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The Swarm (but not the COVID kind) has befallen a husky-voiced Steven this week and yet in spite of that (or because of it?) he made an appearance on Edmonton radio, one 880 CHED, and explained to local norms both the exciting world of Doctor Who and the mysterious practice of Radio Free Skaro-ing, which you can listen to on this very episode! Plus we have even more Gallifrey One news, an interesting and free TARDIS diary for UK folk, and Episode Two of our exciting and very focused Classic Series Commentary on “The Moonbase”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Steven on 880 CHED radio
• New Gally guests announced
• Gallifrey One update, main program schedule coming in a week or so
• Debut of Telefantasy Time Jump with Paul Cornell and Liz Myles
• Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill appearing at Calgary Expo (April 24-27)
• Lovarzi free slim TARDIS pocket diary (UK Only)
• Big Finish Day 2025 will be on June 21 at the Derby QUAD
• Christopher Benjamin died

Commentary:

• The Moonbase Episode 2

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast....

Welcome The Second Doctor - The Power of The Daleks

Phil & Scott continue their series of looking at how good how each Doctor's inaugral stories were at introducing them to the waiting world, with The Power of the Daleks, starring Patrick Troughton. With this story being the very first time a regenerated Doctor appeared on screen, was this story full Daleks, double and triple crosses successful in assuring fans that Doctor Who was alive and well?

And in the news, we say a sad goodbye to Christopher Benjamin, the man who gave us Henry Gordon Jago.

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This week, David & Matt sit down to review the 2024 Christmas special 'Joy to the world'.

Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben.

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jean Riddler, Keith Dunn and Steven Clare review Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour and Marvel’s Agatha All Along, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:03 — Welcome!
• 02:16 – News:
• 02:29 — Tom Baker: Honoured.
• 04:39 — The Franchise: Cancelled.
• 07:38 — The Last of Us: Season two dated (roughly).
• 08:50 — Barbara Clegg: DEAD!
• 10:27 — Larry Correia: Throws shade to George R.R. Martin in dedication.
• 11:34 — Popeye: The next out of copyright character horror film.
• 12:40 — Sherlock Holmes: Young Holmes TV series now filming.
• 13:35 — Doctor Who: BFI screenings for The Savages and Spearhead from Space.
• 15:45 – Marvel’s Agatha All Along.
• 34:39 – Doctor Who: The War Games – In Colour!
• 56:13 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 73:36 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 74:15 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Tom Baker.
• Wikipedia: The Franchise (2024 TV series).
• Wikipedia: The Last of Us (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Barbara Clegg.
• Wikipedia: Larry Correia.
• Wikipedia: Popeye.
• Wikipedia: Young Sherlock (British TV series).
• BFI: Southbank.
• Wikipedia: Agatha All Along (miniseries).
• Wikipedia: Doctor Who – The War Games.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week as we edge closer to the end of both the Peter Capaldi and Stephen Moffatt era we reach one of their best stories Doctor Who: World Enough and Time, an origin story for The Cybermen.

 

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Philip and Dwayne give their reviews of the Doctor Who related releases from Big Finish released in December 2024.

They also share their thoughts on the recently released Doctor Who at the Proms, The War Games in Colour and Joy to the World.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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On the podcast’s 11th birthday, we take a look at “Joy to the World”.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:03:25) “Short Haired police cadet” by Billy Connolly.

(00:05:30) “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” BY Billy Connolly.

(00:05:36) “Sausage Rolls for Everyone” is a 2021 song by British blogger couple LadBaby, featuring vocals from Ed Sheeran and Elton John. It is a comedy version of Sheeran and John’s single “Merry Christmas”. It has a sausage roll theme as a charity single with the proceeds going to The Trussell Trust. In December 2021, LadBaby announced their bid to become the first act in history to secure four consecutive Christmas number one singles. As with their previous three singles, “We Built This City”, “I Love Sausage Rolls” and “Don’t Stop Me Eatin'”, all proceeds from the single went to The Trussell Trust.

(00:16:13) These audio clips are from our podcast #073 which can be found here.

(00:22:29) “The Six Ages of Fan” is a series of six paintings by our own Rev to accompany our podcast #005 and can be seen on his website here.

(00:37:28) This audio clip is from “Chains”, Episode 6 of “Blackadder 2”.

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

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

• THE Clone Wars S5
• Kaos
• Birthright
• Escapists 2

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

Join us the first week of February for our review of The War Master: Escape from Reality from Big Finish!

 

12 Long Years, Joker: Folie-a-Deux, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Silo, Doctor Who: Joy to the world, Doctor Who Doctors 13's and 15's Theme Music, Patience, White Lies, A Freezing Glorius Saturday Flaneuring About My Kingdom of London, New AV Gear, Pod Changes

  Missy... alone, unleashed, and unfettered. What does she get up to when the Doctor isn’t around? Sometimes, Missy isn’t the only bad person in the room. Sometimes, she meets others with their own naughty plans. And whoever they might be - medieval thieves, wayward students, renowned assassins - Missy will bring out the worst in them... 4.1 Missy and the Time Assassin by David Quantick Missy gets to meet a hero. But James Blakelock, Time Assassin doesn’t quite live up to the legend - although he is very easy on the eye. Although she has places to be and species to annihilate, Missy can't help herself, so she tags along on James' next mission. After all, a little bit of assassination never hurt anyone... 4.2 Bad Apple Brigade by Freddie Valdosta Missy finds herself stranded on Brownsea Island with a troop of girls sent there to improve themselves. But these girls are troublemakers, and Missy has a few lessons to teach them. Only, they’re not alone. Something lurking in the woods has history with Missy - but for her, that might be the future... 4.3 The Baron Robbers by Lou Morgan Bored and stranded in the 14th Century, Missy is looking for a way out. Any way at all. Luckily the spectacular ruby owned by Edward, the famed Black Prince, might be just what she needs to get her broken vortex manipulator working again. But someone else is after the ruby too - and the question is, who wants it more... and how low are they prepared to go to get it?  

Q: What do Garfield and the Doctor have in common?
A: A possibly contagious sense of superiority.

Good morning and Happy New(ish) Year to you!

Welcome to another glorious glob of audio gold that is Stace & Barry In The Morning. This episode, our slightly-less-than-dynamic duo are powering through some wintery germs to bring you some thoughts on Indiana Jones & The Great Circle and Nosferatu. Spoiler alert: there's some pretty extreme praise going on here, but we swear these things deserve it!

With cameos from Sonic, Wallace, and Gromit, this is an episode not to be missed! Grab a lovely hot beverage and enjoy Stace & Barry as part of a balanced breakfast.

    Michael’s wife has this month’s pick, it’s the John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club. T-shirts can be found here –  Follow us on twitter  Like us on  Review us on  Email the show – 

Oxygen; Adam, Debbie, Kirby and Mary pay out for some Oxygen and we review the story that is based on that ethos. We also have feedback, Doctor Who News and what we watched this week.

Knock Knock; Adam, Kirby and Mary discuss this claustrophobic story. Then we discuss the Christmas Special, Joy to the World. We also have feedback, news and what we watched this week.

This week Radio Free Skaro gets POLITICAL (not really) as we interview three-time mayor of Calgary and current Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi as he relates his massive love for one Doctor Who! Join us as we wax nostalgic about KSPS, his fondness for a certain scarf-wearing Doctor, and his take on amongst other things the latest Doctor Who Xmas special! Plus a Gallifrey One update, stats and media analysis, praise of Tubi, classic Canadian TV chatter, and more! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One Update, including 2026 and 2027 date changes
• RFS Gallifrey One Live Show Announcement
• Doctor Who finished 6th for Christmas Week with 5.911M viewers
• Classic Doctor Who removed from BritBox UK and ITVX Premium
• First weekly Dalek 1:2 scale kit is out now
• The Chimes of Midnight hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
• Jubliee hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
• Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Writings and Politics of Malcolm Hulke by Michael Herbert due later in 2025 from Telos Publishing
• Barbara Clegg died Jan 7

Interview:

• Naheed Nenshi

 

 

This month we think about and discuss the best uses of time in Doctor Who. For a show that's all about time, are there as many options as we think there are? What would your picks be? Why not write in and let us know?

You can follow us on X @theDWshow and write to us about anything you like at: hello@theDWshow.net

Happy New Year! It’s that time of year again where we relax and give ourselves permission to be completely wrong!

Join us for our annual predictions episode as Brent, James, Michele and Drew dig out the Campervan’s oh-so-reliable crystal ball and make carefully calculated predictions about what will come to pass in the Whoniverse in 2025. But that’s not before the team turn the clock back twelve months and review the predictions  Michele, Brent, Ian and James made in Episode 369 in 2023! Just how many (few) did they get right? Tune in to find out!

Don’t forget to let us know what YOU think will happen in 2025 – will the TARDIS turn into a turnip? Will the Doctor finally travel the universe with a cabbage as a companion?! And just what is it about vegetables in this post?! I must be hungry. What are you having for dinner?

Email feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, Tweet @thedrwhopodcast or find us on Facebook to let us know!

On the brand new Trap One Podcast US Jason, Mark D (@Mark_Dodyk), Matt (@Matt04896) and Mark M (@QuarkMcMalus) join the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby on holiday in Eden Rebellion.

You can find the Dr Who Literature Podcast here.

You can order Eden Rebellion here.

This week I watched Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light for the third time, I tried to enjoy it, it  does have some good parts to it, The Girl Who Waited is this story but better.

 

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We get the inside scoop from Dalek voice, Executive Producer and Creative Director, Nicholas Briggs, on the special Big Finish live show, Doctor Who - The Stuff of Legend.

We also chat with our friend Todd from the Flight Through Entirety podcast, who was in the audience for one of the performances.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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  follow me here @tindogpodcast.bsky.social   This title was released in December 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 28 February 2025, and on general sale after this date. As the Time War rages across the cosmos, an unlikely crew of outcasts form a pact to end the conflict once and for all. Their target: a legendary warrior, whose assassination at a precise point in history will create a chain reaction that sets the whole universe free...

The DWP Echo Chamber returns with Series Two! Welcome to another five episodes, released weekly over the next five weeks.

In Episode 6, James and Michele talk about Winter for the Adept by Andrew Cartmel, released in July 2000 – the tenth story in Big Finish’s main range.

Listening instructions are very straightforward –

1. Buy Winter for the Adept from Big Finish Productions for just a few pounds (if you don’t own it already of course!)
2. Listen to it!
3. Join us in the Echo Chamber, listen to what we thought and join in the discussion!

Enjoy the show.

It’s a glorious day as Tom Baker becomes a Member of theOrder of the British Empire and the Three Who Rule are here to celebrate this momentous occasion along with news of further Gallifrey One guests, Phil Collinson trolling us all with War Chief intrigues, Toby Hadoke’s annual In Memoriam, Big Finish news as usual and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Moonbase”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Tom Baker awarded MBE for Services to Television
• More New Guests at Gallifrey One 2025
• Doctor Who Magazine 612
• Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on February 1
• The Savages screening at the BFI on February 28
• Phil Collinson fuels the War Chief/Master link
• Toby Hadoke’s 2024 In Memoriam
• Toby Hadoke’s Arnold Yarrow obituary
• Jess Jurkovic: Record, Reuse, Recycle – 60s Doctor Who Incidental Music
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show released
• Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show behind the scenes
• Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Doctor Who – Short Trips: War Stories released

Classic Series Commentary

• The Moonbase Episode One

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare review the 2024 Doctor Who festive special: Joy to the World, come up with our Predictions, Hopes and Dreams, and Fears for 2025, see how wrong we were about our Predictions for 2024, talk about our fallen friend Siobhan, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:42 — Welcome!
• 01:07 – News:
• 01:17 — Doctor Who: Pertwee’s first is collected.
• 03:14 — V: The audio adventures.
• 05:43 — Silo and Dune Prophecy: Renewed.
• 07:14 — The Batman Part 2 and Mickey 17: Release date shiftage.
• 10:34 – Siobhan Gallichan: A tribute.
• 27:49 – Annual Predictions:
• 28:00 — 2024 Predictions.
• 38:12 — 2025 Predictions.
• 38:12 – Hopes and Dreams:
• 38:12 — 2024 Hopes and Dreams.
• 43:51 — 2025 Hopes and Dreams.
• 47:47 – Fears:
• 47:47 — 2024 Fears.
• 52:57 — 2025 Fears.
• 55:38 – Doctor Who: Joy to the World.
• 75:23 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 79:00 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 79:40 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Doctor Who season 7.
• Wikipedia: V (1983 miniseries).
• Big Finish: V UK.
• Wikipedia: Silo (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Dune: Prophecy.
• Wikipedia: The Batman (film).
• IMDB: Siobhan Gallichan.
• Wikipedia: Mickey 17.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast UK Jason (@jangomac73), Miranda (@CarouselUnique), Simon and  Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) check into the Time Hotel to discuss Joy to the World.

 

Bearded Geek Toy reviews

Miranda’s link tree

Cryptic Who

It's 2025 and to kick off the year we are thrilled to present to you our recent chat with Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric in Doctor Who from 1981-1982.

For those in Australia, this is a taste of what is to come at Matthew's live appearances with us in March in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Theme music by Joe Kraemer.

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Happy New Year from Something Who.

Just before Christmas, on 23rd December 2024, a 90 minute colour version of the War Games was broadcast on BBC4 and made available in the BBC iPlayer. As with The Daleks before it, this 10 part black and white story has been edited into a shorter form and colourised to help bring it to life for a new generation.

And Something Who has managed to secure a return visit from two of the key members of the team who made it - Benjamin Cook, the Editor, and Rich Tipple, Lead Colourisation Artist. It's a great chat that goes into how and why a number of the creative choices were made, some of the difficulties involved in editing and colorising a story form the 1960s as well as many of the delights involved.

Please like or share our podcast with people who will enjoy it, so we can build our listener base high for happiness. You can rate us directly on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.com.

In the UK you can find The War Games in Colour on the BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026ch7/doctor-who-19631996-season-6-the-war-games-in-colour

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

On this week's podcast, the Wanderers review Doctor Who story #312: Joy to the World!

Ratings: Connor 8, David 8.25, Trevor 7.75, Charlie 6.75

Hosts:

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

Join us in two weeks for the January edition of Crossing the Void!

Christmas, Bullet Train, Squid Game, Culprits, Resolutions?

Now that our holiday commitments are done, we're back to review the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World"! Frankly, we loved this Moffat-penned adventure. So be prepared for us to say lots of good things about the show we love...because why would you keep watching if you don't like it? That's weird. Anyway...on with the show!!

The latest leg of our flight through entirety comes to a gentle landing this week, but before we all head off to collect our luggage, all seven of us take the opportunity to say goodbye to Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat in one last retrospective.

Notes and links

Thank you to those of you who sent us questions: Kate Orman, Doctor What and General Witchfinders.

In our discussion of Sleep No More, Brendan reaches for the name of Bethany Black’s love interest in the episode, but goes slightly astray. The name he’s after is Chopra, played by the astoundingly beautiful Neet Mohan.

In Episode 2 of Flight Through Entirety, Richard famously compares Hartnell’s performance style to Marlene Dietrich’s. This week, he bookends that beautifully with a comparison of Peter Capaldi’s style to Maggie Smith’s, particularly her Oscar-winning performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Richard alludes to this story from 2015, in which a team consisting of Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss came third in a Doctor Who pub trivia competition at a Doctor Who convention in Sydney.

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You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll abandon you for a few years, leaving you with only a couple of Flight Through Entirety-style Doctor Who podcasts to keep you entertained in the meantime.

And more

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

Now that Flight Through Entirety is taking a break, you should all go and subscribe to 500 Year Diary, our latest new Doctor Who podcast, in which we go back through the history of the show and examine new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early in 2024, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season, The Second Coming, early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire recently released our hot take on Ncuti Gatwa’s second Christmas Special (and Steven Moffat’s ninth), Joy to the World. And we’ll be back again in 2025 to talk about Season 2.

Last week, The Three-Handed Game released their first Christmas Special, discussing the 1966 Avengers episode Too Many Christmas Trees, in which Steed’s weird Christmas nightmares start to become reality. The boys will be back in 2025 for the third episode in their triptych The Pop Explosion.

Maximum Power is back at last with its long-awaited coverage of the 1981 season of Blakes 7. Last weekend we released our discussion on the season’s controversial second episode — Power.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we watched a notoriously silly early episode of Deep Space Nine, the widely reviled but never forgotten Move Along Home.

Thank you very much for listening: we’ll see you again in a few years. And on all of our other podcasts, of course.

The holidays are here again, and that means we were treated to another Christmas Special!

Join Erika, Kat, Lynne, and Tansy as we discuss the Moffat-penned Christmas special "Joy to the World!"

So, what are your thoughts on "Joy to the World?" Did you enjoy the Doctor's time with Anita on his slow go around? Were you excited like we were about Joel Fry's appearance? Where would you visit in the Time Hotel?

Drop us a message on Bluesky, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Joel Fry is Justin, the Narrator in the Big Finish story Doctor Who: No Place

Join Brent, Michele and James as they take a look back at Doctor Who in 2024. From Tales of the TARDIS through to the return of Sutekh to Doctor Who comics to Big Finish plays – it’s all here.

A very Happy New Year to all you wonderful listeners and be sure to join us again in 2025 for Episode 388 – our predictions Episode!

As always, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch by emailing us at the campervan at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, Tweeting us or by jumping onto our Facebook Page and Group.

Enjoy the show!

    this version is 20 mins nlong not 6 sorry for earlier release  

Waffle On New Years Eve Special 2024

Happy New Year to you all and Meds, Kell and Peter thought they woud give you a special gift to see the New Year in. Recorded a few months ago the lads decided to make a special episode and its been sittying in the library desperate to get out. So if you cant be bothered with the normal dismal tv options why not crack open a drink and listen to us and see the new year in. 

Heres to a Waffley 2025, thanks for staying with us you all are amazing.

 

WE'RE BACK!! After a lengthy hiatus, Who & Company returns with a very special guest! Writer/director/actor Matthew Jacobs joins us to discuss his film/TV career, the creation of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, and his new venture - writing for Big Finish!

Then Matthew selects his Pick of the Month - the ABC/Family Channel action/adventure series, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles! Matthew discusses writing for the show, meetings with George Lucas, how scripts get chosen in a writers' room, and much more!

And get the brand new Matthew Jacobs Big Finish audio play, Puccini and the Doctor - part of the Deadly Strangers box set only at www.bigfinish.com.

Part two of my review of the year which covers July to December, the new series re-watch resumes next week.

 

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 312 – "Joy to the World"  episode Promotional poster, featuring the caption "Joy to the Worlds" Cast  –   – Joy Almondo Others  –   – Trev Simpkins Steph de Whalley – Anita Benn  – Hotel Manager Peter Benedict – Basil Flockhart  – Hilda Flockhart Niamh Marie Smith –  Phil Baxter –  Samuel Sherpa-Moore –  Ruchi Rai – Receptionist Joshua Leese – Mr Single Ell Potter – Server Liam Prince-Donnelly – Barman Fiona Marr – Angela Grace Production Directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai Written by Script editor David Cheung Produced by Alison Sterling Executive producer(s) Joel Collins Steven Moffat Music by Running time 54 minutes First broadcast 25 December 2024 Chronology ← Preceded by "" Followed by → — "Joy to the World" is an episode of the British  series . It was broadcast on  and released on  on 25 December 2024 as the fifteenth  since the show's revival in 2005. In the episode, the  of  discovers a strange hotel at Christmastime that has harnessed the power of time travel and finds a mysterious briefcase. While investigating, he meets new  Joy Almondo (guest star ) who helps him solve the mystery. "Joy to the World" was written by  and directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai. It was filmed in October and November 2023. Plot []  arrives at the Time Hotel, an establishment in the year 4202 that allows guests to visit various points in history, several of which the Doctor visits during the episode. The Doctor enlists the aid of Trev, a worker at the hotel, as he investigates a mysterious man holding a briefcase. As each new person is tricked into taking the briefcase, it takes control of them, and the previous carrier disintegrates. Trev's  manager arrives in Joy Almondo's London hotel room in 2024 with the briefcase, and the Doctor following him. The briefcase takes control of Joy, and the Doctor opens it, finding a strange device inside. The briefcase is about to disintegrate Joy, when a Doctor from the future arrives from the Time Hotel and gives them an override code. The future Doctor then returns to the Time Hotel with Joy, stranding the current Doctor in 2024. He takes a job working at Joy's hotel, befriending the manager Anita, and awaiting an opportunity to get back to the Time Hotel the following Christmas. A year later, the Doctor re-enters the Time Hotel, and gives his past self the code (which he'd obtained by the ), then departs with Joy. They open a door to the distant past, where the Doctor frees Joy from the briefcase by provoking her anger at being unable to be with her dying mother due to . The briefcase reveals itself to be of  origin, with plans to detonate a "star seed" to use as an energy source, using the hotel's time travel to allow it to grow in the past. The briefcase is eaten by a , and the Doctor and Joy flee. Trev, who connected psychically to Villengard's system before he died, contacts the Doctor through his . Trev reveals the briefcase's location, and the Doctor finds it sealed in a shrine. The Doctor is able to open it, but Joy takes the briefcase outside, and lets the star seed enter her. Joy and the other people killed by the seed pilot it into space, where it detonates safely. At various points in time, the star gives hope and comfort to those who see it, including Joy's dying mother and . The Doctor sees that that the star was also the . Production [] Development [] Former Doctor Who showrunner  penned the episode. , the Doctor Who , initially began writing the 2024 Christmas special. Davies had sent a portion of the script to former showrunner  to get his opinion on it. At the time, Davies was in discussions with Moffat to have him write a script for the . When Davies realised he was too busy to complete the script, he shelved it and asked Moffat to write the Christmas episode instead. Moffat considered writing a , but decided against it, believing that such an episode would be better suited mid-series. Despite this, he said the episode still had a comedic tone with emotional elements. Here's the pitch that got me the job. You know in just about every hotel room you've been in there's a locked door? It's weird, but there always is. Okay. We're about to blow apart the truth of that. In the far future there is a place called the Time hotel, and the Time Hotel has realised something brilliant, which is following the discovery of time travel they have an opportunity to sell all the rooms they failed to sell the last time. So they have built extensions into more or less every hotel room in history, and you get access to it occasionally. — Steven Moffat, "The Joy Bringer",  3 December 2024 Half the script had been completed before Davies informed Moffat that  wouldn't be in the special. The character of Anita originally only had around ten lines but her presence was increased after the production team became fond of her. Moffat had finished writing the episode by 20 July 2023. Working titles for the episode included "The Time Hotel" and "Christmas, Everywhere All at Once". The story further explores the "Villengard Corporation", a recurring fictional  company that has been mentioned in a number of Moffat's Doctor Who episodes. The Doctor last confronted Villengard in the  episode "" (2024). It is the ninth Doctor Who Christmas special to be written by Moffat who once again assumed an  role during production of the episode. Casting [] In November 2023,  was announced to be appearing in an undisclosed role of an upcoming Doctor Who episode. It was later revealed that Coughlan would star in the 2024 Christmas episode as the Doctor's one-off companion, Joy Almondo, a guest at a hotel who "gets caught up in [the Doctor's] adventures." Initial reports indicated that , who portrays the Doctor's current companion Ruby Sunday, would not appear in the special. Gibson however, made a brief  near the end of the episode..  was cast to play Trev, an employee at the Time Hotel while  portrayed the hotel's manager. Steph de Whalley appeared as Anita, the manager of another hotel whom the Doctor spends a year with. Niamh Marie Smith played , a passenger on the  in 1962, whom Moffat confirmed as the same character as the love interest of  in the films  (1962) and  (1963). Historical figures  and  were depicted, at a , by Phil Baxter and Samuel Sherpa-Moore, respectively. Sherpa-Moore is Norgay's great-great nephew. Peter Benedict and  appeared as Basil and Hilda, guests at the Queen's Hotel in Manchester during . The guest cast also included Ruchi Rai, Joshua Leese, Ell Potter, and Liam Prince-Donnelly. Filming []  for the episode was underway at  by 11 October 2023. The  room was built on a  that allowed the set to tilt to give the effect that it was being eaten by a dinosaur. The  was working on  by 17 October. The graphics team took fifteen 11-hour days to create enough artwork to fill the Doctor's hotel room. Seven different briefcases were purchased by the  for use in the episode. A team at Millennium FX designed the Silurian prosthetics.  began on 23 October, with recording extending into November. "Joy to the World" was directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai in the first filming block of the . For the Sandringham Hotel, the production team chose to purchase two floors of an actual hotel, but had to build the lobby on a . The top of the Orient Express set was built in front of a  and placed on  to allow the special effects team to replicate the look of a moving train. Mika Orasmaa was the episodes . Release and reception [] Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating  (Tomatometer) 80%  (Average Score) 7.3/10 Review scores Source Rating B– 10/10 Broadcast and promotion [] "Joy to the World" was broadcast on  and released on  on 25 December 2024 at 5:10 PM . In the United States the episode was released  on  at 9:10 AM .  also handled international distribution of the episode outside of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. A clip and  for the episode was released on 15 November as part of the 2024  broadcast. The press screening took place in the week prior to broadcast, which was hosted by . Promotional posters released by  captioned the poster with "Joy to the Worlds", mirroring the title "Joy to the World". Ratings [] In the UK, Doctor Who was the sixth most-watched programme on Christmas Day, receiving 4.11 million viewers overnight. Critical response [] On the  website , 80% of 15 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. Writing for , Michael Hogan referred to "Joy to the World" as "the best Christmas adventure for more than a decade." He further elaborated by saying that "there's something here for all generations to enjoy" and praising the guest cast, namely Nicola Coughlan, Steph de Walley, and Joel Fry. Authoring a review for , Louise Griffin also praised the guest cast but felt that Coughlan had been underused. 's Robert Anderson wrote that the special "masterfully blends the show's signature whimsy with heartfelt storytelling, delivering a cozy, deeply human tale about the transformative power of friendship" and that "Moffat's excellent script is central to the episode's success." The writing was also applauded by Adi Tantimedh, who writing for , said "Moffat pins down the core of what makes Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor different from all his predecessors." Stephen Robinson with the  criticised the Doctor's characterization, saying the "there are key moments in the story that directly contradict the Doctor's former growth" and that "he's a mix of the 'lonely god' from Russell T Davies' first run and Steven Moffat's 'madman in a box,' and the effect is discordant." Emily Murray from  also criticised a portion of the episode, writing that the "villains quite frankly feel like an afterthought and feel threadbare."

In our final episode of 2024, Chris, Philip and Dwayne look back at the first episode of Doctor Who from it's triumphant return to TV screens in 2005, namely, Rose.

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As a companion to our Something Who 101, which has clips from the first 5 years of our podcast, it's time to share a few highlights from the past year of Something Who, which included our 100th episode. If you haven't heard us before, this will give you a flavour of our podcast. And if you have, here's a reminder.

And there's a lot to choose from. In addition to our regular presenting team of Richard, Paul and Giles, Rick rapidly became a fixture, and we had several appearances from Jess Jurkovic. Gav Rymill came back, Tim Burrows popped by for an episode and Simon Guerrier made a return visit. Richard had a nice chat with Jonn Elledge about his enthusiasm for Doctor Who.

We hope you enjoy these clips and, if you do, please peruse our back catalogue for the full versions of all of these items and perhaps you'd like to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or similar platform.

The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

The Something Who logo, which features prominently on all our cover art was designed for us by Bea Garrido. She's a really talented artist, who you can find by following this link: https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/, where you can buy prints of some remarkable paintings of characters from Doctor Who.

Erika and Steven complete the penultimate Pertwee story!

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Hello dear listener! Here we are, saying goodbye to 2024 with a look back at the 2013 telemovie, An Adventure in Space and Time.

Before then, all the usual news and short topics you’ve come to expect, and after the Adventure in Space and Time section, we have a ton of listener feedback and what we’ve been watching this past month. A jam-packed episode! Tune in!

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Steven and Erika start another new-to-Erika story, which is going well…so far! Oh, and once again they end up taking about “The Space Pirates.” (We swear we’re not doing it on purpose!)

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