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It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine 609
• Variety article on toxic fandom
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025

Interview:

• Toby Hadoke

It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine 609
• Variety article on toxic fandom
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025

Interview:

• Toby Hadoke

 This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss Day 1 & 2 of Torchwood's third series 'The Children Of Earth'

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

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

Who's He? at The Movies | Quatermass and The Pit

This time Phil looks at the classic Hammer Films version of Quatermass and The Pit starring Andrew Keir and takes an opportunity to go looking for Doctor Who actors.

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

Who's He? at The Movies | Quatermass and The Pit

This time Phil looks at the classic Hammer Films version of Quatermass and The Pit starring Andrew Keir and takes an opportunity to go looking for Doctor Who actors.

You can find us on X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Facebook.  Don't miss an episode by subscribing to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, plus many other podcatchers of your choice.

The novelization of Vengeance on Varos was published two years behind schedule, meaning that book number 106, which was skipped in the Target Doctor Who novelization release order in 1986, is belatedly plugged in -- immediately after the previous two novelizations were both assigned number 127. Got that?

This week's Doctor Who Literature guest is David Barsky. David and Jason have lots of TV and international travel to discuss. And, occasionally, Vengeance on Varos, a controversial story and a novelization tending towards the... verbose.

Sound clips in this episode include:

--The 1969 Encyclopedia Britannica short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery";

--A Season 3 "Simpsons" riff also on "The Lottery";

--"Family Guy", like David Barsky, did not care for The Godfather;

--The venerable U.S. game show "The Price is Right", which has been on the air since, like, 1911, has memorable sound bites here and here.

Not heard in the episode, but highly recommended, is both the trailer for and the movie LOCK-UP (1989), starring Sylvester Stallone (not McCoy), the late Donald Sutherland, and the late John Amos (whose death was announced the day this episode was recorded).

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"Doctor Who – Vengeance on Varos" features cover art by David McAllister.

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

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

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

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 2001 and tonight, The Doctor Who Show team examines it from two very different angles. Rob saw it in the cinema, 23 years ago. And Dave saw it last Friday.

Regardless of those angles, what are our thoughts on this film, its writing, its production, and its ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, and Andy Serkis, here in 2024?

If you’ve got an hour to spare, sit back, relax, and join us in an ALTERNATE GALAXIES episode that travels to Middle Earth for the first in a three-part series that will also include The Two Towers and The Return of the King from 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Contact us any time: hello@theDWshow.net

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Keith, Dan (@D_Hollingsworth), Chris (@chrisphnx) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) take a trip to Deathworld with a fascinating look at the road not travelled for the Tenth anniversary of #DoctorWho.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage with the original companion herself Carole Ann Ford who played Susan.

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Monts and Nuge are back doing what they do best, dumping a dollop load of sass from orbit onto Geekdom. 

News

• Nuge loses it with monts after he discovers a new moon.
• Limited Edition Space 1999 Eagle gets a reveal
• Spaced turns 25 years old

Week that Was

• Dave is still knee deep in the aliens universe and recommends a few comics to check out.
• Friday
• Wonder Woman: Historia
• Human Target
• Terminator Zero
• Twilight of the Gods
• Holmes. Margaret and Poe
• Nightsleeper
• Trap

On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures - Ravenous 4 boxed set from Big Finish!

Hosts:

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

Join us in two weeks for the October edition of Wanderers - Crossing the Void! As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

This month you voted for us to look at the 1965 William Hartnell-era story, The Crusade, which only has two (of four) episodes in the archives. Your wish is our command, and here we are!

Before then we have news and short topics and, after our thoughts on The Crusade, we have some listener emails, and what else we’ve been consuming in the world of entertainment. 

In short, all the usual stuff you’ve come to know and love from us. 

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

A Field Report update as your intrepid and amorphous podcast collective emulsify in a corridor at the BFI after seeing the /right/ version of 1988's crookedly smiling neon-noir masterpiece, The Happiness Patrol.

With Dan @D_Hollingsworth, Tom @aquatics64, Ben @BenCJolly, Matt @matt04896, Joumana @joumajnouna and Pete @Prof_Quiteamess.

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!  

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
• Andrew Smith Just Giving page
• Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
• TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
• Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
• Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
• Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
• Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
• Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
• Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
• The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
• Vader Sessions (Remastered)

Interview:

• Chris Hayden

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!  

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
• Andrew Smith Just Giving page
• Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
• TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
• Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
• Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
• Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
• Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
• Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
• Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
• The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
• Vader Sessions (Remastered)

Interview:

• Chris Hayden

Waffle On about Witness

Here is our latest episode dedicated to 1985 and what a brilliant film to waffle on about. Witness is a brilliant Harrison Ford led film and was a break away from action hero and sci fi characters. 

In this episode Meds and Kell have a big announcement to make and of course chat about some other things that have taken their fancy.

Please do share our podcast and come along and join the Facebook group. 

Jeff is back! It is time to greet our new companion Vicki, played by the amazing Maureen O'Brien. This two-parter has a lot of firsts crammed inm for Ross and Jeff to talk about.  It is a favorite of both guys and for good reason.

#DoctorWho #1stDoctor #WilliamHartnell #TARDIS 

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the 1999 Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death and the live Big Finish play Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:22 — Welcome!
• 02:27 – News:
• 02:40 — Orphan Black: Echoes Cancelled.
• 05:22 — Time Bandits: Cancelled.
• 06:46 — David Graham: DEAD!
• 08:34 — Ghosts: Even more international remakes.
• 11:24 – Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend Live (Big Finish).
• 27:26 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 film).
• 38:48 – Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• 47:51 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 51:13 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 51:50 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Wikipedia: Orphan Black: Echoes.
• Wikipedia: Time Bandits (TV series).
• Wikipedia: David Graham (actor).
• Wikipedia: Ghosts (2019 TV series).
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish: The Stuff of Legend.
• Wikipedia: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
• Wikipedia: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Welcome to the beginning of the end of Doctor Who Literature. It's May 1988, and the paperback release of the first of the 12 Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who novelizations by Target Books. The Target run had a finite lifespan, and from here on out, with the last Classic Series Doctor finally joining the Target stable, the end is in sight.

We will have two guests for each of the Sylvester McCoy books. First up this week is Jim Sangster, who is now officially co-host of the show and the producer of our YouTube channel and video content. Jim has a new song for us this week.

We also have an archival interview with Joe Ford from July 2021 extolling the virtues of Time and the Rani, from Jason's first attempt at a podcast, unreleased after all this time until now.

Please purchase Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor from Ten Acre Films.

"16 Going on 17" comes from The Sound of Music. Doctor Who Literature expressly refutes Rolfe's political affiliation. As does Family Guy.

The history of the Topps 1980 baseball card set is here.

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

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This month you voted for us to look at the 1965 William Hartnell-era story, The Crusade, which only has two (of four) episodes in the archives. Your wish is our command, and here we are!

Before then we have news and short topics and, after our thoughts on The Crusade, we have some listener emails, and what else we’ve been consuming in the world of entertainment. 

In short, all the usual stuff you’ve come to know and love from us. 

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

This week, six millennials are astonishingly successful finding a large house to rent — the power points don’t work, there’s no mobile reception and the walls are quite literally made of alien woodlice. Oh, and it collapses into dust on their first night. It’s Knock Knock.

Notes and links

Brendan quickly identifies two of the film antecedents of this story: The Evil Dead (1981), with its demonically possessed trees, and Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), whose antagonist has a complex relationship with his mother.

Nathan first encounters David Suchet as Blott in Blott on the Landscape (1985), a BBC adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s 1975 satirical novel of the same name.

Knock Knock was written by Mike Bartlett, who was famous for a TV series called Dr Foster (2015), starring Suranne Jones as a woman who starts to suspect her husband of infidelity.

David Suchet’s first appearance in a Poirot property starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot — the 1985 made-for-TV movie Thirteen at Dinner (1985), an adaptation of Christie’s Lord Edgeware Dies (1933), in which Suchet played Inspector Japp.

Simon refers to the vault-related theorising of Whovians, a comedy aftershow that accompanied Series 10, 11 and 12 of Doctor Who on ABC-TV in Australia. Our very own Adam Richard was a regular in the show’s first two seasons.

And finally, Brendan recklessly introduces us to another possible inspiration for this episode, the 1977 film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, which we would all have been better off not knowing about.

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Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social, Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social, and Simon is on X at @simonmoore72. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll take advantage of the no-fact-checking rule to try and convince you that we’re actually your real parents.

And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out today’s newly released episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to see the origin story of breakout character Peanut Hamper in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Quality of Life.

This week, we’re joined by Melvin Peña for a day trip to the Thames Frost Fair in 1814, expecting a jolly afternoon of daydrinking, sword swallowers and juicy sheep hearts, only to find ourselves tied to a bomb and engaged in an intriguing discussion about race, class, death and the ethics of killing. It’s Thin Ice.

Notes and links

Once again, Friend from the Future was a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts. Nathan makes fun of the fact that at the end of the short, the on-screen caption reads Introducing Pearl Mackie asBill. You can see the entire short, including that unfortunate typo, here.

Like Martha before her and Ruby after her, Bill is concerned that treading on a butterfly in the past will change the present in terrible ways. That concern comes from Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, which you should really just go off and read right now.

In Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer (2013), the poor people who live in the back of the train are fed on glistening black protein bars, which we discover are made from ground-up cockroaches.

Flight Through Entirety only occasionally advocates for political violence (see Episode 182: The Icy Moral High Ground), but this week we are pleased to bring you this clip of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the head during an interview on ABC-TV in January 2017.

Melvin alludes to the Slave Compensation Act 1837, which authorised the payment of about £20 million in compensation to slave owners in the British colonies. This sum was finally paid off when the British Government restructured its debt in 2015. (The people who had been enslaved didn’t receive any compensation, of course.)

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social, Todd is on X at @toddbeilby, and here’s Melvin’s profile on about.me. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we won’t tell you what’s in those fish pies that you’re so looking forward to for dinner this evening.

And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

Brendan and Bjay’s gaming poscast is called The Bjay BJ Game Show. In the most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game with a sentient robot protagonist, which raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they dropped in on the Q Continuum in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager called Death Wish.

It is our great pleausre to welcome voice of K9, John Leeson, to the podcast. We'll chat about his career including his time on Doctor Who, Rainbow and Blake's 7, his love of wine and his time as a lay magistrate.

We'll also jump down the rabbit hole with the Melbourne live audience from our recent event with Frazer Hines.

Thanks to Ian Kubiak.

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Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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This week more Whooverville 15 coverage an interview with composer and musician Domenic Glynn.

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On the one hundred and nineteenth episode of Reality Bomb, we talk with the Guardian's Martin Belam about how Doctor Who is doing in the current television landscape, and what we should look forward to, and worry about, in the coming years. And we look back on Is This Rumour Hot or Not? for the past season of Doctor Who and update what was really accurate... and what was wildly wrong with Lacy Baugher-Milas and KatyBeth Schmid. Plus feeling fan anxiety? Ask about Focus Zerg!

The Vibes are Abzorbal-Off as Joe 'n' Toni discuss Dead, Deadd, & Deaddy, a Time Loop Called Marriage, and the Doctor Who episode Love and Monsters.

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It's Doctor Who vs the pus-y worms!

We chat with Trevor Baxendale about his second EDA, as the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion encounter the Spulver worms.

Editor Steve Cole pops by too, and we have our usual three readings from the novel.

This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss the Tom Baker classic story: 'Pyramids of Mars'

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

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On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji
• Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season
• Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024
• Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025
• Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television
• Geoff Hinsliff died
• David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died

On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji
• Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season
• Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024
• Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025
• Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television
• Geoff Hinsliff died
• David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died

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

Review - The Iron Legion

Phil and Scott dip their toes into a Big Finish comic adaptation of The Iron Legion, starring Tom Baker as the Doctor. Phil has distant memories of reading this story in Doctor Who Weekly over 40 years ago, so he was looking forward to how this story fared but as Scott had no preconceptions, what did he think?

And in the news, they pay tribute to one the original voices of the Daleks, David Graham, who sadly passed away. They also provide an update on the near future of the Who's He? Podcast.

You can find us on X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Facebook.  Don't miss an episode by subscribing to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, plus many other podcatchers and don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube Channel.

#DoctorWho #Whoniverse

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

Review - The Iron Legion

Phil and Scott dip their toes into a Big Finish comic adaptation of The Iron Legion, starring Tom Baker as the Doctor. Phil has distant memories of reading this story in Doctor Who Weekly over 40 years ago, so he was looking forward to how this story fared but as Scott had no preconceptions, what did he think?

And in the news, they pay tribute to one the original voices of the Daleks, David Graham, who sadly passed away. They also provide an update on the near future of the Who's He? Podcast.

You can find us on X, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and Facebook.  Don't miss an episode by subscribing to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, plus many other podcatchers and don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube Channel.

#DoctorWho #Whoniverse

This week Jim bids a sad farewell to the legendary David Graham, contributor of voices (and two live-action roles) to Doctor Who, and who did voice work for almost every other British series that mattered, up to and including "Peppa Pig".

Stacey Smith? rejoins Jason for a look at the first Trial of a Time Lord story, The Mysterious Planet. It's Robert Holmes' final completed Doctor Who serial, and -- in story order -- Terrance Dicks' final Doctor Who novelization.

Stacey also digs deep into the rec.arts.drwho archives and finds a Jason comedy post from 1996... which Jim narrates and performs.

This week's episode's got it all.

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

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

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

"Doctor Who – The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet" features cover art by Tony Masero.

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

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

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In a distant future where all life has been destroyed by technology, Brendan, James and Nathan sit down with their friend Bjay from The Bjay BJ Game Show to record a podcast about a Doctor Who episode called Smile.

Notes and links

Anticipating with relish the final demise of X, we have decided to preserve here for posterity the Twitter exchange between Nathan and Mina Anwar that he mentions early this episode.

Nathan suggests taking a look at this — an aerial view of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia in Spain.

Brendan admits that he is a regular reader of Lance Parkin’s AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe, which is an impressively quixotic attempt to harmonise all the televised stories, spinoffs and deuterocanonical material into one vast, sprawling ridiculous chronology. We thank him for his service.

James mentions how the phenomenon of social contagion was observed in a large-scale study conducted on Facebook in 2012. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article describing the results of the experiment in 2014, which makes it a plausible influence on this episode. Here’s a contemporary news article discussing the ethical problems with this experiment.

Grey goo is a kind of technical term for the possibility that everything on Earth might be consumed by rogue nanotechnology. The term was first coined in 1986 by Kim Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. It’s also the basis of Michael Crichton’s 2002 novel Prey.

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (1872) by Samuel Butler is a satirical description of a utopian society, which bans machines for fear that they might become conscious and self-replicating.

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You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s a summary of where we’re up to right now.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

This week’s guest on Flight Through Entirety is Bjay Hobbs, who can be heard regularly discussing indie games with our very own Brendan Jones on The Bjay BJ Game Show. In their most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game that raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion. The episode Brendan mentions on Lost in Play will actually be out in a couple of weeks.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have just released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith, with a guest appearance by Philip Madoc, (probably) not in fishnets.

The Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power started recording its Series D coverage yesterday; new episodes will be released in December.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they paid a visit to an idyllic bird person planet with deranged exocomp Peanut Hamper in an episode of Lower Decks called A Mathematically Perfect Redemption.

We’re back! As the summer drifts into history, the Campervan takes one last nostalgic scenic drive around Season 1/14/40. Join us as we travel back three months and see whether our memories of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut series have changed!

James, Michele and Drew also talk about Big Finish’s live performance of The Stuff of Legend and Michele’s one accurate Kooky Theory of the Week! Well, it had to happen sooner or later!

Enjoy the show.

We’re back! As the summer drifts into history, the Campervan takes one last nostalgic scenic drive around Season 1/14/40. Join us as we travel back three months and see whether our memories of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut series have changed!

James, Michele and Drew also talk about Big Finish’s live performance of The Stuff of Legend and Michele’s one accurate Kooky Theory of the Week! Well, it had to happen sooner or later!

Enjoy the show.

We’re back! As the summer drifts into history, the Campervan takes one last nostalgic scenic drive around Season 1/14/40. Join us as we travel back three months and see whether our memories of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut series have changed!

James, Michele and Drew also talk about Big Finish’s live performance of The Stuff of Legend and Michele’s one accurate Kooky Theory of the Week! Well, it had to happen sooner or later!

Enjoy the show.

In 2023 AUK studios released two CDs related to Doctor Who.

Me & Him & Who is an audio drama that chronicles the life of John Nathan-Turner, written by Stephen Wyatt.

And speaking of Stephen Wyatt, AUK also released a musical sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy called Children of the Circus, which features a reunion of the entire cast including new roles for Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.

Creative Director for AUK, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, joins us to talk about these releases, as well as how he came to be invoved in audio production.

He also talks about another passion project, Robin of Sherwood on audio, featuring actors from the original tv series.

Find out more about Me & Him & Who here - https://auk.direct/product/me-him-who/

Find out more about Children of the Circus here - https://auk.direct/product/children-of-the-circus/

To find the audiobook version of Dwayne's recommended release, Tweaking the Tail by John Leeson, visit - https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/tweaking-the-tail/

Thanks to Ian Kubiak and Stephen Noonan.

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On the brand new Trap One Podcast US Jason, Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar), James (@Jikster2009) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) have a ball as they discuss the Target novelisation of Rogue.

You can order the book here.

Find out more about Philip Hinchcliffe: The DNA of Doctor Who here.

After much thought, our old chum Suky Khakh chooses 4th Doctor story “Invasion of Time” for us to review.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:01:09) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.

(00:04:52) The helpful Erika Ensign (a.k.a. @hollygodarkly) is a denizen of the famed Verity podcast.

(00:09:24) Pictures of Mark’s action figure of Grand Mofff Tarkin can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:15:17) Mark’s new-found friend on Twitter is @daemonsmatt.

(00:19:18) “Campion” is a British television mystery drama broadcast on the BBC in 1989 and 1990 and adapted from the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. The series starred Peter Davison as Albert Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg.

(00:20:12) “Butterflies” is a British sitcom written by Carla Lane that aired on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983.

(00:26:57) The Whoovers are a group of Doctor Who fans based in Derby UK, who meet twice monthly alternating between in-person gatherings and online meetings via Zoomville. They also organise the annual Whooverville convention and, since 2018, have hosted Big Finish Day.

(00:28:47) The “Vision On Sound” podcast takes a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and Martin Holmes and his guests investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

(00:29:22) “Shelley” is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. It stars Hywel Bennett as Dr James Shelley, a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree.

(00:35:44) “Screen Test” is a children’s game show that aired on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd from 1970 to 1979, then by Brian Trueman from 1979 to 1983 and finally by Mark Curry in 1984. It involved its contestants seeing clips from films, and then being asked questions about the films to test their memories of them.

(00:36:25) “Chorlton and the Wheelies” is an animated children’s television series created by Cosgrove Hall Productions which ran from 1976 until 1978 on ITV. 40 episodes were produced. The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an anthropomorphic “happiness dragon”, in “Wheelie World” (where people moved on wheels instead of legs). The eponymous lead character gets his name from the suburb of Manchester in which the Cosgrove Hall studio was based.

(00:36:59) Brian Keith “Herbie” Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician. Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John, Camel, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Roy Harper, David Essex, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds”.

(00:39:05) “The Water Margin” is a Japanese television series based on the 14th-century book Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Made in two seasons of 13 episodes each by Nippon Television it was shown in Japan in 1973 and 1974 as “Suikoden”. For an English-language version, it was adapted by David Weir without translations, using only brief plot synopses. The dubbed version, narrated by Burt Kwouk, was shown by the BBC from 1976 to 1978.

(01:18:18) “Shardlake” is a series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, set in 16th century Tudor England. The series features barrister Matthew Shardlake, who, while navigating the religious reforms of Henry VIII, solves crime and tries to avoid getting caught up in political intrigue. The first six books are set during the reign of Henry VIII, while the seventh, Tombland, takes place two years after the king’s demise. Sansom said before his death that he planned to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I.

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