The next installment in Doctor Who: The Collection delves into territory previous unexplored by the Blu-ray range: 1960s black-and-white era Doctor Who — namely the First Doctor series, Season 2! And this will be the biggest release yet – a limited edition nine disc box set, covering an astonishing 37 episodes! The Doctor is joined by Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Ian Chesterton (William Russell),…

Well, this is a find. A chronicle of the Doctor’s lesser known adventures, beautifully written up for a lavish new volume by one David Whitaker. You may not have heard of him: David was a great friend of the Doctor and they collaborated on a number of projects. They worked on a novel based on our travels on Skaro, which David was kind enough to write in the first person – and that first person…

Author’s note: the following is offered in a spirit of fun and is intended, like Vorg’s Scoop, to amuse – simply to amuse. It isn’t meant to be taken too seriously and is certainly not meant to sneer at those who, perfectly legitimately, enjoy Chris Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who. We’re all enriched by our different opinions, after all. I just wondered what it might have been like if Chris…

A new bookazine series has launched this month, from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine. Doctor Who Chronicles examines landmark years of the show’s history in unprecedented detail (a considerable feat considering the work of Andrew Pixley et al. in publications like Doctor Who: The Complete History). The first issue looks at 1965, when the most popular episodes of Doctor Who attracted more than…

I really wish it hadn’t come to this but the Doctor Who Companion simply brought it on themselves. It’s leader, Philip Satan-Bates has finally put me over the edge.

For a long time now, the DWC has given us all the latest Whorelated news, responsibly vetted rumours, well written reviews, gobs and gobs of discussion, and of course, mad cap fun and frivolity. Unfortunately, the danger hidden…

The Web Planetsoundtrack will be released on vinyl on 13th December 2019 – just in time for Christmas! And you know what that isn’t? A coincidence. This First Doctor story is a pretty divisive tale: some say its pace makes it tough to watch, especially considering it’s a 6-parter; others enthuse about writer, Bill Strutton’s vision, and the production crew’s willingness to give anything a good…

There’s an episode of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series that always resonates with me. It comes as the awesome foursome traverse into an abandoned network of subway tunnels where they come across a hidden underground city populated by hideous monsters. “Perhaps,” says Michelanglo, echoing a film he’s watching at the story’s opening, “there are some things man was never meant to tamper…

The Daily Mail – a paper which lambasted Twice Upon A Time for ‘sanctimonious piety’, ‘right-on smuggery’, and said it was ‘achingly worthy and deep in self pity’ – has for once come up trumps by publishing previously unseen pictures from Doctor Who Season 2. And what makes them all the more remarkable is that we’re talking Season 2 with William Hartnell, not Season 2/28 with David Tennant!

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The second episode in the Doctor Who Infinity video game series will pit the Third Doctor and Jo Grant against the Zarbi in The Orphans of The Polyoptra.

Launching on PC and mobile in spring, the latest episode will be released alongside the first, The Dalek Invasion of Time, with four slated to be released in 2018, with more adventures to follow.

Designed by Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studio,…

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…

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…

BBC Books have announced special facsimile editions of three classic Doctor Who stories. The First Doctor adventures,  Doctor Who and the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Zarbi, and Doctor Who and the Crusaders, will be release in these collectable hardback editions which mimic the design of the long-since out of print originals. Doctor Who and the Daleks was first released in novel form in 1964 and…