Doctor Who Magazine writer Emily Cook, who has been organizing many Doctor Who watch-alongs during the COVID-19 pandemic isolation period, has organized something special for May 23. Details are scant but Doctors Assemble is a project which will be launched in conjunction with a live-tweeted watch-along of the Doctor Who biopic An Adventure in Space … >
Big Finish released Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures Volume 04 in March 2020. Like previous volumes (such as volume 03) it’s two stories over four discs, mimicking the original four short episode stories we often had in the 1960s and 1970s. This range brings us a reimagined and entirely recast TARDIS team. The Doctor and Susan … >
River Song ends her grand tour of all Doctors past in four new full-cast adventures, intersecting with the first four Doctors. Technically River has already met the Fourth Doctor in this series, but who’s counting? In this sixth (and at least one more is coming) set of stories, the team of writers has excelled themselves … >
The latest four-disc boxset for the recast Big Finish first Doctor team provides two stories for our enjoyment: one a pure historical, the other a rather different beast altogether. The first story is Marc Platt’s The Phoenicians, a sumptuous tale of royalty, history, legend and desperate measures. David Bradley’s Doctor has all the style, charm … >
Back as the first Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian are David Bradley (now also the first Doctor on TV, courtesy of last year’s Christmas special Twice Upon A Time), Claudia Grant, Jemma Powell and Jamie Glover. Now on their second boxset, they no longer sound strange to the ear, and the set overall feels more polished … >
Big Finish has a first-class reputation as a purveyor of high-quality audio drama, recreating classic shows and in the case of Doctor Who finding new opportunities for actors to return to roles fans love. The need to match the feel and sound of the originals has meant very little recasting over the years, and only … >
A two thousand-and-something year old man said it last Christmas, and it feels even more apt now: ‘Everything ends, and it’s always sad. But everything begins again too, and that’s always happy.’ And that’s what we have right here. An ending and a new beginning. Sad and happy all at once. Very Moffat. The mourning of … >
This Friday, as part of the BBC’s Children In Need telethon, we’re getting the now-traditional preview of the Doctor Who Christmas special. Twice Upon A Time will, of course, star Peter Capaldi and David Bradley as different iterations of the Doctor, with Jodie Whittaker appearing at the end of the episode too. Twice Upon A … >
The current Doctor will clash with his predecessor (and Bill) in the Doctor Who Christmas special over his dated views, says David Bradley. The actor told journalists at MCM London Comic-Con – including your CultBox correspondent – that the change in attitudes over the five decades since the first Doctor occupied the TARDIS will shock … >
David Bradley has a starring role on Christmas Day in the eagerly-awaited Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time. He’s playing, of course, his take on the William Hartnell’s first Doctor, having played Hartnell himself in the Who docu-drama, An Adventure In Space And Time. Bradley was at London Comic Con over the weekend, … >