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SPOILERS FOR THE 60th ANNIVERSARY 

Based on set reports for a 60th anniversary episode, there's a character from Doctor Who Magazine's comics appearing on screen next year, so Den of Geek asked me to come up with similarly deep spin-off fiction cuts who could make an appearance on telly.

Ranking Every Dalek Story

This article was written for Den of Geek.

I think it's clickbait, personally, and I'm fine with that. Ranking articles or lists put off a fair few readers, and I know that I'm making valid points about each story. I'm aware that these points are potentially controversial (not liking the 'Have I the right?' scene puts me firmly in the minority), but I agree with these tweets that for a variety of reasons it's harder to be controversial within Fandom.

Firstly it's that myriad opinions exist within fandom now, so the potential for controversy is lessened by the lack of a prevailing wisdom. Wisdoms prevail in all directions, some of it even wise. There's so much writing about Doctor Who around now that even The King's Demons defenders have logged on. And maybe more people are actually getting slightly more savvy about not reading stuff they know they'll dislike, or have mastered the whole 'subjective/objective' thing. Or possibly the hellish descent into fascism has put disagreeing with someone about Pertwee Dalek stories into perspective.

The only way to be controversial now is if you say a story is racist, in which case you receive the standard 'How dare you say I'm racist' comments from people who like those stories and have a surplus of red flags.

Anyway, please read my article ranking Dalek stories. I already disagree with my own ranking.

If I wrote it now, I'd change 'Dalek/Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways' to 'Series 1'.

Ranking Every Single Companion Departure

Den of Geek asked me to write an article ranking every single companion departure ever, so I did. It sounded fun, such a gratuitous piece of clickbait but simultaneously something that could show a different perspective on the history of Doctor Who.

And so it proved. I simply listed every companion who left (which included characters who filled that role for one or two episodes on the basis that it would be interesting to write about them too, even if they only filled the role for a limited time) and wrote about their exit, then ranked them afterwards. Don't get too distracted by the rankings, even though they're right.

The Second Coming

 I wrote an article for Den of Geek about Christopher Eccleston's return to the role of Doctor Who.

tl:dr - I hope it's as radical as the 2005 series was, but I'm expecting comfortable nostalgia.

50 Things for Doctor Who Fans to do Before They Die

Well, obviously before they die.

Here's a list I wrote for Den of Geek. I will never apologise for the puns.