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Doctor Who Monthly magazine – Issue 57 (October 1981)

H E Cooper — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:05:09 +0000

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 …

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Resurrection of the Daleks – Trial of a Time Lord podcast

H E Cooper — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:54:09 +0000

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 …

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In 1968 tonight…

H E Cooper — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:14:00 +0000

There is something lovely about looking at what was on telly 50 years ago today. It’s that nice round number – 49, or 51 just won’t do quite so nicely. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now. Although I was already interested in a few programmes, an enormous influence on me delving …

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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates – Episodes 4,5 & 6

H E Cooper — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:24:00 +0000

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 …

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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates – Episode 3

H E Cooper — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:46:00 +0000

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 …

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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates – Episode 2

H E Cooper — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:31:00 +0000

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 …

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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates – Episode 1

H E Cooper — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:03:00 +0000

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 …

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