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For the penultimate Companion Chronicles story, we return to an old favourite. Continuing from where 2010’s ‘Find and Replace’ left off, Jo Jones (née Grant) is off on an adventure with the irrepressible Iris Wildthyme. For those not acquainted with Ms Wildthyme, the trans-temporal adventuress, suffice to say that she is a sometime ally, sometime … >
The second story in the current Fifth Doctor and Nyssa trilogy finds the pair arriving on a spaceship that serves as a floating tomb. As the resting place of the Arrit God-King, from a society the Doctor suggests had the potential to rival the Time Lords, it is a place full of complex trials and … >
In addition to Doctor Who’s onscreen assault on the BBC schedule last November, a good deal of fan created content has appeared to mark the show’s golden year. One such piece is this crowd funded documentary which seeks to explore the show’s fandom in its various forms. From the academic who achieved a cameo in … >
For the uninitiated, Jago and Litefoot are Doctor Who’s quintessential odd couple. Thrown together by the events of ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’, Tom Baker’s 1977 Victorian era classic, the pair sprang fully formed from Robert Holmes’ tremendous story and left you wanting to see what happened next. Some thirty-two years later Big Finish tested … >
This is what Star Wars would look like if it was directed by Quentin Tarantino…
‘Moonflesh’ begins a new trilogy of stories starring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Arriving in a Suffolk forest in the autumn of 1911, the Doctor is intrigued to hear an African elephant’s trumpeting call and sets off to investigate. Danger soon presents itself and the pair are rescued by a Native American named Silver Crow. … >
With Leela plagued by bad dreams surrounding her father’s death, as heard just off screen in the opening moments of her introductory story, the TARDIS arrives in the hold of a luxury space cruiser named The Moray Rose. While the ship appears devoid of both its mega-rich passengers and their cargo, the time travellers are … >
Framed with an older Steven Taylor, many years after his time in the TARDIS, we find the former astronaut living in exile. Although he left his travels with the first Doctor at the end of ‘The Savages’ to unite a planet, Steven is now a deposed king condemned to a life of isolation. His visitor, … >
After two futuristic adventures, with the guiding hand of the Time Lords felt in the choice of destination, the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and Leela to the present day. That is to say our present day, rather than the natural habitat of this 1970s pairing, and to the delights of a wintry seaside village … >
Concluding the Sixth Doctor and Flip trilogy which began with January’s ‘Antidote to Oblivion’, we find the pair taking enjoying a view of the Earth from a mile wide International Space Station in the year 2071. Their arrival coincides with the launch the ‘Clean Up Space’ programme, an Anglo-Indian project designed to deal with the … >