Target Novel Review: The Edge of Destruction
In a final bid to regain control of the Tardis’s faulty control system the Doctor is driven to experiment with a dangerous untried combination. With a violent explosion the TARDIS blacks out and the crew find themselves trapped inside. A simple technical fault? Continue Reading
Feature: 100,000 BC, The Mutants & Inside the Spaceship: Doctor Who and the Titles of Doom
Fans of a certain age will be instantly familiar with the old debate over what to call each individual story during the majority of the William Hartnell era, given each serial has individual episode titles in the same manner as Continue Reading
Review: The Daleks
Much like with An Unearthly Child, The Daleks will forever stand as an iconic serial in the annals of the show’s history, setting Doctor Who on the road to 51 years of (mostly) success and kicking off the era of Continue Reading
The Daleks: Radio Times and Your Thoughts
Radio Times (Click to Enlarge) DWW Reader Opinion Facebook “Classic as it made the show stay for a long time. Imagine if the Daleks was a terrible story we would have no Daleks AND no Doctor Who” - Daniel Oroku Continue Reading
Book Review: Doctor Who in An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks by David Whitaker
This is DOCTOR WHO’s first exciting adventure – with the DALEKS! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious DOCTOR WHO and his grand-daughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, Tardis. There they strive to Continue Reading
Unsung Hero: Richard Martin - Doctor Who’s Most Outspoken Director?
When the early history of Doctor Who is so often retold, there are legendary names thrown into the mix, from Sydney Newman and Waris Hussain to William Hartnell and Terry Nation, from Anthony Coburn to Christopher Barry, and rightly so. Continue Reading
Feature: Terry Nation, Raymond Cusick and the Birth of the Daleks
While An Unearthly Child and Anthony Coburn laid the foundations for Doctor Who as we know it today, it was arguably The Daleks and Terry Nation that ensured that there is a Doctor Who today. The show’s debut had been Continue Reading
Feature: Music of The Daleks - The Sounds of Tristram Cary
The first appearance of the Daleks in the second episode of Season One of Classic Who, the First Doctor’s maiden tangle with the adversaries who’d come to define who and what he is: namely everything they aren’t, as his Twelfth incarnation Continue Reading
Classic Series Review: An Unearthly Child
There could be an argument that whether An Unearthly Child is actually any good, is largely irrelevant. As the start-point for the longest running science-fiction series in the world and one of the longest running of any genre, it’s place Continue Reading
Target Novel Review: Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child by Terrance Dicks
A strange girl who knows far more than she should about the past – and the future… Two worried teachers whose curiosity leads them to a deserted junk yard, an extraordinary police box and a mysterious traveller known only as Continue Reading
An Unearthly Child: Contemporary Audience Reaction, Reviews, Radio Times and Your Thoughts
Reviews Daily Mail Michael Gowers, November 25 1963 “It goes without saying that circumstances were hardly favourable for the launching of the BBC’s space satellite Dr. Who on Saturday afternoon. But the machine which carries this mysterious old man, his Continue Reading
Before the Junkyard: 4 Big Finish Audios Set Before An Unearthly Child
While some believe the time before An Unearthly Child is sacred ground, something that should never be touched by either the TV series or other media, there have been a number of cases where the Doctor’s unseen life before Totters Continue Reading
Feature: The Cries Of Strange Birds & Other Stories: A Salute To The Radiophonic Workshop
Picture the scene. The date is November 23, 1963- you’re eating your tea & you switch over to BBC One. As a black & white screen announces that Doctor Who is about to start, you hear quite possibly the strangest Continue Reading
Feature: The Legacy of An Unearthly Child
Some fifty-odd years ago, in the Autumn of 1963, a brand new television program for children went on air for the first time. Twenty-three minutes later, and it was all over. The Doctor had arrived. Since its return in 2005, Continue Reading
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