Fandom Dispatches
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Lost In Transition (or Why I’m Dugga Done with 2025)
It’s the last day of 2025 and I’m not entirely sure where it all went. You know, I sometimes think about how the different eras of each Doctor coincide with each of the different phases of my life. (Conisder this… Continue reading
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The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part Two)
(Have you read Part one first? You can read it here.) Bad Wolf/The Parting of The Ways by Russell T Davies Saturday 11th – 18th June 2005 Bad Wolf opens with a recap of what happened on Satellite Five during… Continue reading
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The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One)
Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to Who fans as Series 1 (2005),… Continue reading
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“Something new.” – 20 Years of Dalek
On Saturday 30th April 2005, Dalek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom and I missed it. I’m not 100% sure what I was doing to be honest. I could have been sat in my bedroom playing some Crash Bandicoot… Continue reading
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…And A Happy Who Year
It’s the last day of 2024 and I’m not entirely sure where it all went. Every year seems to go by faster than the last. There’s a mathematical explanation for that: each subsequent year is a smaller proportion of your… Continue reading
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RTD To Re-Number All The Doctors
Note: This blog post was originally a thread posted on the website formerly known as Twitter for April Fool’s Day. Enjoy! BREAKING NEWS!!!! Executive Producer and Showrunner of Doctor Who, Russell T Davies, has just announced that the BBC will re-number… Continue reading
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In Search Of Being A Better Fan – A Personal Reflection for 2024
Pictured: A Doctor Who fan called “Whizz Kid” appearing in the 1988 Doctor Who Christmas Special, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (broadcast 14 December 1988 to 4 January 1989). This essay was originally published on my (now-defunct) Substack newsletter on 21/12/23. Christmas always feels like… Continue reading
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26 Thoughts I Had Watching The Underwater Menace at the BFI Southbank
The Underwater Menace is out now on DVD (for the 2nd time!) and on Blu-Ray. > Footnotes [1] The Black Archive #40: The Underwater Menace by James Cooray Smith, p26. [2] Out of the 21 Patrick Troughton-era stories, The Underwater Menace ranked 20th in… Continue reading
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The Target Book Club at Shepherd’s Bush (Extended Edition, Part Two)
This post was originally published on my (now-defunct) Substack newsletter on 20/10/23. Oh, and you can read Part One right here. Molly Marsh introduced herself as “a comedian, a Doctor Who podcaster, and as far as ###### ####### is concerned, a man.”… Continue reading
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The Target Book Club at Shepherd’s Bush (Extended Edition, Part One)
This post was originally published on my (now-defunct) Substack newsletter on 19/10/23. I was commissioned to write up this event by James Ashworth, the new editor-in-chief of DWAS’s Celestial Toyroom fanzine, for his inaugural issue. He wanted no more than 2000 words;… Continue reading
The Brain of Möbius 