“That is the dematerialisation control and, that over yonder is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me” Since...
Read MoreFuture Earth, the first companion leaving the TARDIS, the Doctor’s amazing goodbye speech, sassy Daleks? The Daleks having the weirdest most convoluted plan for the Earth? There are a lot of reasons The Dalek Invasion of Earth...
Read MoreThe vast majority of the time, I write half from the episodes in question and half from memory. But for the first time, I haven’t actually seen this story before! All I knew was that it was set in Revolutionary France and the...
Read MoreThis is the first story that really tackles the fact that as time travellers the Doctor and his companions do have the power to change things in the past and potentially make a real mess of things. Something that the Doctor...
Read MoreThe Edge of Destruction is an interesting one. For starters it was written in an incredibly short period of time when they realised they only had eleven episodes for their thirteen episode season, and also because of time and...
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