I wrote extensively about Doctor Who, particularly covering the 1963-1989 “Classic Era,” for The A.V. Club from 2010 to 2015. Taken as a whole, it’s the longest and probably the best work of my career: More than 80 in-depth reviews of individual episodes, plus a dozen or so related articles, obituaries, and news items, totaling 150,000 words or so.

While all of the text is still online as of late 2023, it’s not easy to find on the original website anymore, as time has wreaked havoc on the site’s archives. For your reading convenience, here are links to everything I wrote, in order of publication. Unlike most A.V. Club television coverage, I didn’t write about the show in chronological order—instead, my editors and I decided that it would be better to jump around from season to season, the better to give an overview of the history and development of the longest-running science-fiction series in TV history.

The links below take you off this website directly to the original articles. [Update, December 2024: Because of the recent sale of the A.V. Club to Paste, all of their archival links changed, so the links below are currently broken. I will be updating this as I get time, but as far as I know, all the original articles are available at avclub.com.]

Episode reviews:

• Primer: Doctor Who (4/8/10): An overview of the entire series from 1963 to 2010
• TV Club 10: 10 stories that show Doctor Who’s brilliant capacity for self-regeneration (11/22/13)
• An Unearthly Child (6/5/11)
• Tomb of the Cybermen (6/12/11)
• Spearhead From Space (6/19/11)
• Robot (6/26/11)
• Castrovalva (7/3/11)
• The Twin Dilemma (7/10/11)
• Time and the Rani (7/17/11)
• The TV Movie (Enemy Within) (7/24/11)
• The Daleks (7/31/11)
• The Mind Robber (8/5/11)
• The Time Warrior (8/12/11)
• The Brain of Morbius (8/19/11)
• Earthshock (9/4/11)
• The Girl Who Waited (9/11/11)
• The Aztecs (9/25/11)
• The Invasion, parts 1-4 (10/2/11)
• The Invasion, parts 5-8 (10/9/11)
• Terror of the Autons (10/16/11)
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang (10/23/11)
• Kinda (10/30/11)
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth (11/6/11)
• The War Games parts 1-5 (11/20/11)
• The War Games parts 6-10 (12/4/11)
• The Silurians (12/18/11)
• City of Death  (1/8/12)
• Mawdryn Undead (1/22/12)
• Vengeance on Varos (2/5/12)
• Curse of Fenric (2/19/12)
• The Time Meddler (3/4/12)
• The Seeds Of Death (3/18/12)
• The Curse of Peladon (4/1/12)
• Genesis of the Daleks (4/15/12)
• The War Machines (4/29/12)
• Destiny of the Daleks (5/13/12)
• The Claws Of Axos (5/27/12)
• Resurrection Of The Daleks (6/10/12)
• The Ribos Operation (6/24/12)
• Revelation Of The Daleks (7/8/12)
• Black Orchid (7/22/12)
• Remembrance Of The Daleks (8/5/12)
• Ghost Light (8/19/12)
• The Seeds Of Doom (9/16/12)
• The Romans (9/30/12)
• The Three Doctors (10/14/12)
• The Deadly Assassin (10/28/12)
• The Greatest Show In The Galaxy (11/10/12)
• Planet Of Giants (12/9/12)
• The Ambassadors Of Death (1/6/13)
• Warrior’s Gate (1/20/13)
• The Caves Of Androzani (2/3/13)
• Shada (2/17/13)
• The Ark In Space (6/29/13)
• The Mind of Evil (7/20/13)
• The Visitation (8/3/13)
• The Reign Of Terror (8/17/13)
• Inferno (8/31/13)
• The Face Of Evil (9/14/13)
• The Green Death (9/28/13)
• The Ice Warriors (10/12/13)
• The Enemy Of The World (10/26/13)
• The Web Of Fear (11/9/13)
• The Five Doctors (11/23/13)
• Terror Of The Zygons (12/7/13)
• Scream Of The Shalka (12/21/13)
• The Tenth Planet (1/11/14)
• Horror Of Fang Rock (1/25/14)
• The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 1: The Mysterious Planet (2/8/14)
• Carnival Of Monsters (2/22/14)
• The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 2: Mindwarp (3/8/14)
• The Edge Of Destruction (3/22/14)
• The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 3: Terror of the Vervoids (4/5/14)
• The Moonbase (4/19/14)
• The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 4: The Ultimate Foe (6/7/14)
• The Pirate Planet (7/5/14)
• Paradise Towers (8/9/14)
• The Stones Of Blood (10/4/14)
• The Keys Of Marinus (11/1/14)
• The Androids Of Tara (12/13/14)
• The Robots Of Death (1/3/15)
• The Power Of Kroll (2/28/15)
• The Sea Devils (3/28/15)
• The Armageddon Factor (5/3/15)
• Pyramids Of Mars (5/30/15)
• Survival (7/11/15)

Related reviews:

• Gareth Roberts/Douglas Adams, Shada (6/25/12)
• Stephen Baxter, The Wheel Of Ice (1/14/13)

Interviews:

• Freema Agyeman (5/15/08)
• John Barrowman (7/17/09)
• Russell T. Davies (7/27/09)

Obituaries:

• Elisabeth Sladen (4/19/11)
• Bernard Horsfall (1/30/13)
• Kate O’Mara (3/31/14)
• Richard Briers (2/20/13)
• Caroline John (6/21/12)
• Mary Tamm (7/27/12)

Other news items:

• Nine lost episodes of Doctor Who found (10/11/13)
• The new Doctor Who title sequence was originally designed by a fan (8/15/14)