What do Doctor Who fans do when their planet is in the grip of a pandemic and they have to isolate in lockdown, with less freedom of movement than Amy inside the Pandorica? Some, according to a report in the London Times, built a replica movie Dalek from scratch. Richard Molesworth wrote an excellent book, The John Nathan-Turner Doctor Who Production Diary, 1979-1990, published in…

Another fantastic Doctor Who guest star has left us: Clifford Rose, Rorvick in Warriors’ Gate, has passed away. Warriors’ Gate is a Marmite story; I’ve never taken to it, despite appreciating the ideas behind it and the performances from everyone involved, even if I think it was a little too out of the budget for early ’80s Who. One of the best things in that story though has to be Clifford…

Which is the best Doctor Who costume? Surprisingly, not the scariest thread in the recesses of the typical Doctor Who forum; most fans agree – as The Eleventh Hour attests – that bow ties are undeniably cool.

I’m guest posting from the Lovarzi Blog, where the Doctor Who costume means a lot to us; some of you will know us as the “Doctor Whoscarf people” but we’re also known for Van…

Regular Doctor Who Companion readers won’t be fooled by the title: it’s not my judgment of Doctor Who Season 18; nor is it a description of shaky sets, props, or K9. Nor is it about the relationship of characters on- or off-screen (though all these feature). ‘It All Falls Apart’ denotes the theme of Season 18: order tends towards chaos, the second law of thermodynamics; Entropy.

Indeed, cake…

There are times when seasons of Doctor Whoslip seamlessly from one to the next. Then there are times of seismic shifts: notably Season 6 to 7 with Troughton replaced by Pertwee and monochrome bursting into colour. But despite the complete regular cast change, behind the scenes there is a continuity. Terrance Dicks sticks around, as does Robert Holmes, and Dudley Simpson scores once more. The…

Naturally, the release of the Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 18 Blu-ray has been delayed, pushing the boxset into March 2019. Doctor Who has never been very good with time – rather ironically. And, no offense, but anyone who believed Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 18 would actually be available on its initial release date of 25th February 2019 needs their heads examining.

This is the…

Tom Baker’s final series as the Fourth Doctor will be the next instalment in the Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-ray range!

Following the sell-out success of Tom Baker’s debut season, his seventh and final series will be released on 25th February as Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 18.

The season saw the programme undergo radical changes in front of the cameras and behind the scenes.

Producer,…

The director Lovett Bickford, who oversaw The Leisure Hive, the opening story of Doctor Who Season 18, has died aged 76.

Bickford’s first brush with Doctor Who came in the 1960s as Assistant Floor Manager on the First Doctor story, The War Machines and the Second Doctor serial, The Moonbase. The Leisure Hive was to be his sole directing credit on the programme but he certainly made his mark, with…

The Movellan Grave is the seventh release in the sixth series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures by Big Finish Productions. The story takes place during the beginning of Season 18 of Doctor Who and so stars Tom Baker as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana. It’s written by Andrew Smith (Full Circle) and features a certain species of characters that, let’s be honest here, almost no one particularly…

Dethras! Doesn’t the title just invoke the late Baker period? This Big Finish tale, set just before Tom Baker’s final season, feels very much in place at the then-invisible, now quite visible, front-end to Season 18. We have Tom Baker and Lalla Ward, back as their respective characters, in a tale that plays an amicable good balance between invoking nostalgia for a lost era, peppered with aspects…

Having a digital copy of The Beast of Kravenos thrust upon me, my virtual reviewer hands struggling to contain the digital multitudes of police box-shaped zeroes and ones, I was suddenly slapped in the face by the backhand of enlightenment. Yes! This review could soothe some of my past Big Finishy niggles! What niggles? Well, these niggles pretty much form two junctures of analysis. My first…