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Cultdom October 2017 Meetup! Major Doctor Who casting news to discuss plus TV & SciFi in the news (hopefully spoiler free) shows such as 'Stranger Things' S2 & 'Star Trek: Discovery' and others.

This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

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This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

Send feedback to thesonictoolbox@gmail.com

Cultdom October 2017 Meetup! Major Doctor Who casting news to discuss plus TV & SciFi in the news (hopefully spoiler free) shows such as 'Stranger Things' S2 & 'Star Trek: Discovery' and others.

This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

Send feedback to thesonictoolbox@gmail.com

This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

Send feedback to thesonictoolbox@gmail.com

Cultdom October 2017 Meetup! Major Doctor Who casting news to discuss plus TV & SciFi in the news (hopefully spoiler free) shows such as 'Stranger Things' S2 & 'Star Trek: Discovery' and others.

This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

Send feedback to thesonictoolbox@gmail.com

This is a re-review of A Town Called Mercy. We're revisiting it with the newness worn off. Also since Daisy has seen Ben Browder in Farscape. (She hadn't seen it yet when this episode was first run.) All new attitudes and a fresh look!

Send feedback to thesonictoolbox@gmail.com

The Blue Box Podcast - Episode 279: Top Ten Classic Series Companions Brought to you every Saturday by Starburst Columnist - JR Southall, Lee Rawlings, Mark Cockram and Simon Brett.

The feels abound as Jason and Paul review “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday” featuring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor. We say goodbye (for now) to Rose and hello to Cybermen and the Cult of Skaro! So break out your 3D glasses and get ready for Daleks, Cybermen, and void stuff! OH MY!

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The feels abound as Jason and Paul review “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday” featuring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor. We say goodbye (for now) to Rose and hello to Cybermen and the Cult of Skaro! So break out your 3D glasses and get ready for Daleks, Cybermen, and void stuff! OH MY!

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This week, we’re far too busy fending off Haemovores to talk about The Curse of Fenric. Fortunately, we’re each possessed of a deep and abiding faith: Nathan in Barbara, Richard in German Expressionism, and Brendan in the essential goodness of human nature.

Buy the story!

The Curse of Fenric was released on DVD in 2004/2005. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

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According to this story, humanity will eventually evolve into sucker-faced blue monsters with seeds sprouting out of their heads. In the Blakes 7 episode Terminal, Servalan essentially reveals that humanity really evolves into the Taran Wood Beast.

If you want to learn more about the life of Alan Turing, you could watch the film The Imitation Game (2014), which did take some liberties with the details of Turing’s life story, or you could read Alan Turing: The Enigma (2000) by Andrew Hodges. We mention some of the people that inspired Turing’s work, including Kurt Gödel and Lewis Carroll. Turing was pardoned by the British government in 2013.

Here’s a concise description of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. And here’s how things change when two people repeatedly enact the Prisoner’s Dilemma situation — the iterated Prisoner’s dilemma.

Daniel Craig acted alongside Anne Reid in The Mother (2003).

Nicholas Parsons is as famous as possible in the UK, as the host of Sale of the Century from 1971 to 1984 and as the host of the radio quiz show Just a Minute, from 1967 to the present day.

Here’s the story of Sonequa Martin-Green meeting Nichelle Nichols on the red carpet at the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery.

Ace has another difficult conversation with the Doctor in the Big Finish adaptation of Paul Cornell’s Love and War.

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Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the logo was designed by Anthony Wells. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And more surprising and completely reliable information about the show can be found at @FTEwhofacts.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we’ll criticise your lack of moral certitude and compare you unfavourably to your father.

Bondfinger

We’ll be returning to complete the Pierce Brosnan era any day now, but in the meantime you can still enjoy our commentaries on the first two Pierce Brosnan films, and our commentaries on the Timothy Dalton Era.

We also have plenty of Rodgecasts online, and there are other Bonds available, as well. Even fake ones.

You can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

The feels abound, as Jason and Paul review "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" featuring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor.  We say goodbye (for now) to Rose and hello to Cybermen and the Cult of Skaro!  So break out your 3D glasses and get ready for Daleks, Cybermen, and void stuff!  OH MY!

Waffle On about Highlander.

Hello and welcome to ths October/Halloween edition in which Meds, kell and guest host David Ray waffle on about this awesome 80's film Highlander. Its got some cheesy moments and strange accents but come on, its a cracker of a film that also has a stunning soundtrack by Queen. Queen Platinum CD

Buy the films here Highlander Blu-Ray or Highlander DVD

Join us on Facebook simply click here Facebook Link and join in on the chat.

Waffle Soon, Meds, Kell and Ray.

The feels abound, as Jason and Paul review "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" featuring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor.  We say goodbye (for now) to Rose and hello to Cybermen and the Cult of Skaro!  So break out your 3D glasses and get ready for Daleks, Cybermen, and void stuff!  OH MY!

The news drought continues, but that doesn't stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK's political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

The news drought continues, but that doesn't stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK's political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

Waffle On about Highlander.

Hello and welcome to ths October/Halloween edition in which Meds, kell and guest host David Ray waffle on about this awesome 80's film Highlander. Its got some cheesy moments and strange accents but come on, its a cracker of a film that also has a stunning soundtrack by Queen. Queen Platinum CD

Buy the films here Highlander Blu-Ray or Highlander DVD

Join us on Facebook simply click here Facebook Link and join in on the chat.

Waffle Soon, Meds, Kell and Ray.

The news drought continues, but that doesn't stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK's political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

The news drought continues, but that doesn't stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK's political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

The news drought continues, but that doesn’t stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK’s political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

Waffle On about Highlander.

Hello and welcome to ths October/Halloween edition in which Meds, kell and guest host David Ray waffle on about this awesome 80's film Highlander. Its got some cheesy moments and strange accents but come on, its a cracker of a film that also has a stunning soundtrack by Queen. Queen Platinum CD

Buy the films here Highlander Blu-Ray or Highlander DVD

Join us on Facebook simply click here Facebook Link and join in on the chat.

Waffle Soon, Meds, Kell and Ray.

@tindogpodcast 717D #MrMen #DoctorWho @bbcbooks DR NINTH

The news drought continues, but that doesn’t stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK’s political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

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Waffle On about Highlander.

Hello and welcome to ths October/Halloween edition in which Meds, kell and guest host David Ray waffle on about this awesome 80's film Highlander. Its got some cheesy moments and strange accents but come on, its a cracker of a film that also has a stunning soundtrack by Queen.

You can buy the Blu-Ray or DVD of the film by clicking the ink below.

Highlander Blu-Ray

Highlanded DVD

And if you love the music of Queen then why not but the CD. Queen The Platinum Collection.

Join us on Facebook simply click here Facebook Link and join in on the chat.

Waffle Soon, Meds, Kell and Ray.

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The new doctor who companions, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill, have been announced and Lewis Moon and D-Cool are here to share their thoughts on the news announcement. As well as this they discuss what audio company Big Finish should do next, share their thoughts as they review the eleventh doctor story the Doctor's wife as well as discussing the latest news from the last seven days in the doctor who universe.

The Blue Box Podcast - Episode 215: Vincent and the Doctor Revisited Brought to you every Saturday by Starburst Columnist - JR Southall, Lee Rawlings, Mark Cockram and Simon Brett.

The Blue Box Podcast - Episode 215: Vincent and the Doctor Revisited Brought to you every Saturday by Starburst Columnist - JR Southall, Lee Rawlings, Mark Cockram and Simon Brett.

What you are about to hear is the story of a connection, a connection that was made between a television series and a viewer's life.

The You and Who books are the story of that connection, as told by the people who watch the programmes that make us come alive. Chiefly, of course, Doctor Who.

This podcast will relate some of the stories from those books... and beyond.

In this episode:

You Belong To Us written and read by Terry Hayward

With an introduction featuring Rob Irwin talking to JR Southall.

The You and Who books, from which all royalties are paid to charity, are available in print and for Kindle, from watchingbooks.weebly.com

Find Rob on Twitter @theDWshow and JR on Twitter @JR_Southall

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’s Arc of Infinity, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1983.

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Show-notes:

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

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Coming soon to a theatre near you!

This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’s Arc of Infinity, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1983.

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Show-notes:

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

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JC and Rita have a frightfully good time telling you about Supernatural, Stranger Things, the Walking Dead and their scariest Halloween stories. Plus, Doctor Who, Star Wars and more!

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Transmissions From Atlantis 136 – Halloween 2017

• Opening
• Rapid Fire
  • Supernatural Season Premiere
  • Stranger Things Premiere
  • Lucifer
  • The Walking Dead
  • Did Mark Hamil confirm Luke is a Villan?
• Main Topic
• Favorite Halloween stories
  • Nightmares from Eberus
• Doctor Who
  • Season 11 – fewer episodes – but longer (50 min)
  • The new companions – it’s gonna be a full TARDIS
    • Bradley Walsh stars as Graham
    • Tosin Cole will be Ryan
    • Mandip Gill will play Yasmin
• Closing featuring the John Carpenter Classic Halloween theme

The post Episode 136 – Halloween 2017 appeared first on Transmissions From Atlantis.

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’s Arc of Infinity, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1983.

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Show-notes:

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

Subscribe on iTunes!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Check us out on Facebook!
Check us out on YouTube!
Check us out on Twitter!

Mostly Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @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 iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’s Arc of Infinity, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1983.

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Show-notes:

---

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

Subscribe on iTunes!
Subscribe on Google Play!
Check us out on Facebook!
Check us out on YouTube!
Check us out on Twitter!

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @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 iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Mostly Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @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 iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @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 iTunes, or you'll never know if you were right. Sniff. Sorry, I think this room must be dusty or something.

Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Mostly Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

@tindogpodcast 717C @bbcbooks #MrMen #DoctorWho DR. EIGHTH

(SPOILERS, SWEETIE: Listeners who have yet to see Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 may wish to stop this episode after the TARDIS noise at the end.)

All you hippy losers who thought Doctor Who was whimsical family entertainment can leave now: Eric Saward is back, and he's brought enough guns with him to make Charlton Heston feel insecure about his masculinity. Only Beryl Reid can save us! It's Earthshock.

Buy the story!

Earthshock was released on DVD in 2004 in the US (Amazon US), and in 2003 in the UK and Australia (Amazon UK).

Notes and links

Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel inspired Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

When we first see the crudely-realised dinosaur fossils in the cave wall in Part 1, Malcolm Clarke treats us to a little musical reference to the Fossils movement in The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.

Sometimes beloved Doctor Who cast members wrangle upsettingly on Twitter, and when that happens, it's the duty of a Doctor Who podcaster to put on a velvet fairy costume and call them out. Which is what Nathan does here.

Whatever his qualities as a writer and script editor (and they are few), Eric Saward was amazingly able to draw inspiration for this story from films that hadn't even been written yet, including Aliens (1986), and the prescient and criminally underrated Starship Troopers (1997).

Fans of Beryl Reid will enjoy her star turn as a murderous lesbian in The Killing of Sister George (1968). They will also enjoy her guest role on The Goodies, as thinly-veiled Mary Whitehouse analogue Mrs Desiree Carthorse, in the brilliantly hilarious episode Gender Education, which you should watch if you really want to know how to make babies by doing dirty things.

Fans of Beryl Reid will also enjoy knowing that Joe Orton was one of their number: it was for her that he wrote the part of Kathy in Entertaining Mr Sloane.

This story recklessly replaced a script called The Enemy Within by acclaimed English novelist Christopher Priest, who had previously had a script rejected for Season 17. Surprisingly, it has never been dramatised by Big Finish.

Eighties Cyberleader and Darth Vader impersonator David Banks wrote a horrific coffee table book called Cybermen (1989), in which he makes a futile and deeply inadvisable attempt to turn three decades of appalling Cybernonsense into a coherent narrative. Best avoided.

Spoiler alert: Adric snuffs it at the end of this story, so this is our last chance to plug Matthew Waterhouse's elegiac and entertaining autobiography Blue Box Boy. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK) (Amazon AU)

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Doctor Who in 10 Seconds

Today Brendan released the fifth (sixth?) video in his ongoing series Doctor Who in 10 Seconds, in which he dextrously summarises all that endless base-under-siege nonsense from Doctor Who Series 5. To watch all of videos in the series, visit the webpage or, better still, subscribe to it on YouTube.

Bondfinger

We're still in a holding pattern over at Bondfinger, steeling ourselves for our upcoming recording of the unjustly maligned Moonraker (1979). While you wait, you can listen to our previous commentaries, including The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die. You can find all of our commentaries on our website, and you can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.