I will say this for Chris Chibnall — I think he thought he at least gave Graham and Ryan a good send off in Revolution of the Daleks. I think his intentions were good and they were not unceremoniously dumped when leaving the show. That is to his credit.  This is undoubtedly in large part because he created the characters in the first place. If a producer creates the companions, he or she…

We’ve looked at companion departures from a few different angles over the past several months: the good, the bad, the dumped. But there have been a handful that left for “love”. That extraordinary happenstance where a companion makes some romantic connection during a single story and ends up leaving the Doctor, the TARDIS, and all of time and space. For some dude, typically. Each occurrence was a…

They say you should never open with a flashback, but I want to reverse the hourglass until it lands in October, the year before last. There’s a woman balancing on top of a crane: one of two women who will fall to Earth during this episode, and the only one who will manage to get up again afterwards. Having spent the best part of an hour dallying around the question of identity, she seems to have…

“Long time ago in Thordonia So the Evil Midu say Peri’s boy child – Screeterder! – Was born on Christmas Day…”

“Down Dorf,” bellowed the King of the Krontep, Lord of the Vingten, Conqueror of the Tonkonp Empire, as his once faithful equerry – now transformed into a dog-like mutation – attempted to lick his mighty beard off.

Striding through a door in his citadel was the Krontep warrior King…

The Stars of Time convention returns to Weston-super-Mare this weekend, giving fans the chance to meet Sophie Aldred (who played Seventh Doctor companion, Ace), Christopher Ryan (Mindwarp; The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky), and more!

This is Ryan’s first appearance at the convention which has been hosted at the UK seaside town for many years now. Modern Doctor Whofans will recognise him…

General election campaigns always throw up some pretty outrageous and unlikely fare as the competing parties try to grab voters’ attention in a bid to win their votes come polling day.

But the lead-up to the December poll in the UK generated a good candidate for Most Unlikely Moment of the Whole Election last week (even with a month to go before voting) when Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was…

There’s a high definition herpetological treat in store for fans of Doctor Who’s premier businessman, as Sil comes to Blu-ray this November. Nabil Shaban returns to the role he made his own with a new adventure, written by the character’s creator, Philip Martin: Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor.

In this original story, directed by Keith Barnfather, we find Sil imprisoned on the moon, facing…

…Blackpool.

Much has been written about Doctor Who’s famous hiatus enforced by Michael Grade after Season 22. Most viewed it as the “incredibly long” hiatus at the time. Truth of the matter is, it hasn’t been a whole lot longer than some of the modern hiatuses the show has had. We went 16 months in-between the end of Series 9 to Series 10 (NuWho). It was 18 months in between Season 22 and 23…

The latest issue of Doctor Who focuses the spotlight on Doctor Who‘s longest-serving producer, John Nathan-Turner, looking at his incredible legacy and how he saved the show – including previously-unseen images from his own scrapbooks!

And just look at that cover, featuring Tom Baker on set for Robot, newly regenerated. Lovely stuff.

This issue includes:

• Former script editor, Andrew…

Controversy has sparked over a comment made by Colin Baker at the recent BFI event to celebrate the upcoming HD release of Season 23 for The Doctor Who Collection.

Following the screening of Mindwarp, the second story in the series, guests were treated to the usual snippets from the brand-new special features as well as a talk from special guests, Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor) and Nicola…

Health fanatics rejoice! We’ve got good news from the world of ‘supposedly on its last legs’ physical media. Only months after their last Classic Doctor Who Blu-ray release, the BBC are set to unleash a restored, remastered and extended version of Season 23 – better known as Trial of a Time Lord – in less time it takes for the Doctor to fall off his exercise bike.

There are fourteen episodes…

When you dip in and out of Doctor Who spin-off material, things confuse you. Different Doctors lead whole lives away from their TV stories, with births and marriages and deaths and arcs where people get killed and then replaced with amnesiac reconstructed duplicates. It happens quite a lot with the Seventh – and it’s borderline endemic with the Eighth. I found this out comparatively recently when…

Hailing from Colin Baker’s first full season, Vengeance on Varos is infamous for both its social and political commentary, as well as its post-modern take on the medium of television itself. It draws some inspiration from the subject of “video-nasties” and concerns about violence on television, both hot topics at the time with the emergence of the home video market. In his third outing, the Sixth…

Jo Grant assisted the Doctor without having attained her science GCE. Sarah Jane Smith was a young journalist pup with little scientific knowledge while Leela was a savage; they all got by. The Romanas were arguably smarter than the Doctor, yet their reaction to the horrors of space was to spend the best part of three seasons screaming, despite the Time Lady demeanour. As for Nyssa – well she was…

Mr Set Hate: ‘Oh, ho ho. Not this fool again. Where’ve you been, fool? More of your turgid attempts at humour no doubt. Oh, well, it’s always amusing to see him fail so convincingly. Write on, fool… dig your own grave…’ You know when you’re in a restaurant and you’ve studied the menu and finally settled on the starter you want? If you are anything like me, up until the choice is made you get a…

The TV version of The Trial Of A Time Lord was an overblown and tired version of the series which was only saved by some credible acting and some rather nifty special effects. I recall being disappointed by the whole effort and thought it was a sad waste of Colin Baker’s talents. The story arc was dragged out and really did test the viewer’s staying power. Anyway, that aside these adventures were…