When Companions Exit
This week, we look at the methods by which past companions have taken their leave, and the impact those departures have had on us as devoted viewers.
Classic Rewatch: Time-Flight
Season 19 closes with a story that has too much of some things, not enough of others, and a thing or two that never should have been.
Classic Rewatch: Earthshock
We spelunk caverns and then explore the corridors of a 26th century freighter in this 1982 nail-biter that sees the return of a certain silver menace.
Classic Rewatch: Black Orchid
In a fast-paced and equally quickly-resolved two-part story, our TARDIS classroom arrives in 1920s England for a cricket match and a bit of masquerade murder.
Classic Rewatch: The Visitation
The entire TARDIS classroom is back in session, but the history lessons are rather anachronistic in a trip to Heathrow that failed to meet Tegan’s expectations.
Classic Rewatch: Kinda
There’s an abundance of concurrent crazy to contend with in the Series 19 off-world adventure, from colonists, to dream-invaders, to Adric trying to pilot an emotionally-driven safari robot suit.
Classic Rewatch: Four to Doomsday
We delve into the Fifth Doctor’s first post-regeneration story, involving a trio of nefarious space-frog-avocados and more than a bit of concerning cultural and racial depictions.
Interplanetary Alignment
Using the classic role-playing-game grid of good-to-evil, lawful-to-chaotic, we see how Doctor Who characters past and present align themselves…or fail to be so defined.
Classic Rewatch: Castrovalva
With the unraveling of a scarf and the donning of a smart cricket jumper, the Fifth Doctor’s era begins in earnest in the opening story of Season 19.
Classic Rewatch: Logopolis
At long last, our enjoyment of the Fourth Doctor era in our rewatch of “classic” Doctor Who stories comes to a close with the final story of the 18th season.