Not a Dead Communist
Friday, 30 August 2024
Settings: Dalek Invasion of Earth
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth has a significant place in the ongoing development of the series. It’s the first returning “monster”, the first...
Friday, 16 August 2024
Settings: Planet of Giants
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The second season kicks off with a story that takes a different turn than the usual for the show; a science-fiction concept to be sure, but ...
Friday, 2 August 2024
Settings: The Reign of Terror
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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...
Friday, 19 July 2024
Settings: The Sense-Sphere
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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 ...
Friday, 5 July 2024
Settings: The Aztecs
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The first season of Doctor Who alternated between science fiction stories on alien worlds and ‘pure’ historicals in Earth’s past, with the ...
Friday, 21 June 2024
Settings: Marinus
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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...
Friday, 7 June 2024
Settings: Cathay
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The fourth serial is arguably the first of the Hartnell ‘pure historicals’; stories set in the then-past that contain no science fiction ele...
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