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Erika and Steven hurl themselves headlong into season 8 of Doctor Who. Will Erika be as annoyed at the lack of Liz Shaw as she expected to be? Listen and find out!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

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This week we continue on our course through The Daleks’ Master Plan, Master Plan and say goodbye to short lived companions. This time with The Devil’s Planet, The Traitors, and Counter Plot. Find out what we thought of these three stories.

Also, some news of the week featuring a Big Finish announcement, more Classic Doctor Who potentially coming to DVD, and a convention that is out of this world.

And, of course, your feedback

Enjoy!

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THE WAR MASTER: THE MASTER OF CALLOUS

Outro Music: "Sowing the Seeds of Love" by Tears for Fears

Outro Music: “Sowing the Seeds of Love” by Tears for Fears

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.

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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)

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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 David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

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This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Bob n Steve look st the Big Finish Companion Chronicle, 'The Flames Of Cadiz'. There is singing. Yeah. Sorry about that. Plus Steve gives us his rundown of the Hartnell Companion Chronicles...

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

It's the long-awaited (by whom, exactly?) return of Mutter's Spiral Podcast.  John and Will are back after a LONG break, and they're talking about the 2012 Christmas episode, "The Snowmen".  What did they think of the ep?  How are they finding Jenna-Louise Coleman as the new companion(s)?  Is there anything more awesome than Vastra, Jenny & Strax?  Can Will answer some trivia questions correctly?

All that and more, including lots of Series 7b news!  Take a listen!

Toni and Joe say goodbye to Benton and hello to Bigwit in the Classic Doctor Who serial The Android Invasion.

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This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David and Matt review the two part story 'Silence in the library' and 'Forest of the dead'. Surely a story featuring an invisible enemy, non linear timelines and separate realities will be the one to help David alter Matt's opinion on series four...

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod