‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: quiz show gets ‘DW’ answer wrong, but no one knows the actual answer
The question was: Which actor has played the Doctor the longest? The answer is, well, kinda timey-whimey…
Peter Davison
question of the day: What are the most frightening episodes of ‘Doctor Who’?
I found a lot of the gothic Tom Baker stories pretty frightening: “The Seeds of Doom” was pretty creepy, with its body-conscious horror (the villain gets transformed into an alien plant). I still find something really unsettling about the immortals in the Peter Davison story “Enlightenment”: though they look entirely human, they have an eerie kind of calm about them that makes them feel way more alien than most of the guys in rubber suits have ever been.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Genesis of the Daleks”
It’s weird to look back at ‘Genesis of Daleks’ now and know that the first time I saw this — it would have been back in the early 1980s — I had no idea what the hell a Dalek was.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: it’s bigger on the inside
Reader Erik reminded me of this old British ad for the Volkswagen Gulf car, featuring Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, and Tom Baker looking surprisingly surprised…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: plimsolls of Rassilon
I will remind everyone, however, that Peter Davison wore sneakers — or trainers, or plimsolls, or whatever you want to call them — long before David Tennant did.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “Lost In The Dark Dimension” fan trailer
So apparently there were some mad plans for a 1993 30th-anniversary special that never panned out, involving a story about Tom Baker’s Doctor not regenerating into Peter Davison and so all the universe is in trouble or something. It never happened, of course, but since when would that stop fans from fantasizing about it? “Castrovalva” … more…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging all screwed up
I know. I’m behind in my classic Doctor Who blogging. I should have posted “Spearhead in Space” last week, and then somehow I promised both “An Unearthly Child” and “The Ark in Space” today. How did that happen? I do understand how calendars work, honestly. Anywhere, here’s the revised schedule: June 27: Spearhead from Space … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Lodger”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Castrovalva”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Twin Dilemma”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
