“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…
Category: Dr Who from the Beginning
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…
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Dr Who: The Invisible Enemy
Oh dear, that wasn’t very good at all, was it? An unbroken winning streak that’s lasted for three seasons comes to a sudden halt in a parade of bad special effects, bad costumes, and narrative silliness. The story could have…
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Dr Who: Horror of Fang Rock
NOTE: there are spoilers about the ending of the story in the review below. Exercise caution if you haven’t watched it yet, but plan to. The TARDIS doesn’t travel far from its last stop: ahead in time from the Victorian…
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Dr Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Should Doctor Who and Sherlock do a crossover? There’s no need— the Doctor has been Sherlock, right here in The Talons of Weng-Chiang. This is a terrific episode, absolutely one of (my picks for) the ten best in the history…
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Dr Who: The Robots of Death
It’s an Agatha Christie drawing-room mystery, with robots! The TARDIS arrives on board a “sandminer,” a huge industrial ship scouring a planet-wide sea of sand for valuable minerals. But the crew aren’t your typical miners: they’re from a civilization that…
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Dr Who: The Face of Evil
The TARDIS lands on an unnamed planet, where the members of a primitive tribe called the Sevateem all recognize the Doctor as “The Evil One.” It seems they have good reason: the Doctor’s face is carved into the side of…
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Dr Who: The Deadly Assassin
For the first time in the series’ history, a Dr Who story is set on the Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey. We’ve seen the Time Lord planet before, in the Doctor’s trial at the end of The War Games and…
