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The antagonist in fiction is that character who has adopted a fixed solution to an inner vacuum or emptiness or threat. This fixed...

Twenty years ago, John Devon Roland Pertwee (pictured above with William Hartnell in the 1953 comedy film Will Any Gentleman...?) born in...

We have seen in earlier articles that the Doctor began his life on the television screen in a role approximating that of a villain: he...

‘The Edge of Destruction’, first broadcast in February 1964, is a curiosity. This is partly because David Whitaker, the script-writer,...

As we saw in an earlier article,‘The Daleks’, originally aired in 1963/4, came at a pivotal point in the development of Doctor Who....

The first episode of the fifty-year-old series Doctor Who had established a unique set of parameters. The juxtaposition of...