Category Archives: Whoniversity

Life Outside
The TARDIS:
Peter Davison

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 16th, 2012

All Stories

Doctor
Who’s Day
Roundup: Karen
Gillan Wants
‘Community’
Role

By staff | Posted on Tuesday,
May 15th, 2012

Doctor Who
Rogues Gallery:
The Rani

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Friday,
May 11th, 2012

Just to clear things up, last week we were talking about the Master and the Doctor, and discussing how their names are unique among Time Lords, being a combination of the definitive article and a job title, one which also happens to ...

Life Outside
The TARDIS: Tom
Baker

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 10th, 2012

Tom Baker in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

For other people in the public eye, it might not be all that relevant to cite six years of a training as a monk, from the age of 15. I mean if it turned out that Alan Alda or Jack Johnson had been through such an experience, it would ...

The Doc’s
Holiday: When
The TARDIS
Visited America

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 9th, 2012

One of the ways you can tell that Doctor Who is a British creation, apart from the Doctor’s accent, is the amount of stories which are set on British soil, within British mythology. It’s odd, when you think about it.

Doctor
Who’s Day
Roundup: My
Name Is Bond,
Doctor Bond

By staff | Posted on Tuesday,
May 8th, 2012

Doctor Who
Rogues Gallery:
The Master

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Friday,
May 4th, 2012

Every Holmes needs a Moriarty, ever Scooby Doo needs an embittered janitor. The Doctor has the Master, a rival Time Lord who appears to be slightly more successful at Time Lording than his eccentric fellow Gallifreyan (fully working ...

Life Outside
The TARDIS: Jon
Pertwee

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 3rd, 2012

For a man with such a singular visual presence and talent for physical comedy, it’s a surprise to discover that the bedrock of Jon Pertwee’s career was on the radio. Fresh out of the navy at the end of the Second World War, ...

Great Scott!
It’s A
TARDIS!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 2nd, 2012

Doctor
Who’s Day
Roundup: We
Chat with
Director of
First-Ever
‘Doctor
Who’
Episode!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Tuesday,
May 1st, 2012

Waris Hussein, director of 'The Unearthly Child,' talks to Anglophenia's Jon Sarlin.

On November 23, 1963 (the day after the Kennedy assassination), the very first episode of Doctor Who premiered on the BBC. And the man behind the camera was Waris Hussein, then only 24 years old, completely unaware of the phenomenon the ...