Seventh Doctor

 Doctor Who: Twenty-Fifth Series Summary   A stunning jump as we race toward the classic finish. The Seventh Doctor’s second outing was a major step up, which was an important move for the show’s silver anniversary. It has also made me really love Sylvester McCoy’s wit and humor. Remembrance of the

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (4 episodes, s25e11-e14, 1988-1989)   It’s an awfully meta moment in the late 1980s: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy gets rhythm, and we “ain’t seen nothing yet.” On the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to learn how to juggle while Ace

Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (3 episodes, s25e08-e10, 1988)   We open in South America, 22 November 1988, on a scene of Nazis trying to kill parrots with arrows. A similar scene plays out in 1638 Windsor, England – though without the Nazis, naturally – as a woman tries to kill

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol (3 episodes, s25e05-e07, 1988)   “Happiness is nothing unless it exists side by side with sadness.” A woman walks down a melancholy corridor and is approached by a man who offers to help with her suffering. He invites her to a secret place where people

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (4 episodes, s25e01-e04, 1988)   Returning to where it all began. The opening teaser reveals a large and foreboding spacecraft approaches Earth. Meanwhile, on the planet’s surface, students arrive for classes at Coal Hill School while the Doctor and Ace discuss the anachronisms in

 Doctor Who: Twenty-Fourth Series Summary   The numbers say average but the emotion says confidence. The Seventh Doctor’s opening frame was on par with the Sixth Doctor’s closing set. On the five-point scale, it was square in the middle and tied for second-to-last with the Trail of a Time Lord. But there’s some added

Doctor Who: Dragonfire (3 episodes, s24e12-e14, 1987)   Iceworld: A vacation spot where cliffhangers are literal but dragons are not. We get our introduction to this planetary freezer section through fog machines, plastic icicles, and frost burns. A group of conscripted men is being processed as foot soldiers for the

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen (3 episodes, s24e09-e11, 1987)   Not quite the Happiest Place on Earth, but Shangri-La nonetheless. The story drops all of us right into the thick of things with a huge battle on an alien planet. On the high ground is a squad with extensive

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (4 episodes, s24e05-e08, 1987)   “Nothing’s just rubbish if you have an inquiring mind.” On one hand, we have the typical ’80s grunge-apocalypse sci-fi with a woman on the run. On the other hand, Mel and a swimming pool paradise. The TARDIS arrives at the former,