*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Left My Hearts in San Francisco… In May of 1996, after a 7 year drought of Doctor Who (which was last broadcast in the US on PBS), I was set to enjoy an all-new Doctor Who adventure. This would be a single TV-movie, acting as a pilot episode, which would air in the…
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Doctor Who: “Revolution of the Daleks” reunites the TARDIS fam…
****BIGGER SPOILERS ON THE INSIDE!!**** Picking up after the event’s of last year’s canon-reshaping story “The Timeless Children”, “Revolution of the Daleks” was written by current producer/showrunner Chris Chibnall and directed by Wayne Yip. In solving one minor headscratcher from the old series (the pre-canonical incarnations of the Doctor, briefly glimpsed in 1976’s “The Brain…
The TARDIS touches down in L.A. yet again for Gallifrey One 2020…
Gallifrey One: It’s Bigger On The Inside! Since 2014, my wife and I have been steady attendees of what is the largest Doctor Who convention in the United States, “Gallifrey One” (or, as it’s known by longtime conventioneers, “Galley One”). Compared to the Soylent Green-level madness that is San Diego Comic Con (130,000 attendees) Galley…
My long relationship with science-fiction television…
The way it was. When I was a kid there was an emergent wave of science fiction and fantasy films in the multiplexes. “Star Wars,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Superman: The Movie,” as well as countless lesser-quality imitators of each, such as “Starcrash” (an exceptionally awful movie), “Hangar 18” (a dumbed-down “X-Files”…
A timey-wimey weekend at L.A’s “Gallifrey One”; a Doctor Who extravaganza.
This past weekend, Feb. 18th and 19th 2017, marked the 4th time my wife and I attended Los Angeles’ annual Doctor Who love fest known as “Gallifrey One” (Gallifrey being the name of the Time Lord Doctor’s home world), and the 28th year of the convention itself. And we wouldn’t have made it this year…
