william hartnell
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Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary Is Celebrating Being in the Moment
Doctor Who doesn’t need to celebrate being the longest-running sci-fi show in existence with nostalgia and cameos. It’s doing well enough by simply being good.
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Doctor Who Anniversaries, Ranked
Next week, Doctor Who turns 60, and it’s preparing for a blockbuster celebration in the days and weeks to come, with a re-coloured release of one its most iconic early stories, a trio of brand new specials, and a new Doctor arriving on Christmas Day. We can’t judge just how good the 60th has it…
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Doctor Who Wants to Keep Animating Its Missing History
As Doctor Who nears another milestone anniversary, the long shadow of the BBC’s loss of almost a hundred stories from the earliest eras of the show—destroyed in the process of archival junking in TV’s nascent age—still lingers. But the corporation is still clinging to one lifeline that could still let fans experience this missing history.…
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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…