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‘Wiped! Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes’ book review

In this on demand digital age, we can stream Hollywood movies to our mobile phones and pre-order the DVD boxset of a television show before it has even aired. As Doctor Who approaches its 50th anniversary, the show is reaching ever-greater heights of popularity and international exposure. Amid all this, it somehow seems impossible to comprehend that there is a large swathe of the programme’s early episodes now lost to posterity.

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘Cold War’ spoiler-free review

Ahh, 1983. M*A*S*H, the moonwalk, ‘Mawdryn Undead’. Oh, and Mutually Assured Destruction. Good times.

But a bad time for The Doctor and Clara to land aboard a stricken Russian nuclear submarine. At the helm is Liam Cunningham, being all authoritarian and troubled, just as he was in BBC One’s short-lived space oddity Outcasts; while in the hold is David Warner, toting naught but a Walkman and a loveable grandfatherly nature.

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘The Rings Of Akhaten’ review

You know that feeling you got as a child when you had to sing a song in front of the whole school? Well, they’ve gone and made a Doctor Who episode about it.

It’s a truism that Doctor Who inspires playground re-enactment; but rarely has an episode so obviously been designed with Monday morning playtime in mind. So much of the story is imitable: from the alien who barks like a dog to the fact that the monster is defeated with an autumn leaf. A psychically-charged, totemic sort of leaf, but a leaf nonetheless.

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘Babblesphere ‘ (‘Destiny of the Doctor’ 4) audiobook review

Doctor Who’s ‘Destiny of the Doctor’ series reaches its fourth instalment with ‘Babblesphere’, a tale for Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana. Written by Jonathan Morris, the play is performed by Ward with Roger Parrott.

Arriving on the Earth colony of Hephastos, the time travellers come across a replica of the palace of Versailles encased in a geodesic dome and set amid a harsh volcanic landscape. Within, they find an artistic commune where the perils of social media are writ large.

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‘Doctor Who’: Top 5 alien worlds

From Androzani Minor to Zolfa Thura, from the dawn of the universe to barren worlds at the end of time, the TARDIS has seen it all. With the Doctor showboating to his new friend Clara on a trip to ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ in this weekend’s Doctor Who episode, CultBox takes a look at our five favourite alien worlds from the show’s modern era.

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