Happy 60th Birthday to The Cybermen
These terrifying monsters made their debut October 1966 and have been terrorizing the Whoniverse ever since.
What’s your favorite Cybermen story?
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #Cybermen #whoniverse
These terrifying monsters made their debut October 1966 and have been terrorizing the Whoniverse ever since.
What’s your favorite Cybermen story?
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #Cybermen #whoniverse
October 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Happy 60th Birthday to The Cybermen
These terrifying monsters made their debut October 1966 and have been terrorizing the Whoniverse ever since.
What’s your favorite Cybermen story?
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #Cybermen #whoniverse
These terrifying monsters made their debut October 1966 and have been terrorizing the Whoniverse ever since.
What’s your favorite Cybermen story?
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #Cybermen #whoniverse
Patron & companion @hamishsteele.bsky.social of @supermariomoment.bsky.social loves to watch these over & over 💙💙
“The Curse of Fenric”
“The Chimes of Midnight”
“Waters of Mars”
“The Haunting of Villa Diodati”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #SeventhDoctor #EighthDoctor #ThirteenthDoctor #TenthDoctor
“The Curse of Fenric”
“The Chimes of Midnight”
“Waters of Mars”
“The Haunting of Villa Diodati”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #SeventhDoctor #EighthDoctor #ThirteenthDoctor #TenthDoctor
October 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Patron & companion @hamishsteele.bsky.social of @supermariomoment.bsky.social loves to watch these over & over 💙💙
“The Curse of Fenric”
“The Chimes of Midnight”
“Waters of Mars”
“The Haunting of Villa Diodati”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #SeventhDoctor #EighthDoctor #ThirteenthDoctor #TenthDoctor
“The Curse of Fenric”
“The Chimes of Midnight”
“Waters of Mars”
“The Haunting of Villa Diodati”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #SeventhDoctor #EighthDoctor #ThirteenthDoctor #TenthDoctor
Happy #HalloweenWho
On this Monster Monday, we’re highlighting one of our favorite, iconic monsters - the Weeping Angels.
Let us know if you think they’re one of the scariest things the Doctor has encountered in the Whoniverse, and your favorite episode they’re in!
#DoctorWho #WeepingAngels
On this Monster Monday, we’re highlighting one of our favorite, iconic monsters - the Weeping Angels.
Let us know if you think they’re one of the scariest things the Doctor has encountered in the Whoniverse, and your favorite episode they’re in!
#DoctorWho #WeepingAngels
October 26, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Happy #HalloweenWho
On this Monster Monday, we’re highlighting one of our favorite, iconic monsters - the Weeping Angels.
Let us know if you think they’re one of the scariest things the Doctor has encountered in the Whoniverse, and your favorite episode they’re in!
#DoctorWho #WeepingAngels
On this Monster Monday, we’re highlighting one of our favorite, iconic monsters - the Weeping Angels.
Let us know if you think they’re one of the scariest things the Doctor has encountered in the Whoniverse, and your favorite episode they’re in!
#DoctorWho #WeepingAngels
Doctor Who – Image of the Fendahl
Death itself in a Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
My ideal #HalloweenWho era runs from The Ark In Space to this – the last TV Who story to utterly terrify boy me.
Ancient horror as the nights draw in…
“It only works after dark.”
Death itself in a Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
My ideal #HalloweenWho era runs from The Ark In Space to this – the last TV Who story to utterly terrify boy me.
Ancient horror as the nights draw in…
“It only works after dark.”
October 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Doctor Who – Image of the Fendahl
Death itself in a Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
My ideal #HalloweenWho era runs from The Ark In Space to this – the last TV Who story to utterly terrify boy me.
Ancient horror as the nights draw in…
“It only works after dark.”
Death itself in a Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
My ideal #HalloweenWho era runs from The Ark In Space to this – the last TV Who story to utterly terrify boy me.
Ancient horror as the nights draw in…
“It only works after dark.”
Our friend @thefuture4everyone.bsky.social loves a scary spread of classics and contemporaries
Season 12 “The Ark in Space”
Season 13 “The Seeds of Doom”
Series 4 “Midnight”
Big Finish: Doom Coalition “The Red Lady”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #ClassicWho
Season 12 “The Ark in Space”
Season 13 “The Seeds of Doom”
Series 4 “Midnight”
Big Finish: Doom Coalition “The Red Lady”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #ClassicWho
October 23, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Our friend @thefuture4everyone.bsky.social loves a scary spread of classics and contemporaries
Season 12 “The Ark in Space”
Season 13 “The Seeds of Doom”
Series 4 “Midnight”
Big Finish: Doom Coalition “The Red Lady”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #ClassicWho
Season 12 “The Ark in Space”
Season 13 “The Seeds of Doom”
Series 4 “Midnight”
Big Finish: Doom Coalition “The Red Lady”
#DoctorWho #HalloweenWho #ClassicWho
Doctor Who – The Web of Fear
Deep below a deserted London
Eerie black and white
Savage beasts
Pulsating Web
Grotesque deaths
And a malevolent Intelligence possessing helpless humans and the Tube itself!
…The definitive ‘monster invading the familiar’.
#HalloweenWho
Deep below a deserted London
Eerie black and white
Savage beasts
Pulsating Web
Grotesque deaths
And a malevolent Intelligence possessing helpless humans and the Tube itself!
…The definitive ‘monster invading the familiar’.
#HalloweenWho
October 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Doctor Who – The Web of Fear
Deep below a deserted London
Eerie black and white
Savage beasts
Pulsating Web
Grotesque deaths
And a malevolent Intelligence possessing helpless humans and the Tube itself!
…The definitive ‘monster invading the familiar’.
#HalloweenWho
Deep below a deserted London
Eerie black and white
Savage beasts
Pulsating Web
Grotesque deaths
And a malevolent Intelligence possessing helpless humans and the Tube itself!
…The definitive ‘monster invading the familiar’.
#HalloweenWho
I’d planned 13 #HalloweenWho Skeets this month, but another comes to me on our wedding anniversary…
Doctor Who – The Keeper of Traken
A creepy walking statue
A malevolent living corpse
But the real horror is a couple who get married, then never speak to each other again.
Except (spoiler)…
Doctor Who – The Keeper of Traken
A creepy walking statue
A malevolent living corpse
But the real horror is a couple who get married, then never speak to each other again.
Except (spoiler)…
October 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I’d planned 13 #HalloweenWho Skeets this month, but another comes to me on our wedding anniversary…
Doctor Who – The Keeper of Traken
A creepy walking statue
A malevolent living corpse
But the real horror is a couple who get married, then never speak to each other again.
Except (spoiler)…
Doctor Who – The Keeper of Traken
A creepy walking statue
A malevolent living corpse
But the real horror is a couple who get married, then never speak to each other again.
Except (spoiler)…
Many of my #HalloweenWho choices are stories that terrified me as a child – but I watched several of those for comfort while things were rough a couple of months ago.
We’ve watched this tonight on The Pilgrimage, and it’s brilliant, but I can’t see myself watching Midnight for comfort.
We’ve watched this tonight on The Pilgrimage, and it’s brilliant, but I can’t see myself watching Midnight for comfort.
October 20, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Many of my #HalloweenWho choices are stories that terrified me as a child – but I watched several of those for comfort while things were rough a couple of months ago.
We’ve watched this tonight on The Pilgrimage, and it’s brilliant, but I can’t see myself watching Midnight for comfort.
We’ve watched this tonight on The Pilgrimage, and it’s brilliant, but I can’t see myself watching Midnight for comfort.
Doctor Who – The Deadly Assassin
50 years ago, the Doctor’s ancestral home was seen in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages, buried inheritance…
And, deeper within, nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
50 years ago, the Doctor’s ancestral home was seen in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages, buried inheritance…
And, deeper within, nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
October 22, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Doctor Who – The Deadly Assassin
50 years ago, the Doctor’s ancestral home was seen in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages, buried inheritance…
And, deeper within, nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
50 years ago, the Doctor’s ancestral home was seen in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages, buried inheritance…
And, deeper within, nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
On this Doctor Who festival day, The Deadly Assassin is horror and far more besides, the height of my favourite and scariest era
We’ve just watched Midnight, my previous #HalloweenWho, and coincidentally its DW Confidential (Look Who’s Talking) has RTD and David Tennant praising The Deadly Assassin!
We’ve just watched Midnight, my previous #HalloweenWho, and coincidentally its DW Confidential (Look Who’s Talking) has RTD and David Tennant praising The Deadly Assassin!
October 22, 2026 at 8:15 PM
On this Doctor Who festival day, The Deadly Assassin is horror and far more besides, the height of my favourite and scariest era
We’ve just watched Midnight, my previous #HalloweenWho, and coincidentally its DW Confidential (Look Who’s Talking) has RTD and David Tennant praising The Deadly Assassin!
We’ve just watched Midnight, my previous #HalloweenWho, and coincidentally its DW Confidential (Look Who’s Talking) has RTD and David Tennant praising The Deadly Assassin!
…first reading it far from home, late at night, in a very dark room, in a tiny pool of light, and being seriously scared by Doctor Who for the first time since boy me turned six.
And yes—
That particular TV story, too, will be joining Nightshade later in my #HalloweenWho
And yes—
That particular TV story, too, will be joining Nightshade later in my #HalloweenWho
October 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
…first reading it far from home, late at night, in a very dark room, in a tiny pool of light, and being seriously scared by Doctor Who for the first time since boy me turned six.
And yes—
That particular TV story, too, will be joining Nightshade later in my #HalloweenWho
And yes—
That particular TV story, too, will be joining Nightshade later in my #HalloweenWho
Doctor Who – The Curse of Fenric
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicar
Demon in a bottle
Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
One of the greatest DW stories
Pure #HalloweenWho
…& quite homoerotic.
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicar
Demon in a bottle
Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
One of the greatest DW stories
Pure #HalloweenWho
…& quite homoerotic.
October 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Doctor Who – The Curse of Fenric
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicar
Demon in a bottle
Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
One of the greatest DW stories
Pure #HalloweenWho
…& quite homoerotic.
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicar
Demon in a bottle
Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
One of the greatest DW stories
Pure #HalloweenWho
…& quite homoerotic.
Doctor Who – The Dæmons
Magic vs science
The Doctor vs the Master
Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho
Magic vs science
The Doctor vs the Master
Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho
October 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Doctor Who – The Dæmons
Magic vs science
The Doctor vs the Master
Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho
Magic vs science
The Doctor vs the Master
Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho
On the anniversary of the original Doctor-lite Mission To the Unknown, where is the Doctor?
And just what did she say?
Just stand there for a moment, listen…
#HalloweenWho
And just what did she say?
Just stand there for a moment, listen…
#HalloweenWho
October 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
On the anniversary of the original Doctor-lite Mission To the Unknown, where is the Doctor?
And just what did she say?
Just stand there for a moment, listen…
#HalloweenWho
And just what did she say?
Just stand there for a moment, listen…
#HalloweenWho
This one’s even a liminal Halloween / Remembrance Day special, but I picked it for one of my random #HalloweenWho selection today as less random than most—
Bringing out the horror in them (and in us) for the sixtieth anniversary of the Cybermen
Bringing out the horror in them (and in us) for the sixtieth anniversary of the Cybermen
October 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This one’s even a liminal Halloween / Remembrance Day special, but I picked it for one of my random #HalloweenWho selection today as less random than most—
Bringing out the horror in them (and in us) for the sixtieth anniversary of the Cybermen
Bringing out the horror in them (and in us) for the sixtieth anniversary of the Cybermen
Doctor Who – Planet of Evil
*Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle
The planet’s own rage makes you a beast
But my scariest moment beyond all other Who was the horrific burial alive in space.
#HalloweenWho
*Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle
The planet’s own rage makes you a beast
But my scariest moment beyond all other Who was the horrific burial alive in space.
#HalloweenWho
October 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Doctor Who – Planet of Evil
*Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle
The planet’s own rage makes you a beast
But my scariest moment beyond all other Who was the horrific burial alive in space.
#HalloweenWho
*Something* sweeps through a viscerally alien jungle
The planet’s own rage makes you a beast
But my scariest moment beyond all other Who was the horrific burial alive in space.
#HalloweenWho
The nightmare:
The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane chased by a giant, golden Wirrn grub!
(We only had black and white TV, but I dreamed in colour)
I still love scary Who. Last year I chose 31 #HalloweenWho stories right through October, but I’m already run down so maybe an intermittent dozen or so!
The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane chased by a giant, golden Wirrn grub!
(We only had black and white TV, but I dreamed in colour)
I still love scary Who. Last year I chose 31 #HalloweenWho stories right through October, but I’m already run down so maybe an intermittent dozen or so!
October 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The nightmare:
The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane chased by a giant, golden Wirrn grub!
(We only had black and white TV, but I dreamed in colour)
I still love scary Who. Last year I chose 31 #HalloweenWho stories right through October, but I’m already run down so maybe an intermittent dozen or so!
The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane chased by a giant, golden Wirrn grub!
(We only had black and white TV, but I dreamed in colour)
I still love scary Who. Last year I chose 31 #HalloweenWho stories right through October, but I’m already run down so maybe an intermittent dozen or so!
OTD 2014: #DoctorWho Dark Water
Here’s Missy!
And after my 31 days of #HalloweenWho, now for something completely different…
A liminal Halloween/Remembrance Day special turns Moff’s most comforting line inside-out:
Everybody lives!
and it’s horrific.
Here’s Missy!
And after my 31 days of #HalloweenWho, now for something completely different…
A liminal Halloween/Remembrance Day special turns Moff’s most comforting line inside-out:
Everybody lives!
and it’s horrific.
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
OTD 2014: #DoctorWho Dark Water
Here’s Missy!
And after my 31 days of #HalloweenWho, now for something completely different…
A liminal Halloween/Remembrance Day special turns Moff’s most comforting line inside-out:
Everybody lives!
and it’s horrific.
Here’s Missy!
And after my 31 days of #HalloweenWho, now for something completely different…
A liminal Halloween/Remembrance Day special turns Moff’s most comforting line inside-out:
Everybody lives!
and it’s horrific.
Three years to the week after Planet of Giants, Star Trek’s Halloween special featured a cat towering over their heroes…
I’d intended these to be separate #HalloweenWho, but was too knackered for The Flux on Tuesday night. Tonight I’m even more knackered, but fortunately a double bill works!
I’d intended these to be separate #HalloweenWho, but was too knackered for The Flux on Tuesday night. Tonight I’m even more knackered, but fortunately a double bill works!
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Three years to the week after Planet of Giants, Star Trek’s Halloween special featured a cat towering over their heroes…
I’d intended these to be separate #HalloweenWho, but was too knackered for The Flux on Tuesday night. Tonight I’m even more knackered, but fortunately a double bill works!
I’d intended these to be separate #HalloweenWho, but was too knackered for The Flux on Tuesday night. Tonight I’m even more knackered, but fortunately a double bill works!
Doctor Who
Planet of Giants
The Halloween Apocalypse
The earliest and the most recent DW broadcast on Halloween itself
Both with a Trick or Treat feel
One with a big dog
The other with a cat towering over our heroes
One leading to World’s End
The other on an altogether different scale
#HalloweenWho
Planet of Giants
The Halloween Apocalypse
The earliest and the most recent DW broadcast on Halloween itself
Both with a Trick or Treat feel
One with a big dog
The other with a cat towering over our heroes
One leading to World’s End
The other on an altogether different scale
#HalloweenWho
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Doctor Who
Planet of Giants
The Halloween Apocalypse
The earliest and the most recent DW broadcast on Halloween itself
Both with a Trick or Treat feel
One with a big dog
The other with a cat towering over our heroes
One leading to World’s End
The other on an altogether different scale
#HalloweenWho
Planet of Giants
The Halloween Apocalypse
The earliest and the most recent DW broadcast on Halloween itself
Both with a Trick or Treat feel
One with a big dog
The other with a cat towering over our heroes
One leading to World’s End
The other on an altogether different scale
#HalloweenWho
Doctor Who – The Deadly Assassin
The Doctor’s ancestral home is introduced in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages and buried inheritance…
While deeper within is nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
The Doctor’s ancestral home is introduced in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages and buried inheritance…
While deeper within is nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Doctor Who – The Deadly Assassin
The Doctor’s ancestral home is introduced in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages and buried inheritance…
While deeper within is nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
The Doctor’s ancestral home is introduced in a rolling manuscript, steeped in Gothic themes of ancient myth, shadows, monk-like villains, torture, crypts, secret passages and buried inheritance…
While deeper within is nightmarish gritty surrealism.
#HalloweenWho
Doctor Who – Image of the Fendahl
A Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
On the eve of my sixth birthday, this absolutely terrified me (the last TV DW* that utterly did)
Ideal #HalloweenWho
“It only works after dark”
Broadcast over Halloween… But, wilfully, set at Lammas!
A Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
On the eve of my sixth birthday, this absolutely terrified me (the last TV DW* that utterly did)
Ideal #HalloweenWho
“It only works after dark”
Broadcast over Halloween… But, wilfully, set at Lammas!
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Doctor Who – Image of the Fendahl
A Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
On the eve of my sixth birthday, this absolutely terrified me (the last TV DW* that utterly did)
Ideal #HalloweenWho
“It only works after dark”
Broadcast over Halloween… But, wilfully, set at Lammas!
A Time Lord ghost story that frightens even the Doctor
On the eve of my sixth birthday, this absolutely terrified me (the last TV DW* that utterly did)
Ideal #HalloweenWho
“It only works after dark”
Broadcast over Halloween… But, wilfully, set at Lammas!
Doctor Who – The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion / The One Osgoods / The Two Claras
Turns parents against kids, kids into monsters, monsters into people, companions into control freaks…
‘Truth or Consequences’ vs ‘Trick or Treat’
For #HalloweenWho this week: three shown on Halloween itself.
Turns parents against kids, kids into monsters, monsters into people, companions into control freaks…
‘Truth or Consequences’ vs ‘Trick or Treat’
For #HalloweenWho this week: three shown on Halloween itself.
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Doctor Who – The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion / The One Osgoods / The Two Claras
Turns parents against kids, kids into monsters, monsters into people, companions into control freaks…
‘Truth or Consequences’ vs ‘Trick or Treat’
For #HalloweenWho this week: three shown on Halloween itself.
Turns parents against kids, kids into monsters, monsters into people, companions into control freaks…
‘Truth or Consequences’ vs ‘Trick or Treat’
For #HalloweenWho this week: three shown on Halloween itself.
Doctor Who – The Curse of Fenric
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicars
Demon in a bottle
The Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
…and homoerotic for our 11th and 31st anniversary
#HalloweenWho
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicars
Demon in a bottle
The Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
…and homoerotic for our 11th and 31st anniversary
#HalloweenWho
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Doctor Who – The Curse of Fenric
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicars
Demon in a bottle
The Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
…and homoerotic for our 11th and 31st anniversary
#HalloweenWho
“We play the contest again, Time Lord”
Vampires
Vikings
Vicars
Demon in a bottle
The Dawn of Time
A poisoned future
Reject the binary: the winning move is you don’t have to be the side you were born to
…and homoerotic for our 11th and 31st anniversary
#HalloweenWho
Doctor Who – Pyramids of Mars
Half a century* ago today, a ghastly cliffhanger sees a servant discarded
You can never run fast or far enough
And even the Doctor’s will falls…
To the dark god with the most silkily threatening voice in the Universe.
Just this once, everybody dies.
#HalloweenWho
Half a century* ago today, a ghastly cliffhanger sees a servant discarded
You can never run fast or far enough
And even the Doctor’s will falls…
To the dark god with the most silkily threatening voice in the Universe.
Just this once, everybody dies.
#HalloweenWho
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Doctor Who – Pyramids of Mars
Half a century* ago today, a ghastly cliffhanger sees a servant discarded
You can never run fast or far enough
And even the Doctor’s will falls…
To the dark god with the most silkily threatening voice in the Universe.
Just this once, everybody dies.
#HalloweenWho
Half a century* ago today, a ghastly cliffhanger sees a servant discarded
You can never run fast or far enough
And even the Doctor’s will falls…
To the dark god with the most silkily threatening voice in the Universe.
Just this once, everybody dies.
#HalloweenWho