More often than not, when you’re a child, you don’t understand or even consider the significance of things. Take, for example, my Reception age daughter who is currently discovering the wacky madness of Sooty, Sweep, and Soo. She is aware that there was another friend of the trio before Richard Cadell, but that’s not important to her. Nor is it of any interest to her that Sooty is nearly 70 years…

This Autumn, Professor River Song will be joining UNIT! The Diary of River Song: New Recruit, from Big Finish, finds the Doctor’s time-travelling archaeologist wife back in the 1970s – or is it the 1980s? – as she teams up with fan-favourites Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Jon Culshaw) and Dr Liz Shaw (Daisy Ashford). The set includes everything from spooky folklore in an English village to…

Roy Scammell, who was involved as an actor, stunt performer, and fight arranger in Doctor Who in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 88. Scammell had small roles in The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno but it’s for his work on the programme’s stunts that he is best known. The Jon Pertwee era saw a new emphasis on impressively staged action sequences and Scammell, along with the HAVOC…

The Third Doctor returns in two brand new audio adventures, separately featuring Liz Shaw with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and Sarah Jane Smith. It feels heartwarmingly nostalgic to have both Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller reprising the roles of the respective companions, once again, as originally portrayed on-screen by their late mums Caroline John and Elisabeth Sladen. Similarly, Jon…

The Silurians – otherwise known as Homo Reptilia, or sometimes, the Eocenes – hadn’t seen seen in Doctor Who since 1984 when they made a return to the show in 2010 with the two-part Matt Smith story, The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood. It had to re-introduce the Silurians and their rich mythos, while making sure that long-term fans and viewers were as impressed as the newcomers who were meeting them…

A cache of mostly unseen photos from the seventh season of Doctor Who have recently been made public. The black & white and colour images were taken behind the scenes during production of Jon Pertwee’s debut as the Third Doctor.

The photos were taken during several separate shoots. In make-up and wardrobe, one can see costume supervisor Christine Rawlins and make-up supervisor Marion Richards.…

I have been watching Doctor Who since 1983, coincidentally the same year as The Five Doctors was released. I bring this up because The Five Doctors was the first story I sat down to intentionally watch.

Back in those days, I used to have a friend in High School whose mom liked Doctor Who. I remember seeing Tom Baker’s time tunnel titles – I’d pause and watch that, then go off with my friend…

It’s with immense sadness that we report the passing of Terrance Dicks, a legend who is known to many as “Uncle Terrance”, such was his importance in the Doctor Who family.

Yes, it’s a desperately sad day. But Terrance did so much, today should be a time to celebrate his life.

Dicks was born in Essex on 10th May 1935, the only son of William and Nellie (née Ambler), and studied English at…

First up: a confession. When the chance to pick a season of Doctor Whoarose, I went out of my way to pick something I had DVDs on the shelf I was overdue watching. While I’d seen Season 7 back in 1970, at the time I didn’t take it all in and, truth be told, a couple of the stories were rather vague in my mind, and not watched since. Well, it was nearly 50 years ago, and I was only 9! So, Season 7…

For some time, the Doctor Who Companion has promised readers a project that caters for fans of all eras. This week, that project will launch. So what exactly is it? How long will it run for? And what’s with the hold-up?

Throughout the rest of the year, we’ll be publishing reviews of every single season of Doctor Who, all the way from Season 1 (1963- 64), starring William Hartnell’s First…

Today, our Targets (hoho!) for The Collector’s Corner are two of the Japanese translations of the Target novels. I bring forth for your consideration:

Space Time Big Bloody Battle! and Shuddering! Underground Monsters. Here are the covers:

Space Time Big Bloody Battle! is better known as David Whitaker’s superb novel, Doctor Who and the Daleks. Or Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the…

I always find The Ambassadors of Death is a curious beast. It doesn’t reach the highs of its season fellows, but it certainly has a lot going for it, much more than Third Doctor serials like Colony in Space and The Mind of Evil. Its main crime is that it’s slightly too long. Still, it’s often overlooked, forgotten amidst Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, and Inferno. That’s why…

This month sees the release of several Doctor Who audiobook adventures with a classic tale featuring the Master and a boxset of adventures with the Second, Third and Fourth Doctors. The Mind of Evil Available now, The Mind of Evil sees eminent scientist Emil Keller develop a revolutionary new process for the treatment of hardened criminals. His invention, the Keller Machine, is heralded as a…

It’s taken quite some time, but The Scales of Injustice is finally out as an audiobook! Originally published as a Virgin Missing Adventure in 1996, Gary Russell’s novel, featuring the Silurians, was republished under The Monster Collection banner in 2014 alongside Corpse Marker, Shakedown, The Sands of Time, Touched by an Angel, Illegal Alien, Sting of the Zygons, and Prisoner of the Daleks.…

When we find ourselves in an unfortunate position – say, we’ve locked ourselves out of the house, or couldn’t get on a bus because it was full and we’ll be late for work again – some of us will look for someone, anyone to blame. Rather than accept that maybe we should keep better track of our keys or aim to get an earlier bus, some of us will blame the kids for distracting us on our way out or…