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A long-running Doctor Who fanzine, published by the Oxford Doctor Who Society.
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“Perhaps the biggest problem with The War Between… is how it remains unclear what the main focus was supposed to be. Is it meant to be an environmental parable, in which Planet Earth’s vengeful ambassadors inflict karmic revenge upon us for not recycling our plastic…
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Can assessment of The War Between the Land and the Sea be separated from the uncertain state of Doctor Who at the time of its release? Adam Kendrick doubts it here.
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We're back! Adam Kendrick reviews The War Between the Land and the Sea for Tides of Time. 'Admirable dedication' 'Weird limbo' 'sweetness and sense of empathy' - but why and where, and what else?
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The War Between the Land and Sea – Reviewed!
The shape of homo aqua… Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Salt, accompanied by two Sea Devils (Image: BBC) Adam Kendrick provides his thoughts on the latest Doctor Who spinoff, The War Between the Land and the Se…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2026/02/07/the-war-between-the-land-and-sea-reviewed/
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Looking back on the era of the fifteenth Doctor - and forward as we consider what's next for Doctor Who.
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Joy or Jaundice? – Oxford WhoSoc’s response to Series 15
The brightest star burns fastest – The Fifteenth Doctor regenerates at the end of The Reality War (Image: BBC) Following the broadcast of The Reality War, we asked our members to rate Series …
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/26/joy-or-jaundice-oxford-whosocs-response-to-series-15/
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An absolute triumph? Sack RTD? Or.... both? The Reality War assessed by the Oxford Doctor Who Society.
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The Reality War – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
Doctors in the TARDIS – Ncuti Gatwa and Jodie Whittaker on set during The Reality War (Image: BBC) And so, we reach not only the final episode of the series, but also Ncuti Gatwa’s final epis…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/25/the-reality-war-oxford-whosocs-response/
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The Rani wishes upon a world - but what did the Oxford Doctor Who Society think?
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Wish World – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
Laying it on the table – John Smith has doubts in Wish World (Image: BBC, fair use) “For a premise about the Doctor finding himself trapped inside a fake reality of bland 1950s heterono…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/24/wish-world-oxford-whosocs-response/
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Douze points? Thoughts assembled on The Interstellar Song Contest.
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The Interstellar Song Contest – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
Douze or nul points? Rylan and Sabine present The Interstellar Song Contest (Image: BBC) Broadcast a mere 50 minutes before the start of Eurovision Song Contest 2025, The Interstellar Song Contest …
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/23/the-interstellar-song-contest-oxford-whosocs-response/
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The Story and the Engine - a cut above?
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The Story & the Engine – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
A close shave… The Barber attends to Rashid in The Story & the Engine (Image: BBC) Although this episode’s overall rating was somewhat lower than the previous three episodes of this series, the…
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Lucky Day, as seen from some in Oxford:
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Lucky Day – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
A date to remember… Conrad and Ruby share a moment in Lucky Day (Image: BBC) Millie Gibson took centre stage in this Doctor-lite episode which saw Ruby Sunday starting a relationship with podcaster…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/21/lucky-day-oxford-whosocs-response/
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Well, Well, Well.
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The Well – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
All’s well that ends well… Belinda administers treatment to Aliss in The Well (Image: BBC) Continuing his series of articles examining the Oxford Doctor Who Society’s thoughts on Series 15, A…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/20/the-well-oxford-whosocs-response/
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A (largely) student society's view of Lux, the second episode in the 2025 series of Doctor Who:
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Lux – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
His voice rings a bell… Mr Ring-a-Ding reveals himself in Lux (Image: BBC) Adam Kendrick’s series of articles revealing what members of the Oxford Doctor Who Society thought of Series 15 continues …
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/19/lux-oxford-whosocs-response/
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Back to earlier in the year and the debut of Belinda Chandra:
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Catching up with the reaction posts to 2025's Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution is now live.
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The Robot Revolution – Oxford WhoSoc’s response
Behold! Miss Belinda Chandra and the Missbelindachandrabots in The Robot Revolution (Image: BBC) Adam Kendrick compiles episode reactions to Series 15 from Oxford Doctor Who Society in a series of …
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/18/the-robot-revolution-oxford-whosocs-response/
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Returning to the backlog - be amused by what we thought might happen in the second Ncuti Gatwa season of Doctor Who:
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Ncuti-ing the Moon – Oxford WhoSoc predicts Series 15
A flood of speculation – The two Ranis in Wish World (Image: BBC) Adam Kendrick looks through the predictions for Series 15 which members of the Oxford Doctor Who Society sent in before broad…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/12/17/ncuti-ing-the-moon-oxford-whosoc-predicts-series-15/
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Our first post for some time, as we pick up long overdue reaction to the Doctor Who of the last twelve months with Joy to the World.
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Joy to the World
Anita to the World! Joy too, of course. Image: BBC The Tides of Time has continued to ask past and present members of the Oxford Doctor Who Society to make predictions about new episodes and then l…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/11/23/joy-to-the-world/
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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:
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/31/battle-in-the-projection-room/
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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.
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/30/its-been-an-absolute-joy-iii-beyond-babes/
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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.
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/tides-of-time-issues-online/the-tides-of-time-issue-50/
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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.
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/tides-of-time-issues-online/the-tides-of-time-1-to-8-1990-1992/the-tides-of-time-issue-5/
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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.
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/26/the-bedford-panels-2025-part-four-jacqueline-king/
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More thoughts on the Fifteenth Doctor's character, this time by Adam Kendrick:
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/13/its-been-an-absolute-joy-ii-confident-with-tears/
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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'
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Another Bedford Who Charity Con guest panel report, this time on Neve McIntosh
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/11/the-bedford-panels-2025-part-three-neve-mcintosh/
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CS Lewis speaks wisely on this kind of thing:
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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.
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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.…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/08/its-been-an-absolute-joy-i-music-and-ice/
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Another report from the panels at this April's Doctor Who charity convention in Bedford - Sophie Aldred at Bedford Who Charity Con:
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/06/the-bedford-panels-2025-part-two-sophie-aldred/
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James Ashway
8 months ago
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 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.
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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:
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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…
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/03/the-bedford-panels-2025-part-one-katy-manning/
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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.
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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…
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Evan Jones
8 months ago
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…
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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…
http://thebrainofmobius.co.uk/2025/06/28/the-wrong-way-round-20-years-of-series-1-part-one/
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Evan Jones
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New blog about how I watched my first series of Doctor Who in completely the wrong order. And why that was fine, actually.
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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 …
https://thebrainofmobius.co.uk/2025/06/28/the-wrong-way-round-20-years-of-series-1-part-one/
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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!
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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…
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The online edition of Tides of Time 50 will be available to download in the near future. More details soon.
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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.
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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…
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Tides of Time 50 is still available. Curated Doctor Who opinion, poetry and research:
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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.
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/tides-50-is-here/
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And for more on Barbara Clegg's career, see the current edition of Tides of Time.
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Issue 50 of Tides of Time is here! What's in, and how to order:
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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.
https://oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/tides-50-is-here/
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