The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa come to the aid of an anti-communist band… Sarah Grochala’s two part story is an enjoyable linear tale, showing a side to the fifth Doctor we’ve not seen or heard before, and putting the team behind the Iron Curtain, a location not visited as often as it could have been…
Review by C.J. Bunce The 60th anniversary of Doctor Who continues with a return of the Tenth Doctor–and Martha Jones! Martha is captured by monsters we haven’t seen before, the (someti…
Never meet your heroes… Tim Foley gives us the longer of the two stories in this latest box set of adventures for the TARDIS crew somewhere between Arc of Infinity and Mawdryn Undead, and there’s a great deal to admire in it. A lot of the time the focus is purely on our central trio,…
The Doctor faces terrible choices, and Bernice has a race against time… The final story in this set also marks the last time we’ll hear David Warner’s Unbound Doctor interacting with Lisa Bowerman’s Bernice Summerfield (although it’s now confirmed that there was one more performance by Warner in the vaults, ready for the 60th anniversary).…
by Daryl Joyce Telos, out September 8 Widescreen depictions of the Doctor’s travels over the last 60 years. Daryl Joyce’s artwork has been seen in many different media over the past few years, taking information from the original TV series of Doctor Who and extrapolating it to present imagery that is truly cinematic in scope.…
The final confrontation with Purity… There’s a lot to tie up in Robert Valentine’s script for this conclusion to the Purity arc – although one element that seemed to have been announced in the PR for this release isn’t present (you’ll know it when you hear it). There’s plenty for all the key players to…
How pure is Purity’s world? The final box set of the Purity arc kicks off with a story by producer Jacqueline Rayner that starts with what we think is a bedtime story, but realise, at its heart, is a rather nasty way of reminding a little girl that she’s not made of the “proper stuff”…
by Simon Guerrier and Peter Anghelides BBC Books, out now A page-a-day guide to living your best Time Lord life, staying serene with your daily dose of the inspirational plans, pronouncements and principles that bring order this crazy and chaotic universe. The title of this Doctor Who book continues as ‘365¼ Whoniversal Meditations on Life and…
Spoilers An attempt to rewrite Robin’s history goes horribly wrong… In many ways, this is the conclusion to the Stranded saga – or at least, the part of it that deals with the changes to history, and the abortive timelines. Roy Gill’s script takes 107 Baker Street and diminishes it around our lead characters, forcing…
Spoilers Andy Davidson is dead, blown up in an explosion. So how come he’s at the door of Baker Street? I’ve taken a couple of days to process Lisa McMullin’s script for this instalment of Stranded since listening to it. On the surface, it’s quite straightforward – there’s a determination to save Andy’s life by…