The Great British anthology series has had many vestiges throughout the broadcast years. Often finding a home in the mysterious or macabre genres, horror anthologies and the BBC go together like strawberries and cream and arguably peaked in the 70’s with series like Dead of Night and Supernatural, individually produced […]
Outside the Blue Box
Outside the Blue Box: Casualty: Results by Ben Aaronovitch
To understand where Casualty was in 1990, we must first go back in time one year earlier, to 1989. The fourth season of the hit BBC medical drama, which had begun life three years earlier in 1986, saw the show undergo some changes. The original producer, Geraint Morris, had left […]
Outside the Blue Box: The Andrew Cartmel Masterplan of Casualty (BBC, 1990)
You all know Andrew Cartmel, right? He’s the man with the plan. The Cartmel Masterplan to be exact. As script editor on Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989, his Masterplan shaped the final three years of the show’s classic era and would have gone on to set the tone for the series […]
Outside the Blue Box: The Importance of Being Earnest (2025)
Welcome to a new feature in which a rotating cast of Geek Show writers look at what the stars, writers and directors of Doctor Who get up to outside the show. We gave you a little taster of this last Christmas, but for the full experience we recommend signing up […]
Outside the Blue Box: A Christmas Carol (2000)
AAll Doctor Who fans know that it’s canonically true that the Doctor knows Charles Dickens. After all, they defeated the Gelth together on Christmas Eve 1869. But here’s a question no one ever asked: I wonder what Charles Dickens would have made of EastEnders? Moreover, can comparisons be drawn between […]