A new season for Dr Who, and a much-improved start over the way the last season ended. The difference is glaring when going through these episodes one per week (it would probably have been less so for original viewers, who…
Month: September 2013
Dr Who: The Invasion of Time
“One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. Eventually one grows tired of everything… except power.” The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, and once again the main focus is on political intrigue among the Time Lords. But The Invasion of Time falls…
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Dr Who: Underworld
When I first became a Dr Who fan, back in the mid-80s right after the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors, broadcast on PBS, Underworld was considered by more experienced fans to be one of the two, or maybe three,…
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Dr Who: The Sunmakers
The only good thing about Robert Holmes’ departure as script editor of Dr Who is that it freed him up to write more episodes himself. Here he pens more proof that he was born to create Dr Who stories— and…
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Dr Who: Image of the Fendahl
“There are four thousand million people on this planet, and if I’m right, within a year there will be only one. Just one.” —The Doctor In a case of complete mood whiplash after last week, we’re back to an adventure…
