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The antagonist in fiction is that character who has adopted a fixed solution to an inner vacuum or emptiness or threat. This fixed...

Thirty years ago, John Devon Roland Pertwee (pictured above with William Hartnell in the 1953 comedy film Will Any Gentleman...? ) born...

We have seen in earlier articles that the Doctor began his life on the television screen in a role approximating that of a villain: he...

In finishing your story, you are trying to do two basic things: 1. Make the ending seem like the consequence of everything that has...

As we have seen, in Doctor Who’s third broadcast story, ’The Edge of Destruction’ Hartnell’s Doctor, proud and arrogant, who began as a...

Successful stories ask readers four key questions: ‘What will happen next?’ This question forms the basis of even the most primitive tale...

‘The Edge of Destruction’, first broadcast in February 1964, is a curiosity. This is partly because David Whitaker, the script-writer,...

As we saw in an earlier article,‘The Daleks’, originally aired in 1963/4, came at a pivotal point in the development of Doctor Who....

The first episode of the fifty-year-old series Doctor Who had established a unique set of parameters. The juxtaposition of...

The rest of the first adventure of Doctor Who, commonly known by its opening episode ‘An Unearthly Child’, is comparatively...