The Context of 'Doctor Who' 3
The era of the Second Doctor had generated much warmth: Troughton and Hines had worked so well together on screen that the goodbye scene...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' Part 2
When Patrick Troughton took over as the Doctor in Doctor Who in 1966, the producers probably thought that they would be wrapping up the...
The Context of 'Doctor Who' Part 1
For a show that has lasted over fifty years, involving hundreds, if not thousands of people including several dozen different writers and...
Challenging the Female Template in Fiction: Sarah Jane in 'Doctor Who'
Examining female characters in fiction, one can hardly escape noticing a particular pattern in many of them. Ranging from figures such as...
The Magic of 'Catweazle'
Television in the 1960s and 70s was the internet of its day. Everyone was hooked. A relatively new invention, it brought people together...
The Significance of 'The Ark in Space'
ABC TV in Australia must have had some kind of commercial relationship with the BBC, because periodically BBC programmes appeared and...
The Doctor as Sea Captain?
In 1966, as William Hartnell’s ill health grew worse, but as the show continued to be popular, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd looked for...
Why 'Doctor Who' Has Plot-Holes
We’ve established earlier in this blog that the current version of Doctor Who is the creative child of Steven Moffat, and that, as a...
The Two Hearts of the Doctor
Let me confess immediately that I don’t like River Song as a character (though Alex Kingston does an excellent job with her as an...
Why Protagonists Get Thinner
As you can read much more about in How Stories Really Work, and as has been written about earlier on this blog, protagonists are meant to...