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On the brand new Trap One Podcast Frazer (@FelixFrazer), Mark D (@Mark_Dodyk), Keith and Mark M (@QuarkMcMalus) see red in this episode about the Fifteenth Doctor novel, Ruby Red.

Order the book here.

Monts and Nuge bringing the sass as only they know how..oh and there may be some news and a review or two along the way. 

News

• Nuge again is beaten to the news punch by an unlikely source
• DC Comics joins the GlobalComix app
• Water Racers Kickstarter gets a shoutout

Week that Was

• Topsy Mcgee and the Scarab of Solomon
• Avengers Inc
• The Girl who Handcuffed houdini
• Twilight of the Gods
• DC All in
• Deadpool and Wolverine
• Rings of Power

Join Phil and James as they jump on board the DWP Campervan and take a drive through the autumnal season and catch up on all manner of things Who. The BFI screenings of Doctor Who, Whooverville, the 13th Doctor, Zygons and Krynoids coming to Big Finish – and more!

They also take a look at Deleted Scenes, a Second Doctor and Jamie story from Big Finish Productions and written by Angus Dunican. How does Jamie fare as a film star in the early 1900s?!

As always, you can get in touch by emailing us at feedback@thedoctorwhopodcast.com, tweeting us at www.x.com/thedrwhopodcast or by jumping on our Facebook Page and Group.

Enjoy the show!

This week on the show it’s more Whooverville 15  coverage with guests Matt Irvine and David Gooderson.

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

• The Infinity Gauntlet
• Limbus Company: Murder on the Warp Express
• Doctor Who: Prisoners in Time
• Wonderfalls

...and much (much) more!

Hosts:

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

• Join us the first week of November as we begin our coverage of Big Finish’s Dark Gallifrey series with Dark Gallifrey: Morbius!  As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

After half a century, Doc finally completes his full run of Doctor Who stories as we look back on Sixth Doctor debut story “The Twin Dilemma”.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:01:09) The songs which top and tail this podcast are from a “Lady Penelope Investigates” LP produced by Century 21 Records in 1966 and acquired by Doc at a school Bring & Buy sale in the early 1970s. The LP cover can be seen on our Tumblr page here and the songs themselves can be found here.

(00:03:22) Breakaway was a brand of chocolate-covered digestive biscuit from Nestlé, which started production in 1970 in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery. Nestlé acquired the brand in 1988. It was discontinued in February 2024 after 54 years due to falling sales.

(00:28:19) Of the several incarnations of “The Tomorrow People”, the one Mark is referring to here is the British children’s science fiction television series produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 1973 to 1979. All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution (Homo novis) known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called ‘breaking out’ and develop special paranormal abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological make-up prevents them from intentionally killing others. The theme music and opening credits were fabulous.

(00:43:30) “Captain Zep – Super Space Detective” s a British television children’s series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1984. Constructed as part drama and part quiz game, “Captain Zep” featured mysteries that would be solved by the child audience in the studio, along with a write-in competition for viewers. The child audience were dressed in futuristic clothes and had gelled hair. The series was also notable for its combination of live action and animation, where the cast would interact with drawn alien characters amidst drawn backgrounds.

(00:45:56) “The Comeuppance of Captain Katt” was written and directed by Peter Grimwade as part of ITV’s “Dramarama” series.

(00:47:50) “Whizzer and Chips” was a British comics magazine that ran from 1969 to 1990, when it merged with the comic “Buster”. The format of “Whizzer and Chips” presented the comic as being divided into two separate parts — a novel idea at the time. One part was called Whizzer and the other was called Chips, with Chips existing as a separate pull-out section in the middle. The slogan “Two comics in one, double the fun!” was used.

(00:49:07) This audio clip is from “Rough Justice”, episode 18 of “Porridge”, a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show’s title is a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence, derived from the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons.

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

Hell Bent; Adam and the team discuss Jenna Coleman's last proper episode and we have feedback and news.

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the Big Finish play Doctor Who: Night Thoughts and the 1970s-1980s TV series Tales of the Unexpected, have a 30 second recommendation, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:36 — Welcome!
• 02:48 – News:
• 03:00 — Doctor Who: Win a Christmas screening.
• 05:02 — Big Finish: More audiomongery.
• 08:18 — Doctor Who: More merch.
• 10:14 — The Box of Delights: Going Blu.
• 10:58 — Kaos: Cancelled.
• 12:51 — Doctor Who RPG: Sapphire and Steel fan-made sourcebook.
• 14:59 — Maggie Smith: DEAD!
• 16:56 – Tales of the Unexpected (1970s-80s TV series).
• 32:44 – 30 Second Recommendation: Ludwig (2024 BBC TV series).
• 36:59 – Doctor Who: Night Thoughts (Big Finish).
• 46:45 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 49:38 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 50:20 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish.
• Wikipedia: The Box of Delights (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Kaos (TV series).
• Siskoid: Doctor Who RPG Expanded Universe Sourcebooks.
• Doctor Who RPG Forum: Sapphire and Steel Sourcebook.
• Wikipedia: Maggie Smith.
• Wikipedia: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series).
• Wikipedia: Ludwig (TV series).
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Night Thoughts.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.

Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.

This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.

You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.

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

Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Doctor Who Literature is 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.

Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching The Gunfighters, as voted for by... YOU.

What do they think of it in 2024? Tune in, find out. And do stay to the end for a very special musical number!

Contact the podcast anytime: hello@theDWshow.net

Did you know that if we had a nickel for every Doctor Who episode in which you have to pay the Company for the right to breathe, we’d have ten American cents? Which still wouldn’t be enough — even with Kate Orman’s help — to pay for today’s supply of Oxygen.

Notes and links

A clear inspiration for this episode, and for the opening scene in particular, is Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was a film about George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tumbling through space while discussing their relationship or something. It was huge at the time but it seems to have vanished without a trace. So it goes.

Simon alludes to a rogue AI that turns the whole world into paperclips in a scenario known as the paperclip apocalypse. This isn’t a million miles away from the grey goo problem we identified three weeks ago in our episode on Smile — Episode 284: Happy to Be There.

The script for this episode is available from the Doctor Who script library on the BBC website. Quite a few scripts have been available online for a while, but a much larger number were made available on the BBC Writers page in February this year, thanks to RTD’s launch of the Whoniverse, we think.

Nathan’s recent podcast appearance was on Dave Rennie’s Doctor Who podcast A Kettle and Some String, in which they did a deep dive on The Waters of Mars.

At the end of the episode, when Nardole joins Bill and the Doctor in a hug, he signals his intention (delightfully), by saying ‘Cuddle’. The Blu-ray subtitles incorrectly render this as ‘Glad though. [Chuckles]’. Neither line is in Mathieson’s script.

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You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we’ll send you out in this thunderstorm without a hat.

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.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out the latest episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics; we’ll be back with another hot take when the new Series 1 box set is released.

Last weekend, on Startling Barbara Bain, we faced what is perhaps the most memorable and terrifying episode of Space: 1999 ever with our usual mix of valour and prosecco. It’s Dragon’s Domain.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to watch the crew of Star Trek: Discovery start off their second season in the far, far future in Kobayashi Maru.

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Gary (@Gary_Gillatt) and Jeff (@CityOf_Jeff) join US Jason to discuss The Crusade to mark this story's release on vinyl by Demon Music (@DemonMusicGroup).

You can order the record here.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage it’s another 60s companion Wendy Padbury.

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SCREAM:

• It's Prognosis Negative Episode Four Seven, featuring Carl, Sean and Eric. Join us as we hop on a train to discuss the 2024 film, Alien: Romulus. Dive in and discover if we go type O Neg or Pos!

• This is a Non-canonical ProgNeg, released out of sequence. 

• This discussion was recorded on Sept. 3rd, 2023.

WARNING:

• This discussion contains miscellaneous SPOILERS pertaining to the film(s) discussed and possibly Doctor Who! If you are 100% spoilerphobic to films not yet seen, do not complain to us. This episode is mostly negative (though often that is a misnomer) and contains EXPLICIT terms, concepts, and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout.

THE BALCONY IS YOURS

Host/Producer: Eric @BullittWHO Prognosis Negative Movie Reviews Podcast Star Trek: Romulans Bearing Gifts Podcast

Co-host: Sean @HomrigSean The Cabot Cove Confab: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast The Best Picture Podcast

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Co-host/Producer: Caleb @CalebAlexader The Novice Elitists Film Podcast Bending the Elements: An Avatar Podcast

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ProgNeg Theme originally compiled by H.B. Lockwood

It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine 609
• Variety article on toxic fandom
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025

Interview:

• Toby Hadoke

 This week, David & Matt sit down to discuss Day 1 & 2 of Torchwood's third series 'The Children Of Earth'

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

Twitter: @timenorspacepod 

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

Who's He? at The Movies | Quatermass and The Pit

This time Phil looks at the classic Hammer Films version of Quatermass and The Pit starring Andrew Keir and takes an opportunity to go looking for Doctor Who actors.

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The novelization of Vengeance on Varos was published two years behind schedule, meaning that book number 106, which was skipped in the Target Doctor Who novelization release order in 1986, is belatedly plugged in -- immediately after the previous two novelizations were both assigned number 127. Got that?

This week's Doctor Who Literature guest is David Barsky. David and Jason have lots of TV and international travel to discuss. And, occasionally, Vengeance on Varos, a controversial story and a novelization tending towards the... verbose.

Sound clips in this episode include:

--The 1969 Encyclopedia Britannica short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery";

--A Season 3 "Simpsons" riff also on "The Lottery";

--"Family Guy", like David Barsky, did not care for The Godfather;

--The venerable U.S. game show "The Price is Right", which has been on the air since, like, 1911, has memorable sound bites here and here.

Not heard in the episode, but highly recommended, is both the trailer for and the movie LOCK-UP (1989), starring Sylvester Stallone (not McCoy), the late Donald Sutherland, and the late John Amos (whose death was announced the day this episode was recorded).

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Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

"Doctor Who – Vengeance on Varos" features cover art by David McAllister.

Doctor Who Literature is 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 2001 and tonight, The Doctor Who Show team examines it from two very different angles. Rob saw it in the cinema, 23 years ago. And Dave saw it last Friday.

Regardless of those angles, what are our thoughts on this film, its writing, its production, and its ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, and Andy Serkis, here in 2024?

If you’ve got an hour to spare, sit back, relax, and join us in an ALTERNATE GALAXIES episode that travels to Middle Earth for the first in a three-part series that will also include The Two Towers and The Return of the King from 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Contact us any time: hello@theDWshow.net

On the brand new Trap One Podcast Keith, Dan (@D_Hollingsworth), Chris (@chrisphnx) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) take a trip to Deathworld with a fascinating look at the road not travelled for the Tenth anniversary of #DoctorWho.

This week more Whooverville 15 coverage with the original companion herself Carole Ann Ford who played Susan.

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Monts and Nuge are back doing what they do best, dumping a dollop load of sass from orbit onto Geekdom. 

News

• Nuge loses it with monts after he discovers a new moon.
• Limited Edition Space 1999 Eagle gets a reveal
• Spaced turns 25 years old

Week that Was

• Dave is still knee deep in the aliens universe and recommends a few comics to check out.
• Friday
• Wonder Woman: Historia
• Human Target
• Terminator Zero
• Twilight of the Gods
• Holmes. Margaret and Poe
• Nightsleeper
• Trap

On this month's Wanderers - And Now For The Big Finish podcast, the Wanderers review the  Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures - Ravenous 4 boxed set from Big Finish!

Hosts:

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

Join us in two weeks for the October edition of Wanderers - Crossing the Void! As always, you can send us feedback on Facebook at Wanderers in the 4th Dimension or on Twitter @Wanderin4d.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

Join Ian and James on the South Bank of the Thames just after the screening of the new Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol at British Film Institute. Did Happiness prevail? Tune in to find out!

Enjoy the show.

A Field Report update as your intrepid and amorphous podcast collective emulsify in a corridor at the BFI after seeing the /right/ version of 1988's crookedly smiling neon-noir masterpiece, The Happiness Patrol.

With Dan @D_Hollingsworth, Tom @aquatics64, Ben @BenCJolly, Matt @matt04896, Joumana @joumajnouna and Pete @Prof_Quiteamess.

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!  

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
• Andrew Smith Just Giving page
• Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
• TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
• Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
• Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
• Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
• Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
• Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
• Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
• The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
• Vader Sessions (Remastered)

Interview:

• Chris Hayden

Waffle On about Witness

Here is our latest episode dedicated to 1985 and what a brilliant film to waffle on about. Witness is a brilliant Harrison Ford led film and was a break away from action hero and sci fi characters. 

In this episode Meds and Kell have a big announcement to make and of course chat about some other things that have taken their fancy.

Please do share our podcast and come along and join the Facebook group. 

Jeff is back! It is time to greet our new companion Vicki, played by the amazing Maureen O'Brien. This two-parter has a lot of firsts crammed inm for Ross and Jeff to talk about.  It is a favorite of both guys and for good reason.

#DoctorWho #1stDoctor #WilliamHartnell #TARDIS 

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the 1999 Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death and the live Big Finish play Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:22 — Welcome!
• 02:27 – News:
• 02:40 — Orphan Black: Echoes Cancelled.
• 05:22 — Time Bandits: Cancelled.
• 06:46 — David Graham: DEAD!
• 08:34 — Ghosts: Even more international remakes.
• 11:24 – Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend Live (Big Finish).
• 27:26 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 film).
• 38:48 – Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• 47:51 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 51:13 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 51:50 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Wikipedia: Orphan Black: Echoes.
• Wikipedia: Time Bandits (TV series).
• Wikipedia: David Graham (actor).
• Wikipedia: Ghosts (2019 TV series).
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Big Finish: The Stuff of Legend.
• Wikipedia: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
• Wikipedia: The Curse of Fatal Death.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

Welcome to the beginning of the end of Doctor Who Literature. It's May 1988, and the paperback release of the first of the 12 Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who novelizations by Target Books. The Target run had a finite lifespan, and from here on out, with the last Classic Series Doctor finally joining the Target stable, the end is in sight.

We will have two guests for each of the Sylvester McCoy books. First up this week is Jim Sangster, who is now officially co-host of the show and the producer of our YouTube channel and video content. Jim has a new song for us this week.

We also have an archival interview with Joe Ford from July 2021 extolling the virtues of Time and the Rani, from Jason's first attempt at a podcast, unreleased after all this time until now.

Please purchase Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor from Ten Acre Films.

"16 Going on 17" comes from The Sound of Music. Doctor Who Literature expressly refutes Rolfe's political affiliation. As does Family Guy.

The history of the Topps 1980 baseball card set is here.

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

Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.

Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.

Doctor Who Literature is 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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.

This month you voted for us to look at the 1965 William Hartnell-era story, The Crusade, which only has two (of four) episodes in the archives. Your wish is our command, and here we are!

Before then we have news and short topics and, after our thoughts on The Crusade, we have some listener emails, and what else we’ve been consuming in the world of entertainment. 

In short, all the usual stuff you’ve come to know and love from us. 

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

This week, six millennials are astonishingly successful finding a large house to rent — the power points don’t work, there’s no mobile reception and the walls are quite literally made of alien woodlice. Oh, and it collapses into dust on their first night. It’s Knock Knock.

Notes and links

Brendan quickly identifies two of the film antecedents of this story: The Evil Dead (1981), with its demonically possessed trees, and Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), whose antagonist has a complex relationship with his mother.

Nathan first encounters David Suchet as Blott in Blott on the Landscape (1985), a BBC adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s 1975 satirical novel of the same name.

Knock Knock was written by Mike Bartlett, who was famous for a TV series called Dr Foster (2015), starring Suranne Jones as a woman who starts to suspect her husband of infidelity.

David Suchet’s first appearance in a Poirot property starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot — the 1985 made-for-TV movie Thirteen at Dinner (1985), an adaptation of Christie’s Lord Edgeware Dies (1933), in which Suchet played Inspector Japp.

Simon refers to the vault-related theorising of Whovians, a comedy aftershow that accompanied Series 10, 11 and 12 of Doctor Who on ABC-TV in Australia. Our very own Adam Richard was a regular in the show’s first two seasons.

And finally, Brendan recklessly introduces us to another possible inspiration for this episode, the 1977 film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, which we would all have been better off not knowing about.

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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.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

On 5 October, Blakes 7 came to BFI Southbank for a screening of the newly remastered HD versions of Seek–Locate–Destroy and Orac and a Q & A with Jan Chappell and Sally Knyvette. And Maximum Power was there. So check out today’s newly released episode with our hot takes on the new versions of these beloved fan classics.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, they went back in time to see the origin story of breakout character Peanut Hamper in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Quality of Life.

This week, we’re joined by Melvin Peña for a day trip to the Thames Frost Fair in 1814, expecting a jolly afternoon of daydrinking, sword swallowers and juicy sheep hearts, only to find ourselves tied to a bomb and engaged in an intriguing discussion about race, class, death and the ethics of killing. It’s Thin Ice.

Notes and links

Once again, Friend from the Future was a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts. Nathan makes fun of the fact that at the end of the short, the on-screen caption reads Introducing Pearl Mackie asBill. You can see the entire short, including that unfortunate typo, here.

Like Martha before her and Ruby after her, Bill is concerned that treading on a butterfly in the past will change the present in terrible ways. That concern comes from Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, which you should really just go off and read right now.

In Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer (2013), the poor people who live in the back of the train are fed on glistening black protein bars, which we discover are made from ground-up cockroaches.

Flight Through Entirety only occasionally advocates for political violence (see Episode 182: The Icy Moral High Ground), but this week we are pleased to bring you this clip of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the head during an interview on ABC-TV in January 2017.

Melvin alludes to the Slave Compensation Act 1837, which authorised the payment of about £20 million in compensation to slave owners in the British colonies. This sum was finally paid off when the British Government restructured its debt in 2015. (The people who had been enslaved didn’t receive any compensation, of course.)

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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.

500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It’s first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025.

The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2.

Brendan and Bjay’s gaming poscast is called The Bjay BJ Game Show. In the most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game with a sentient robot protagonist, which raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion.

Brendan, Richard and Steven have released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It’s the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they dropped in on the Q Continuum in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager called Death Wish.

It is our great pleausre to welcome voice of K9, John Leeson, to the podcast. We'll chat about his career including his time on Doctor Who, Rainbow and Blake's 7, his love of wine and his time as a lay magistrate.

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