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Lewis Moon returns for a solo show without Dr Cool in this bank holiday special of Doctor Who Time and Space as he reviews the Peter Davison story Four To Doomsday and the Torchwood episode Meat. Enjoy!

This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

Welcome to Episode 197...

The News

We give you the rundown on London Film and Comic Con plus the sad news of a classic Who actor leaving us.

Merch Corner

The Class soundtrack gets a special vinyl release.

"Snakedance" Review

A bit creepy this one with possessed people and, er, very camp spoilt sons. We haven't reviewed a Davison story for a while so good to spend some time with this Tardis crew. What are we thinking though? Hit or missssss? Thank you for joining us for 197. It's Torchwood's turn next week with Cyberwoman. Have a great week and until next time - Allons-y!

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’s Arc of Infinity, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1983.

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The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Peter Howell.

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This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

We welcome Big Finish powerhouse Helen Goldwyn on the show to talk about writing, acting, directing, producing and singing. We also get into the culture around women in the media, anyone can be your role model and Christian busts some mad ballet knowledge. All this and we give you the run down on London Film and Comic Con, which featured a world beating 9 Doctors over the weekend.

Listen to us every Thursday in podcast form or every Friday on http://kryptonradio.com/ at 11am & Midnight BST (UK) / 3am and 4pm Pacific time (US). Other time zones are available!

Gallifrey Stands can be found at on twitter @DoctorSquee, by email GallifreyStandsPodcast@gmail.com, on stitcher, iTunes, The Tangent-Bound Network, Satchel Player & http://gallifreystandspodcast.podbean.com & on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1481026762176392/

Please support our Pod-Pals too:Due South by South East https://www.wonkyspanner.com/podcasts/duesouthbse/rss.xmlDisAfterDark http://disafterdark.blogspot.co.uk/Just give me a few minutes http://justgivemeafewminutes.podomatic.com/AMAudioMedia http://amaudiomedia.com/TangentBoundNetwork http://TangentBoundNetwork.com/Drinking in the Park http://Neilandjohnny.comEMC Network http://www.electronicmediacollective.com/The Legend of the Travelling Tardis https://www.facebook.com/TheTravelingTardis/

This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

A zonked-out Andrew and Becky (or is it Salazar?) rewind time and go back to take a look at the companions that never really got a goodbye- how the last time we saw them served, and what a more appropriate endcap might have been. Also, Salazar recommends companion suicide, impunes the honesty of Ben and Polly, and talks about the maths of love.

This month Steve and Scott kick off with some news and reviews. For the Main Feature we embark on part 2 of our Celebrated Directors section where we discuss some of the most important influential directors who have had a big impact on our lives.   To talk about this episode and any other episode you can visit the Grouchy Old Geeks Facebook Group. If you would like to get in touch you can email us on grouchyoldgeeks[at]gmail[dot] com or you could leave a review on iTunes. 

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

We welcome Big Finish powerhouse Helen Goldwyn on the show to talk about writing, acting, directing, producing and singing. We also get into the culture around women in the media, anyone can be your role model and Christian busts some mad ballet knowledge. All this and we give you the run down on London Film and Comic Con, which featured a world beating 9 Doctors over the weekend.We welcome Big Finish powerhouse Helen Goldwyn on the show to talk about writing, acting, directing, producing and singing. We also get into the culture around women in the media, anyone can be your role model and Christian busts some mad ballet knowledge. All this and we give you the run down on London Film and Comic Con, which featured a world beating 9 Doctors over the weekend.

Listen to us every Thursday in podcast form or every Friday on http://kryptonradio.com/ at 11am
& Midnight BST (UK) / 3am and 4pm Pacific time (US). Other time zones are available!

Gallifrey Stands can be found at on twitter @DoctorSquee, by email
GallifreyStandsPodcast@gmail.com, on stitcher, iTunes, The Tangent-Bound Network, Satchel Player
& http://gallifreystandspodcast.podbean.com & on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1481026762176392/

Please support our Pod-Pals too:
Due South by South East https://www.wonkyspanner.com/podcasts/duesouthbse/rss.xml
DisAfterDark http://disafterdark.blogspot.co.uk/
Just give me a few minutes http://justgivemeafewminutes.podomatic.com/
AMAudioMedia http://amaudiomedia.com/
TangentBoundNetwork http://TangentBoundNetwork.com/
Drinking in the Park http://Neilandjohnny.com
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The Legend of the Travelling Tardis https://www.facebook.com/TheTravelingTardis/

The Blue Box Podcast - Episode 47: 1973 Brought to you every Saturday by Starburst Columnist - JR Southall, Lee Rawlings, Mark Cockram and Simon Brett

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

For this Dave-lite month (while he travels the world yet again), we ironically have a bumper podcast featuring The Podcast of Decision 2 - a pre-recorded segment with Dave, his podcasting partner on Spacefall: A Blakes 7 podcast and the Goodies Pirate Podcast, Richard, and the guys from the 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob and Mark.

If you're unfamiliar with The Podcast of Decision, in November 2018, Rob and Dave from The Doctor Who Show sat down in a hotel room with Todd and Nathan from Flight Through Entirety (and Jodie into Terror), to record a breezy wander through all of Doctor Who via some games Dave devised. Dave called this recording... you guessed it... The Podcast of Decision.

The Podcast of Decision 2 on this episode is top and tailed with news, views, and quite a lot of chuckling from your regular host Rob (not to be confused with 42 to Doomsday's Rob), along with Richard - pulling a double shift this month and making his debut on the show as as a co-host. Confused? It will all make sense when you press play. We hope.

David Kitchen will return to his co-host mic in The Doctor Who Show S04 E09.

Hope you enjoy the episode! Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

March 1st would have been Roger Delgado's 95th Birthday, so to celebrate, cohosts Mark Baumgarten, Trish Helm, and Eduardo M. Freyre have devoted this week's show to Doctor Who's arch nemesis The Master. Learn of his evil nature beginning on the show as far back as 1971 to the most recent incarnation John Simm (not forgetting Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Ainthony Ainley or even Julia Roberts' brother Eric along the way). Was Koschei truly evil? Survey says.... YES!!! Address all comments to mark@markwho42.com

Episode 72 The Curse Of Peladon Review Alex & Mike look towards Brian Hayles adaptation of his Pertwee era tv story The Curse Of Peladon for a Target Novel in 1975. Our Target Files duo also discuss David Troughton peforming the audiobook and whether we can discuss the story without mentioning parallels to Brexit......as if!! Co-host Mike also gives his thoughts on attending what can now be described as The Day Of The Doctor at London Film & Comic Con last weekend. Which had eight actors who have played the Doctor in attendance including a very first convention appearance for Christopher Eccleston. Contact Doctor Who Target Files Twitter https://en@dwtargetfiles https://twitter.com/dwtargetfiles?lang=en Facebook -gb.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetFiles/

(SPOILERS, SWEETIE: Listeners who have yet to see Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 may wish to stop this episode after the TARDIS noise at the end.)

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.

Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.

Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.

Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.

Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.

Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

March 1st would have been Roger Delgado's 95th Birthday, so to celebrate, cohosts Mark Baumgarten, Trish Helm, and Eduardo M. Freyre have devoted this week's show to Doctor Who's arch nemesis The Master. Learn of his evil nature beginning on the show as far back as 1971 to the most recent incarnation John Simm (not forgetting Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Ainthony Ainley or even Julia Roberts' brother Eric along the way). Was Koschei truly evil? Survey says.... YES!!! Address all comments to mark@markwho42.com

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he’s brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It’s Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke’s 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it’s the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn’t even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desirée Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse’s elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you’ll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, check out the playlist on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We’re still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

This week, the Wanderers join the Doctor and first-time companion Donna Noble to solve the mystery of how she wound up in the TARDIS and why everything seems to be going wrong at her wedding -- a mystery which, strangely, seems to pre-date the Earth!

QotW: On Doctor Who, Christmas decorations tend to come to life and become lethal. What other holiday paraphernalia would you like to see attack the Doctor?

So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News

Discussion of "The Runaway Bride" (Trevor 8.25, David 8, Connor 8, Charlie 8)

Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT -- Encounters -- Invocation (Trevor 6, David 6.5, Charlie 5.5)

Hosts:

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

Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #179, Smith and Jones! Our audio adventure will be the third part of the UNIT -- Encounters boxed set, The Sontaran Project. The boxed set is available from BigFinish.com.

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

March 1st would have been Roger Delgado's 95th Birthday, so to celebrate, cohosts Mark Baumgarten, Trish Helm, and Eduardo M. Freyre have devoted this week's show to Doctor Who's arch nemesis The Master. Learn of his evil nature beginning on the show as far back as 1971 to the most recent incarnation John Simm (not forgetting Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Ainthony Ainley or even Julia Roberts' brother Eric along the way). Was Koschei truly evil? Survey says.... YES!!! Address all comments to mark@markwho42.com

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he’s brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It’s Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke’s 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it’s the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn’t even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desirée Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse’s elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you’ll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, check out the playlist on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We’re still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Series 3, Episode 7 of Doctor Who: The Memory Cheats! And the episode we will be reviewing today is...

Visit our website at http://www.thememorycheats.com

Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thememorycheats

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It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield

Miniscope:

– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he’s brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It’s Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke’s 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it’s the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn’t even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desirée Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse’s elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or you’ll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, check out the playlist on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We’re still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

March 1st would have been Roger Delgado's 95th Birthday, so to celebrate, cohosts Mark Baumgarten, Trish Helm, and Eduardo M. Freyre have devoted this week's show to Doctor Who's arch nemesis The Master. Learn of his evil nature beginning on the show as far back as 1971 to the most recent incarnation John Simm (not forgetting Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Ainthony Ainley or even Julia Roberts' brother Eric along the way). Was Koschei truly evil? Survey says.... YES!!! Address all comments to mark@markwho42.com