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There is only one week left in the era of the Jodie Whittaker era of Doctor Who! This week saw the (embargoed) premiere in the UK, a broadcast time (at last), and some promotional material, care of Doctor Who Magazine. Kyle Anderson from Nerdist drops by to give his thoughts and opinions on the lead-up to the Whittaker/Chibnall finale, plus the era as a whole. Next week: new Doctor Who!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• The Power of the Doctor press screening held Oct 11
• The Power of the Doctor BBC One broadcast will be at 7:30pm
• TVNZ will simulcast The Power of the Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine 583 released
• The Power of the Doctor UK Steelbook/Blu-Ray/DVD release Nov 7
• Big Finish Rose Tyler – The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds available
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who — Master! Nemesis Express available
• Doctor Who: Special 2023 from Titan Comics due Aug 15, 2023

There is only one week left in the era of the Jodie Whittaker era of Doctor Who! This week saw the (embargoed) premiere in the UK, a broadcast time (at last), and some promotional material, care of Doctor Who Magazine. Kyle Anderson from Nerdist drops by to give his thoughts and opinions on the lead-up to the Whittaker/Chibnall finale, plus the era as a whole. Next week: new Doctor Who!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• The Power of the Doctor press screening held Oct 11
• The Power of the Doctor BBC One broadcast will be at 7:30pm
• TVNZ will simulcast The Power of the Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine 583 released
• The Power of the Doctor UK Steelbook/Blu-Ray/DVD release Nov 7
• Big Finish Rose Tyler – The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds available
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who — Master! Nemesis Express available
• Doctor Who: Special 2023 from Titan Comics due Aug 15, 2023

Ross is joined by James Silvester and talk about Temporal Logbook III a new collection of Doctor Who short stories for charity.  They had a lovely chat about and enjoyable book.  The charity it is supporting is Settled. Settled provides information, advice and support services to help EU citizens who have made a home in the UK.

Settled:

https://settled.org.uk/

Temporal Logic II:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/yee-jee-tso-and-james-silvester/temporal-logbook-iii-changed-lives/paperback/product-4wpke8.html?q=Temporal+logbook&page=1&pageSize=4

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

The Power of The Doctor - Predictions

In this episode Phil and Scott spend a few minutes discussing their predictions for The Power of The Doctor, which is due to air in a weeks time. During the course of their conversation, Phil has a senior moment trying to remember Sacha Dawan's name, while Scott struggles to say Curator!

And of course with Scott about, the conversation goes off topic into the future of Doctor Who itself and he also poses random questions to Phil!

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

The Power of The Doctor - Predictions

In this episode Phil and Scott spend a few minutes discussing their predictions for The Power of The Doctor, which is due to air in a weeks time. During the course of their conversation, Phil has a senior moment trying to remember Sacha Dawan's name, while Scott struggles to say Curator!

And of course with Scott about, the conversation goes off topic into the future of Doctor Who itself and he also poses random questions to Phil!

For the third straight week on Doctor Who Literature, we are examining the novelization of a Bob Baker & Dave Martin TV episode. Made at the very beginning of the Graham Williams era, the first story produced as part of Season 15, this proves to be a somewhat rocky maiden voyage for Doctor Who's incoming producer, and the scripts that Williams was handed... probably did not help matters. There are some terrific ideas on the page and some terrific visual effects on screen, especially in Part One, but, this week's guest (the inaugural member of the Doctor Who Literature Five-Timers club), Si Hart (@Si_Hart) and I, sure have a lot of fun breaking down what went wrong.

Jason and Si also apply our Retrospective Script Editor hats to try and improve several Classic Doctor Who stories, such as "The Time Monster", and we revisit a COVID-inspired trip through the Jon Pertwee era.

Among the many other places you can catch Si is on the Maximum Power Podcast, which is about to launch its second season.

And catch Jason on the most recent episode of the Trap One Podcast discussing the Power of the Doctor trailer.

"Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy" features cover art by Roy Knipe.

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, we’re spending a relaxing afternoon on sunny Trenzalore, chatting with friends, visiting people we’ve lost, solving a mystery, bringing up an age-old question, and generally getting everything neatly squared away before the fireworks start this November. It’s The Name of the Doctor.

Notes and links

Nathan’s rant about giving the Doctor unnecessary backstory in The War Games Part 10 can be heard on the Jodie into Terror episode on The Timeless Children.

Earlier this year, Nathan appeared on a podcast called Pull to Open, with Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor, and in every episode they theorise about where you might find Clara in this Doctor Who story. You can hear Nathan’s theory about Clara’s role in The Claws of Axos here.

Here’s El Sandifer’s essay on The Name of the Doctor, and this is how she describes Richard E Grant as the Great Intelligence: “But Grant is putting no effort into the part, playing him as a cliched bit of leering smugness. Which is, of course, exactly what the part calls for – a big name actor basically phoning it in.”

And finally: Nathan has a habit of making fun of Chris Chibnall’s minimalist approach to publicising Doctor Who by repeatedly posting a screencap of Art Malik from the exciting trailer at the end of The Woman Who Fell to Earth. You can see him in action here.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, Todd is @toddbeilby and Simon is @simonmoore72. 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 leap into your timeline and keep bombarding you with a lot of gratuitous advice.

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’ll be releasing our final episode on The Power of the Doctor this week.

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 is back to kick off its Season B coverage today with the first part of a two-part inteview with Michael E Briant, who directed five episodes of Blakes 7 Season A, as well as Colony in Space, The Sea Devils, The Green Death, Death to the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen and The Robots of Death.

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 Darmok, which is one of the best episodes in Star Trek’s absurdly long history.

A trilogy of cybertronic audio adventures meanders towards a decline and we can't help but object to the fate of two legendary Classic companions

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and the Real Keith Dunn review Doctor Who: New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, Vol. 7 – Blood and Steel (Big Finish) and the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 01:08 — Welcome!
• 01:44- News:
• 01:52 — Doctor Who: Centenary special dated.
• 03:08 — Community: Six seasons and a movie.
• 05:22 — Deadpool: Threequel with added Wolverine.
• 06:34 — Time Bandits: TV series on the way.
• 08:03 — Picard: New trailer with game Enterprise.
• 11:28 — Wednesday: New trailer for Netflix TV series.
• 12:28 — Return of the Spider!
• 13:40 – Doctor Who: New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, Vol. 7 – Blood and Steel (Big Finish).
• 27:30 – Birthday: Keith.
• 29:13 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• 47:09 – Emails and listener feedback.
• 50:56 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 51:35 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Community (TV Series).
• Wikipedia: Deadpool.
• Wikipedia: Time Bandits (TV series).
• Star Trek.
• Wikipedia: Star Trek – Picard.
• Wikipedia: Wednesday (TV series).
• Big Finish: New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, Vol. 7 – Blood and Steel.
• Wikipedia: Terminator 2 – Judgment Day.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode!

This time, we look at what we consider our WORST stories in all of classic Doctor Who. If you thought some of our shows presented hard choices lately, this one was no different!

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!

Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are welcome; get in touch!

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

In a far-off galaxy in a distant future, a band of misfit soldiers in a comical castle await the arrival of an enemy long thought dead — thousands upon thousands of killer Cybermen. Angie and Archie don’t seem particularly impressed, though, and neither do Nathan, Richard, James and Peter. It’s Nightmare in Silver.

Notes and links

Richard is reminded of the Hammer film Vampire Circus (1972), which features Lalla Ward, Adrienne Corri and Laurence Payne, which means that we can now regard The Leisure Hive as its canonical sequel. He also mentions the 1988 film Waxwork, which features genre stalwarts David Warner and John Rhys-Davies.

Neil Gaiman handles childhood fears so beautifully in The Graveyard Book (2008) that Nathan and Richard recommend that you go and read it at once. It’s the story of Nobody Owens, who lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts after his family is murdered. Beautiful, funny and haunting.

And some film trivia that you can use to surprise and delight your remaining friends: as Richard says, Mel Brooks was one of the producers (uncredited) of Star Trek’s David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, The Fly.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Richard is @RichardLStone and James is @ohjamessellwood. 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 do a film adaptation of all your most terrifying childhood fears on a tight budget and a very short time frame.

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’ll be releasing our final episode on The Power of the Doctor on 25 October, we hope.

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, whose Series B social media campaign has begun in earnest. Expect something very special very soon.

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 the worst Star Trek: Enterprise episode ever, apparently, and Nathan really quite enjoyed it.

The Lodger; Adam, Kirby and Mary talk about the episode that launched James Corden's career. We also have feedback, news, #FanTCCon news a quick episode of You Won't Get This One, and What We Watched This Week.

Jodie Whittaker’s final story is almost upon us – The Power of the Doctor airs in just one week’s time! Join James and Michele as the preview the thirteenth’s Doctor’s last stand. This episode is spoiler free – mainly because we simply don’t know anything! It does however contain lots of speculation which MAY be right! Time will tell, it always does.

We’ll be back as soon as possible after The Power of the Doctor airs with our hot take on the story – this might be close to midnight (BST) on the 23rd, so keep an eye on your feeds!

Enjoy the show.

Jodie Whittaker’s final story is almost upon us – The Power of the Doctor airs in just one week’s time! Join James and Michele as the preview the thirteenth’s Doctor’s last stand. This episode is spoiler free – mainly because we simply don’t know anything! It does however contain lots of speculation which MAY be right! Time will tell, it always does.

We’ll be back as soon as possible after The Power of the Doctor airs with our hot take on the story – this might be close to midnight (BST) on the 23rd, so keep an eye on your feeds!

Enjoy the show.

Jodie Whittaker’s final story is almost upon us – The Power of the Doctor airs in just one week’s time! Join James and Michele as the preview the thirteenth’s Doctor’s last stand. This episode is spoiler free – mainly because we simply don’t know anything! It does however contain lots of speculation which MAY be right! Time will tell, it always does.

We’ll be back as soon as possible after The Power of the Doctor airs with our hot take on the story – this might be close to midnight (BST) on the 23rd, so keep an eye on your feeds!

Enjoy the show.

The lads are back with more geek chat than you can force push a sith lord at.

News

Nuge has more apocalyptic news with T-Watch

Month That Was

• Canary
• Freaks: You're one of us
• From
• Andor
• Rings of Power

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We could tell you what happens in this week's episode but instead we would rather direct you to our annual charity collection (This year we are raising funds for Cancer Research U.K.)

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This week more Whooverville 13 coverage with the best panel of this year's event Rufus Hound.

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LET'S BE honest - as a Doctor Who fan, we'd all love to appear in the show in one form or another, whether as an actor, writer, director, producer, or even just in the background.

It would, of course, be an impossible dream to think that you could get a small on-screen speaking part, especially if you were a fan who lived in Canada....

But dreams can come true, and that's exactly what happened for Jeremy Radick, who got to appear in the part of Gareth the security guard in the TV Movie.

This week, we meet Jeremy, and discover what a huge fan of the show he is!

We take a look back at the “Terrance Dicks – A Celebration” event at The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith on 02 October 2022.

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(00:19:36) Photos of Hayden’s copy of the “Day of the Doctor” novelisation signed by Steven Moffat can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:19:36) Photos of Hayden’s “been through the wars” copy of “The TV Movie” novelisation signed by Gary Russell can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:19:36) Photos of Hayden’s copy of “Dalek” novelisation signed by Rob Shearman can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

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Flight Night:

• It's Prognosis Negative Three Eight, featuring Sean and Eric. 
• Join us as we have a few drinks and discuss the 2014 film, Interstellar. Dive in and discover if we go type O Neg or Pos!
• This is a non-canonical ProgNeg.

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.

DISCLAIMER:

• This episode was originally recorded Sept. 4th, 2022. 

I'M AFRAID OF TIME.

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We're back at Paternoster Row with our favorite Silurian, Human, Sontaran Team. This time around we learn a bit more about the inner workings of the gang and where things might be heading.

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In this episode we catch up with John Dorney to find out what he has been up to over the last two years since his first appearance on The Sirens of Audio. You'll hear about many of his stories including those that featured in the Tenth Doctor | Classic Companions, Dalek Universe, Stranded and Missy boxsets, as well as the incredible Cyberman piece Monsters in Metropolis for ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston. We'll also discuss how he approaches adaptations such as the audio version of Return of the Cybermen and The Avengers Comic Strip Adaptations. 

As always, please visit https://www.bigfinish.com/ to find out more about any of the titles we discuss throughout the show. 

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It's the long-awaited continuation of Whovian bants with Steven of New To Who Fame!

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Is compassion an indulgence? Join Deb, Erika, and Tansy as they discuss this question in the context of our chat about Davros, the ultimate tech bro. And of course we spend lots of time on Clara, Missy, and the Doctor himself!

How do you feel about "The Magician's Apprentice" and "The Witch's Familiar"? Was this your first Doctor Who story, or do you know someone for whom it was Drop us a tweet or let us know in the comments!

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Extra-special thanks to this week's editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

Dan and Eric are back in the Who-verse and ready to enter the machine and drop kick a bunch of Krotons and say goodbye to Troughton. It's another edition of the Old Doctor Who Show!

Outro Music: “Welcome to the Machine” by Pink Floyd

Thank you for downloading the Trap One Podcast.

On this episode Jason (@drwhonovels), Ross (@Traitken), Jan and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) breakdown the trailer for The Power of the Doctor.

DOCTOR Who TV Movie screenwriter Matthew Jacobs has a new Time Lord-related project on the way - and he's spoken to Pieces of Eighth all about it.

Matthew and his friend, documentary filmmaker Vanessa Yuille, follows him in Doctor Who Am I, as he is reluctantly pulled back into the fandom that universally panned his writing and narrative twists in 1996. In a film that is funny and moving, the American ‘Whoniverse’ is explored during the biggest conventions dedicated to the cult of the Doctor.

Jacobs’s journey is often hilarious and emotionally perilous, but it also sparks a provocative and touching showdown between American Doctor Who fans and the writer himself. Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Eric Roberts, and many others, offer Jacobs words of wisdom and help him realize just how personal and ambivalently entangled the show has been in his life. Matthew unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.

Yuille’s directorial debut documentary addresses the desire to belong to a community, and how people can become nourished and enriched by the experience.

All hail Jodie Whittaker, for she is the headlining guest of Gallifrey One 2023 and that is wondrous for all and sundry. We also, shockingly enough, have a new (but underwhelming) trailer for “The Power of the Doctor”, confirmed to grace our airwaves October 23! Plus a traipse through The Timelash, the Radio Times appealing to hoarders everywhere to give up missing episodes, and for all you sports fans out there, the RFS hat trick of Steven finally getting COVID! All curse the Swarm!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Jodie Whittaker to headline Gallifrey One 2023
• The Power of the Doctor trailer, October 23 broadcast confirmed
• Ace has her iconic bomber jacket in The Power of the Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine 583
• RTD will be around for at least two series
• Radio Times missing episodes treasure hunt
• Season 8 Blu-Ray to get UK reissue in standard packaging Nov 14
• Doctor Who Am I UK Blu-Ray release Nov 28
• Demon Quest 10 LP limited release signed by Tom Baker
• Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Visitants due December 2022
• Big Finish The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: Geronimo! released
• Titan Comics Doctor Who #1 from Nov 2020 released for free
• Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection Volume 2 due Dec 1
• GoFundMe for Lynne & Michael Thomas

All hail Jodie Whittaker, for she is the headlining guest of Gallifrey One 2023 and that is wondrous for all and sundry. We also, shockingly enough, have a new (but underwhelming) trailer for “The Power of the Doctor”, confirmed to grace our airwaves October 23! Plus a traipse through The Timelash, the Radio Times appealing to hoarders everywhere to give up missing episodes, and for all you sports fans out there, the RFS hat trick of Steven finally getting COVID! All curse the Swarm!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Jodie Whittaker to headline Gallifrey One 2023
• The Power of the Doctor trailer, October 23 broadcast confirmed
• Ace has her iconic bomber jacket in The Power of the Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine 583
• RTD will be around for at least two series
• Radio Times missing episodes treasure hunt
• Season 8 Blu-Ray to get UK reissue in standard packaging Nov 14
• Doctor Who Am I UK Blu-Ray release Nov 28
• Demon Quest 10 LP limited release signed by Tom Baker
• Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Visitants due December 2022
• Big Finish The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: Geronimo! released
• Titan Comics Doctor Who #1 from Nov 2020 released for free
• Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection Volume 2 due Dec 1
• GoFundMe for Lynne & Michael Thomas

The Master doles out diminutive deaths and, wow, those laser shoes really paid off in the end!

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The 6th Doctor and Evelyn have landed right in the middle of conference of Time Active races, including his own. Will they along with Romana be able to stop the Daleks.  Of course or Ross and Vic would not be able to talk about this story from the early days of Big Finish.

Shout outs!

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

This week we are joined by Dale Smith, a prolific writer of both Doctor Who fiction and non-fiction. Dale talks about two of his Doctor Who novels and his recent Black Archives volume on "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". You can find Dale's masterful website detailing his writing career here, and can purchase his Black Archives volume here. We've talked a lot about "Talons" on Doctor Who Literature lately, but Dale's literally written the book on the subject, and this was a particularly fascinating conversation.

"The Hand of Fear" features one of Doctor Who's most emotional companion departures, and another amazing vocal performance by the great Stephen Thorne. We will cover all of that, from the sublime to the sublime.

Thanks to Frazer Gregory (@FelixFrazer) for this week's transcendently good guest reading.

"Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear" features cover art by Roy Knipe.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.
You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

In a far-off galaxy in a distant future, a band of misfit soldiers in a comical castle await the arrival of an enemy long thought dead — thousands upon thousands of killer Cybermen. Angie, Archie don’t seem particularly impressed, though, and neither do Nathan, Richard, James and Peter. It’s Nightmare in Silver.

Notes and links

Richard is reminded of the Hammer film Vampire Circus (1972), which features Lalla Ward, Adrienne Corri and Laurence Payne, which means that we can now regard The Leisure Hive as its canonical sequel. He also mentions the 1988 film Waxwork, which features genre stalwarts David Warner and John Rhys-Davies.

Neil Gaiman handles childhood fears so beautifully in The Graveyard Book (2008) that Nathan and Richard recommend that you go and read it at once. It’s the story of Nobody Owens, who lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts after his family is murdered. Beautiful, funny and haunting.

And some film trivia that you can use to surprise and delight your remaining friends: as Richard says, Mel Brooks was one of the producers (uncredited) of Star Trek’s David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, The Fly.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, Richard is @RichardLStone and James is @ohjamessellwood. 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 do a film adaptation of all your most terrifying childhood fears on a tight budget and a very short time frame.

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’ll be releasing our final episode on The Power of the Doctor on 25 October, we hope.

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, whose Series B social media campaign has begun in earnest. Expect something very special very soon.

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 the worst Star Trek: Enterprise episode ever, apparently, and Nathan really quite enjoyed it.

This week we’re joined by Steven from New to Who to discuss one of the great loves of our lives — Dame Diana Rigg, whose astonishing performance makes The Crimson Horror one of the best episodes of the era.

Notes and links

So, Diana Rigg. As we all know, her breakout role was as Mrs Peel in The Avengers from 1966 to 1968. And so this is not her first appearance on Flight Through Entirety. Before discussing The Seeds of Doom, Brendan, Nathan and Richard discussed the Avengers episode that undoubtedly inspired it: The Man Eater of Surrey Green (see Episode 43: Sexiest Exposition Trope). Since then, on Bondfinger, we’ve discussed several more episodes of The Avengers that she starred in, as well as the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), which also starred the recently-cancelled George Lazenby as Bond.

Richard’s Pick of the Week: the “almost unwatchable” German Super 8 films starring Diana Rigg — Der goldene Schlüssel (1966), minikillers (1969) and Diadem (1969). They’re all available on YouTube, but we would completely understand if you decided not to follow the links.

Mark Gatiss named Mr Sweet after his friend Matthew Sweet, the author of Inventing the Victorians (2001), which attempts to demythologise the culture of the Victorian era: turns out, they were just as much fun as we are, apparently. Sweet is also known for his probing interviews of Doctor Who actors which can be found as extras on many DVD and Blu-ray releases.

We occasionally mention or allude to The League of Gentlemen, a sketch comedy series set in the fictional northern town of Royston Vasey, which ran for three seasons, a movie and a return season 15 years later. It doesn’t totally hold up now, for many reasons, but it’s certainly a useful text when it comes to understanding Mark Gatiss’s interests as a writer.

Richard points out that the opening scene of the episode echoes the famous Hovis Bread commercial from 1973, directed by Ridley Scott, which the people at Hovis (credibly) claim is “Britain’s most iconic and heart-warming advert”. More about the ad here.

Mrs Gillyflower’s revival meeting reminds Nathan of Mrs Melrose Ape, the lady preacher from Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, which we know that Mark Gatiss is aware of, because he plays a small role in Stephen Fry’s film adaptation of the novel, Bright Young Things (2003).

And finally, as a well-known Sherlockian, Gatiss ties this episode into the Holmes canon: in The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Watson briefly refers to his notes on “the repulsive story of the red leech”.

Follow us

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

Steven B is one of the hosts of the New to Who podcast, which discusses Classic Doctor Who stories and introduces the Classic series to new fans. You can follow New to Who on Twitter at @NewToWhoPodcast and check out the episodes wherever podcasts can be found.

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 sprinkle pepper down the front of our blouse instead of salt so we can laugh at the sound of your sneezing.

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’ll be releasing our final episode on The Power of the Doctor a couple of days after 23 October, turns out.

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 will be returning to your podcatcher with a second series (a Series B, if you will) even more action-packed and breathtaking than the first.

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 welcomed the USS Voyager’s long-awaited return home in Endgame.

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

Loups Garoux Review

This episode, Phil and Paul plugged in their headphones and listened to Loups Garoux from Big Finish starring Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. In this tale of werewolves and mind forests, our intrepid reviewing duo get their teeth into this story and claw their way (no more werewolf puns, I promise) through a review that surprised the pair of them!

But before this discussion, they briefly touched upon the fact that The Power of the Doctor is due to air soon and there is no promotion from the BBC! What is going on? Though knowing Phil and Paul's luck by the time this episode goes to air, the announcement will be out!

PS. The BBC did catch them out, The Power of The Doctor is out on 23rd October!

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

Loups Garoux Review

This episode, Phil and Paul plugged in their headphones and listened to Loups Garoux from Big Finish starring Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. In this tale of werewolves and mind forests, our intrepid reviewing duo get their teeth into this story and claw their way (no more werewolf puns, I promise) through a review that surprised the pair of them!

But before this discussion, they briefly touched upon the fact that The Power of the Doctor is due to air soon and there is no promotion from the BBC! What is going on? Though knowing Phil and Paul's luck by the time this episode goes to air, the announcement will be out!

PS. The BBC did catch them out, The Power of The Doctor is out on 23rd October!

Dave took a flying visit up to Sydney, so the 8th of October saw him catch up with Rob, in-person.

For this latest meeting, the lo-fi, hotel room recording vibe is back. Strap in for, ‘Rob and Dave Unplugged 3’ where, this time around, the guys canvassed their social media followers for questions about anything at all!

Come and spend an hour with the guys, talking everything from Doctor Who to their favourite sandwiches.

Have a comment? hello@theDWshow.net

This week we’re joined by Steven from New to Who to discuss one of the great loves of our lives — Dame Diana Rigg, whose astonishing performance makes The Crimson Horror one of the best episodes of the era.

Notes and links

So, Diana Rigg. As we all know, her breakout role was as Mrs Peel in The Avengers from 1966 to 1968. And so this is not her first appearance on Flight Through Entirety. Before discussing The Seeds of Doom, Brendan, Nathan and Richard discussed the Avengers episode that undoubtedly inspired it: The Man Eater of Surrey Green (see Episode 43: Sexiest Exposition Trope). Since then, on Bondfinger, we’ve discussed several more episodes of The Avengers that she starred in, as well as the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), which also starred the recently-cancelled George Lazenby as Bond.

Richard’s Pick of the Week: the “almost unwatchable” German Super 8 films starring Diana Rigg — Der goldene Schlüssel (1966), minikillers (1969) and Diadem (1969). They’re all available on YouTube, but we would completely understand if you decided not to follow the links.

Mark Gatiss named Mr Sweet after his friend Matthew Sweet, the author of Inventing the Victorians (2001), which attempts to demythologise the culture of the Victorian era: turns out, they were just as much fun as we are, apparently. Sweet is also known for his probing interviews of Doctor Who actors which can be found as extras on many DVD and Blu-ray releases.

We occasionally mention or allude to The League of Gentlemen, a sketch comedy series set in the fictional northern town of Royston Vasey, which ran for three seasons, a movie and a return season 15 years later. It doesn’t totally hold up now, for many reasons, but it’s certainly a useful text when it comes to understanding Mark Gatiss’s interests as a writer.

Richard points out that the opening scene of the episode echoes the famous Hovis Bread commercial from 1973, directed by Ridley Scott, which the people at Hovis (credibly) claim is “Britain’s most iconic and heart-warming advert”. More about the ad here.

Mrs Gillyflower’s revival meeting reminds Nathan of Mrs Melrose Ape, the lady preacher from Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, which we know that Mark Gatiss is aware of, because he plays a small role in Stephen Fry’s film adaptation of the novel, Bright Young Things (2003).

And finally, as a well-known Sherlockian, Gatiss ties this episode into the Holmes canon: in The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Watson briefly refers to his notes on “the repulsive story of the red leech”.

Follow us

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

Steven B is one of the hosts of the New to Who podcast, which discusses Classic Doctor Who stories and introduces the Classic series to new fans. You can follow New to Who on Twitter at @NewToWhoPodcast and check out the episodes wherever podcasts can be found.

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 sprinkle pepper down the front of our blouse instead of salt so we can laugh at the sound of your sneezing.

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’ll be releasing our final episode on The Power of the Doctor a couple of days after 23 October, turns out.

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 will be returning to your podcatcher with a second series (a Series B, if you will) even more action-packed and breathtaking than the first.

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 welcomed the USS Voyager’s long-awaited return home in Endgame.

Vincent and the Doctor; Adam, Debbie, Kirby, Ben and Robert discuss invisible monsters, we also have feedback, news, How Aged Are They and What We Watched This Week.

David has covid

Matt has a new microwave oven

Together they sit down to review the Torchwood story 'Out Of Time'

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com

Twitter: @timenorspacepod

IT'S AN interview we've wanted to do for some time, and now, at long last, we've got hold of TV Movie designer Richard Hudolin, to chat about his work on creating a new look for Doctor Who.

Kenny caught up with Richard at his home in Canada (via Zoom, sadly), and chatted about his career, which includes credits on Superman 3, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate and many others. 

Prepare for some all-new anecdotes from the filming of the TV Movie in Vancouver, as well as the pleasure Richard still feels looking back on his work on Doctor Who today.

This week Whooverville 13 coverage continues with a panel featuring well known Scottish character actor Johnathan Watson, known for Two Doors Down and Rab C Nesbitt.

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On this month's podcast, the Wanderers cover Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures episodes 1.4: Immortal Beloved, 1.5: Phobos, 1.6: No More Lies, and 1.7-1.8: Human Resources, all by @BigFinish!

QotM: In the UNIT audio adventure The Wasting from Big Finish, (spoilers!) David Tennant plays a villain.  What other Doctor Who protagonist actor would you like to see make the switch to playing an antagonist and what would be the nature of their role?

So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News

Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures

• 1.4. Doctor Who: Immortal Beloved by Jonathan Clements (David 7.75, Trevor 8, Charlie 7.75)
• 1.5. Doctor Who: Phobos by Eddie Robson (David 8, Trevor 6.75, Charlie 7.75)
• 1.6. Doctor Who: No More Lies by Paul Sutton (David 8, Trevor 7.25, Charlie 8)
• 1.7-1.8. Doctor Who: Human Resources (parts 1 and 2) by Eddie Robson (David 9, Trevor 8.75, Charlie 9, Connor 9.5)

Hosts:

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

Next month we expect to be covering the Doctor Who centenary special and Jodie Whittaker’s swan song, Power of the Doctor.  However, as of recording, an air date has not been officially set for it.  In the unlikely event that it doesn’t air before our next recording, we’ll be discussing Big Finish’s THE WORLDS OF DOCTOR WHO - Lady Christina Series 01 boxed set instead.

As the title of this episode hints, we continue our journey through the Time War with the Doctor and his companions, both real and fake. This time we tackle the Big Finish Eighth Doctor box set, Time War 1.

Plus we catch up on some other pop media we took in this week.

Enjoy!

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