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With half of the team still missing, Josh and Rachel once again welcome Dr. Geek himself, Scott Viguie to The Oncoming Storm for episode 130. This week, they come to the end of the first season of the Divergent Universe, with The Twilight Kingdom by Will Shindler. It's a ride of ups and downs, this Divergent Universe thing. Will this season finale give them the answers and direction they are craving from this new universe, or will it be just another random adventure that could have taken place anywhere? Eh, well, at least it's got a giant cave system monster.  In addition, there's listener feedback on the Doctor's love life! The Oncoming Storm... This time, we've got caves. Lots and lots of caves. It's like it's 1983 in here.

With half of the team still missing, Josh and Rachel once again welcome Dr. Geek himself, Scott Viguie to The Oncoming Storm for episode 130. This week, they come to the end of the first season of the Divergent Universe, with The Twilight Kingdom by Will Shindler. It's a ride of ups and downs, this Divergent Universe thing. Will this season finale give them the answers and direction they are craving from this new universe, or will it be just another random adventure that could have taken place anywhere? Eh, well, at least it's got a giant cave system monster. In addition, there's listener feedback on the Doctor's love life! The Oncoming Storm... This time, we've got caves. Lots and lots of caves. It's like it's 1983 in here.

With half of the team still missing, Josh and Rachel once again welcome Dr. Geek himself, Scott Viguie to The Oncoming Storm for episode 130. This week, they come to the end of the first season of the Divergent Universe, with The Twilight Kingdom by Will Shindler. It's a ride of ups and downs, this Divergent Universe thing. Will this season finale give them the answers and direction they are craving from this new universe, or will it be just another random adventure that could have taken place anywhere? Eh, well, at least it's got a giant cave system monster.  In addition, there's listener feedback on the Doctor's love life! The Oncoming Storm... This time, we've got caves. Lots and lots of caves. It's like it's 1983 in here.

In an amazing coincedence of episode number it's my audio blog review of the year part two, in this slightly rambly episode I travel to Glasgow, Kent, Cardiff and London as well as some more local events. Also a short summation of televisual highlights of 2016.

See if you can identify the two mystery voices at the end, no prize just for fun.

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

In an amazing coincedence of episode number it's my audio blog review of the year part two, in this slightly rambly episode I travel to Glasgow, Kent, Cardiff and London as well as some more local events. Also a short summation of televisual highlights of 2016.

See if you can identify the two mystery voices at the end, no prize just for fun.

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

For this double review of "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven", the Diddly Dumbers decide to research the theory developed by The Him (Al’s eminence grise) that Steven Moffat’s source material for Doctor Who is stolen entirely from Danger Mouse episodes. So they leap once again into the Molecular Nanoscaler and shrink themselves small enough to enter the secret agent’s pillar box base.

Safely ensconced among the uncollected post, the Diddly Dumbers start with Doc’s mammoth rambling review of his recent trip to the British Film Institute to see the premiere of “Future Shock – The Story of 2000AD”. Eventually, the Three Who Drool remember that this is primarily a Doctor Who related podcast and turn to the Series 8 finale double-bill.

Along the way, The Rev reveals how Steven Moffat is cooking pasta with guess who’s spice rack, Doc gets so deeply mired in an elaborate “Friends” analogy that he forgets why he started it, Al hams it up with hamartia, we cover how “The Happiness Patrol” never came near 200AD’s “Invasion” in attacking Margaret Thatcher, why it’s illegal to produce horror comics in the UK, Australia’s joint-second top contributions to world culture, how watching Steven Moffat’s finale was like those scouts on a roller-coaster in “J**’** F** I*”, and we discover why the campest character in sci-fi history could well have been Admiral Ackbar.

DDPC024 – Doc in Heaven

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All artwork for the Diddly Dum Podcast by our own The Rev can be found collected here on Pinterest.

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SHOW NOTES

Humber Comic-Con

Through the generosity of friend of the show Kevin Jordan, on 28 October 2014, Doc stayed late at work (a genuine first!) in order to spend the evening at the nearby British Film Institute where, as part of their “Sci-fi Days of Fear and Wonder” season, they were showing the premiere of “Future Shock – The Story of 2000AD”. This was a 105mins docu-film telling (believe it or not) the story of British comic 2000AD. The evening was rounded off with a Q&A session including Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. Photos of the audience at the event can be found on the producer’s blog. You won’t be able to spot Doc because he left his box at home that night.

Here you can find a page of 2000AD artwork specially drawn as a dig at working conditions on the comic which was banned from publication by the soulless minions of orthodoxy.

One morning in early 1977, Doc’s weekly comic dropped through the letter-box of his family home. It may have been “Whizzer & Chips” or “Beezer” or “Cor!” (Doc forgets) but it was to change this mild-mannered 10-year old into the giant of podcasting that you see today. For the centrespread consisted of a four-page advert for the brand new comic 2000AD (on pale pink paper). Thanks to Gary at “Tainted Archive” for preserving a copy online. Was Doc attracted by the promise of anarchic anti-hero adventure or by the free Space Spinner frisbee? We will never know.

The Heavy Metal Kids as a visual literacy aid.

“Robot Wars” is often accepted as the story which propelled Judge Dredd to No 1 strip in 2000AD.

The docu-film provides more evidence to support Al’s assertion that Hardware (1990) - Richard Stanley's once-rare cult classic - ripped off the design of Walter's Robo-Tale - "SHOK!" from the Judge Dredd Annual 1981 as discussed in Diddly Dum Podcast #021.

Early 2000AD strip “Invasion” contained a scene which was supposed to suggest the shooting of Margaret Thatcher. Eat your heart out, “The Happiness Patrol”.

“Strip” comic.

Outlaw infant Baby Face Finlayson is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic “The Beano”.

Leo Baxendale (born 27 October 1930 is a British cartoonist and the creator of The Bash Street Kids.

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

It’s forbidden to produce horror comics in the UK.

“Thrill-Power Overload: Thirty Years of 2000AD” by David Bishop

“Judge Dredd – the Mega-History” by Colin M Jarman

Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons contributed to Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly with such stories as “The Song of the Space Whale” and “Star Beast” and “Iron Legion“.

Rob Irwin’s “Who Wars Podcast” is the podcast for those among us who just can't decide between Star Wars and Doctor Who. Episodes #09, #10 and #12 of Rob’s podcast include a three-part interview with EricJ, also known as Eric J or Eric Johnson, who is a comic book artist and the co-creator of “Rex Mundi”, an American comic book series featuring a quest for the Holy Grail told as a murder mystery set in the year 1933, in an alternate history Europe where magic is real.

The Starburst Bookworm Podcast Season 2 Episode 25 interviews The Art Heroes, Lee Robinson and Dan Clifford.

Joint second (behind Holly Valance) in the list of Australia’s greatest contributions to world culture is Rob and Mark’s splendid 42 to Doomsday Podcast.

Louis the Stammerer

Laurence Stephen “L.S.” Lowry (1 November 1887 - 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Lancashire.

Jim Steinman

In long-gone TV show “Jim’ll Fix It” which we now have to pretend, like Gary Glitter’s songs, never existed, a 1980 TV memory indelibly etched on UK memories is the group of boy scouts who wanted to eat their lunch on a roller-coaster.

“Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday” was a stage play which ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1974.

The more gullible among you may have fallen for the that Missy’s true identity is The Master. The Diddly Dumbers, however, remain convinced that their original theory of her being Mrs McCluskey from Grange Hill still holds water.

“Mind Reader - An Evening of Wonders” is the name of Derren Brown's third live stage show which had its first run of 42 dates in 2007. The introduction to the show was a video including gorillas playing table tennis to demonstrate change blindness. Brown then appeared and indicated that a some point during the show “a man in a gorilla suit will come onto stage and steal a banana”. The challenge for the audience was to notice the banana being stolen. The banana was then successfully removed while the audience attention was directed elsewhere. Later in the show, when the gorilla came on stage more obviously, it was revealed that it was Derren in the costume.

“Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS” is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series Doctor Who. It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993. This was followed by a release on VHS, titled “More Than… Thirty Years in the TARDIS”.

Admiral Ackbar totally camps it up in “Return of the Jedi”.

The Diddly Dum podcast thanks anyone we've pinched stuff from and respects the copyright of etc etc.

In an amazing coincedence of episode number it’s my audio blog review of the year part two, in this slightly rambly episode I travel to Glasgow, Kent, Cardiff and London as well as some more local events. Also a short summation of televisual highlights of 2016.

See if you can identify the two mystery voices at the end, no prize just for fun.

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/ If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

In an amazing coincedence of episode number it’s my audio blog review of the year part two, in this slightly rambly episode I travel to Glasgow, Kent, Cardiff and London as well as some more local events. Also a short summation of televisual highlights of 2016.

See if you can identify the two mystery voices at the end, no prize just for fun.

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/ If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

With the holidays upon us, we put in a visit with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, dealing with alien head crabs, shared dreams and Santa Claus. Yes that Santa Claus. There are a lot more things going on then it seems at first glance, but the most important thing is... nobody likes the tangerines.

Twitter: @schismpodcast
Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/

Duration: 24:27

For this double review of "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven", the Diddly Dumbers pay tribute to the theory developed by The Him (Al’s eminence grise) that Steven Moffat’s source material for Doctor Who is stolen entirely from Danger Mouse episodes. So they leap once again into the Molecular Nanoscaler and shrink themselves small enough to enter the secret agent’s pillar box base.

Nestled safely among the uncollected post, the Diddly Dumbers start with Doc’s mammoth rambling review of his recent trip to the British Film Institute to see the premiere of “Future Shock – The Story of 2000AD”. Eventually, the Three Who Drool remember that this is primarily a Doctor Who related podcast and turn to the Series 8 finale double-bill.

Along the way, The Rev reveals how Steven Moffat is cooking pasta with guess who’s spice rack, Doc gets so deeply mired in an elaborate “Friends” analogy that he forgets why he started it, Al hams it up with hamartia, we cover how “The Happiness Patrol” never came near 2000AD’s “Invasion” in attacking Margaret Thatcher, why it’s illegal to produce horror comics in the UK, Australia’s joint-second top contributions to world culture, how watching Steven Moffat’s finale was like those scouts on a roller-coaster in “J**’** F** I*”, and we discover why the campest character in sci-fi history could well have been Admiral Ackbar.

Direct Download Link: DDPC024 – Doc in Heaven

Listen/download on iTunes

Audioboo

Stitcher.com

Find us on Facebook

All artwork for the Diddly Dum Podcast by our own The Rev can be found collected here on Pinterest.

THE DIDDLY DUM WHOSEUM CAN BE VISITED HERE.

Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk

SHOW NOTES

Humber Comic-Con

Through the generosity of friend of the show Kevin Jordan, on 28 October 2014, Doc stayed late at work (a genuine first!) in order to spend the evening at the nearby British Film Institute where, as part of their “Sci-fi Days of Fear and Wonder” season, they were showing the premiere of “Future Shock – The Story of 2000AD”. This was a 105mins docu-film telling (believe it or not) the story of British comic 2000AD. The evening was rounded off with a Q&A session including Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. Photos of the audience at the event can be found on the producer’s blog. You won’t be able to spot Doc because he left his box at home that night.

Here you can find a page of 2000AD artwork specially drawn as a dig at working conditions on the comic which was banned from publication by the soulless minions of orthodoxy.

One morning in early 1977, Doc’s weekly comic dropped through the letter-box of his family home. It may have been “Whizzer & Chips” or “The Beezer” or “Cor!” (Doc forgets) but it was to change this mild-mannered 10-year old into the giant of podcasting that you see today. For the centrespread consisted of a four-page advert for the brand new comic 2000AD (on pale pink paper). Thanks to Gary at “Tainted Archive” for preserving a copy online. Was Doc attracted by the promise of anarchic anti-hero adventure or by the free Space Spinner frisbee? We will never know.

The Heavy Metal Kids as a visual literacy aid.

“Robot Wars” is often accepted as the story which propelled Judge Dredd to No 1 strip in 2000AD.

Here is the offending picture wherein the bridge looked far too much like a penis for the tastes of the 2000AD censors.

The docu-film provides more evidence to support Al’s assertion that Hardware (1990) - Richard Stanley's once-rare cult classic – ripped off the design of Walter's Robo-Tale - "SHOK!" from the Judge Dredd Annual 1981 as discussed in Diddly Dum Podcast #021.

Early 2000AD strip “Invasion” contained a scene which was supposed to suggest the shooting of Margaret Thatcher. Eat your heart out, “The Happiness Patrol”.

“Strip” comic from The Rev’s youth.

Outlaw infant “Baby-Face Finlayson” is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic “The Beano”.

Leo Baxendale (born 27 October 1930 is a British cartoonist and the creator of The Bash Street Kids.

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

It’s forbidden to produce horror comics in the UK.

“Thrill-Power Overload: Thirty Years of 2000AD” by David Bishop

“Judge Dredd – the Mega-History” by Colin M Jarman

Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons contributed to Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly with such stories as “The Song of the Space Whale” and “Star Beast” and “Iron Legion“.

Rob Irwin’s “Who Wars Podcast” is the podcast for those among us who just can't decide between Star Wars and Doctor Who. Episodes #09, #10 and #12 of Rob’s podcast include a three-part interview with EricJ, also known as Eric J or Eric Johnson, who is a comic book artist and the co-creator of “Rex Mundi”, an American comic book series featuring a quest for the Holy Grail told as a murder mystery set in the year 1933, in an alternate history Europe where magic is real.

The Starburst Bookworm Podcast Season 2 Episode 25 interviews The Art Heroes, Lee Robinson and Dan Clifford.

Joint second (behind Holly Valance) in the list of Australia’s greatest contributions to world culture is Rob and Mark’s splendid 42 to Doomsday Podcast.

Louis the Stammerer

Laurence Stephen “L.S.” Lowry (1 November 1887 - 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Lancashire.

Jim Steinman

In long-gone TV show “Jim’ll Fix It” which we now have to pretend, like Gary Glitter’s songs, never existed, a 1980 TV memory indelibly etched on UK memories is the group of boy scouts who wanted to eat their lunch on a roller-coaster.

“Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday” was a stage play which ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1974.

The more gullible among you may have fallen for the that Missy’s true identity is The Master. The Diddly Dumbers, however, remain convinced that their original theory of her being Mrs McClusky from Grange Hill still holds water.

“Mind Reader - An Evening of Wonders” is the name of Derren Brown's third live stage show which had its first run of 42 dates in 2007. The introduction to the show was a video including gorillas playing table tennis to demonstrate change blindness. Brown then appeared and indicated that a some point during the show “a man in a gorilla suit will come onto stage and steal a banana”. The challenge for the audience was to notice the banana being stolen. The banana was then successfully removed while the audience attention was directed elsewhere. Later in the show, when the gorilla came on stage more obviously, it was revealed that it was Derren in the costume.

“Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS” is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series Doctor Who. It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993. This was followed by a release on VHS, titled “More Than… Thirty Years in the TARDIS”.

Admiral Ackbar totally camps it up in “Return of the Jedi”.

The Diddly Dum podcast thanks anyone we've pinched stuff from and respects the copyright of etc etc.

With the holidays upon us, we put in a visit with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, dealing with alien head crabs, shared dreams and Santa Claus. Yes that Santa Claus. There are a lot more things going on then it seems at first glance, but the most important thing is... nobody likes the tangerines.

Twitter: @schismpodcast
Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/

Duration: 24:27

In which we talk waaaay too much about Passions.

This week's episode! An ending! Specifially, the ending of Series 8, and there's lots to talk about. Did we end up liking what Moffat was throwing down after a rough season? Who knows! We were drunk! Also: stuff with Danny Pink (oh my god Danny Pink) leads to a pack of lies and we gab about Big Hero 6, probably. And yeah, Passions, but whatever.

Outro music is "Robots" by Flight of the Conchords

Podcast picture is by GIRL NAMED SHIRL PHOTOGRAPHY

In which we talk waaaay too much about Passions.

This week's episode! An ending! Specifially, the ending of Series 8, and there's lots to talk about. Did we end up liking what Moffat was throwing down after a rough season? Who knows! We were drunk! Also: stuff with Danny Pink (oh my god Danny Pink) leads to a pack of lies and we gab about Big Hero 6, probably. And yeah, Passions, but whatever.

Outro music is "Robots" by Flight of the Conchords

Podcast picture is by GIRL NAMED SHIRL PHOTOGRAPHY

Episode #140 of Doctor Who: The Memory Cheats! And the story we will be discussing today is...

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This week we cover the thrilling conclusion of this series’s two-part series finale, story #252 part 2, "Death in Heaven", in which the Doctor must face off against Missy, make the hard choices, and learn once and for all whether he's a good man!  We're joined this week by special guest co-hosts Jess Hall and Justin Haywald!

QotW: Now that it's finished, what was your overall impression of series 8?  Like, dislike, highlights, lowlights?

Listener Mailbag

Discussion of "Death in Heaven" (David 9.7, Charlie 10, Trevor 8, Jess 8, Justin 7)

Connor's Corner

The Wanderers' Doctor Who Series 8 Retrospective

Hosts:

• Trevor
  • Twitter: @WhovianTrev
  • Tumblr: http://trevsplace.tumblr.com/

• Charlie
  • Twitter: @insanityinchaos
  • Infinite Longbox Podcast
  • Comic Conspiracy Podcast
• David
  • Twitter: @gwythinn
  • WWW: http://www.davidsafar.com/
  • Tumblr: http://maroonedwhovian.tumblr.com/
• Jess
  • Infinite Longbox Podcast
• Justin
  • Twitter: @JustinHaywald
  • The Geekbox Podcast

Join us next week as we resume coverage of the classic era of Doctor Who with our review of second Doctor Patrick Troughton’s introductory story #30, The Power of the Daleks!  We invite you to follow along by enjoying the serial before the podcast.  Although all six episodes of this story are lost, the soundtrack is available from Audible.com.

Hello you lot. Not a regular episode this week as we’re taking a well deserved week off but we did want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. If you want to hear our year in review then shuffle back to Episode 122.

This year has been amazing for us and we’ve done so much. A huge thank you to all of you who have listened, subscribed, sent in a review or just popped on Twitter and said hi. We think we have a great community around this podcast and doing the show is a real joy each and every week.

We will see you when we return next Friday where we’ll be reviewing the recent Christmas Special – The Return of Doctor Mysterio. Until then have a fantastic New Year celebration. Stay safe and remember – Allons-y!

Hello you lot. Not a regular episode this week as we’re taking a well deserved week off but we did want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. If you want to hear our year in review then shuffle back to Episode 122.

This year has been amazing for us and we’ve done so much. A huge thank you to all of you who have listened, subscribed, sent in a review or just popped on Twitter and said hi. We think we have a great community around this podcast and doing the show is a real joy each and every week.

We will see you when we return next Friday where we’ll be reviewing the recent Christmas Special – The Return of Doctor Mysterio. Until then have a fantastic New Year celebration. Stay safe and remember – Allons-y!

This week we cover the thrilling conclusion of this series's two-part series finale, story #252 part 2, "Death in Heaven", in which the Doctor must face off against Missy, make the hard choices, and learn once and for all whether he's a good man! We're joined this week by special guest co-hosts Jess Hall and Justin Haywald!

QotW: Now that it's finished, what was your overall impression of series 8? Like, dislike, highlights, lowlights?

Listener Mailbag

Discussion of "Death in Heaven" (David 9.7, Charlie 10, Trevor 8, Jess 8, Justin 7)

Connor's Corner

The Wanderers' Doctor Who Series 8 Retrospective

Hosts:

• Trevor
  • Twitter: @WhovianTrev
  • Tumblr: http://trevsplace.tumblr.com/

• Charlie
  • Twitter: @insanityinchaos
  • Infinite Longbox Podcast
  • Comic Conspiracy Podcast
• David
  • Twitter: @gwythinn
  • WWW: http://www.davidsafar.com/
  • Tumblr: http://maroonedwhovian.tumblr.com/
• Jess
  • Infinite Longbox Podcast
• Justin
  • Twitter: @JustinHaywald
  • The Geekbox Podcast

Join us next week as we resume coverage of the classic era of Doctor Who with our review of second Doctor Patrick Troughton's introductory story #30, The Power of the Daleks! We invite you to follow along by enjoying the serial before the podcast. Although all six episodes of this story are lost, the soundtrack is available from Audible.com.

Join Heather and Kerri along with guest hosts Shad Gray (www.torchwoodseven.com), Thomas Maloney (The Geek Port) and Sue Mandel (The Geek Port - Walking Dead) as much is discussed about Doctor Who news and the Series 8 finale.