A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Barry Letts, “Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders” (1974) Centuries after the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) visits the planet Metebelis 3 to souvenir a blue crystal (in…
Paddy Russell, “Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs” (1974) That the eponymous beasties of the title of this Doctor Who adventure were so poorly realised visually,…
Michael E Briant, “Doctor Who: The Green Death” (1973) Many of the stories featured during Jon Pertwee’s tenure as the Third Doctor in the old classic…
Timothy Combe, “Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil” (1971) An enjoyable story, even if it is two separate stories mashed together and the seams joining them…
Douglas Camfield, “Doctor Who: Inferno” (1970) “Inferno” represents “Doctor Who” at its best as a science fiction / action thriller television series dealing with some very…
Michael Ferguson, “Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death” (Season 7, 1970) After six seasons, and the departure of two actors playing the eponymous Doctor, perhaps the…
David Maloney, “Doctor Who: The War Games” (Season 6, 1969) One of the longest stories in the “Doctor Who” television series, totalling ten episodes, “The War…
Douglas Camfield, “Doctor Who: The Invasion” (Season 6, 1968) This eight-part serial featuring Patrick Troughton as the second incarnation of the beloved British sci-fi hero Doctor…
Rudolph Cartier, “The News-Benders” (1968) Entertaining yet troubling and provocative, “The News-Benders” was one of nearly 300 episodes of a BBC television series “Thirty-Minute Theatre” that…
“Navalny: Fake Poisoning (Part 1: The Patient)” (Soloviev LIVE / Vesti News, 24 August 2021) Presented by Alexander Sosnovsky and Sergei Karnaukhov, this very smooth and…