Revisiting Doctor Who Part 2

Back in July 2020, during the pandemic, I started rewatching “Classic” Doctor Who. At the time I focused on episodes from the third incarnation of the Doctor. Mainly because I had vague memories of watching some of these as a child. However, because I was very young I hadn’t retained much. I wrote my thoughts on the John Pertwee era in a blog post and intended to follow it up with a further one, focusing on the Tom Baker years. Like so many draft posts, it got postponed and subsequently forgotten about. I also stopped watching Doctor Who because my trial subscription for the streaming service BritBox came to an end. Five and a half years later, BritBox has been subsumed into the wider streaming service of ITVX which no longer has the rights to the show. However, the BBC have started making the Doctor Who back catalogue available on their own streaming platform, iPlayer. Furthermore, as a UK TV license holder, this service is free to me.