‘Spare me the endurance of endless time, the agony of perpetuity!’
Mawdryn Undead (1983) was an ambitious serial, weaving familiar elements of Doctor Who together with myth and legend. Balancing two Brigadiers, a murderous new companion, and a crew of hubristic mutated scientists is no mean feat, resulting in divided opinion across viewers.
Four decades on, Kara Dennison re-examines the first instalment in the Black Guardian trilogy as a story potentially before its time. What makes a ‘good’ companion? What truly makes immortality a curse? And what does it mean to trust a hero who will never stop changing?
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2025
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About the Author
Kara Dennison is an author, editor and tea drinker, who has written extensively on anime for a href=”https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/author/kara-dennison”>Crunchyroll and Doctor Who for a variety of publications. She is a range editor of The Black Archive and wrote the Archive on Heaven Sent.
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