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‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery Roundup: The Odd Squad

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:28:17 +0000

This is a post devoted to those Whovian villains that possibly caused more of a headscratch than a dive behind the sofa. When you travel the wilderness of time and space like the Doctor does, you’re bound to run into a few unusual ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Tereleptils

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:05:58 +0000

In TV science fiction, sometimes you can be working on a cracking idea for a monster costume, and only realise afterwards that there’s a silly detail that, while helping to define the character you’re creating, also unravels ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Ice Warriors

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:18:13 +0000

It seems a fitting moment, while a probe is scooting around on the surface of the actual Mars, looking for signs of ice (among other things) to have a look at the fictitious frozen warriors that particular planet sent over to the Earth, ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Celestial Toymaker

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:42:15 +0000

So there’s this guy, right, and he’s immortal. He’s been exiled from an alternative universe, where the physical rules are different, and because of this, he’s lived for millions and millions of years.

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Silence

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:12:02 +0000

To be clear, the rogues in this particular case are not the religious order known as the Silence, but the lightbulb-headed, chewing-gum-faced beanpoles in suits that you can’t remember having been scared of, once you’ve ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: Lady Cassandra

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:51:17 +0000

We’ve been calling all manner of space rotters ‘rogues’ in this roundup ever since it started, from the Daleks to the Rani, and for the most part that term has been an understatement, a way of avoiding having to give ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Cheetah People

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:59:09 +0000

I wonder if it’s possible to populate an entire zoo with science-fiction monsters who have the heads of Earth animals. You’d have the Judoon in the rhino enclosure, Planet of the Apes over in the monkey house, Admiral Ackbar ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Vervoids

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:10:26 +0000

Poor the Vervoids, never quite as rock ‘n’ roll a monster as you’d expect with a name like a cross between the Verve and the Voidoids, but then the Sixth Doctor’s time in the TARDIS was a fairly rock-free ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Mara

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:34:59 +0000

After the spine-liquifying terror of those plastic-faced Robots of Death from last week, we move on to the Fifth Doctor, and a monster that is principally scary when you can’t see it. And when you can… well we’ll come ...

‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Robots (Of Death)

Fraser McAlpine — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:17:32 +0000

This blog is going to be a moment of personal catharsis from my youth, and as such, there may be repressed emotions at play that I can’t control, and I won’t know they’re on the way until they pop up, so bear with ...