1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (928+ words) The Geek Show By the end of Peter Davison’s second season there is an unbridgeable gap between what the show does well and what the production team and the fans both want it to do. What it does well – and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1857+ words) The Geek Show The following article contains spoilers for Tip Toe. You’re not wrong, I chose an interesting time to write an article about Russell T Davies. The man who, in 2005, brought Doctor Who back to life might have turned…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1451+ words) The Geek Show Back in the Usenet days of Doctor Who fandom, people used to talk about “frock” versus “gun” episodes of Doctor Who. Some people liked the show for its “frock” elements (camp humour, weird juxtapositions, eccentric characters), some…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1166+ words) The Geek Show The decision to spend two episodes of Peter Davison’s debut season trying to revive the “pure historical” – a subgenre of Doctor Who where the Doctor and the TARDIS are the only science-fictional elements, which hasn’t been attempted…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1077+ words) The Geek Show So here we are, the first serial to bear a screenwriting credit for Eric Saward. To say his rise was meteoric would be an understatement; not yet forty and without a Doctor Who story to his name,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1260+ words) The Geek Show Kinda doesn’t make it easy for you. Normally even the most intricately plotted classic-series Doctor Who story will at least work superficially as an adventure story, but – even with a ticking clock, a giant monster and a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1278+ words) The Geek Show One of the morbid fascinations of looking over old Doctor Who is assessing all the moments when the series could have ended – the 1989 cancellation, obviously, and the 1985 hiatus. It could have stopped when William Hartnell left the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (801+ words) The Geek Show Whenever I’ve done an article for Outside The Blue Box, it tends to be a project where its creator uses Doctor Who to raise their profile. Sallie Aprahamian directed some ambitious episodes of Doctor Who after cutting…...

2+ mon, 4+ week 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 a writer’s…...

3+ mon, 2+ day 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…...