@Bluesqueakpip: I remember watching Remembrance of the Daleks, and knowing that they’d done it: they’d produced something as good as the best days of Who. By then the BBC was determined to cancel – but it was […]

@PhaseShift, @JimTheFish, @Bluesqueakpip and others:

Please excuse the following “just in from the pub” drivel, which doubtless won’t be helped by the fact that this website’s interface and my iPad seem to have […]

@Shazzbot: The reason I read for the sixth Doctor’s costume is that he was a bit post-regenerative when he put it on and afterwards would be too pig-headed to admit it was an awful choice. Makes sense, I suppose, […]

That Trials and Tribulations documentary was fascinating. What I’ve often wondered was what Trial would have been like if Robert Holmes had lived and the original writers’ scripts had been accepted. From what I […]

Great stuff! Wrong again about the cliffhanger: I’d thought there’d be one when the Doctor was hanging from the  curtain or falling off the lighting gantry. Mr Sin holding a knife at Leela was at least a secondary […]

@Bluesqueakpip: Indeed, much the same can be said for Jenna Coleman’s home-counties-with-northern-vowels accent. I’ve met quite a few people who just refuse to believe that that’s her normal voice!

@ScaryB: Yes, you’re absolutely right that Colin can’t be blamed for what was out in front of him, but he all too often played a bad script straight. Tom Baker was so brilliant in no small part because he could […]

@JimTheFish: Well, not just @ you, but I think something needs saying. I quite agree what the Colin Baker years were the show’s absolute nadir, and I really don’t get the recent revisionist idea that he was a […]

@Craig: Moreover, absolutely none of A Christmas Carol is set on Earth at all!

Brilliant! I first saw Talons on the old VHS release where the whole thing was edited together into one very long episode*, so I’m taking the opportunity to see if my guesses about where the cliffhangers were […]

@HTPBDET – Great to see you back – I’ve been loving your autobiographical articles about the past Doctors. I wish I could think of something else to say besides that!

@Bluesqueakpip: The next Doctor will be a kangaroo. I think I suggested that at the Guardian, mind. Damn this speciesist casting!

Oh, and there was me hoping it was just me and some fine young woman has a thing for small green aliens. <Sulk, sulk, sulk>

@Bluesqueakpip: I have to say this, and please don’t be offended, but I really hope you’re wrong about JLC. Don’t get me wrong: I think she’s great, but I really want a new face to be the twelfth. Male or female, […]

I imagine somebody’s already said this, but I haven’t had time to read all the posts, but the thought just hit me: The Doctor was revived in Let’s Kill Hitler by River giving him her regenerative ability. If he […]

@WhoHar: I remember seeing the Blue Peter episode where the Abzorbaloff was announced and thinking it a gloriously horrible idea: a gigantic brute lumbering through the streets, picking people up and letting his […]

If Ian Levine has indeed ruined a shock regeneration, then he’s an even bigger tosspot than I thought. (He was also responsible for the utterly shite boy band Upside Down among other things). Anyway, about the […]

I saw a book about oxbow lakes today that got me thinking: maybe the Hurt Doctor is a sort of temporal oxbow lake. Just as an oxbow lake was once part of the river before the meander doubled back on itself and the […]

@topperofgallifrey – My guess is that Sontarans are clones. There’s no such thing as a female Sontaran (although it probably doesn’t strictly make sense to call the male either), so he has some difficulty with the […]