctor WhoRead More →
Regardless of what you might think, there is only one star in Doctor Who. Oh she may have been sidelined for a couple of years in the 1970s, you might have seen her wearing a different dress now and again and you’re more than likely mesmerised when you see her.Read More →
Once upon a time, there was a very old man who lived with his granddaughter. One day, he fell out with his family and colleagues and was made an outcast by his society. With no reason to stay, he left his home planet with his granddaughter in a disused, antiqueRead More →
Story arcs, themes, linking stories, it’s all been done before. Doctor Who, The X Files, Babylon 5, the list goes on. Pretty much everything we have seen in the new Doctor Who has however been drawn on a clean slate. New monsters, new threats – and when the Autons andRead More →
Doctor Who The Pop Star Why, oh why did those words ever have to come together? I’m not referring to Ms Billie Piper, no, she was a pop star before Doctor Who, I’m talking about… well let’s have a look shall we: Firstly we will speak of Roberta Tovey andRead More →
Back in the swinging sixties a TV show about a man from space captured the attention of millions of viewers, but the first thing they heard of this show was a theme tune. Not having been alive in the sixties I can only assume, based on others observations, that theRead More →
“Polyphase Avatron” is a phrase which will get spellchecking software the world over in a tizz. As is the word “tizz”. To Doctor Who fans, it is the name of the cybernetic parrot perched atop the shoulder of Bruce Purchase’s Captain in the story The Pirate Planet. To fans ofRead More →
More nerve than VX gas. More hate than the Middle East. More comebacks than Tom Jones. Now with added airpower. They make Cybermen look like the Bee Gees. The Master looks like “the Still Learning” in their shadow. Autons look camp and ineffectual, Sontarans lumbering and clumsy. There is onlyRead More →
Daleks. When you think about it they really are ridiculous. For instance, they can’t pick things up, they need slaves to do that. They talk about their superior technology yet one has to wonder how they built it. Do they get a bunch of humans, tell them what to do,Read More →
