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In der heutigen Folge des Whocastes besprechen Harald und Raphael die vierte Folge der sechsten Stalle Doctor Who - The Doctor's Wife - von Neil Gaiman. Ausserdem die News der letzten Tage und wir haben Post. Als besonderen Bonus haben die beiden Podcaster japanische Bruste im Studio, mit denen sie vor laufendem Mikrophon rumspielen und sie auf dem Hohepunkt des Castes sogar vernaschen...

As we are in the mid series lull, the reviewing duo of Phil and Paul decide to travel back in time and have a retrospective of Series 5 starting with Matt Smith's first episode The Eleventh Hour. They decide whether this is the finest post regeneration story ever and what they were feeling when this episode first aired (mainly trepidation and excitement if you can't wait).

They also discuss this weeks main news stories, which is a distinct lack of Torchwood news in the UK and the next round of fretting over Series 7, where there was panic on the streets of Twitter.

As we are in the mid series lull, the reviewing duo of Phil and Paul decide to travel back in time and have a retrospective of Series 5 starting with Matt Smith's first episode The Eleventh Hour. They decide whether this is the finest post regeneration story ever and what they were feeling when this episode first aired (mainly trepidation and excitement if you can't wait).

They also discuss this weeks main news stories, which is a distinct lack of Torchwood news in the UK and the next round of fretting over Series 7, where there was panic on the streets of Twitter.

It’s a fight to the death and Scott and Matt are loving the sexy politics in the Jon Pertwee 4-part serial “The Curse of Peladon”. The Doctor and Jo land on the planet Peladon, where they become embroiled in the politics of its admission to the Galactic Federation, and have to contend with an ancient curse. Can the Doctor convince the newly crowned king of Peladon that he had nothing to do with an attempted assassination? How many times did the king talk to Jo before proposing to her? What’s with all the green aliens? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next Week: William Hartnell and “The War Machines”!!

It’s a fight to the death and Scott and Matt are loving the sexy politics in the Jon Pertwee 4-part serial “The Curse of Peladon”. The Doctor and Jo land on the planet Peladon, where they become embroiled in the politics of its admission to the Galactic Federation, and have to contend with an ancient curse. Can the Doctor convince the newly crowned king of Peladon that he had nothing to do with an attempted assassination? How many times did the king talk to Jo before proposing to her? What’s with all the green aliens? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next Week: William Hartnell and “The War Machines”!!

So fill up your glasses

With the Three Who Rule

As they try to convince you

That The Gunfighters is cool

With their friends Ed and Toby

Good times will be soon

Till there's blood upon the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

Along with news and discussion

(Is Doctor Who really doomed?)

When there's blood on the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

So fill up your glasses

With the Three Who Rule

As they try to convince you

That The Gunfighters is cool

With their friends Ed and Toby

Good times will be soon

Till there's blood upon the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

Along with news and discussion

(Is Doctor Who really doomed?)

When there's blood on the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

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

So fill up your glasses

With the Three Who Rule

As they try to convince you

That The Gunfighters is cool

With their friends Ed and Toby

Good times will be soon

Till there's blood upon the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

Along with news and discussion

(Is Doctor Who really doomed?)

When there's blood on the sawdust

in "The Last Chance" Saloon.

In this episode we'll be looking at the music of Dudley Simpson focusing on his music from Series 7 of Doctor Who. In this episode we will look at his work on Serial CCC - Story 53 - The Ambassadors of Death. This discussion with Radio Free Skaro co-host Steven Schapansky and writer, actor and commedian Toby Hadoke was recorded on the 16th of May, 2011.

In this episode we'll be looking at the music of Dudley Simpson focusing on his music from Series 7 of Doctor Who. In this episode we will look at his work on Serial CCC - Story 53 - The Ambassadors of Death. This discussion with Radio Free Skaro co-host Steven Schapansky and writer, actor and commedian Toby Hadoke was recorded on the 16th of May, 2011.

Science Fiction on the grand scale! Far futures and Galactic struggles. This week the Collective talks about epic storylines in books, TV & films

Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins and Keith Dunn sit down, possessed, in front of the 2011 Doctor Who episode, The Doctor’s Wife, and spout our usual nonsense!

The Doctor’s heard a cry, Amy’s stuck running around corridors, Uncle and Auntie have had some hard graft and Sexy is feeling very embodied. But enough of their problems, please sit down with us to enjoy Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Wifea|

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• Staggering Stories.
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Science Fiction on the grand scale! Far futures and Galactic struggles. This week the Collective talks about epic storylines in books, TV & films

Science Fiction on the grand scale! Far futures and Galactic struggles. This week the Collective talks about epic storylines in books, TV & films

Science Fiction on the grand scale! Far futures and Galactic struggles. This week the Collective talks about epic storylines in books, TV & films

Test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is given a ring which grants super-powers by a dying alien and recruited into an intergalactic peace-keeping force. Hal tries to avoid the responsibility, but a threat to the Earth and the Green Lantern Corps forces him to become a hero. Green Lantern belongs to Warner Bros. This review is for critical and educational purposes only. Be sure to comment and subscribe!

REPRINTED FROM WIKIPEDIA WITH THANKS AND RESPECT This story features a creature known as the Malus, who is responsible for creating a time link between the year of 1984 and the events from the English Civil War. The Doctor must also face the villagers of Little Hodcombe, who have been influenced by the Malus, and save Tegan before she is burned as the ill-fated Queen of the May. [edit] Plot On 13 July 1643, two forces came to the village of Little Hodcombe during the English Civil War and destroyed each other. As the story begins, a group of Roundheads are riding horses in the village of Little Hodcombe, with little regard to the villagers around them. Only it is not 1643, it is 1984. A schoolteacher, Jane Hampden, is convinced that her fellow villagers, led by the town’s leader, Sir George Hutchinson, have taken their re-enactment of a series of war games too far. Hutchinson attempts to assure her that the games are a harmless event, which are merely to celebrate the English Civil War. When Hampden asks him to stop the games, Hutchinson ignores her. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor promises to take his companion, Tegan, to 1984 so she could spend some time with her grandfather, Andrew Verney. The Doctor sets the coordinates to Little Hodcombe, where Verney resides. However, the TARDIS experiences some turbulence and arrives in what appears to be a structurally unstable church. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, while watching on the scanner, see a man in 17th Century clothing, fleeing from the church and the Doctor dashes out to help him. However, the man has now vanished. Tegan is convinced that they have landed in the wrong time zone. However, Turlough tells her that he had checked the TARDIS coordinates and they were in 1984. As the Time Lord and his companions continue pursue the man, smoke starts to billow from a crack in the wall. Eventually, the three travellers are captured by Captain Joseph Willow and taken to Sir George Hutchinson. The Doctor and his companions are first brought before Hampden and Colonel Ben Woolsey, who apologizes for the poor treatment that they received. Hutchinson arrives and explains to the Doctor that the town is celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of Little Hodcombe and then he urges him to join the celebration. Tegan then explains that they have come to this village to see her grandfather, Andrew Verney. She is informed that her grandfather is missing, and runs outside the room, upset. The Doctor follows but loses her. Tegan, still upset, is crying when someone steals her purse. She tries to get it back and she runs into a barn where she finds the ghost of an old man. The Doctor returns to the church and meets a 17th Century peasant, Will Chandler, who emerges from a wall. He has been hidden in a priest hole and believes the year to be 1643. Turlough eventually rescues Tegan from the barn and they return to the TARDIS, where they see a sparkly projection on one of the walls. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Will investigate the church. Tegan and Turlough leave the TARDIS and they are re-captured. Turlough is locked in a building with Verney. Willow forces Tegan to change into a 17th century costume. He informs her that she is to become the Queen of the May. The Doctor and Will continue to investigate. Eventually they find a secret passage back to Ben Woolsey’s living room under a slab marked with a picture of a creature that Will identifies as the Malus. Coming the other way through the passage, the Doctor and Will meet up with Hampden, who found the passage’s other end by accident after being locked in Colonel Wolsey's office. They avoid Hutchinson, who has followed Jane down the passage, and the Doctor finds a small ball of metal. The Doctor identifies the metal as “tinclavic,” a metal “mined by the Terileptils on the planet Raaga for the almost exclusive use of the people of Hakol,” a planet in the “star system Rifta,” where “psychic energy is a force to be harnessed.” Returning to the church, the Doctor and Hampden are astonished when a massive alien face pushes its way through the crack on the wall, roaring and spewing smoke. They manage to escape from the psychic projection of a cavalier, and head back to the house via the tunnel. The Doctor realises that the Malus in the church was discovered by Verney and Hutchinson. The latter tried to exploit the creature, but instead, the creature began to use him by organizing the war games. He deduces that the psychic energy released by the war games has fed the Malus. The Doctor and Jane again try to persuade Hutchinson to stop the games, as the final battle will be for real. He refuses and orders Woolsey to kill the Doctor. However, once Hutchinson leaves, Woolsey joins forces with the Doctor. The Queen of the May is taken in a horse-drawn cart towards the village green, where she is to be burned. When the cart arrives, Hutchinson suddenly noticed that the Queen is not Tegan, but a straw dummy that has been put in her place by Woolsey. Hutchinson becomes angry and he orders his men to kill Woolsey and the others. Will appears in the nick of time and uses a flame torch to cause a distraction, which allows the Doctor, Hampden, Woolsey and Tegan to escape and get back to the TARDIS. The Doctor locks the signal conversion unit on the frequency of the psychic energy feeding the Malus, hoping to be able to direct it. Willow and a trooper try in vain to break their way into the TARDIS, and Turlough and Verney knock them unconscious with lumps of masonry. The Doctor succeeds in blocking the energy, and the projection of the Malus in the TARDIS dies. The real Malus, in an act of desperation, attempts to drain as much psychic energy from the villagers as possible. He creates a corporeal projection of three roundheads who try to kill the Doctor, Woolsey, Tegan, Turlough, Hampden, Verney and Will. However, the dazed and confused trooper stumbles from the TARDIS and into the main church area, becomes surrounded by the roundheads, and they decapitate him then vanish. Hutchinson arrives and holds them all at gunpoint. When the Doctor tries to talk Hutchinson out of the thrall of the Malus, Willow attacks the group. In the scuffle, Will pushes Hutchinson into the mouth of the Malus, destroying the Malus's medium. Realizing it has failed, the Malus prepares to destroy itself and everything around it. Subsequently the church begins to collapse and the Doctor leads the others, including Willow, into the safety of the TARDIS. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor's companions are surprised to see Will still among them. The Doctor explains that he must have been wrong in his assumption that Will was a psychic projection. He then says that the Malus must have created a temporal rift, which allowed Will to slip into the future. The Time Lord then says that he will take Will back to 1643. Tegan objects and ask the Doctor to allow her some time to visit her grandfather. The Doctor is initially disgruntled but he is persuaded to stay in Little Hodcombe for a while for a rest. [edit] Continuity No explanation is given for companion Kamelion's absence from this story. The Doctor mentions the Terileptils mining tinclavic on the planet Raaga. Script editor Eric Saward added this in the script to create a reference to his own story The Visitation (1982). He had planned to write another story featuring the Terileptils, and wanted to make sure the audience remembered who they were. But as events worked out, Saward never wrote their planned return. This was the first story to feature alterations to the Fifth Doctor's costume. The Doctor wears a lighter-coloured frock coat, and a white "v-neck" cricketer's sweater with thick red and black piping around the "v" and the lower waist, as opposed to the costume he wore during the previous two seasons where the "v-neck" piping was thin and coloured red, white and black and there was no piping around the waist. The shirt is also altered with green lining on the collar and where the shirt is buttoned, instead of red. The Doctor disposed of his original costume in episode 2 of the previous story, Warriors of the Deep, in which he disguised himself in the uniform of a Sea Base 4 guard; it is possible he never retrieved his costume from the base before he left. The Fifth Doctor would wear the secondary version of his costume for the remainder of the season, save for most of Planet of Fire (1984). The newly regenerated Sixth Doctor would also be seen wearing it during the first episode of his debut story, The Twin Dilemma (1984). The Seventh Doctor encounters the other half of the Hakolian war machine that became the Malus in the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Hollow Men. [edit] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 19 January 1984 25:18 7.9 "Part Two" 20 January 1984 24:47 6.6 [2][3][4] The working titles of this story were War Game and Poltergeist. Pringle had submitted this story in the mid-1970s to then-script editor Robert Holmes as a four-part story entitled War Game. In the 1980s he resubmitted his story (as well as a different four-parter, The Darkness, possibly featuring the Daleks) to script editor Eric Saward. Realizing the story did not have enough impact for four episodes, it was later pared down to two, renamed Poltergeist and then finally The Awakening. The story featured extensive location shooting and studio work. Saward wanted to add a TARDIS sequence with Tegan and Kamelion, utilising the robot prop and played in chameleonic form by Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. However, this scene was cut from the transmitted episode for timing reasons. The recovery of an early edit of episode one on video (in the personal archive of late producer John Nathan Turner) means that this element, previously thought lost, may now be included on a DVD release of the serial. A small part of the scene has appeared in the documentary Kamelion: Metal Man which featured on the DVD release of The King's Demons[5]. The master tape for Part One was found to have some scratch damage when the 1984 compilation version was being mastered, no protection copy was made at that time so the original tx master continued to deteriorate, the tape was checked in the early 90's and the scratch damage found to be far more intrusive than it had been in 84, fortunately the original film sequences were kept and using these, the compilation copy and the reprise from part 2, in 1997 the Doctor Who Restoration Team were able to make a repaired master copy. This was used for the VHS release. The episode will probably have to be restored from scratch when, at some point, it is mastered for DVD. This was officially the final story of the series to consist of two 25-minute episodes. All two parters since then have been 45 minutes long per episode, including most of season 22 and several stories of the revived series. The Ultimate Foe, the concluding segment of The Trial of a Time Lord, is numbered on screen as Parts Thirteen and Fourteen of the latter title; furthermore, they share the same BBC production code, 7C, with the preceding four-part story arc, Terror of the Vervoids, even though they have their own separate novelisation and feature compilation. The production designer for this story, Barry Newbery, had worked on Doctor Who intermittently ever since its very first story. After completing "Awakening", Newbery took early retirement from the BBC, making this story his last professional effort. John Nathan-Turner liked the character of Will Chandler a great deal and seriously considered keeping him on as a companion. However, it was eventually concluded that Chandler's child-like character would quickly wear thin and lacked any clear path of development, so Nathan-Turner dropped the idea. [edit] In print Doctor Who book The Awakening Series Target novelisations Release number 95 Writer Eric Pringle Publisher Target Books Cover artist Andrew Skilleter ISBN 0-426-20158-2 Release date 13 June 1985 A novelisation of this serial, written by Eric Pringle, was published by Target Books in February 1985. [edit] Broadcast and VHS release The story was repeated on BBC One in July 1984 as a 46min compilation (20/07/84) at 6.50pm. This story was released on a double VHS set with Frontios in March 1997. It will be released in a box set named Earth Story along with The Gunfighters on 20th June 2011. [edit] References ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 132. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system. ^ Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). "The Awakening". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ "The Awakening". Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). "The Awakening". A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ http://www.denofgeek.com/Reviews/527149/doctor_who_kamelion_tales_collection_dvd_review.html [edit] External links The Awakening at BBC Online The Awakening at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel) The Awakening at the Doctor Who Reference Guide The Awakening on BBCWorldwideTV Youtube channel [edit] Reviews The Awakening reviews at Outpost Gallifrey The Awakening reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide [edit] Target novelisation On Target — The Awakening

Waffle On About Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On Podcast in which Meds and Kell discuss the brilliant Monty Python film Life of Brian. Often touted as the best comedy film ever made (we agree) it also has caused (unfairly) some controversy. Written and starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle this film tells the story of Brian a Jewish (or is he a Roman) man caught up being mistaken for the Messiah and no matter how many time he tries to convince people he is just a average bloke no one believes hm including Pilate the Roman leader. We play clips from the film and of course the main title theme and the brilliant end credits ong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Waffle On About Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On Podcast in which Meds and Kell discuss the brilliant Monty Python film Life of Brian. Often touted as the best comedy film ever made (we agree) it also has caused (unfairly) some controversy. Written and starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle this film tells the story of Brian a Jewish (or is he a Roman) man caught up being mistaken for the Messiah and no matter how many time he tries to convince people he is just a average bloke no one believes hm including Pilate the Roman leader. We play clips from the film and of course the main title theme and the brilliant end credits ong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Waffle On About Monty Pythons Life of Brian.

Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On Podcast in which Meds and Kell discuss the brilliant Monty Python film Life of Brian. Often touted as the best comedy film ever made (we agree) it also has caused (unfairly) some controversy. Written and starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle this film tells the story of Brian a Jewish (or is he a Roman) man caught up being mistaken for the Messiah and no matter how many time he tries to convince people he is just a average bloke no one believes hm including Pilate the Roman leader.

We play clips from the film and of course the main title theme and the brilliant end credits ong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Waffle On About Monty Pythons Life of Brian.

Welcome to this months edition of Waffle On Podcast in which Meds and Kell discuss the brilliant Monty Python film Life of Brian. Often touted as the best comedy film ever made (we agree) it also has caused (unfairly) some controversy. Written and starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle this film tells the story of Brian a Jewish (or is he a Roman) man caught up being mistaken for the Messiah and no matter how many time he tries to convince people he is just a average bloke no one believes hm including Pilate the Roman leader.

We play clips from the film and of course the main title theme and the brilliant end credits ong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Collecting the known knowns, the known unknowns, an unknown unknown, and some speculation about the future of Series 7 of Doctor Who, known-known to air in 2012 and 2013.

Steven Manfred's (www.doctorwhodvdfaq.com) anonymously-sourced speculation on the Series 7 schedule was posted to the Gallifrey Base forums on June 18 in the Transmissions-"Doctor Who in 2012 [Mega Merged] Part 2" thread, post #972.

Stuart Ian Burns's excellent blog is at feelinglistless.blogspot.com.

Ok, look, you have a choice.. A Stetson or a Cavilier's hat with a HUGE feather! Yes, it's Earth Story, reviewed for your listening pleasure. Also Dave has a bit of a rant about all this no new series nonsense. Feel free to spot the random cat noises.

The DWO WhoCast - Rory Williams is scared of IT!

This time, the guys debate whether the FPS genre has become too focussed on the violence and the pros and cons of retailer exclusive DLC before looking at this year's E3 event. We discuss the three main press conferences from E3 - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo before having a look at some of the other game announcements.

This time, the guys debate whether the FPS genre has become too focussed on the violence and the pros and cons of retailer exclusive DLC before looking at this year's E3 event. We discuss the three main press conferences from E3 - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo before having a look at some of the other game announcements.

This week the news was anounced that BBC TV Centre, home to many a Dr Who episode is being sold by the BBC so I bring you the reaction of DJ Danny Baker who was about to go on air when the news was announced. Also this week my Gallifrey One coverage concludes with the Doctor Who The Adventure Games panel which consisted of writers James Moran and Phil Ford and actor Sarah Douglas being interviewed by Gary Russell.

This week's end theme is a Nintendo SNES version of the Dr Who theme by DoctorOctoRoc.

You can find video of this week's panel here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXektQzo-fM

and DoctorOctoRoc's version of the theme here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuORTbSRXM

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 the news was anounced that BBC TV Centre, home to many a Dr Who episode is being sold by the BBC so I bring you the reaction of DJ Danny Baker who was about to go on air when the news was announced. Also this week my Gallifrey One coverage concludes with the Doctor Who The Adventure Games panel which consisted of writers James Moran and Phil Ford and actor Sarah Douglas being interviewed by Gary Russell.

This week's end theme is a Nintendo SNES version of the Dr Who theme by DoctorOctoRoc.

You can find video of this week's panel here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXektQzo-fM

and DoctorOctoRoc's version of the theme here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuORTbSRXM

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 the news was anounced that BBC TV Centre, home to many a Dr Who episode is being sold by the BBC so I bring you the reaction of DJ Danny Baker who was about to go on air when the news was announced. Also this week my Gallifrey One coverage concludes with the Doctor Who The Adventure Games panel which consisted of writers James Moran and Phil Ford and actor Sarah Douglas being interviewed by Gary Russell.

This week's end theme is a Nintendo SNES version of the Dr Who theme by DoctorOctoRoc.

You can find video of this week's panel here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXektQzo-fM

and DoctorOctoRoc's version of the theme here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuORTbSRXM

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.

My indifferent reaction to series 32a of Doctor Who has finally triggered the desire to podcast for the first time in a while. Hear me have a bit of a rant about TARDIS translation circuits. Watch in HD – http://youtu.be/eufdUu7Ey58?hd=1

My indifferent reaction to series 32a of Doctor Who has finally triggered the desire to podcast for the first time in a while. Hear me have a bit of a rant about TARDIS translation circuits. Watch in HD – http://youtu.be/eufdUu7Ey58?hd=1

A general news roundup followed by posh music and a posh wine

EDITED.So how goes the war.Check out this lastest episode.feedback doctorwhoreview@gmail.com

My indifferent reaction to series 32a of Doctor Who has finally triggered the desire to podcast for the first time in a while. Hear me have a bit of a rant about TARDIS translation circuits.

Watch in HD - http://youtu.be/eufdUu7Ey58?hd=1

This part of the megasode includes an INCREDIBLY INSIGHTFUL Episode commentary as Matt and Anna from the Shelflife podcast get too caught up in S6E07 "A Good Man Goes to War" to speak much!

On this this week we will be taking about the mid-series final for Doctor Who "A Good Man Goes To War", then later we will be talking to writer extraordinaire Justin Gray, and wait that's not all. Over the weekend quiet a few of us went to Sci-Fi summer con, and we will talk a … Continue reading →

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Matt's literary reviews are on the Geek Syndicate site (http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/) under the Tolkien Gestures column and he also keeps a personal blog at grampus.livejournal.com

A huge welcome to all of our lovely listeners old and new from the now TWO year old Small Press Big Mouth Podcast. Episode 32 is our birthday Bonanza and we have fabulous audio contributions from the sexy, gorgeous: Geek Syndicate, Comic Book Outsiders and Sidekick Cast, David Wynne, Matthew Craig, Luke Foster, Kehaar, Daniel Clifford, Rich "ear sex" McAuliffe, and more. We have the outro of gods provided by podcasting legend Jimmy Aquino and all manner of News, Reviews and listener emails. We really hope you enjoy it.

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Matt’s literary reviews are on the Geek Syndicate site (http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/) under the Tolkien Gestures column and he also keeps a personal blog at grampus.livejournal.com 

A huge welcome to all of our lovely listeners old and new from the now TWO year old Small Press Big Mouth Podcast. Episode 32 is our birthday Bonanza and we have fabulous audio contributions from the sexy, gorgeous: Geek Syndicate, Comic Book Outsiders and Sidekick Cast, David Wynne, Matthew Craig, Luke Foster, Kehaar, Daniel Clifford, Rich "ear sex" McAuliffe, and more. We have the outro of gods provided by podcasting legend Jimmy Aquino and all manner of News, Reviews and listener emails. We really hope you enjoy it.  

REPRINTED FROM WIKIPEDIA WITH THANKS AND RESPECT Synopsis In 19th Century America in the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, the troublesome Clanton brothers, Ike, Phineas and Billy, are in town in search of Doc Holliday to settle an old score over the death of another brother called Reuben. They meet up with their hired hand Seth Harper at the Last Chance Saloon. He knows what Holliday looks like and describes his coat and demeanour. This is overheard by bar singer Kate, who lets her paramour Holliday know he is in danger. The TARDIS has arrived in a nearby stable, with the Doctor in agony from toothache. He and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet, dressed as cowboys, soon encounter local marshal Wyatt Earp, who offers them his protection and warns them to keep their counsel. The Doctor finds the dentist – Holliday himself - while Dodo and Steven book rooms at the local hotel. There they are mocked by the Clantons, who suspect the Doctor they refer to is Holliday himself. Seth Harper is sent to the dentist’s surgery and invites the Doctor, tooth removed, to the hotel in five minutes to meet his friends. Holliday is initially happy to let him be shot in his place, allowing the real Doc to disappear, but Kate intervenes to ensure the Doctor survives. This buys some time until Holliday relents and hides in an upstairs chamber of the hotel, firing his gun at appropriate moments to con the Clantons into thinking the Doctor is indeed Holliday the sharpshooter. Soon afterward Wyatt Earp and Sheriff Bat Masterson arrive and break up the fracas, taking the Doctor into custody for his own protection. Steven now becomes embroiled in a plot to smuggle the Doctor a gun to help free him from the jailhouse, but the Doctor refuses to be armed. Steven is shortly afterward confronted by a rabble wound up by the Clantons, who are intent on lynching him as an associate of the disreputable Holliday. Once more it is Earp and Masterson who defuse the situation, and also take Phin Clanton into custody to ensure the co-operation of his brothers. The Doctor and Steven are freed and told to leave town as soon as possible. Dodo has meanwhile fallen in with Kate and Doc, who both plan to leave town and take her with them. When Seth Harper stumbles across their escape plans, Holliday kills him, and the trio then depart. Harper's role as aide to the Clantons is soon replaced by a new arrival, Johnny Ringo, who shoots local barman Charlie by way of an introduction to the town of Tombstone. The Doctor and Steven return to the Last Chance Saloon in search of Dodo and encounter the dangerous Ringo. Wyatt Earp’s brothers Warren and Virgil have meanwhile arrived at Tombstone to help him enforce the law. The Doctor soon tells them that Ringo is in town. Events take a harsh turn when the other Clanton brothers visit the jail to free Phin, killing Warren Earp in the process. Meanwhile Steven heads out of town to look for Dodo with Ringo in tow in search of Holliday. Steven and Kate end up being taken by Ringo to the Clanton ranch where the Clantons recamp and tell their father, Pa Clanton, that they have killed an Earp. Wyatt Earp swears vengeance and starts to build a posse of lawmen to deal with the Clantons once and for all. Doc Holliday returns to Tombstone with Dodo, and offers his services to his old friend Earp too. Attempts by the Doctor to defuse the situation amount to little: there will be a gunfight at the O.K. Corral. On the one side are the three Clanton brothers and Johnny Ringo; on the other, the two Earps and Doc Holliday. At the end of the gunfight Ringo and the three Clantons are shot dead. Shortly thereafter, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo slip away in the TARDIS. They arrive on a strange planet, and decide to go out and have a look. As they leave, a strange man is seen approaching the TARDIS on the scanner. [edit] Continuity For dating of this episode, see the Chronology. Apart from the time travellers, this serial intentionally takes dramatic liberties with historical events and many inaccuracies are present. For example, the participants in the gunfight are nearly entirely wrong; in the fight, Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday faced down Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, and Billy Clanton. The McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton died. Although Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne were initially present at the scene of the gunfight, both ran from the fight and were unharmed. The Clantons' father had been killed by Mexican Rurales in an ambush in August 1881, in retribution for the killing of Mexicans at the Skeleton Canyon Massacre (and most likely did not wear a bowler hat). There was no one by the name of Reuben Clanton, and neither Johnny Ringo nor Phineas Clanton were in town at the time. Warren Earp lived in Tombstone with his brothers, but he was not a marshal. James ran a saloon. Warren was shot and killed in a bar fight almost twenty years after the Tombstone events. Likewise there is no basis in fact for anything about the depiction of the Last Chance Saloon. Neither its name, its offered entertainment, its set decoration, nor its apparent volume of business are appropriate to Tombstone saloons in 1881.[1] [edit] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "A Holiday for the Doctor" 30 April 1966 23:48 6.5 16mm t/r "Don't Shoot the Pianist" 7 May 1966 23:47 6.6 16mm t/r "Johnny Ringo" 14 May 1966 23:52 6.2 16mm t/r "The OK Corral" 21 May 1966 23:53 5.7 16mm t/r [2][3][4] The working title for this story was The Gunslingers.[5] This was the last serial of the series to have individual episode titles (until the 2005 revival). From The Savages on, each serial had an overall title divided into numbered parts or episodes. Despite this, a caption at the end of The OK Corral read "Next Episode: Dr. Who and the Savages".[6] According to About Time by Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles, this was the first Western made for British television. [edit] Cast notes Dalek voice actor David Graham played Charlie the barman. He later played Kerensky in City of Death. Doc Holliday was played by Anthony Jacobs, whose son Matthew visited the set during production of the serial. Thirty years later, Matthew Jacobs wrote the script for the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. Laurence Payne later played Morix in The Leisure Hive and Dastari in The Two Doctors. [edit] Music The Gunfighters is notable for being the first Doctor Who episodes to contain musical narration, in the form of the "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon". It was sung by Lynda Baron, who does not appear onscreen (although Dodo appears to hear the ballad at the end of the serial). Baron would later appear, however, in the Fifth Doctor serial Enlightenment, in the role of Captain Wrack. (See also List of guest appearances in Doctor Who.) The ballad itself is included as an extra on the CD soundtrack release. The notion of commissioning original songs for Doctor Who would resume when the series was revived in 2005, beginning with "Song for Ten" in The Christmas Invasion. [edit] Broadcast and reception A common myth is that this story has the lowest ratings of any Doctor Who story. This myth likely stems from a misunderstanding of the difference between audience share and Audience Appreciation scores. The former indicates the size of the viewing audience and the latter is based on a survey gauging the viewers' opinions of the programme. In fact, the audience size for the serial ranged from 6.5 million viewers for the first episode to 5.7 million for the last. However, the Audience Appreciation scores for the last three episodes equalled or went below the lowest scores for Doctor Who, with the very last episode, "The O.K. Corral", having a score of 30%, the lowest ever to date. That said, the story did post ratings that were disappointing by a number of different measures. The Gunfighters represented a significant decrease over the previous serial, The Celestial Toymaker, which had ranged from 7.8 to 9.4 million viewers. Each episode of The Gunfighters was also significantly lower than for the first 18 weeks of Series 3, wherein the lowest-rated week—at 7.9 million viewers—belonged to the episode "The Feast of Steven" from The Daleks' Master Plan. Each episode of the serial was also beaten by the serials, which were respectively broadcast in similar April–May slots in 1965 (The Space Museum) and in 1964 (The Keys of Marinus). While not the lowest-rated Doctor Who story of all time, or even the lowest-rated Hartnell story, The Gunfighters did open a sustained period of significantly lower ratings for the program that would last almost the entirety of the remainder of the First Doctor's era. Beginning with "The O.K. Corral" — the very same episode that received the lowest Audience Appreciation figures of any Doctor Who episode — no Hartnell episode would top 6 million viewers until Episode 2 of his final story, The Tenth Planet. [edit] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by Donald Cotton, was published by Target Books in July 1985. It is narrated in first person by Doc Holliday (a framing scene introduces him on his deathbed) and makes a major change in the character of Johnny Ringo by depicting him as a student of the classics. Doctor Who book The Gunfighters Series Target novelisations Release number 101 Writer Donald Cotton Publisher Target Books Cover artist Andrew Skilleter ISBN 0-426-20195-7 Release date 9 January 1986 [edit] VHS, CD and DVD releases This serial was released on VHS in November 2002. Later, in 2007, it was released on CD, with linking narration, the entire "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon", and a bonus interview from Peter Purves. It will be released in a box set named Earth Story along with The Awakening on 20 June 2011. [edit] References ^ http://www.wildwestinfo.com/index1_files/page0003.htm[dead link] Monahan, Sherry. Tombstone's Treasure: Silver Mines & Saloons. University of New Mexico Press. 2007. ^ Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). "The Gunfighters". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ "The Gunfighters". Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ Sullivan, Shannon (2005-04-29). "The Gunfighters". A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ Howe, David J.; Stammers, Mark; Walker, Stephen James (1994). Doctor Who The Handbook - The First Doctor. London: Doctor Who Books. p. 126. ISBN 0 426 20430 1. ^ Howe, David J.; Walker, Stephen James (1998). "The Gunfighters: Things to watch out for...". Doctor Who: The Television Companion. London: BBC Worldwide. p. 89. ISBN 0 563 40588 0. Retrieved 7 March 2011. [edit] External links The Gunfighters at BBC Online The Gunfighters at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel) The Gunfighters at the Doctor Who Reference Guide The Whoniverse's review on The Gunfighters [edit] Reviews The Gunfighters reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide The Gunfighters reviews at Outpost Gallifrey [edit] Target novelisation The Gunfighters novelisation reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide The Gunfighters novelisation reviews at Outpost Gallifrey On Target — The Gunfighters

This week our slightly edited discussion of Doctor Who is coming to you a bit late. Before watching A Good Man Goes To War, Tom and Louis discussed the two-part story The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People. That discussion is now yours, courtesy of the magic of podcasting.

Our thoughts on A Good Man Goes to War and the first half of series six as a whole will (hopefully) arrive in your ears before too long.

Chistmas? Already? Don't worry, it's not really Christmas, we just talk about it. Never mind that Alex has his stocking up all year 'round regardless!

The Telos AM team are back in the saddle and talking comics and audios this week, which means the welcome return of our comic book queen, Soph! (I may have been listening to 'Killer Queen' just now, hence Soph's new and improved title.) 

The Telos AMers take a stroll around Big Finish audio number 147, 'The Kiss of Death,' before turning their steely-eyed talents to 'The Professor, the Queen, and the Bookshop,' DWM's Christmas comic.

Join us for more laughter and puns here at Telos AM!

Matt is joined by Donald from Podtourage and ReOpening the Xfiles Podcasts to discuss S6E07 "A Good Man Goes To War". Plus your feedback and three words. Look for the episode commentary with Anna from The Shelf Life Podcast in episode 054B.

Dave, Mike and Ian gather up the clues as they shift gears from Doctor Who to Sherlock! The Game Is ON!

Dave, Mike and Ian gather up the clues as they shift gears from Doctor Who to Sherlock! The Game Is ON! Series 1 Episode 1

Dave, Mike and Ian gather up the clues as they shift gears from Doctor Who to Sherlock! The Game Is ON! Series 1 Episode 1