Doctor Who (BBC 1963-89, 1996, 2005- ) has attracted much attention on this blog (see here, here and here for recent examples). In this post, I’m going to engage with the series to push back against TV Studies’ implied ‘zone of liveness’ by analysing one episode as a case study – ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’ (2012) – for the purpose of demonstrating how employing emergent and alternative theoretical perspectives can prompt re-evaluation