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…
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Dr Who: The Hand of Fear
Caught in an explosion after landing on present-day Earth, Sarah comes across what appears to be a fossilized human hand but which the Doctor soon realizes is a still-living fragment of a silicon-based alien life form. Soon Sarah has fallen…
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Dr Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Season 14 opens with one of the lesser outings for this era of Dr Who, but here in the midst of the Golden Age that’s barely a criticism: it’s still a great episode I wouldn’t hesitate to show any non-fan…
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Dr Who: The Seeds of Doom
The Fourth Doctor tries his hand at a James Bond movie in a story that waits until the climax for the alien monster to take center stage, while spending most of its time in action-hero fight scenes, chases, and undercover…
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Dr Who: The Brain of Morbius
Here in the heart of Dr Who’s “Tribute to Classic Horror Movies” era, we get a homage to “Frankenstein” that is probably the most clear and direct such borrowing Dr Who has done yet. Pyramids of Mars had mummies but…
