When we consider missing Doctor Who episodes, most of us think of the First and Second Doctor – those black and white gems from the 1960s, lost to the sands of time. It’s easy to forget that, at one point in history, the Third Doctor’s era was also absent from the BBC archive. At least in part. In the early ’70s, when Jon Pertwee was at the controls of the TARDIS, dedicated Who fans – and some…

Doctor Who Season 8, Jon Pertwee’s second series as the Third Doctor, will be released on Blu-ray as part of The Collection range on 23rd February 2021.

The set collects together stories which introduce Jo Grant (Katy Manning) and the Master (Roger Delgado): Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, and The Daemons.

The season finds the Doctor still…

The DWC is sad to report the passing of John Griffiths, one of the unsung heroes of the earliest days of classic Doctor Who. Film editor Griffiths was tasked with, and responsible for, piecing together the original (and iconic!) main title sequence of William Hartnell’s First Doctor.

After meeting with not-yet-legendary producer Verity Lambert and director Waris Hussein, he was provided with…

Let me scrub the timeline backwards a few years, constant reader. It’s autumn, 2008 – one of those dark, mellow evenings where the wind is blowing through the churchyards and rattling the park gates. Having become increasingly disillusioned with David Tennant’s turn on Doctor Who – we’ve had a sterling year with Donna but my goodness Journey’s End was a disappointment – I have called on the…

Still reeling from the events of Cyber-Reality, UNIT once again must regroup and face yet more alien threats – albeit ones that are already indexed in The Black Archive – in Big Finish’s UNIT – Revisitations.

In this latest box set, The UNIT team come face to face with an incursion of the Wirrn (first seen in the Fourth Doctor television story, The Ark in Space) in a two-part tale by Chris…

Candy Jar Books has revealed that the latest Lethbridge-Stewart novels will be issued as limited edition offerings – and The New Unusual is available to pre-order right now! There will only be 400 copies of The New Unusual (and two subsequent books), and that first novel includes a revised ‘exclusive’ version of the short story, The Playing Dead, also by the novel’s author, Adrian Sherlock. All…

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’…