God can be a problem. Whether we’re playing, preaching, discussing the gender of, arguing for, arguing against, questioning, or losing, God can be a problem. Or at least, our attitudes towards deities can be. Faith, of course, plays a big part in our lives, and it doesn’t matter which side of the fence you’re on, or indeed if you’re desperately trying to balance on top of said fence. As such,…

Having reached its 10th year, it seems as though Doctor Who had taken the first steps toward becoming an institution. Having changed lead actors twice and shifted the focus of the show from historical to space monsters to present day Earth, the programme demonstrated that its potential really was unlimited. This anniversary year would see the return of past incarnations, setting up a future…

There have been a few controversial moments in Doctor Who’s history but perhaps the most notorious was the cliffhanger ending from episode 3 of the 1976 serial, The Deadly Assassin.

If it hasn’t been burned into your psyche, the climax of the episode saw villain Goth (Bernard Horsfall) attempt to drown the Doctor (Tom Baker) and ended on a freeze frame of the apparently dead hero’s head under the…