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Week 49a – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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At last! We’re here with the first of the latest trilogy of ‘Doctor Who’ audios by Big Finish featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan. Today, it’s time for my ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review on the two-part bumper episode story called ‘Tartarus’ by David Llewellyn. 🙂 Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’

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We continue this year’s ‘Nyssa Challenge’ mini review season by looking into another collection of ‘Doctor Who’ short stories. Today, we look at ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’. This is a collection of 15 short stories as well as 15 essays looking into the scientific aspects of the ‘Doctor Who’ TV series. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’

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As part of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ today, I’ve added my reviews on the rest of ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’. This includes stories from various ‘Doctor Who Annuals’ read by various ‘Doctor Who’ actors. These include Peter Purves, Anneke Wills, Geoffrey Beevers, Matthew Waterhouse and Nicola Bryant. Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘Doctor Who Annual 1983’

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And welcome back to ‘The Nyssa Challenge’! Yes, that’s right! It’s that time again to do another mini-season of ‘Doctor Who’ reviews on the latest Nyssa stories. This will be for the Christmas week in 2019 leading into the New Year of 2020. The stories reviewed will be mostly short story collections and Big Finish audios. They will include the audios that were released from September to November 2019. Continue reading

DVD/Blu-ray Special Features Reviews via ‘Doctor Who – The Collection – Doctor Who Magazine 40th Anniversary Disc’

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“Merry Christmas Sarah!”

I was happy to get the ‘Doctor Who – The Collection’ DVD from the 40th anniversary issue of ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ back in October 2019! It was worth getting and a joy! It had ‘Doctor Who’ DVD/Blu-ray special features with Sarah Sutton, my favourite ‘Doctor Who’ companion and best friend at conventions, in them. Continue reading

New Anthology Release – ‘The Paul Spragg ReCollections’

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I didn’t expect this to come out so soon! There’s a new anthology release by the Divergent Wordsmiths called ‘The Paul Spragg ReCollections’! This is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ @ Big Finish and honour the memory of the dear Paul Spragg, who was the producer’s assistant at Big Finish. Continue reading

Season 18 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Tom Baker on Blu-ray #7

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It’s the end and the moment has been prepared for! Sorry, I couldn’t resist! 😀 Anyway, today it’s the last story of Season 18 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray and it’s time to look into my updated review for ‘Logopolis’, the seventh story of the season and the season finale. It stars Tom Baker as the Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and has the debut of Janet Fielding as Tegan. Continue reading

Novelization/Audiobook Review – ‘Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani’

        

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For those of you missing Peter Davison with Christopher Timothy in ‘Great British Car Journeys’, I’ve added my review on the novelization/audiobook, ‘Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani’ by Terrance Dicks today! This novelization is on the ‘Doctor Who’ story, ‘The Caves of Androzani’, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri and the audiobook is read by Peter Davison who plays the Fifth Doctor in the TV series. Continue reading

DVD review – ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’ (Doctor Who)

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With the upcoming novelizations on the two ‘Doctor Who’ TV stories ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’ and ‘Revelation of the Daleks’ by Eric Saward later in the year, it’s time for me to share my DVD review on ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. This ‘Doctor Who’ story features Peter Davison as the Doctor; Janet Fielding as Tegan and Mark Strickson as Turlough as well as Terry Molloy as Davros with the Daleks. Continue reading

Convention Report – ‘Science of the Time Lords 2019’

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Three years ago, I attended the ‘Science of the Time Lords’ two-day weekend event at the National Space Centre; Leicester in January 2016. This year, I returned to Leicester at the end of January to attend the annual ‘Science of the Time Lords’ event again. It was an exciting ‘Doctor Who’ weekend! Continue reading