Doctor Who

May 2024

May 19, 2024
"Boom," the latest episode of Doctor Who, stands in a long tradition that stretches back...
May 13, 2024
The second of the new Doctor Who episodes is called "The Devil's Chord." The title...
May 12, 2024
Doctor Who has returned not so much with a two-parter as with two standalone episodes...

December 2023

December 27, 2023
The business of Christmas hopefully provides an excuse for taking a couple of days before...
December 10, 2023
The Giggle is a lot of things, as far as Doctor Who episodes go. I...
December 06, 2023
Wild Blue Yonder is one of those claustrophobic episodes in which the Doctor and perhaps...

November 2023

November 25, 2023
For the first of the specials that will bridge the era of Jodie Whitacre as...

October 2022

October 21, 2022
Doctor Who Explores Theology 24 October 2022 at 7:30 pm St. John's College, Durham University...

August 2022

August 29, 2022
I thought I should write a blog post comparing lost Gospels to lost Doctor Who...

April 2022

April 30, 2022
I was made aware of this call for chapter proposals (via H-Net and Call for...

December 2021

December 06, 2021
I debated what would be best each time I watched part of the season-long Doctor...
December 01, 2021
On Wednesday 8 December at 18:30, Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield), Lorna Jowett (University of...

April 2021

April 21, 2021
My previous post shared the introduction to this public lecture. The first major section of...

March 2021

March 11, 2021
In an interesting convergence of timelines (to use an appropriate metaphor) I have another book...

January 2021

January 03, 2021
Initially the Doctor Who 2020 New Year’s special seemed to me like a collection of...

November 2020

November 11, 2020
There is a moment on the TV show Timeless, in the episode "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,"...

October 2020

October 12, 2020
I was asked if I would share some highlights from my talk via Zoom in...
October 06, 2020
The news reported recently that perhaps we needn't throw out the notion of time travel...
October 05, 2020
I am writing this reflection for the benefit of students in Prof. Maria Doerfler's seminar...

September 2020

September 24, 2020
As I recently mentioned, I have now completed my endeavor to blog my way through...
September 18, 2020
Here's a round up of my blogging about Tom Baker's era as the Doctor, the...
September 16, 2020
I did not plan it to reach its finale in precisely this manner, when I...
September 14, 2020
This episode, the penultimate of the Tom Baker era, introduced two new characters: Nyssa, who...
September 09, 2020
Warriors' Gate is the final episode in the E-space trilogy. It is also the one...

August 2020

August 16, 2020
Although Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman wanted his show to be educational and avoid so-called “bug-eyed monsters,”...
August 15, 2020
"State of Decay" continues what would turn out to be a trilogy of stories set...
August 02, 2020
The Doctor Who episode "Full Circle" is the first story in the E-Space trilogy, and...

July 2020

July 19, 2020
As I've been writing about the Doctor Who episode The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos I've...
July 08, 2020
The episode Meglos is easily distinguished in every fan's mind from all other episodes, with...

June 2020

June 08, 2020
Paul Cornell has written a few very short stories to help you make it through...
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