One of the difficulties of having a blog instead of a website is that posts are more easily lost and less easy to find. Especially since the method to my DOCTOR WHO reviews is seemingly haphazard. It’s not. Honest. But to make it easier for folks to find and read the WHO reviews that are posted, and just as importantly to know what stories haven’t been reviewed yet, I thought I’d give the WHO reviews their own page. Serials that have hotlinks have been reviewed, those that don’t haven’t been covered, yet.
One note – there are hundreds of places where you can get full on summaries; my reviews are really reactions: I watch the episode and then I write about it. Sometimes that means I write a lot about plot and end up doing a bit of summary, but really my interest is in writing about my reaction to a particular episode, whatever that reaction entails.
For those new to DOCTOR WHO and are wondering how they should start to wrap their brains around 50 years of TV, I’ve written up a guide just for you:
DOCTOR WHO: A Viewer’s Guide for Beginners
THE FIRST DOCTOR: William Hartnell
Season 1 (1963-1964)
1: AN UNEARTHLY CHILD
2: THE DALEKS
3: THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION
4: MARCO POLO
5: THE KEYS OF MARINUS
6: THE AZTECS
7: THE SENSORITES
8: REIGN OF TERROR
Season 2 (1964-1965)
9: PLANET OF GIANTS
10: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
11: THE RESCUE
12: THE ROMANS
13: THE WEB PLANET
14: THE CRUSADE
15: THE SPACE MUSEUM
16: THE CHASE
17: THE TIME MEDDLER
Season 3 (1965-1966)
18: GALAXY 4
19: MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN
20: THE MYTH MAKERS
21: THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN
22: THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S EVE
23: THE ARK
24: THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER
25: THE GUNFIGHTERS
26: THE SAVAGES
27: THE WAR MACHINES
Season 4 (1966-1967)
28: THE SMUGGLERS
29: THE TENTH PLANET
THE SECOND DOCTOR: Patrick Troughton
Season 4 (1966-1967)
30: THE POWER OF THE DALEKS
31: THE HIGHLANDERS
32: THE UNDERWATER MENACE
33: THE MOONBASE
34: THE MACRA TERROR
35: THE FACELESS ONES
36: THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS
Season 5 (1967-1968)
37: THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN
38: THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN
39: THE ICE WARRIORS
40: THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD
41: THE WEB OF FEAR
42: FURY FROM THE DEEP
43: THE WHEEL IN SPACE
Season 6 (1968-1969)
44: THE DOMINATORS
45: THE MIND ROBBER
46: THE INVASION
47: THE KROTONS
48: THE SEEDS OF DEATH
49: THE SPACE PIRATES
50: THE WAR GAMES
THE THIRD DOCTOR: Jon Pertwee
Season 7 (1970)
51: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
52: THE SILURIANS
53: THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH
54: INFERNO
Season 8 (1971)
55: TERROR OF THE AUTONS
56: THE MIND OF EVIL
57: THE CLAWS OF AXOS
58: COLONY IN SPACE
59: THE DAEMONS
Season 9 (1972)
60: DAY OF THE DALEKS
61: THE CURSE OF PELADON
62: THE SEA DEVILS
63: THE MUTANTS
64: THE TIME MONSTER
Season 10 (1972-1973)
65: THE THREE DOCTORS
66: CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
67: FRONTIER IN SPACE
68: PLANET OF THE DALEKS
69: THE GREEN DEATH
Season 11 (1973-1974)
70: THE TIME WARRIOR
71: INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS
72: DEATH TO THE DALEKS
73: THE MONSTER OF PELADON
74: PLANET OF THE SPIDERS
THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DOCTORS Not Yet Reviewed
THE SIXTH DOCTOR: Colin Baker
Season 21 (1984)
136: THE TWIN DILEMMA
Season 22 (1985)
137: ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN
138: VENGEANCE ON VAROS
139: THE MARK OF THE RANI
140: THE TWO DOCTORS
141: TIMELASH
142: REVELATION OF THE DALEKS
Season 23 (1986)
143a: MYSTERIOUS PLANET
143b: MINDWARP
143c: TERROR OF THE VERVOIDS
143d: THE ULTIMATE FOE
THE SEVENTH DOCTOR: Sylvester McCoy
Season 24 (1987)
144: TIME AND THE RANI
145: PARADISE TOWERS
146: DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN
147: DRAGONFIRE
Season 25 (1988-1989)
148: REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
149: THE HAPPINESS PATROL
150: SILVER NEMESIS
151: THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY
Season 26 (1989)
152: BATTLEFIELD
153: GHOST LIGHT
154: THE CURSE OF FENRIC
155: SURVIVAL
THE EIGHTH DOCTOR: Paul McGann
TV Movie (1996)
156: DOCTOR WHO: THE TV MOVIE
THE NINTH DOCTOR: Christopher Eccleston
Rumination: NOT HAVING A “MY DOCTOR”
Series 1 (2005)
157: ROSE
158: THE END OF THE WORLD
159: THE UNQUIET DEAD
160a: ALIENS OF LONDON
160b: WORLD WAR THREE
161: DALEK
162: THE LONG GAME
163: FATHER’S DAY
164a: THE EMPTY CHILD
164b: THE DOCTOR DANCES
165: BOOM TOWN
166a: BAD WOLF
166b: THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Rumination: TIERS OF A FATALIST: RANKING THE NINTH DOCTOR’S SERIALS
THE TENTH DOCTOR: David Tennant
Specials (2005)
—: DOCTOR WHO: CHILDREN IN NEED
167: THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
Series 2 (2006)
168: NEW EARTH
169: TOOTH AND CLAW
170: SCHOOL REUNION
171: THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
172a: RISE OF THE CYBERMEN
172b: THE AGE OF STEEL
173: THE IDIOT’S LANTERN
174: THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET / THE SATAN PIT
175: LOVE & MONSTERS
176: FEAR HER
177: ARMY OF GHOSTS / DOOMSDAY
Special
178: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
Series 3 (2007)
179: SMITH AND JONES
180: THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
181: GRIDLOCK
182: DALEKS IN MANHATTAN / EVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS
183: THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT
184: 42
185: HUMAN NATURE / THE FAMILY OF BLOOD
186: BLINK
187: UTOPIA / THE SOUND OF DRUMS / LAST OF THE TIME LORDS
Specials (2007)
—: TIME CRASH
188: VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Series 4 (2008)
189: PARTNERS IN CRIME
190: THE FIRES OF POMPEII
191: PLANET OF THE OOD
192: THE SONTARAN STRATEGEM / THE POISON SKY
193: THE DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER
194: THE UNICORN AND THE WASP
195: SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY / FOREST OF THE DEAD
196: MIDNIGHT
197: TURN LEFT
198: THE STOLEN EARTH / JOURNEY’S END
Specials (2008-2010)
199: THE NEXT DOCTOR
200: PLANET OF THE DEAD
201: THE WATERS OF MARS
202: THE END OF TIME
THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR: Matt Smith
Series 5 (2010)
203: THE ELEVENTH HOUR
204: THE BEAST BELOW
205: VICTORY OF THE DALEKS
206: THE TIME OF ANGELS / FLESH AND STONE
207: THE VAMPIRES OF VENICE
208: AMY’S CHOICE
209: THE HUNGRY EARTH / COLD BLOOD
210: VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR
211: THE LODGER
212: THE PANDORICA OPENS / THE BIG BANG
Specials (2010-2011)
213: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
—: SPACE and TIME
Series 6 (2011)
214a: THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
214a: THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT, Take 2
214b: DAY OF THE MOON
215: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT
216: THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
217a: THE REBEL FLESH
217b: THE ALMOST PEOPLE
218a: A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR
218b: LET’S KILL HITLER
219: NIGHT TERRORS
220: THE GIRL WHO WAITED
221: THE GOD COMPLEX
222: CLOSING TIME
223: THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG
Rumination: IS IT TIME TO HAVE GWEN COOPER REPLACE THE PONDS? Written post-GOD COMPLEX.
Specials (2011)
—: DEATH IS THE ONLY ANSWER
224: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
Unrelated Specials
Broadcast: Title: Doctor
1985: A FIX WITH SONTARANS: Sixth
1990: SEARCH OUT SCIENCE: SEARCH OUT SPACE: Seventh
1993: DIMENSIONS IN TIME: Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven
1999: DOCTOR WHO AND THE CURSE OF THE FATAL DEATH
2007: THE INFINITE QUEST: Tenth
2008: MUSIC OF THE SPHERES: Tenth
2009: DOCTOR WHO: TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT: Tenth
2009: DREAMLAND: Tenth
Movies
1965: DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS
1966: DALEKS – INVASION EARTH: 2150 A.D.
