Not a Dead Communist

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 ...

The Chase  was originally intended as the second season finale, and that’s apparent from watching it. This, however, means that  The Time Me...

The Chase is structured in three two-episode segments. First, there is the section on Aridius, then a couple of largely comedic episodes ba...

Although, at six parts, The Chase is not exceptionally long for its era, it does visit more than the usual number of settings. The third of...

With the next story, we are off to an alien planet again, albeit one inhabited by a race virtually indistinguishable from humans – if, indee...

Next, we reach another pure historical episode, and it’s one in the style of the first-season historicals rather than the more light-hearted...

The second-season serial The Web Planet is famous – or perhaps, infamous – for featuring no humanoid characters at all beyond the regular c...

We are overdue for a historical by this point, so it’s no surprise that the fourth story of the second season fits that description. Unlike ...