Doctor Who thing of the day: why Doctor Who isn’t just for kids
Lovely essay by comedian and actor Laurence Clark about the ongoing appeal of Doctor Who for grownups…
Peter Davison
Doctor Who thing of the day: who is your favorite companion, and why?
Mine? Vislor Turlough, companion to the Fifth Doctor, who was never easy to like but was always intriguing and frustrating, in the most interesting kind of way…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Peter Davison talks Doctor Who at New York Comic-Con
The Fifth Doctor on the current and classic incarnations of the show, Steven Moffat’s obsessive fannishness, and more…
Doctor Who thing of the day: An Adventure in Space and Time to tell the story of the show’s creation
There’s a lot of real-life drama behind the creation of the show, including the controversial involvement of women such as Verity Lambert at a high level, so this should be a juicy story.
question of the day: Which movie or TV characters do you wish were real?
I think you already know my choice: the Doctor. Even if I weren’t worthy enough to travel with him, it would be nice to know that someone was looking out for planet Earth, since we’re not doing the best job we could be doing.
Doctor Who thing of the day: screenings of classic stories in NYC
At the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, all summer long…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Steven Moffat weirdly limits who can be a companion
Moffat’s restrictions make sense only from a narrow, white, male, middle-class, Western, heteronormative perspective. Yeah, I know: What a shock.
Doctor Who thing of the day: a tartan for each of the Doctors
My brother Ken, a graphic designer, has been working on these for more than a year, and I’ve been bugging him to please post at least some of them so that I can post them as a Thing. And finally, here they are.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Time-Flight”
Let us be kind and say that this is not one of the most successful Doctor Who stories ever…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Earthshock”
Looking at this story again, in the light of distance and in seeing reflections of what Doctor Who has become since 2005, I realize there was so much more that impacted me, and that it’s so much richer than I realized at the time.
