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Possibly our biggest and boldest episode yet. The great Philip Hinchcliffe is back to discuss his third and (sadly) final Doctor Who novelization; August 1980's "The Keys of Marinus". Always an honor to speak to Philip, who had not read this book in decades and gained a new perspective on the text.

And Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) is back to discuss "Marinus" in both TV and book incarnations and why "Marinus" is so important to 21st-century "Doctor Who"... as well as Jim's prolific creative work and DW content, Bette Davis, limericks, and the long-awaited return of everyone's favorite game, "Guess That Cliffhanger".

The Bette Davis/George Colouris interview may be found in its entirety here.

The "Blake's 7" anthology for which Jim provided illustrations may be found and purchased here.

"Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus" features cover art by David McAllister.
Doctor Who Literature is now 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://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

Top 'Nu Who' Stories

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode!

This time, we look at what we consider to be the best stories in all of 'Nu Who', ie: since Doctor Who's return in 2005.

If you’ve never heard a List Makers episode before, these are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat!

Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are welcome; get in touch!

Twitter, Facebook or email us old-school style at hello@thedwshow.net

Join us as our guest Geoffrey Beevers (The Master) talks about his career, his life with third Doctor companion Caroline John, reprising the role of The Master for Big Finish, and his own writing. 

Find Geoffrey's Big Finish releases here - https://www.bigfinish.com/search_results?search_term=geoffrey+beevers

Find Geoffrey's Autobiography here - https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/geoffrey-beevers-one-man-in-his-time/

Philip recommends Doctor Who; The Companion Chronicles: Mastermind - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-mastermind-752

Dwayne recommends Doctor of War 2: Destiny - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unbound-doctor-of-war-2-destiny-2597 

Original theme composed by Joe Kraemer | http://www.joekraemer.com/about/

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Clips and music are copyright BBC and Big Finish. No infringement is intended.

It's 2023 and Monts and Nuge bring you their first episode, filled with geeky goodness, to kick off the new year. 

News

• Short Round picks up a Golden Globe (about flipping time!)
• Nuge has some gossip for Luther: Fallen Sun (which sounds bleak as all hell)

Week That Was

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Lavender Jack
• Treason
• Warriors of Future
• Perfect Assassin

Find GS at

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If you want to donate to the show to help with podcast/website hosting fees you can send us a tip via our paypal account which again is thegeeks@geeksyndicate.co.uk.

You can also become a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/geeksyndicate  or buy us a virtual coffee over at https://ko-fi.com/geeksyndicate

The boys are back!!!

Happy New Year from your favourite 'Stinky Boys!'

This week David and Matt discuss all things Christmas, wrap up the Wheelie Big Quiz (including a pretty big sandwich) and ultimately review the first serial from series 2 of 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' - 'The Last Sontaran'

Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben. Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week Part 2 of my review of 2022, the new series re-watch resumes next week.

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Our travels through the history of the Time War continue, and we make a spot on landing at the Big Finish audio drama, Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters 2. Of course, only one of the four stories actually takes place during the Time War, but we wanted to go ahead and review the entire box set anyway, Hear what we thought of these stories.

Plus, we discuss some more new series casting news.

Enjoy!

Links mentioned in the show:

The Diary of River Song 1.4 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 437
Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1.3 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 453
The Legacy of Time – Reviewed in TTV Episode 440
Night of the Doctor – Reviewed in TTV Episode 151

The post Episode 535 – Spot on Landing appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

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

Star Wars | The Bad Batch Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 Review

Yes, it's more Star Wars content from Disney as this week saw the release of Season 2 of The Bad Batch. Phil sat down to look at the first 2 episodes but could he see what was going on and did he put his phone down long enough to bother?

#starwars #disneyplus #thebadbatch

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

Star Wars | The Bad Batch Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 Review

Yes, it's more Star Wars content from Disney as this week saw the release of Season 2 of The Bad Batch. Phil sat down to look at the first 2 episodes but could he see what was going on and did he put his phone down long enough to bother?

#starwars #disneyplus #thebadbatch

In this episode, we continue our journey through the history of the time war, this time with a review of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventure – Time War, Volume 4 by Big Finish Productions.

We also talk trailer news and new Doctor and companion outfit reveals.

Enjoy!

The post Episode – 534 – Race Fast Safe Car appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

Seven Percent Solution I

• Doctor Who: Prognosis Negative proudly presents the Seven Percent Solution, the preeminent Sherlock Holmes commentary podcast covering all 14 of the Basil Rathbone films, featuring Josh, Eric, and Sean.

• Listen in as they discuss the first of two films produced by 20th Century Fox.

• [This is the first of two Lost SPS episodes recorded in 2016.]

WARNING:

• This discussion contains miscellaneous SPOILERS pertaining to the film(s) discussed and more! If you are 100% spoilerphobic to films not yet seen, do not complain to us.
• The commentary is littered with EXPLICIT terms, concepts, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

LINKS:

• Find your Trio of Hosts on their other Podcast Ventures.
• The 1001 Movies Podcast: https://1001moviespodcast.libsyn.com/
• Mostly Harmless Cutaway: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com
• The Cabot Cove Confab Podcast: https://thecabotcoveconfab.libsyn.com/
• The Best Picture Podcast: The Best Picture Podcast | Libsyn Directory
• Romulans Bearing Gifts: Romulans Bearing Gifts: The Star Trek Podcast | Libsyn Directory
• The Novice Elitists Film Podcast: https://thenoviceelitists.podbean.com/

DISCLAIMER:

• This episode was recorded on Aug. 8th, 2016. 
• COMING SOON: SPS #2

Watson, the Needle!

Sean @@tardistavern Josh @whomeJZ Eric @BullittWHO

Prognosis Negative @ProgNeg Email: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~com Website: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com Tumblr: progneg.tumblr.com  Facebook: facebook.com/ProgNeg

Produced by E.A. Escamilla

Martyn sits down with British comedian, Lucy Porter to discuss her TV viewing habits. Her husband's role in Thor 2 and details about her new tour.

Wake-up call launches 13th of January. For more details visit Lucy's website.

There's a transcribed version here. 

Twitter: Martyn, Lucy.

Instagram: Martyn, Lucy.

We have an extra special third chair this week, as Erika Ensign of Verity! substitutes for Chris, give us an update on the status of said Doctor Who podcast, and we discuss all manner of Who news including the benefits of combined virtual and in-person cons, new guests coming to Gallifrey One (mere weeks away!) and an onslaught of tat including box sets, audio, digital histories and more! All this and the ever-present Timelash and a staggering web of Who actors related to, partnered with or married to other Who actors that’s sure to confustigate you with befuddlement!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Doctor Who Magazine 586
• Gallifrey One guest announcement
• Verity! appearing virtually at Console Room
• The Smugglers and The Underwater Menace being animated?
• Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to the US on March 28
• Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to Canada on March 28
• Doctor Who: The Complete History being made available digitally, starting with issues 1-20
• Vworp Vworp! Volume 5 available for pre-order
• DWAS Celestial Toyroom Annual 2023 released
• Series 13 Specials Soundtracks on CD due Jan 13
• The Lagoon Monsters 10th Doctor Audio CD
• BF 2022 Short Trip The World Tree available for download
• BF Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due Feb 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unleashed due May 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Daleks! Genesis of Terror due May 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Doctor Who and The Ark due June 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023
• Doctor Who Relationships twitter thread from @DrWhoCastCrew
• Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who In Memoriam 2022

We have an extra special third chair this week, as Erika Ensign of Verity! substitutes for Chris, give us an update on the status of said Doctor Who podcast, and we discuss all manner of Who news including the benefits of combined virtual and in-person cons, new guests coming to Gallifrey One (mere weeks away!) and an onslaught of tat including box sets, audio, digital histories and more! All this and the ever-present Timelash and a staggering web of Who actors related to, partnered with or married to other Who actors that’s sure to confustigate you with befuddlement!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Doctor Who Magazine 586
• Gallifrey One guest announcement
• Verity! appearing virtually at Console Room
• The Smugglers and The Underwater Menace being animated?
• Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to the US on March 28
• Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to Canada on March 28
• Doctor Who: The Complete History being made available digitally, starting with issues 1-20
• Vworp Vworp! Volume 5 available for pre-order
• DWAS Celestial Toyroom Annual 2023 released
• Series 13 Specials Soundtracks on CD due Jan 13
• The Lagoon Monsters 10th Doctor Audio CD
• BF 2022 Short Trip The World Tree available for download
• BF Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due Feb 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unleashed due May 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Daleks! Genesis of Terror due May 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Doctor Who and The Ark due June 2023
• BF Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023
• Doctor Who Relationships twitter thread from @DrWhoCastCrew
• Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who In Memoriam 2022

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare discuss the Doctor Who Christmas and New Year specials, play a game, come up with our Predictions, Hopes and Dreams, and Fears for 2023, see how wrong we were about our Predictions for 2022, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:05 — Welcome!
• 02:47- News:
• 02:54 — Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of Rani.
• 05:01 — Blake’s 7: Novel licence use.
• 08:21 — Stephen Greif: DEAD!
• 10:32 — Doctor Who: BBC audiobooks for 2023.
• 13:32 – Annual Predictions:
• 13:32 — 2022 Predictions.
• 23:42 — 2023 Predictions.
• 30:24 – Game: Things in Five Words
• 40:19 – Doctor Who: New Who Christmas and New Year Specials.
• 56:31 – Hopes and Dreams:
• 56:31 — 2022 Hopes and Dreams.
• 65:39 — 2023 Hopes and Dreams.
• 73:11 – 2023 Fears
• 78:05 – Crumbly’s Corner.
• 82:52 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 87:56 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 89:46 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• Big Finish: Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road.
• Wikipedia: Blake’s 7.
• Wikipedia: Stephen Greif.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

We're very excited to welcome Paul Scoones (@Paul_Scoones) to Doctor Who Literature. Paul wears many hats in the "Doctor Who" universe and we'll discuss almost all of them today. We'll also discuss pronunciations, genealogy, the long and benevolent shadow of Terrance Dicks... and play a game of "20 Questions".

Read Paul's accounting of the recovery of Episode 1 of "The Crusade", which occurred 24 years ago this week.

You can find the TSV novelizations -- including two written by Paul himself -- here.

Bonus reading on the Curse of the House of Atreus.

"Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
Doctor Who Literature is now 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://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

Happy New Year you glorious geeks, and welcome to another splendid slice of Stace & Barry In The Morning! This episode, we've got our Onions Out for the New Year, Stacey enjoys the new Saturday Morning Adventures TMNT comics, and Barry is donning his rollneck sweater for a trip to The Frozen Planet.

Pop the kettle on enjoy!

Part One of my review of the year 2022, with little bits of Dr Who content but generally a look at other things I got up to this year.

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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On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover The War Master boxed set #5: The War Master: Hearts of Darkness

QotM: What was your favorite 13th Doctor story and why?

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

Big Finish: The War Master boxed set #5: The War Master: Hearts of Darkness

• 5.1 The Edge of Redemption by David Llewellyn (Connor 8, David 8, Trevor 8.25, Charlie 8)
• 5.2 The Scaramancer by Lisa McMullin (David 8, Trevor 8.5, Charlie 8)
• 5.3 The Castle of Kurnos 5 by David Llewellyn (David 8, Trevor 9.25, Charlie 9)
• 5.4 The Cognition Shift by Lisa McMullin (David 8.5/8.9, Trevor 8.5 /8.75, Charlie 9/9)

Hosts:

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

Next month we plan to review The War Master boxed set #6: The War Master: Killing Time, available from Big Finish.

Happy New Year! We just wanted to drop in and thank all of our guests from 2022 and especially YOU, our wonderful listeners! Catch us later this month for our annual animated chat. Which story? Listen to this quick message to find out! See you soon!

Happy 2023, everyone! This year, after 10 years of podcasting, Verity! is going to regenerate! Join Deb, Erika, Kat, Liz, Lynne, and Tansy as we all look back at the last 10 years and share some general hopes for the future! We also chat about the trailer for the Tennant-and-Tate 60th anniversary specials. Much excitement and many feels all around!

Yes, that's right, Verity! will be taking a hiatus and making some changes, so think of this ep as the speech at the end of "Survival", but with the knowledge that the show WILL come back again -- and a lot sooner than Doctor Who did in the 80s/90s!

Many many thanks for listening, whether you've been with us since 2013, picked up somewhere since then, or are joining us right now! We appreciate the community that has built itself up around us, and we're excited to regenerate into the next version of Verity! to keep bringing you thoughts and feelings about Doctor Who for a good long while to come!

^E

Extra-special thanks to this week's editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

Dan and Eric are nearing the end. It's almost over. The whole thing. But first...one eyed space hippies in THE ARK.

Outro Music: The Fantastic Four (1994)

REGENERATION:

• Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Zero featuring Josh, Caleb, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing Jodie's final episode, The Power of the Doctor. 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.

 DISCLAIMER:

• This episode was recorded October 26th, 2022.

   

   

  DON'T PANIC

  Host/Producer: Eric @BullittWHO Email: EscoWHO@gmail.com ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com

  Co-host: Josh @whomeJZ Email: whomeJZ@yahoo.com

  Co-hostess: Cat @fancyfembot Email: fancyfembot@gmail.com Sci-Fi Party Line: scifipartyline.com

  Co-host/Producer: Caleb

  @Calebalexader

  https://thenoviceelitists.podbean.com/ Podcast: https://tnebendingtheelements.podbean.com/

  Mostly Harmless Cutaway @DoctorWhoMHC Email: guidetothewhoverse@gmail.com Website: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com

   Tumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com Facebook: facebook.com/DoctorWhoMHC Art: H.B. Lockwood @hayleyglyphs

  Legal: Sean H. @tardistavern

  Iconoclast: Katrina G. @xanister

  PR: Kyle A. @FunctionalNerd

  Comptroller: Chris B. @dubbayoo

  Robotics: Carl L. @robominister

  Eponymous opening by Emily K. @emilyooo White/Red MHC logo by @DrWhoLetTheDogs MHCTheme created by E.A. Escamilla

The Christmas/New Year Special 2022 - The Curse of the Black Spot, Adam and Kirby swashbuckle their way through our last review of 2022. We also have feedback and what we watched this week.

We have reached the end of the 12th Doctor's first season. Victoria and Ross have new insights on this veiwing of these two episodes. Missy grand scheme come to it's climax, Danny dies, Clara greaves, and the Doctor is President of Earth, oh by the way that is a terrible idea.  All these things seem new to Ross and that alone sparks some good conversation. 

#DoctorWho #Missy #Clara #TARDIS #12thDoctor  #PeterCapaldi #JennaColeman #MichelleGomez

Happy New Year! It’s the beginning of 2023 so what better way to ring in the new year with two things recorded in 2022! First we have the Timelash, and then we bring you the adventures of PCap, Bill, and a bunch of wacky termite infested kids as they take on a haunted house, a weirdo landlord and more in our Modern Series Commentary for “Knock Knock”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash

Commentary:

• Knock Knock

Happy New Year! It’s the beginning of 2023 so what better way to ring in the new year with two things recorded in 2022! First we have the Timelash, and then we bring you the adventures of PCap, Bill, and a bunch of wacky termite infested kids as they take on a haunted house, a weirdo landlord and more in our Modern Series Commentary for “Knock Knock”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash

Commentary:

• Knock Knock

HAPPY NEW Year! Doctor Who's 60th anniversary year is upon us in 2023.

And to kick off the celebrations, we asked our listeners to share with us their favourite Eighth Doctor stories, on TV, audio, books, comics, etc.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of our friend Si Hodges, who kindly provided us with images to use in several season three episodes, including the Beyond the Vortex episodes, and creating us a special piece of art for The People's Temple episode. 

Happy New Year to all; we wish you a happy and healthy 2023.

My guest this week is the great Iain Martin (@broadanddeep), from oh so many great Doctor Who podcasts, including but not limited to We're All Stories in the End and All of Time and Space.

Iain proves a true challenge to the all-time "20 Questions" quiz title-holders.

While the TV version of "The Power of Kroll" doesn't win a lot of fans this week, the novelization was previously featured on Jason's Terrance Top Ten list in September 2019.

"Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
Doctor Who Literature is now 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://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

From Amy’s imaginary friend to the Hero of Trenzalore, Matt Smith spent four years and more than a few centuries as the Doctor. So now that he’s gone, how do we think he did?

Notes and links

Thank you very much to the listeners who contributed their questions to this episode: DJ Alpha-T, Frazer Gregory and Nathan Bottomley.

Nathan claims to enjoy the idea that the Doctor is a somewhat problematic figure rather than just a traveller or a simple hero. Not everyone agrees, however. In this article in The Atlantic, Ted B Kissell complains that Matt Smith’s Doctor, is in many ways, a fairly terrible person.

As we said last week, Steven Moffat’s actual quote was that Matt Smith is like “Patrick Moore in the body of an underwear model”.

None of us seem to know anything about the ratings here, but The Day of the Doctor was apparently the highest rated drama for the year on the BBC, with 12.8 million viewers and an additional 3.2 million views on iPlayer. On BBC America, it had an audience of 2.8 million viewers, which was the highest rating ever received on the channel. (This, and more information about the special can be found on its TARDIS Fandom page.)

Follow us

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

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll look ridiculously young and innocent while lying to you about keeping your most pressing personal information to ourselves.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the entirety of the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’ll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November 2023.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. In our most recent episode we watched a very silly film called Bullseye!, starring Roger Moore and Michael Cain.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is currently covering Series B of the show. In this week’s episode, Terry Nation makes a triumphant return to the show in Countdown.

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 watched an episode of the Star Trek cartoon Lower Decks called Mugato, Gumato, in which the crew of the USS Cerritos rescue some rightly unloved space animals from the Original Series who have been captured by Ferengi criminals.

From Amy’s imaginary friend to the Hero of Trenzalore, Matt Smith spent four years and more than a few centuries as the Doctor. So now that he’s gone, how do we think he did?

Notes and links

Thank you very much to the listeners who contributed their questions to this episode: DJ Alpha-T, Frazer Gregory and Nathan Bottomley.

Nathan claims to enjoy the idea that the Doctor is a somewhat problematic figure rather than just a traveller or a simple hero. Not everyone agrees, however. In this article in The Atlantic, Ted B Kissell complains that Matt Smith’s Doctor, is in many ways, a fairly terrible person.

As we said last week, Steven Moffat’s actual quote was that Matt Smith is like “Patrick Moore in the body of an underwear model”.

None of us seem to know anything about the ratings here, but The Day of the Doctor was apparently the highest rated drama for the year on the BBC, with 12.8 million viewers and an additional 3.2 million views on iPlayer. On BBC America, it had an audience of 2.8 million viewers, which was the highest rating ever received on the channel. (This, and more information about the special can be found on its TARDIS Fandom page.)

Follow us

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

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll look ridiculously young and innocent while lying to you about keeping your most pressing personal information to ourselves.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the entirety of the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’ll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November 2023.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. In our most recent episode we watched a very silly film called Bullseye!, starring Roger Moore and Michael Cain.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is currently covering Series B of the show. In this week’s episode, Terry Nation makes a triumphant return to the show in Countdown.

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 watched an episode of the Star Trek cartoon Lower Decks called Mugato, Gumato, in which the crew of the USS Cerritos rescue some rightly unloved space animals from the Original Series who have been captured by Ferengi criminals.