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Doctor Who: the New Series

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.

 

Humour and Miscellany

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?

An Analysis of Death to the Daleks by Alan Stevens

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 Stevens
It's got Daleks, it's got action, it's got an all-star cast and a brilliant premise. So what went wrong?! Find out what happens when John Nathan-Turner, Eric Saward and Terry Nation lock egos!

The 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?

Overviews

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.

Kaldor City Production

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 linksbetween David Cronenberg and Kaldor City, the real story behind EdwardWoodward'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.