Not a Dead Communist

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...

With The Faceless Ones , we return to present-day Earth, and the setting of a modern airport. Like everything else in season 4, most of the ...

The fourth season moves back outside the solar system for its fourth base-under-siege story. This is another serial that’s entirely missing ...

The first of four Cyberman stories in the Second Doctor’s three-season run, this is not the most highly regarded, but it’s no means unpopula...

  With the last of the Hartnell-style historicals out of the way, the next story is more of a science fiction adventure, albeit one set on n...

The Highlanders is partly notable for introducing one of the longest-running companions in the show’s history, but perhaps more so for bein...

The Second Doctor’s run kicks off with a Dalek story, providing continuity with the previous seasons despite the change of lead actor. The f...

The Tenth Planet is undeniably one of the most significant serials of the black-and-white period of Doctor Who . Most obviously, it is the ...

The last of the Hartnell historicals, The Smugglers  is a pirate adventure, something that has a long tradition in TTRPGs. The general conse...

The last serial of the third season is another one available to watch in its original form. Fan opinion tends to divide between ‘middling’ a...

After a brief respite, we’re back to stories that are entirely missing again, with another piece of relatively high-concept science fiction....

There’s practically a rule in TV series that involve time travel that, sooner or later, at least one episode must be a Western. Based on the...

This next story is, arguably, the most divisive in the show’s history. According to review aggregator websites, fans are pretty much evenly ...

It’s not until we reach this, the sixth story, that we find a third-season serial that fully survives in its original form. While the story ...

Following The Daleks' Master Plan , we’re back with another historical, and this time it’s perhaps the most obscure period of history th...

The second half of The Dalek’s Master Plan covers even more settings than the first, including, as it does, a whistle-stop journey through ...

The Daleks’ Master Plan is the longest Doctor Who serial that everyone can agree is a Doctor Who serial. Unfortunately, nine of its twelv...

To the surprise and apparent confusion of some audiences at the time, Mission to the Unknown is followed, not by a continuation of its Dale...

Mission to the Unknown is an unusual episode. It’s a single 25-minute tale, and thus the shortest regularly broadcast Doctor Who story. Mo...

The opening serial of season three marks the beginning of a run of serials that are wholly or partly missing in their original form. In its ...