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This week we’re joined by Corey McMahon for an hour of blinking and quivering under the bedclothes in the scariest bedroom in human history, before learning a Very Important Lesson about the power of a father’s love. (There’s a plot about dollies in there, but it doesn’t really go anywhere.) Hey-ho, it’s Night Terrors.

Notes and links

You probably all know this already, but The League of Gentlemen was a surreal and upsetting sketch comedy series from around the turn of the millennium (gulp), written by and starring Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith (Sleep No More) and Steve Pemberton (Silence in the Library).

Corey is alluding to Jeffrey Smart’s paintings “Study for Holiday” and “Holiday”, which both depict a small human figure dwarfed by a brightly coloured wall of balconies. You can learn more about Smart from his obituary in The Guardian.

Sapphire & Steel was a Doctor Who-like science fantasy show in the 1980s, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. In the absence of much of a budget, it relied heavily on sound, atmosphere and strange conceptual horror. It’s slow-moving, but it’s definitely worth a look if you’ve never seen it.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up uninvited at your front door and smarmily ask you intrusive questions about your personal problems.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’re currently covering Series 13, releasing a new episode the Tuesday after Doctor Who airs.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We’re also involved in the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is releasing Episode 9 today. We’ll be covering the rest of Series A over the next few weeks.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our second episode, we find a lot to say and a lot of laugh about as we watch the Deep Space Nine episode House of Quark.

This week, Simon Moore joins us again for a quick jaunt to the planet Apalapucia, where we visit a medical facility so staggeringly baffling and inept that it’s even terrifying to an audience living in the English-speaking world. It’s going to be quite a while before we get to see a doctor — that’s why it’s called The Girl Who Waited.

Notes and links

All of us think that this episode is very Star Trek, Star Trek: Voyager in particular. Nathan compares it to Blink of an Eye, in which the Voyager crew interacts with a planet where time passes incredibly quickly, and they watch the planet develop technologically from the Bronze Age through to becoming a spacefaring civilisation. (It guest stars Daniel Dae Kim, amazingly.) This is not to be confused with the Original Series episode Wink of an Eye, in which hyper-accelerated aliens invisibly take over the Enterprise for some reason.

Richard compares the direction of this episode to the Louis Malle film Elevator to the Gallows (1958), in which a man murders his mistress’s husband with hilarious results. It’s French, after all.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby, Simon is @simonmoore72 and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll name our next pet after you.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’re currently covering Series 13, releasing a new episode the Tuesday after Doctor Who airs.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We’re also involved in the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is releasing Episode 10 today. We’ll be covering the rest of Series A over the next few weeks.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our third episode, we’re stranded in the Delta Quadrant and unexpectedly pregnant in the Voyager episode Lineage.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler, the Real Keith Dunn and Steven Clare review the new Doctor Who episodes The Halloween Apocalypse and War of the Sontarans, discuss their BFI visit to preview Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:21 — Welcome!
• 01:50 – News:
• 02:02 — Doctor Who: Tom Baker and Matt Smith become bears.
• 02:57 — Capaldi: The singing Doctor.
• 04:48 — Bob Baker: DEAD!
• 06:55 — Clifford Rose: DEAD!
• 08:22 — ABBA: Remember they are Wombles.
• 09:49 — Doctor Who: Lucy Lawless wants to play the Doctor.
• 11:00 – Doctor Who: The Halloween Apocalypse.
• 32:20 – Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 (BFI screening event).
• 46:21 – Doctor Who: War of the Sontarans.
• 67:04 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 72:02 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 72:59 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Tom Baker.
• Wikipedia: Matt Smith.
• Wikipedia: Peter Capaldi.
• Monks Road Records: St. Christopher.
• Wikipedia: Bob Baker (scriptwriter).
• Wikipedia: Clifford Rose.
• Wikipedia: ABBA.
• Wikipedia: Remember You’re a Womble.
• Wikipedia: Lucy Lawless.
• Wikipedia: The Halloween Apocalypse.
• BBC: Doctor Who – The Halloween Apocalypse.
• Wikipedia: Galaxy 4.
• BBC: Doctor Who – Galaxy 4.
• Wikipedia: War of the Sontarans.
• BBC: Doctor Who – War of the Sontarans.
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess), Si (Si_Hart), Mark (@Mark_Dodyk), Dave (@haemovoresRus), Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar), Simon (@UncleBeard1978) and Dan (@D_Hollingsworth) report from the Utopia convention 2023.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess), Si (Si_Hart), Mark (@Mark_Dodyk), Dave (@haemovoresRus), Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar), Simon (@UncleBeard1978) and Dan (@D_Hollingsworth) report from the Utopia convention 2023.

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Pete (@Prof_Quiteamess), Si (Si_Hart), Mark (@Mark_Dodyk), Dave (@haemovoresRus), Hannah (@MrsSimonTemplar), Simon (@UncleBeard1978) and Dan (@D_Hollingsworth) report from the Utopia convention 2023.

This week we’re joined by Corey McMahon for an hour of blinking and quivering under the bedclothes in the scariest bedroom in human history, before learning a Very Important Lesson about the power of a father’s love. (There’s a plot about dollies in there, but it doesn’t really go anywhere.) Hey-ho, it’s Night Terrors.

Notes and links

You probably all know this already, but The League of Gentlemen was a surreal and upsetting sketch comedy series from around the turn of the millennium (gulp), written by and starring Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith (Sleep No More) and Steve Pemberton (Silence in the Library).

Corey may be alluding to Jeffrey Smart’s painting “Cahill Expressway”, which you can see for yourself in Smart’s obituary in The Guardian. It’s the first image there, of a small figure in the foreground looking at an underpass in Sydney’s Kings Cross.

Sapphire & Steel was a Doctor Who-like science fantasy show in the 1980s, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. In the absence of much of a budget, it relied heavily on sound, atmosphere and strange conceptual horror. It’s slow-moving, but it’s definitely worth a look if you’ve never seen it.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up uninvited at your front door and smarmily ask you intrusive questions about your personal problems.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’re currently covering Series 13, releasing a new episode the Tuesday after Doctor Who airs.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We’re also involved in the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is releasing Episode 9 today. We’ll be covering the rest of Series A over the next few weeks.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our second episode, we find a lot to say and a lot of laugh about as we watch the Deep Space Nine episode House of Quark.

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

This week we’re joined by Corey McMahon for an hour of blinking and quivering under the bedclothes in the scariest bedroom in human history, before learning a Very Important Lesson about the power of a father’s love. (There’s a plot about dollies in there, but it doesn’t really go anywhere.) Hey-ho, it’s Night Terrors.

Notes and links

You probably all know this already, but The League of Gentlemen was a surreal and upsetting sketch comedy series from around the turn of the millennium (gulp), written by and starring Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith (Sleep No More) and Steve Pemberton (Silence in the Library).

Corey is alluding to Jeffrey Smart’s paintings “Study for Holiday” and “Holiday”, which both depict a small human figure dwarfed by a brightly coloured wall of balconies. You can learn more about Smart from his obituary in The Guardian.

Sapphire & Steel was a Doctor Who-like science fantasy show in the 1980s, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. In the absence of much of a budget, it relied heavily on sound, atmosphere and strange conceptual horror. It’s slow-moving, but it’s definitely worth a look if you’ve never seen it.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley and Brendan is @brandybongos. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll turn up uninvited at your front door and smarmily ask you intrusive questions about your personal problems.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’re currently covering Series 13, releasing a new episode the Tuesday after Doctor Who airs.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We’re also involved in the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which is releasing Episode 9 today. We’ll be covering the rest of Series A over the next few weeks.

And finally, there’s our new Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our second episode, we find a lot to say and a lot of laugh about as we watch the Deep Space Nine episode House of Quark.

BELIEVE it or not, November 14 marks eight years since The Night of the Doctor first appeared on YouTube and the BBC red button service. 

Paul McGann's surprise/triumphant return to the part was a shock for many, and gave proper canonicity to his incarnation, with some having failed to recognise it (for some reason or another). And it also mentioned five Big Finish companions, which was rather lovely too.

To mark the event, we present a segment of The Power of 3, another Doctor Who podcast which our Kenny co-hosts, in which he and his co-conspirators Tom Harris and David Steel discuss the minisode.

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode!

This time, our top villains. There are no limits here - classic Doctor Who, modern Doctor Who, it's all fair game. How many snaps will we have?

If you’ve never heard a List Makers episode before, these are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat!

If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are also welcome; get in touch!

Twitter, Facebook or email us old-school style at hello@thedwshow.net

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Terry Burnett film archive handed over
• “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
• Network Distributing closes
• Waris Hussein diaries, part two
• Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
• Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
• Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
• The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
• Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
• Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall

Earthshock was a signal moment in the journey of many Doctor Who fans when it aired in March 1982, from the surprise reveal of a returning monster, to the unexpected departure of a regular cast member. Ian Marter's August 1983 novelization of the story is a bit different from what we saw on television, but is no less impactful.

We're very happy to have with us this week Jon Arnold (@The_Arn) as a first-time Doctor Who Literature guest. Jon can be heard on two other excellent podcasts, the Doctor Who-inspired Strangers in Space (@strangerscast), as well as the football (soccer)-themed @BustingBallsPod. Jon has also written several terrific volumes in Jason's favorite Who non-fiction range, The Black Archives from Observe Books, including a look at a TV story previously examined on this very show, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. And don't forget Jon's contributions to the Silver Archive range; Jon and Jason also discuss TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" this week.

Also mentioned this week is Jim Sangster (@monster_maker)'s newest DWLit-themed T-shirt.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

Earthshock was a signal moment in the journey of many Doctor Who fans when it aired in March 1982, from the surprise reveal of a returning monster, to the unexpected departure of a regular cast member. Ian Marter's August 1983 novelization of the story is a bit different from what we saw on television, but is no less impactful.

We're very happy to have with us this week Jon Arnold (@The_Arn) as a first-time Doctor Who Literature guest. Jon can be heard on two other excellent podcasts, the Doctor Who-inspired Strangers in Space (@strangerscast), as well as the football (soccer)-themed @BustingBallsPod. Jon has also written several terrific volumes in Jason's favorite Who non-fiction range, The Black Archives from Observe Books, including a look at a TV story previously examined on this very show, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. And don't forget Jon's contributions to the Silver Archive range; Jon and Jason also discuss TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" this week.

Also mentioned this week is Jim Sangster (@monster_maker)'s newest DWLit-themed T-shirt.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

“Ich mag Dildo-Alarm.”

Für die zweite Folge der dreizehnten Staffel – War of the Sontarans – hat sich Sascha freundlicherweise bereiterklärt, André und Raphael moralischen Beistand zu leisten. Ob das wirklich nötig war, warum wir vom Krimkrieg aus sehr schnell auf Monkey Island landen und mit welcher Art von Wok wir uns gegen die Sontaraner wehren würden (oder auch nicht) erfahrt Ihr in den kommenden 103 Minuten, in denen wir auch die Frage beantworten werden: War das heute Doctor Who-Ha, Doctor Who-Ho oder gar Doctor Who-Hoe?

This week, a technologically-augmented interdimensional mummy runs amok on a replica of the Orient Express in space under the control of a terrifying alien intelligence or something. It’s a day at the office for Doctor Who, in Mummy on the Orient Express.

Notes and links

Mummy on the Orient Express marks the triumphant return of Janet Henfrey to Doctor Who after about twenty-five years: she plays Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric. She will come back some time after that to play the Adjudicator in Sil and the Seven Seeds of Arodor.

David Bamber is in charge of this version of the Orient Express: Nathan recognises him immediately as Cicero in Rome and as Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Richard notes that he plays [Adolf Hitler][] in Valkyrie (2008), and perhaps more terrifyingly Noel in Camping, a sitcom created by Julia Davis. Si saw him turn up in an episode of Endeavour, the Inspector Morse prequel set in the late 1960s.

Meanwhile, Christopher Villiers returns to Doctor Who as Professor Moorhouse; thirty years earlier he was young Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King’s Demons. Alarmingly, Richard is right to suggest that he is a descendant of the aristocracy.

And finally, Frank Skinner is a famous standup comedian and radio presenter. The show Richard is thinking of may be The Rest is History on Radio 4, but he has been in many, many radio shows over the years.

You can see John Sessions’s 1994 audition to play the Doctor in the TV movie here on YouTube. He plays the terrifying General Tannis in the BBC webcast Death Comes to Time (2001).

In 2018, Jenna Coleman starred in a TV miniseries called The Cry, which was shot in Australia.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Si is @Si_Hart, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook and Mastodon, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll gush effusively at you about how wonderful your terrible new haircut looks.

And more

We’ve got an exciting new Doctor Who project to launch at the start of 2024, but — annoyingly — we’re not going to tell you anything more about it yet. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, you can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the entirety of the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’ll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has completed its coverage of the first half of the show’s entire run. Recording is continuing on schedule, and our coverage of Series C will be ready for you later in the year.

There’s also our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watched a massive soap opera event two-parter from Deep Space Nine, complete with long-lost children and scheming lookalikes — In Purgatory’s Shadow and By Inferno’s Light.

Earthshock was a signal moment in the journey of many Doctor Who fans when it aired in March 1982, from the surprise reveal of a returning monster, to the unexpected departure of a regular cast member. Ian Marter's August 1983 novelization of the story is a bit different from what we saw on television, but is no less impactful.

We're very happy to have with us this week Jon Arnold (@The_Arn) as a first-time Doctor Who Literature guest. Jon can be heard on two other excellent podcasts, the Doctor Who-inspired Strangers in Space (@strangerscast), as well as the football (soccer)-themed @BustingBallsPod. Jon has also written several terrific volumes in Jason's favorite Who non-fiction range, The Black Archives from Observe Books, including a look at a TV story previously examined on this very show, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. And don't forget Jon's contributions to the Silver Archive range; Jon and Jason also discuss TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" this week.

Also mentioned this week is Jim Sangster (@monster_maker)'s newest DWLit-themed T-shirt.

If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!

Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

This week, a technologically-augmented interdimensional mummy runs amok on a replica of the Orient Express in space under the control of a terrifying alien intelligence or something. It’s a day at the office for Doctor Who, in Mummy on the Orient Express.

Notes and links

Mummy on the Orient Express marks the triumphant return of Janet Henfrey to Doctor Who after about twenty-five years: she plays Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric. She will come back some time after that to play the Adjudicator in Sil and the Seven Seeds of Arodor.

David Bamber is in charge of this version of the Orient Express: Nathan recognises him immediately as Cicero in Rome and as Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Richard notes that he plays [Adolf Hitler][] in Valkyrie (2008), and perhaps more terrifyingly Noel in Camping, a sitcom created by Julia Davis. Si saw him turn up in an episode of Endeavour, the Inspector Morse prequel set in the late 1960s.

Meanwhile, Christopher Villiers returns to Doctor Who as Professor Moorhouse; thirty years earlier he was young Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King’s Demons. Alarmingly, Richard is right to suggest that he is a descendant of the aristocracy.

And finally, Frank Skinner is a famous standup comedian and radio presenter. The show Richard is thinking of may be The Rest is History on Radio 4, but he has been in many, many radio shows over the years.

You can see John Sessions’s 1994 audition to play the Doctor in the TV movie here on YouTube. He plays the terrifying General Tannis in the BBC webcast Death Comes to Time (2001).

In 2018, Jenna Coleman starred in a TV miniseries called The Cry, which was shot in Australia.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Si is @Si_Hart, and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast.

We’re also on Facebook and Mastodon, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll gush effusively at you about how wonderful your terrible new haircut looks.

And more

We’ve got an exciting new Doctor Who project to launch at the start of 2024, but — annoyingly — we’re not going to tell you anything more about it yet. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, you can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the entirety of the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’ll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has completed its coverage of the first half of the show’s entire run. Recording is continuing on schedule, and our coverage of Series C will be ready for you later in the year.

There’s also our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watched a massive soap opera event two-parter from Deep Space Nine, complete with long-lost children and scheming lookalikes — In Purgatory’s Shadow and By Inferno’s Light.

This week, a technologically-augmented interdimensional mummy runs amok on a replica of the Orient Express in space under the control of a terrifying alien intelligence or something. It’s a day at the office for Doctor Who, in Mummy on the Orient Express.

Notes and links

Mummy on the Orient Express marks the triumphant return of Janet Henfrey to Doctor Who after about twenty-five years: she plays Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric. She will come back some time after that to play the Adjudicator in Sil and the Seven Seeds of Arodor.

David Bamber is in charge of this version of the Orient Express: Nathan recognises him immediately as Cicero in Rome and as Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Richard notes that he plays [Adolf Hitler][] in Valkyrie (2008), and perhaps more terrifyingly Noel in Camping, a sitcom created by Julia Davis. Si saw him turn up in an episode of Endeavour, the Inspector Morse prequel set in the late 1960s.

Meanwhile, Christopher Villiers returns to Doctor Who as Professor Moorhouse; thirty years earlier he was young Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King’s Demons. Alarmingly, Richard is right to suggest that he is a descendant of the aristocracy.

And finally, Frank Skinner is a famous standup comedian and radio presenter. The show Richard is thinking of may be The Rest is History on Radio 4, but he has been in many, many radio shows over the years.

You can see John Sessions’s 1994 audition to play the Doctor in the TV movie here on YouTube. He plays the terrifying General Tannis in the BBC webcast Death Comes to Time (2001).

In 2018, Jenna Coleman starred in a TV miniseries called The Cry, which was shot in Australia.

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We’re also on Facebook and Mastodon, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll gush effusively at you about how wonderful your terrible new haircut looks.

And more

We’ve got an exciting new Doctor Who project to launch at the start of 2024, but — annoyingly — we’re not going to tell you anything more about it yet. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, you can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the entirety of the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We’ll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November.

Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well.

We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which has completed its coverage of the first half of the show’s entire run. Recording is continuing on schedule, and our coverage of Series C will be ready for you later in the year.

There’s also our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. In our most recent episode, we watched a massive soap opera event two-parter from Deep Space Nine, complete with long-lost children and scheming lookalikes — In Purgatory’s Shadow and By Inferno’s Light.

In which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.

Our Randomoids selections for review this month are Big Finish Monthly Range story The Bride of Peladon featuring the fifth Doctor, Peri and the final story for Erimem, and The Lost Stories: Animal, featuring the seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine.

We also share a snippet from a forthcoming in-depth interview with actress Beth Chalmers.

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Our Randomoids selections for review this month are Big Finish Monthly Range story The Bride of Peladon featuring the fifth Doctor, Peri and the final story for Erimem, and The Lost Stories: Animal, featuring the seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine.

We also share a snippet from a forthcoming in-depth interview with actress Beth Chalmers.

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We also share a snippet from a forthcoming in-depth interview with actress Beth Chalmers.

Original theme composed by Joe Kraemer | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.joekraemer.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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It's a Hall Of Fame quiz this week but is it enough to keep Matt's mood buoyant as he addresses a new 'least favourite' Doctor Who moment whilst David does his best to defend 'It Takes You Away'?

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

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This week David & Matt sit down to watch the 5th and 6th stories from Torchwood's second series 'Adam' and 'Reset'.

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

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It's a Hall Of Fame quiz this week but is it enough to keep Matt's mood buoyant as he addresses a new 'least favourite' Doctor Who moment whilst David does his best to defend 'It Takes You Away'?

Donate to the Wheelie Big Quiz below:

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

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This week David & Matt sit down to watch the 5th and 6th stories from Torchwood's second series 'Adam' and 'Reset'.

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

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Ross and Vic go to a meeting LINDA London Investigation N Detective Agency.  They talk conspiracy theories with Mr. Kennedy. Then the encounter a Blue Peter Death Machine. 

This week David & Matt sit down to watch the 5th and 6th stories from Torchwood's second series 'Adam' and 'Reset'.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

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This week David & Matt sit down to watch the 5th and 6th stories from Torchwood's second series 'Adam' and 'Reset'.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week David & Matt sit down to watch the 5th and 6th stories from Torchwood's second series 'Adam' and 'Reset'.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

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