• Doctor Who: ‘Ascension of the Cybermen’ raises the stakes…

    Given the earnest warning from Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and the contempt of  Ashad, the Lone Cybermen (Patrick O’Kane) at Villa Diodati, the Doctor and her companions head into the far future and the last days of the great Cyber War to see if they can undo the...
  • Can a Post-Millennial Prometheus revive Who fortunes?

    The Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, 1816:  A group of people who will have a huge effect on centuries of literature to come gather for their own decadent weekend.  But though Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr Polidori and Clair Claremont are there… where is Percy Shelley? That’s...
  • Who goes Scare? – A tale of Fingers, Fear, felons and Fam…

    The Doctor drops off her companions in modern-day Sheffield and is somewhat conflicted about how to spend the next day by herself.  But the Tardis alerts her to an unusual reading that comes from Ancient Syria and so she heads there to discover the source. It would seem a...
  • Who’s ‘Praxeus’ is a Wasted Opportunity…

    An astronaut’s shuttle veers wildly off-path, a blogger goes missing in a Peruvian beauty-spot turned rubbish-dump and in Madagascar birds are behaving very strangely indeed.  Even the Doctor and her ‘fam’ seem baffled as they divide and conquer… each heading to the site of the occurrences to try and...
  • Tempus Fugitve: Just how Ruthless is the Doctor?

    A platoon of Judoon are heading from the moon to a lagoon, in particular Gloucester  in pursuit of a very specific fugitive. And while the rhino-horned space-police cause panic in the cathedral city,  Ruth and partner seek to make an escape. The hi-tech chaos attracts the attention of the...
  • Our Fiends Electric: Who’s current war powers up…

    Nikola Tesla (Goran Visnjič) is a man with vision – sometimes fanciful, sometimes pragmatic but clearly a man ahead of his time. But when funding is pulled for his latest project, in no small part to the fearmongering of rival Thomas Edison (Robert Glenister), he thinks the day can’t...
  • Who’s ‘Orphan 55’: Cut Price Vacation, too much baggage…

    With the Doctor still trying to process the news about Gallifrey – not to mention a rather drastic clear-up mess from a recent squiddish encounter (who knew it was mating season?) – perhaps there’s time for a holiday. Graham’s rather eager construction of a travel cube spirits the team...
  • Doctor Who: ‘Spyfall II’ Herstory in the Making?

    As Daniel Barton’s plane plunges to Earth – with Barton and the Master (for it is he!) safely beamed away and the Doctor finding herself between dimensions, it seems some quick and unlikely escapes are desperately needed. Both Ryan and The Doctor find help via unexpected people but that’s...
  • In for the Count: Moffat and Gatiss tackle ‘Dracula’…

    When Steven Moffat left Doctor Who it was not immediately clear what he would do next. A complete break from the Time Lord meant no more Tardis offerings and the show-runner had often spoken on the difficulty of co-ordinating schedules to get Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman back for...
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