Doctor Who Shows Us The Doctor’s Arch-Enemies In A Whole New Light Tonight’s Doctor Who season premiere is all about two of the show’s most iconic villai…

Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Capaldi was revealed as the new…

Doctor Who - Watch the new trailer for Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson’s first season You ready for this? OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE NEWS PROVIDED BY BBC One R…

Doctor Who: Midnight I’ve been both surprised and disappointed that most people have not recognized the skill of Russell T Davies. He not only revivified…

Doctor Who Comics Day 2017 London – April, 4 – With Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor vworping to BBC AMERICA in the U.S. and Space in Canada on Saturday, A…

Normally I try to answer most blog comments, but yesterday involved a broken car, broken garage door, and other assorted chaos that kept me offline for m…

Conventions As a side note, I’d like to say that I’m interested in possibly compiling another blog to act as a database of Doctor Who conventions since, …

Peter Davison In this 2008 interview, Peter Davison discusses ‘Time Crash’, the Big Finish audios, and his daughter’s role in the revived series. This in…

Peter Cushing In this rare Dr. Who-centric interview, Peter Cushing comes up with a novel idea for finding a place for the two 60’s movies in the ‘canon’…

Dr. Donald A. Henderson, a leader of one of mankind’s greatest public health triumphs, the eradication of smallpox, died on Friday in Towson, Md. He was 8…

William Hartnell There are relatively few William Hartnell interviews concerning his time on ‘Doctor Who’, and most of them are puff pieces intended for …

Anthony Read (1985) Anthony Read was script editor of ‘Doctor Who’ for a short period in the late 1970’s, and his time on the show included the ‘Key to T…

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but in response to a couple of e-mail enquiries: No, the blog is definitely not ‘complete’ or ‘finished’. I’ve…

Happy Christmas! Happy Christmas. I’ll be posting more classic (or in some cases, just old) interviews in the New Year, but for now, here are some of the…

Tom Baker (1974) I think this is Tom Baker’s first interview after getting the role of the Doctor, and to be honest it’s less an interview and more a ser…

Colin Baker (1986) This is Colin Baker’s 1986 appearance on ‘Wogan’, covering such topics as lucky underwear, American ‘Doctor Who’ fans and people mista…

Bob Baker (1990’s) Here’s Bob Baker, who along with Dave Martin wrote a number of classic 70’s episodes, including ‘The Three Doctors’, ‘The Mutants’ and…

Matt Smith (2009) Here’s a transcript of a very short BBC News interview with Matt Smith, conducted in Cannes while he was promoting a short film, ‘Toget…

Steven Moffat (2009) Here’s Steven Moffat talking to the BBC about his initial work on Doctor Who and his experiences (so far) on the upcoming season fiv…

Paul McGann (2009) A lot of people (well, at least five or six) are convinced that Paul McGann will turn up in part 2 of ‘The End of Time’ tomorrow night…

Paul McGann (1996) A small selection of quotes from Paul McGann, during the filming of the 1996 TV movie. There’s an interesting attempt to draw an analo…

Neil Gaiman (2003) Okay, this isn’t an interview, it’s choice quotes from a foreword to Paul McCauley’s novella ‘Eye of the Tyger’, but it’s relevant to …

Robert Holmes (1985) Robert Holmes was one of the most important contributors to the original ‘Doctor Who’, and if he was still around today he’d probabl…

Dudley Simpson (1985) Dudley Simpson was one of the most prolific ‘Doctor Who’ composers, scoring much of the Pertwee era. His work on the show stretches…

Michael Grade (2005) Just a short extract from a 2005 BBC Radio interview with Michael Grade, famously the man who axed ‘Doctor Who’ back in the 1980’s. …

William Hartnell (2) This rare William Hartnell interview from 1964 was conducted between seasons 1 and 2, in terms of production at least. Q: Are you pl…

Chris Clough (1989) Chris Clough was a popular director in the original show’s later years, and was behind the later episodes of ‘Trial of a Timelord’, a…

Paul Cornell (2009) Here’s a transcript of Paul Cornell at a convention in Dublin. You can find videos of the panel on YouTube, and he talks about his wo…

Andy Lane (Various) I’ve accidentally started focusing on New Adventures authors on the site recently, and here’s another – Andy Lane. He wrote ‘Lucifer …

Gerald Flood (1927-1989) was the voice of Kamelion, who was introduced as a robotic companion for the 5th Doctor. I think it’s fair to say that things did…

Caroline John (1987) Caroline John played Liz Shaw, one of the few companions to have been denied a farewell scene. She appeared in just the one season, …

Wendy Padbury (1986) Here’s Wendy Padbury talking about joining the show as Zoe, the temptation to remain for Jon Pertwee’s first season, and her subsequ…

Nicola Bryant (1992) Here’s a brief interview from DWM with Nicola Bryant, talking about getting the part of Peri and her thoughts on the character’s con…

Sylvester McCoy (2010) Here’s Sylvester McCoy quoted in ‘The Times’, discussing the idea that late 80’s ‘Doctor Who’ had an anti-Thatcher streak. You can…

Elisabeth Sladen (1976) Shortly after it was announced that she would be leaving ‘Doctor Who’ in 1976, Elisabeth Sladen appeared briefly on ‘Nationwide’ …

John Lucarotti (1990) Here’s John Lucarotti talking to DWM about his scripts for the show, which ranged from the first season’s ‘Marco Polo’ to the twelf…

A short interview with Verity Lambert, shown on ‘Nationwide’ as part of the celebrations for hte 20th anniversary back in 1983. Q: Verity Lambert was the …

Terry Molloy (1990’s) Terry Molloy played Davros during the 1980’s, opposite Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Here, he tells DWM about his…

Terrance Dicks (1985) Here’s a brief exceprt from a DWM Terrance Dicks interview, in which he talks about his work writing novelisations for the Target r…

Tom Baker (post-1996) Here’s a brief quote from Tom Baker, talking about Jon Pertwee. Short, I know, but worth it because there aren’t too many examples …

Sylvester McCoy (1996) Some quotes from Sylvester McCoy during the filming of the 1996 TV movie. He talks about handing over, about the script changes th…

Martin Geraghty (2010) Just a quick link to an interesting new interview with Martin Geraghty, one of the big names in DWM comic strip history. You’ll ha…

Sylvester McCoy (1988) Here’s Sylvester McCoy, back in 1988 when he’d just finished his second season as the Doctor. He talks about working with John Nat…

Bernard Cribbins (2008) Here are transcripts from two BBC interviews with Bernard Cribbins back in 2008, around the time of the transmission of ‘The Stol…

Steven Moffat (various) This is a real mix of different Steven Moffat quotes, pulled together to give some kind of indication of how he might steer the s…

Here are some quotes from Christopher Eccleston, mostly from the Doctor Who Confidential episodes that aired during the 2005 series. Among other things, h…

Jackie’s not very good in a crisis. She’s a bit of a scaredy-cat, a bit of a screamer, she’ll run away. Or she’ll just get her daughter to save the world.…

A doctor who examined the body found that that before the boy had died, he had been beaten with sticks and shoes. “He was shot many times and his face wa…

Beginning with William Hartnell, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; as of 2023, Ncuti Gatwa leads the series as the Fifteenth Doctor…

In order to accommodate cast changes, the narrative allows the Doctor to regenerate into an essentially new person on occasion. The cast is rounded out by…

Doctor Who Shows Us The Doctor’s Arch-Enemies In A Whole New Light Tonight’s Doctor Who season premiere is all about two of the show’s most iconic villai…

Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Capaldi was revealed as the new…

Doctor Who - Watch the new trailer for Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson’s first season You ready for this? OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE NEWS PROVIDED BY BBC One R…

Doctor Who: Midnight I’ve been both surprised and disappointed that most people have not recognized the skill of Russell T Davies. He not only revivified…

Doctor Who Comics Day 2017 London – April, 4 – With Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor vworping to BBC AMERICA in the U.S. and Space in Canada on Saturday, A…

Normally I try to answer most blog comments, but yesterday involved a broken car, broken garage door, and other assorted chaos that kept me offline for m…

Conventions As a side note, I’d like to say that I’m interested in possibly compiling another blog to act as a database of Doctor Who conventions since, …

Peter Davison In this 2008 interview, Peter Davison discusses ‘Time Crash’, the Big Finish audios, and his daughter’s role in the revived series. This in…

Peter Cushing In this rare Dr. Who-centric interview, Peter Cushing comes up with a novel idea for finding a place for the two 60’s movies in the ‘canon’…

Dr. Donald A. Henderson, a leader of one of mankind’s greatest public health triumphs, the eradication of smallpox, died on Friday in Towson, Md. He was 8…

William Hartnell There are relatively few William Hartnell interviews concerning his time on ‘Doctor Who’, and most of them are puff pieces intended for …

Anthony Read (1985) Anthony Read was script editor of ‘Doctor Who’ for a short period in the late 1970’s, and his time on the show included the ‘Key to T…

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but in response to a couple of e-mail enquiries: No, the blog is definitely not ‘complete’ or ‘finished’. I’ve…

Happy Christmas! Happy Christmas. I’ll be posting more classic (or in some cases, just old) interviews in the New Year, but for now, here are some of the…

Tom Baker (1974) I think this is Tom Baker’s first interview after getting the role of the Doctor, and to be honest it’s less an interview and more a ser…

Colin Baker (1986) This is Colin Baker’s 1986 appearance on ‘Wogan’, covering such topics as lucky underwear, American ‘Doctor Who’ fans and people mista…

Bob Baker (1990’s) Here’s Bob Baker, who along with Dave Martin wrote a number of classic 70’s episodes, including ‘The Three Doctors’, ‘The Mutants’ and…

Matt Smith (2009) Here’s a transcript of a very short BBC News interview with Matt Smith, conducted in Cannes while he was promoting a short film, ‘Toget…

Steven Moffat (2009) Here’s Steven Moffat talking to the BBC about his initial work on Doctor Who and his experiences (so far) on the upcoming season fiv…

Paul McGann (2009) A lot of people (well, at least five or six) are convinced that Paul McGann will turn up in part 2 of ‘The End of Time’ tomorrow night…

Paul McGann (1996) A small selection of quotes from Paul McGann, during the filming of the 1996 TV movie. There’s an interesting attempt to draw an analo…

Neil Gaiman (2003) Okay, this isn’t an interview, it’s choice quotes from a foreword to Paul McCauley’s novella ‘Eye of the Tyger’, but it’s relevant to …

Robert Holmes (1985) Robert Holmes was one of the most important contributors to the original ‘Doctor Who’, and if he was still around today he’d probabl…

Dudley Simpson (1985) Dudley Simpson was one of the most prolific ‘Doctor Who’ composers, scoring much of the Pertwee era. His work on the show stretches…

Michael Grade (2005) Just a short extract from a 2005 BBC Radio interview with Michael Grade, famously the man who axed ‘Doctor Who’ back in the 1980’s. …

William Hartnell (2) This rare William Hartnell interview from 1964 was conducted between seasons 1 and 2, in terms of production at least. Q: Are you pl…

Chris Clough (1989) Chris Clough was a popular director in the original show’s later years, and was behind the later episodes of ‘Trial of a Timelord’, a…

Paul Cornell (2009) Here’s a transcript of Paul Cornell at a convention in Dublin. You can find videos of the panel on YouTube, and he talks about his wo…

Andy Lane (Various) I’ve accidentally started focusing on New Adventures authors on the site recently, and here’s another – Andy Lane. He wrote ‘Lucifer …

Gerald Flood (1927-1989) was the voice of Kamelion, who was introduced as a robotic companion for the 5th Doctor. I think it’s fair to say that things did…

Caroline John (1987) Caroline John played Liz Shaw, one of the few companions to have been denied a farewell scene. She appeared in just the one season, …

Wendy Padbury (1986) Here’s Wendy Padbury talking about joining the show as Zoe, the temptation to remain for Jon Pertwee’s first season, and her subsequ…

Nicola Bryant (1992) Here’s a brief interview from DWM with Nicola Bryant, talking about getting the part of Peri and her thoughts on the character’s con…

Sylvester McCoy (2010) Here’s Sylvester McCoy quoted in ‘The Times’, discussing the idea that late 80’s ‘Doctor Who’ had an anti-Thatcher streak. You can…

Elisabeth Sladen (1976) Shortly after it was announced that she would be leaving ‘Doctor Who’ in 1976, Elisabeth Sladen appeared briefly on ‘Nationwide’ …

John Lucarotti (1990) Here’s John Lucarotti talking to DWM about his scripts for the show, which ranged from the first season’s ‘Marco Polo’ to the twelf…

A short interview with Verity Lambert, shown on ‘Nationwide’ as part of the celebrations for hte 20th anniversary back in 1983. Q: Verity Lambert was the …

Terry Molloy (1990’s) Terry Molloy played Davros during the 1980’s, opposite Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Here, he tells DWM about his…

Terrance Dicks (1985) Here’s a brief exceprt from a DWM Terrance Dicks interview, in which he talks about his work writing novelisations for the Target r…

Tom Baker (post-1996) Here’s a brief quote from Tom Baker, talking about Jon Pertwee. Short, I know, but worth it because there aren’t too many examples …

Sylvester McCoy (1996) Some quotes from Sylvester McCoy during the filming of the 1996 TV movie. He talks about handing over, about the script changes th…

Martin Geraghty (2010) Just a quick link to an interesting new interview with Martin Geraghty, one of the big names in DWM comic strip history. You’ll ha…

Sylvester McCoy (1988) Here’s Sylvester McCoy, back in 1988 when he’d just finished his second season as the Doctor. He talks about working with John Nat…

Bernard Cribbins (2008) Here are transcripts from two BBC interviews with Bernard Cribbins back in 2008, around the time of the transmission of ‘The Stol…

Steven Moffat (various) This is a real mix of different Steven Moffat quotes, pulled together to give some kind of indication of how he might steer the s…

Here are some quotes from Christopher Eccleston, mostly from the Doctor Who Confidential episodes that aired during the 2005 series. Among other things, h…

Jackie’s not very good in a crisis. She’s a bit of a scaredy-cat, a bit of a screamer, she’ll run away. Or she’ll just get her daughter to save the world.…

A doctor who examined the body found that that before the boy had died, he had been beaten with sticks and shoes. “He was shot many times and his face wa…