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Zoe Heriot Was a Pioneering Companion, and Here’s Why
When Who fans talk about mathematicians in Doctor Who, they will inevitably mention Adric. And why wouldn’t they? He was a self-proclaimed mathematical genius, he wears a star-shaped badge for mathematical excellence, and he essentially died trying to solve a… 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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Counting From Scratch – Castrovalva and The Number Zero
If you’re reading this on the day of publication then it is Friday 11th April 2025, the day before the start of the new season of Doctor Who, which we will call Day Zero. To be more precise, it’s Day… Continue reading
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Little Reminders of Home – Cubes in The Power of Three
“The Earth isn’t my home, Sarah. I’m a Time Lord… “ – The Doctor, Pyramids of Mars (1975) Previously on this blog, we discussed how embarrassing it was that the author of Doctor Who: The Complete History – Issue 41 /… Continue reading
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Hyping Up Hypatia – On the Scarcity of Female Mathematicians within Doctor Who
On the 27th of February 1987, Sylvester McCoy was announced as the new Doctor. He would play the seventh then-known incarnation of the Time Lord, and so henceforth he would be referred to as the Seventh Doctor. Keen fans of… Continue reading
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Taxing Humour – Every Finance Joke in The Sun Makers Explained!
It is a truth acknowledged across the universe that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. And yet The Sun Makers (1978) is the only Doctor Who serial to have both of them in spades. So with… 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
The Brain of Möbius 