Terrance Dicks famously remarked that the problem with the UNIT format gifted to him in Season Seven was that you could only tell mad scientist stories and alien invasion stories, and the sooner you could pack the Doctor off into space again, the better. Of course, Season Seven actually gives
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Who would have thought that 2013 would be the year where we’d have Paul McGann as the Doctor on television… and not on audio? Though he may have joined the fray in The Light at the End, it’s been over a year since he starred in Dark Eyes, and so
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You can’t be a Doctor Who monster without ending up with an “origin story” at some point (if not multiple ones). Maybe this wouldn’t be necessary if more monsters were just aliens with a hate-on for humans, but many of the Doctor’s most iconic foes are victims of modification in
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Stories about omnipotent entities are, one suspects, hard to make dramatic. Beings like the Celestial Toymaker and Star Trek’s Q can change the rules of the story at will, which makes it hard to be involved in it. You need to understand what’s going on. It’s perhaps noteworthy that of
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The Bestseller Job by Greg Cox, the final of the three Leverage novels published in 2013, leads the Leverage crew into the worlds of both book publishing and assassins and black ops. When an old friend of Eliot, who has penned a bestselling book dealing with black ops missions and
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Hex is dead. Sally and Lysandra are gone. The Doctor and Ace are at odds. That’s the status quo at the beginning of Afterlife, picking up from the end of Gods and Monsters. Much of the beginning of the story is a two-hander between the Doctor and Ace, as Ace
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Before listening to The Avengers: The Lost Episodes, Volume 1, I’d never once seen an episode of the classic ITV spy series The Avengers, despite a vague desire to do so. I love Diana Rigg and Joanna Lumley as much as the next person, but there’s not just enough hours
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This review includes spoilers for the novel. Protectors, Kirsten Beyer’s fifth novel in her ongoing Star Trek: Voyager saga, is the first one to deal with the repercussions of Admiral Kathryn Janeway’s return from the dead in the preceding novel The Eternal Tide. While Janeway is recalled to the Alpha
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Big Finish’s recent “Twelve Days of Christmas” sale gave me the opportunity to pick up a release from way back in November 2002: The Nicholas Courtney Memoirs: A Soldier in Time, part of the short-lived Big Finish TalksBack series. This 3-CD release sees the late Nicholas Courtney narrating his life
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After no small delay, here’s The Time Machine, the last instalment of Destiny of the Doctor, featuring what was until very very recently, the current Doctor. Jenna Coleman née Jenna-Louise narrates Matt Fitton’s story, which features double guest stars in Michael Cochrane and good old Nicholas Briggs. Sadly, there’s no
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