Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space Review

To celebrate Jon Pertwee's 96th birthday we look back at his very first story as The Doctor.

Doctor Who:
Spearhead From Space
By Robert Holmes

“You really believe in a man who has helped to save the world twice, with the power to change his physical appearance? An alien who travels though time and space, in a police box!”

The newly regenerated 3rd Doctor has arrived on earth the worst for wear as he has been traumatize by being forced to regenerate by the Time Lords after his trial.  His exile on earth hasn’t started off all that well as The Doctor is hospitalized and almost kidnapped and then grazed by a bullet from a UNIT soldier.  Not a very good start in your new body.  Over shadowed by those events was a mysterious asteroid shower with quite a few of them making their way to earth.  But the problem is these are not your ordinary space debris as The Nestene Intelligence is was part of that and that act was the first salvo fired in the invasion of Earth.  With the control of plastic and the plastic creatures the Autons to control it’s up to the new Doctor and his new companion Liz Shaw to stop them with the aid of UNIT and the Brigadier.  

Doctor Who - Lethbridge Stewart: The Forgotten Son Reviewed By @BlackAdder345

Lethbridge Stewart:

The Forgotten Son Review

By Will Barber – Taylor

When Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart of the Scots Guard is recalled from Libya to help combat the Yeti incursion in London, he finds himself on the frontline fighting robotic soldiers of an alien entity known as the Great Intelligence. With the British Government still reeling at this proof of alien life, what connects these events to the events to the seemingly quiet Cornish village of Bledoe? And what has all of this to do with Lethbridge-Stewart?

The Forgotten Son is a unique book. It captures the tone of modern Doctor Who novels but also mixes in a nostalgic feel comparable to the Target novelizations of old.

Doctor Who - Harvest of Time Review

Doctor Who:
Harvest of Time
By Alastair Reynolds

The Third Doctor and Jo are embroiled in a pretty strange predicament.  It appears that The Master has called for aid from one of his future selves to help get him out of prison.  But unknown to The Master it did not work out the way he thought it would.   What The Doctor discovers is that something has gone wrong with The Masters timeline and that a future Master is not coming to save him but instead it appears he is being erased from time.  The Doctor has to keep reminding The Brigadier, Captain Yates and Sgt Benton about The Master by giving them a paper with his face on it to remind them who he is.  But that is not all.  The Sild have arrived on Earth and due to The Masters meddling with time used that signal to come to Earth and proceed to invade.  To save the Earth The Doctor must go to the future and with another unsettling alliance with The Master must find the source of the Sild and shut it down to save The Master and the Earth.

Jemma Redgrave Returns As Kate Stewart For The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special

 

The BBC Official Doctor Who website has announced that Jemma Redgrave will return as Kate Stewart the daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart  for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special.  She was last seen in The Power of Three which aired last September and makes up Series 7A.  You can read the full announcement here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Reunited-Jemma-Redgrave-Returns-for-the-Anniversary-Special

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Top Ten Patrick Troughton Stories

Last month I gave you my top 10 William Hartnell Stories and now it is time to delve into The Second Doctor’s Era and pick out the ones that I like the best. So here we go the Top 10 Patrick Troughton Doctor Who stories