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We’re on the run this week — skulking in shadows and eating chips while talking about the Master’s backstory and the deplorable state of British politics. Which is a normal Sunday for us, even when we’re not talking about The Sound of Drums.

Notes and links

Richard mentions an article from The Guardian called The west’s self-proclaimed custodians of democracy failed to notice it rotting away, published about a week before this episode was recorded.

Broken News was a six-episode comedy series shown on BBC Two in 2005, which recreated the experience of channel surfing across a range of 24-hour news channels while some weird and incomprehensible news story is breaking. We love it.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood, Todd is @toddbeilby and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. 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 iTunes, or we’ll elbow our way into your insanely popular TV show and be much more fun and entertaining than you are.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on Series 11 of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

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’ve run out of Bond films, but there’s plenty of 1960s spy-fi nonsense to keep us going until James Bond returns next April.

We’re on the run this week — skulking in shadows and eating chips while talking about the Master’s backstory and the deplorable state of British politics. Which is a normal Sunday for us, even when we’re not talking about The Sound of Drums.

Notes and links

Richard mentions an article from The Guardian called The west’s self-proclaimed custodians of democracy failed to notice it rotting away, published about a week before this episode was recorded.

Broken News was a six-episode comedy series shown on BBC Two in 2005, which recreated the experience of channel surfing across a range of 24-hour news channels while some weird and incomprehensible news story is breaking. We love it.

Follow us

Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood, Todd is @toddbeilby and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the strings performance was by Jane Aubourg. 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 iTunes, or we’ll elbow our way into your insanely popular TV show and be much more fun and entertaining than you are.

And more

You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on Series 11 of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found.

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’ve run out of Bond films, but there’s plenty of 1960s spy-fi nonsense to keep us going until James Bond returns next April.

You read that right.  The one and only Louise Jameson joins us this month for a very special Who & Company!  Drew caught up with her at the recent An Unearthly Convention in New York for a lengthy chat about her extensive career, her upcoming projects, and yes, even a brief Pick of the Month mention, Modern Family.

In addition, we discuss the successfully sold-out convention and how it differs from most Doctor Who cons along with a mention of the Series 12 trailer.

whoandcompany@yahoo.com

You read that right.  The one and only Louise Jameson joins us this month for a very special Who & Company!  Drew caught up with her at the recent An Unearthly Convention in New York for a lengthy chat about her extensive career, her upcoming projects, and yes, even a brief Pick of the Month mention, Modern Family.

In addition, we discuss the successfully sold-out convention and how it differs from most Doctor Who cons along with a mention of the Series 12 trailer.

whoandcompany@yahoo.com

You read that right.  The one and only Louise Jameson joins us this month for a very special Who & Company!  Drew caught up with her at the recent An Unearthly Convention in New York for a lengthy chat about her extensive career, her upcoming projects, and yes, even a brief Pick of the Month mention, Modern Family.

In addition, we discuss the successfully sold-out convention and how it differs from most Doctor Who cons along with a mention of the Series 12 trailer.

whoandcompany@yahoo.com

Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument

• Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement
• Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor
• The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido
• We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives
• The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who 
• How do you know it’s a duck pond?
• The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun

Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument

• Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement
• Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor
• The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido
• We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives
• The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who 
• How do you know it’s a duck pond?
• The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun

The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.

Rob and Dave sit down to discuss the episode.

What did you think? Email us: hello@theDWshow.net

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument

• Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement
• Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor
• The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido
• We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives
• The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who 
• How do you know it’s a duck pond?
• The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week, Richard's admiring the architecture, Brendan wants to say how-you-do, and Nathan has had a disappointingly small meal and is still feeling a little peckish. We're all trapped in an excitingly hopeful modernist dystopia, so what else could it be but Paradise Towers?

Attendance is compulsory

Once again, we're asking you to shape the future of this podcast by nominating a Peter Davison story to cover in our next commentary episode. But beware: this time the choice comes with potentially complex interpersonal repercussions.

To cast your vote, just go to the shownotes for Episode 116.

Buy the story!

Paradise Towers was released on DVD in 2011. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

Le Corbusier was a French architect who was massively fond of steel, concrete and plate glass, and who would probably have enjoyed more than a few astringent beverages with Kroagnon in Space Architect School.

High-Rise tells the story of "a class war...inside a luxurious apartment block". It was written by J G Ballard, about whom Richard has some surprising things to say.

David Snell was originally commissioned to write the incidental music for this story, but his score was rejected by JNT, and Keff McCulloch ended up hastily writing a replacement score instead. Snell's score is available as a DVD extra.

Deputy Chief Caretaker Clive Merrison played Sherlock Holmes alongside Michael Williams as Watson for BBC Radio 4, covering every canonical Sherlock Holmes story. They're all available from Audible, so go out and buy them immediately.

In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan talked about the differences between hot and cold media, which are concepts dear to the heart of any Doctor Who fan who has ever attempted to watch the Loose Cannon reconstruction of The Space Pirates.

Big Finish tackles some of this story's themes in Spaceport Fear by William Gallagher, starring Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.

Steven Wyatt had got the job partly on the basis of Claws, a TV play starring Brenda Blethyn and Todd's beloved Mary Morris. It's about cat people. Like Survival, I imagine.

And, as always, we come back to Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan Turner by Richard Marson. JNT was a gay, you know.

And going slightly more highbrow, Richard alludes to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, which discusses the implications of our newfound technological ability to experience works of art whenever and wherever we like.

Brendan mentions the fraught political history of Yooka-Laylee, which actually looks like a lot of fun.

The Pruitt-Igoe public housing project seems like it was a massive conglomeration of dozens of Paradise Towers in St Louis, Missouri. Read about it here.

Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman offered Michael Grade some surprising advice about how to fix Doctor Who in the 1980s. More information about this is available as a DVD extra on the Time and the Rani DVD.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @critiqaltheory, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the logo was designed by Anthony Wells. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And more surprising and completely reliable information about the show can be found at @FTEwhofacts.

Brendan recounts his experiences reading his way through the Doctor Who novels on his blog, The Doctor Who Reader.

We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or before you know it Brendan will be cosplaying as you and trying to deceive all your closest friends.

Bondfinger

Yesterday we released a new commentary on the second Pierce Brosnan film, Tomorrow Never Dies. If we put that side by side with our commentary on GoldenEye, we'll have a pair.

Of course, you can still catch our commentaries on both films of the Timothy Dalton era.

We also have plenty of Rodgecasts online, and there are other Bonds available, as well.

You can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Joining me this week to discuss series 10 finale The Doctor Falls is Chris Newman (@KosmicKris).

Shownotes here.

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

Imagine some vampires...

Imagine the city of Venice...

Put them together and what do you get??? 

Episode Six of Season Five 'The Vampires of Venice'!!!

This week, David struggles to think of his favourite vampire movie whilst Matt makes a revelation about his feelings toward Doctor Who.

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

Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.com | Twitter: @timenorspacepod

This week, Richard’s admiring the architecture, Brendan wants to say how-you-do, and Nathan has had a disappointingly small meal and is still feeling a little peckish. We’re all trapped in an excitingly hopeful modernist dystopia, so what else could it be but Paradise Towers?

Attendance is compulsory

Once again, we’re asking you to shape the future of this podcast by nominating a Peter Davison story to cover in our next commentary episode. But beware: this time the choice comes with potentially complex interpersonal repercussions.

To cast your vote, just go to the shownotes for Episode 116.

Buy the story!

Paradise Towers was released on DVD in 2011. (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)

Notes and links

Le Corbusier was a French architect who was massively fond of steel, concrete and plate glass, and who would probably have enjoyed more than a few astringent beverages with Kroagnon in Space Architect School.

High-Rise tells the story of “a class war…inside a luxurious apartment block”. It was written by J G Ballard, about whom Richard has some surprising things to say.

David Snell was originally commissioned to write the incidental music for this story, but his score was rejected by JNT, and Keff McCulloch ended up hastily writing a replacement score instead. Snell’s score is available as a DVD extra.

Deputy Chief Caretaker Clive Merrison played Sherlock Holmes alongside Michael Williams as Watson for BBC Radio 4, covering every canonical Sherlock Holmes story. They’re all available from Audible, so go out and buy them immediately.

In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan talked about the differences between hot and cold media, which are concepts dear to the heart of any Doctor Who fan who has ever attempted to watch the Loose Cannon reconstruction of The Space Pirates.

Big Finish tackles some of this story’s themes in Spaceport Fear by William Gallagher, starring Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.

Steven Wyatt had got the job partly on the basis of Claws, a TV play starring Brenda Blethyn and Todd’s beloved Mary Morris. It’s about cat people. Like Survival, I imagine.

And, as always, we come back to Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan Turner by Richard Marson. JNT was a gay, you know.

And going slightly more highbrow, Richard alludes to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, which discusses the implications of our newfound technological ability to experience works of art whenever and wherever we like.

Brendan mentions the fraught political history of Yooka-Laylee, which actually looks like a lot of fun.

The Pruitt-Igoe public housing project seems like it was a massive conglomeration of dozens of Paradise Towers in St Louis, Missouri. Read about it here.

Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman offered Michael Grade some surprising advice about how to fix Doctor Who in the 1980s. More information about this is available as a DVD extra on the Time and the Rani DVD.

Follow us!

Brendan is on Twitter as @brandybongos, Nathan is @nathanbottomley, Todd is @toddbeilby and Richard is @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam, and the logo was designed by Anthony Wells. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. And more surprising and completely reliable information about the show can be found at @FTEwhofacts.

Brendan recounts his experiences reading his way through the Doctor Who novels on his blog, The Doctor Who Reader.

We’re also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes, or we’ll chase you down carrydors and catch you where we can.

Bondfinger

Yesterday we released a new commentary on the second Pierce Brosnan film, Tomorrow Never Dies. If we put that side by side with our commentary on GoldenEye, we’ll have a pair.

Of course, you can still catch our commentaries on both films of the Timothy Dalton era.

We also have plenty of Rodgecasts online, and there are other Bonds available, as well.

You can keep up with all the Bondfinger news on Twitter and Facebook.

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

What do a Dalek, Darth Vader, Spider-Man, and Black Canary have in common? Cosplayers and participants at the 2017 Mississippi Comic Con either cosplayed as or brought their own, as in the case of the Dalek. The following episode features interview with members of the 501st Legion, a representative of Big House Books, the coordinator of the Mississippi Metahumans, Carleigh Bedell of the Metro Whovians, Michael Turner of Wholeset, and members of the Spidey-Team. We also talk about meeting the creators of Tuskagee Heirs. Finally, we end the episode with highlights from our Doctor Who panel. Hosted by Clarence Brown and Kyle Jones.

About the Episode

Click on the links below to learn more about those featured in this episode:

The 501st Legion

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/The501stLegion/

Website – www.501st.com

Big House Books

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/BigHouseBooks/

Website – https://bighousebooksms.org/

Mississippi Metahumans

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MississippiMetahumans/

Metro Whovians

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetroWhovians/

Spidey-Team

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/spideyteam/

Tuskegee Heirs

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/tuskegeeheirs/

Marcus Williams – http://marcusthevisual.com/

Greg Burnham – http://marcusthevisual.com/gregburnhambooks/

AVC Conventions

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Website – http://www.avcconventions.com

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Thank You

A special "THANK YOU" to Angie Meadows for joining us on the panel.

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Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!

Time TARDIS de black tie, MI6, Nikola Tesla, Judoons, a volta triunfal dos Cybermen... WOW esse trailer da 12ª temporada teve MUITA coisa! E claro, como já é de praxe viemos revisar (e teorizar) minuciosamente tudo que vimos nesse um minutinho de trailer! Prepara o hype e vem com a gente!