Out now: SCREEN PRINTED, the definitive guide to the exciting adventures based on the popular BBC television serial. 199 titles, 1,100 editions, 800 cover images. Fully revised listings and details of the Doctor Who novelisations from Target and beyond. More at www.wonderfulbook.co.uk/screenprinted

The article name "Time Space Voyager" was an homage to legendary Doctor Who fanzine from Aotearoa, TSV (Time/Space Visualiser) - Where my first ever roleplaying writing was published by @paulscoones.bsky.social ! And every issue of TSV is online to enjoy at doctorwho.org.nz/archive/

Because this has come up today... There are (or were) two versions of Terrance Dicks' The Vampire Mutation in existence: an incomplete set of scripts abandoned after Part Two, from March 1977, and a set of four scripts commissioned under the same title, delivered in January 1980.

More info www.dwasonline.co.uk/dw7079 Great insights from the likes of @jamiehailstone.bsky.social @0tralala.bsky.social @paulscoones.bsky.social @karadennison.bsky.social @dalesmithonline.com @matt-hills.bsky.social

Bruce Nicholson@frontiervinyl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Something I've been working on for a while with @wonderfulbooks.co.uk @and-e-roo.bsky.social and many, many others for @dwasonline.bsky.social is Doctor Who 70-79. This full-colour hardback publication looks at the decade of the Third and Fourth Doctors through www.dwasonline.co.uk/dw7079

I'm intrigued and thrilled to see that there will be novelisations of The Vampire Mutation and The Six Doctors. There was very little that I could find about these early drafts when I wrote the blu-ray info text for Horror of Fang Rock and The Five Doctors. Really looking forward to these!

The Fang Rock article (pictured) in this superb publication is by yours truly.

Bruce Nicholson@frontiervinyl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Something I've been working on for a while with @wonderfulbooks.co.uk @and-e-roo.bsky.social and many, many others for @dwasonline.bsky.social is Doctor Who 70-79. This full-colour hardback publication looks at the decade of the Third and Fourth Doctors through www.dwasonline.co.uk/dw7079

I'm about to start a five-month contract job based a short walk from Hard to Find Bookshop (a treasure trove of secondhand books). My TBR pile is way too high already and I've long since run out of bookshelves. Must resist temptation!

I was interviewed about Doctor Who by Wallace Chapman on Radio New Zealand's The Panel this week. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

The Panel Plus

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Susana Lei'ataua. Then: There's almost no TV show more beloved than Doctor Who, but in recent years the...

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New Doctor Who fact! Did you know that after The Time Meddler, Peter Butterworth' the Monk joined the Tardis crew, appearing in Galaxy 4, The Myth Makers, The Massacre and The Ark? Vicki also stayed on for the latter two stories. Information courtesy of 1960s issues of the New Zealand Listener.

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today, here's his memo from December 1966 as Controller of BBC2 to Dennis Scuse at Television Enterprises, turning down the idea that Terry Nation's planned colour Dalek series could find a home on his channel.

View from high up of Takapuna and Devonport, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Auckland by night, seen from the 19th floor of the Spencer on Byron hotel in Takapuna.

Let's unbox the copies of my Eighth Doctor history book, Leap of Eighth - with a foreword by Paul McGann! UK pre-order: telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-... (I'm based in the UK so the information within regards this side of the Pond unless otherwise specified) #DoctorWho #8thDoctor

Released late last year by BBC Audio, Doctor Who: The Vampire Plants & Other Stories offers a quartet of fabulous stories based on vintage… https://downthetubes.net/revisiting-the-comic-strips-that-inspired-doctor-who-the-vampire-plants-other-stories/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

My wedding anniversary is the same date as the broadcast of The Lion. I swear it's a coincidence!

The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

27th March, 1965: "Doctor Who: The Crusade - The Lion". #DoctorWho

I'm thrilled to have just uncovered a Doctor Who New Fact! I now have the name of someone who appears on screen in an old story but has never been identified in any cast lists. Can't say anymore as the story I'm currently researching hasn't been announced for release yet.

I wrote the production information text subtitles for most of the stories on the Doctor Who Season 21 blu-ray set. You can listen to me talking about my work on these stories here.

Kenny Smith@finishedzine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

💿NEW EPISODE!💿 How dare they return two #DoctorWho episodes, when we have a podcast to drop? Learn about the subtitles, new effects and the documentaries, on the Season 21 blu-ray. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Watching regular Star Trek usually does it for me.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today's the anniversary of the day that Rochelle and I officially opened our shop, Retrospace Sci-Fi Collectibles, on Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, on Saturday 7 January 2012. Prior to that we'd been selling online and had stands at events for a few years. Still going strong all these years later!

Doctor Who: The Lion film can now, still with the markings it had at the time of its discovery. The "Sedang Cinema" label was stuck over the top of the 1960s NZBC sticker by film collector Bruce Grenville in 1998. Photos courtesy of the film can's current owner.

27 years ago today, my friend Neil and I visited a film collector to follow up a rumour that he possibly had a lost episode of Doctor Who. The rest is history.

Our two cats caught in an astonishing moment where they're happily snoozing in the same spot. Usually they're play fighting and chasing each other.

20th anniversary Christmas Day performance of The End of the Golden Weather on Takapuna Beach.

The PDF Archive for the Doctor Who Season 21 Blu-ray Collection has finally been locked, so here's what's going to be included this time round - a total of 7706 pages of material, the second largest so far. It brings the running total across the 19 releases to 78,493 pages!

This artwork terrified me so much as a young child of about 7 or 8 (already an avid reader and Doctor Who fan), that when I borrowed it from the library I assiduously always placed the book face down so that I didn't have to look at the monster on the cover.

The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Cover for "DOCTOR WHO AND THE TIME WARRIOR" (1978). Art by Roy Knipe. #DoctorWho #DrWho #1970s #scifibooks #scifi

A 1966 publicity photo of Dodo outside the TARDIS from The Bell of Doom was surely used as a reference by the artist who drew The Vampire Plants strip for The Dr Who Annual 1970.

Currently listening to this, and it says that The Vampire Plants story is "from the Doctor Who Annual 1969". No, that should be 1970. The annual was published in 1969 for the following year. The other three stories in this collection have the correct years.

I wrote the info text subtitles for all but two of the Season 21 stories when they were previously released on DVD about 15 years ago. I spent considerable time earlier thus year, in collaboration with my editor Martin Wiggins, meticulously rewriting and updating the info text for this BR set.

Doctor Who Merchandise@doctorwhomerch.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Coming March 16th 2026 Doctor Who: The Collection: Season 21 Limited Edition •WARRIORS OF THE DEEP •THE AWAKENING •FRONTIOS •RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS •PLANET OF FIRE •THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI •THE TWIN DILEMMA  And extras + new amzn.to/3MEgXAV #ad

Top contributor billing!

University life. Decades ago, I was a student at the University of Auckland. Now I'm back - this time on staff as an exam supervisor. Currently three weeks into a month-long stint.