Tag Archives: Mel

Genki Girl Mel

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Companion Tropes 35 The English language is an amazing thing.  There are probably more than a million words, with the Oxford English Dictionary listing over 170,000 of them, added to which there are a multitude of slang and obsolete words.  … Continue reading →

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Cliffhangers: Seventh Doctor

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Roger Pocock

It has been a fascinating exercise looking at the Doctor Who cliffhangers from the Classic Series, Doctor by Doctor.  The 1960s were inventive and brilliant, and since then it has been a tale of steady decline in terms of new … Continue reading →

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Cliffhangers: Sixth Doctor

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Whenever the Doctor regenerates the next few cliffhangers tend to concentrate on placing the companions in danger rather than the Doctor.  This doesn’t always happen, but is a good rule for the series to follow because we perhaps care a … Continue reading →

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Delta and the Bannermen

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Roger Pocock

There have been endless Doctor Who stories based on making some kind of an insect or small creature bigger and using that as the basis of a race of aliens.  We have had giant ants and butterflies (The Web Planet), … Continue reading →

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Paradise Towers

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Roger Pocock

It has been two and a half years since we last had a Doctor Who story that didn’t feed off continuity in some way, but Andrew Cartmel is our new script editor for this series and he is setting about … Continue reading →

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Time and the Rani

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Roger Pocock

As regeneration stories go this is obviously not ideal.  It is a million times better than The Twin Dilemma, but still arrived with some pre-packaged faults.  Andrew Cartmel took over as script editor from this story onwards, but as usual … Continue reading →

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The Trial of a Time Lord

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Roger Pocock

All this week we have been looking at the individual sections of The Trial of a Time Lord, although it was actually broadcast as one 14-part story.  In retrospect the whole thing seems like an odd decision.  After a longer … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Foe

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Between Seasons 22 and 23 Doctor Who was taken off air for a year longer than normal, and for its return the producer, John Nathan-Turner, was instructed to make it less violent.  If hiring the writer of Vengeance on Varos … Continue reading →

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Terror of the Vervoids

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Roger Pocock

This is our future installment of the Trial evidence, and the Doctor is travelling with a new companion.  Mel’s main function at the outset seems to be to get the Doctor to exercise, rather bizarrely and cruelly calling attention to … Continue reading →

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Audience Identification: Seventh Doctor

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Roger Pocock

We really don’t know how good we had it.  You know when you’re young, grandparents talk about the “good old days”?  They seem to think the old days were the best.  Even those who “climbed mountains barefoot through glass to … Continue reading →

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Audience Identification: Sixth Doctor

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Since the idea was still fresh in my mind, I felt I would jump into the audience identification for the Sixth Doctor straight away.  If you’re coming into this one blind, pop over here to understand where my inspiration came … Continue reading →

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Dragonfire

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Roger Pocock

Yesterday we looked at The Abominable Snowmen, which was Doctor Who’s first combination of crytobiology and robotics.  Here we have another example, with a robot dragon.  There is also the linking theme of a cold location, which we are using … Continue reading →

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