The latest Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is available now, and charts Doctor Who‘s difficult evolution from relatively primitive beginnings to the cutting edge of modern television production. In the Studio is your guide to the studio recording and filming of Doctor Who, including previously unseen images – like the wonderful one on the cover, taken for The Bells of St. John!

Though the…

It does Doctor Who Series 7 something of a disservice to say each episode had a “gimmick”. But it’s true. This was especially true of the run that began with Asylum of the Daleks and concluded with The Angels Take Manhattan, known more widely as Series 7A. One week: dinosaurs on a spaceship (though I can’t remember what that episode was called), and the next? Alien cyborg in a Western! These were…

Doctor Who‘s format is ever-shifting, making it very hard to categorise it outside of “Monster of the Week”, and even that does a disservice to the likes of The Gunfighters, A Christmas Carol, and Heaven Sent. But if I were to elect a perfect example of Doctor Who, it would be The Bells of Saint John. Why does it work so well? Because it’s bold, it’s clever, it’s exciting, it’s creepy. It’s…

He may be scattered through the Doctor’s time-stream like confetti, but the Great Intelligence has only properly appeared in five (and a noggin) Doctor Who TV serials – plus one loose spin-off that didn’t feature the Time Lord at all. His adventures away from the telly box are pretty extensive, but if you’d like to learn more about the disembodied presence with a distinct love for snowmen, your…

Killer comics are the order of the day as the Twelfth Doctor breaks the fourth wall in order to save himself from…well himself. Or at least the Time Surgeon, the comic book equivalent of the Twelfth Doctor’s adventures, where our hero finds himself into his 2D world, but what of the force that lies behind the ink and panel layout, who is the real monster sucking unsuspecting geeks into their…

I can appreciate the positives of Buzzfeed and its ilk. The click-bait titles have perfected and streamlined content and teasing for the internet, doing the same thing newspaper headlines were designed to do, but for the online generations who gobble up more information from more sources than ever before. It’s quite admirable how the enticing style has taken over a large proportion of the web,…

For the third series of their Lethbridge-Stewart books, Candy Jar Books is welcoming back a major enemy of the Brigadier and the Docotr: the Great Intelligence and his Yeti! And this time, the Intelligence is going stateside… First introduced in 1967’s The Abominable Snowmen, the GI and his robotic soldiers returned the following year for The Web of Fear – both stories written by Mervyn Haisman…