Not a Dead Communist

Another fifth-season story, another base under siege and, indeed, the fifth story in a row to be set on Earth. As with The Faceless Ones , i...

We’re back to a base-under-siege format with The Web of Fear , albeit the base is a real-world place in the middle of London. The story is a...

In a season known for consisting almost entirely of variations on the “base under siege” formula, The Enemy of the World stands out as the ...

The next story takes us to a future Earth in the grip of the perils of climate change, if not quite the sort we might be concerned about tod...

With The Abominable Snowmen , we have the first self-contained historical to feature a science fiction ‘monster’, rather than a rival time t...

Season five kicks off with a Cyberman story, cementing the intention of using them as the main villains from here on, instead of the Daleks....

The season finale of season four is arguably the first such serial to actually feel like a season finale. It’s one of the more popular Secon...