Tag: Doctor Who: John Hurt (War Doctor)

  • Deep Breath – Some Quick Thoughts

    Deep Breath is, at its core, a fairly typical regeneration debut story. The story itself wasn\’t bad, but wasn\’t exactly anything special either. But a regeneration story has the primary function of successfully introducing the new Doctor to the audience. This is the single most important thing we needed from Deep Breath, to break in…

  • Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 11)

    Here\’s the penultimate part of my look back at Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The Radio Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special The TV Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special 11. Radio Times 50th Anniversay Special The Radio Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special is a real doozy, with no less than TWELVE variant covers featuring…

  • Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 9)

    Here\’s the next part of my look back at the Best of the Bunch from Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The Night of the Doctor – mini-episode prequel The Last Day – mini-episode prequel 8. The Night of the Doctor Commemorating Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary, and the first of two very good mini-episode prequels to The…

  • Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 2)

    Last time out, I talked about what TV has been dishing up for us to celebrate our favourite Time Lord\’s 50th birthday. This time, I\’m having a look at what\’s been happening on the magazine front. In this first part, I\’ll be looking at the Radio Times. The November 23rd-29th edition of the Radio Times…