7 Days of Classic Who: Marco Polo

What better episode to be the most-lost episode of Doctor Who than the one whose name has become synonymous (by other means, I’m sure) with groping around blindly? “Marco Polo” is the first “lost story”, which is all the more impressive when you take into account that this visual spectacle was distributed to more countries […]

7 Days of Classic Who: The Edge of Destruction

“The Edge of Destruction” is a story that is loved by a small group of dedicated fans and widely forgotten by nearly everyone else. While it’s not the first example of “studio needs dictate the story” in Doctor Who (“The Daleks” only comes so early because Terry Nation was the first to rush a script […]

7 Days of Classic Who: The Daleks

In 1963, Doctor Who was grasping in the vortex for its identity. Terry Nation stepped up and supplied one. Was it the right one? “The Daleks” is largely credited for being the serial that is responsible for Doctor Who‘s longevity. It is interesting, then, that it is arguably a worse serial than the one that […]

7 Days of Classic Who: The Tribe of Gum

7 Days of Classic Who continues with the serial with the questionable name that everybody ignores. Does it deserve its reputation?

7 Days of Classic Who: An Unearthly Child (episode)

Two high school teachers, standing around between classes, have a conversation about an impossible student. This girl is an utter genius who knows science they can’t imagine and seems to have an intimate knowledge with the details of history, yet somehow not only is her homework suffering, but the basic minutiae of everyday life escapes. […]