Doctor Who

So really I knew least about the Seventh Doctor when I started to get back into Old Who (after the start of New Who). I began in December 2005 by downloading the two e-books available from the BBC website - Human Nature (excellent, and this was before it got reincarnated) and Lungbarrow (inco...

This meant that I missed out on the two really good Sixth Doctor stories, Revelation of the Daleks and Mindwarp. The former is the most interesting Davros story apart from Genesis of the Daleks; the latter the only one from the Trial of a Time Lord season which exploits the story-within-a-s...

by Simon Guerrier, takes the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex to Drogheda and then to Wexford in 1649, where, inevitably, they get mixed up in Cromwell's invasion of Ireland - Hex ends up as a confidant of Cromwell's, while the Doctor and Ace get involved with the civilian victims of the unfoldi...

I was born during the Second Doctor era (between episodes 3 and 4 of The Faceless Ones, to be precise), so as with the First Doctor my early experience of the Troughton stories was through the novelisations (which were, on the whole, better) and the reference books and DWM articles. In 1981,...

William Hartnell's Doctor was very nearly the last I got to know. I was born after he had departed the scene, and he died before I had really got into watching it; my exposure to him as a young fan was the early novelisations, the rebroadcasting of An Unearthly Child in 1981, and the records of T...

My conclusion after all of this is that anyone who wants to appreciate Terry Nation's work in Blake's 7 also needs to see his early Doctor Who serial, The Keys of Marinus. The six 25-minute episodes are essentuially five distinct stories, the last being a two-parter, in which the regulars a...

Doctor Who - The Krotons by Terrance Dicks Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks (Third Doctor) Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters by Terrance Dicks Doctor Who - Death to the Daleks by Terrance Dicks Doctor Who - Meglos by Terrance Dicks

This is the most owned Doctor Who book on LibraryThing, for some reason; I guess it was the first Tenth Doctor book to come out. Team Tardis (Doctor and Rose, with Mickey and Jackie visible too) find a statue of Rose dating from Roman times in the British Museum. Solving the mystery takes a cert...