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We're back with more on the aftermath of solar flares.

We've still got Simon Guerrier alongside Giles, Rick and Richard to talk about 11th Doctor story The Beast Below from Series 5, having discussed 4th Doctor story The Ark In Space from Season 12 in the previous episode. 

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Simon has written two recent books: The Story of the Solar System: A Visual Journey, which he wrote with Maggie Aderin-Pocock https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Solar-System-Visual-Journey/dp/1785949209/ and Doctor Who: The Time-Travelling Almanac: The Official Guide to the Doctor’s Year https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Time-Travelling-Almanac-Official/dp/1785949179/

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models beautifully encapsulating Doctor Who moments.

Giles has 2 new children's books out: Can We Live on Mars? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Mappers-Mappers-Making-Difficult-Understand/dp/B0C65GDB4G/ and Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Survive-Destiny-Pop-Out-Fortune/dp/0711287767/

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Although we've provided Amazon links for convenience, Simon's and Giles' books can be found at all good bookshops (and a few bad ones).

We mark Halloween with many horrific tales, a look at the role that shandies have played in our lives and a review of Eleventh Doctor story “Hide”.

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(00:02:31) The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is proud to announce Capitol Cutaway, a one-day event which will take place on Sunday 6th April 2025 at POSK (Polish Social and Cultural Association), 238-246 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 0RF. Capitol Cutaway will offer a mix of guest panels, autographs, photo studio, merchandise and more besides.

(00:20:00) The action figures of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday (complete with Fray Bentos land mine) can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:27:37) The story of Babycham’s iconic mascot.

(00:28:35) This example of the “Kenny Everett New Year Show” can be seen here.

(00:30:26) Adrian Chiles’s Guinness Shandy themed article in The Guardian can be seen here.

(00:32:41) The 2007 Channel 4 documentary on The Enfield Poltergeist can be seen here.

(00:46:00) “The Village That Saw Aliens” covers The Broad Haven UFO sightings.

(00:51:39) The Matey TV commercial can be seen here.

(00:59:30) “Enys Men” (Cornish for ‘Stone Island’) is a 2022 British experimental psychological folk horror film shot, composed, written and directed by Mark Jenkin. Shot on 16 mm film, it stars Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine. The film was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown, and the crew prioritised creating a small carbon footprint during production. Enys Men premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

(01:10:30) This clip from Charlie Brooker’s “Screenwipe” can be seen here.

(01:28:40) The photo which Johnny Dab sent us which we found reminiscent of “The Invasion of Time” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.

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

Review - The Devil Rides Out

In this special for Halloween, Phil looks at a classic horror film from Hammer Films, The Devil Rides Out starring Christopher Lee in a rare good guy role. Based on the novel written by Dennis Wheatley, this tale of black magic is Phil's perfect film for Halloween and of course brings back memories of late night horror double bills on BBC2.

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Waffle On about Re-Animator

Its October and that means a Halloween 1985 treat so here we bring you Re-Animator starring the wonderful Jeffrey Combs. Its only an 86 minute film but its packed full of fabulous physical special effects and make up. Proper film making. 

We hope you enjoy it, please share with anyone who you think would enjoy our waffling.

In this first of a series of special podcasts Barry is joined by Ant and Amy as they start the coundown to the 2024 Thought Bubble Comic Convention. In this episode the trio discuss some of the titles debuting at this years convention.

A list of all the debuting books is available on the Thought Bubble website.

Toni and Joe discuss oncoming storms, Crime Crackers, and how graphite doesn't work in the Doctor Who episode Fear Her.

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It’s BACK! You have been warned. Press “Play” at your own risk! That’s all the disclaimers you’re getting!

Join Ian, Brent, Michele and Phil as they are grilled on their Doctor Who knowledge by the Quizmaster General, James in the long-awaited return of the DWP Quiz. Play along with us IF YOU DARE and let us know how well you do! feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com is the email address you need. You can also contact us on Twitter, on our Facebook Page or our highly exclusive (it’s really not) Facebook Group!

It’s time for some overanalyzing, pondering and intellectual cogitating as the Three Who Rule examine the second anniversary of the Disney+ and Doctor Who agreement, as well as a fascinating survey from the UCLA (partially funded by Disney) of what teens are both watching and want to see! Plus, a detailed hashing-over of where to start watching Doctor Who if you’re a novice, some random tat, and Part Three of our Terry Nation Miniscope covering Planet of, and Death to, the Daleks! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Two Years since Doctor Who/Disney+ Partnership was announced
• Teens Want To See Less Sex, More Friendship In Movies & TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds
• Disney Unveils First Star Wars And Marvel TV Show 4K Blu-Rays With Dolby Vision
• Official Doctor Who website: Where to start with Doctor Who?
• Ncuti Gatwa wins Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs for DW; Euros Lyn wins for directing Heartbreaker
• Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 Standard Edition due Dec 2
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity due November 2024
• Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 3
• Planet of the Daleks
• Death to the Daleks

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

Review - The Fearmonger

This time, Phil and Paul travel back to the year 2000 and the early days of Big Finish with The Fearmonger starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. With a story that was set 22 years ago, and with themes that are scarily relevant to the recent political climate in the UK, both of them are left pondering exactly who is the the Fearmonger of the story?

They also discuss the recent furore of Ncuti Gatwa boldly announcing on a chatshow recording that he will be filming Season 3 next year, only for it to be quickly cut out of transmission. So this leads the pair of them to disappear down the rabbit hole of ratings and also discuss the fate of shows on streaming services.

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This time Something Who tackles the somewhat complex problem of flares in the 1970s (and next time circa 2010).

So we've recruited the eminent Simon Guerrier to join our ranks once more, alongside regular Giles, returning guest Rick and the ever present Richard to talk about 4th Doctor story The Ark In Space from Season 12, which in the next episode we'll pair with 11th Doctor story The Beast Below from Series 5.

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Simon has written two recent books: The Story of the Solar System: A Visual Journey, which he wrote with Maggie Aderin-Pocock https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Solar-System-Visual-Journey/dp/1785949209/ and Doctor Who: The Time-Travelling Almanac: The Official Guide to the Doctor’s Year https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Time-Travelling-Almanac-Official/dp/1785949179/

Rick posts on social media as @brickpandorica, where you can find fantastic pictures of his Lego models beautifully encapsulating Doctor Who moments.

Giles has 2 new children's books out: Can We Live on Mars? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Mappers-Mappers-Making-Difficult-Understand/dp/B0C65GDB4G/ and Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Survive-Destiny-Pop-Out-Fortune/dp/0711287767/

Richard has another podcast with co-hosts Emily & Nicola, called "If It's Hurting, It's not Working" and it's a fun and informative look at work - why we work, how we work, and what makes a great job. Go to https://ifhurtnotwork.podbean.com/ and https://ifhurtnot.work for more.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Although we've provided Amazon links for convenience, Simon's and Giles' books can be found at all good bookshops (and a few bad ones).

BRIDGERTON:

• Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Eight Three featuring Carl, Cat, Caleb, Sean and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the final episodes of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in The Legend of Ruby Sunday & The Empire of Death! Let the banter begin!

LINKS:

• @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com
• @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com
• @StarTrekRBG: startrekrbg.libsyn.com
• Mostly Harmless Cutaway Patreon: patreon.com/MHC

WARNING:

• This discussion contains miscellaneous K-9 and Company, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Sherlock, Class, new WHO, and/or classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor Who. If you are 100% spoilerphobic to new & classic episodes not yet seen, do NOT complain to us. This episode is MOSTLY HARMLESS & contains EXPLICIT ideas, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

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• This episode was recorded on Aug. 22nd, 2024.

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Host/Producer: Eric @BullittWHO Prognosis Negative Movie Reviews Podcast Star Trek: Romulans Bearing Gifts Podcast

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Co-hostess: Cat @fancyfembot Sci-Fi Party Line Podcast

Co-host: Sean @HomrigSean The Cabot Cove Confab: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast The Best Picture Podcast

Co-host: Carl @robominister

Co-host/Editor: Caleb @CalebAlexader The Novice Elitists Film Podcast Bending the Elements: An Avatar Podcast

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Embrace the Darkness and the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:56 — Welcome!
• 01:52 – News:
• 02:00 — Doctor Who: Gatwa back for thirds?
• 04:05 — Star Trek: Section 31 dated and Academy gets seconds.
• 06:49 — Lord of the Rings: More ring action.
• 09:53 — David Tennant: Macbeth hitting the cinema.
• 13:29 — Ghosts: Button House open for Halloween tours.
• 15:42 — Peter Capaldi: Difficult second album.
• 16:37 — Mike Flanagan: New Carrie TV series for Amazon.
• 19:35 — Stranger Things: Tie in comics and special screening.
• 20:50 — Doctor Who: Jago and Litefoot are back!
• 22:20 – Hocus Pocus (1993 Disney film).
• 35:53 – Doctor Who: Embrace the Darkness (Big Finish).
• 46:09 – Skelebob Tales.
• 49:39 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 52:46 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 53:37 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Star Trek.
• Wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings (film series).
• David Tennant.
• Wikipedia: Macbeth.
• Wikipedia: Ghosts (2019 TV series).
• West Horsley Place (the real Button House).
• Wikipedia: Peter Capaldi.
• Wikipedia: Mike Flanagan (filmmaker).
• Wikipedia: Stranger Things.
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Lord of Misrule.
• Wikipedia: Hocus Pocus (1993 film).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Lord of Misrule.
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

We remain off the boards for one more week, to discuss not a Target Doctor Who novelization, but rather a new publication from ⁠Panini Comics⁠. It's The Return of the Daleks (purchase link: ⁠here⁠), a compilation of the Doctor-less backup strips from the earliest days of Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly/DWM. The compilation features commentary from Paul Scoones -- who joins us this week to discuss not only this new book, but also ⁠the TSV novelizations⁠, high-quality fan-made novelizations of five 1970s/'80s Doctor Who TV serials which, for rights reasons, were never novelized by Target during the line's original run.

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We threw a vote on X for which classic Doctor Who season you would like us to discuss on the next episode, from a list of four options. The results were:

Season 24 (MCCOY) 39.6%
Season 9 (PERTWEE) 29.7%
Series 3 (TENNANT) 18.9%
2013 Specials (SMITH) 11.7%

So here we are, tonight, to discuss Season 24, comprising:

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannermen
Dragonfire

Before then, of course, we also talk some recent Doctor Who news, and Dave takes us on his recent Big Finish journeys.

Tune in, drop out, and contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

This week, Tom Salinsky joins us for a World War III–adjacent chat in Madeupistan, while a global apocalypse is self-organising somewhere in Yorkshire. Also, some scary people keep trying to invite us to a free Bible study. It’s The Pyramid at the End of the World.

Notes and links

Brendan compares Extremis to Star Trek: Voyager’s Course: Oblivion, which also kills its entire regular cast. Nathan and Joe were not kind to this episode when they watched if for Untitled Star Trek Project.

Tom refers to his own less-than-enthusiastic review of Extremis in a blog post from way back in 2017.

Joe 90 was a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson supermarionation show from 1968–69, which stars a nine-year-old super spy who wears special glasses which contain the brain patterns of expert adults and enable him to do all of his spy stuff.

James refers to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Commander William T Riker as someone who, like the monks, has a real fetish for consent. This deep cut is a reference to the Star Trek podcast The Greatest Generation, which you are only allowed to listen to after you’ve finished all of Untitled Star Trek Project.

The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 book by Michael Crichton and a 1971 film directed by Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, Star Trek: The Motion Picture). In it, an extraterrestrial microbe gets loose in a research station and the staff need to prevent the station’s nuclear self-destruct system from releasing an irradiated version of the the microbe into the environment.

The Tralfamadorians are time-aware aliens who appear in a couple of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, most notably Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).

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Tom Salinsky’s blog includes his reviews of Doctor Who from Season 5 onwards, as well as his reviews of all the 60s and 90s Star Trek series. His most recent book, Star Trek: Discovering the TV Series, covers The Original Series, The Animated Series and The Next Generation, and is available in all good book stores, as well as on Amazon. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

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At the time that this episode was released, the Doomsday Clock was at 90 seconds to midnight, mostly thanks to the climate disaster and the involvement of nuclear powers in wars in Ukraine and Gaza. So sleep well, everyone.

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. Its 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 podcast The Bjay BJ Game Show has just released a new episode today, in which they discuss Lost in Play (2022), a point-and-click adventure set in the imagination of two young children.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have also just released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the first episode of their triptych The Pop Explosion, covering a monochrome Emma Peel episode called Death at Bargain Prices, in which Steed and Mrs Peel go undercover in a London department store and discover a plot to blow up much of the city.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we laughed and clapped as the crew of the USS Protostar saved the Federation in the two-part Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Prodigy.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Joumana (@joumajnouna), Lucy (@LucyMcCaul), Melvin (@kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) celebrate 25 years of Big Finish discussing the live show and studio version of The Stuff of Legend.

It's an unusual installment this time as we devote the episode to talking about the visual aspects of audio drama with Big Finish covert artist, Sean Longmore.

Find out the process involved in cover art, an essential component of the audio experience.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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OooooOOOOOooooh and other such ghostly sounds, and welcome to a very spooky-seasonal episode of Stace & Barry In The Morning!

This episode, Stacey takes a risk with The Substance, Barry goes on a trip into the Monsterverse with Abigail, and the pair bring you one scarily fun and one hauntingly beautiful Musical Musings! All this, plus some 31 Day Horror Challenge updates, and a wee bit of The Running Man news. Pick up a seasonal bevvy of your choice and enjoy!

This week our final bit of Whooverville 15 coverage is actor Trevor Cooper and director Grahame Harper.

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This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss Day 3 & 4 of Torchwood's third series 'The Children Of Earth'

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

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An interesting one this month, as you'll hear by the end of the show... well, at least we hope so! What are the top Doctor Who stories where the Doctor overthrows the government? There's more than you think...

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

The Doctor, Fitz and Compassion arrive in a gleaming chrome-city, with hover cars, and all the mod cons you could possibly want - and it's the year 2019.

But what's happened to the Mods and Rockers, who are still fighting each other?

We speak with author Steve Lyons, editor Steve Cole, and feature an audio clip from the spin-off release featuring the aliens from this book, the Makers.

Fan TC Con 4 Q&A Special; in case you didn't know, Adam is show runner of Fan TC Con - The Isle of Wight's Own Comic Con. The event was held on Saturday 19th October 2024 and the Q&A sessions were hosted by 'Daddy of the podcast', Paul Wilson. This bumper episode features full interviews with Star Wars actor, Ross Sambridge, Star Trek actor, Rosalyn Landor, the movie Barbara, Jennie Linden, Zoe Heriot actress Wendy Padbury, local comic publishers Caulkhead Comics, Peri from Doctor Who, Nicola Bryant, Plantagenet from Frontios, Jeff Rawle (better known as Amos Diggory from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Sophia Myles, Lady Penelope in Jonathan Frakes' version of Thunderbirds, Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Madame de Pompadour in Doctor Who, The Girl in the Fireplace, and the ever entertaining Sylvester McCoy. Adam and Debbie also make a brief appearance on stage before the winner of the Best Doctor Who Cosplay is announced.

The Husbands of River Song; Adam, Mary and Kirby discuss River Song's last story, we also have feedback, Doctor Who and Fan TC Con news and what we watch since the last episode.

Controversy stalks the BBC as the question is asked: did they censor Ncuti Gatwa’s comments on The Graham Norton Show about a possible third season of New New Doctor Who? And the answer is…likely not. What is much more probable is the Three Who Rule excoriating the current state of television while referring to a recent Deadline story on that same topic, but enough of these dour matters! There’s a new Gallifreyan translator that can turn your words into circles, an Adventures in Type and Space book on the way featuring the work of Sid Sutton, and part two of our Terry Nation Miniscope, where we delve into his work on “The Chase”, “Mission to the Unknown”, and “The Daleks’ Master Plan”! Assemble the Galactic Council!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The BBC allegedly did not censor Gatwa’s remark on The Graham Norton Show
• Katherine Pope of Sony Pictures laments gaps between TV seasons
• Official Doctor Who Gallifreyan Translator
• Adventures in Type and Space: The Sid Sutton Collection due November 25
• Alvin Rakoff died

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 2
• The Chase
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Daleks’ Master Plan

This week Doctor Who Literature takes a week off from the Target novelizations to explore the rest of Jason's childhood bookshelves. I started reading the Target Doctor Who titles when I was 11, but I started reading just before turning 5. That's a lot of reading long before I found Terrance Dicks.

So let's take an hour and walk through what Jason loved before Doctor Who. We'll discuss the Dutch-language children's fiction of Dick Bruna; the magic of Little Golden Books; the Big Three comics lines of the 1970s: Marvel, DC, and Gold Key/Whitman; baseball annuals aimed at children; and, of course, the Hardy Boys, the Choose Your Own Adventures, and the pictorial novelizations of Peanuts TV specials.

We hope you'll join for this week as we walk not just through Jason's childhood bookshelves, but also, really, his brain.

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This week, Brendan, Nathan, Steven B and Johnny Spandrell penetrate the heart of the Vatican, only to discover that behind its dusty and arcane lore lies an eldritch horror that threatens the very idea of existence itself. It’s Extremis.

Notes and links

The most important inspiration here is Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (2003), a massively popular and widely-panned thriller about a dark secret that threatens the credibility of the Catholic Church itself (but probably not the one you’re thinking of). Perhaps this review of the book will give you a good sense of its style.

It turns out that the dark secret in The Da Vinci code was originally revealed in 1982 in a best-selling book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (or in the US, more pithily, Holy Blood, Holy Grail). This book was, terrifyingly but unsurprisingly, co-written by our very own Henry Lincoln, co-writer of The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and The Dominators.

Steven remembers the first Doctor talking about his religious beliefs in a passage from The Empire of Glass (1995) by Andy Lane. Here, in Chapter 6, the Doctor is talking to Galileo. “In short, sir, I am currently an agnostic, and by the time my life draws to its close, and I have travelled from one side of the universe to the other and seen every sight there is to see, I firmly expect to be an atheist. Does that answer your question?”

In a recent episode of The Bjay BJ Game Show, Brendan and Bjay review a game called The Talos Principle, a video game set in a computer simulation which deals with questions of identity and religion.

Nathan has a website called the Randomiser at therandomiser.net, which can help you pick a random Doctor Who story to watch, but which can also (more importantly, perhaps) reassure you that you’re not living in a computer simulation.

The properly randomised Doctor Who podcast which Nathan appeared on is called Pull to Open, with Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor.

As a kind of public service, Steven alerts us to a 2015 article by Charlie Brooker about a group of German researchers created a version of Super Mario World in which Mario was self-aware and emotionally affected by his experiences in the game.

Steven also draws our attention to a branch of philosophy concerned with the possibility that we might all be living in a computer simulation. This 2020 article in Scientific American sums up the state of play.

Johnny refers to Kit Pedler’s original conception of the Cybermen as a race of Star Monks — an idea that El Sandifer runs with in a productive and interesting way in her essay on The Tenth Planet.

Johnny Spandrell takes aim at this story in an entertaining and insightful blog post on Extremis, written in 2018.

Here’s a link to the Character Options Series 10 action figure set, featuring the Doctor, Bill and a heavily made up Missy, for those of you who enjoy that kind of thing.

And finally, here’s Donna Summer singing about this story forty years early in Once Upon a Time….

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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.

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

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we visited a holographic jazz bar in Vegas in 1962 for a surpassingly brilliant episode of Deep Space Nine called His Way.

Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully... Graeme has an announcement about the future of Reality Bomb.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Frazer (@FelixFrazer), Mark D (@Mark_Dodyk), Keith and Mark M (@QuarkMcMalus) see red in this episode about the Fifteenth Doctor novel, Ruby Red.

Order the book here.

Monts and Nuge bringing the sass as only they know how..oh and there may be some news and a review or two along the way. 

News

• Nuge again is beaten to the news punch by an unlikely source
• DC Comics joins the GlobalComix app
• Water Racers Kickstarter gets a shoutout

Week that Was

• Topsy Mcgee and the Scarab of Solomon
• Avengers Inc
• The Girl who Handcuffed houdini
• Twilight of the Gods
• DC All in
• Deadpool and Wolverine
• Rings of Power

Join Phil and James as they jump on board the DWP Campervan and take a drive through the autumnal season and catch up on all manner of things Who. The BFI screenings of Doctor Who, Whooverville, the 13th Doctor, Zygons and Krynoids coming to Big Finish – and more!

They also take a look at Deleted Scenes, a Second Doctor and Jamie story from Big Finish Productions and written by Angus Dunican. How does Jamie fare as a film star in the early 1900s?!

As always, you can get in touch by emailing us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, tweeting us at www.x.com/thedrwhopodcast or by jumping on our Facebook Page and Group.

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This week on the show it’s more Whooverville 15  coverage with guests Matt Irvine and David Gooderson.

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On October's Wanderers - Crossing the Void podcast, we review and discuss:

• The Infinity Gauntlet
• Limbus Company: Murder on the Warp Express
• Doctor Who: Prisoners in Time
• Wonderfalls

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

• Join us the first week of November as we begin our coverage of Big Finish’s Dark Gallifrey series with Dark Gallifrey: Morbius!  As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

After half a century, Doc finally completes his full run of Doctor Who stories as we look back on Sixth Doctor debut story “The Twin Dilemma”.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:01:09) The songs which top and tail this podcast are from a “Lady Penelope Investigates” LP produced by Century 21 Records in 1966 and acquired by Doc at a school Bring & Buy sale in the early 1970s. The LP cover can be seen on our Tumblr page here and the songs themselves can be found here.

(00:03:22) Breakaway was a brand of chocolate-covered digestive biscuit from Nestlé, which started production in 1970 in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery. Nestlé acquired the brand in 1988. It was discontinued in February 2024 after 54 years due to falling sales.

(00:28:19) Of the several incarnations of “The Tomorrow People”, the one Mark is referring to here is the British children’s science fiction television series produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 1973 to 1979. All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution (Homo novis) known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called ‘breaking out’ and develop special paranormal abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological make-up prevents them from intentionally killing others. The theme music and opening credits were fabulous.

(00:43:30) “Captain Zep – Super Space Detective” s a British television children’s series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1984. Constructed as part drama and part quiz game, “Captain Zep” featured mysteries that would be solved by the child audience in the studio, along with a write-in competition for viewers. The child audience were dressed in futuristic clothes and had gelled hair. The series was also notable for its combination of live action and animation, where the cast would interact with drawn alien characters amidst drawn backgrounds.

(00:45:56) “The Comeuppance of Captain Katt” was written and directed by Peter Grimwade as part of ITV’s “Dramarama” series.

(00:47:50) “Whizzer and Chips” was a British comics magazine that ran from 1969 to 1990, when it merged with the comic “Buster”. The format of “Whizzer and Chips” presented the comic as being divided into two separate parts — a novel idea at the time. One part was called Whizzer and the other was called Chips, with Chips existing as a separate pull-out section in the middle. The slogan “Two comics in one, double the fun!” was used.

(00:49:07) This audio clip is from “Rough Justice”, episode 18 of “Porridge”, a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show’s title is a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence, derived from the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons.

The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.

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

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

Links:

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

Miniscope:

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

Summary:

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

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

Vital Links:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

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

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

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

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

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

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

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

Notes and links

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

And more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can order the record here.

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

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

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