THE GAMBLE WITH Time

TIME TRAVEL

THE ESSENTIAL DOCTOR WHO

BREAKING HISTORY

”You know as well as I do the golden rule about space and time travelling,” the First Doctor once told rival time traveller, the meddling Monk. “Never, never interfere with the course of history.” But who made the rules that govern journeys in the Fourth Dimension? And how often has the Doctor broken them?

Readers of Time Examining some of the

In 1962 BBC Television commissioned a survey of science-fiction literature. The findings of the report anticipated some of the time-travelling adventures in Doctor Who...

The Chase

ON THE PLANET SKARO, THE DALEKS PLOT THEIR revenge

FRANKENSTEIN VS the DALEKS

1965’s The Chase featured more time travel than any previous Doctor Who story. However, early script ideas were even more ambitious in their scope…

The Ark

”Something must have gone wrong. It appears we’ve landed

TURN LEFT?

When Doctor Who was created, the plan was to tell adventures set in the past, in the future, and sideways into other dimensions. So what happened to the sideways stories?

The Evil of The Daleks

WHILE IN LONDON IN 1966, THE TARDIS IS STOLEN. A series

ORIGINAL EVIL

The 1967 story The Evil of the Daleks was originally intended to be a very different adventure in time…

The Time Warrior

AT THE REQUEST OF BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGEStewart, the

Time Beings

We’ve seen the Doctor cross paths with all manner of alien races – and humans – with the ability to traverse the Fourth Dimension…

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

RETURNING IN THE TARDIS TO TWENTIETHcentury Earth,

The Blinovitch Effect

In 1972 Day of the Daleks introduced the concept of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to Doctor Who. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?

City of Death

FOR A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR LIKE DUGGAN, being sent

Warriors’ Gate

CAPTAIN RORVIK’S CREW OF TIME-TRAVELLING slave traders

THE AGONY OF PERPETUITY

Actor David Collings played the time-travelling Mawdryn, one of the most unusual villains ever seen in Doctor Who.

Mawdryn Undead

TO AVOID A COLLISION WITH A STRANGE spacecraft trapped

Time STRIPS

Highlights of the Doctor Who comic-strip stories that have explored time travel…

Resurrection of the Daleks

”The Doctor’s TARDIS has been caught in the time corridor.”

Typography And Random Disasters In Switzerland

We all recognise the name of the Doctor’s time machine, and the ubiquitous nature of its time-travel technology, but in the early days of the series things weren’t quite as clear…

The Two Doctors

THE SECOND DOCTOR AND JAMIE ARRIVE AT Space Station

HOLMES ON HOLMES

The doyen of Doctor Who writers charts the development of The Two Doctors – in his own words.

The Curse of Fenric

IN THE DISTANT PAST THE DOCTOR FOUGHT a malignant entity

Attack of the Giant Squirrel!

A Doctor Who prop collector reveals the journey made by a model TARDIS through time and space, from 1999 to the present day.

Father’s Day

”Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time’s

Radio Times

Over the last two decades, some of the most innovative and exciting Doctor Who stories involving time travel have been produced on audio by Big Finish.

Blink

”Time travel without a capsule… nasty. Catch your breath

Creating Angels

The Weeping Angels are perhaps the most successful Doctor Who monsters since the show’s revival – but how did they come into being?

A Christmas Carol

”Think about it, Doctor. One last day with your beloved.

River’s Run

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an end, but the saga of the time-travelling River Song unfolded in an unconventional fashion…

Listen

”Look at him now – Robinson Crusoe at the end of time

CHANGING TIMES

Doctor Who novels contain some of the most complex and fascinating time-travel stories of all...

Under the Lake/ Before the Flood

”You can’t cheat time… You just can’t go back and cut

We Ought to be Doing Things

The Doctor often meddles in history, but when Doctor Who began it was impossible to alter the past. So what changed?

INSIDE THE TIME SHIP

One of David Whitaker’s greatest contributions to the time-travelling aspect of Doctor Who is often overlooked.