Tag Archive for Doctor Who

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

Director Warris Hussein Staring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill & Carole Ann Ford Rated PG Score 5/6 Two schoolteachers investigate the personal life of one of their brilliant students and her mysterious grandfather. I suppose if there was list of Doctor Who episodes that you have to watch An Unearthly Child would probably be…

New Doctor Who Spin Off

BBC Three has recently announced the stars of the Doctor Who spin-off series Class Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins and Vivian Oparah. They will be joined by Katherine Kelly, as she takes the role of a teacher and powerful new presence at Coal Hill School. Award winning YA writer and Class creator Patrick Ness…

Doctor Who : Horror at Fang Rock

Director Paddy Russell Starring Tom Baker & Louise Jameson Rated G Score 3/6 On the way to show Brighton to Leela, the TARDIS lands on the island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England in the early years of the 20th century. Noticing that the lighthouse isn’t functioning properly, the Fourth Doctor decides…

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Director Alan Bromly Staring Jon Pertwee & Elisabeth Sladen Rated PG Score 3/6 Journalist Sarah Jane Smith is impersonating her aunt, virologist Lavinia Smith, in order to gain access to a research centre where top scientists are being held in protective custody while UNIT investigates the disappearance of a number of their colleagues. The missing…

Doctor Who: The Movie

Director Geoffrey Sax Starring Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook Rated M Score 4.5/6 The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999. If you think about it this 1996 movie was an important stepping stone in bringing Doctor Who back to our television screens in 2005. Before…

Doctor Who: The War Games

Director David Maloney Starring Patrick Troughton, Wendy Padbury & Frazer Hines Score 4.5/6 The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a race known only as the Aliens have gathered soldiers from a number of different wars in Earth’s history, brainwashed them and put them to battle. Their aim is to form an invincible army from…

TENplay

For the past few weeks I have found myself using TENplay to watch a new favourite show Scorpion. It seems to be a decent enough show with all the hallmarks of those 90’s action series I find myself guilty of indulging in from time to time. Scorpion could stand to have a longer run time…

Doctor Who World Tour

Ahead of the Doctor Who Series 8 that will premiere in Australia in August on ABC1 the incoming Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi, will be accompanied by his onscreen companion Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) on the upcoming Doctor Who: The World Tour. “It’s fantastic that so many people across the world love Doctor Who. After eight…

Ja’mie Smashes Doctor Who’s iview record

According to the ABC Chris Lilley’s latest show Ja’mie: Private School Girl has registered more than 810,000 plays for Episodes 1, 2 and 3 of the show on ABC TV’s catch-up viewing platform iview. An ABC Publicist explained that the six-part series, which first premiered on Wednesday October 23, has broken all existing viewing records…