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Doctor Who:
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

December 27, 2016 Drew Simchik 0

My hot take was that it wasn’t my least favorite Christmas special, but I’m having trouble coming up with the one it beats. Maybe “The […]

Another Peek At This Year’s ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special

November 18, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

With a plucky young reporter and… Nardole, The Doctor comes face to face with a Lex Luthor type and a real superhero. We’d been told […]

‘Doctor Who’ Encountering A Superhero At Christmas

October 8, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

On Christmas Day, Doctor Who fans get an extra special present when their hero’s world collides with the comic book one. In “The Return of Doctor […]

BBC Introduces Pearl Mackie As “Bill” – The New Companion On ‘Doctor Who’

April 23, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

Currently starring in the West End in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, Pearl Mackie is about to go from talented actor […]

Sir John Hurt Portrays Other Doctors

February 17, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

At Gallifrey One 27, the guest of honor was Sir John Hurt, known to Whovians as The War Doctor, though that’s the tiniest slice of […]

Review: ‘TARDIS Beat’

February 10, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

To make a parody work at its best, you can’t just have knowledge about the target, you have to have so much that it proves […]

Steven Moffat Stepping Down From ‘Doctor Who’ – In 2017

January 22, 2016 Derek McCaw 0

Though we’ve had rumblings for months, the alleged final plan for Steven Moffat’s tenure ending on Doctor Who is sure to cause agony for fans. According […]

Doctor Who:
“The Husbands of River Song”

December 31, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

This is the first time since “The Five Doctors” back in 1983 that my first viewing of a Doctor Who episode took place in a […]

Doctor Who: “Hell Bent”

December 8, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

Even though “Hell Bent” is as unrepentantly sci-fi and literal as “Heaven Sent” is allegorical and rich with subtext, even though it’s as chaotic and […]

Doctor Who: “Heaven Sent”

November 30, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

The Doctor has lost his best friend. His best friend has forbidden him to take out his anger and grief on anyone else. But he […]

Doctor Who: “Face the Raven”

November 24, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

One way to gauge the sturdiness of a work of fiction might be: if you know the big spoiler, can you still enjoy it? The […]

Maisie Williams Returns To ‘Doctor Who’ This Week

November 18, 2015 Derek McCaw 0

After warning us to “sleep no more,” Doctor Who follows up by admonishing us to “Face the Raven.” While I appreciate the literary allusions, they need […]

Doctor Who: “Sleep No More”

November 16, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

Imagine, if you can, a monster that uses your time asleep to attack you…yes, a bit like Freddy Krueger. Imagine that this monster is so […]

Doctor Who: “The Zygon Inversion”

November 9, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

Imagine you’ve been forced to move to another country, one where you don’t speak the language and the customs aren’t your own. You probably still […]

Doctor Who: “The Zygon Invasion”

November 1, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

And just like that we’re back in a classic mode, in this case the Earth invasion stories that introduced UNIT in 1970 and continued through […]

Doctor Who, “The Woman Who Lived”

October 25, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

For a moment in this season’s opening two-parter I got the ghastly fear that by the end of this year we’d have a definitive, boring […]

Doctor Who: “The Girl Who Died”

October 18, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

Series 9 continues our tour of the classic series in general and the Tom Baker era in specific with a season 16/17 smorgasbord. Those two […]

Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”

October 12, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

It’s all about paradoxes this season so far. In the opening two-parter, we got the Grandfather Paradox: if you go back in time and kill […]

Doctor Who: Under the Lake

October 5, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

If you hear a classic series fan talking about the “base under siege” story, they’re talking about a story like “Under the Lake”. It’s a […]

Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar

September 29, 2015 Drew Simchik 0

I said last week that there was only one time travel story to be told about Hitler: do you go back and kill him before […]

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