“The King’s Demons” is one of those rare two-part serials that turn up from time to time throughout Doctor Who. And the story certainly benefits from the shorter running time as the characters arrive, get involved in the situation, expose the mystery and then escape with their lives, all in short order. The plot moves [...]
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“Resurrection of the Daleks” is a bleak story, with a plot that doesn’t always hold together. Set in both a run-down warehouse in London in the present day and on a similarly run-down space station in the future, “Resurrection” details the plans and actions of the Daleks in the aftermath of their war with the [...]
“Frontios” is a story that seems to be built around a single statement, made by one of the characters. Simply put, “the earth is hungry”. It’s a statement that carries a tinge of horror because it conjures up images of being buried alive. Author Christopher Bidmead doesn’t exploit that horror to its fullest extent, but [...]
The first multi-Doctor story of the new series is short and sweet, and a lot of fun. Set in the final minutes of “The Last of the Time Lords” between Martha’s departure and the Titanic crashing through the wall of the TARDIS, it sees Peter Davison return as the fifth Doctor opposite incumbent David Tennant. [...]
“Earthshock” was the story that finally made me root for Peter Davison’s fifth Doctor. After a fairly sedate season that I found bland and dull in the absence of Tom Baker, “Earthshock” livened things up at long last, and did so in a big way.
“Castrovalva” picks up right where “Logopolis” left off, with the TARDIS crew struggling to get the Doctor to the TARDIS before they are caught by the Pharos project security. In many ways it almost seems that “Logopolis” and “Castrovalva” are pretty much the same narrative with no break between stories and the concept of block [...]
In the years since it was first broadcast, “Warriors of the Deep” has come to be defined by two things: the brightly lit sets and the poorly-realized Myrka. Thanks to those two elements, along with some loose continuity, “Warriors” has come to be seen as a poor story. And that’s unfortunate, because it’s actually a [...]
