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  • Happy 52nd Birthday Doctor Who!!!

    It was on this day, fifty-two years ago, that the very first ever episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, was broadcast by BBC One, on the evening of Saturday, 23rd November, 1963. The world of television sci-fi would never be the same again. This story introduces us for the very first time to a…

  • Doctor Who – The Beginning (DVD Box Set)

    [R]ecently, I decided to conduct an interesting experiment in total immersion in classic Doctor Who, go right back to where it all started, and start watching my Doctor Who DVDs in order, starting with the earliest episodes first. Well, you can\’t get any earlier than The Beginning three-disk DVD Box Set, which contains the first…

  • Doctor Who – The Beginning (DVD Box Set)

    Recently, I decided to conduct an interesting experiment in total immersion in classic Doctor Who, go right back to where it all started, and start watching my Doctor Who DVDs in order, starting with the earliest episodes first. Well, you can\’t get any earlier than The Beginning three-disk DVD Box Set, which contains the first…

  • Doctor Who Back on UK Television!

    Like every other Doctor Who fan on the planet, I\’ve been eagerly awaiting the start of the new season, and most of all the first full appearance of the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Now at last, Doctor Who returns to UK television tomorrow, Saturday, 23rd August, at 7.50pm, in a 75-minute feature-length episode. The first…

  • Doctor Who 50th Anniversary – My Personal Favourites

    [N]ow that November is over, I can look back upon Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary and state, with some enthusiasm, that it was a very good anniversary indeed, one of the best I can ever remember. There were lots of excellent Doctor Who items on television, on DVD and in the magazines, but these four were…

  • Doctor Who – Fifty Years in Time and Space

    This month marks the 50th Anniversary of my all-time favourite sci-fi television series, Doctor Who. The very first episode of An Unearthly Child aired on BBC1 at 5.15pm on Saturday 23rd November, 1963, and the world of sci-fi television, and our lives, would never be the same again. There has obviously been a lot of…