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It’s a banner weekend in Vancouver as one Taylor Swift graces Warren’s fair city with the final shows of the Eras Tour, and yet the Three Who Rule soldier on (and show just how out of touch they are) with talk of the new trailer for Joy To the World, Doctor Who showrunner holiday photoshoots, some The War Games in Colour backpatting and badinage, a truly inspiring Borad figurine, and the showcase of this episode, Steven’s interview from Chicago TARDIS featuring Season 25 luminaries Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Mark Ayres, and Dominic Glynn! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine #611 Released
• Doctor Who showrunners unite for exclusive Radio Times festive shoot
• Joy to the World trailer
• Joy to the World will go out at 5:10pm GMT Dec 25 on BBC One
• Joy to the World will drop at 9:10am PST/12:10pm EST on Disney+
• The Doctor Who Proms will go out Dec 24 at 4:10 PM GMT on BBC Two
• The War Games in colour will go out Dec 23 at 9pm GMT on BBC Four
• Josh Snares on the 50% Doctor Who Podcast talking about The War Games colourization
• Phil Sims won Best Design RTS award for Doctor Who
• Ncuti Gatwa nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the Critics Choice TV Awards
• Harrop Buckley Borad figure available to preorder
• Joy to the World DVD/Blu-Ray preorders (Amazon UK), date not yet listed
• Season 9 UK Blu-Ray Standard Packaging due Feb 3
• Season 25 Blu-Ray US preorder (Amazon)

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Sylvester McCoy
• Sophie Aldred
• Mark Ayres
• Dominic Glynn

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Highlanders and the 1991 film Highlander 2: The Quickening, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:12 — Welcome!
• 02:09 – News:
• 02:23 — Doctor Who: Troughton’s colourful exit.
• 07:52 — Star Trek: Shatner returns.
• 11:28 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 14:39 — Doctor Who RPG: Unofficial Eighth Doctor audio sourcebook.
• 16:58 — Dungeons and Dragons: Soon to be owned by Elon Musk?
• 18:49 – Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991 film).
• 34:23 – Doctor Who: The Highlanders.
• 48:35 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 52:10 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 52:57 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Star Trek.
• The Roddenberry Archive.
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Wikipedia: Hasbro.
• Wikipedia: Dungeons and Dragons.
• Wikipedia: The Highlanders (Doctor Who).
• BBC: Doctor Who – The Highlanders.
• Wikipedia: Highlander 2: The Quickening.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This month we put our thinking caps on and discuss our top female villains in the series. Will we be obvious? Will we go off-piste? Maybe somewhere in between. Who would your picks be? Why not write in and let us know?

You can follow us on X @theDWshow and write to us about anything you like at: hello@theDWshow.net

We’ve spent the last twelve weeks enjoying some unexpected extra time with Peter Capaldi and friends, and so it’s finally time to kick back and chat about what we’ve loved, what we’ve learned, and (inevitably) who we’d snog. It’s the Series 10 Retrospective.

Notes and links

Thank you to the people who contributed their questions: Luke Hobbs, Si Hart and David Kitchen. And remember that we have a shiny new-ish Bluesky account, which is the best way to follow us online these days.

And for the very last time, probably, we reference Friend from the Future, a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts, first broadcast during Match of the Day on 23 April 2016, nearly a year before this season began. You can see the entire short here.

And just as a reminder, the Jenny Laird Award goes to a season or era’s most puzzling creative choice, and the Bonnie Langford goes to someone or something that is surprisingly and delightfully good.

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You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll think of the right words later.

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. Its 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.

The Three-Handed Game makes a triumphant return to your podcatcher with Part 2 of its The Pop Explosion triptych, Build a Better Mousetrap, in which Cathy Gale joins a motorcycle gang which is threatened by witches, which is a thing that basically happened all the time in the 1960s.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Nathan and Joe took the week off this week, but last week, we enjoyed a widely-reviled episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called Ferengi Love Songs.

In this episode we are joined by Kenny Smith, editor of Big Finish Vortex Magazine and host of the Pieces of Eighth and Power of Three podcasts to talk about our memories and stand out moments from Big Finish Doctor Who over the last 25 years!

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Thanks to our friends from The 50% Doctor Who Podcast for the clips from our Brisbane event with Sylvester McCoy. Be sure to watch to the end to see it! ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@50DoctorPodcast⁠

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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Frazer (@FelixFrazer), Keith, James & Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) return to the anniversary series Once & Future for its coda, The Final Act which introduces the Fugitive Doctor to Big Finish.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.

This week my new series re-watch reaches the second in the monk trilogy Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of The World.

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On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Dark Gallifrey - The War Master audio adventure from Big Finish, as well as the finale to the Once and Future series, Coda!

Hosts:

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

Join us in two weeks for the December 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... and now on Bluesky @wanderin4d.bsky.social!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.

This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the 6th story from season 21 of classic Doctor Who 'The Caves of Androzani'

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

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Paul, Giles, Rick and Richard return with some Greatly Intelligent chat about 2nd Doctor story The Abominable Snowmen from Season 5, which we'll pair in the next episode with 11th Doctor tale The Name of the Doctor from Series 7. There's even a soupcon of Missing Episodes chat at the end. 

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com

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.

Giles has 2 new children's books out, which you can find in all good bookshops and also at these links: Can We Live on Mars? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Mappers-Mappers-Making-Difficult-Understand/dp/B0C65GDB4G/ and Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Survive-Destiny-Pop-Out-Fortune/dp/0711287767/. Far be it from us to suggest that these might make great Christmas presents for the enquiring mind in your family.

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://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.

It’s Episode 7 of The Echo Chamber! James and Michele talk about The Genocide Machine by Mike Tucker, released in May 2000.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy The Genocide Machine from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds.
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.

Steven is a special correspondent from Chicago TARDIS this week while Chris and Warren hold down their respective home forts in Edmonton and Vancouver to bring you news of Disney+ promoting Joy to the World(s), an onslaught of BBC Doctor Who programming around Xmas including the aforementioned special, The War Games In Colour, and the Doctor Who Proms! We’ve also got Big Finish news, an auction by Who director Rachel Talalay of one of her amazing gum bichromate prints of a TARDIS set photo, and from Lombard (Chicago’s Abbotsford) Steven’s interview with Sacha Dhawan and Jo Martin!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo not a typo?
• BBC Christmas 2024 TV and iPlayer line-up, includes Joy to the World synopsis
• UK TV License fee to increase with inflation
• Special ‘Joy to the World’ Sonic Screwdriver available now
• Doctor Who at the Proms to run 109 minutes
• Space Babies script features a musical scene was cut
• Doctor Who Magazine 611 cover has callbacks to The Eleventh Hour
• Next Big Finish War Master box sets “His Greatest Trick” (due Oct/25), “Deeds Without Names” (due Oct/26)
• Big Finish Sirens in Time, the first release, gets special edition
• Doctor Who auction to support Children in Need happening Feb 2025
• Rachel Talalay-signed Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Gum Bichromate Print at auction, supporting ACLU of SoCal
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out Dec 29 @ 4:45pm Dec 29

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Sacha Dhawan
• Jo Martin

Steven is a special correspondent from Chicago TARDIS this week while Chris and Warren hold down their respective home forts in Edmonton and Vancouver to bring you news of Disney+ promoting Joy to the World(s), an onslaught of BBC Doctor Who programming around Xmas including the aforementioned special, The War Games In Colour, and the Doctor Who Proms! We’ve also got Big Finish news, an auction by Who director Rachel Talalay of one of her amazing gum bichromate prints of a TARDIS set photo, and from Lombard (Chicago’s Abbotsford) Steven’s interview with Sacha Dhawan and Jo Martin!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo
• Disney+ Doctor Who promo not a typo?
• BBC Christmas 2024 TV and iPlayer line-up, includes Joy to the World synopsis
• UK TV License fee to increase with inflation
• Special ‘Joy to the World’ Sonic Screwdriver available now
• Doctor Who at the Proms to run 109 minutes
• Space Babies script features a musical scene was cut
• Doctor Who Magazine 611 cover has callbacks to The Eleventh Hour
• Next Big Finish War Master box sets “His Greatest Trick” (due Oct/25), “Deeds Without Names” (due Oct/26)
• Big Finish Sirens in Time, the first release, gets special edition
• Doctor Who auction to support Children in Need happening Feb 2025
• Rachel Talalay-signed Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Gum Bichromate Print at auction, supporting ACLU of SoCal
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out Dec 29 @ 4:45pm Dec 29

Interview:

• Chicago TARDIS
• Sacha Dhawan
• Jo Martin

Join Ian, James and Phil on board the Campervan as they catch up on the world of Doctor Who. Ncuti on Children In Need, Joy to the World, Deleted Scenes from Season 1/14/40 and a new version of The War Games all come under the usual DWP scrutiny.

Join us on Wednesday for Episode of The Echo Chamber when James and Michele talk about Big Finish‘s The Genocide Machine.

Enjoy the show!

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.

Happy American Thanksgiving to my listeners in the States.

For a Sylvester McCoy novelization on Doctor Who Literature, ya gotta have two guests, not just one. Jim Sangster and Jason Davis, both huge behind-the-scenes influences on the show, come together for the first time as we tackle Paradise Towers, the second serial from Doctor Who's controversial, divisive -- and delightful -- 24th season.

The vocals for this week's opening number are by Antony Owen. Music arranged by Jim Sangster.

Please visit Jason Davis at Humanity Is My Business and consider supporting his Patreon.

An interview with J.G. Ballard.

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Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.

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"Doctor Who – Paradise Towers" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.

I’m not trying to win. I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun and God knows it’s not because it’s easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right! Because it’s decent! And above all, it’s kind. It’s just that. Just kind.

On a quiet farm on a distant spaceship, the Doctor makes his last stand. Because that’s what he always does. It’s The Doctor Falls.

Notes and links

Nathan compares the Missy/Master dynamic to a similar situation found in the late Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Second Chances, in which we meet a transporter clone of Commander Riker who is still in love with Deanna Troi, while his original version has long since moved on from that relationship. (We are yet to cover this one on Untitled Star Trek Project.)

He also compares the Missy/Master hug to a similar one from the Blakes 7 episode Traitor, in which Servalan snogs a character called Leitz, who is blackmailing her, and then stabs him in the back of the neck with a plastic crystal thing. We will talk more about this during our coverage of Blakes 7 Series D on Maximum Power, which starts just three weeks from today.

In The World Shapers (1987), a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip written by Grant Morrison, it is established that the Mondasian Cybermen were descended from the Voord from The Keys of Marinus.

Bill’s final speech to the unconscious Doctor at the end of this episode seems to allude to a similar speech from Moffat’s first Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fatal Death (1999), in which the Doctor’s companion Emma (Julia Sawalha) says “Doctor, listen to me. You can’t die, you’re too nice, too brave, too kind and far, far too silly. You’re like Father Christmas, the Wizard of Oz, Scooby Doo. And I love you very much. And we all need you, and you simply cannot die.” You can — and should — watch The Curse of Fatal Death on YouTube.

Picks of the Week

Todd

Todd recommends the Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol, which restores many deleted scenes and adds some clever and sympathetically designed new special effects. It’s available on the Season 25 box set of Doctor Who: The Collection. (Amazon UK) (Amazon US) (Amazon AU)

Peter

Peter recommends the Surgeons of Horror podcast series on Doctor Who, The Horror of Who, which has featured Brendan, Peter and Nathan. In the episode Hartnell’s Horror Part 4: The Cybermen, Peter explains what makes the Cybermen from The Tenth Planet so brilliant and effective.

Brendan

Brendan recommends George Sheard’s reimagining of these two episodes as a 1960s Doctor Who story as Genesis of the Cybermen: World Enough and Time Noir. Check out the trailer here.

Nathan

Nathan recommends our other Doctor Who podcast, 500 Year Diary, which will be taking over from Flight Through Entirety for a few years while FTE takes a well-earned break. In our first season, New Beginnings, we discussed six episodes in Doctor Who and its spinoffs, where a show is making a new or fresh start. We’ll be back with a second season early in 2025. Like and subscribe.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com, Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social and Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll break your heart, but in a funny way.

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. Its 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.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we enjoyed a widely-reviled episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called Ferengi Love Songs.

This time we go right back to the original Big Finish spinoff that started them all, Dalek Empire. We'll share our thoughts on the four individual episodes and chat with creator Nicholas Briggs about the evolution of the story.

We'll also take a look back at our most recent series of live events featuring Janet Fielding and Sylvester McCoy, and reflect on whether we were totally insane to attempt to take on five cities around Australia in three weeks.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Episode 600 plus The Pilot. Adam, Kirby and Mary talk about the introduction episode of Bill Potts. We then gush about our achievement of reaching our 600th episode and we have some special audio guests such as Ncuti Gatwa, Colin Baker, Ian Kirk, Andy Nunney, Alan T Butcher and Billy Kirkbright. We talk about some of our memorable moments over the years and have a general chit chat. There is Adam's report about London Winter Comic Con.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Andrew and Guillaume from the Twelfth Doctor Fan Audios drop in discuss the two-part finale to their epic project.

Their website can be found here.

This week my new series re-watch reaches the first of Steven Moffat’s rather dark and thought provoking Monk trilogy Doctor Who: Extremis.

You may wish to contribute to the show’s running costs, it’s Patreon is here https://www.patreon.com/tdrury

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The DWP Echo Chamber returns with Series Two! Welcome to another five episodes, released weekly over the next five weeks.

In Episode 6, James and Michele talk about The Marian Conspiracy by Jaqueline Raynor, released in March 2000 – the sixth story in Big Finish’s main range.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy The Marian Conspiracy from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show.

Joe and Toni discuss young love, Torchwood Zero, and round things in the Doctor Who episodes Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.

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Waffle On about Legend

Welcome to this edition of Waffle On in which Meds and Kell talk about this 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film Legend. Yes there is no Tom Hardy in this, just a Tom Cruise. 

We cover the European version of this film but do talk briefly about the two other versions and have a treat right at the very end for those who stay till after the credits.

Happy Doctor Who Day Weekend! And we celebrate with a bumper length episode! “The War Games” in Colour, coming December 23! (With a tiny bit of help from us…) Steven Moffat returning to Gallifrey One! Plus, a surfeit of Doctor Who tat to celebrate the show’s 61st anniversary, new and exciting action dollies, Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut, and the return of the increasingly irritating (for Warren) Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with guest contestants Erika and Kat!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Steven Moffat announced as guest for Gallifrey One, replacing Phil Collinson
• Chicago TARDIS schedule announced
• The War Games in colour, 90-minute run time
• Doctor Who Season 1 deleted scenes
• Scripts for Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials and Season 1 now available
• Doctor Who unveils all-new escape room with Fifteenth Doctor battling the Daleks
• Doctor Who Day gifts and offers
• Fifteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear now available
• Casio and Doctor Who countdown to Christmas with a limited edition gift package
• B&M 2024 Friends & Foes of The Doctor action dolly set
• B&M 2024 History of the Daleks Set 19 action dolly set
• Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide available now
• Doctor Who – Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act (Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut) is out now

Trivia Mr Fibuli:

• Erika Ensign
• Kat Griffiths
• Verity! Podcast

Happy Doctor Who Day Weekend! And we celebrate with a bumper length episode! “The War Games” in Colour, coming December 23! (With a tiny bit of help from us…) Steven Moffat returning to Gallifrey One! Plus, a surfeit of Doctor Who tat to celebrate the show’s 61st anniversary, new and exciting action dollies, Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut, and the return of the increasingly irritating (for Warren) Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with guest contestants Erika and Kat!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Steven Moffat announced as guest for Gallifrey One, replacing Phil Collinson
• Chicago TARDIS schedule announced
• The War Games in colour, 90-minute run time
• Doctor Who Season 1 deleted scenes
• Scripts for Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials and Season 1 now available
• Doctor Who unveils all-new escape room with Fifteenth Doctor battling the Daleks
• Doctor Who Day gifts and offers
• Fifteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear now available
• Casio and Doctor Who countdown to Christmas with a limited edition gift package
• B&M 2024 Friends & Foes of The Doctor action dolly set
• B&M 2024 History of the Daleks Set 19 action dolly set
• Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide available now
• Doctor Who – Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act (Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut) is out now

Trivia Mr Fibuli:

• Erika Ensign
• Kat Griffiths
• Verity! Podcast

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: Planet of Giants and the 2013 film Pacific Rim, have some 30 second recommendations, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:54 — Welcome!
• 01:32 – News:
• 01:46 — BBC America: No longer part owned by the BBC.
• 03:38 — Star Wars: Andor’s number two dated.
• 04:53 — Tony Todd: DEAD!
• 07:11 — Elvis vs Zombies: New British film.
• 09:02 — Wicked: The film not the website.
• 11:49 – Doctor Who: Planet of Giants.
• 24:17 – 30 Second Recommendation: The Burning Girls.
• 25:52 – 30 Second Recommendation: 3 Body Problem.
• 26:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Silo.
• 27:34 – Pacific Rim (2013 film).
• 40:32 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 47:19 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 48:00 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

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• Staggering Stories.
• Wikipedia: BBC America.
• Star Wars.
• Wikipedia: Andor (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Tony Todd.
• IMDb: Elvis Vs Zombies.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Planet of Giants.
• BBC: Doctor Who: Planet of Giants.
• Wikipedia: The Burning Girls.
• Wikipedia: 3 Body Problem (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Silo (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Pacific Rim (film).
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Having a first-time guest last week worked so well, that we've done it again this week: Jim Allenby from the What's in the Box? podcast, makes his Doctor Who Literature debut.

Our story for the week is The Smugglers, but Jim A. and I also recorded our conversation on November 23, 2024: Doctor Who's 61st anniversary, and, coincidentally, the 40th anniversary of Jason discovering the show to begin with. Jim A. and I discuss An Unearthly Child, our respective fandom origin stories, and the special edition announced on the anniversary and being released in December 2024: The War Games, in color, and with new footage!

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"Doctor Who – The Smugglers" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

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Bob Baker and Dave Martin were a writing partnership that contributed many creative Doctor Who stories during the 1970s across the Pertwee and Baker Doctors including The Claws of Axos, The Mutants, The Armageddon Factor, and The Hand of Fear.

They were also responsible for the creation of K9, who first appeared in The Invisible Enemy and went on to become one of the most beloved characters in the Doctor Who universe.

Tonight, we examine how Bob and Dave came together, how they began writing for Doctor Who, what they wrote over a near decade partnership, and give some comment on each of the stories they wrote.

Before then, all the usual news and short topics you've come to expect, and after the Bob and Dave segment, we have listener feedback and what we've been watching this past month. A jam-packed episode! Tune in!

This week, things take an upsetting turn on Flight Through Entirety, as Bill is beset, in succession, by a nervous gunman, the master in latex (as usual), the passage of time, a creepy surgeon, and narrative inevitability. Also, the Masters are having an end-of-series party with the Cybermen again. It’s World Enough and Time.

Notes and links

For all four of us, the special effect shot of the hole in Bill’s chest is familiar from the Robert Zemeckis film Death Becomes Her (1992), in which Meryl Streep makes a similar hole in Goldie Hawn, which is for several reasons more hilarious and enjoyable.

Until this point, the canonical version of the Genesis of the Cyberman had been the Big Finish audio play Spare Parts (2002), written by Marc Platt and starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. It’s really brilliant, and not very expensive, which means you should definitely put it on your list.

And finally, the title of this story comes from Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” (1681), in which the poet imagines how he would love his mistress if their time was unlimited, and then describes the alacrity with which they should love each other, given that time is fleeting.

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Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com and Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social; Simon is on X as @simonmoore72. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll make you wait years and years for Episode 298.

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. Its 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.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we enjoyed a dumb and action-packed episode of Star Trek: Enterprise called Azati Prime.

The Diamond Whobilee is back! A year late!

Chapter 8 of Big Finish Productions monthly series of Doctor Who stories celebrating Doctor Who’s sixtieth anniversary, Coda – The Final Act was released earlier this week.

The campervan is buzzing with excitement as we review the final instalment of this range.

So why not listen along with us?! Our reviews will be as full as possible, so DO NOT LISTEN BEFORE YOU HAVE HEARD THE STORY!!!! You have been warned!

Part Eight, written by Tim Foley is available to own right now by visiting Big Finish’s website. As soon as your ears have digested the story, download our review and join in the celebration with Michele, James and Brent.

Drop an email to us as feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com (with “Once and Future” in the subject field) and we’ll read your message and discuss your theories on a future DWP!

Enjoy the show – and Happy (belated) Anniversary!

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

Welcome The First Doctor - An Unearthly Child

Completely ignoring the fact that they did another version of this about 30 episodes ago, Phil and Scott celebrate Doctor Who Day start their series of looking at how good how each Doctor's inaugral stories were at introducing them to the waiting world, with An Unearthly Child, starring William Hartnell. This was also Scott's first time watching this story in its entirety, so were cavemen and fire a good way to introduce the world to Doctor Who?

And in the news, Phil surprises Scott live on air with convention news and the announcement of Whooverville 16 in August 2025 and because Christmas is just around the corner, Doctor Who fans need gift ideas, so that means a long overdue peek into Omega's Tat Corner.

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 of your choice.

#doctorwho #whoniverse #doctorwhoday

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

Welcome The First Doctor - An Unearthly Child

Completely ignoring the fact that they did another version of this about 30 episodes ago, Phil and Scott celebrate Doctor Who Day start their series of looking at how good how each Doctor's inaugral stories were at introducing them to the waiting world, with An Unearthly Child, starring William Hartnell. This was also Scott's first time watching this story in its entirety, so were cavemen and fire a good way to introduce the world to Doctor Who?

And in the news, Phil surprises Scott live on air with convention news and the announcement of Whooverville 16 in August 2025 and because Christmas is just around the corner, Doctor Who fans need gift ideas, so that means a long overdue peek into Omega's Tat Corner.

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 of your choice.

#doctorwho #whoniverse #doctorwhoday