The Tides of Time
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A long-running Doctor Who fanzine, published by the Oxford Doctor Who Society.
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In Tides 50 we published an article based on Matthew Kilburn's talk for Target Book Club in 2023, asking exactly which Doctor appears in Doctor Who and the Cybermen, by Gerry Davis, and how disagreements about Doctor Who in 1974 might have shaped the novelization of a 1967 story. Now blogged:
Battle in the Projection Room
Matthew Kilburn revisits Doctor Who and the Cybermen, the first Target novelisation written by Gerry Davis, and finds out what happens when the Second Doctor isn’t quite the Second Doctor, but owes…
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Deny everything (if you so wish). ;)
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While people are downloading issues from 1991, they could also download one from 2025, issue 50 - William Russell and Barbara Clegg remembered, the 2023 specials and the 2024 series reviewed, the Fifteenth Doctor's character, and more. #DoctorWho #WhoSky
The Tides of Time issue 50
The Tides of Time, issue 50, was published by The Oxford Doctor Who Society in June 2025. It was edited by Adam Kendrick and Matthew Kilburn. The issue consists of 132 A5 colour pages. The issue ca…
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The River Stannis runs pale and long
The River Darrow it runs to flood
But oh my lovely, lonely child
The River Restal runs to blood

– Extract from the traditional Hookland nursery rhyme 'The Running of the Rivers'
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All he's doing, surely, is following the official line of ambiguity about the meaning of the regeneration scene.
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CS Lewis speaks wisely on this kind of thing:
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms.

Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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Here we are - details of issue 50 of Tides of Timeand the download link. Farewell Fifteen, memories of Nicholas Courtney, William Russell, Barbara Clegg, reviews of poems by Kate Fox and Target books and Bedford Who Charity Cons and more. Enjoy! #DoctorWho #WhoSky
Tides 50 now online
The latest issue of The Tides of Time, number 50, is now available to download. Within its 132 pages find… Just what were the Doctor and the Ranis up to in Oxford? Just which Doctor is in the…
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The online edition of Tides of Time 50 will be available to download in the near future. More details soon.
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And for more on Barbara Clegg's career, see the current edition of Tides of Time.
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The episode of Emergency Ward 10 which killed off Barbara Clegg's character off-screen, a year after Clegg had left the series, and enabling Clegg to leave her TV stardom behind and concentrate more on writing (for Coronation Street, The Dales, Crossroads, Waggoners' Walk and eventually Doctor Who).
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EPISODE 407 of Emergency Ward 10 (10 Jan 61), which was recovered by the Film is Fabulous! team, is missing from the ITV Archive. It’s an important episode in the series, as it confirms that Dr Anderson’s (Desmond Carrington) wife and baby drowned in the floods.