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As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightenment
The King's Demons

We’re back, again!

It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.

Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?

Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

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We’re back, again!

It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.

Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?

Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Subscribe on Spotify!
Check us out on Facebook!
Check us out on YouTube!
Check us out on Twitter!

We’re back, again!

It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.

Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?

Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Subscribe on Spotify!
Check us out on Facebook!
Check us out on YouTube!
Check us out on Twitter!

We’re back, again!

It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.

Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?

Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Subscribe on Spotify!
Check us out on Facebook!
Check us out on YouTube!
Check us out on Twitter!

We’re back, again!

It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.

Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?

Doctor Who © The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Segun Akinola.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Subscribe on Spotify!
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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week, Nathan, James and Special Guest Star Dan from New to Who sit around in a circle to discuss our feelings of loss, our anxieties about our parents’ love, and all our deep-seated fears for the future. It’s our way of celebrating Father’s Day.

(Sorry about the sound quality on this one. Nathan sat the mixer board right next to the gravitic anomaliser and shorted out the time differential.)

Notes and links

Timewyrm: Revelation was Paul Cornell’s first Doctor Who novel and the third novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It doesn’t have anything much in common with the plot of Father’s Day, but it certainly shares its concern with love and sacrifice and forgiveness.

Sapphire & Steel was a science fiction (?) series on ITV, starring Joanna Lumley and David MacCallum as strange supernatural forces who investigate and correct weird time anomalies like the ones in this story. It’s slow, but it’s often very weird and upsetting.

Good news, everyone. The entirety of the 1995 miniseries Steven King’s The Langoliers is available for you to watch on YouTube. It’s like Father’s Day, but without any of the distractly competent writing or direction. More about it here.

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and James is @ohjamessellwood. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And you can find increasingly rare facts about Doctor Who at @FTEwhofacts.

Daniel is one of the hosts of the New to Who podcast, which discusses Classic Doctor Who stories and introduces the Classic series to new fans. You can follow New to Who on Twitter at @NewToWhoPodcast.

Flight Through Entirety can also be found on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we’ll wait out the front of the church at the next wedding you attend and berate you mercilessly about your terrible life choices.

Jodie into Terror

We also have a new Doctor Who podcast project called Jodie into Terror. Every Tuesday night, after watching the new episode of Doctor Who Series 11, we’ll have a brief chat about our first impressions, and then release the audio afterwards. That’s at jodieintoterror.com and on Twitter at @JodieIntoTerror. If you’re from the near future, it will also be available on Apple Podcasts.

Bondfinger

Over on Bondfinger, we’ve recorded our last James Bond commentary for now, and we’ll be releasing it in the next couple of days. But we have commentaries for all of the previous Bond films, as well as for some weird things that aren’t proper Bond films at all.

You can find Bondfinger at bondfinger.com, and on Twitter at @bondfingercast.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

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Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler and Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish) and Netflix’s Midnight Mass, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:09 — Welcome!
• 02:25 – News:
• 02:45 — Doctor Who: Series 13 timed and writers named.
• 05:48 — Marvel: Films delayed, again.
• 10:31 — Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor and Charley back at it.
• 12:19 — Michael Ferguson: DEAD!
• 14:12 — Richard Franklin: Under the knife.
• 15:37 – Midnight Mass (Netflix series).
• 42:39 – Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish).
• 58:15 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 68:23 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 69:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: Michael Ferguson (director)
• Wikipedia: Richard Franklin (actor)
• Wikipedia: Midnight Mass (miniseries)
• Big Finish: The Chimes of Midnight
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Send us a text

Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Buy us a pint

This week, Nathan, James and Special Guest Star Dan from New to Who sit around in a circle to discuss our feelings of loss, our anxieties about our parents’ love, and all our deep-seated fears for the future. It’s our way of celebrating Father’s Day.

(Sorry about the sound quality on this one. Nathan sat the mixer board right next to the gravitic anomaliser and shorted out the time differential.)

Notes and links

Timewyrm: Revelation was Paul Cornell’s first Doctor Who novel and the third novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It doesn’t have anything much in common with the plot of Father’s Day, but it certainly shares its concern with love and sacrifice and forgiveness.

Sapphire & Steel was a science fiction (?) series on ITV, starring Joanna Lumley and David MacCallum as strange supernatural forces who investigate and correct weird time anomalies like the ones in this story. It’s slow, but it’s often very weird and upsetting.

Good news, everyone. The entirety of the 1995 miniseries Steven King’s The Langoliers is available for you to watch on YouTube. It’s like Father’s Day, but without any of the distractly competent writing or direction. More about it here.

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and James is @ohjamessellwood. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And you can find increasingly rare facts about Doctor Who at @FTEwhofacts.

Daniel is one of the hosts of the New to Who podcast, which discusses Classic Doctor Who stories and introduces the Classic series to new fans. You can follow New to Who on Twitter at @NewToWhoPodcast.

Flight Through Entirety can also be found on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we’ll wait out the front of the church at the next wedding you attend and berate you mercilessly about your terrible life choices.

Jodie into Terror

We also have a new Doctor Who podcast project called Jodie into Terror. Every Tuesday night, after watching the new episode of Doctor Who Series 11, we’ll have a brief chat about our first impressions, and then release the audio afterwards. That’s at jodieintoterror.com and on Twitter at @JodieIntoTerror. If you’re from the near future, it will also be available on Apple Podcasts.

Bondfinger

Over on Bondfinger, we’ve recorded our last James Bond commentary for now, and we’ll be releasing it in the next couple of days. But we have commentaries for all of the previous Bond films, as well as for some weird things that aren’t proper Bond films at all.

You can find Bondfinger at bondfinger.com, and on Twitter at @bondfingercast.

Send us a text

Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Buy us a pint

Send us a text

Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Buy us a pint

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Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Buy us a pint

Send us a text

Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

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Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

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This week, Nathan, James and Special Guest Star Daniel from New to Who sit around in a circle to discuss our feelings of loss, our anxieties about our parents' love, and all our deep-seated fears for the future. It's our way of celebrating Father's Day.

(Sorry about the sound quality on this one. Nathan sat the mixer board right next to the gravitic anomaliser and shorted out the time differential.)

Notes and links

Timewyrm: Revelation was Paul Cornell's first Doctor Who novel and the third novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It doesn't have anything much in common with the plot of Father's Day, but it certainly shares its concern with love and sacrifice and forgiveness.

Sapphire & Steel was a science fiction (?) series on ITV, starring Joanna Lumley and David MacCallum as strange supernatural forces who investigate and correct weird time anomalies like the ones in this story. It's slow, but it's often very weird and upsetting.

Good news, everyone. The entirety of the 1995 miniseries Steven King's The Langoliers is available for you to watch on YouTube. It's like Father's Day, but without any of the distractly competent writing or direction. More about it here.

Follow us!

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and James is @ohjamessellwood. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And you can find increasingly rare facts about Doctor Who at @FTEwhofacts.

Daniel is one of the hosts of the New to Who podcast, which discusses Classic Doctor Who stories and introduces the Classic series to new fans. You can follow New to Who on Twitter at @NewToWhoPodcast.

Flight Through Entirety can also be found on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we'll wait out the front of the church at the next wedding you attend and berate you mercilessly about your terrible life choices.

Jodie into Terror

We also have a new Doctor Who podcast project called Jodie into Terror. Every Tuesday night, after watching the new episode of Doctor Who Series 11, we'll have a brief chat about our first impressions, and then release the audio afterwards. That's at jodieintoterror.com and on Twitter at @JodieIntoTerror. If you're from the near future, it will also be available on Apple Podcasts.

Bondfinger

Over on Bondfinger, we've recorded our last James Bond commentary for now, and we'll be releasing it in the next couple of days. But we have commentaries for all of the previous Bond films, as well as for some weird things that aren't proper Bond films at all.

You can find Bondfinger at bondfinger.com, and on Twitter at @bondfingercast.

Send us a text

Religious tensions, post-colonialism, court intrigue,  unimaginable slaughter. It should be a right bloody laugh as Ben and Mark discuss 2018's 'Demons of the Punjab' and 1966's 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. 

Ben and Mark have nothing but praise for Vinay Patel's powerful portrayal of a historical moment that is woefully untaught in the history curriculum. It's Doctor Who at its most Reithian and leads to a discussion that takes in legacy, religious extremism and the Doctor's policy of 'no interference'.

Meanwhile, the Lash Lads find it harder to speak highly of John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh's flawed historical 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve'. Might this be better if we could see it? How on Earth were they portraying such a grisly and grotesque historical event on teatime telly? And what happened to the little boy on Wimbledon Common? 

Support the show

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Buy us a pint

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

coffin

Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

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Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

coffin

Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

coffin

Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

coffin

Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

• Most Outrageous offer -The Tardis Handbook
• Collection Protection – Newspaper Archive

coffin

Dalek Wallpaper

Dalek Soap

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

Jason and Paul can hardly contain themselves! New Doctor! New Companions! New Episodes! Jodie Whittaker takes over as the 13th Doctor in “The Woman Who Fell to Earth.” The Doctor has to rediscover who she is, find new friends, and find some blue, tooth guy before he kills someone! Right, this’ll be fun!

As we stand here in the shadow of Series 13 of Doctor Who dropping on the world, we - Rob and Dave - have recorded our long-awaited episode examining Season 20 of Doctor Who from 1983.

In our established season review style, we talk about our feelings towards the season, comment on aspects of each story, score them, and then wrap it all up with some remarks.

Before then, of course, there’s some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our monthly episode by now, dear listener.

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

Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons

Jason and Paul can hardly contain their enthusiasm!  New Doctor!  New Companions!  New Episodes!  Jodie Whittaker takes over as the 13th Doctor in “The Woman Who Fell to Earth.”  The Doctor has to rediscover who she is, find new friends, and find some blue, tooth guy before he kills someone!  Right, this’ll be fun!