Saturday, March 31, 2007
Doctor Who Index
Doctor Who’s back at 7 o’clock tonight, and Richard and I are very excited. Spring cleaning is rather less exciting, but this seems an opportune moment to collect together all the many pieces I’ve written about Doctor Who here. This may not be the most urgent bit of tidying up my blog needs, but at least it’s a start… It’ll be updated regularly (like the Politics Index, er, hasn’t been yet), and when I eventually get round to updating the Previously… Fun set of my favourite old articles in the sidebar (whoops, still September), I’ll peg it at the top. In the meantime, watch the show tonight – it’ll be incalculably more thrilling than the Index!
So Who is This Doctor Bloke Anyway? – A surprisingly snappy notion of all you really need to know about Doctor Who… And updated on my even more Doctor Who blog.
The Time Meddler – including my views on the new ‘Doctor’s Fob Watch’ toy and a a quick peek at Doctor Who DVDs for the first half of 2008
Patrick Troughton’s Doctor Who: Now You See It… – On missing episodes, Recons, The Web of Fear and The Macra Terror
The Macra Terror – Even for me, this review’s pretty thorough! Including a look at the Second Doctor.
Inferno
Inferno (Alternate Universe Mix) – The novelisation, The Dr Who Annual 1971, and a psychological profile of the Third Doctor
Doctor Who: The Scripts (Going Cheap) – An overview of the outstanding Season 12 through The Scripts 1974/5, including Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen
The Talons of Weng-Chiang – The DVD
The Talons of Weng-Chiang – The Story
Back to Old School: Horror of Fang Rock
Back to Old School: The Ribos Operation
New Beginnings: The Keeper of Traken
New Beginnings: Logopolis
Ben Aaronovitch and Doctor Who – The writing and moral philosophy in Remembrance of the Daleks, Battlefield, Transit and The Also People
Happy Birthday Professor Quatermass – The Quatermass stories, and the Doctor Who they inspired
Doctor Who Fun in Cambridge
The Ice Warriors – A story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
The Curse of Fenric (Special Edition) – Another story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
The Deadly Assassin – And another story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
Arc of Infinity – The last story there was time to cram into that marathon viewing with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
2007’s Doctor Who DVDs To Buy (or: Get The Key To Time!) – an overview of all 17 old series Doctor Who stories newly released on Region 2 DVD in 2007
Choosing Doctor Who DVDs Made Easy
Introducing the Doctor… – An overview of Doctor Who Season 2005, and the best of the rest
Escape to Danger – Doctor Who: The Beginning DVD Box Set, and the First Doctor
Kevin Stoney, RIP – An obituary of Kevin Stoney, with a look at his character and performance first as Mavic Chen in The Daleks’ Master Plan then, in detail, as Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion
The Green Death
Ooh, Look, it’s Peter Jeffrey – Including The Androids of Tara
Free Doctor Who Books (…With A Small Catch) – Short reviews of fifteen Target novels given away with SFX, plus The Price of Paradise, Made of Steel and SFX and DWM Specials
A Blissful Saturday Evening – Gridlock and its antecedents
Torchwood Series One – Including the first series of Primeval
Verity Lambert and Doctor Who: Legendary – For Doctor Who’s forty-fourth anniversary, eulogising the series’ late, great, original producer and TV legend
Squinting For Bargains – The Doctor Who Storybook 2007 and Doctor Who – The Official Annual 2007 compared, plus the Animatronic Cyberman
Present: One Small Blog For Me, One Giant Blog With Everyone Else – A day of history, with The Sontaran Experiment
Past: History Matters – Why history is important, not least in Doctor Who
Future: Torchwood – Looking forward to the start of Torchwood
Genius Loci: Ben and Benny – Book review, holding back on spoilers and so not as incisive as it could have been
Storm Warning Warning – Introducing the Big Finish audio plays
David Maloney and Peter Hawkins, RIP
Don’t Panic! …About Doctor Who – The Impossible Planet and 2006 ratings
What Links Politics, Football and Doctor Who? – Rise of the Cybermen ratings
Chips – Russell T Davies’ secret message across the 2006 season of Doctor Who
School Reunion (Early Draft) – Tongue-in-cheek ‘missing scene’
Ooh, I Do Feel Queer – The Caves of Androzani on the Ides of March
Books – How I learned to read on Doctor Who books
The Thinking Blogger’s Cartoonist – TV21-style Dalek comic strip
…The Adventure Begins – Doctor Who Season 2007 Preview Montage
Two Worlds Will Collide – Doctor Who Season 2007 Trailers
Doctor Who Preview RIGHT NOW – Doctor Who Season 2006 Preview Montage
I’m Officially Very Excited – Doctor Who Season 2006 Trailer
You Will Obey Me! – An ‘after’ Utopia-related picture
Don’t Open the Watch! – A ‘before’ Utopia-related picture
Ghost Stories for Christmas and Other Festive Television – M.R. James, The Martians and Us, Secret Army and previewing Voyage of the Damned
“Shaaaappps!” (Thunk) – A Tory MP and the most risible character from The Armageddon Factor; separated at birth
Caitlin Della Hill Is Lovely! – Hello to my new niece, with a visit to the Doctor Who exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
Blake’s 7 Reborn – Blake’s 7 is reimagined as audio drama, touching on Doctor Who writers and audios
The Most Perfect Eating Machine Ever Devised – the Dalek Sec Easter Egg (and a bit of John Barrowman in Any Dream Will Do)
Good Luck, Jacqueline Pearce! – A signing before Jackie emigrated
London and Fuzzy Monsters – How being without glasses is like Army of Ghosts
Six of Ood, Half a Dozen of the Other – Ood playing cards
That Post-Christmas, Post-Who Satisfied Feeling – After The Runaway Bride
Wasn’t That Brilliant? – After Doomsday
Big Finnish – How much is blogging like fanzines? A special bilingual edition
Of Course We Should Elect the Lords! – First photos of the Tenth Doctor and Martha
Man-Eater of Surrey Green – The Seeds of Doom and this episode of The Avengers
Never Seen The Avengers? Time to Start! – After Martha’s just been cast
Another Poptastic Chart – Love and Monsters and ELO
Fundamental Opposition – The Pet Shop Boys’ Integral and the Cybermen (more The Age of Steel this time)
I’m With Stupid – The Pet Shop Boys and Rise of the Cybermen
They’ve Just Incinerated Jennie Bond! – A lack of trailers for The Age of Steel
Writing Press Releases the DWM Way
Let the Fun Begin – Doctor Who wins BAFTAs
Wikimeme – Doctor Who anniversaries on my birthday
The Iron Chicken was Robbed – Obsure Dalek reference
Went The Day Well? with Lady Chatterley – Including David Tennant
Whoops, Missed a Week – With Doctor Who and the Ladies in Pink
Life On Mars – Including Doctor Who connections to the first series
A New Blog… And It’s About Time – My Time Team-following blog of the whole of Doctor Who (one tiny step at a time)
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In-Depth Doctor Who Reviews
So Who is This Doctor Bloke Anyway? – A surprisingly snappy notion of all you really need to know about Doctor Who… And updated on my even more Doctor Who blog.
The Time Meddler – including my views on the new ‘Doctor’s Fob Watch’ toy and a a quick peek at Doctor Who DVDs for the first half of 2008
Patrick Troughton’s Doctor Who: Now You See It… – On missing episodes, Recons, The Web of Fear and The Macra Terror
The Macra Terror – Even for me, this review’s pretty thorough! Including a look at the Second Doctor.
Inferno
Inferno (Alternate Universe Mix) – The novelisation, The Dr Who Annual 1971, and a psychological profile of the Third Doctor
Doctor Who: The Scripts (Going Cheap) – An overview of the outstanding Season 12 through The Scripts 1974/5, including Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen
The Talons of Weng-Chiang – The DVD
The Talons of Weng-Chiang – The Story
Back to Old School: Horror of Fang Rock
Back to Old School: The Ribos Operation
New Beginnings: The Keeper of Traken
New Beginnings: Logopolis
Ben Aaronovitch and Doctor Who – The writing and moral philosophy in Remembrance of the Daleks, Battlefield, Transit and The Also People
Happy Birthday Professor Quatermass – The Quatermass stories, and the Doctor Who they inspired
Doctor Who Fun in Cambridge
The Ice Warriors – A story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
The Curse of Fenric (Special Edition) – Another story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
The Deadly Assassin – And another story watched with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
Arc of Infinity – The last story there was time to cram into that marathon viewing with friends in Cambridge in early 2006
Shorter Doctor Who Reviews and Articles
2007’s Doctor Who DVDs To Buy (or: Get The Key To Time!) – an overview of all 17 old series Doctor Who stories newly released on Region 2 DVD in 2007
Choosing Doctor Who DVDs Made Easy
Introducing the Doctor… – An overview of Doctor Who Season 2005, and the best of the rest
Escape to Danger – Doctor Who: The Beginning DVD Box Set, and the First Doctor
Kevin Stoney, RIP – An obituary of Kevin Stoney, with a look at his character and performance first as Mavic Chen in The Daleks’ Master Plan then, in detail, as Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion
The Green Death
Ooh, Look, it’s Peter Jeffrey – Including The Androids of Tara
Free Doctor Who Books (…With A Small Catch) – Short reviews of fifteen Target novels given away with SFX, plus The Price of Paradise, Made of Steel and SFX and DWM Specials
A Blissful Saturday Evening – Gridlock and its antecedents
Torchwood Series One – Including the first series of Primeval
Verity Lambert and Doctor Who: Legendary – For Doctor Who’s forty-fourth anniversary, eulogising the series’ late, great, original producer and TV legend
Squinting For Bargains – The Doctor Who Storybook 2007 and Doctor Who – The Official Annual 2007 compared, plus the Animatronic Cyberman
Present: One Small Blog For Me, One Giant Blog With Everyone Else – A day of history, with The Sontaran Experiment
Past: History Matters – Why history is important, not least in Doctor Who
Future: Torchwood – Looking forward to the start of Torchwood
Genius Loci: Ben and Benny – Book review, holding back on spoilers and so not as incisive as it could have been
Storm Warning Warning – Introducing the Big Finish audio plays
David Maloney and Peter Hawkins, RIP
Don’t Panic! …About Doctor Who – The Impossible Planet and 2006 ratings
What Links Politics, Football and Doctor Who? – Rise of the Cybermen ratings
Chips – Russell T Davies’ secret message across the 2006 season of Doctor Who
School Reunion (Early Draft) – Tongue-in-cheek ‘missing scene’
Ooh, I Do Feel Queer – The Caves of Androzani on the Ides of March
Books – How I learned to read on Doctor Who books
Other Doctor Who Bits
The Thinking Blogger’s Cartoonist – TV21-style Dalek comic strip
…The Adventure Begins – Doctor Who Season 2007 Preview Montage
Two Worlds Will Collide – Doctor Who Season 2007 Trailers
Doctor Who Preview RIGHT NOW – Doctor Who Season 2006 Preview Montage
I’m Officially Very Excited – Doctor Who Season 2006 Trailer
You Will Obey Me! – An ‘after’ Utopia-related picture
Don’t Open the Watch! – A ‘before’ Utopia-related picture
Ghost Stories for Christmas and Other Festive Television – M.R. James, The Martians and Us, Secret Army and previewing Voyage of the Damned
“Shaaaappps!” (Thunk) – A Tory MP and the most risible character from The Armageddon Factor; separated at birth
Caitlin Della Hill Is Lovely! – Hello to my new niece, with a visit to the Doctor Who exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
Blake’s 7 Reborn – Blake’s 7 is reimagined as audio drama, touching on Doctor Who writers and audios
The Most Perfect Eating Machine Ever Devised – the Dalek Sec Easter Egg (and a bit of John Barrowman in Any Dream Will Do)
Good Luck, Jacqueline Pearce! – A signing before Jackie emigrated
London and Fuzzy Monsters – How being without glasses is like Army of Ghosts
Six of Ood, Half a Dozen of the Other – Ood playing cards
That Post-Christmas, Post-Who Satisfied Feeling – After The Runaway Bride
Wasn’t That Brilliant? – After Doomsday
Big Finnish – How much is blogging like fanzines? A special bilingual edition
Of Course We Should Elect the Lords! – First photos of the Tenth Doctor and Martha
Man-Eater of Surrey Green – The Seeds of Doom and this episode of The Avengers
Never Seen The Avengers? Time to Start! – After Martha’s just been cast
Another Poptastic Chart – Love and Monsters and ELO
Fundamental Opposition – The Pet Shop Boys’ Integral and the Cybermen (more The Age of Steel this time)
I’m With Stupid – The Pet Shop Boys and Rise of the Cybermen
They’ve Just Incinerated Jennie Bond! – A lack of trailers for The Age of Steel
Writing Press Releases the DWM Way
Let the Fun Begin – Doctor Who wins BAFTAs
Wikimeme – Doctor Who anniversaries on my birthday
The Iron Chicken was Robbed – Obsure Dalek reference
Went The Day Well? with Lady Chatterley – Including David Tennant
Whoops, Missed a Week – With Doctor Who and the Ladies in Pink
Life On Mars – Including Doctor Who connections to the first series
A New Blog… And It’s About Time – My Time Team-following blog of the whole of Doctor Who (one tiny step at a time)
Labels: Doctor Who, In-Depth Doctor Who, Reviews
