The Barry Letts Influence
Barry Letts’ input on Doctor Who remains influential and cannot be overestimated. Letts helped create such an ideal Doctor Who for its time that many of his tweaks to the…
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Face (of) the future? I’ll get my coat!
As the dawn of a new era of Doctor Who creeps upon us, dip your toe in the Doctor Who fan pool and you can feel the slight turbulence in…
Has the Sonic Screwed New Who?
It seems funny that five years after the show’s sweet return in 2005 that the sonic screwdriver, a once proud iconic bastion of Doctor Who’s nostalgic gadgets, would have become…
Influenced By, Influence On…
“They don’t call it plagiarism anymore, they call it homage†– Tom Baker Doctor Who has a fine heritage of pilfering from literary sources. The Frankenstein episodes and The Prisoner…
Doctor Who Gothic
Doctor Who is a genre show. But there is no such thing as a pure, homogenous genre: genre reinforces and reinvents itself constantly. Doctor Who has survived by adapting and…
Frazer Hines
Frazer Hines is probably one of the most recognisable actors from the classic series of Doctor Who. His time onboard with Doctor number 2 created some of the shows mist…
Get Over it!
Despite the passing of time, it seems that some people just can’t deal with change. Over 12 months after the accouncement of the casting of Matt Smith as the Eleventh…
