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As a hero who eschews violence where possible, the Doctor often uses words as weapons. He is not one to suffer fools gladly, and both friends and enemies have found themselves the wrong end of his sharp tongue. Compiled by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, Wit, Wisdom and Timey-Wimey Stuff: The Quotable Doctor Who compiles … >
The latest boxset from Big Finish might at first seem somewhat of a departure from their regular sci-fi staples of Doctor Who and Blake’s 7. Based on the post-apocalyptic television show from the mid-1970s, Survivors actually has plenty of connections to both, coming from the pen of Dalek creator Terry Nation and sharing plenty of … >
When John Hurt was cast as the War Doctor, a hitherto unseen incarnation who forsook his principles to take up arms against the Daleks in the Time War, it was inevitable that we would be left wanting more. While we have only ever caught snatches of that impossible conflict on screen, which might well be … >
Each of the Doctors each received an outing with 2013’s 50th Anniversary collection of Doctor Who reprints, so this year it is the turn of his foes. Casting the net wider than before, this collection holds examples from both the Virgin Publishing’s ‘New Adventures’ and ‘Missing Adventures’ ranges from the early 1990s, as well as … >
When Paul McGann joined Big Finish in 2000, their first task was to devise him a companion. Charlotte Espleth Pollard, Charley to her friends, joined the TARDIS as a self-styled Edwardian adventuress with a joie de vivre to match the Doctor’s own. Played by India Fisher, familiar to many for her voice over work on … >
Doctor Who has a proud tradition of taking classic monster stories and doing its own spin on them. This was especially prevalent in the early gothic influenced Tom Baker era and ‘Last of the Colophon’ is a tale consciously cut from that cloth. Continuing his adventures with Leela, the story begins with the Doctor looking … >
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 … >