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Doctor Who – The Ribos Operation

H E Cooper — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:43:06 +0000

My main memories of this story are really just blokes standing around in fur coats on snowy rocks. This, in fairness, is not an entirely inaccurate description of The Ribos Operation. Yet it achieves plenty with a small cast on studio sets.

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Doctor Who – Invasion of the Dinosaurs

H E Cooper — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:11:50 +0000

Invasion of the Dinosaurs is the last Third Doctor story I hadn’t seen before. I’d owned it for a long time, but the impression I’d gained was of a highly naff production, even accounting for Doctor Who’s usual low budget standards. INVASION I love that Episode One is simply titled ‘Invasion’ and I’m sure that …

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Doctor Who – The Time Warrior

H E Cooper — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:01:49 +0000

Ooh new titles… When I originally watched The Time Warrior, I hadn’t seen any of Sarah Jane Smith’s 1970s’ stories. I’d first seen her in The Five Doctors, and I came away without much impression of her really. There are so many faces there that few of the companions get to shine much besides filling …

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Doctor Who – The Green Death

H E Cooper — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:53 +0000

I first saw The Green Death on BBC Four in April 2006. BBC Four has never regularly repeated Doctor Who and I can’t recall seeing any other stories there around that time – I’d definitely have checked the TV guide after stumbling across this one. I’d later assumed that this broadcast was part of some …

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I’ve Never Seen K9 And Company

H E Cooper — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:12:38 +0000

The day finally came when I had to admit to some fellow Doctor Who fans that I had never got around to watching K9 & Company. Several children of the 1980s were horrified – it was clear that they were lifelong lovers of this ill-fated spin-off. I was intrigued, but I was also trepidatious. After all, there …

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Doctor Who – Planet of the Daleks

H E Cooper — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:00:47 +0000

Frontier in Space may not have had the cliffhanger I thought I remembered, but it did have a cliffhanger. I’d waited 15 years to find out how Planet of the Daleks continued the story, after UK Gold had been unable to screen it. The VHS was deleted by then and eBay copies were too expensive …

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Doctor Who – Frontier in Space

H E Cooper — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:00:45 +0000

When I watched Frontier in Space the first time around, I was absolutely livid that UK Gold did not then show Planet of the Daleks afterwards. And for years that was my main memory of it – being angry and feeling cheated of the story’s conclusion. I never managed to get around to seeing Planet …

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Doctor Who – The Carnival of Monsters

H E Cooper — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:00:49 +0000

I’ve been doing my Very Slow Doctor Who Marathon for well over a decade – the pilgrimage, the quest, whatever fans want to call it. One thing that pushed me back towards it was the release of The Collection blu-ray sets. I’ve written about some stories in recent years, starting in the Pertwee era. Having …

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The DNA of Doctor Who: The Philip Hinchcliffe Years

H E Cooper — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:03:55 +0000

Roundel Books has launched a new series of books on the creative team behind Doctor Who, with this first The DNA of Doctor Who book covering Philip Hinchcliffe’s period as producer in the mid-1970s. Edited by Gary Russell, each story is considered thematically, bringing fresh perspectives to the series. I am delighted to have contributed a …

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Trap One Podcast – Doctor Who Season 15 Collection

H E Cooper — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:01:25 +0000

I joined Trap One to chat about the new Doctor Who Season 15 Collection box set. I hadn’t seen most of Season 15 of Doctor Who before getting this bluray set, so I was really looking forward to getting to chat to everyone afterwards. It was the first opportunity I had had to talk to anyone …

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