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Episodes of Doctor Who that deal with a key historical figure are often some of the highlights of any given series, with The Girl in the Fireplace, The Unquiet Dead, Vincent and the Doctor and Day of the Moon typifying this point.
Following our previous Top 5 list, here we consider which other memorable historical figures remain for the show to explore…
Opening with a pounding forest action scene, this second episode of Atlantis exists primarily to introduce a further addition to the cast; Jemima Rooper makes her first impression with a slow turn to camera and a terrific scream.
Revised and with a new introduction, ‘Blue Box Boy’ is the memoir of Doctor Who actor Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric, the teen companion who joined Tom Baker during his final series and continued into Peter Davison’s first before being memorably killed off.
From the creators of Merlin and the creator of Misfits, BBC One’s new adventure series Atlantis continues this weekend with ‘A Girl By Any Other Name’.
If, like us at CultBox, you still have a Merlin-shaped hole in your life, you can at least console yourself with the fact that many of the cast have already gone on to great things both in the UK and across the pond.
Following the pattern that grisly discoveries occur when the Whitehapel gang are socialising, this final tale began amid a “Zombie Apocalypse” team building exercise.
Not that we were initially aware, joining them fleeing from the undead hordes with Buchan and Miles worryingly immersed in the game. It was a smart move, serving to highlight this fractured team’s plight. If such an event does not truly exist for corporate jollies, it really ought to!
Love them or loathe them, multi-Doctor stories have long been a part of Doctor Who’s anniversary celebrations and two such tales are coming our way this November.
The first beat of the tale was a surprising one with the introduction to Jason (Jack Donnelly) taking place in the present day. Establishing our hero as a rootless young man in search of his father, we soon descended in a mini-sub and found ourselves drawn in the world of Atlantis. And it is a world, rather than the past, we are led to believe.
When Doctor Who began its format was very fluid, with stories ranging from comedy to space opera. The TARDIS was more unpredictable and certainly not invulnerable, and most importantly the Doctor was clearly making it all up as he went along.
The world of Doctor Who has a fine tradition of anniversary publications. Given the level scrutiny the show has enjoyed in recent years, the trick is to find a unique angle to approach the material with. Wonderfully, BBC Books have achieved just that with The Doctor – His Lives and Times.