Not a Dead Communist

The Dalek Invasion of Earth has a significant place in the ongoing development of the series. It’s the first returning “monster”, the first...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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