Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago
- Description:
- A Podcast which takes a historical look at Doctor Who episodes from fifty years ago
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- Episodes:
- 80
- Average Episode Duration:
- 00:00
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 00:00
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 0 minutes and 0 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 8 September 2016 (8:03pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 19 May 2023 (4:00pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 30 days, 13 hours, 8 minutes and 57 seconds
Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago Episodes
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Episode 26: The Moonbase Episode 4: The God and the Machine
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsPatrick Troughton's Doctor is rounding up as an all-powerful all knowing figure, as are the Cybermen into completely robotic automatons, a shadow of humanity. God and the Machine collide on the Moon. It ends abruptly. Luke, Ben and Nick chastise.
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Episode 25: The Moonbase Episode 3: Trouble of the Cybermen
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsAn intriguing discussion about how difficult it is to write Cybermen forms the base of this episode, supplemented with talk about feminism and science.
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Episode 24: The Moonbase Episode 2: Idiots Among Us
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
Doctor Who and the Trouble with Feminism, by Gerry Davis. Also includes bizarre plans and exemplary Troughton acting.
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Episode 23: The Moonbase Episode 1: Reality Whiplash
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick discuss the reveals of monsters in Classic Who, the trouble with science in sci-fi and take note of the gravity of the situation.
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Episode 22: The Underwater Menace Episode 4: Cod God
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis serial is a mad one, ending in a good old massacre. Fish, nuclear reactors and endless corridors, truly the staple of a Classic Doctor Who fan.
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Episode 21: The Underwater Menace Episode 3: Pisces de Resistance
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis mad episode captivates Ben, Luke and Nick with its fish-people striking, Troughton in sunglasses and hammy old Zaroff.
Nothing in ze world can stop us now.
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Episode 20: The Underwater Menace Episode 2: The Sharaz Jek of Laughs
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsEarth-shattering kabooms are what Zaroff wants and what we scoff at. Other things on the derisory menu are music, religion and fish. Troughton's great though. We like him.
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Episode 19: The Underwater Menace Episode 1: The Menace of Caves
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Nick and Luke discuss the fallacies of exploring caves, mad German scientists and the fish people, discovering a odd connection between them and a certain fan-film...
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Episode 18: The Highlanders Episode 4: Twee Denouement
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBizarrely enough, this one's an average episode. Shame about the other three. The trio muse about this poor serial's existence in general, concluding it did the best it could."Oh dear, this is really all too much" - Algernon Ffinch, 1746.
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Episode 17: The Highlanders Episode 3: Failed
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe trio are unimpressed by this episode; despite its gun-toting, burglarising, cross-dressing, third-party conniving themes. The writer is given a right good seeing to.
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Episode 16: The Highlanders Episode 2: The Lost and the Found
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsFloundering on things to talk about in this clunker, Nick, Luke and Ben resort to giving pet names to motor cars and theorising where all the missing episodes are. Certainly not in Scotland, that's for sure.
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Episode 15: The Highlanders Episode 1: The Massacre of St. Boring-mew's Eve
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsRussian planets and all sorts of other trickery try to entice Luke, Nick and Ben into the Highlanders. An epic resistance occurs.
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Episode 14: The Power of the Daleks Episode 6: Decline and Fall of the Dalek Empire
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis Dalek denouement is a bit rushed, but is ultimately forgiven for its political points, Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor and the concept of Roman Daleks.
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Episode 13: The Power of the Daleks Episode 5: Pure Terror
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe effectiveness of the Daleks is reviewed by Luke, Nick and Ben as well as their standing in political terms and their effect upon the world at large.
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Episode 12: The Power of the Daleks Episode 4: Down a lonely Rhodesia
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen finds a lot of current information about Rhodesia and proceeds to link it to the story about colonial rebels and Daleks. Luck and Nick watch bemused from an echo chamber.
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Episode 11: The Power of the Daleks Episode 3: Powerplay
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsNick, Ben and Luke discover the continuation of a great and complex thriller-cum-mystery that blends scientific greed, colony trouble and an eternal battle between some pepper-pots and a man tootling on a recorder beautifully.
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Episode 10: The Power of the Daleks Episode 2: Battery of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsLuke, Nick and Ben discuss the ramping up tension, the difference between scientists and governors and discover a chilling connection between Daleks and batteries.
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Episode 9: The Power of the Daleks Episode 1: The Whitaker Renaissance
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsNick, Ben and Luke sing as many praises about this episode as they can. Troughton, Vulcan, Daleks, the lot is a great piece of television.
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Episode 8: The Tenth Planet Episode 4: The Hats are Off
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsNick, Luke and Ben discuss moody lighting, learn something about the concept of twin planets and discover the meaning behind the immortal line; "Keep warm".
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Episode 7: The Tenth Planet Episode 3: The War Historical.
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsLuke, Nick and Ben take a sharp turn into the world of War Historicals at the same time the episode does. Bombs, ventilation shafts and the nice Doctor Barclay are all involved.
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Episode 6: The Tenth Planet Part 2: Cyber-Sound
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsFrom an echo chamber, a loud Ben and less loud Luke and quiet Nick review the effectiveness of the Cybermen, the ideals of technology during this period and plug Spare Parts.
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Episode 5: The Tenth Planet Part 1: International
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis serial dares to be international and somewhat progressive. The trio take it to task for succeeding and failing at the same time.
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Episode 4: The Smugglers Part 4: Horsey
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn a desperate attempt to reach the end of this serial, the trio descend to making animal noises. Anything to get away from these stereotypical pirates.
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Episode 3: The Smugglers Episode 3: Pacy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe change of pace is noted, as is the continuation of race and violence issues and the serial gets the best alternative title ever.
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Episode 0: 1966 And All That
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsHello and welcome to Doctor Who: Fifty years ago. To start with: what was 1966 like? Ben, Nick and Luke try to figure it out.
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Episode 2: The Smugglers Part 2: Racy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsEverything starts to heat up in part 2, in the sense that it would evaporate liquid nitrogen
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Episode 1: The Smugglers Part 1: Classy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Nick and Luke embark on the first part of the first adventure in their own adventure.
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Episode 2 now available!
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsCorresponding to the weekly schedule, here's Episode 2 of the Smugglers, in which youths and races in the context of the 1960s are discussed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMOT1vDZ-M
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Episodes now available!
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsEpisode 0 and The Smugglers: Episode 1 are now up and live on YouTube for your digestion.Episode 0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WUNFlKkpkwThe Smugglers Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tPqxWs-4x8Episode 0 surmises what we're looking for in Season 4, whilst we discover a lot of Class-based issues in The Smugglers Episode 1.
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What we're about and a Channel Trailer for YouTube
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzlwO9HFWwE
Join Ben, Luke and Nick as they take an historical look at Doctor Who episodes of yesteryear, watching them on the fiftieth anniversary of their broadcast date, comparing them and its context to the modern day.
On YouTube and other internet-y things.