Just before Christmas, we set you 50 fiendish questions all about Doctor Who. But how did you do? It’s time to find out. Here are the answers to the DWC’s BIG Christmas Quiz, 2022! 1. In his hands. It will not go into the wood. (The Tribe of Gum) 2. Glasses. 3. Hostile Action Displacement System. 4. The HADS are a defence mechanism for the TARDIS. When the TARDIS is attacked, it…

The storage lockers of the TARDIS contain priceless treasures from the Doctor’s many voyages in time and space. Never one for meticulous cataloguing, the Doctor bungs most of the treasures any old how into any old bin that comes to hand: a nineteenth century tea chest, overflowing with beautiful embroidered silks and labelled “From the journey to Cathay”, nudges up against the most sophisticated…

Peter Capaldi – back in his time as the Time Lord – lobbied the producers of Doctor Who to cast Tom Hanks as another incarnation of the Doctor. Hanks’ was asked about the rumours that he could’ve played the Doctor on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and responded with positivity and some affection for Doctor Who: “That would’ve been a blast, but that’s all, that’s all scheduling I guess. Can’t…

Ready to find out more about the War Doctor? Big Finish has you covered, as Jonathon Carley returns to portray that incarnation of the Time Lord in his youth. And the upcoming boxset is directed by Louise Jameson, best known for playing Fourth Doctor companion, Leela (and a Big Finish regular)! He Who Fights Monsters is a single, three-hour adventure, written by Robert Valentine, and due for…

Emma Campbell-Jones (Cass from 2013’s story, The Night of The Doctor) guest stars in Battlegrounds, the penultimate boxset in The War Doctor Begins range. This time, the actor plays Layla Bridge, a brave and loyal friend to the warrior Time Lord. In three full-cast audio dramas set in the tumultuous Time War, Jonathon Carley’s War Doctor is held captive on a Thal ship and faces an astonishingly…

How dare he?! Where were you when he did it? When our big time showrunner took Doctor Who history and twisted it? Suddenly, our precious numbering system of Doctors was compromised! A never before seen incarnation popping up out of nowhere, an unlikely intruder! Just the excuse his detractors needed to rake him over the coals once again. The ego of the man! The thing we’d seen during his three…

There are many things that my family and I argue about, but one area in which we’re all in general agreement is that Alton Towers is probably the best theme park in the country. Certainly it’s the best one we’ve visited. This is largely because it was never intended to be a theme park at all. It’s an old estate that was failing to attract the tourists, so they put in a couple of funfair rides…

Following the huge success of the first boxset of The War Doctor Begins, Big Finish has revealed details of its follow-up, Warbringer, to be released in December 2021. The set features Jonathon Carley as the “hidden” incarnation of the Time Lord, who battled through the Time War. Warbringer tells the next chapter of the story, with the Doctor finding a new friend in street smart cyborg Case…

Discover the early days of the War Doctor with a brand-new audio boxset from Big Finish, which is out now. Released today, The War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire tells the tales of the first adventures of the Doctor’s disavowed alter ego, played by Big Finish newcomer Jonathon Carley. These three, brand new, full-cast audio dramas pick up immediately after the events of 2013’s The Night of the…

Doctor Who fans always grumble. In my own case, I became aware of this when I joined the DWAS as a young teenager and received my first copy of TARDIS. That fanzine, the first of trillions I went on to read over subsequent years, absolutely ripped into The Robots of Death and into The Deadly Assassin (panned as “the highly criticised story”: it came bottom of that year’s season poll) and I was…

In very welcome news, Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary is to be celebrated in a special steelbook release, comprising of The Name of the Doctor, The Night of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor, plus lots more like The Science of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, and The Five(ish) Doctors!

This four-disc limited edition collector’s set includes these special…

Big Finish will explore the early days of the Time War and of the War Doctor in a new series beginning in June 2021.

Newcomer Jonathon Carley stars in four boxsets of adventures for the Doctor’s disavowed alter ego, originally played by John Hurt in The Name of the Doctor, The Night of the Doctor, and The Day of the Doctor.

The tragic passing of Hurt in 2017 brought the curtain down on the…

Doctor Whofirst came on the air back in 1963 and the show’s gone through a lot of lead actors, producers, script editors, you name it. It’s even changed direction more than a few times, along with the length of episodes. Of all the actors to play the Doctor over the decades, many of them had stuck around for different lengths of time but some had to deal with very different runs as far as season…