Reviewed: Big Finish’s Doctor Who, Once and Future – The Union

Reviewed: @bigfinish’s #DoctorWho, Once and Future – The Union

The final – or perhaps penultimate – chapter of Big Finish’s Doctor Who 60th anniversary event brings Once and Future to an epic climax, with the Eighth (Paul McGann) and Fourth (Tom Baker) Doctors reuniting with their granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford) and future wife Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) against the Union (the titular character voiced by Maureen O’Brien). One Classic era…

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Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler (1965) starring William Hartnell, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Peter Butterworth In The Time Meddler, The Doctor discovers a Monk in 1066 England, who’s clearly up to no good. But what does that have to do with time travel? (more…) “”

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Preview- Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 (Limited Edition BluRay)

Preview- Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 (Limited Edition BluRay)

BBC Studios have revealed that the next Blu-ray Doctor Who: The Collection will feature Season 2, the second season starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. Debuting later this year this collection is the biggest release yet and features a limited edition nine-disc box. Across a season of 37 episodes originally shown in 1964 and 1965,, the Doctor is joined by companions Susan (Carole Ann…

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In Review: Doctor Who - Galaxy 4 – Animated Release

In Review: Doctor Who – Galaxy 4 – Animated Release

It’s the Drahvins vs the Rills… with the Doctor caught in the middle! The partly-missing First Doctor story Galaxy 4 is returning as an animation… Reviewed by Tim Robins Animation, Blu-Ray/DVD Galaxy 4 sees the first Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions; Vicki (Maureen O’Brian) and Steven (Peter Purves) arrive on a planet on the point of destruction. With time running out, the…

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DOCTOR WHO: THE ROMANS

DOCTOR WHO: THE ROMANS

    Véritable reconstitution historique de la Rome antique au cœur d’une série télévisée de science-fiction, les quatre épisodes de ”The Romans” furent diffusés entre le 16 janvier et le 6 février 1965.

Profitant d’un accident (le TARDIS ayant été endommagé après s’être posé au bord d’une falaise et chuté), le Docteur (William Hartnell), Vicki (Maureen O’Brien), Ian (William Russel) et Barbara…

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Review: Doctor Who the Companion Chronicles – Upstairs

Review: Doctor Who the Companion Chronicles – Upstairs

Blurb: When the TARDIS lands in a dilapidated attic, the Doctor, Vicki and Steven discover they are on Earth, in London… in Number 10 Downing Street.

However alien forces are at play here, affecting the very fabric of the building… and adjusting the very essence of history itself.

Review: The final full season of The Companion Chroniclessaw a focus on the first Doctor’s era. Every companion…

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Reviewed: Doctor Who The Collection -- Season 2

Reviewed: #DoctorWho The Collection -- Season 2

Having finally obtained William Hartnell’s second season on Blu-ray — the first black and white season to get the royal treatment — I found myself once again swept up in “Overview mode”. Watching each story in fairly rapid succession, forming one larger overall story, as episodes had actions and consequences from one adventure overlapping onto the next. For the better part of the first three…

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TARDIS Team Dynamics in Doctor Who: How Many Companions Are Too Many Companions?

TARDIS Team Dynamics in #DoctorWho: How Many Companions Are Too Many Companions?

There have only been a few times in the history of Doctor Who when there was a four person crew inhabiting the TARDIS for any substantial amount of time. Sydney Newman created the basic concept, where an old man called the Doctor travels through time and space in a machine with his granddaughter, and two teachers. It was to be an educational program that entertained within the the realm of…

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First Doctor Classic, Galaxy 4, to Be Animated for DVD and Blu-ray

First Doctor Classic, #Galaxy4, to Be Animated for DVD and Blu-ray #DoctorWho

The First Doctor adventure, Galaxy 4, will be animated for release on DVD and Blu-ray (including as a limited edition steelbook). And we don’t have long to wait: it’ll hit UK shelves on 15th November 2021! It’s very exciting to see that the animation schedule seems to be ploughing ahead faster than ever before (albeit probably due to the delays caused by Covid-19 and lockdowns which meant a gap…

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Reviewed: Galaxy 4 Animated DVD and Blu-ray

Reviewed: #DoctorWho Galaxy 4 Animated DVD and Blu-ray

After a run of Patrick Troughton stories, it feels overdue for a First Doctor tale to be given the animation treatment. Rather surprisingly, this new release is the first complete story from the William Hartnell era to be animated, and also the first in colour.   Galaxy 4 is somewhat unloved story, both by the programme’s fans and those who worked on it. Incoming producer John Wiles, who aimed…

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Grading Love, or Grating Love: Rating Companions' Romantic Exits

Grading Love, or Grating Love: Rating #DoctorWho Companions' Romantic Exits

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…

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Coming Soon: The Myth Makers Gets the Vinyl Who Treatment

Coming Soon: #DoctorWho The Myth Makers Gets the Vinyl Who Treatment

The soundtrack for a long-lost First Doctor story will be released later this summer on vinyl. The Myth Makers is a four-part tale from Season 3, the last to feature Maureen O’Brien as the wonderful Vicki. The Vinyl Who soundtracks have so far included a range of missing and complete stories including The Daleks’ Master Plan, The Ice Warriors, and Horror of Fang Rock. But it’s especially…

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The Doctor Who Companion Reclamation Project: Dumping Prohibited

The #DoctorWho Companion Reclamation Project: Dumping Prohibited

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…

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Will the Lost Doctor Who Serial, Galaxy 4 Be Animated for DVD and Blu-ray Next?

Will the Lost #DoctorWho Serial, Galaxy 4 Be Animated for DVD and Blu-ray Next?

The missing episodes of Galaxy 4 are reportedly being animated for release on DVD and Blu-ray, the first First Doctor serial to be given this treatment since 2013. For many years, Galaxy 4 was a missing and often-forgotten story, owing to the fact that no telesnaps were taken, so we could only gather what the story might’ve looked like via publicity shots, the Target novelisation, and surviving…

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DOCTOR WHO: THE CHASE

DOCTOR WHO: THE CHASE

      Faisant suite à ”The Space Museum”, les six épisodes de ”The Chase, diffusés entre le 22 mai et le 26 juin 1965, font revenir les fameux ennemis galactiques du Docteur alors que la Grande-Bretagne vit à l’heure de la Dalekmania et de la Beatlemania (le groupe apparaissant par procuration dans le premier épisode). C’est également un tournant dans la série, le Docteur voyant deux de ses…

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Reviewed: The Crash of the UK-201 from @bigfinish #DoctorWho