The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

My family was a BBC family: but for some reason, once a week, we were allowed to “turn over” to the “other side” and watch Opportunity Knock...

As I did this time last year, I am offering my more devoted followers the chance to decide what I write about for the month of July this yea...

Horns of Nimon has been cited as the worst Who story of all time. It was the end of Tom Baker's sixth season and he's obviously bore...

In the totally canonical Curse of Fatal Death it is established that nature abhors the absence of the Doctor. If his existence is threatened...

  History has been wilfully unfair to The Horns of Nimon.  Dig up your John-Marc L’Officier programme guide, or just google the Radio Times ...

Doctor Who i s littered with hypotheticals. What if Geoffrey Bayldon had succeeded Willian Hartnell? What if Mr Pastry had succeeded Patrick...

The Leisure Hive was something of a revelation.  Certainly, the John Nathan-Turner era ended up in the mire. But when the story broke onto o...

The last part of my retrospective on the 17th and worst season of classic Who is currently available to my Patreons and will be appearing he...

  Creature From the Pit was a costume drama with some mock-gothic horror and a quite imaginatively stencilled in alien world. That’s the kin...