Category: Dr Who from the Beginning

Dr Who: Scream of the Shalka

Program note: “It’s the end… but the moment has been prepared for.” I started these “Dr Who from the Start” reviews as a series of Facebook posts in October 2011. At first they were quick 1-paragraph opinions with a set…

Dr Who: The Movie

“Yes! These shoes fit perfectly!” —The Doctor Story When the Daleks execute the Master, his last request is that the Doctor take his ashes back to Gallifrey. But of course, he had more in mind than just his funeral. He’s…

Dr Who: Survival

“I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever.” —Ace Story The Doctor and Ace return to her hometown of Perivale, after she expresses a…

Dr Who: The Curse of Fenric

Program Note: My faithful reader(s) have probably noticed I’ve been dragging my heels a bit with these posts lately: a week and a half to two weeks between posts, instead of weekly. The truth is, we’re coming up on the…

Dr Who: Ghost Light

“I can’t stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations – terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there’s unrequited love, and tyranny, and cruelty.” —The Doctor Story The Doctor is getting proactive again. After Ace confides…

Dr Who: Battlefield

“I just do the best I can.” —Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Story The Doctor picks up a signal in the TARDIS that leads him and Ace to the shores of Lake Vortigern in near-future England. The Doctor’s old friends UNIT are convoying…

Dr Who: Silver Nemesis

“There’s one question you haven’t answered, Professor— Doctor. Who are you?” —Ace Story The Doctor and Ace are listening to an outdoor jazz concert in November 1988 when his pocket watch beeps an alarm, reminding him that some planet is…

Dr Who: The Happiness Patrol

“Happiness will prevail” —Helen A Story The TARDIS materializes on the planet Terra Alpha, site of a human colony, because the Doctor has heard a rumor that something evil is going on here, and if so he’s going to put…