Our survivors experience more disappointments, but their little family unit is growing. Snatches of hope drive Abby and the others forward this episode. She returns to the school, with the older teacher now gone. Interestingly, she doesn’t find his body and we’re left wondering what actually happened to him. When she’s in the chapel, there …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Written by: James Mitchell Directed by: Guy Verney Caroline Fielding (Ann Bell) is the wife of a diplomat with good connections to the US President. She’s being blackmailed by Lord Lindale (Donald Hewlett), a gambler who is threatening to sell compromising photos of her husband to the Russians. Former Section operative Miller (Gerald Flood) has …
In the missing episode But He’s a Lord, Mr Callan, Callan hands over a portion of gambling winnings to his ex-colleague, who says there should be more. Callan tells him, “Fifty quid expenses. I’ve got to look smart when I stay with a lord, haven’t I?” Later, Lonely comes to collect Callan’s things for their …
I joined Trap One to chat about Series 2 of Redacted, the BBC audio drama series set in the Doctor Who universe. Following on from Series 1, Cleo (Charlie Craggs), Abby (Lois Chimimba) and Shawna (Holly Quin-Ankrah) are still hosting their podcast called ‘The Blue Box Files’, about their attempts to track sightings of a mysterious …
Dave and his guests hit the TARDIS randomiser on each episode of A Kettle and Some String for a random trip through time and space with Doctor Who‘s adventures. For my voyage in Kettle‘s ship, I got to visit a classic Third Doctor story. Spearhead from Space is easily one of my most watched Doctor Who stories, …
Maximum Power reaches Series C of Blake’s 7 and I stepped up to discuss all the wonderful weirdness of Sarcophagus. It’s an episode that’s grown on me the more I’ve thought about it and I highly enjoyed rewatching it (multiple times!) in preparation for the podcast. My Blake’s 7 blog posts were all largely …
Bauer (Robert Lang) is to help the Section plant an agent in East Germany. He comes to Hunter with a proposal to tip the East Germans off and send in a decoy – if they find a decoy first they won’t be looking for the real agent. Bauer had a previous run-in with Callan and …
