At present-day Heathrow airport, a Concorde on landing approach vanishes in mid-air— it doesn’t crash, it just disappears. While en route to the Great Exhibition of 1851, the TARDIS encounters a “time contour” and makes a forced landing, ending up…
Dr Who: Earthshock
It’s the 26th century on Earth. A team of commandos (it’s never explained whether they’re soldiers or police) is heading down into a cave where a group of scientists on a research survey were attacked, leaving only one survivor. As…
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Dr Who: Black Orchid
Addendum to Last Week’s Post: Your humble Dr Who columnist is embarrassed to admit leaving out an event of enormous significance in last week’s discussion of The Visitation. It should have gone in the “details” section, as follows: At one point…
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Dr Who: The Visitation
Now that things have settled down a bit, the Doctor attempts to get Tegan back to Heathrow airport in time for the flight she was trying to catch way back in Logopolis when she wandered into the TARDIS hoping to…
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Dr Who: Kinda
The TARDIS lands in the Garden of Eden, almost literally— although the story is based on Buddhism rather than Genesis. Kinda is an unusual story for Dr Who, having more to do with philosophy than adventure, and although the obligatory…
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Dr Who: Four to Doomsday
In a twist on the alien-invasion-of-Earth storyline, the TARDIS arrives on an alien spacecraft four days out from reaching Earth to begin its invasion. The frog-like Urbankans, only three of whom seem to be in evidence (we later learn where…
