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

Notes and links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social, while Steven is on X at @steedstylin and Johnny is @JohnnySpandrell. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll basically just blurt out in your hearing that Santa isn’t real.

And more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notes and links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow us

Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social, while Steven is on X at @steedstylin and Johnny is @JohnnySpandrell. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam.

You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll basically just blurt out in your hearing that Santa isn’t real.

And more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Order the book here.

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

Order the book here.

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

Order the book here.

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

Order the book here.

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

News

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

Week that Was

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the show!

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

News

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

Week that Was

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the show!

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

News

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

Week that Was

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the show!

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

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 it’s more Whooverville 15  coverage with guests Matt Irvine and David Gooderson.

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

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

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

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

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

News

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

Week that Was

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the show!

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

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

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

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

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

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

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

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

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

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

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

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

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

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

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

Listen/download on iTunes

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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

SHOW NOTES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listen/download on iTunes

Listen/download on Spotify

Listen/download on Amazon Music

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

Find us on Instagram

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

SHOW NOTES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listen/download on iTunes

Listen/download on Spotify

Listen/download on Amazon Music

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Find us on Mastodon

Find us on Instagram

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

SHOW NOTES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mark invites Strangers in Space's benevolent overseer, J.R. Southall to submit his five choices for the Tinsel Tunnel. Their discussion takes in the cultural milieu that led to the decline of Doctor Who, showrunner sectarianism, green goo, how we watch The One Show, and whether the Doctor should always have a British accent.

Also: Which book of J.R's is too hot for publishing? Why wasn't Philip Hinchcliffe doing Parkinson? And does Doctor Who really live on Saturdays? And what is the Love and Monsters of podcasts?

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

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

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

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

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

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

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

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net