Something that I think is often lost on some of the newer Doctor Who fans (an incongruous term when describing a show about a time traveler) is that the show is supposed to be scary. Often, The adventures of everyone's favorite Time Lord get compared to what outsiders consider "sci-fi"...

When I loaded a rental van with three kids (mine plus one), seven costumes, a production-scale Dalek and snacks and drove to our first sci-fi convention as a family, the kids were super nervous, unsure that anyone else would be in costumes, or even know what Doctor Who was, and they were absolutely...

Episode 2 of Series 7, Part 2 takes us all the way back to the late summer of 1981 and a serendipitous encounter between a red leaf and young couple-to-be; reveals that time is not, point of fact, made of strawberries; and pits the Doctor against his biggest—some might even say most awesome—enemy yet...

I was raised in a very creative family but due to religious reasons was not allowed to celebrate Halloween. I had very little experience with costumes until at the age of 17 I discovered the Society for Creative Anachronism. This is a non-profit Historical Re-enactment group that recreates Europe and Asia from the...

When I was a freshman in high school, my local PBS station, WYES, aired their first broadcast of the British science fiction program Doctor Who.

The year was 1981...