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Doctor Who: The Talons Of Weng Chiang by Terrance Dicks (CD audio-book review).
Long before Jago & Litefoot took it upon themselves to become an investigative pair, they both had separate and fairly normal lives in…
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March 2013
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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton (CD review).
Get the spittoon at the ready, for this rather wonderful audio of ‘The Gunfighters’, a First Doctor TV story from 1963 is not…
February 2013
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Doctor Who: Day Of The Daleks by Louis Marks (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) and Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) are asked to investigate armed ghosts at Auderly House, current residence of…
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Doctor Who: The Daemons by Guy Leopold (DVD review).
If ever there was an archetypal Jon Pertwee/Doctor Who story, then surely it must be ‘The Daemons’. Yet oddly, the story is something…
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Doctor Who: City Of Death (4th Doctor TV Soundtrack) by David Agnew (cd review).
The Doctor and Romana II arrive in Paris in 1979, which as it turns out is the City of Death. They meet some…
January 2013
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders by Gerry Davies (cd review).
Another day, another novelisation of a classic ‘Doctor Who’ story. This is slightly different. It’s the first story to feature Jamie McCrimmon and…
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Doctor Who: Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke (dvd review).
Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) has a hard time believing that all the tinkering the Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) is doing has any…
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Doctor Who: The Ark by Paul Erikson and Leslie Scott (DVD review).
The Doctor (actor William Hartnell), Steven Taylor (actor Peter Purves) and new companion with a heavy cold, Dodo Chaplet (actress Jackie Lane), arrive…
November 2012
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The Day Of The Triffids (1981) (DVD review).
Probably one of the most accurate portrayals of John Wyndham’s book, ‘The Day Of The Triffids’ is this series originally on the screen…
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Sleepers In The Dust by Darren Jones (CD review).
For a change, here’s a story that fits into an hour and is full of problems and pain without a simple ending. ‘Sleepers…
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Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Daleks by Terry Nation (CD review).
‘Destiny Of The Daleks’ is presented on CD with a linking narration by Lalla Ward who played the second incarnation of Romana in…
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Dalek Invasion Earth Boxed Set by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke (CD review).
This ‘Dalek Invasion Earth Boxed Set’ covers three different invasions of Earth with two different Doctors. It seems a shame nobody invaded while…