Not a Dead Communist

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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

The Rescue is a brief story that functions primarily as the introduction to a new companion and arguably doesn’t do much more when taken in...

Continuing with the alternating themes of the first season, we are back to an alien planet with The Sensorites , in the first story to show ...

It’s not until the fifth serial of the original series that we have the second story to feature aliens other than the Doctor and Susan. It’s...

The second serial in the TV show’s history is, of course, the one that ensured its survival and first made it big. In many respects, the sto...