Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2.3.2: Lay Down Your Arms

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At a spa in Bad Homburg, the Doctor encounters a Russian Tzar… or does he? Lisa McMullin’s script is something of a backdoor celebrity historical, although unless you’re familiar with key German literature of the late 19th century, you may not connect the title with one of the key characters… (Unusually the description of this…

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Today’s Reviews: It’s the Kerblam! Target

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Everybody looks forward to a visit from the Kerblam! man… Ultimately, it’s a straightforward story, parodying the working conditions endured within the warehouse of large retailer, and McTighe doesn’t try to complicate things by adding any unnecessary asides. Click here to read Nick Joy’s full review, and for our other coverage, click here.  

Review: Doctor Who: Books: The Zygon Invasion

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by Peter Harness BBC Books, out now The 12th Doctor faces the fallout of the fragile peace between Zygons and humans – can he stop the world from plunging into war? Peter Capaldi’s 2015 Series 9 two-parter The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion written by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat is novelised by Harness as…

Target novels of the anniversary specials coming in January

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The three latest Doctor Who adventures featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble will become novels. BBC Books will be expanding the Doctor Who Target range with three new titles in January 2024. The collection are novelisations of the 2023 Doctor Who Specials, which will feature David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate…

Review: Doctor Who: Books: Planet of the Ood

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by Keith Temple BBC Books, out 13 July  The Doctor and Donna learn that the planet of the Ood holds cruel and awesome secrets. The third episode of David Tennant’s last full season as the Doctor, Planet of the Ood, was transmitted in April 2008, written by Keith Temple, writing for the show for the…

Review: Doctor Who: Books: Warriors’ Gate and Beyond

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by Stephen Gallagher BBC Books, out 13 July The TARDIS is caught in a collapsing void between two different universes – and the Fourth Doctor, Romana and Adric must enter a dangerous alliance with a race of enslaved, time-sensitive aliens. As a 12-year-old I struggled with Warriors’ Gate when it was first transmitted – I…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2.3.1: The Seas of Titan

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The Doctor arrives on Titan and joins an undersea exploration… The third set of adventures in Christopher Eccleston’s second season for Big Finish begins with this subaquatic tale from Lizbeth Myles that’s taken on a certain extra potential horror in light of events over the Titanic in recent times (the arrival of the TARDIS in…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Fourth Doctor Adventures 12.6: The Ghost of Margaret

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Disliking goodbyes, the Doctor drops Margaret back near her home – but not as near as she should be… Tim Foley wraps up the saga of Margaret Hopwood – at least for now – with this unusual character-driven two-parter. Sure there’s an extradimensional menace to deal with (and we’re in a certain amount of Sapphire…

Review: Doctor Who: Doom’s Day: 0600-0700: A Doctor in the House? Part One

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Writer: Jody Houser Artist: Roberta Ingranata Titan Comics, out now Doom, the universe’s greatest assassin, is in pursuit of the Doctor, hoping they can save her from Death. It’s Titan’s turn to join the multi-media Doctor Who event, Doom’s Day, bringing in their regular writer/artist combo of Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata for 0600-0700 of…

Today’s Reviews: Re-examining early Baker

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The About Time series goes back and takes a fresh look at the Tom Baker years in its two releases this year: There are whole new sections based on information that simply wasn’t available originally – a detailed account of the genesis of the Scratchman movie, for example – and a reassessment of what still…