Doctor Who (1982): Earthshock
Doctors Revisited Vol II part i A review by Nalini Haynes ★★★★☆ four out of five stars Peter Davison is the Doctor with Tegan (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) as...
View ArticleDoctor Who: Time of the Doctor
A commentary by Edward and Nalini Haynes SPOILERS, SWEETIE – IT’S A COMMENTARY We have a confession to make. We didn’t watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special the Time of the Doctor on Boxing Day as is...
View ArticleDoctor Who (1988): Remembrance of the Daleks
A review by Nalini Haynes The Doctors Revisited vol 2 ★★★★☆ four out of five stars Doctors Revisited vol 2: Remembrance of the Daleks features Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor with Sophie Aldred as his...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e03: Unquiet Dead
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Euros Lyn Writer: Mark Gatiss Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Alan David They’ve been to the future. Now the Doctor (Christopher Eccelston) is taking his...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e04: Aliens of London
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Keith Boak Writer: Russell T. Davies Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 stars The Doctor (Eccleston) and Rose (Piper) have...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e05: World War Three
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Keith Boak Writer: Russell T. Davies Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 stars ‘World War Three’ is the sequel to ‘Aliens of...
View ArticleSimon Fisher-Becker interviewed by Kathryn Beaton
By guest blogger Kathryn Beaton I stood in my living room, wrapped in a towel with water dripping from my hair. I had just stepped out of the shower and bolted for the phone when it rang, just in case....
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e06: Dalek
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Joe Ahearne Writers: Robert Shearman, Terry Nation (character: “The Daleks”) Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Steven Beckingham ‘Dalek’ opens with the...
View ArticleDoctor Who videos – May 2013
A long, long time ago I found these Doctor Who videos on the interwebs and thought they were worth posting for fannish delight. While I’m doing some housekeeping today, I thought I’d post these WHERE...
View ArticleDoctor Who art: The Last Cyberman by Nalini Haynes
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View ArticleLife after Doctor Who and topless Doctors
Previously posted in That’s a Wrap #22, January 2013 Russell T Davies writes a children’s story for Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott, Doctor Who) and Freema Agyeman (Martha in Doctor Who). Not only was...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e07: The Long Game
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Brian Grant Writer: Russell T. Davies Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Bruno Langley The Doctor (Eccleston) and Rose (Piper) land on a space station in...
View ArticleDoctor Who and disability
After Simon Pegg played an evil albino in The Long Game (season 1 of New Who), I started noticing more that Doctor Who uses ‘othering’ stereotypes for villains. The only person in a wheelchair in ‘Rise...
View ArticleDoctor Who novel: Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds
A review by Nalini Haynes On an alien planet in the very distant future, an ancient woman – the Red Queen – and her caterpillar-like sentient subjects experiment on volunteers with horrendous...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e08: Father’s Day
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Joe Ahearne Writer: Paul Cornell Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri The Doctor (Eccleston) offers to take Rose (Piper) anywhere and anywhen....
View ArticleDoctor Who cosplay at Oz Comic-Con
Doctor Who cosplay was probably the most common theme at Oz Comic-Con this year with doctors galore wearing fezzes, bowties, suits or scarves; people in TARDIS boxes and dresses and hoodies; daleks and...
View ArticleBBC apologizes for Doctor Who leak
By now you’d have to be living under a rock – or offline for a few days – not to know that the BBC leaked details for the first 5 episodes of the next season of Doctor Who. The BBC [...] The post BBC...
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e09: The Empty Child
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: James Hawes Writer: Steven Moffat Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Kate Harvey The Doctor and Rose follow a manic spaceship travelling through time...
View ArticleDoctor Who (1967): The Moonbase
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Morris Barry Writer: Kit Pedler Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Anneke Wills The TARDIS tumbles through time and space, making a forced landing on the moon....
View ArticleDoctor Who s01e10: The Doctor Dances
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: James Hawes Writer: Steven Moffat Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Albert Valentine The Doctor Dances is part two of the story started in The Empty...
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