We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know…

When fans of Doctor Who have gathered in their collective wisdom to choose which stories are best, or at least most…

Now that we’re all the way to the end of the Key To Time saga, it’s obvious that this experiment in telling a single…

The Third Doctor era began with grand ambitions to raise the stakes of what Doctor Who was about. Season seven, Jon…

The title monster in “The Power Of Kroll” is an awe-inspiring giant that spends most of its time mired deep in the…

Doctor Who can sometimes be a little mired in its own stock formula, which is to pit the Doctor against some…

The middle part of a long connected series of stories is often where it spins its wheels, since the most important…

One of the best things about Doctor Who’s format, all across the decades but especially in the early years of…

Most of what Doctor Who was doing right in 1978 is on display in “The Stones Of Blood,” the third story in the…

When Doctor Who returns to television later this month, it will have a new face in more ways than one. The incoming…

“Paradise Towers” (Season 24, episodes 5-8. Originally broadcast Oct. 5-26, 1987.)

“The Pirate Planet” (Season 16, episodes 5-8. Originally broadcast Sept. 30-Oct. 21, 1978.)

“The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 4: The Ultimate Foe” (Season 23, episodes 13-14. Originally broadcast Nov. 29-Dec.…

“The Moonbase” (Season 4, episodes 23-26. Originally broadcast Feb. 11-March 4, 1967.)

“Terror Of The Vervoids” (Season 23, episodes 9-12. Originally broadcast Nov. 1-22, 1986.)

Kate O’Mara, the British actress known for playing a series of scheming villains—most notably Joan Collins’ sister…

“The Edge Of Destruction” (Season 1, episodes 12-13. Originally broadcast Feb. 8-15, 1964.)

The brutal world of George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire books may not have much obvious connection to Terry…

“The Trial Of A Time Lord, part 2: Mindwarp” (Season 23, episodes 5-8. Originally broadcast Oct. 4-25, 1986.)

“Carnival Of Monsters” (Season 10, episodes 5-8. Originally broadcast Jan. 27-Feb. 17, 1973.)