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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

With the stories still alternating in theme, we turn to another pure historical for what became (but was not originally planned to be) the f...

The first season of Doctor Who alternated between science fiction stories on alien worlds and ‘pure’ historicals in Earth’s past, with the ...

The fourth serial is arguably the first of the Hartnell ‘pure historicals’; stories set in the then-past that contain no science fiction ele...

Although An Unearthly Child is marketed as a single story, and was produced and directed as such, it involves two quite different settings ...