-Every story ever told really happened...- (The Doctor, -Hell Bent-, 2015)Stories are, fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. In Once Upon a Time Lord, Ivan Phillips explores a wide range of perspectives on these stories and presents a lively and richly-varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with -classic- and -new- Who, Phillips looks at how aspects of the Time Lord-s story have been developed on television and beyond, tracing lines of connection and divergence across various media. He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. Once Upon A Time Lord offers an original take on this singular hero-s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has encou
