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But, of course, I left two rather important items off my list of things which I like about old Who. Let's add them now: Tom Baker...

It would be very easy to make a list of thing which Star Trek had in common with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Series of fifty minu...

So.  We have the people who, as Michael Grade put it, watch Doctor Who every Saturday like a High Mass.  We have the ones who watc...

So what, in fact, do we like about it? A short list would surely go something like this: We like the Daleks. The Daleks are design cla...

So, I suppose, we come to my approach, which is really a complete lack of an approach. If the second approach says "What does Doctor ...

The   third approach has a lot in common with the second. It's also inclined to make the concept of "canon" incredibly wobb...

Doctor Who's greatest asset is Matt Smith, even if on a bad day, we feel that he could swap places with Sherlock and no-on would really...

The second group treats Doctor Who as a kind of private religion: a Proustian umbilical connection to a collective past. You remember that...

There is a very old joke which says that if you ask three different Christians a sensible question about their faith, you will receive four...

The idea that Peter Jackson could direct an episode of Doctor Who is obviously ridiculous. The Hobbit is a small scale, rather gentle, leisu...

1: No. I don't know why it is somewhat okay to say "Mark Twain uses the n-word in Huckleberry Finn" but not okay to say "...

i wrote a thing as a follow up to the thing that i wrote about the thing that i wrote sort of about language and bad words in the light of...