32 Doctor Who Quotes to Make You Smile
The Doctor: Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. The Doctor: Fear makes companions of all of us. The...
'Hell Bent' on Story-telling
Steven Moffat’s finale to Series 9 of Doctor Who was possibly both a masterpiece and unintentionally revealing. There are a few unwritten...
Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography
I've just finished reading 'Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography', and for any Doctor Who fan -or indeed any fan of the world of...
Bigger Inside Than Out: The Attraction -and the Peril- of 'Doctor Who'
I was discussing the Doctor Who finale 'The Wedding of River Song’ (first broadcast in October 2011) with a friend and we agreed that the...
The Implausible Girl, or Why 'Face the Raven' Didn't Work
If, like me, you’ve been a Doctor Who fan since 1963, you will have developed your own ’ret-conn’ mechanisms for either wiping your...
'The Doctor's Wife': A Review
I note that viewer response was overwhelmingly positive to the Doctor Who episode written by Neil Gaiman ‘The Doctor's Wife’ (Season 6,...
The Doctor as Rebel
Back in 2009, David Tennant was chosen as a 'dream headteacher’ in a survey of primary school children commissioned by the National...
Key Symbols in 'Doctor Who'
There’s a radical fan theory that Doctor Who isn’t actually a television programme at all. If there really were such things as time...
The Perfect Companion Arc of Sarah Jane Smith
For me, the Golden Age of Doctor Who stretches from the beginnings of the show in 1963 right through to the moment that Sarah Jane Smith...
Lewis, the Wardrobe and the Police Box
If, like me, you tend to read a great deal of significance into things, it won’t have escaped your notice that C. S. Lewis died about an...