3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1233+ words) Doctor Who A-Z #113: Warriors" Gate (1981)The Geek Show I"ve tended to interpret Doctor Who stories through an authorial lens during this project, which raises the question of how we decide authorship in television. The cliche is that it"s…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1091+ words) The Geek Show The Season 18 title sequence might just be Doctor Who's weirdest. Not because it's scary or experimental or anything like that " it's just the culture shock of seeing something that's so incredibly '80s with Tom Baker's face stuck in…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (571+ words) The Geek Show Jacqueline Hill hovers a decent distance above the material as a Tigellan priestess, but otherwise the forces of reason and superstition are equally matched in how boring they are. You could fairly question whether anyone could structure…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1408+ words) The Geek Show The tonal and stylistic gap between The Horns of Nimon and The Leisure Hive is enormous, and in fairness these stories were never meant to air one after the other. Season Seventeen was famously supposed to end…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1373+ words) The Geek Show When Channel 5 brought back the legendary anthology drama strand Play for Today in 2025, the anticipation was tempered by a fear that it couldn't live up to the original run's standards. "Standards, though, meant different things for different…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1694+ words) The Geek Show I've seen good Doctor Who during this project, and I've seen bad Doctor Who too. But so-bad-it's-good Doctor Who is trickier to pin down. It's not just that the likes of The Dominators and The Space Museum…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1480+ words) The Geek Show Early in the first episode of City of Death, Romana asks the Doctor where they're going. "Do you mean philosophically or geographically? , he replies. It's one of an overwhelming number of great lines in the script by…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1203+ words) The Geek Show Classic Doctor Who comes from an age when the word "arc" did not fall confidently from television producers" lips, and the Key to Time is mostly the kind of loose overarching plot that works in a show…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1390+ words) The Geek Show The history of Doctor Who is remarkably well-documented, and these reviews would be nowhere without the generations of scholarship that taught us all how our favourite show was made. Yet sometimes the history of a story can…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1028+ words) The Geek Show Before I started this rewatch project, I always found it funny that Robert Holmes, Doctor Who's most beloved writer, wrote two Patrick Troughton stories nobody likes before suddenly becoming a genius as soon as the calendar flipped…...