I review The Web Planet. Doctor’s Who gloriously weird foray into fantasy.
Category: Doctor Who
The Romans was execrable. Click here for the (slightly) more erudite review.
On the planet, Dido, future human Vicki waits for rescue after the locals killed her ship’s crew. Or did they…
Both iconic, ridiculous, profound and flabby, The Dalek Invasion of Earth remains the most influential episode of classic Who. The Daleks are (inexplicably back) and they want Earth!
Based on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this opening to Doctor Who’s second season is a clever conceit weighed down by poor execution.
I review the middling historical, The Reign of Terror, one I believe is in fact not too long but instead too short.
I review the underrated first season finale, The Sensorites: a story that resonates in a Covid-19 world.
Barbara tries to put a stop to human sacrifice in The Aztecs: arguably the first season’s finest serial.
The Keys of Marinus was a last-minute replacement serial that would send the Doctor and his companions to different locations in search of the eponymous Keys of Marinus
The show’s first season is most famous for the exceptional historical The Aztecs. But before it aired there was a 13th century adventure through Central Asia. Marco Polo.