I find that Doctor Who fans tend to be an inquisitive bunch. With all of time and space as its scope, the show means we learn about all sorts of fascinating topics — but chiefly history and science. And no, Doctor Who doesn’t always get them right, but it makes a great effort to educate (as per its original mission). With that in mind, we want to explore wider space-time a bit on the DWC, and…

Merry Christmas from everyone at The Doctor Who Companion! To celebrate, and as part of a Christmas tradition (established, y’know, last year), we’ve got you a special present. We proudly present to you… the DWC Annual 2022. It’s a free-to-download PDF — and a massive 85 pages! The Annual is a smorgasbord of features, reviews, and fiction, covering various eras of Doctor Who, so we hope…

It’s Part Two of Flux (aka Doctor Who Series 13) and, although the pace doesn’t slow down after last week’s frantic opener, it is at least becoming a little clearer as to what’s going on. Time, having being held in check by mysterious guardians the Mouri, has been disrupted and is beginning to run wild. The Sontarans have taken advantage of the chaos to seize the Earth, make war throughout…

Doctor Who Series 13, aka Flux, is ploughing ahead — through the Crimean War, where the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions, Yamsin Khan (Mandip Gill) and Dan Lewis (John Bishop) came face to face with Mary Seacole… and an invasion force of the war-loving Sontarans! That was the first full Sontaran serial since Series 4’s The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky, though viewers…

Tonight’s episode of Doctor Who: Flux promises plenty of Sontaran action as we head into the War of the Sontarans — and the BBC has released an exciting trailer to whet our appetites. Here’s the synopsis: The Doctor has an unexpected encounter with one of her deadliest enemies when the Sontarans become a new faction in the Crimean War. As the British army goes into pitched battle with the…

The second episode of Doctor Who Series 13 (aka Flux), War of the Sontarans, sees the Sontarans as an opposing faction in the Crimean War fighting against the British army. One of the guest characters is a lady called Mary Seacole. While for some that name isn’t well known, for others Mary Seacole is just as important as the other famous nurse of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale. In this…

The second episode of Doctor Who Series 13, a 6-part run under the umbrella title Flux, will be called War of the Sontarans, and sees Dan Starkey return as one of the war-loving race of aliens. And we’ve now got a synopsis for the episode too: The Doctor has an unexpected encounter with one of her deadliest enemies when the Sontarans become a new faction in the Crimean War. As the British army…