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...

In Doctor Who stories, it's not unusual for there to be a character who takes on a companion-like role, but who does not, in the end, j...

As has become almost traditional for companions by this point, Victoria leaves in the penultimate story of a season - in her case, the fif...

Ben and Polly leave in the penultimate episode of the fourth season. With Jamie already filling the 'action hero' role, it's...

One clear problem with setting a game during a specific period of Doctor Who 's television history is that the Doctor rarely travels w...

While Steven's former player decides to make his next character, Ben, more down-to-earth, Dodo's has the opposite problem, and dec...

Steven and Dodo left in consecutive episodes at the end of the show's third season. Although the actual reasons probably had more to d...

The Second Doctor's era is a crucial one in the development of Doctor Who as a series. There's the obvious point that the regener...