Matthew Waterhouse

This image is a mosaic of numerous cover artworks for the British science-fiction television series "Doctor Who", featuring various characters, scenes, and symbolic imagery from the show. The word "Who" is formed from the artworks in the middle.

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Offers expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 22 February 2026.

A collage image of the Fifth Doctor, flanked by his companions. Tegan and Turlough are on the left, Adric and Nyssa are on the right. There are clouds and lens flares in the background and foreground, plus hints of the TARDIS console room roundels. The image is very beige.

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Offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 11 February 2026.

On this day in 1982, the final episode of Kinda was broadcast.

Looking forward to seeing those of you who will be at Gallifrey One in LA over the next few days.

"...some force is taking possession of Traken..."

BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken" (1981). #DoctorWho

Delighted that the highly successful audio serial DOCTOR WHO: HOOKLIGHT is shortlisted for an Audie award for Best Adaptation/Original Work. The Audies are the Oscars of audio so it's a big deal! Congrats to all, especially @verbatimfoley.bsky.social who wrote it. The awards are in NewYork in March.

Delighted that the highly successful audio serial DOCTOR WHO: HOOKLIGHT is shortlisted for an Audie award for Best Adaptation/Original Work. The Audies are the Oscars of audio so it's a big deal! Congrats to all, especially @verbatimfoley.bsky.social who wrote it. The awards are in NewYork in March.

"And now, twice-weekly..."

BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: Castrovalva" (1982). #DoctorWho

Lots of newly discovered archive material illuminates the early years in New Orleans of this great genius and anyone interested in music, the arts generally or American history will enjoy it.

5/5

STOMP OFF LETS GO by Ricky Riccardi is an outstanding addition to the ever-expanding library about Louis Armstrong.

4/5

- Chesterton's essays are classics in their own right - and Conrad's "creative biography" is an exhilarating study of a writer whose imagination "saves us all from the limitations of what passes for reality." It sends you back to the works.

3/5

The critic and historian Peter Conrad reread all of Dickens during lockdown, and out of this came DICKENS THE ENCHANTER.

There has probably been more outstanding non-academic writing about Dickens than any other novelist

2/5

I know you are all champing at the bit to know my book of the year for 2025!! As a special treat, I've chosen two.

1/5

The Twelve Days of BigFinishmas Day 10: Dark Shadows: Blood and Fire

On the tenth day of #BigFinishmas, my true love gave to me... https://bgfn.sh/bfmas25 Dark Shadows: Blood and Fire (the 50th anniversary special) for just £4.99 as a download to own and collector's edition CD.

Offer available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026, while stocks last.

Doctor Who In Memoriam 2025 YouTube video by Toby Hadoke

Time to look back at 2025 one more time.
My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now.
Please watch, like and circulate.

Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise.

youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

Greetings from the depths of Pennsylvania, where it is not as cold as usual this time of year! Hope you had a cool yule, y'all, and have a happy new year!! Hope to see some of you somewhere during 2026!!

Whenever I see a discarded star (which happens more times than you might think) I always think of @matthewwaterhouse.bsky.social

The Bertvent books

Giveaway!

I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.

Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?

(UK only)

Remembering the time I fixed the end of Blake's 7: Stardrive.

(Admittedly, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank and P G Wodehouse weren't Sagittarian but you can't have everything...)

3/3

I am not a believer in horoscopes but I quite like the fact that so many great comic writers are Sagittarian, as am I! Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Noel Coward and Woody Allen come to mind. Coincidence? In fact, Coward shares Jane's birthday.

2/3

Today is the 250th birthday of the great Jane Austen! Certainly an event worth raising a glass to!

1/3

VAMPIRE PLANTS AND OTHER STORIES is a bit different, being not old prose stories but new adaptations by @paulmagrs.bsky.social of some of the comic strips!! The one I read, PLAGUE WORLD, is a doozy!

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Fans of the audio versions of stories from the old Dr Who annuals, and isn't that everyone? are in for a treat with the latest release THE VAMPIRE PLANTS AND OTHER STORIES!

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Talking Pictures are showing the original film of Graham Greene's great novel Brighton Rock on Dec 3rd at 2100. Lots of reasons to see this. Great script by Greene and Terence Rattigan. Great perfs too, including William Hartnell!

Seconding this recommendation!

OG Doccy Who laying the smack out of young John Hammond, definitely a quality film.

Talking Pictures are showing the original film of Graham Greene's great novel Brighton Rock on Dec 3rd at 2100. Lots of reasons to see this. Great script by Greene and Terence Rattigan. Great perfs too, including William Hartnell!

Doctor Who Day poster.

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday in Eastleigh, alongside my friends Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Carole Ann Ford!!