“What do you two do in there?” “Argue, mostly.” Story The TARDIS is on the way to visit Kew Gardens in the early nineteenth century when it’s pulled off course to materialize in the mining village of Killingworth in the…
Category: Dr Who from the Beginning
Dr Who: Vengeance on Varos
The Story The TARDIS loses power in mid-flight, and can’t move again without a supply of the precious mineral Zeiton-7. There’s only just enough power to materialize on the only planet in the universe where Zeiton-7 can be found, Varos.…
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Dr Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Program note: I’ll have a post on the new series’ “Deep Breath” tomorrow. I need a second viewing and some thinking time in order to have a fully-formed opinion. “That didn’t go so well, did it?” The Story The TARDIS…
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Dr Who: The Twin Dilemma
“I am the Doctor— whether you like it or not.” Story Regeneration has left the Doctor mentally unstable, with wild mood swings from grandiose overconfidence to sudden cowardice to paranoia and outbursts of anger and violence— including a truly shocking…
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Dr Who: The Caves of Androzani
“I owe it to my friend, you see, because I got her into this— so I’m not going to let you stop me now!” The Story: The TARDIS lands on Androzani Minor, barely-habitable twin planet of Androzani Major, and when…
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Dr Who: Planet of Fire
“Look after him, will you? He gets in the most terrible trouble.” The Master regains control of Kamelion, who’s been sitting in some closet somewhere since coming aboard the TARDIS, and uses the android to steer the ship to the…
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Dr Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
“It’s stopped being fun, Doctor.” The TARDIS gets caught in a time corridor connecting a spaceship far in the future and an empty warehouse in London in the present day. It turns out the Daleks are responsible: they’ve lost their…
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Dr Who: Frontios
“The earth is… hungry!” The TARDIS is forced down on the planet Frontios, home to the last surviving colony of humans after a catastrophe destroyed the Earth, and far enough into the future that it’s even beyond the Time Lords’…
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Dr Who: The Awakening
PROGRAM NOTE: I apologize to my faithful reader(s) for the week’s delay in this post: last weekend, I got diverted by various other things. “The Malus is pure evil. If not stopped, it will destroy not only the village but…
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Dr Who: Warriors of the Deep
“There should have been another way.” The TARDIS lands in an undersea military base in the year 2084. In the future as seen by Dr Who in the 1980s, the Cold War is still going on (though see below) and…
