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Tag Archives: doctor who
The Eleventh Hour, by Jon Arnold
Next in the sequence of Black Archive books about individual Doctor Who stories, this time it’s the first Eleventh Doctor story and the first of Steven Moffat’s era as show-runner. When The Eleventh Hour was first broadcast in 2010, I … Continue reading
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The HAVOC Files, Volume 4, ed. Shaun Russell
Second paragraph of third story (“United in Blood”, by Mark Jones): Lethbridge-Stewart approached the bar and held out a hand to his old friend. ‘Bill Cunningham! It’s good to see you too,’ he said, as he grasped the other’s hand … Continue reading
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Directed by Douglas Camfield, by Michael Seely
Second paragraph of third chapter: They worked on the seventh floor of Lime Grove, assigned to different film editors. This was the same building where Alfred Hitchcock made The Thirty Nine Steps twenty years before when it was the Gaumont … Continue reading
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Marco Polo, by Dene October (and John Lucarotti)
Next in the sequence of Black Archive books about Doctor Who. In this case I had actually listened to the audio reconstruction again quite recently, so I didn’t repeat that for this blog post, just reading the novelisation again as … Continue reading
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The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit, by Simon Bucher-Jones (and Matt Jones)
Next in the excellent Black Archive line of short books about individual Doctor Who stories, this looks at a two-parter from Series 2 of New Who, a story where the Tenth Doctor and Rose are stranded on a planet orbiting … Continue reading
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I am the Master, by Peter Anghelides et al
Second paragraph of third story (“Missy’s Magical Mystery Mission”, by Jacqueline Rayner): And so Daphne (‘Mrs N’ to her clients, although she wasn’t married), scrubbed Tivone of Enfis’s bathroom, steam-cleaned his oubliette and de-crumbed his toaster, hoping all the while … Continue reading
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The Eighth of March 2: Protectors of Time
A set of three plays from Big Finish all starring women from the Whoniverse – in fact, all bringing women characters together from the TV shows who did not meet on screen, or only met once – produced for International … Continue reading
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Carnival of Monsters, by Ian Potter (and Robert Holmes, and Terrance Dicks)
Next in the series of Black Archive monographs on Doctor Who is the second story from Season 10, where the Doctor has been liberated by the Time Lords from his exile on Earth and is once again able to travel … Continue reading
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Full Circle, by John Toon (and Andrew Smith)
Gradually working through the excellent Black Archive series of short monographs on Doctor Who stories, I have reached another Old Who story which I watched on first broadcast. When I rewatched Full Circle in 2008, I wrote: Imagine if you … Continue reading
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The Man from Yesterday, by Nick Walters
Second paragraph of third chapter: ‘Stir your stumps, breakfast’s up.’ Bill grinned down at her. Another very good installment in the series of Doctor Who spinoff stories featuring the earlier career of Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart – in this case re-introducing … Continue reading
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Legends of Camelot, by Jacqueline Rayner
Second paragraph of third chapter: It was a relic of growing up with Sylvia. Donna’s mother had never been particularly understanding over incidents such as spilled drinks or broken plates, and Donna found it a lot easier to deflect blame … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Foe, by James Cooray Smith (and Robert Holmes, Eric Saward and Pip and Jane Baker)
The fourteenth in the Black Archive sequence of analyses of Doctor Who, this takes the sensitive topic of the two-part story that ended Colin Baker’s time as the Sixth Doctor – billed on TV at the time as “Trial of … Continue reading
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Human Nature/The Family of Blood, by Naomi Jacobs and Philip Purser-Hallard (and Paul Cornell)
So, the 13th in the Black Archive series of analyses of Doctor Who stories reaches a particular favourite, the 2006 Tenth Doctor two-parter Human Nature / The Family of Blood. It was in fact the first and only Who story … Continue reading
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A Very Private Haunting, by Sharon Bidwell
Second paragraph of third chapter: Silence stood sentinel between them for a few minutes. Bishop broke first. ‘I read the report about the last encounter. That kid was lucky.’ Another good entry in the sequence of short novels about Brigadier … Continue reading
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The Unofficial Doctor Who Annual 1972, ed. Mark Worgan
Second paragraph of third chapter (“Phantoms of the Mind”, by Paul Vought): In Elm House, a recently built concrete tower block, in a very contemporarily furnished apartment an author sits at tier desk tapping away at the keys of her … Continue reading
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