Fifty years ago today on Doctor Who the companion Barbara Wright – as played by Jacqueline Hill – became the first of the TARDIS crew to encounter a Dalek in the cliffhanger to the episode The Dead Planet. At the time, only Continue reading
Doctor Who has had several radical reinventions over the years — when it stopped being about Ian and Barbara, when the Doctor first regenerated, when it became an Earth-bound show during Pertwee's time, when it Continue reading
Or, ” Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eton”. The typo is now well-known, but almost as disturbing is the next paragraph's description of Ian and Barbara as the Doctor's “close friends”, right after it admits that he kidnapped Continue reading