The Tides of Time

Battle in the Projection Room Matthew Kilburn revisits Doctor Who and the Cybermen, the first Target novelisation written by Gerry Davis, and finds out what happens when the Second Doctor isn’t quite the Second Doctor, but owes…

In Tides 50 we published an article based on Matthew Kilburn's talk for Target Book Club in 2023, asking exactly which Doctor appears in Doctor Who and the Cybermen, by Gerry Davis, and how disagreements about Doctor Who in 1974 might have shaped the novelization of a 1967 story. Now blogged:

It’s Been an Absolute Joy III: Beyond Babes Ruby and the Doctor ascend to the Goblin ship in The Church on Ruby Road. In the last of our interim retrospectives on the Fifteenth Doctor, Alice Hardaker finds charisma and a bar companion. The F…

In the last of our retrospectives on the characterization of the Fifteenth Doctor, Alice Hardaker recognises charisma, emotional competence and a friend to be made in a bar. #DoctorWho #WhoSky #NcutiGatwa

Deny everything (if you so wish). ;)

The Tides of Time issue 50 The Tides of Time, issue 50, was published by The Oxford Doctor Who Society in June 2025. It was edited by Adam Kendrick and Matthew Kilburn. The issue consists of 132 A5 colour pages. The issue ca…

While people are downloading issues from 1991, they could also download one from 2025, issue 50 - William Russell and Barbara Clegg remembered, the 2023 specials and the 2024 series reviewed, the Fifteenth Doctor's character, and more. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

The Tides of Time issue 5 The Tides of Time, issue 5, was published in April 1991, and cover dated Trinity Term 1991. It was edited by Louise Dennis. It had no cover price but probably sold at 40p. This issue is available f…

Statistics are peculiar. Apparently issue 5, from 1991, has been downloaded 135 times this week. We don't know why it has become so popular. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

The Bedford Panels 2025, Part Four: Jacqueline King From left to right: Jacqueline King, Peter Roy, Katy Manning, Virginia Wetherell, James Ashworth, Adam Kendrick, Ian Bayley, Sophie Aldred, Louise Jameson, Neve McIntosh, and Jill Curzon Bedford Wh…

After a few distractions, we're back with the last of our posts from Bedford Who Charity Con 2025, reporting from Jacqueline King's panel. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

It’s Been an Absolute Joy II: Confident with Tears The Fifteenth Doctor, ready for new adventures, in The Giggle. Adam Kendrick with the second of our three observations on the character of the Fifteenth Doctor, first published in The Tides of Time…

More thoughts on the Fifteenth Doctor's character, this time by Adam Kendrick: #DoctorWho oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/13/i...

The River Stannis runs pale and long
The River Darrow it runs to flood
But oh my lovely, lonely child
The River Restal runs to blood

– Extract from the traditional Hookland nursery rhyme 'The Running of the Rivers'

The Bedford Panels 2025, Part Three: Neve McIntosh The Eleventh Doctor, some adversaries from his past, and his future self in action figure forms. Adam Kendrick continues his reports from the guest panels at Bedford Who Charity Con 2025. Doctor Wh…

Another Bedford Who Charity Con guest panel report, this time on Neve McIntosh #DoctorWho

All he's doing, surely, is following the official line of ambiguity about the meaning of the regeneration scene.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

CS Lewis speaks wisely on this kind of thing:

It’s Been an Absolute Joy I: Music and Ice Matthew Kilburn writes the first of three articles observing the Fifteenth Doctor’s character, originally published in The Tides of Time 50.This is an article begun on the cusp of revelation.…

The first of three articles looking at the character of the Fifteenth Doctor - even his emotional literacy has its limits, notes Matthew Kilburn in Music and Ice. #DoctorWho

The Bedford Panels 2025, Part Two: Sophie Aldred A Dalek and Cyberman prepare to do battle over Sophie Aldred’s royalties from Papua New Guinea. Ever since she was a small girl, Sophie Aldred has always loved dressing up and playing pretend…

Another report from the panels at this April's Doctor Who charity convention in Bedford - Sophie Aldred at Bedford Who Charity Con: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/06/t...

The Fifth Doctor painted by Alister Pearson - print signed by Peter Davison | eBay UK Alister then asked the editor of the DWAS magazine CELESTIAL TOYROOM if the event and award would be featured in the next issue.

Signal boosting the auction for a print of Alister Pearson's artwork that he kindly agreed to be on the back of the last CT - all proceeds going to a good cause!
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The Bedford Panels 2025, Part One: Katy Manning Knitted friends from the Whoniverse and elsewhere, as seen in the dealers’ room at Bedford Who Charity Con 10. Bedford Who Charity Con 10 took place on Saturday 5 April 2025 at King’s House B…

The first of our reports from Bedford Who Charity Con 2025, from the interview with one of the most irrepressible people in the world of Doctor Who, Katy Manning: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/03/t...

The Eleventh’s Hours ‘Tick tock goes the clock.’ Building a world in Series Six’s standalone horror story. By Charlie Bowden ‘Such a lovely old song, but is it about him?’I remember being both creeped out and incredibl…

Not previously blogged - an article first published in Tides of Time issue 50 last month. Charlie Bowden looks at the ties Night Terrors has to the rest of Series Six.

The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One) Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to Who fans as Series 1 (2005), was somewhat out-of-order. For a dyed-in-the-wool fan, it feels oddly fitting in retrospect that my introduction to Doctor Who…

The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One)

Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to Who fans as Series 1 (2005), was somewhat…

The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One) Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to …

New blog about how I watched my first series of Doctor Who in completely the wrong order. And why that was fine, actually.

Tides 50 now online The latest issue of The Tides of Time, number 50, is now available to download. Within its 132 pages find… Just what were the Doctor and the Ranis up to in Oxford? Just which Doctor is in the…

Here we are - details of issue 50 of Tides of Timeand the download link. Farewell Fifteen, memories of Nicholas Courtney, William Russell, Barbara Clegg, reviews of poems by Kate Fox and Target books and Bedford Who Charity Cons and more. Enjoy! #DoctorWho #WhoSky

The online edition of Tides of Time 50 will be available to download in the near future. More details soon.

Pertwee’s Last Daemons Image Credit: Stephen Broome (All Rights Reserved)Image Description: Damaris Hayman, Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney and Richard FranklinMark Learey was present in April 1996 when Aldbourne, t…

Currently popular on the website - Mark Learey's account of Jon Pertwee's last convention appearance at Aldbourne in 1996, which we published in 2019. oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2019/09/16/p...

Tides 50 is here! The fiftieth issue of The Tides of Time has finally arrived! Covering Series Fourteen and Fifteen, this edition has been in the making for two years and is our largest single issue yet.

Tides of Time 50 is still available. Curated Doctor Who opinion, poetry and research: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/t...

And for more on Barbara Clegg's career, see the current edition of Tides of Time.

Tides 50 is here! The fiftieth issue of The Tides of Time has finally arrived! Covering Series Fourteen and Fifteen, this edition has been in the making for two years and is our largest single issue yet.

Issue 50 of Tides of Time is here! What's in, and how to order: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/t...

Two piles of a printed magazine in a box. The cover shows the Fifteenth Doctor Who in the gown of an Oxford DMus, with the two incarnations of the Rani played by Archie Panjabi and Anita Dobson in the gowns of Oxford DScs, in front of the Radcliffe Camera.

More details soon...