Jan 28, 2018
The first show with the Daleks and the Doctor. Well, let us say the first transmitted episodes of the Daleks and the Doctor. With a time travel show, 1st can be quite...elusive. Joe Dredd, Siskoid, and Ashford discuss this Terry Nation Drama. Allen Wright of the BoOutlaw.com fame has a segment discussing the career...
Jan 20, 2018
The Romans is played as a farce, yet the the story lends itself to something that goes way beyond problematic. The actions of Nero is flat out criminal, and the Doctor's ambivalence to Nero's antics are damn near complicit. Despite the hard to watch scenes, like Barbara trying to escape sexual assault from Nero,...
Jan 17, 2018
Siskoid, Joe Dredd, and Ashford discuss Straight Outta Gallifrey's first episode about the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan. This first serial where we see Susan attending Coal Hill High School in 1963 London is quite fascinating. Two concerned teachers, Barbara and Ian, investigate Susan, who is "ahead of her time" in...
Jan 11, 2018
In 1996, Fox/Universal and the BBC, along with other affiliates and power hand shakers tried to bring Doctor Who out of the wilderness. Siskoid, Joe Dredd, and Ashford discuss the flaws and highlights of this failure to launch, but it launch episode...movie. But no matter what you may think of this movie, at least we...
Jan 5, 2018
The final episode of series 26 broached many interesting ideas by Rona Munro, who later returns to Doctor Who in 2017's story, the Eaters of Light. Both stories play around with ideas about bravery, divides among cultures, traditions, languages, species, etc. Ace returns to her hometown, and it is not a...