The Krynoid Podcast
- Description:
- Jim & Martin get together to chew the fat over individual Doctor Who stories and invite you to do the same. In each podcast, a televised Doctor Who story will be discussed and the next one announced, giving you time to see it yourself and add your own views to the next podcast. Find us at https://krynoidpodcast.wordpress.com/ and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/krynoidpodcast. Email us at krynoidpodcast@gmail.com and follow and tweet us @KrynoidPodcast on Twitter.
Homepage: https://krynoidpodcast.wordpress.com/
RSS Feed: http://krynoid.libsyn.com/rss
- Episodes:
- 351
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:2:09:44
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:3:54:28
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 31 days, 14 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 23 May 2010 (11:59am GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 18 March 2023 (3:41pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 13 days, 8 hours, 8 minutes and 50 seconds
The Krynoid Podcast Episodes
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141: The Keeper of Traken
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes and 18 secondsWe return to Who with a tale of secret enemies, ostentatious acting and stentorian asides.
Will the Keeper ever escape his shower cubicle?
Will aubergines ever replace Rice Krispies?
Will Tom Baker ever wipe his nose?
And will The Keeper of Traken give Jim and Martin a new lease of life or leave them calcified?
Listen to find out!
00:00 Intro and context
04:56 A walkthrough of the story
1:22:06 A review of the story
2:10:48 Summing up and scores
This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible and all other podcatchers (as far as we know).
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks for listening!
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020: The Time Warrior
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 58 minutes and 26 secondsRoving reporter, Sarah Jane Smith, gets more of a scoop than she bargained for when she gatecrashes UNIT's scientist sleepover.
But although she meets a roistering robber baron, a lily-livered lord and a stranded space toad (not to mention Dot Cotton and Boba Fett), she fails to get an interview with any of them.
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019: The Keys of Marinus
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes and 11 secondsThe First Doctor and chums go for a whistle-stop tour of the wonderful world of Marinus.
Which is a great holiday venue, providing you avoid its cities, mountains, seas and jungles. And the intrepid traveller should also beware of flappy-footed gimps, trouserless tour guides, randy trappers and the Knights Who Say "Ni".
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018: City of Death
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes and 29 secondsThe Doctor and Romana go on their hols for a water and bouillabaisse blowout by the banks of the Seine.
Naturally, things do not run smoothly as an ancient alien, a pugilistic private dick and a mad scientist muddy the waters and they're surrounded by fake, if enigmatic, smiles.
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017: The Three Doctors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes and 4 secondsThe Third Doctor probably thought things were bad enough - stuck on Earth as he was with a dud TARDIS, a scatty hippy and a bunch of squaddies.
But now he has to contend with CSO in his sink, a bunch of Mr Blobbys on his lawn and a loud-mouthed mentalist with a grudge. Luckily his former selves turn up to make things even worse.
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016: Enlightenment
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 59 minutes and 28 secondsBack to re-uploading our 30 earliest episodes...
Avian headgear ahoy! Yes, the Black and White Guardians are back to oversee a space race in which Turlough goes overboard, Gladys Emmanuel is over the top and Leeee John is overestimated as an actor.
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140: The Abominable Snowmen
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes and 14 secondsJim and Martin spring a festive surprise with some new Krynoid PodCast material!
They scan the snowless Snowdonian slopes for monstrous myths and find the Doctor giving an old friend a bell, Victoria repeating herself and Jamie threatening everyone with a bagpipe recital.
But did The Abominable Snowmen thaw their cockles or give them the cold shoulder. Listen to find out!
00:00 Intro and context
07:38 A walkthrough of the story
1:15:15 A review of the story
2:08:18 A discussion of the animation
2:13:46 Summing up and scores
This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible and all other podcatchers (as far as we know).
You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
Merry Christmas and have a wonderful 2023!
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015: Attack of the Cybermen
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 56 minutes and 26 secondsThe Sixth Doctor gets a second chance with this tale of hard men, frigid women and a Fat Controller. And marvel as Jim shamelessly steals Fry and Laurie material in the intro.
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014: The Seeds of Doom
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 56 minutes and 34 secondsTime for the story which gave our pod its name. A horticultural tale in which an artistic old bat recovers a debt, a tree-hugger becomes compost and Boycie ends up out of his depth with a gardening problem.
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013: The Curse of Fenric
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 47 minutes and 21 secondsBurn your chess boards and steer clear of the beach... Fenric's in town! Look out for teenage vamps, ancient vampires and the strangest chat-up of all time. And give Nicholas Parsons just a minute of your time before crying "stunt casting!"
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012: The War Machines
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 44 minutes and 46 secondsDoctor Who is required to suffer a swinging night club, a controlled companion and a Savile comparison, all while trying to defeat a computerised menace with a vendetta against cardboard boxes.
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11: Spearhead From Space
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 8 secondsAn absolute banger involving our newly dandified hero stealing a banger. Plastic killers, a shiny receptionist and a tea-dribbling basket case thrown in.
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010: The Five Doctors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 1 minutes and 20 secondsWatch out for obelisks, chessboards and mind probes - it's The Five Doctors!
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009: The Ark in Space
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 31 minutes and 49 secondsHarry fiddles with a knob, Sarah passes out and the Doctor gets in a sweat on The Ark in Space.
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008: The Visitation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes and 32 secondsAdric trips over nothing and Richard Mace runs off for a squirter. Don't miss the lads' take on The Visitation.
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007: The Mind Robber
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 4 secondsThe lads get their minds fudged by The Mind Robber.
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006: Vengeance On Varos
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 32 secondsWe're back with some more archive "classics" this month, starting with a video nasty which is a searing indictment of video nasties, Vengeance on Varos.
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005: Remembrance of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 47 secondsJim and Martin delve into the patchy Seventh Doctor era and pull out a plum.
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004: The Web Planet
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 8 minutes and 54 secondsTime to enter the creaky world of black and white Who with a sojourn on the mysterious, blurred planet of Vortis!
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003: The Claws of Axos
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 11 minutes and 26 secondsOur first dip into the Third Doctor's era sees Jim and Martin discussing The Claws of Axos.
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002: The Deadly Assassin
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 55 minutes and 33 secondsOur second episode, in which Jim and Martin get on to the meat and potatoes of the podcast, discussing the Tom Baker solo outing, The Deadly Assassin.
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001 Introduction
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes and 10 secondsThis is the first of our earliest 30 Krynoid PodCast episodes which we're uploading to Libsyn so that all of our episodes are accessible from the same place.
Herein, a very tentative sounding Jim and Martin discuss their history with Doctor Who and compare NuWho to Classic Who.
Apologies for the sound quality. It does get better in future episodes. And apologies for Jim's over use of samples. They start and stop here.
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The Mutoid Podcast 01: The Way Back
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 51 minutes and 25 secondsWelcome to the first episode of Jim and Martin's new podcast on that other great BBC sci-fi series of the 1970s and 80s, Blake's 7.
This is just a sample episode for Krynoid PodCast listeners. Future episodes will be published at https://mutoidpodcast.libsyn.com so, if you like it, please subscribe at your usual podcatcher.
There may be a delay while the first episode reaches all of its destinations so please try again if you can't find The Mutoid Podcast first time.
Over the next few months on this feed, we will be publishing the first 30 episodes of the Krynoid PodCast which are not currently hosted at Libsyn.
When this migration is completed, all of the Krynoid PodCast episodes will be available in the same places (iTunes, Spotify, etc.).
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"We're coming back..."
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes and 20 secondsJim and Martin are returning to podcasting... with a surprising plot twist.
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Announcement
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minute and 0 secondsAn announcement on the future of the Krynoid PodCast.
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139: The Hand of Fear
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 38 secondsSo it’s time to go home for Andy Pandy fangirl, Sarah Jane Smith.
And there’s a hand pulling the strings in this show too, giving tupperware a bad name and Professor Watson a bad day at the power plant.
Handily, crystalline cosmic crook Eldrad can reform herself from her moribund mitt and then she herself suffers from a wandering hand from her leading man.
For a change, we leave a quarry to land on an alien planet where ‘she’ becomes a ‘he’, the decibel level rockets and he – and the serial – fall off a cliff.
But is it OK to fancy Eldrad?
How many (if any) puerile ‘ring’ jokes should be allowed in one podcast episode?
And do Jim and Martin think The Hand of Fear deserves a thumbs up? Or do they give it the finger?
Listen and you might get an answer to some or none of the above.
The lads also review the brand new audiobooks of Dalek and The Crimson Horror!
Also available on Spotify.
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138: The Ultimate Foe
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes and 44 secondsWelcome to The Fun Factory: trespassers will be self-prosecuted.
The Valeyard (aka The Flaw Doctor) makes the most of a unique Time Lord feature and gives his own SJW predecessor a right legal leathering on Space Station SFX.
But they still find time for trips to Camber Quicksands and Popplewick’s House of Exploding Quills, where the waiting room is spacious but gives you that sinking feeling.
The Doctor quotes, the Master gloats and Glitz dotes on bank notes, while the Keeper is not averse to the odd slide tackle to protect his Panatropic Net (even though Mel always aims for row Z).
But did Jim and Martin find The Ultimate Foe ultimately forgettable or a worthy way to end an era?
Listen to find out.
The lads also review the audiobooks of The Krotons and The Curse of Fenric.
Also available on Spotify.
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137: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 17 minutes and 54 secondsYou may think life can’t get much worse at the moment but locked-down Brexity Britain looks positively idyllic compared to Blighty under the rubber skirt of Dalek rule.
This septic isle is overrun with motorised dustbins, headphone-wearing dullards who’ve really let themselves go and the most unrealistic pet since K9.
The Doctor falls on his coccyx, Susan falls in love, Ian falls out of a door and Babs falls in with a rough crowd and TWOKs a dustcart. Luckily, a fratricidal fellow rebel lends two hands and Mr Rumbold lends his ears but the perma-grumpy Mrs Briers fails to stop Babs succumbing to crones.
Would you buy a used mattress from a Dalek?
Is the entry exam for the Roboman Academy too difficult?
How many floating corpses would it take to put you off a glass of water?
And did Jim and Martin find The Dalek Invasion of Earth to be a glorious triumph or a misbegotten folly?
Listen to find out!
The lads also review the audiobooks of Fury From The Deep and The Awakening.
Also available on Spotify.
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136: Snakedance
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 40 minutes and 27 secondsWhat could be more fun at Christmas than a Punch and Judy show?
Almost anything, of course, but perhaps even puppety domestic violence is preferable to mental subservience to an ancient evil.
This is the lot of tetchy Tegan, who’s red in tooth and eye again, but at least she gets to spread the hate with an embryonic Doc Martin this time around.
Nyssa cosplays a deckchair and the Doctor indulges in some heavy breathing, while Mr Sladen is forced to reflect on the viability of his shoddy little booth. Lon’s special dress is even shorter than his temper but not as skimpy as his mum’s interest in Ambril’s antiques.
But did Jim and Martin find Snakedance becoming or did they conclude that that’s not the way to do it?
Listen to find out!
The lads also review the audiobooks of The Mark of the Rani and The Pyramids of Mars.
Also available on Spotify.
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135: The Invasion of Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 43 minutes and 54 secondsWhen is a talkative chair not a talkative chair?
When it’s an alien shower curtain. Or a stumpy git in a pith helmet.
But, underwhelming as they are, the Vardans still plan an Invasion of Time by conquering pound-shop Gallifrey – a land of medicinal jelly beans, powerful ping pong balls and walnut-chomping dropouts.
Its denizens include Chancellor Borusa who’s more put-upon than Tom Baker’s beer mat and Castellan Kelner who’s slimier than a newly-painted Myrka. And, of course, a prototype Romana who’s qualified to wield a screwdriver but can’t hack it in the university of life, even with a bumper pack of Giant Smarties at her side.
The Doctor shouts, K9 snarks and Leela shacks up with an innocent bystander, while the surprise Sontarans stomp about, searching in vain for a jellied eels stall.
But did Jim and Martin find the story an all-conquering triumph or was it just an unwelcome invasion of their time?
Listen to find out.
The lads also review the audiobooks of The Doomsday Weapon and The Edge of Destruction.
Also available on Spotify.
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134: Fury From The Deep
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes and 10 secondsScream if you want to leave faster!
That seems to be Victoria’s tactic as she sobs, whimpers and shrieks her way out of the show in Fury From The Deep.
Indeed, old Leather Lungs’ prodigious output is harnessed to harass some killer kelp and make its human puppets less weedy – even beating the expert man-mismanager John Robson for decibels in the process.
Jamie opts out of a foam party and, for a change, it’s the Doctor who can’t control his chopper. Meanwhile, Mr Wint and Mr Kidd need to rethink their dental hygiene regimes and Perkins would be better off seeking his raison d’etre than searching for a spouse.
Has Maggie Harris been at the Mother’s Ruin?
Does the new animation place the story deeper within the long arms of the lore?
And did Fury From The Deep sweep Jim and Martin along or leave them beached on the shores of ennui?
Listen to find out.
The lads also review the audiobooks of The Dominators and Dragonfire.
Also available on Spotify.
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133: The Space Museum
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 20 minutes and 10 secondsA museum? On a planet, you say?
Amazingly, that’s just where TARDIS brings Doctor Who and chums in The Space Museum. But the problems here are worse than an expensive gift shop, a blocked urinal or a coach party of feral school kids.
For the planet Xeros is occupied by the moaning Morocks, a race only slightly less pathetic than the indigenous teenage beatniks, among whom subjugation raises barely/only an eyebrow.
And our plucky travellers have problems of their own, chiefly their future starring roles in the most boring tourist attraction since the financially disastrous Sensorites’ Sexy Sashes exhibition.
Our heroes deal with the trauma in their own individual ways though, with the Doctor kipping for an episode, Vicki stirring up the students, Babs having a smoke break and Ian chewing her cardigan.
Will the time travellers evade their fate?
Would you buy a used glass from Vicki?
What day is Nude Day on the TARDIS?
And did Jim and Martin find themselves informed and entertained by The Space Museum or is it just a dusty old relic?
Listen to find out!
The lads also review the audiobooks of The Curse of Peladon and Image of the Fendahl.
You can also find this and many other Krynoid PodCast episodes on Spotify.
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132: Colony In Space
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes and 38 secondsA bit of holiday advice from the Green Cathedral: better a staycation in Blighty than a sojourn on Uxarieus, a planet more miserable than Raymond Cusick at a Dalek memorabilia auction.
But this monochrome blob of clay is surprisingly sought after, with hairy hippies and corporate breadheads alike fighting to the death over it. And perhaps the indigenous residents might even feel they have a claim to the land. Not that anyone cares about that, of course.
As well as providing mud, rain and a single flower, Uxarieus offers a mother lode of the very mineral that the twelvty squillion residents of 25th Century Earth desperately need and the very eff-off WMD the Master evilly craves.
So, to this end, the future Rev Magister pretends to be an Adjudicator while the wiggy Cap'n Dent tries to put the willies up the colonists with rubbish robots and home videos of his pet gecko.
Throw in a crap puppet, prune-faced priests, over-Botoxed primitives and a prescient nod to a taboo TV host and we have something of a carnival of monsters.
But did Jim and Martin warm to the wet February clay pit that is the Colony In Space or did it leave them colder than Terry Walsh's wobbly bits?
Listen to find out!
We also review the audiobooks of The Cybermen and Paradise Towers. Find us on Spotify too.
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131 The Dominators
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 12 minutes and 4 secondsAs travel restrictions relax, maybe it’s time to give Cully’s Adventures Unlimited a whirl?
His ship’s a bit of a squeeze but the elderly Lothario can secretly sail you to the enticing Island of Death with its distinctive countryside, prestigious museum and friendly fellow tourists, The Dominators.
Their Quarks are as cheesy as they sound – and they sound ridiculous. Nevertheless they’re more than capable of duffing up the docile Dulkians, who are wetter than a Sea Devil’s shower cap.
TV’s Brian Cant offers some resistance for a while but then departs for a smoke so it’s up to Jamie, Zoe, the Doctor and some other bloke dressed as the Doctor to save the day.
But what the heck is a rob’t?
Will Rago and Toba ever seek marriage guidance?
What did Cully witness when Jamie climbed that ladder?
And did The Dominators recharge Jim and Martin’s batteries or leave them as demoralised as a person pretending to be a dummy of a person?
Listen to find out!
Also available on Spotify.
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130: Image of the Fendahl
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes and 25 secondsMany of you may still be locked up with your family but, with any luck, your house-mates don’t include a glowing alien skull, a gun-toting Teuton and a creepy occultist.
Even Benylin Bandersnatch’s mum would be of little comfort, haunted as she is by a noisy, slimy creature (named Adam Colby).
The TARDIS team come to the rescue but K9’s lost his voice, Leela’s lost some of her hair and the Doctor’s lost his ability to distinguish Jelly Babies from Liquorice Allsorts.
Luckily, the Tylers (not those Tylers!) are on hand to dispense cake, rock salt and Mummerset premonitions.
But did Image of the Fendahl give Jim and Martin a burst of primal power or suck out their collective life-force?
Listen to find out!
We also review the audiobooks of The Five Doctors and The Daemons.
Also available on Spotify.
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129: Paradise Towers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes and 8 secondsFeeling trapped in your home with limited entertainment and an uncertain world outside?
Well maybe you can sympathise with the residents of Paradise Towers – a horrible high-rise housing low-rent war machines, an apparently tin Hitler, omnivorous OAPs and TV’s most amateur and least dramatic junior AmDram group.
The Doctor wants answers, Mel wants a dip and Kroagnon wants a mass eviction order. Familiarly, it’s reds versus blues with the yellows invisible (robot crabs included).
So did Paradise Towers build Jim and Martin’s happiness high or did they feel unalive by the end of it all?
Listen to find out!
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Krynoid PodCast Extra: Dimensions in Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 22 minutes and 48 secondsAs our next episode (Paradise Towers) may be a little later than usual and as many of you will have more time than usual to kill, we’ve dredged up something from our past as a piece of additional Lockdown content.
Back in March 2017, the Blue Box Podcast kindly invited us and others to contribute to their 250th episode. We weighed in with a 20 minute review of the 1993 Children in Need charity special, Dimensions in Time.
You can watch Dimensions in Time here.
If you didn’t catch our review first time around, or would like to here it again, here it is. Also available on Spotify.
All the Blue Box Podcasts can be found on iTunes, etc. but, as you may know, the team have since regenerated into the Strangers in Space podcast – well worth subscribing to and also available on iTunes.
Stay safe.
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Krynoid PodCast Extra: Dimensions in Time
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 22 minutes and 48 secondsAs our next episode (Paradise Towers) will be later than usual and as many of you will have more time than usual to kill, we’ve dredged up something from our past as a piece of additional Lockdown content.
Back in March 2017, the Blue Box Podcast kindly invited us and others to contribute to their 250th episode. We weighed in with a 20 minute review of the 1993 Children in Need charity special, Dimensions in Time.
You can watch Dimensions in Time here.
If you didn’t catch our review first time around, or would like to here it again, here it is. Also available on Spotify.
All the Blue Box Podcasts can be found on iTunes, etc. but, as you may know, the team have since regenerated into the Strangers in Space podcast – well worth subscribing to and also available on iTunes.
Stay safe.
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128: Marco Polo
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes and 59 secondsWith all of us seeing rather too much of our immediate locales at the moment, what better time to come with us on a voyage through old Cathay?
That said, our TARDIS team may have preferred to self-isolate from their travelling companions – a thieving Venetian and a Machiavellian Mongol.
On this trip of a lifetime, our magic caravanners must face frostbite, poisoning, thirst, a surfeit of sand and some interpretive dance.
The Doctor gets hysterical, Susan gets a friend, Ian gets a go at cherchez la femme and it all gets a bit dicey for Babs.
Will the Doctor ever get back the keys to his caravan?
Does the TARDIS carry a dehumidifier?
Will the great Kublai Khan resort to Cathayan viagra to escape his wife?
And did the trip broaden the minds of Jim and Martin or leave them saddle sore?
Listen to find out!
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128: Marco Polo
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes and 59 secondsWith all of us seeing rather too much of our immediate locales at the moment, what better time to come with us on a voyage through old Cathay?
That said, our TARDIS team may have preferred to self-isolate from their travelling companions – a thieving Venetian and a Machiavellian Mongol.
On this trip of a lifetime, our magic caravanners must face frostbite, poisoning, thirst, a surfeit of sand and some interpretive dance.
The Doctor gets hysterical, Susan gets a friend, Ian gets a go at cherchez la femme and it all gets a bit dicey for Babs.
Will the Doctor ever get back the keys to his caravan?
Does the TARDIS carry a dehumidifier?
Will the great Kublai Khan resort to Cathayan viagra to escape his wife?
And did the trip broaden the minds of Jim and Martin or leave them saddle sore?
Listen to find out!
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127: The Leisure Hive
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes and 50 secondsIn need of a holiday in these trying times?
Where better than Space Fawlty Towers on the nuke-shagged planet of Argolis?
Answer: almost anywhere.
For The Leisure Hive is a place where reptiles skin up, guests are dismembered and squash players lose their balls.
Romana gets a new lab partner, the Doctor gets an old face and K9 regrets his attempt to become a salty sea dog.
The First Lady doesn’t bat a green eyelid when her husband spills his seed and dies. Instead she hooks up with her fancy (hu)man, spends a lot of time sprawled on a table and ends up with a baby.
Is Pangol Prentis’s apprentice?
What girdles do the Foamasi use and where can we get some?
And did The Leisure Hive give Jim and Martin a new lease of life or make them feel older than Santa Tom?
Listen to find out!
Also available on Spotify.
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127: The Leisure Hive
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes and 50 secondsIn need of a holiday in these trying times?
Where better than Space Fawlty Towers on the nuke-shagged planet of Argolis?
Answer: almost anywhere.
For The Leisure Hive is a place where reptiles skin up, guests are dismembered and squash players lose their balls.
Romana gets a new lab partner, the Doctor gets an old face and K9 regrets his attempt to become a salty sea dog.
The First Lady doesn’t bat a green eyelid when her husband spills his seed and dies. Instead she hooks up with her fancy (hu)man, spends a lot of time sprawled on a table and ends up with a baby.
Is Pangol Prentis’s apprentice?
What girdles do the Foamasi use and where can we get some?
And did The Leisure Hive give Jim and Martin a new lease of life or make them feel older than Santa Tom?
Listen to find out!
Also available on Spotify.
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126: The Power of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 29 minutes and 17 secondsSo you want to continue your successful show but need to recast your leading man. What do you do?
Why you make things as difficult as possible for your bemused audience to accept him, of course!
The Power of the Daleks sees impish impostor Pat Troughton cackling evilly, talking about himself in the third person and doing his very best to disingratiate himself with the good cop / bad cop companions, Polly and Ben.
Luckily there are some seemingly servile Daleks to distract their attention, along with some crafty colonists, an increasingly mad professor and Vulcan’s worst ever spy.
Polly wears shorts, the Doctor wears a silly hat, and Ben wears down everyone’s nerves with his unmanaged anger.
Does Valmar desire dominatrices?
Who would win in a fight between Hartnell and Troughton?
Will the Doctor’s recorder soon be in need of a rinse?
And did Jim and Martin find the new bloke a refreshing change or more like a fart in the face from a mercury swamp?
Listen to find out!
Also available on Spotify.
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126: The Power of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 29 minutes and 17 secondsSo you want to continue your successful show but need to recast your leading man. What do you do?
Why you make it as difficult as possible for your bemused audience to accept him, of course!
The Power of the Daleks sees impish impostor Pat Troughton cackling evilly, talking about himself in the third person and doing his very best to disingratiate himself with the good cop / bad cop companions, Polly and Ben.
Luckily there are some seemingly servile Daleks to distract their attention, along with some crafty colonists, an increasingly mad professor and Vulcan’s worst ever spy.
Polly wears shorts, the Doctor wears a silly hat, and Ben wears down everyone’s nerves with his unmanaged anger.
Does Valmar desire dominatrices?
Who would win in a fight between Hartnell and Troughton?
Will the Doctor’s recorder soon be in need of a rinse?
And did Jim and Martin find the new bloke a refreshing change or more like a fart in the face from a mercury swamp?
Listen to find out!
Also available on Spotify.
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125: Earthshock
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes and 34 secondsWe start 2020 with an ending.
Loathe him or hate him, Adric has been a big part (prat?) of 80s Who but all things must pass, however indigestible.
Yes, this is Earthshock, which packed a couple of major bombshells back in the day (not counting Beryl Reid). It’s a tale of pointless deaths, some equally pointless characters and gender fluid troopers (many of them genuinely fluid by the time the murderous mime act has finished with them).
The Doctor promotes fine dining, Tegan packs heat, Nyssa plays house and Adric ploughs into the Diplodocidae. Meanwhile, it’s all bonuses and bollockings from Beryl and her long-suffering lackey can’t even sell out his own planet properly. Luckily Scott musters more machismo in his moustache than in Ringway’s whole body but cringing Kyle goes from gung-ho to agoraphobic at the drop of a boiler suit.
So were Jim and Martin wildly cheering or weeping inconsolably by the end of it all?
Listen to find out.
Also available on Spotify.
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125: Earthshock
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes and 34 secondsWe start 2020 with an ending.
Loathe him or hate him, Adric has been a big part (prat?) of 80s Who but all things must pass, however indigestible.
Yes, this is Earthshock, which packed a couple of major bombshells back in the day (not counting Beryl Reid). It’s a tale of pointless deaths, some equally pointless characters and gender fluid troopers (many of them genuinely fluid by the time the murderous mime act has finished with them).
The Doctor promotes fine dining, Tegan packs heat, Nyssa plays house and Adric ploughs into the Diplodocidae. Meanwhile, it’s all bonuses and bollockings from Beryl and her long-suffering lackey can’t even sell out his own planet properly. Luckily Scott musters more machismo in his moustache than in Ringway’s whole body but cringing Kyle goes from gung-ho to agoraphobic at the drop of a boiler suit.
So were Jim and Martin wildly cheering or weeping inconsolably by the end of it all?
Listen to find out.
Also available on Spotify.
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124: The Armageddon Factor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes and 28 secondsIn their December episode, Jim and Martin ease themselves into Whuletide by settling down to watch The Black and White Guardian Show.
It’s something of a festive feast, featuring as it does Rudolph the Two-Nosed Shadow, a space Trotter and some props which look suspiciously like they’ve come out of a Christmas cracker (along with some of the jokes).
The wicked Marshal gets advice from his mirror while our fairy tale princess is prepared to be part of a crystal to get the part of Romana. She’s pursued by a man who’s wetter than a Sea Devil’s vest and he’s feebly assisted by another, whose life seems to be redirected halfway through by a visit from three ghosts – presumably Norman Wisdom, Mr Pastry and a Chuckle Brother.
Meanwhile, the Doctor rants, Romana vamps and K9 switches masters as rapidly as TV channels on a bloated Boxing Day.
But did the lads think The Armageddon Factor was a missing piece in their lives or was it the last orange cream in the Quality Street tin of Television?
Listen to find out!
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124: The Armageddon Factor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes and 28 secondsIn our December episode, Jim and Martin ease themselves into Whuletide by settling down to watch The Black and White Guardian Show.
It’s something of a festive feast, featuring as it does Rudolph the Two-Nosed Shadow, a space Trotter on hols from ver Big Smoke and some props which look suspiciously like they’ve come out of a Christmas cracker (along with some of the jokes).
The wicked Marshal gets advice from his mirror while our fairy tale princess is prepared to be part of a crystal to get the part of Romana. She’s pursued by a man who’s wetter than a Sea Devil’s vest and he’s feebly assisted by another, whose life seems to be redirected halfway through by a visit from three ghosts – presumably Norman Wisdom, Mr Pastry and a Chuckle Brother.
Meanwhile, the Doctor rants, Romana vamps and K9 switches masters as rapidly as TV channels on a bloated Boxing Day.
But did the lads think The Armageddon Factor was a missing piece in their lives or was it the last orange cream in the Quality Street tin of Television?
Listen to find out!
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123: Planet of the Spiders
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes and 47 seconds“No, I shan’t… you shan’t take him!”
Jenny Laird crashes out of the running for her own award in the arachnophobe’s nightmare that is Planet of the Spiders.
It’s a tale of a tweedy traitor, yogic flying, mind-altering jewellery and more creepy crawlies than you can shake a rolled-up newspaper at.
The Brig blushes, Sarah rushes (between two stories) and Mike Yates saves face while the Doctor loses his.
Would you buy a used watch from the Brigadier?
Was Mike Yates already doing exotic dancer exercises?
Can anyone free Lupton’s mandala?
And do Jim and Martin think this story is a Great One or in need of regeneration?
Listen to find out!
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123: Planet of the Spiders
Episode Duration: 0 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes and 47 seconds“No, I shan’t… you shan’t take him!”
Jenny Laird crashes out of the running for her own award in the arachnophobe’s nightmare that is Planet of the Spiders.
It’s a tale of a tweedy traitor, yogic flying, mind-altering jewellery and more creepy crawlies than you can shake a rolled-up newspaper at.
The Brig blushes, Sarah rushes (between two stories) and Mike Yates saves face while the Doctor loses his.
Would you buy a used watch from the Brigadier?
Was Mike Yates already doing exotic dancer exercises?
Can anyone free Lupton’s mandala?
And do Jim and Martin think this story is a Great One or in need of regeneration?
Listen to find out!