I’ve mixed feelings about The Sarah Jane Adventures kicking off its series with returning villains from Doctor Who. A part of me thinks it should have been attempting to be distinct from the start. However, there had been a large gap since Invasion of the Bane – over nine months – and viewers needed to …
I didn’t really see much of The Sarah Jane Adventures when it was originally broadcast. In April 2005 I was 11 going on 12, so I was just about young enough to still become enthralled in childish joy when the new series of Doctor Who started. That Christmas I was among the many kids who …
Doctor Who had had its own magazine for two years by the time Blake’s 7 Monthly launched. After just over a year of being published weekly, the magazine went monthly. On the cover of issue 57 it is simply titled Doctor Who, but inside it’s clear that the contributors now consider the magazine to be …
The Trial of a Time Lord podcast puts Doctor Who on trial, with a different story and a different guest every episode. I had been a fan of this smut-filled den of iniquity for a while so was delighted to be able to join the show and take part in a trial. I had chosen …
I have been dragging myself through The Space Pirates and ‘dragging’ really is the most appropriate word. No one with any foreknowledge of it has ever happily sat through the entirety of The Space Pirates. I am now quite certain of this. All I knew was that there were six episodes and a few episodes in …
We’re back in telesnap land for the duration now. Despite this and despite it being The Space Pirates I… actually enjoyed this episode. I wasn’t expecting it. I was expecting the remaining four episodes to be a hard slog of space hell. But the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe became the focus of this episode, unlike the …
Episode 2 is the only episode of The Space Pirates to actually still exist. I was so bored by Episode 1 that it took a long time to convince myself to continue. A part of me wishes I hadn’t. Whilst the previous episode took fifteen minutes before the TARDIS crew showed up, in Episode 2 it still takes over …
The Space Pirates is the penultimate story in season six of Doctor Who. It is also the penultimate story for the second Doctor, who happens to be my favourite Doctor. It is the only one of his stories I have never watched. Until now. When Doctor Who returned to BBC1 in 2005 I consumed as much of …
