The Sonic Toolbox
- Description:
- Two hard core science fiction fans, the DW Geek Girls - Cheryl Lowe and Daisy Kaufman - talk about the science of Doctor Who, both real and fictional. Come along as we try to explain away the impossible physics and and bring you some relevant real world science, too. Not to mention the general Doctor Who love.
Homepage: http://thesonictoolbox.blogspot.com/
RSS Feed: http://sonictoolbox.libsyn.com/rss
- Episodes:
- 563
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:1:06:36
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:3:06:41
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 26 days, 1 hours, 0 minutes and 19 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 12 February 2012 (7:38pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 21 April 2019 (4:00pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 4 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes and 38 seconds
The Sonic Toolbox Episodes
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Episode 106: A Clockwork Doctor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 39 minutes and 45 seconds
The Eighth Doctor and the TV movie. What more can we say? A whole lot, apparently. Join us this week as Cheryl pontificates about her Doctor and Daisy tries to get a word in edgewise.
WARNING: Contains rabbits
"Where In The World Is Carman Sandiego" by Rockapella. Yes, they're still around, they're on tour and have a new album out.
Links:
Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies receipe
Rockapella
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Episode 106: A Clockwork Doctor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 39 minutes and 45 seconds
The Eighth Doctor and the TV movie. What more can we say? A whole lot, apparently. Join us this week as Cheryl pontificates about her Doctor and Daisy tries to get a word in edgewise.
WARNING: Contains rabbits
"Where In The World Is Carman Sandiego" by Rockapella. Yes, they're still around, they're on tour and have a new album out.
Links:
Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies receipe
Rockapella
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Episode 105: Psycho Circus
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 29 secondsCreepy clowns, Ragnarok gods, robots and a werewolf. Yep, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" has everything. And we talk about it. And some other stuff, too. And news! Join us for for this Seventh Doctor episode...and we say welcome to the show!!
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
"Psycho Circus" by KISS, off Psycho Circus (1998)
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Episode 105: Psycho Circus
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsCreepy clowns, Ragnarok gods, robots and a werewolf. Yep, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" has everything. And we talk about it. And some other stuff, too. And news! Join us for for this Seventh Doctor episode...and we say welcome to the show!!
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 105: Psycho Circus
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 29 secondsCreepy clowns, Ragnarok gods, robots and a werewolf. Yep, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" has everything. And we talk about it. And some other stuff, too. And news! Join us for for this Seventh Doctor episode...and we say welcome to the show!!
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
"Psycho Circus" by KISS, off Psycho Circus (1998)
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Episode 105: Psycho Circus
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 29 secondsCreepy clowns, Ragnarok gods, robots and a werewolf. Yep, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" has everything. And we talk about it. And some other stuff, too. And news! Join us for for this Seventh Doctor episode...and we say welcome to the show!!
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
"Psycho Circus" by KISS, off Psycho Circus (1998)
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Episode 104: Be A Clown
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 48 secondsAll the world loves a clown, and while the Seventh Doctor isn't dressed as loudly as his predecessor he certainly is more entertaining. This Doctor does magic, juggles and (famously) playes the spoons. This week we find ourselves rrrrolling along, and rrrrolling ourrrr Rrrrrs, with the last of the original run Doctors.
"Be A Clown" by Cole Porter, for the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland film "The Pirate". Available on Amazon (NTSC) and Amazon UK (PAL).
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Episode 104: Be A Clown
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsAll the world loves a clown, and while the Seventh Doctor isn't dressed as loudly as his predecessor he certainly is more entertaining. This Doctor does magic, juggles and (famously) playes the spoons. This week we find ourselves rrrrolling along, and rrrrolling ourrrr Rrrrrs, with the last of the original run Doctors.
"Be A Clown" by Cole Porter, for the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland film "The Pirate". Available on Amazon (NTSC) and Amazon UK (PAL).
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Episode 104: Be A Clown
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 48 secondsAll the world loves a clown, and while the Seventh Doctor isn't dressed as loudly as his predecessor he certainly is more entertaining. This Doctor does magic, juggles and (famously) playes the spoons. This week we find ourselves rrrrolling along, and rrrrolling ourrrr Rrrrrs, with the last of the original run Doctors.
"Be A Clown" by Cole Porter, for the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland film "The Pirate". Available on Amazon (NTSC) and Amazon UK (PAL).
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Episode 104: Be A Clown
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 48 secondsAll the world loves a clown, and while the Seventh Doctor isn't dressed as loudly as his predecessor he certainly is more entertaining. This Doctor does magic, juggles and (famously) playes the spoons. This week we find ourselves rrrrolling along, and rrrrolling ourrrr Rrrrrs, with the last of the original run Doctors.
"Be A Clown" by Cole Porter, for the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland film "The Pirate". Available on Amazon (NTSC) and Amazon UK (PAL).
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Episode 103: Soylent Davros
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes and 2 secondsCome with us to Tranquil Repose, where they keep your dying loved ones in suspended animation...until Davros turns them into food to solve a intersteller famine to earn money to build a Dalek army out of humans so he can fight other Daleks... Hey, look! Peri's wearing pants! It's Revelation of the Daleks, our Sixth Doctor stop on our road to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 103: Soylent Davros
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsCome with us to Tranquil Repose, where they keep your dying loved ones in suspended animation...until Davros turns them into food to solve a intersteller famine to earn money to build a Dalek army out of humans so he can fight other Daleks... Hey, look! Peri's wearing pants! It's Revelation of the Daleks, our Sixth Doctor stop on our road to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 103: Soylent Davros
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes and 2 secondsCome with us to Tranquil Repose, where they keep your dying loved ones in suspended animation...until Davros turns them into food to solve a intersteller famine to earn money to build a Dalek army out of humans so he can fight other Daleks... Hey, look! Peri's wearing pants! It's Revelation of the Daleks, our Sixth Doctor stop on our road to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 103: Soylent Davros
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes and 2 secondsCome with us to Tranquil Repose, where they keep your dying loved ones in suspended animation...until Davros turns them into food to solve a intersteller famine to earn money to build a Dalek army out of humans so he can fight other Daleks... Hey, look! Peri's wearing pants! It's Revelation of the Daleks, our Sixth Doctor stop on our road to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 102: Explosion in a Rainbow Factory
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 51 seconds
What's short tempered, grandiloquent, and difficult to look at? The Sixth Doctor! This week we take a look at Colin Baker's aborted foray into the TARDIS. What makes this Doctor tick, and what makes so many Americans hate him so much. All this, and more, on the 102nd episode of The Sonic Toolbox.
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Episode 102: Explosion in a Rainbow Factory
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
What's short tempered, grandiloquent, and difficult to look at? The Sixth Doctor! This week we take a look at Colin Baker's aborted foray into the TARDIS. What makes this Doctor tick, and what makes so many Americans hate him so much. All this, and more, on the 102nd episode of The Sonic Toolbox.
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Episode 102: Explosion in a Rainbow Factory
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 51 seconds
What's short tempered, grandiloquent, and difficult to look at? The Sixth Doctor! This week we take a look at Colin Baker's aborted foray into the TARDIS. What makes this Doctor tick, and what makes so many Americans hate him so much. All this, and more, on the 102nd episode of The Sonic Toolbox.
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Episode 102: Explosion in a Rainbow Factory
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 51 seconds
What's short tempered, grandiloquent, and difficult to look at? The Sixth Doctor! This week we take a look at Colin Baker's aborted foray into the TARDIS. What makes this Doctor tick, and what makes so many Americans hate him so much. All this, and more, on the 102nd episode of The Sonic Toolbox.
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Episode 101: In Search of...Heathrow
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 42 minutes and 18 secondsPoor Tegan. The Doctor just can't seem to find Heathrow for her. Maybe she should get Nyssa and Adric to fly her there, they seem to be able to pilot the TARDIS with pin point accuracy. And so it goes in the Fifth Doctor story, The Visitation. We're reviewing it this week, dontcha know.
The link to the Paul McGann audition clip is in last weeks show notes.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 101: In Search of...Heathrow
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsPoor Tegan. The Doctor just can't seem to find Heathrow for her. Maybe she should get Nyssa and Adric to fly her there, they seem to be able to pilot the TARDIS with pin point accuracy. And so it goes in the Fifth Doctor story, The Visitation. We're reviewing it this week, dontcha know.
The link to the Paul McGann audition clip is in last weeks show notes.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 101: In Search of...Heathrow
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 42 minutes and 18 secondsPoor Tegan. The Doctor just can't seem to find Heathrow for her. Maybe she should get Nyssa and Adric to fly her there, they seem to be able to pilot the TARDIS with pin point accuracy. And so it goes in the Fifth Doctor story, The Visitation. We're reviewing it this week, dontcha know.
The link to the Paul McGann audition clip is in last weeks show notes.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 101: In Search of...Heathrow
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 42 minutes and 18 secondsPoor Tegan. The Doctor just can't seem to find Heathrow for her. Maybe she should get Nyssa and Adric to fly her there, they seem to be able to pilot the TARDIS with pin point accuracy. And so it goes in the Fifth Doctor story, The Visitation. We're reviewing it this week, dontcha know.
The link to the Paul McGann audition clip is in last weeks show notes.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 100: 5 Will Get You 100
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes and 33 seconds
It's our 100th episode!!! Whoo hoo!!!! How do we celebrate it? With...
PETER DAVISON!!!!! OK, we've made it to Daisy's Doctor. Once known as Tristan Farnon, the Fifth Doctor is stern, testy, adorable and plaguedby many companions all at once. This week we on our road trip we stop off in the mid 1980s to visit this Doctor in beige.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing.
Link:
Paul McGann audition tape for the Eighth Doctor
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Episode 100: 5 Will Get You 100
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
It's our 100th episode!!! Whoo hoo!!!! How do we celebrate it? With...
PETER DAVISON!!!!! OK, we've made it to Daisy's Doctor. Once known as Tristan Farnon, the Fifth Doctor is stern, testy, adorable and plaguedby many companions all at once. This week we on our road trip we stop off in the mid 1980s to visit this Doctor in beige.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing.
Link:
Paul McGann audition tape for the Eighth Doctor
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Episode 100: 5 Will Get You 100
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
It's our 100th episode!!! Whoo hoo!!!! How do we celebrate it? With...
PETER DAVISON!!!!! OK, we've made it to Daisy's Doctor. Once known as Tristan Farnon, the Fifth Doctor is stern, testy, adorable and plaguedby many companions all at once. This week we on our road trip we stop off in the mid 1980s to visit this Doctor in beige.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing.
Link:
Paul McGann audition tape for the Eighth Doctor
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Episode 100: 5 Will Get You 100
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes and 33 seconds
It's our 100th episode!!! Whoo hoo!!!! How do we celebrate it? With...
PETER DAVISON!!!!! OK, we've made it to Daisy's Doctor. Once known as Tristan Farnon, the Fifth Doctor is stern, testy, adorable and plaguedby many companions all at once. This week we on our road trip we stop off in the mid 1980s to visit this Doctor in beige.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing.
Link:
Paul McGann audition tape for the Eighth Doctor
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Episode 100: 5 Will Get You 100
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes and 33 seconds
It's our 100th episode!!! Whoo hoo!!!! How do we celebrate it? With...
PETER DAVISON!!!!! OK, we've made it to Daisy's Doctor. Once known as Tristan Farnon, the Fifth Doctor is stern, testy, adorable and plaguedby many companions all at once. This week we on our road trip we stop off in the mid 1980s to visit this Doctor in beige.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing.
Link:
Paul McGann audition tape for the Eighth Doctor
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Episode 99: My Guts Are Flat
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 45 secondsSo the White Guardian hijacks the Doctor, saddles him with a young upstart companion and sends him off on a mission. And thus we get The Ribos Operation. This week we take a look at this first story of the Key to Time series, the first Romana story, as we continue on our road trip to the 50th Anniversary. Come sample this Fourth Doctor dish with us.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 99: My Guts Are Flat
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsSo the White Guardian hijacks the Doctor, saddles him with a young upstart companion and sends him off on a mission. And thus we get The Ribos Operation. This week we take a look at this first story of the Key to Time series, the first Romana story, as we continue on our road trip to the 50th Anniversary. Come sample this Fourth Doctor dish with us.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 99: My Guts Are Flat
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 45 secondsSo the White Guardian hijacks the Doctor, saddles him with a young upstart companion and sends him off on a mission. And thus we get The Ribos Operation. This week we take a look at this first story of the Key to Time series, the first Romana story, as we continue on our road trip to the 50th Anniversary. Come sample this Fourth Doctor dish with us.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 99: My Guts Are Flat
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 45 secondsSo the White Guardian hijacks the Doctor, saddles him with a young upstart companion and sends him off on a mission. And thus we get The Ribos Operation. This week we take a look at this first story of the Key to Time series, the first Romana story, as we continue on our road trip to the 50th Anniversary. Come sample this Fourth Doctor dish with us.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 98: All Teeth and Curls
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds
We all know the scarf. Some of us have knitted, or had knitted for us, the scarf. This week we take a look at the Doctor inside the scarf. The Fourth Doctor was with us for seven seasons and gave us some of the best stories. Join us for our celebration of the most iconic Doctor of them all!
WARNING: Contains rabbits
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Episode 98: All Teeth and Curls
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
We all know the scarf. Some of us have knitted, or had knitted for us, the scarf. This week we take a look at the Doctor inside the scarf. The Fourth Doctor was with us for seven seasons and gave us some of the best stories. Join us for our celebration of the most iconic Doctor of them all!
WARNING: Contains rabbits
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Episode 98: All Teeth and Curls
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds
We all know the scarf. Some of us have knitted, or had knitted for us, the scarf. This week we take a look at the Doctor inside the scarf. The Fourth Doctor was with us for seven seasons and gave us some of the best stories. Join us for our celebration of the most iconic Doctor of them all!
WARNING: Contains rabbits
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Episode 98: All Teeth and Curls
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds
We all know the scarf. Some of us have knitted, or had knitted for us, the scarf. This week we take a look at the Doctor inside the scarf. The Fourth Doctor was with us for seven seasons and gave us some of the best stories. Join us for our celebration of the most iconic Doctor of them all!
WARNING: Contains rabbits
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Episode 97: Carnival of Rabbits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 19 minutes and 8 secondsWe're in the Miniscope this week, watching the Doctor and Jo muck about on a circuit board, battle a Drashig and shut down some gray bureaucrats. It's our look at the Third Doctor's story "Carnival of Monsters" as we continue our road trip to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 97: Carnival of Rabbits
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWe're in the Miniscope this week, watching the Doctor and Jo muck about on a circuit board, battle a Drashig and shut down some gray bureaucrats. It's our look at the Third Doctor's story "Carnival of Monsters" as we continue our road trip to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 97: Carnival of Rabbits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 19 minutes and 8 secondsWe're in the Miniscope this week, watching the Doctor and Jo muck about on a circuit board, battle a Drashig and shut down some gray bureaucrats. It's our look at the Third Doctor's story "Carnival of Monsters" as we continue our road trip to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 97: Carnival of Rabbits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 19 minutes and 8 secondsWe're in the Miniscope this week, watching the Doctor and Jo muck about on a circuit board, battle a Drashig and shut down some gray bureaucrats. It's our look at the Third Doctor's story "Carnival of Monsters" as we continue our road trip to the 50th Anniversary.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing
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Episode 96: Third Time's a Charmer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 30 minutes and 49 seconds
Venusian Aikido. Capes and frilly shirts. U.N.I.T. and the Brigadier. The Third Doctor brought us all this and more in living color. This week is mostly all about this velvet clad, scientific advisor. Straingly, tho, Peter Capaldi keeps creeping into our conversation.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing (and Peter Capaldi)
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Episode 96: Third Time's a Charmer
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
Venusian Aikido. Capes and frilly shirts. U.N.I.T. and the Brigadier. The Third Doctor brought us all this and more in living color. This week is mostly all about this velvet clad, scientific advisor. Straingly, tho, Peter Capaldi keeps creeping into our conversation.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing (and Peter Capaldi)
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Episode 96: Third Time's a Charmer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 30 minutes and 49 seconds
Venusian Aikido. Capes and frilly shirts. U.N.I.T. and the Brigadier. The Third Doctor brought us all this and more in living color. This week is mostly all about this velvet clad, scientific advisor. Straingly, tho, Peter Capaldi keeps creeping into our conversation.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing (and Peter Capaldi)
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Episode 96: Third Time's a Charmer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 30 minutes and 49 seconds
Venusian Aikido. Capes and frilly shirts. U.N.I.T. and the Brigadier. The Third Doctor brought us all this and more in living color. This week is mostly all about this velvet clad, scientific advisor. Straingly, tho, Peter Capaldi keeps creeping into our conversation.
WARNING: Contains rabbit chasing (and Peter Capaldi)
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Episode 95: We're Having a Quarky Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 6 secondsLittle pointy robots and weird shoulder pads, the Dominators were a force to be reckoned with. The week we discuss the Second Doctor episode "The Dominators".
WARNING: Big announcement reported. Skip the news if you don't want to know.
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Episode 95: We're Having a Quarky Time
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsLittle pointy robots and weird shoulder pads, the Dominators were a force to be reckoned with. The week we discuss the Second Doctor episode "The Dominators".
WARNING: Big announcement reported. Skip the news if you don't want to know.
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Episode 95: We're Having a Quarky Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 6 secondsLittle pointy robots and weird shoulder pads, the Dominators were a force to be reckoned with. The week we discuss the Second Doctor episode "The Dominators".
WARNING: Big announcement reported. Skip the news if you don't want to know.
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Episode 95: We're Having a Quarky Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 6 secondsLittle pointy robots and weird shoulder pads, the Dominators were a force to be reckoned with. The week we discuss the Second Doctor episode "The Dominators".
WARNING: Big announcement reported. Skip the news if you don't want to know.
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Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes and 8 seconds
The first regeneration, the Second Doctor. A baggy clothed, recorder playing, childish man this new face brings to us a more recognizable Doctor. The Second Doctor is truly the beginning of the modern day Doctor that we all know and love. Join us this week as we talk all about him. And Ian's back in his corner giving us a UK perspective on this Cosmic Hobo.
WARNING: Contains rabbits
Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
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Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds
The first regeneration, the Second Doctor. A baggy clothed, recorder playing, childish man this new face brings to us a more recognizable Doctor. The Second Doctor is truly the beginning of the modern day Doctor that we all know and love. Join us this week as we talk all about him. And Ian's back in his corner giving us a UK perspective on this Cosmic Hobo.
WARNING: Contains rabbits
Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
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Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes and 8 seconds
The first regeneration, the Second Doctor. A baggy clothed, recorder playing, childish man this new face brings to us a more recognizable Doctor. The Second Doctor is truly the beginning of the modern day Doctor that we all know and love. Join us this week as we talk all about him. And Ian's back in his corner giving us a UK perspective on this Cosmic Hobo.
WARNING: Contains rabbits
Episode 94: The Cosmic Hobo
