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Doctor
Who: the
2005-Present
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.
Character Profile-- Olag
Gan: Gentle Giant or Sex Killer?
by Alan Stevens and Fiona
Moore
The case for the "Cat Strangler" interpretation of Gan's character arc,
expanded and developed.
Spiral
Conflict: Blake's
7's
Galactic and Intergalactic Wars
by Alan Stevens
Are the "Galactic War" and the "Intergalactic War" the same event, or
an indication of a complex political arc surrounding the Season Two
cliffhanger? The case for the latter made compellingly here.
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.
47 Cool Things about “Genesis of the
Daleks” (And 3 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Finding out what's cool about it, by autopsy.
32 1/2 Stupid Things about “Attack of
the
Cybermen” (And 17 1/2 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Now with even more Cyber Controller.
29 Stupid Things about “Revenge of the
Cybermen” (And 21 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
“I like to laugh. You can’t take this business too
seriously, can you?” --David "Vorus" Collings.
60 Stupid Things about
"Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks" (and 40 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Another double-length "50 Things About...", now with added
socialist philosophers!
27 Cool Things about
"Silver Nemesis" (and 23 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
The anniversary special we all love to hate turns out to be more Cool
than Stupid-- who knew?
56 Stupid Things about
"The Trial of a Time Lord" (and 44 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
A "50 Things About..." double-length special, with added BRIAN BLESSED!!!
45 Stupid Things about
"Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel" (and 5 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Are we human point 2... or are we dancers?
32 Cool Things about
"Carnival of Monsters" (and 18 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Nanti denari here...
26 Cool, So To Speak,
Things about
"The Ice Warriors" (and 24 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Sss. Sss. Sss.
34 Cool Things about
"Pyramids of Mars" (and 16 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Return of the Hand of Sutekh.
32 Cool Things about
"An Unearthly Child" (and 18 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Who is smarter, two schoolteachers or an illiterate cavewoman?
31 Cool Things about
"City of Death" (and 19 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Once more, with Parisians.
33 Stupid Things about
"Terror of the Zygons" (and 17 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Continuing the series.
26 Cool Things about
"The Ark" (and 24 Stupid Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
As before.
41 Stupid Things about
"The Moonbase" (and 9 Cool Ones)
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
But we're not telling you which is which.
Doctor Who: the 1963-1989 Series
The Daleks' Master Plan: The
Unfolding Text
by
Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore with thanks to Donald Tosh
A companion piece to our earlier
aticle on "The
Daleks' Master Plan", written
for a Celestial Toyroom
special on
members' favourite Doctor Who
stories.
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 Man Who Invented the
Daleks: A Review and Personal Reflection
by Alan Stevens
A companion piece to the Interview
with Alwyn
Turner, reviewing and commenting
on the life and work of Terry Nation.
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.
Magic Bullet Behind the Scenes
Welcome
to Kaldor City, Population: 1 by
Dale Smith (offsite)
Doctor
Who books
writer Dale Smith offers a critical overview of the Kaldor City series,
exploring what it is, and could be, about.
Interview with Alan Stevens by Chris
Duecker
(offsite)
An interview with Kaldor City co-creator and Faction Paradox producer
Alan Stevens.
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.
