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Newest article: "The Wheel in Space"
Rose by Alan
Stevens and Fiona Moore
The opening episode of the new series of Doctor Who
proves to be very, very now.
The End of the World
by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Visually lovely and intriguing themes-- and could it be a sign of
things to come?
The Unquiet Dead
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
A chillingly rendered black comedy-- but what are the Gelth's true
motivations?
Aliens of London/World War
Three by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Alien creations with augmented pig cerebellums are innocent OK.
Dalek by Alan
Stevens and Fiona Moore
An instant classic, and we never use that term lightly.
The Long Game by
Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
The revolution will be televised with extreme prejudice.
Father's Day by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Never trust a human not to try to change history.
The Empty Child/The Doctor
Dances by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Keep Mum-- she's not so dumb.
Boom Town by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
A pun in the title, a sting in the tale, and a quick lesson in Welsh.
Bad Wolf/The Parting of
the Ways by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
The party to Endemol.
2005 Season Overview
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Jury out: intelligent resurrection of classic concepts, or radical new
series for a new millennium?
The Christmas Invasion
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
No turkey for Christmas this year...
The Oncoming Storm? 2006
Season Overview by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
BAFTAs or brickbats? You be the judge!
Change and Decay:
Season 18
A series analysing Tom Baker's final season as Doctor Who.
The Leisure Hive
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
A torrid tale of love, life sciences and lizards in a leisure facility.
Meglos by Fiona
Moore and Alan Stevens
The Doctor is beside himself-- but is this a bad thing, or, actually,
quite good?
Full Circle by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The planet Alzarius: an ecological parable, and a nice place to pick up
unattached young men.
State of Decay by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The stakes rise as behind-the-scenes tensions flare, and Doctor
Who gets Hammered.
Warrior's Gate
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The Doctor has a death wish, Romana goes to Gormenghast and Stephen
Gallagher gets his own back against the unionised employees of Granada
Television.
The Keeper of Traken
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Doctor Who raids the Shakespeareian tradition to
give us a new companion, an old enemy and a brilliant debut for Anthony
Ainley.
Logopolis by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The final chapter of the saga, in which the themes of change and decay
resolve into ones of nostalgia and regression.
The Death of Doctor Who
by Alan Stevens
A lightheartedly morbid look at how all the various Time Lords shuffled
off this mortal coil, and what David Tennant has got to worry about.
The Doctor Who
Confidential Drinking Game
by Fiona Moore
Want tips on how to lighten up the post-Doctor Who
half-hour? Grab a glass and follow the instructions.
The Doctor Who
Confidential Drinking Game part II
by Fiona Moore
They didn't let up for the second season, and neither did we.
The Doctor Who
Confidential Drinking Game part III: Torchwood Declassified
by Fiona Moore
No one connected with the series escapes the Drinking Game treatment.
The Doctor Who
Confidential Drinking Game part IV: Totally Doctor Who
by Fiona Moore
We mean it: No one.
The Doctor Who
Confidential Drinking Game part V: Confidential Series 3
by Fiona Moore
We could just go on forever, honest.
Doctor Who: the 1963-1989 Series
The Wheel in Space
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
It's got Zoe in it, which makes up for a lot.
The Evil of the Daleks
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Daleks discovering the hippie movement, the Second Doctor discovering
Beatnik culture and Jamie discovering mini-kilts.
Destiny of the Daleks
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Oh look-- Daleks!
The Daleks by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Yes, it's about war and violence-- but perhaps not the way that one
might think.
Robot by Fiona
Moore
What's the point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?
The Web Planet
by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
The secret to doing stories with giant maggots, pantomime ants and
Mexican-wrestler bumblebees is knowing when to stop.
The Green Death
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
There's two reasons everybody remembers this one, and one of them is
the giant maggots.
The Invasion by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The only Troughton-era Cyberman story that we actually think is any
cop. And we're going to tell you why.
The Mutants by
Fiona Moore
The Third Doctor is thrown into an allegory of Apartheid-era South
Africa, but is everything completely black and white?
Day of the Daleks by
Alan Stevens with Fiona Moore
Find out how this early-70s serial influenced later Dalek stories-- and
why it drives a time machine through established Dalek history...
The Chase by Alan
Stevens and Fiona Moore
Terry Nation's absolute intellectual masterpiece, the pinnacle of his
writing career. Or not.
The Power of the Daleks
by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Patrick Troughton's first Doctor Who story-- is it
a stunningly iconic classic, or an overrated runaround?
Earthshock by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Is it a travesty of Davis and Pedler's original ideas... or the best
thing to happen to the Cybermen since Mondas broke out of orbit?
Were the Daleks really past their best in 1973? What was Galloway really up to? And, most importantly, why was Sarah Jane Smith grabbed and dry-humped by two Exxilon rebels?
An Analysis of Resurrection of the Daleks by Alan StevensThe Mad Mariachi's Master
Plan by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Why is the Doctor Who story "The Enemy of the
World" like "The
Daleks's Master Plan"?
Why is it continually overlooked by fan commentators? And why, oh why,
did anybody think it was a good idea to have Patrick Troughton dress up
as a Mariachi band leader?
The Evil of the Doctor
by Alan Stevens
Previously published in In-Vision, this is the
revised and
expanded version of the controversial "Remembrance of the Daleks"
review which was applauded by some, hated by others, and the subject of
an extended rant by Lawrence Miles. Is the Seventh Doctor godlike and
omniscient-- or amoral and genocidal?
The Faceless Ones
by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
A Troughton-era tale of mystery and kidnapping at an airport... hides a
behind-the-scenes story of duelling egos, deteriorating cast/crew
relations and the problem of sex in Doctor Who.
Find out how!
The Tomb of the Cybermen
by Alan Stevens
A controversial look at a long-lost Doctor Who
story. Hailed as a classic upon its rerelease in 1992, is it truly
worthy of the name-- or is it a poorly-written, racist pastiche with
less depth than an ant's swimming pool?
The Sound and the Fury: Is Doctor
Who Better Suited to Audio or Video? by Fiona Moore
In these days when much Doctor Who-related material
is only available on audio, we tackle the crucial question: is audio
just a poor substitute for video, or does it add something to the
programme which the videos fail to deliver?
Not as Primitive as
they Look: An Anthropologist on Doctor Who by Fiona Moore
Magic Bullet's webmaster and co-production manager is persuaded to put
on her other hat and take a quirky mystery-tour around the primitive
tribes of Doctor Who.
Doctor Davros, or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Daleks by Fiona Moore
An introspective and insightful essay, examining the Cold War origins
of the Daleks, and considering "Genesis of the Daleks" as an allegory
of something very sinister indeed.
A Day in Kaldor City:
8 August 2002 by Douglas McNaughton
Behind the scenes on the recording of Kaldor City:Taren Capel and
Kaldor City: Hidden Persuaders, featuring details of the strange
links between David Cronenberg and Kaldor City, the real story behind
Edward Woodward's nickname, and a mini-interview with series writer Jim
Smith!
Recording Kaldor
by Jim Smith
An account of the recording of Kaldor
City 3: Hidden Persuaders, by one of the CD's authors.
