Win a set of ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Torchwood’ audiobooks!

To celebrate the release of AudioGO’s latest Doctor Who and Torchwood titles, we’ve got a set of five audiobooks to give away (worth over £55), including Doctor Who: The Day of the Cockroach, Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Doctor Who: Paradise Towers, Torchwood: Red Skies and Torchwood: Fallout! For a chance to win, all you have … >

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Matt Smith’s ‘Clone’ trailer

Sci-fi drama Clone, starring Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith and Casino Royale‘s Eva Green will be released in UK cinemas next month ahead of its DVD and Blu-ray release on Monday 7th May.

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‘How could a karaoke machine kill me granddad?’

Given the popularity of The X-Files at the time – not to mention the amount of time Mulder and Scully used to spend on their cellphones – it was hardly surprising that Vodafone decided to gently spoof the show in a series of ads for their network in the mid-1990s. Perhaps the best of the … >

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‘Master, what is your desire at Christmas?’

They used to say that playing the title role in Doctor Who was the best job in television. If such a remark is ever repeated nowadays, it’s always qualified with reference to the incredibly long hours, the arduous hanging around waiting for shots to be ready, the stress of carrying the heavy burden of the … >

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‘The stuff of legend…’

The appetite of YouTubers for homemade Doctor Who trailers is insatiable, and although there are as many KFC buckets as gourmet feasts (and, to be fair, a lot of indigestible horrors, too), some of the very best have an enduring appeal. True, this 50th anniversary promo does go on as long as an eighteen-course banquet, … >

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‘It was a cold, wet night in November… 22 years ago…’

Despite what we’ve seen in CultBoxed previously, the true nadir of Doctor Who-related pop songs didn’t come in the Sixties or Seventies; it was in 1985 – during the programme’s first cancellation crisis – that the worst came to the worst. Along with such luminaries as David Van Day, Hazell Dean, Jona Lewie and the … >

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