Doctor Who: Tales of the TARDIS (2023) User Reviews

A lovely way to celebrate.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 15 December 2023]

Various guises of The Doctor, and several companions look back at some of the adventures they shared together.

This was such a nice way to celebrate the show's sixtieth anniversary, a great way to look back, I think they got the six episodes pretty much spot on.

So nice to see so many familiar faces back, the highlight for me, was seeing Maureen O'Brien returning to the role of Vicki, something I'm pretty sure she once said she wouldn't do, a lovely, special moment, a quality actress.

One thing that certainly comes across, the closeness of some of the duos, Colin and Nicola, Sylvester and Sophie, the bonds are evident.

I adore the idea of A Memory TARDIS, a wonderful way to imagine that The Classic Doctor and his wonderful companions can live on forever.

Wel put together, I only wish they'd shown the episodes in HD, The Time Meddler somehow looked sharper than The Three Doctors, which was pretty grainy.

8/10.

"If you value your lives, don't touch those tendrils"

[owen-watts · 7/10 · 8 February 2024]

Part of the 2023 celebrations involved burping up a sequence of the older episodes with the some newly written bumper segments with the old actors. By-and-large all of these bits are excellent, and ranged from charming to genuinely heart-breaking, The shows themselves vary depending on who you get, and definitely loose a little something being crammed together into a single long feature. You really need those cliffhangery episodic ending bits otherwise it can all feel a bit overwhelming. It's lovely to rewatch them all in this context though and even the slightly flabbier or dated serials feel a bit "special" here.