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The new issue of The Essential Doctor Who is out now, devoted to Invasions of Earth - Alien Threats from Beyond the Stars. It includes some...

50 years ago today on 29 October 1966, Patrick Troughton made his debut as the Second Dr. Who in the closing moments of The Tenth Planet ...

Issue 505 of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and includes my preview of the forthcoming animation of otherwise-missing 1966 story The ...

It is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate women in science and technology. The Guardian has a great piece by Rebekah Higgitt on 19th cen...

It's 50 years today since the broadcast of The Tenth Planet episode 1, in which a startling new monster was introduced to Doctor Who ....

50 years ago today, Jack Bligh appeared as Gaptooth in episode 4 of the Doctor Who story The Smugglers .  Born on 31 December 1889, ...

The new issue of the Lancet Psychiatry - vol. 3, no. 10 (October 2016) - is out today, and includes my article on the mind of ghost story...

I had an amazing time last week at the Gravity Fields science festival in Grantham and Stamford, where m'colleague Dr Marek Kukula and...

Exciting new website We Are Cult interiewed me, Steve O'Brien and Ben Morris about our exciting new book of Doctor Who infographics, Wh...

On Monday, I was a guest on Radio 4's Front Row , where learned academic Fern Riddell and I discussed the legacy of HG Wells, who was ...

Out now is a new Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition all about the times the TV show has been out on location . Among the many treats, ...

Here's the cover to Whographica , the book of Doctor Who infographics I've written with Steve O'Brien and Ben Morris . The co...

In the 1964 Doctor Who episode World's End , the TARDIS materialises on the banks of the Thames – but something is very wrong. A sign ...

It's 10 years today since the Doctor Who episode Doomday , in which Rose and the Doctor were separated by a wall and the unyielding l...

The Essential Doctor Who: Adventures in History is out now, a "lavish 116-page issue about the Doctor's journeys into Earth...

Out this August in paperback and electric bookery is End of the End , "a post-apocalyptic omnibus" including my novella Fall Ou...

The Lord of Chaos and I had a brilliant short break in Liverpool, visiting relatives and seeing the sights. It helped that the weather was ...

It's 20 years today since the Doctor Who TV movie starring Paul McGann was broadcast in the UK. Below is my interview with actor Gord...