Contact Information
I welcome suggestions and feedback and will consider interesting guest posts. If you would like to email please click on the picture to view contact details.
Articles by each writer:
By the same blogger:
Category Archives: Fourth Doctor
Doctor Who: Scratchman
News flash: TOM BAKER IS AWESOME. Let’s call a spade a gardening instrument: Tom Baker is 100% the reason I fell in love with Doctor Who as a show. He showed me that it was perfectly acceptable to be quirky … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Doctor Who, Fourth Doctor, Reviews, Science Fiction
Tagged Scratchman, Tom Baker
4 Comments
The Target Storybook
When I was a kid, nothing was more exciting than getting a new Doctor Who book from the TARGET book range. I utterly adored them. Then, one day, I finished the collection and there were none left to collect. When … Continue reading
Doctor Who Annual (1982)
The 1982 Doctor Who Annual (undated, published in 1981) has a split personality. It’s a Fourth Doctor annual, and it’s a Fifth Doctor annual. There are six stories and one comic strip, with all but the final two stories featuring … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fifth Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1982 Annual, Adric, K9, Peter Davison, Tom Baker
1 Comment
Doctor Who Annual 1981
The amount of stories was reduced again for the 1981 Doctor Who Annual, with just one comic strip and five short stories. However, the child of 1980 had no reason to feel hard-done-by, because the stories are actually all of … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1981 Annual, Romana, Tom Baker
2 Comments
Doctor Who Annual 1980
The 1980 Doctor Who Annual offers slim pickings once again to fans of Doctor Who fiction, with only five stories and two comic strips. On the plus side, it’s the first annual for many years to feature recognisable artwork for … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1980 Annual, Romana, Tom Baker
Leave a comment
The Dr Who Annual 1979
Isn’t it strange how one of the high points of Doctor Who on television was accompanied by the low point of the annual range. The Fourth Doctor annuals were really made to a very poor standard, and that applies to … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1979 Annual, Leela, Tom Baker
3 Comments
The Dr Who Annual 1978
I described the 1977 Annual as the lowpoint of the annual range, and in terms of the artwork that is most certainly the case. Surprisingly, they managed to find some more downhill for the stories. For the 1978 Annual there … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1978 Annual, Sarah Jane Smith, Tom Baker
Leave a comment
The Dr Who Annual 1977
So here we have it, the infamous 1977 annual, the low point of the annual range. It puts you in a bad mood before you have even opened it up, towering over the other annuals and poking out from the … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1977 Annual, Brigadier, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Tom Baker
Leave a comment
Cliffhangers: Fourth Doctor 2
Last time we looked at some different kinds of cliffhanger endings used in the Fourth Doctor era: the good old monster reveal, some threats to the Doctor or his companion, and some throwbacks to the Hartnell and Troughton eras. As … Continue reading
Posted in Cliffhangers, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged Horror, Tom Baker
1 Comment
Cliffhangers: Fourth Doctor 1
Each time I prepare for one of these articles, the first thing I do is to make a list of the cliffhanger endings and then work out rough categories for them. The interesting thing is that this has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Cliffhangers, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged Sarah Jane Smith, Tom Baker
1 Comment
DrAcrossthePond
Roger Pocock
