Doctor Who TV Movie

Doctor Who: The Movie has been newly restored for 4K and Blu-ray – Preorder now

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Experience the Eighth Doctor’s debut in stunning 4K and well as a whole host of special features.

In 1996, Paul McGann debuted as the Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who, a feature length co-production between the BBC and the American Fox network, more commonly known as The TV Movie.

This 90-minute feature was shot on film, and now, for the first time, all 219 reels of original film (totalling almost 200,000 feet!) have been pulled from deep storage in the US and meticulously scanned over 21 days, then restored by Paul Vanezis to provide a definitive 4K experience. Continue reading →

Review: ‘Doctor Who Am I’ Documentary

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Doctor Who Am I is a new documentary from Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa Yuille.

Infamous Doctor Who screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, is reluctantly dragged back into the American ‘Whoniverse’ to face the fandom that brutally rejected his work 25 years earlier.

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Upcoming Doctor Who Target book range includes Thirteenth Doctor adventure

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Seven Doctors in seven unforgettable adventures join the Doctor Who Target book range, all publishing on 11th March 2021, each with newly commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry.

These latest novelisations, almost all written by the original writers of the TV episodes, will help Target fans finally complete their classic-era collection, and take the Target range into its next incarnation.

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Review: Masterful (Celebrating 50 years of ‘The Master’)

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Review by Jacob Licklider

“I am usually referred to as the Master…universally.”

This immortal line, first aired 50 years ago, introduced Doctor Who fans to Roger Delgado and the Doctor’s arch enemy the Master. And now, to celebrate this momentous occasion, Big Finish Productions has brought together all surviving TV incarnations of the Master and a host of others for a three hour audio drama, ‘Masterful’. Released 50 years to the day of Episode One of ‘Terror of the Autons‘, there are two editions of this release; the standard three disc edition and the limited eight disc edition which contains a disc of bonus features, an original audiobook by Trevor Baxendale, and two previously released Short Trips. This review is only looking at Masterful the story (see our Terror of the Master review here) So, should you buy Masterful? Short answer, yes, of course you should, James Goss provides three hours with a brilliant cast pitting Master against Master, playing to each incarnation’s strengths and giving listeners a real treat to see how dysfunctional each incarnation can be when forced to cooperate. Continue reading →

Eric Roberts’ Master will face the Daleks in his own audio spin-off next year!

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More than two decades on from his clash with Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor, Eric Roberts’ malevolent incarnation of the Master gets his own full-cast audio series in March 2021.

Today the cover art for this upcoming release was unveiled.

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Review: The Diary of River Song – Series 5

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Review by Doctor Squee (Host of Gallifrey Stands Podcast)

River is back to her Big Finish audio best; but instead of following the timeline of her hubby, she is following the life and faces of his Timelord nemesis, the Master. Continue reading →

Short Trips Review: The Turn of the Screw

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Review by Doctor Squee (Host of Gallifrey Stands Podcast)

Yee Jee Tso returns in his Vault working Charlie Sato guise to deliver this 8th Doctor story. Charlie is on the hunt for an artefact that may be small in size but big in power. But when he gets caught and captured he runs into a torturer who turns out not to be as he seems who also wants the mysterious device. Continue reading →

Review – ‘Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who’ Volume 2′

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Written by Lewis Mainwaring

‘Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who Volume 2‘  covers the behind-the-scenes history of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who (produced by the BBC).

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This book follows on from the 2015 ‘Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who – Volume 1‘ – which covered the shows original run between 1963 to it’s cancellation in 1989.  Continue reading →

Review: Doctor Who Experience 2016

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Written by Lewis Mainwaring & Ben Gummery

The Doctor Who Experience (located in Cardiff Bay, South Wales) is one of the largest and most ambitious Doctor Who exhibitions ever staged. Featuring props and costumes from throughout the shows history encompassing both the classic and modern era of Who.

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Doctor Who TV Movie 20th Anniversary: Interview with Matthew Jacobs

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MatthewJacobsOnSetToday marks the 20th Anniversary of the first broadcast of the Doctor Who TV Movie in the USA.

We spoke with the film’s writer Matthew Jacobs who has also been involved with The Emperor’s New Groove, Lassie and the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

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