I mean, what can you say? It's a founding myth of modern Britain, as I argued in an article for Byline Times. It has so much to say about class and identity, as I wrote in a two-part Geek Show article. (Perhaps my proudest achievement as a writer is getting my editor to agree to the title "Myrkas of the World Unite")
But a lot of my Doctor Who writing has been under two running strands on The Geek Show. The first is Outside the Blue Box, a series looking at the extracurricular activities of Doctor Who writers, stars and directors. I co-write this with a number of other great critics, but here are my articles:
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Importance of Being Earnest' (25th April 2025)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: Hard Sun' (29th May 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Fetch' (3rd July 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: Claws' (20th August 2025)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: Glastonbury 2025' (11th September 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Trials of Oz' (22nd October 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Corpse Can't Play' (27th November 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Box of Delights' (27th December 2025, paywall)
- 'Outside the Blue Box: The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' (29th January 2026, paywall)
The big series is Doctor Who A-Z, a chronological review series of every Doctor Who story that's currently running on the Geek Show website. And yes, it is an A-Z - it's just a non-linear one, as is only appropriate for this series.
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: An Unearthly Child (1963)' (10th September 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Daleks (1963-4)' (16th September 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Edge of Destruction (1964)' (7th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Marco Polo (1964)' (8th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Keys of Marinus (1964)' (9th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Aztecs (1964)' (10th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Sensorites (1964)' (11th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Reign of Terror (1964)' (12th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Planet of Giants (1964)' (13th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)' (14th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Rescue (1964-5)' (15th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Romans (1965)' (16th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Web Planet (1965)' (17th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Crusade (1965)' (18th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Space Museum (1965)' (19th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Chase (1965)' (20th October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Time Meddler (1965)' (21st October 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Galaxy 4 (1965)' (4th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Mission to the Unknown (1965)' (5th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Myth Makers (1965)' (6th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-6)' (7th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Massacre (1966)' (8th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Ark (1966)' (9th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Celestial Toymaker (1966)' (10th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Gunfighters (1966)' (11th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Savages (1966)' (12th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The War Machines (1966)' (13th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Smugglers (1966)' (20th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Tenth Planet (1966)' (22nd November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Power of the Daleks (1966)' (24th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Highlanders (1966-7)' (26th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Underwater Menace (1967)' (28th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Moonbase (1967)' (30th November 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Macra Terror (1967)' (2nd December 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Faceless Ones (1967)' (6th December 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Evil of the Daleks (1967)' (8th December 2024)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)' (13th January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Abominable Snowmen (1967)' (15th January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Ice Warriors (1967)' (17th January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Enemy of the World (1967-8)' (19th January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Web of Fear (1968)' (21st January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Fury from the Deep (1968)' (23rd January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Wheel in Space (1968)' (25th January 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Dominators (1968)' (1st February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Mind Robber (1968)' (3rd February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Invasion (1968)' (5th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Krotons (1968-9)' (7th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Seeds of Death (1969)' (9th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Space Pirates (1969)' (11th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The War Games (1969)' (13th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Spearhead from Space (1970)' (20th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)' (22nd February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Ambassadors of Death (1970)' (24th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Inferno (1970)' (26th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Terror of the Autons (1971)' (28th February 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Mind of Evil (1971)' (2nd March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Claws of Axos (1971)' (4th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Colony in Space (1971)' (6th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Daemons (1971)' (8th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Day of the Daleks (1972)' (15th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Curse of Peladon (1972)' (17th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Sea Devils (1972)' (19th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Mutants (1972)' (21st March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Time Monster (1972)' (23rd March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Three Doctors (1972-3)' (25th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Carnival of Monsters (1973)' (27th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Frontier in Space (1973)' (29th March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Planet of the Daleks (1973)' (31st March 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Green Death (1973)' (1st April 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Time Warrior (1973-4)' (6th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)' (8th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Death to the Daleks (1974)' (10th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Monster of Peladon (1974)' (12th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Planet of the Spiders (1974)' (14th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Robot (1974-5)' (16th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Ark in Space (1975)' (18th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Sontaran Experiment (1975)' (20th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Genesis of the Daleks (1975)' (22nd August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)' (24th August 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Terror of the Zygons (1975)' (8th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Planet of Evil (1975)' (10th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Pyramids of Mars (1975)' (12th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Android Invasion (1975)' (14th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Brain of Morbius (1976)' (16th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Seeds of Doom (1976)' (18th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Masque of Mandragora (1976)' (22nd October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Hand of Fear (1976)' (24th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Deadly Assassin (1976)' (26th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Face of Evil (1977)' (28th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Robots of Death (1977)' (30th October 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977)' (1st November 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Horror of Fang Rock (1977)' (28th November 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Invisible Enemy (1977)' (30th November 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Image of the Fendahl (1977)' (2nd December 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Sun Makers (1977)' (8th December 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: Underworld (1978)' (10th December 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Invasion of Time (1978)' (12th December 2025)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Ribos Operation (1978)' (28th January 2026)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Pirate Planet (1978)' (30th January 2026)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Stones of Blood (1978)' (1st February 2026)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Androids of Tara (1978)' (3rd February 2026)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Power of Kroll (1978-9)' (5th February 2026)
- 'Doctor Who A-Z: The Armageddon Factor (1979)' (7th February 2026)