Jan 1, 2026
Episode Title: "I Need
My Pain" - The Caves of Androzani Review & The Fifth Doctor's
Regeneration
THE CAVES OF
ANDROZANI (March 8-16, 1984)
Writer: Robert Holmes (returning!)
Director:
Graeme Harper (debut - directing
from studio floor, not control room)
PRODUCTION NOTES:
The Fake Title: JNT put "The Doctor's Wife" on...
Dec 25, 2025
Episode Title: "From
Carnage to Cleavage" - Planet of Fire Review
PLANET OF FIRE
(February-March 1984)
Writer: Peter Grimwade (his final
Doctor Who work)
Director: Fiona Cumming (her last
story, dating back to The Highlanders)
Location: Lanzarote, Canary Islands
- chosen after Cumming promoted it with holiday photos!
Dec 17, 2025
Episode Title: "Throwing Daleks Out the Window" - Resurrection of the Daleks Review with The Irredeemable Shag
SPECIAL GUEST ALERT: The Irredeemable Shag joins from the Fire & Water Podcast Network for what he calls "The Tegan Jovanka Appreciation Podcast!" A lifelong Davison-era fan who started watching in 1982 at age...
Dec 11, 2025
"The Hamster Wheel of Science Fiction
Television" - Frontios Review
STORY DETAILS: "Frontios"
(January 16 - February 3, 1984)
Production Code: 6N
Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead
(former script editor, Logopolis and
Castrovalva)
Director: Ron Jones (Arc of
Infinity, future Colin Baker stories)
CAPSULE REVIEW: Jim: "Doctor...
Dec 4, 2025
"Two Is Too Few, Four Is
Too Much" - Production 6M: "The Awakening" (January 19-20, 1984) -
Classic Doctor Who Season 21 Review
The Fifth Doctor brings Tegan to 1984 Little Hodcombe so she can visit her grandfather, Andrew Verney. But the TARDIS materializes in an unstable church during an English Civil War reenactment...