We’re going through the entirety of Classic Doctor Who episode-by-episode, trying to maintain the illusion of what an episode-by-episode review blog would be like if it was 1963 and Doctor Who was brand new.
Season 1
An Unearthly Child
- It’s John Smith and the Common Men (Doctor Who: ‘An Unearthly Child’ Review)
- Doctor Who? What’s He Talking About? (Doctor Who: ‘The Cave of Skulls’ Review)
- Fear, It Makes Companions of Us All (Doctor Who: ‘The Forest of Fear’ Review)
- This Knife has No Blood on It (Doctor Who: ‘The Firemaker’ Review)
The Daleks
- One Bite and I Taste the Bacon, Another and I Taste the Egg (Doctor Who: ‘The Dead Planet’ Review)
- It Destroys All Human Tissues (Doctor Who: ‘The Survivors’ Review)
- Ooh, It Moves Well Enough (Doctor Who: ‘The Escape’ Review)
- There’s Something Jammed Inside Here (Doctor Who: ‘The Ambush’ Review)
- Cannot Control! Cannot Control! (Doctor Who: ‘The Expedition’ Review)
- We Mustn’t Diddle Around Here (Doctor Who: ‘The Ordeal’ Review)
- Nothing Can Stop the Daleks (Doctor Who: ‘The Rescue’ Review)
The Edge of Destruction
- Trying to Confuse Me, Eh? (Doctor Who: ‘The Edge of Destruction’ Review)
- Could It Be Possible That This is the End? (Doctor Who: ‘The Brink of Disaster’ Review)
Marco Polo
- The Commerce and Culture of a Thousand Years (Doctor Who: ‘The Roof of the World’ Review)
- Our Progress Towards the Oasis Becomes Less (Doctor Who: ‘The Singing Sands’ Review)
- I Inched Our Caravan Forward (Doctor Who: ‘Five Hundred Eyes’ Review)
- Suspicion and Discontent (Doctor Who: ‘The Wall of Lies’ Review)
- Out Beyond It, Onto the Plain (Doctor Who: ‘Rider from Shan-Tu’ Review)
- A Long Day of Riding (Doctor Who: ‘Mighty Kublai Khan’ Review)
- We Are Too Busy for that, Marco (Doctor Who: ‘Assassin at Peking’ Review)
The Keys of Marnius
- If You’d Had Your Shoes On, My Boy, You Could Have Lent Her Her’s (Doctor Who: ‘The Sea of Death’ Review)
- How Rich and Powerful Do You Have to Be? (Doctor Who: ‘The Velvet Web’ Review)
- I’ve Heard It Before (Doctor Who: ‘The Screaming Jungle’ Review)
- Raving and Ranting (Doctor Who: ‘The Snows of Terror’ Review)
- He Went In, Killed His Colleague, Heard Chesterton in the Hall, Hid Behind the Door and the Rest We Know (Doctor Who: ‘The Sentence of Death’ Review)
- There’s a Link Somewhere (Doctor Who: ‘The Keys of Marinus’ Review)
The Aztecs
- The Good as Well as the Evil (Doctor Who: ‘The Temple of Evil’ Review)
- The Truth of My Divinity (Doctor Who: ‘The Warriors of Death’ Review)
- Human Ability Will Suffice (Doctor Who: ‘The Bride of Sacrifice’ Review)
- We Failed (Doctor Who: ‘The Day of Darkness’ Review)
The Sensorites
- Good Gracious, They’ve Taken the Lock! (Doctor Who: ‘Strangers in Space’ Review)
- BONUS ESSAY: Reading The Sensorites in 2023
- The Calmer You Are, the Stronger (Doctor Who: ‘The Unwilling Warriors’ Review)
- A Two Sided Affair (Doctor Who: ‘Hidden Danger’)
- I Have Never Thought of That (Doctor Who: ‘A Race Against Death’ Review)
- Rejoice for the Friend Who is Being Returned to You (Doctor Who: ‘Kidnap’ Review)
- A Charming Outlook (Doctor Who: ‘A Desperate Venture’ Review)
The Reign of Terror
- I Am Not Master of This Craft (Doctor Who: ‘A Land of Fear’ Review)
- Kept in This Pig Sty (Doctor Who: ‘Guests of Madame Guillotine’ Review)
- Evidence Against a Traitor (Doctor Who: ‘A Change of Identity’ Review)
- What Can This Reign of Terror Possibly Gain? (Doctor Who: ‘The Tyrant of France’ Review)
- Are You Serious? (Doctor Who: ‘A Bargain of Necessity’ Review)
- I Shall Be Ready to Take Over (Doctor Who: ‘Prisoners of the Conciergerie’ Review)
Season 2
Planet of Giants
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