When the Blu-ray season collections started coming out, I assured myself that: A) I was only going to buy Tom’s first season, as it had some fantastic extras. That’s it! No more. B) Okay, I would only buy the collections from the first four Doctors’ seasons, yes. C) But hold on, I would make an exception for Colin’s first season as it was my favourite of the ’80’s. D) I… Okay, the dominoes…

Just before Christmas, we asked you a series of questions all about Stargate— oh, no, wait, it was Doctor Who, wasn’t it? Of course it was Doctor Who because this is the DWC’s BIG Doctor Who quiz. And now, it’s finally time to reveal the answers. But how did you do? We hope you’ve noted down all your answers, so you can tot up all your points. Then at the end of these answers, you can see what…

Fandom, fandom, fandom. Why do we love Doctor Who? What is the nature of this thing, fandom, which explains our loyalty and our enthusiasm? Which is so baffling to those who don’t share our commitment? Why do we stick with the show? Why do we stay loyal to it, even when it isn’t very good sometimes? Why do we get upset when people attack it and why do we rush to defend it from such attacks? Why…

I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since 1983, and watched every episode the show’s ever put out (862 as of now), even including reconstructions of the lost 1960s episodes. I know probably far too much about this show than one person probably should. In all those episodes, I’ve seen a lot of actors. The show has a habit of recycling actors, but I wanted to write today about some of the best cameos the…

Anyone waiting by their letterbox for a new Doctor Who delivery will be disappointed to hear that The Collection: Season 24 has been delayed — fortunately, however, only by a week. The Blu-ray set, which was announced in January, was due to be released on 21st June 2021, but will now be out on 28th June instead. The Collection has a history of delays, but this is one of the shortest, so isn’t…

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…

You’ll soon be able to enjoy Doctor Who Season 24, Sylvester McCoy’s debut series as the Seventh Doctor, as a Blu-ray set. That’s right, the next instalment in the Doctor Who: The Collection range is Season 24, collecting together: Time and the Rani, Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, and Dragonfire. The latter is the first story to feature Ace (Sophie Aldred), and last with Mel Bush,…

Emerging from lockdown with Hath breathing masks at 50%, Christian Cawley and James McLean bring you a brand new Doctor Who podcast, the latest instalment in the popular PodKast with a K series.

This time, they’re looking at the best of the worst. Doctor Who has a number of episodes and serials with bad reputations. That’s the focus on this week’s edition, with The TV Moviefeaturing the Eighth…

S/he’s a cordwainer of the universe and a gentle(wo)man to boot!

(This gender-bending is playing havoc with subtitles, by the way.)

The Doctor Who Companion is not shy of dealing with the BIG ISSUES. Recent articles have tackled Creationism vs Evolution, Doctor Who and Christianity, and the New Paradigm Daleks (steady on, chaps, some subjects are just too controversial).

That’s why…

– I just pulled this out of a friend of mine.

– We do not make any judgements on our guests and fully support any way you choose to enjoy yourself at Tranquility Spa.

It began well: the throwaway tentacle, the holiday vouchers, and the resort-under-siege all recalled Russell T. Davies’ carnivorous silliness. The ensemble, too, was very RTD: ‘oh there’s a gun, let me tote it’ Kane; notmarr…

Oh dear. I blame the BBC. Or JN-T. Maybe a little too early to blame RTD? But we have to blame someone, right? But, hark, we’re Doctor Whofans, always ready to look for the best in even the worst stories – able to forgive, re-watch, and reappraise. And that’s what I’ve done. Yes, it may not have the greatest stories or the highest viewing figures but it does have a special something that makes it…

You have to hand it to the BBC. They’ve got a cash cow on their books with Doctor Who, but they’ve never been stingy when it comes to letting others have a slice of the pie. It may be why fan projects are so prevalent: the licensing team are usually happy to turn a blind eye to the telescope, as long as they’re not for profit. The Beeb have never forgotten that it was the fans who kept the show…

I’m fond of beginning sentences with ‘There’s a parallel universe where…’, but there’s a parallel universe where Kylie Minogue probably tried to kill the Doctor. You can thank the News of the World. In April 2007, they published an exclusive that claimed, according to a BBC ‘source’, that Kylie’s Christmas turn would see her sheathing herself in metal to play – and we quote, albeit with great…

However much we’d like to, it’s impossible to separate the Seventh Doctor era from the grim recollections of Doctor Who‘s cancellation. As we all know, Doctor Who hasn’t always been as popular as it is now, and it seemed that, just as it was getting back on track, it was no more. Despite being cancelled in 1989, the show was on the rocks for quite some time before that. For now, we’ll put aside…

Delta and the Bannermen was the first three-part story of Sylvester McCoy’s debut season. A format relatively untried in the show’s history and necessitated by the cut back to 14 episodes a year imposed in 1986; with this mix of three- and four-part stories, a season could still comprise four separate adventures. For each of Doctor Who’s last three years in the ’80s, both three-parters would be…

It’s late 1987. I’m upstairs watching episode one of Delta and the Bannermen; the TARDIS crew are on their way to Disneyland. They will never get there (three decades later they still haven’t, at least on TV; there’s probably a book). As the new Doctor – I’m still not quite sure about him, although time, of course, will tell – stalks through the grime and grit of an unidentifiable location that…