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 … >
It’s almost time for Matt Smith’s final hour as the Doctor, so let’s take a look back at Doctor Who‘s best festive specials and see what ‘The Time of the Doctor’ has to beat.
We all love to see a returning character in Doctor Who don’t we? With a number of returnees confirmed for the 50th anniversary special, ‘The Day of the Doctor’, CultBox recently sought your opinions regarding this very subject. Here’s how you all voted…
Doctor Who has been through many forms on the television screen over the past 50 years, from the black and white adventure serial of the 1960s to the bold primary colours of the 1980s. We recently asked you to tell us which era has been your favourite. Here’s how you voted…
‘Last of the Gaderene’ represents the Third Doctor adventure in BBC Books’ Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Written by Mark Gatiss in 2000, before his career as a screenwriter for the new series, it remains his most recent Who story in prose.
The fifth tale in this anniversary sequence of stories, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, is quite definitely grounded in Peter Davison’s first series with the Doctor again failing arrive at Heathrow Airport in favour of answering the summons of an old friend. In fact, there are enough in-story continuity references to site the tale firmly between ‘Kinda’ and ‘Earthshock’.
Doctor Who will return to BBC One in autumn 2012 for a seventh series, starring Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.
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‘The Bells of Saint John’ was a rip-roaring series (re)opener from the pen of showrunner Steven Moffat. In fact, when you consider the up and downloading of souls into a computer system, the repeated (catch)phrase, the direct addressing of the audience, the ringing TARDIS telephone and the slow rotating reveal, the episode could not have been more Moffat-ish if it tried.
The BBC has released the third episode of Pond Life, a series of five Doctor Who mini-adventures.
Featuring the classic Doctor Who adventures Invasion of the Dinosaurs and The Android Invasion, the UNIT Files boxset is released on Monday 9th January. > Buy the boxset on Amazon. To celebrate, we’ve got 3 copies of the boxset to give away! For a chance to win, just follow CultBox on Twitter and tweet the … >