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As the Earth’s only natural satellite, the Moon has been both a fascination and an aspirational destination for humanity since we first looked up into the sky. In the world of Doctor Who, it has also been a regular feature as a great place for a base, a handy invasion staging point and the ideal … >
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a film which manages to be both breathtakingly epic in scale and emotionally close as it focuses on the fate of humanity and the promise made by a father to his daughter. As a former pilot, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) finds himself drawn into a space mission looking for a potential new … >
Returning to our screens for a full season after a 16-year absence, Doctor Who managed to pull in a wealth of talent for its 21st century debut. Some of the faces, such as Anna Maxwell Martin (The Bletchley Circle), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Jo Joyner (EastEnders) and Eve Myles (Broadchurch) have gone on to greater success; … >
When missing episodes from Patrick Troughton’s ‘The Enemy of the World’ and ‘The Web of Fear’ were found by Philip Morris at a relay station in Nigeria and returned to the BBC’s archive in 2013 after more than 45 years, hopeful Doctor Who fans realised that anything is possible. As rumours continue to circulate, we … >
The impossibly glamorous bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori (Chase Masterson) often sits on the wrong side of the law, so it was quite a shock to discover her in a new position for her second run. Vienna’s first season saw her revel in technological tricks, using memory boxes to disguise her motives and threatening to off … >
Bringing the TARDIS to a costal spot in the early 1900s, ‘The Darkness of Glass’ begins with the tone of a very traditional Doctor Who tale for the Fourth Doctor and Leela. Leaving K-9 behind, the time travellers find themselves knocking on the door of an isolated castle and joining members of The Caversham Society, … >
Picking up directly from the cliffhanger ending of ‘Mistfall’, the opening part of this return to E-Space Trilogy, we find the Fifth Doctor and friends in pursuit of a vital TARDIS component which will allow them to return to their native universe. Crash landing in an icy medieval realm, they abandon the TARDIS moments before … >
Released as eBooks across 2014, the ‘Time Trips’ stories invited a group of well-known writers to come and play in the Doctor Who universe. The eight stories have now been collected into a hardback volume, wrapped with an additional dust-jacket tale. With each writer choosing their Doctor and period of the show, and only eight … >
With the familiar faces of the ‘Paternoster Road’ gang confirmed for a return in Series 8, CultBox considered which other of Eleven’s pals we would like to encounter again…
Best known for his contributions for the modern Doctors on screen, Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts contributed this pair of ‘Missing Adventures’ to the Virgin book range in the mid-nineties. Adapted for audio by John Dorney, both stories both pair Tom Baker’s Doctor with Lalla Ward’s Romana II and K-9, the first time this line-up … >