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This week more Whooverville 15 coverage with the original companion herself Carole Ann Ford who played Susan.

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Monts and Nuge are back doing what they do best, dumping a dollop load of sass from orbit onto Geekdom. 

News

• Nuge loses it with monts after he discovers a new moon.
• Limited Edition Space 1999 Eagle gets a reveal
• Spaced turns 25 years old

Week that Was

• Dave is still knee deep in the aliens universe and recommends a few comics to check out.
• Friday
• Wonder Woman: Historia
• Human Target
• Terminator Zero
• Twilight of the Gods
• Holmes. Margaret and Poe
• Nightsleeper
• Trap

On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures - Ravenous 4 boxed set from Big Finish!

Hosts:

• Trevor  Trevsplace
• Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Comic Conspiracy
• David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian   Twitch DraconianProgeny
• Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald

Join us in two weeks for the October edition of Wanderers - Crossing the Void! As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

A Field Report update as your intrepid and amorphous podcast collective emulsify in a corridor at the BFI after seeing the /right/ version of 1988's crookedly smiling neon-noir masterpiece, The Happiness Patrol.

With Dan @D_Hollingsworth, Tom @aquatics64, Ben @BenCJolly, Matt @matt04896, Joumana @joumajnouna and Pete @Prof_Quiteamess.

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!  

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• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
• Andrew Smith Just Giving page
• Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
• TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
• Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
• Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
• Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
• Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
• Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
• Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
• The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
• Vader Sessions (Remastered)

Interview:

• Chris Hayden

Waffle On about Witness

Here is our latest episode dedicated to 1985 and what a brilliant film to waffle on about. Witness is a brilliant Harrison Ford led film and was a break away from action hero and sci fi characters. 

In this episode Meds and Kell have a big announcement to make and of course chat about some other things that have taken their fancy.

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Jeff is back! It is time to greet our new companion Vicki, played by the amazing Maureen O'Brien. This two-parter has a lot of firsts crammed inm for Ross and Jeff to talk about.  It is a favorite of both guys and for good reason.

#DoctorWho #1stDoctor #WilliamHartnell #TARDIS 

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the 1999 Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death and the live Big Finish play Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:22 — Welcome!
• 02:27 – News:
• 02:40 — Orphan Black: Echoes Cancelled.
• 05:22 — Time Bandits: Cancelled.
• 06:46 — David Graham: DEAD!
• 08:34 — Ghosts: Even more international remakes.
• 11:24 – Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend Live (Big Finish).
• 27:26 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 film).
• 38:48 – Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• 47:51 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 51:13 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 51:50 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Wikipedia: Orphan Black: Echoes.
• Wikipedia: Time Bandits (TV series).
• Wikipedia: David Graham (actor).
• Wikipedia: Ghosts (2019 TV series).
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish: The Stuff of Legend.
• Wikipedia: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
• Wikipedia: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Welcome to the beginning of the end of Doctor Who Literature. It's May 1988, and the paperback release of the first of the 12 Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who novelizations by Target Books. The Target run had a finite lifespan, and from here on out, with the last Classic Series Doctor finally joining the Target stable, the end is in sight.

We will have two guests for each of the Sylvester McCoy books. First up this week is Jim Sangster, who is now officially co-host of the show and the producer of our YouTube channel and video content. Jim has a new song for us this week.

We also have an archival interview with Joe Ford from July 2021 extolling the virtues of Time and the Rani, from Jason's first attempt at a podcast, unreleased after all this time until now.

Please purchase Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor from Ten Acre Films.

"16 Going on 17" comes from The Sound of Music. Doctor Who Literature expressly refutes Rolfe's political affiliation. As does Family Guy.

The history of the Topps 1980 baseball card set is here.

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This month you voted for us to look at the 1965 William Hartnell-era story, The Crusade, which only has two (of four) episodes in the archives. Your wish is our command, and here we are!

Before then we have news and short topics and, after our thoughts on The Crusade, we have some listener emails, and what else we’ve been consuming in the world of entertainment. 

In short, all the usual stuff you’ve come to know and love from us. 

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This week, we’re joined by Melvin Peña for a day trip to the Thames Frost Fair in 1814, expecting a jolly afternoon of daydrinking, sword swallowers and juicy sheep hearts, only to find ourselves tied to a bomb and engaged in an intriguing discussion about race, class, death and the ethics of killing. It’s Thin Ice.

Notes and links

Once again, Friend from the Future was a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts. Nathan makes fun of the fact that at the end of the short, the on-screen caption reads Introducing Pearl Mackie asBill. You can see the entire short, including that unfortunate typo, here.

Like Martha before her and Ruby after her, Bill is concerned that treading on a butterfly in the past will change the present in terrible ways. That concern comes from Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, which you should really just go off and read right now.

In Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer (2013), the poor people who live in the back of the train are fed on glistening black protein bars, which we discover are made from ground-up cockroaches.

Flight Through Entirety only occasionally advocates for political violence (see Episode 182: The Icy Moral High Ground), but this week we are pleased to bring you this clip of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the head during an interview on ABC-TV in January 2017.

Melvin alludes to the Slave Compensation Act 1837, which authorised the payment of about £20 million in compensation to slave owners in the British colonies. This sum was finally paid off when the British Government restructured its debt in 2015. (The people who had been enslaved didn’t receive any compensation, of course.)

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And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

Brendan and Bjay’s gaming poscast is called The Bjay BJ Game Show. In the most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game with a sentient robot protagonist, which raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they dropped in on the Q Continuum in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager called Death Wish.

It is our great pleausre to welcome voice of K9, John Leeson, to the podcast. We'll chat about his career including his time on Doctor Who, Rainbow and Blake's 7, his love of wine and his time as a lay magistrate.

We'll also jump down the rabbit hole with the Melbourne live audience from our recent event with Frazer Hines.

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This week more Whooverville 15 coverage an interview with composer and musician Domenic Glynn.

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On the one hundred and nineteenth episode of Reality Bomb, we talk with the Guardian's Martin Belam about how Doctor Who is doing in the current television landscape, and what we should look forward to, and worry about, in the coming years. And we look back on Is This Rumour Hot or Not? for the past season of Doctor Who and update what was really accurate... and what was wildly wrong with Lacy Baugher-Milas and KatyBeth Schmid. Plus feeling fan anxiety? Ask about Focus Zerg!

The Vibes are Abzorbal-Off as Joe 'n' Toni discuss Dead, Deadd, & Deaddy, a Time Loop Called Marriage, and the Doctor Who episode Love and Monsters.

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It's Doctor Who vs the pus-y worms!

We chat with Trevor Baxendale about his second EDA, as the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion encounter the Spulver worms.

Editor Steve Cole pops by too, and we have our usual three readings from the novel.

This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the Tom Baker classic story: 'Pyramids of Mars'

Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben.

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On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji
• Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season
• Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024
• Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025
• Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television
• Geoff Hinsliff died
• David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Review - The Iron Legion

Phil and Scott dip their toes into a Big Finish comic adaptation of The Iron Legion, starring Tom Baker as the Doctor. Phil has distant memories of reading this story in Doctor Who Weekly over 40 years ago, so he was looking forward to how this story fared but as Scott had no preconceptions, what did he think?

And in the news, they pay tribute to one the original voices of the Daleks, David Graham, who sadly passed away. They also provide an update on the near future of the Who's He? Podcast.

You can find us on X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Facebook.  Don't miss an episode by subscribing to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, plus many other podcatchers and don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube Channel.

#DoctorWho #Whoniverse

This week Jim bids a sad farewell to the legendary David Graham, contributor of voices (and two live-action roles) to Doctor Who, and who did voice work for almost every other British series that mattered, up to and including "Peppa Pig".

Stacey Smith? rejoins Jason for a look at the first Trial of a Time Lord story, The Mysterious Planet. It's Robert Holmes' final completed Doctor Who serial, and -- in story order -- Terrance Dicks' final Doctor Who novelization.

Stacey also digs deep into the rec.arts.drwho archives and finds a Jason comedy post from 1996... which Jim narrates and performs.

This week's episode's got it all.

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In a distant future where all life has been destroyed by technology, Brendan, James and Nathan sit down with their friend Bjay from The Bjay BJ Game Show to record a podcast about a Doctor Who episode called Smile.

Notes and links

Anticipating with relish the final demise of X, we have decided to preserve here for posterity the Twitter exchange between Nathan and Mina Anwar that he mentions early this episode.

Nathan suggests taking a look at this — an aerial view of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia in Spain.

Brendan admits that he is a regular reader of Lance Parkin’s AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe, which is an impressively quixotic attempt to harmonise all the televised stories, spinoffs and deuterocanonical material into one vast, sprawling ridiculous chronology. We thank him for his service.

James mentions how the phenomenon of social contagion was observed in a large-scale study conducted on Facebook in 2012. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article describing the results of the experiment in 2014, which makes it a plausible influence on this episode. Here’s a contemporary news article discussing the ethical problems with this experiment.

Grey goo is a kind of technical term for the possibility that everything on Earth might be consumed by rogue nanotechnology. The term was first coined in 1986 by Kim Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. It’s also the basis of Michael Crichton’s 2002 novel Prey.

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (1872) by Samuel Butler is a satirical description of a utopian society, which bans machines for fear that they might become conscious and self-replicating.

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And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

This week’s guest on Flight Through Entirety is Bjay Hobbs, who can be heard regularly discussing indie games with our very own Brendan Jones on The Bjay BJ Game Show. In their most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game that raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion. The episode Brendan mentions on Lost in Play will actually be out in a couple of weeks.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have just released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith, with a guest appearance by Philip Madoc, (probably) not in fishnets.

The Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power started recording its Series D coverage yesterday; new episodes will be released in December.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they paid a visit to an idyllic bird person planet with deranged exocomp Peanut Hamper in an episode of Lower Decks called A Mathematically Perfect Redemption.

We’re back! As the summer drifts into history, the Campervan takes one last nostalgic scenic drive around Season 1/14/40. Join us as we travel back three months and see whether our memories of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut series have changed!

James, Michele and Drew also talk about Big Finish’s live performance of The Stuff of Legend and Michele’s one accurate Kooky Theory of the Week! Well, it had to happen sooner or later!

Enjoy the show.

In 2023 AUK studios released two CDs related to Doctor Who.

Me & Him & Who is an audio drama that chronicles the life of John Nathan-Turner, written by Stephen Wyatt.

And speaking of Stephen Wyatt, AUK also released a musical sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy called Children of the Circus, which features a reunion of the entire cast including new roles for Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.

Creative Director for AUK, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, joins us to talk about these releases, as well as how he came to be invoved in audio production.

He also talks about another passion project, Robin of Sherwood on audio, featuring actors from the original tv series.

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On the brand new Trap One Podcast US Jason, Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar), James (@Jikster2009) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) have a ball as they discuss the Target novelisation of Rogue.

You can order the book here.

Find out more about Philip Hinchcliffe: The DNA of Doctor Who here.

After much thought, our old chum Suky Khakh chooses 4th Doctor story “Invasion of Time” for us to review.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:01:09) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.

(00:04:52) The helpful Erika Ensign (a.k.a. @hollygodarkly) is a denizen of the famed Verity podcast.

(00:09:24) Pictures of Mark’s action figure of Grand Mofff Tarkin can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:15:17) Mark’s new-found friend on Twitter is @daemonsmatt.

(00:19:18) “Campion” is a British television mystery drama broadcast on the BBC in 1989 and 1990 and adapted from the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. The series starred Peter Davison as Albert Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg.

(00:20:12) “Butterflies” is a British sitcom written by Carla Lane that aired on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983.

(00:26:57) The Whoovers are a group of Doctor Who fans based in Derby UK, who meet twice monthly alternating between in-person gatherings and online meetings via Zoomville. They also organise the annual Whooverville convention and, since 2018, have hosted Big Finish Day.

(00:28:47) The “Vision On Sound” podcast takes a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and Martin Holmes and his guests investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

(00:29:22) “Shelley” is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. It stars Hywel Bennett as Dr James Shelley, a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree.

(00:35:44) “Screen Test” is a children’s game show that aired on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd from 1970 to 1979, then by Brian Trueman from 1979 to 1983 and finally by Mark Curry in 1984. It involved its contestants seeing clips from films, and then being asked questions about the films to test their memories of them.

(00:36:25) “Chorlton and the Wheelies” is an animated children’s television series created by Cosgrove Hall Productions which ran from 1976 until 1978 on ITV. 40 episodes were produced. The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an anthropomorphic “happiness dragon”, in “Wheelie World” (where people moved on wheels instead of legs). The eponymous lead character gets his name from the suburb of Manchester in which the Cosgrove Hall studio was based.

(00:36:59) Brian Keith “Herbie” Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician. Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John, Camel, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Roy Harper, David Essex, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds”.

(00:39:05) “The Water Margin” is a Japanese television series based on the 14th-century book Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Made in two seasons of 13 episodes each by Nippon Television it was shown in Japan in 1973 and 1974 as “Suikoden”. For an English-language version, it was adapted by David Weir without translations, using only brief plot synopses. The dubbed version, narrated by Burt Kwouk, was shown by the BBC from 1976 to 1978.

(01:18:18) “Shardlake” is a series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, set in 16th century Tudor England. The series features barrister Matthew Shardlake, who, while navigating the religious reforms of Henry VIII, solves crime and tries to avoid getting caught up in political intrigue. The first six books are set during the reign of Henry VIII, while the seventh, Tombland, takes place two years after the king’s demise. Sansom said before his death that he planned to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I.

The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.

This week on the show more Whooverville 15 coverage, an interview with Katy Manning.

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On Septembers's Wanderers - Crossing the Void podcast, we review and discuss:

• The Thanos Wars - Infinity Origin and Monstress
• Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 and Stardust
• Tomorrowland (the movie) and Plan 9 from Outer Space

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

• Trevor  Trevsplace
• Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Comic Conspiracy
• David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian   Twitch DraconianProgeny
• Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald

• Join us the first week of October for And Now For The Big Finish, as we review the Ravenous 4 boxed set!  As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

Here's the second part of our landmark 100th episode.

It having been recorded altogether on the same evening, Paul, Giles, Rick and Richard are back with our chat about 12th Doctor story Under The Lake / Before The Flood from Series 9.

Then we discuss links with 4th Doctor story The Stones of Blood from Season 16, which we talked about in the first half. 

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Head over to https://www.bigfinish.com/, where we all love Paul's stories.

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models of Doctor Who moments, such as the one forming our cover art this episode.

Giles' book A History of the Universe in 21 Stars: (and 3 Imposters) can be found in all good bookshops and also here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Universe-21-Stars-Imposters/dp/1787394654/

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://linktr.ee/beagarrido, where, among other artworks, you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Seven Percent Solution XIII

• Doctor Who: Prognosis Negative proudly presents the Seven Percent Solution, the preeminent Sherlock Holmes commentary podcast covering all 14 of the Basil Rathbone films, featuring Josh, Eric, and Sean.

• Listen in as they discuss the eleventh of twelve films produced by Universal Pictures, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. 

WARNING:

• This discussion contains miscellaneous SPOILERS pertaining to the film(s) discussed and more! If you are 100% spoilerphobic to films not yet seen, do not complain to us.
• The commentary is littered with EXPLICIT terms, concepts, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

LINKS:

• Find your Trio of Hosts on their other Podcast Ventures.
• The 1001 Movies Podcast: https://1001moviespodcast.libsyn.com/
• Mostly Harmless Cutaway: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
• The Cabot Cove Confab Podcast: https://thecabotcoveconfab.libsyn.com/
• The Best Picture Podcast: The Best Picture Podcast | Libsyn Directory
• Romulans Bearing Gifts: Romulans Bearing Gifts: The Star Trek Podcast | Libsyn Directory
• The Novice Elitists Film Podcast: https://thenoviceelitists.podbean.com/

DISCLAIMER:

• This episode was recorded on Oct. 27th, 2023. 
• COMING SOON: SPS #14 Dressed to Kill

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Paul McGann and India Fisher have played the Doctor and Charley Pollard, live, on stage, in front of four theatre audiences.

Of course, Pieces of Eighth was there to cover this - with unprecented access before, during and after the production.

We bring you exclusive chats with author Robert Valentine, director Barnaby Edwards, and Alex Macqueen, the Master himself.

And Kenny and Matt are joined by other fans to share their thoughts on the production, mostly live, outside the Cadogan Hall.

Despite a dearth of real news, and because of one glorious piece of fake news from the Onion, the Three Who Rule faff on less than usual this week, with a look at various Blu-Ray controversies, David Banks in Doctor Who magazine, a Classic Who event at the cool-name-having Electric Palace movie theatre. Plus our Classic Series Commentary for the final episode of “Planet of the Spiders”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Onion: Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’
• Doctor Who Magazine #608
• Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray due October 24
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 collection available for pre-order (Amazon US)
• Classic Doctor Who night on September 19 at the Electric Palace
• Doctor Who Limited Edition Tankard

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 6

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Empire of Death - Audio Commentary

We have reached the end of this series of audio commentaries for Ncuti Gatwa's first season of Doctor Who with Empire of Death. And joining Phil once again is James Rockliffe of the Doctor Who Podcast to chat, moan and whinge through this season finale.

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the 1988 film Beetlejuice, the 2024 Doctor Who Prom and the recent Whooverville Doctor Who convention, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:19 — Welcome!
• 02:50 – News:
• 02:54 — James Earl Jones: DEAD!
• 05:01 — Dead Boy Detectives: Netflixed.
• 07:33 — Big Finish: More Jenny and Doctor Who Movie writer returns.
• 10:28 — John Cassaday: DEAD!
• 10:57 — Good Omens: Third season production paused.
• 11:39 — Star Trek: Most series first episodes free to watch.
• 13:05 — Game of Thrones: Props go up for auction.
• 15:20 — James Darren: DEAD!
• 16:25 — Tron: Third film dated.
• 18:16 – Beetlejuice (1988 film).
• 40:46 – Doctor Who: Prom 2024.
• 51:20 – Doctor Who Convention: Whooverville 15.
• 59:56 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 60:07 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 60:55 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• • Staggering Stories.
  • Wikipedia: James Earl Jones.
  • Wikipedia: Dead Boys Detectives (TV series).
  • Big Finish.
  • BBC: Doctor Who.
  • Wikipedia: John Cassaday.
  • Wikipedia: Good Omens (miniseries).
  • Star Trek.
  • Wikipedia: Game of the Thrones.
  • Wikipedia: James Darren.
  • Wikipedia: Tron.
  • Derby Quad: Whooverville 15.
  • Wikipedia: Beetlejuice.

• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

The Time Meddler is a seminal moment in Doctor Who history. No Doctor Who podcast can be complete without acknowledging it, and no podcast about Doctor Who Literature can be complete without discussing its novelization.

Frazer Gregory, one of my most frequent and popular guests, rejoins me for the first time since Episode 100. We have a lot to say about this story, including a discussion of its geography -- where in Northumbria does it take place, and on what precise day does it take place? Frazer has a theory, and it involves, perhaps, the very week that we're talking to you.

There are also games to be played, not just the one that I have for Frazer, but the one that he has for me ...

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About a year ago we looked at our top overrated DOCTOR WHO stories. It caused quite a stir with some of you! Today's episode is the flipside of the same coin where we look at the opposite. What have been the most underrated stories in Doctor Who's long and storied history? Come at us!

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We’re back for the first episode of Peter Capaldi’s final year — a simple, well-told tale of Girl Meets Girl, Girl Becomes Puddle, Girl Loses Girl and, finally, Girl Goes off with Her Tutor on a Series of Adventures in Time and Space. Welcome aboard, Bill Potts. It’s The Pilot.

Notes and links

Friend from the Future was a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts first broadcast during Match of the Day on 23 April 2016, nearly a year before this episode aired. You can see the entire short here.

Peter mentions the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Skin of Evil as another TV episode containing a high-concept puddle. It’s famously not very good, as Joe and Nathan discovered in this episode of Untitled Star Trek Project.

You’ll be relieved and probably unsurprised to learn that Nathan is wrong: John Peel doesn’t claim that Genesis of the Daleks took place in 1831. However, TARDIS Wikia dates it as set in the 15th or 16th centuries, probably because in The Daleks, one of the Daleks claims that there were two races on Skaro 500 years ago. But the whole idea is absolutely enervating, don’t you think?

The squishy thing Todd mentions as a possible companion for the Doctor is, of course, Mr Huffle from The Return of Doctor Mysterio. The Doctor does apparently take it with him at the end of the story.

And Pearl Mackie married her wife Kam Chhokar on 4 May this year. Here’s a wedding photo from Tumblr.

Douglas is Cancelled is Steven Moffat’s most recent TV show — a four-part miniseries starring Hugh Bonneville, Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston, about a middle-aged male TV personality who is overheard making a sexist joke at a friend’s wedding. Worth a look.

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Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and James is at @ohjamessellwood.bsky.social; Todd is on X as @toddbeilby. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll invent a massively high-concept backstory for you which prevents you from ever truly realising yourself as a person.

And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

There’s also Startling Barbara Bain, our Space: 1999 commentary podcast. We’ve covered the first six episodes of Series 1; Episode 7 should be out some times in the next couple of weeks.

The Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power has been on hiatus for a while, but arrangements for the recording of Series D are well underway, and we will definitely have some new episodes for your before the end of the year.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they took a trip with Kirk, Spock and McCoy to the Planet of Space Ancient Rome in Bread and Circuses.

We focus this time on the Big Finish adaptation of The Prisoner.

Number 6 actor Mark Elstob joins us to talk about his career, Patrick McGoohan Doctor Who, Blake's 7 (specifically, Paul Darrow's Avon), and of course, The Prisoner.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer and Jamie Robertson.

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On the brand new Trap One Podcast Jo (@thebrainofspock), Mark (@Mark_Dodyk) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) go through the looking glass with Doctor Who in Wonderland by Paul Magrs.

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