Revisitations 3 box set

Not a huge amount of ‘added value’ in this preamble, I’m afraid.

This is from DWM #445, and I guess continues my stint reviewing the Revisitation series (see here and here).

Revisitations 2 box set

While Gary Gillatt was busy with the Mara boxset, I snuck back into the DVD reviewing pages with this. 

Reviewing the three stories in the format I opted for here took a small leap in imagination, chunking it up into three mini-reviews rather than one narrative. Since then, where possible, I’ve inserted lists and the like in the copy, cos I think it’s good to break up the flow.

This is from DWM #433 and presented here with an additional joke about Toby Hadoke, which was excised from the finished piece presumably due to grounds of quality (ie. lack of).

Myths and Legends box set

From DWM #421. And I think it was the box set releases that ultimately caused me to quit regularly reviewing DVDs for the magazine. So many man hours…   

The Curse of Peladon/The Monster of Peladon

From DWM #417. A textbook, nonsense, delaying-writing-about-the-actual-story opener, here. And I remain puzzled to this day as to why Eckersley isn’t a more-loved character in DW lore.

The Dalek War box set

From DWM #415, then, and, like my review of The Keys of Marinus, here’s a longer draft than the one I ultimately submitted to the magazine. I think it’s the last instance when I kept an older version of a piece before hacking it back to meet the word-count. After this one, I grew less precious about striking through my own work. Which is a good thing.