first doctor
-
Doctor Who’s Next Animated Remake Could Have Ties to Its 60th Anniversary
There’s no weirder, more Doctor Who thing than the fact that right now you can’t go back and watch the last appearance of this year’s big 60th anniversary villain—the Toymaker, now played by Neil Patrick Harris—57 years ago because 75% of that story doesn’t actually exist anymore. But that could at least change in the…
-
Doctor Who’s Very First Story Won’t Be a Part of the BBC’s Streaming Archive
Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show’s distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer—the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns out that the very first story that kicked all…
-
Doctor Who Should Get Thrown For a Loop More Often
The last season of Doctor Who, subtitled Flux, had more downs than it did ups — a mess of plot threads, unconvincing resolutions, and nebulously high stakes that never really lived up to the series’ attempt to return to a serialized story format. Thankfully, its return on New Years Day was pretty much the exact…
-
Doctor Who’s Least Threatening Dalek Knockoff Returns in a New Lost Story
In a way, Doctor Who getting it right out of the gate with the Daleks — a monster design so instantly iconic it sparked a wave of hysteria that helped catapult the show to radical success — means that any attempt at recapturing that is always going to stumble out of the gate. But hoo boy…