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This is an impressively detailed, close analysis of compellingly nuts and unsettling TV film  Penda’s Fen , originally broadcast on BBC-1 on...

Big Finish have announced another new Doctor Who audio play I've written, to be released in February 2026. The Heartless Sea by Simon G...

Peter Brookes’s cover artwork for this Doctor Who novelisation has haunted me since I first saw it, aged four. It was one of 16 covers feat...

Big Finish have announced the details of Bret Vyons Lives! , the second volume of adventures for the Space Security Service . This time, as ...

In late 1971, 13 year-old Keith Miller from Edinburgh wrote to the BBC to ask about the status of the official Doctor Who fan club, run for...

First published on 13 March 1975, this book must have come as a surprise to the now well-established readership of these Doctor Who novelis...

Reading Bookish   and its brief, telling reference to a man who walks into the sea because someone has his letters prompted me to try this, ...

It's been fun to revisit this novel as part of my research into the BBC-1 Classic Serials of the 1980s worked on by Terrance Dicks. He w...

“Terrance once laughed at me when I told him that a fly was his cousin.” p. 74 I said in my post on Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons ...

An unexpected delight of blogging my notes on these early Target novelisations is that people have been in touch to say that a particular bo...