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THE GAMBLE WITH Time
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ANDREW PIXLEY
David Fisher wrote the scripts for
The Gamble with Time
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City of Death
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Photo © Marcus Hearn.
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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.
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