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Hell Bent; Adam and the team discuss Jenna Coleman's last proper episode and we have feedback and news.

Hell Bent; Adam and the team discuss Jenna Coleman's last proper episode and we have feedback and news.

Hell Bent; Adam and the team discuss Jenna Coleman's last proper episode and we have feedback and news.

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Night Thoughts and the 1970s-1980s TV series Tales of the Unexpected, have a 30 second recommendation, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:36 — Welcome!
• 02:48 – News:
• 03:00 — Doctor Who: Win a Christmas screening.
• 05:02 — Big Finish: More audiomongery.
• 08:18 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 10:14 — The Box of Delights: Going Blu.
• 10:58 — Kaos: Cancelled.
• 12:51 — Doctor Who RPG: Sapphire and Steel fan-made sourcebook.
• 14:59 — Maggie Smith: DEAD!
• 16:56 – Tales of the Unexpected (1970s-80s TV series).
• 32:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Ludwig (2024 BBC TV series).
• 36:59 – Doctor Who: Night Thoughts (Big Finish).
• 46:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 49:38 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 50:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: The Box of Delights (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Kaos (TV series).
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Doctor Who RPG Forum: Sapphire and Steel Sourcebook.
• Wikipedia: Maggie Smith.
• Wikipedia: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Ludwig (TV series).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Night Thoughts and the 1970s-1980s TV series Tales of the Unexpected, have a 30 second recommendation, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:36 — Welcome!
• 02:48 – News:
• 03:00 — Doctor Who: Win a Christmas screening.
• 05:02 — Big Finish: More audiomongery.
• 08:18 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 10:14 — The Box of Delights: Going Blu.
• 10:58 — Kaos: Cancelled.
• 12:51 — Doctor Who RPG: Sapphire and Steel fan-made sourcebook.
• 14:59 — Maggie Smith: DEAD!
• 16:56 – Tales of the Unexpected (1970s-80s TV series).
• 32:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Ludwig (2024 BBC TV series).
• 36:59 – Doctor Who: Night Thoughts (Big Finish).
• 46:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 49:38 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 50:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: The Box of Delights (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Kaos (TV series).
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Doctor Who RPG Forum: Sapphire and Steel Sourcebook.
• Wikipedia: Maggie Smith.
• Wikipedia: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Ludwig (TV series).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Night Thoughts and the 1970s-1980s TV series Tales of the Unexpected, have a 30 second recommendation, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:36 — Welcome!
• 02:48 – News:
• 03:00 — Doctor Who: Win a Christmas screening.
• 05:02 — Big Finish: More audiomongery.
• 08:18 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 10:14 — The Box of Delights: Going Blu.
• 10:58 — Kaos: Cancelled.
• 12:51 — Doctor Who RPG: Sapphire and Steel fan-made sourcebook.
• 14:59 — Maggie Smith: DEAD!
• 16:56 – Tales of the Unexpected (1970s-80s TV series).
• 32:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Ludwig (2024 BBC TV series).
• 36:59 – Doctor Who: Night Thoughts (Big Finish).
• 46:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 49:38 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 50:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: The Box of Delights (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Kaos (TV series).
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Doctor Who RPG Forum: Sapphire and Steel Sourcebook.
• Wikipedia: Maggie Smith.
• Wikipedia: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Ludwig (TV series).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.

Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.

This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.

You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

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

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" 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.

This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.

Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.

This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.

You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

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

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" 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.

This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.

Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.

This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.

You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

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

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" 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.

Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Notes and links

A clear inspiration for this episode, and for the opening scene in particular, is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was a film about George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tumbling through space while discussing their relationship or something. It was huge at the time but it seems to have vanished without a trace. So it goes.

Simon alludes to a rogue AI that turns the whole world into paperclips in a scenario known as the paperclip apocalypse. This isn’t a million miles away from the grey goo problem we identified three weeks ago in our episode on Smile — Episode 284: Happy to Be There.

The script for this episode is available from the Doctor Who script library on the BBC website. Quite a few scripts have been available online for a while, but a much larger number were made available on the BBC Writers page in February this year, thanks to RTD’s launch of the Whoniverse, we think.

Nathan’s recent podcast appearance was on Dave Rennie’s Doctor Who podcast A Kettle and Some String, in which they did a deep dive on The Waters of Mars.

At the end of the episode, when Nardole joins Bill and the Doctor in a hug, he signals his intention (delightfully), by saying ‘Cuddle’. The Blu-ray subtitles incorrectly render this as ‘Glad though. [Chuckles]’. Neither line is in Mathieson’s script.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Kate is at @kateorman.bsky.social, while Simon is on X at @simonmoore72. 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 send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

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.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out the latest episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics; we’ll be back with another hot take when the new Series 1 box set is released.

Last weekend, on Startling Barbara Bain, we faced what is perhaps the most memorable and terrifying episode of Space: 1999 ever with our usual mix of valour and prosecco. It’s Dragon’s Domain.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to watch the crew of Star Trek: Discovery start off their second season in the far, far future in Kobayashi Maru.

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Notes and links

A clear inspiration for this episode, and for the opening scene in particular, is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was a film about George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tumbling through space while discussing their relationship or something. It was huge at the time but it seems to have vanished without a trace. So it goes.

Simon alludes to a rogue AI that turns the whole world into paperclips in a scenario known as the paperclip apocalypse. This isn’t a million miles away from the grey goo problem we identified three weeks ago in our episode on Smile — Episode 284: Happy to Be There.

The script for this episode is available from the Doctor Who script library on the BBC website. Quite a few scripts have been available online for a while, but a much larger number were made available on the BBC Writers page in February this year, thanks to RTD’s launch of the Whoniverse, we think.

Nathan’s recent podcast appearance was on Dave Rennie’s Doctor Who podcast A Kettle and Some String, in which they did a deep dive on The Waters of Mars.

At the end of the episode, when Nardole joins Bill and the Doctor in a hug, he signals his intention (delightfully), by saying ‘Cuddle’. The Blu-ray subtitles incorrectly render this as ‘Glad though. [Chuckles]’. Neither line is in Mathieson’s script.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Kate is at @kateorman.bsky.social, while Simon is on X at @simonmoore72. 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 send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

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.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out the latest episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics; we’ll be back with another hot take when the new Series 1 box set is released.

Last weekend, on Startling Barbara Bain, we faced what is perhaps the most memorable and terrifying episode of Space: 1999 ever with our usual mix of valour and prosecco. It’s Dragon’s Domain.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to watch the crew of Star Trek: Discovery start off their second season in the far, far future in Kobayashi Maru.

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Notes and links

A clear inspiration for this episode, and for the opening scene in particular, is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was a film about George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tumbling through space while discussing their relationship or something. It was huge at the time but it seems to have vanished without a trace. So it goes.

Simon alludes to a rogue AI that turns the whole world into paperclips in a scenario known as the paperclip apocalypse. This isn’t a million miles away from the grey goo problem we identified three weeks ago in our episode on Smile — Episode 284: Happy to Be There.

The script for this episode is available from the Doctor Who script library on the BBC website. Quite a few scripts have been available online for a while, but a much larger number were made available on the BBC Writers page in February this year, thanks to RTD’s launch of the Whoniverse, we think.

Nathan’s recent podcast appearance was on Dave Rennie’s Doctor Who podcast A Kettle and Some String, in which they did a deep dive on The Waters of Mars.

At the end of the episode, when Nardole joins Bill and the Doctor in a hug, he signals his intention (delightfully), by saying ‘Cuddle’. The Blu-ray subtitles incorrectly render this as ‘Glad though. [Chuckles]’. Neither line is in Mathieson’s script.

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Kate is at @kateorman.bsky.social, while Simon is on X at @simonmoore72. 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 send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

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.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out the latest episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics; we’ll be back with another hot take when the new Series 1 box set is released.

Last weekend, on Startling Barbara Bain, we faced what is perhaps the most memorable and terrifying episode of Space: 1999 ever with our usual mix of valour and prosecco. It’s Dragon’s Domain.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to watch the crew of Star Trek: Discovery start off their second season in the far, far future in Kobayashi Maru.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Gary (@Gary_Gillatt) and Jeff (@CityOf_Jeff) join US Jason to discuss The Crusade to mark this story's release on vinyl by Demon Music (@DemonMusicGroup).

You can order the record here.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Gary (@Gary_Gillatt) and Jeff (@CityOf_Jeff) join US Jason to discuss The Crusade to mark this story's release on vinyl by Demon Music (@DemonMusicGroup).

You can order the record here.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Gary (@Gary_Gillatt) and Jeff (@CityOf_Jeff) join US Jason to discuss The Crusade to mark this story's release on vinyl by Demon Music (@DemonMusicGroup).

You can order the record here.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage it’s another 60s companion Wendy Padbury.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage it’s another 60s companion Wendy Padbury.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

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Mark invites Strangers in Space's benevolent overseer, J.R. Southall to submit his five choices for the Tinsel Tunnel. Their discussion takes in the cultural milieu that led to the decline of Doctor Who, showrunner sectarianism, green goo, how we watch The One Show, and whether the Doctor should always have a British accent.

Also: Which book of J.R's is too hot for publishing? Why wasn't Philip Hinchcliffe doing Parkinson? And does Doctor Who really live on Saturdays? And what is the Love and Monsters of podcasts?

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Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Hell Bent; Adam and the team discuss Jenna Coleman's last proper episode and we have feedback and news.

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Night Thoughts and the 1970s-1980s TV series Tales of the Unexpected, have a 30 second recommendation, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:36 — Welcome!
• 02:48 – News:
• 03:00 — Doctor Who: Win a Christmas screening.
• 05:02 — Big Finish: More audiomongery.
• 08:18 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 10:14 — The Box of Delights: Going Blu.
• 10:58 — Kaos: Cancelled.
• 12:51 — Doctor Who RPG: Sapphire and Steel fan-made sourcebook.
• 14:59 — Maggie Smith: DEAD!
• 16:56 – Tales of the Unexpected (1970s-80s TV series).
• 32:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Ludwig (2024 BBC TV series).
• 36:59 – Doctor Who: Night Thoughts (Big Finish).
• 46:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 49:38 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 50:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: The Box of Delights (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Kaos (TV series).
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Doctor Who RPG Forum: Sapphire and Steel Sourcebook.
• Wikipedia: Maggie Smith.
• Wikipedia: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Ludwig (TV series).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.

Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.

This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.

You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

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

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" 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.

Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Notes and links

A clear inspiration for this episode, and for the opening scene in particular, is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was a film about George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tumbling through space while discussing their relationship or something. It was huge at the time but it seems to have vanished without a trace. So it goes.

Simon alludes to a rogue AI that turns the whole world into paperclips in a scenario known as the paperclip apocalypse. This isn’t a million miles away from the grey goo problem we identified three weeks ago in our episode on Smile — Episode 284: Happy to Be There.

The script for this episode is available from the Doctor Who script library on the BBC website. Quite a few scripts have been available online for a while, but a much larger number were made available on the BBC Writers page in February this year, thanks to RTD’s launch of the Whoniverse, we think.

Nathan’s recent podcast appearance was on Dave Rennie’s Doctor Who podcast A Kettle and Some String, in which they did a deep dive on The Waters of Mars.

At the end of the episode, when Nardole joins Bill and the Doctor in a hug, he signals his intention (delightfully), by saying ‘Cuddle’. The Blu-ray subtitles incorrectly render this as ‘Glad though. [Chuckles]’. Neither line is in Mathieson’s script.

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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 send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

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.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out the latest episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics; we’ll be back with another hot take when the new Series 1 box set is released.

Last weekend, on Startling Barbara Bain, we faced what is perhaps the most memorable and terrifying episode of Space: 1999 ever with our usual mix of valour and prosecco. It’s Dragon’s Domain.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to watch the crew of Star Trek: Discovery start off their second season in the far, far future in Kobayashi Maru.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Gary (@Gary_Gillatt) and Jeff (@CityOf_Jeff) join US Jason to discuss The Crusade to mark this story's release on vinyl by Demon Music (@DemonMusicGroup).

You can order the record here.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage it’s another 60s companion Wendy Padbury.

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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