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On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

Sontar, HA! Our guest this time is Dan Starkey, a recognizable face and voice in both TV and audio Doctor Who. He is best known for playing various Sontarans over the the last 15 years, but he has also acted in many Big Finish audio plays in other roles and has read many novels for release as BBC Audiobooks. He has also written some of our favourite Doctor Who plays for Big Finish. 

We hope you enjoy our chat with Dan, going right back to his early days of Doctor Who fandom, we explore how he came to be an actor, and talk about what the future may bring. 

*Apologies for some of the varying audio quality throughout this episode. 

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On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Ross (@Traiken), Melvin (@Kittenry) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) discuss the two recent boxsets of adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen - What Lies Inside and Connections.

The boxsets are produced by Big Finish and are available from their website.

You can find Ross' podcast, Gallifrey's Most Wanted, here.

Josh Snares' Youtube channel.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

This week on the show our third bit of Who’s at the Playhouse coverage a panel featuring Carol Anne Ford, Peter Purves and Micheal Troughton.

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

or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury

The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk

or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover the Big Finish boxed set Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass.

QotM: RTD has confirmed that Doctor Who spin-offs are in the works.  If you were to create a Doctor Who spin-off, what would it be about and what would its title be?

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

Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War 5: Cass

• 5.1 Meanwhile, Elsewhere by Tim Foley (Trevor 8, Charlie 7.5, Connor 8, David 7.75)
• 5.2 Vespertine by Lou Morgan (Trevor 6.75, Charlie 8, Connor 7.5, David 8)
• 5.3 Previously, Next Time by James Moran (Trevor 8.5/7.75, Charlie 9/8.5, Connor 8.75/8.5, David 8.25/8)

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 return to the War Master line with the seventh boxed set, Self-Defence, available from Big Finish.

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

Listen/download on iTunes

Stitcher.com

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance

Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.

Visit our Youtube page.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.

(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.

(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.

(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.

(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.

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

This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

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This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

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This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

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This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

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This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

The post Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

This week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.

And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.

Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Enjoy!

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

The News

The lads catch up on a couple of items of news with the announcement of season 9 as the latest Doctor Who The Collection blu ray boxset and the rumblings that a partner has been found to continue with animating missing episodes.

Review - Invaders From Mars

Phil and Paul take a look at Invaders From Mars from Big Finish starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. With bad Noo Yoik accents all round, there is much to enjoy in this comedic alien invasion story that manages to weave in Orson Welles classic 1938 broadcast of The War of The Worlds, Nazis and Russian spies! All this and Phil manages to destroy Siri!

Also in this episode, Scott gives us a short take on the Sylvester McCoy era!

You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many other podcatchers and don't forget to subsribe to our Youtube Channel.

#doctorwho #bigfinish

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

The News

The lads catch up on a couple of items of news with the announcement of season 9 as the latest Doctor Who The Collection blu ray boxset and the rumblings that a partner has been found to continue with animating missing episodes.

Review - Invaders From Mars

Phil and Paul take a look at Invaders From Mars from Big Finish starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. With bad Noo Yoik accents all round, there is much to enjoy in this comedic alien invasion story that manages to weave in Orson Welles classic 1938 broadcast of The War of The Worlds, Nazis and Russian spies! All this and Phil manages to destroy Siri!

Also in this episode, Scott gives us a short take on the Sylvester McCoy era!

You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many other podcatchers and don't forget to subsribe to our Youtube Channel.

#doctorwho #bigfinish

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

The News

The lads catch up on a couple of items of news with the announcement of season 9 as the latest Doctor Who The Collection blu ray boxset and the rumblings that a partner has been found to continue with animating missing episodes.

Review - Invaders From Mars

Phil and Paul take a look at Invaders From Mars from Big Finish starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. With bad Noo Yoik accents all round, there is much to enjoy in this comedic alien invasion story that manages to weave in Orson Welles classic 1938 broadcast of The War of The Worlds, Nazis and Russian spies! All this and Phil manages to destroy Siri!

Also in this episode, Scott gives us a short take on the Sylvester McCoy era!

You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many other podcatchers and don't forget to subsribe to our Youtube Channel.

#doctorwho #bigfinish

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

The News

The lads catch up on a couple of items of news with the announcement of season 9 as the latest Doctor Who The Collection blu ray boxset and the rumblings that a partner has been found to continue with animating missing episodes.

Review - Invaders From Mars

Phil and Paul take a look at Invaders From Mars from Big Finish starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. With bad Noo Yoik accents all round, there is much to enjoy in this comedic alien invasion story that manages to weave in Orson Welles classic 1938 broadcast of The War of The Worlds, Nazis and Russian spies! All this and Phil manages to destroy Siri!

Also in this episode, Scott gives us a short take on the Sylvester McCoy era!

You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many other podcatchers and don't forget to subsribe to our Youtube Channel.

#doctorwho #bigfinish