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 can be downloaded as a pdf. For more details of how to order print copies, please see the order form.

Articles include:

Front matter

Cover Story – The Rani visits an Oxford in the Wish World – but whose wish is it? A very short story by Matthew Kilburn

Editorial – by Adam Kendrick

Anticipation and Reflection

Off into the Wild Blue Yonder – Lois Hannon reports on the society’s predictions for the 2023 specials

“Kinda sexy, I can’t lie” – Lois Hannon reviews the society’s reponse to the 2023 specials

Haiku for Fourteen and Fifteen – haiku for Doctor Who stories from 2023 and 2024, by William Shaw

Learning the Vocabulary of Russell – Lois Hannon and Adam Kendrick on what the society expected from the 2024 series

When You Change with Every New Day – Adam Kendrick looks at what the society thought of the year of Ruby Sunday

Excursions and Incursions

Citizens of Space and Time – Adam Kendrick reports from Bedford Who Charity Con 2023

Varsity Quiz 2023 – Adam Kendrick with the questions from the 2023 Oxford-Cambridge Doctor Who quiz

Professor Where – Adam Kendrick and Lois Hannon review Sci-Fi Show! a comedy musical by Cassie Wicks which premiered in Oxford in 2023, and follow its transformation into Professor Where at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024

Temple of Secrets? – Ian Bayley reports from the visit of Keith Temple, author of Planet of the Ood.

The Daleks’ Master Plan – poem by William Shaw

Russell, the Doctor and the Survivors – Matthew Kilburn listens to Russell T Davies at his return to Oxford in February 2024

Set to Stun – Katrin Thier visits the exhibition at the Gunnersbury Museum

Human Tribute Act (and Friends) – Adam Kendrick at Bedford Who Charity Con 2024

Intimations and Examinations

Nobody Better to Represent Oxford – Matthew Kilburn investigates the career in Oxford student drama and journalism in the 1940s of Russell Enoch, later the actor William Russell

Five Rounds Rapid – Andrew O’Day explains why there was a plaque to Nicholas Courtney, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, in Oxford pub the Eagle and Child

Battle in the Projection Room – Matthew Kilburn’s talk to the Target Book Club event in 2023, about Gerry Davis’s Doctor Who novelisations. Is that really Patrick Troughton’s Doctor in Doctor Who and the Cybermen, and if not, who is it?

Tom, Lis and a Fishy Argosy – Dan Evans on the 1976 LP Doctor Who and the Pescatons, starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen

“She is not merely going to act. She acts” – Matthew Kilburn on the 1940s Oxford career of Barbara Clegg, writer of the 1983 Doctor Who story Enlightenment

Enlightenment: the Target novelisation – Matthew Kilburn on Barbara Clegg’s sole Doctor Who novelisation

Clegg Connections – Matthew Kilburn finds Barbara Clegg had lots of Doctor Who connections before she ever wrote for the programme, and had her own taste of TV stardom

You Can’t Kill Off the Doctor! – Rogan Clark on The Impossible Astronaut

The Eleventh’s Hours – Charlie Bowden on the Eleventh Doctor’s crisis in Night Terrors

Webbing the Fam – Rogan Clark on a key moment in Arachnids in the UK

Playing with the Angels – Adam Kendrick reviews classic game The Lonely Assassins

Singing with the Ood – Ian Bayley reviews the Target version of Planet of the Ood by Keith Temple

The Wheel in Space – poem by William Shaw

Kerblam! People – Ian Bayley reviews the Target version of Kerblam! by Pete McTighe

Still on Target – Matthew Kilburn on recent Target titles

Transcending Neurotime – Matthew Kilburn reviews the Doctor Who and neurodivergence-influenced poetry of Kate Fox, Bigger on the Inside

Second Editorial – by Matthew Kilburn

It’s been an Absolute Joy – Matthew Kilburn, Adam Kendrick and Alice Hardaker on the character of the Fifteenth Doctor