Standard Blu-ray versions of Doctor Who Season 10 and Season 18 will be released this summer after the Limited Edition boxsets sold out, leaving fans aghast at the holes in their collections. The pair form part of Doctor Who: The Collection, a range that upscales Classic serials to Blu-ray and bundles them together by season. Both Seasons 10 and 18 will be released in standard packaging on 5th…

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.

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This month sees the release of two new BBC audiobooks featuring a classic adventure for the Third Doctor and a lost story for the Fourth Doctor. The Ambassadors of Death Up first is The Ambassadors of Death, the unabridged reading of the novelisation of the Third Doctor serial written by Terrance Dicks and narrated by Geoffrey Beeves, best known for playing The Master in the 1981 serial, The…

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…

After the shock and awe ending to World Enough and Time, once our mandibular ramuses had been reattached to our temporal bones, some of us thought to ponder… why did the Time Lord’s ‘most infamous child’, the ‘lover of chaos’ whose ‘villainy is without end’ – The Master – spend a good few years sporting a ‘Gigi Hadid doing Melania Trump’ accent, an unconvincing conical conk, and Talfryn Thomas’…

You might’ve noticed that John Simm’s Master is back – ten years on from his debut. In fact, today is a decade exactly since Last of the Time Lords; to celebrate, head down to your local newsagent and pick up the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Issue #514 looks ahead to the Series 10 finale, The Doctor Falls, featuring interviews with both Simm and Michelle Gomez. John’s sporting a rather…

Bedford Who Charity Con 3 is coming up on Saturday 8th April – and DWC readers are being offered 10% off their tickets. The event is being organised by DWC’s very own me – i.e. Simon Danes. More details on the offer below, but for now, it’s worth saying that there’s an impressive guest list; many of the people on it don’t do many conventions, so this is going to be a rare chance to meet them. And…