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Since its first airing in 1963, Doctor Who has remained one of the most unique and absorbing programmes that the B.B.C. has had the honour to produce.
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Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror. Book Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There is something almost devilish about insects and arachnids that awaken a primeval fear in millions of people around the world. The reader only has to think of the beast Shelob in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy of books to perhaps feel a shiver of disgust, of undiluted terror run smoothly down their spine to know how they feel about spiders, the revulsion at the cockroach, the abhorrence of a plague of wasps and despite marvelling at the ingenuity and might of the humble ant, to see thousands of them milling around you, climbing over you in search of food is enough to send Horror makers grin at the thought of celluloid gold.
Doctor Who: Engines Of War. Book Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
It was perhaps arguably one of the greatest twists in the long history of the much loved television series Doctor Who, the appearance of John Hurt as The Doctor who went to war. The Time War, talked about since the return of the man from Gallifrey, perhaps a throw-away line to get round why the programme had been shamefully off air in its original format, one film aside, since 1989. An off the cuff comment which came to be the dystopian nadir in which tantalised the show’s legion of fans like a hungry wolf being offered a free slap up meal with a herd of caribou and then getting to have the dinner guests for deserts.