About Johnny

Hello, I’m Johnny Spandrell. I live in Australia. My birth story is Death to the Daleks.

I started this blog in 2014. Back then, I was thinking about viewing the complete run of Doctor Who in story order. But I’d done that twice already. I couldn’t face it again.

So instead, I decided to watch each story again, but in random order. This is, I think, how most of us view Doctor Who anyway; not in sequence, but in no particular sequence.

I finished my random trawl through the program in 2019, and now you’ll find nearly 300 articles here, covering every story from 100,000 BC to Resolution, with a few extra posts in between.

The rules I set (and occasionally broke) while writing were these:

• I tried to say something new and interesting about each story.
• The posts aren’t reviews. I’m not saying what’s good and what’s bad. You can make up your own minds and probably already have.
• I tried to avoid accepted fan judgement on a story. Blink isn’t necessarily good, Timelash isn’t necessarily bad. I tried to approach each piece anew.
• I also identified a link between each story, so there’s a line – no matter how tenuous (and sometimes it got really tenuous) – through Doctor Who, even in random.

Hope you enjoy it. I don’t maintain this blog closely now that it’s finished, so if you comment on one of the posts, it might take me a while to respond.

Contact me via Bluesky @johnnyspandrell.bsky.social

You can also hear my guest appearances on the Doctor Who podcasts Flight Through Entirety and Galactic Yo-Yo, both of which have loads of fantastic episodes to sample.

JS