There is such a thing as mocking with affection and in well-informed groups, and too much of fandom is free of warmth towards the programme they claim is their favourite

You'd almost have thought that the concept of a Doctor Who movie reboot was just something websites like this had come up with so we could get huge screeds of material from it

All around the country, grown men are packing away their Cybermen action figures in specially constructed tombs made from shoeboxes and clingfilm, and placing them at the very back of the freezer

Much like Colin Baker's early stories, the enthusiasm with which McGann plays the Doctor is infectious.

I am not, by the way, claiming that the Sixth Doctor is like the Tenth Doctor with less grinning and rubbish clothes. I'm flat out telling you he is.

Given the choice, I'm not sure if I'd rather be an Eighties Doctor Who companion or married to Henry VIII.

The Fourth Doctor is actually a mixture of what's gone before, put through the unique perspective that is Tom Baker's. That's the little bit extra. That's the turbo-charger.

So, that's the Third Doctor, then. A violent, dandy, Buddhist, action pacifist.