The classic incarnation of the long running British sci-fi staple starring The Doctor. This incarnation ran from 1963 to 1989 (and 1996) and is being very slowly reviewed by A Winged Potato
Dungeon Module 7G Ho, adventurer! You have travelled many aeons to this strange new realm. Always the forces of Order press on its borders, seeking to enslave its populace to Exciting Employment Opportunities and render its riches into Year-On-Year Growth. … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E04 “Dragonfire”
Big Finish review time once more! I started these reviews because I’d slowly built up a collection of Seventh Doctor stories, but foolishly deferred to my completist side by not actually watching or listening to many of them until I … Continue reading Doctor Who (EU): Big Finish Season 24, Part 2
Season 24 Written by Malcolm KohllDirected by Chris Clough How long until something old is new again? They say the Nostalgia Cycle is between twenty and thirty years. Long enough for a generation to experience something, grow up, and then … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E03 “Delta And The Bannermen”
Big Finish review time! I started these reviews because I’d slowly built up a collection of Seventh Doctor stories, but foolishly deferred to my completist side by not actually watching or listening to them. This is my motivation for finally … Continue reading Doctor Who (EU): Big Finish Season 24, Part 1
Season 24Written by Stephen WyattDirected by Nicholas Mallet In a 2009 poll, “Paradise Towers” was voted the eighth-worst Doctor Who story of all time. In 2013 it had a burst of popularity and ascended the list a whole two places. … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E02 “Paradise Towers”
Season 24Written by Pip and Jane BakerDirected by Andrew Morgan In 1987, Doctor Who died. They just didn’t know it yet. Doctor Who was a dead show walking, an inherited legacy whose only purpose was to fill the time while … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E01 “Time And The Rani”
With Modern Doctor Who’s 12th season being over and lucky 13 being delayed due to the ongoing pandemic there isn’t a lot of new Doctor Who on TV at least for a while. I figured to fill the gaps in … Continue reading Weekly Who Return and Doctor Who Review Signups
Season 8 Directed by Barry Letts Written by Robert Holmes I really wasn’t intending to follow-up the last review soon or possibly ever, but then I took a look at the premise of the next episode and well… it was … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S08E01 “Terror of the Autons”
Season 7 Directed by Douglas Camfield and Barry Letts Written by Don Houghton Hilariously, my half-finished draft of this review started with me commenting on how fast we had blown through this season and… whoops. I won’t go into why … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E04 “Inferno”
What do The Beatles and Daleks have in common (besides both popping up in the serial The Chase?) In the 60s they both had massive waves of popularity given the -mania suffix. The Daleks created by Terry Nation were originally … Continue reading Weekly Who #13 is suffering from Dalekmania
Season 7 Directed by Timothy Combe Written by Malcolm Hulke After last week’s standout serial, we head into the back half of this season with another seven-episode story. It was also a serial that ended in a way that would typically … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E03 “The Ambassadors of Death”
Season 7 Directed by Timothy Combe Written by Malcolm Hulke Last time, Doctor Who took its first steps into reinventing itself in colour and more relevantly to the plot as an Earthbound show. It was an effective serial both on its … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E02 “Doctor Who and the Silurians”
Season 7 Directed by Derek Martinus Written by Robert Holmes The show had been avoiding proper story ending cliffhangers for a while, but “The War Games” left us on a heck of a doozy. The Doctor was mid-regeneration, a punishment for … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S07E01 “Spearhead from Space”
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke Last time out we wrapped up one important era when we finished with the missing episodes, but that was more of a retroactively relevant serial. Quality wise … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E07 “The War Games”
Season 6 Directed by Michael Hart Written by Robert Holmes After ninety-seven arduous episodes, we have finally come to the end. Not of the season or of the Second Doctor’s era (I’d hardly call them arduous, but we have one … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E06 “The Space Pirates”
Season 6 Directed by Michael Ferguson Written by Brian Hayles, Terrance Dicks (uncredited) It’s been a long while since we last checked in, but I’ve been sitting on this half-finished review ever since. Since that time, the modern series has wrapped … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E05 “The Seeds of Death”
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Robert Holmes After a lengthy serial on Earth that would presage the next era of the show, it was time to head back into outer space. It’s a much shorter serial this … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E04 “The Krotons”
Season 6 Directed by Douglas Camfield Written by Derrick Sherwin, Story by Kit Pedler While that last serial was a brisk five episodes, we are afforded no such luxury here. At eight episodes, it is the longest serial of the … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E03 “The Invasion”
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Derrick Sherwin (Episode 1), Peter Ling Welcome back to classic coverage of Doctor Who and where we last left off (not counting a brief detour into THE FUTURE), I was just wrapping up where … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E02 “The Mind Robber”
Season 17 Directed by Pennant Roberts (1979) and Charles Norton (2017) Written by Douglas Adams It’s been a while since I last checked in with Doctor Who and it will be a little bit longer before regular coverage returns I’m sorry to … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S17E06* “Shada”
Season 6 Directed by Morris Barry Written by Norman Ashby It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? Back when the channel first started and the possibility of doing classic reviews on our own and filling in the AVC gaps, I … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E01 “The Dominators”
