Doctor Who Literature
- Description:
- Doctor Who is not just one of the world's longest-running science fiction TV shows, but it's also generated a prolific amount of tie-in books, often with strong literary merit. Join Jason from the Trap One Podcast on a solo journey through the Target novelizations, in publication order.
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- Episodes:
- 164
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:1:29:26
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:2:18:20
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 10 days, 4 hours, 27 minutes and 55 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 6 November 2021 (4:53pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 27 October 2024 (6:03am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 6 days, 14 hours, 51 minutes and 38 seconds
Doctor Who Literature Episodes
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Doctor Who Turns 60! -- Part II -- Gary Russell & Mickey Lewis
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes and 11 secondsWe continue on with our 60th anniversary month hiatus from our weekly review of the Doctor Who Target novelizations, with recordings of two interviews that Jason conducted at L.I. Who 2023 this past August, with two Doctor Who novelists, Gary Russell (@twilightstreets) and Mickey Lewis. Two great writers and two great guys. We hope you enjoy.
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Doctor Who Turns 60! -- Part I -- Adam Christopher
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 2 secondsMy guest this week has already given me dozens of hours of enjoyment as a science fiction and mystery writer. Please welcome Adam Christopher (@ghostfinder) to the show. Adam and I discussed many topics, starting with his Doctor Who fandom in New Zealand in the 1980s, and moving on to his wide-ranging professional career.
The infamous 1977 blackout can be heard on this newly-unearthed Mets radio broadcast, which includes the blackout striking in the 6th inning, and the belated resumption of the game two months later.
During the recording, Adam and I enthuse about the Bowery Boys Podcast, which you can find here.
In writing his Stranger Things novel, Adam found New York Mets knowledge on Faith and Fear in Flushing, which it won't surprise you to learn, Jason has already been following for years.
Jason's latest Trap One episode is here. Thanks to fellow Doctor Who podcasters Brendan (@brandybongos) and Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) for their entertaining joint appearance this week.
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Episode 95 - The Awakening (with Andrew Smith)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 43 secondsAndrew Smith (@Andr3wSmith) rejoins the show this week to discuss the 1984 TV story The Awakening and its 1985 novelization. Jason and Andrew are coming from very different places with regard to the story, but are more than happy to meet in the middle... and each brings a diabolical game for the other to play.
Shannon Patrick Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel) brings us some data on the authorship of The Awakening.
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"Doctor Who – The Awakening" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 94 - Marco Polo (with Ross Aitken)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 54 minutes and 49 secondsAfter a run of pre-recorded episodes, Jason is back with a (somewhat) live episode full of current events, Doctor Who news, and tons of feelings.
Ross Aitken (@traitken) from Gallifrey's Most Wanted is our guest this week. The conversation is fast and furious and might not have much to do with Marco Polo, but it's typically intense and wide-ranging.
Please consider ordering in Outside In Regenerates from ATB Publishing. Jason will have an essay in the forthcoming volume.
More information on the late lamented Waldenbooks Otherworlds Club.
This episode features opening and closing titles from the classic U.S. TV Western Have Gun Will Travel, the radio version of which you can find on your Old Time Radio player of choice, or here.
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"Doctor Who – Marco Polo" features cover art by David McAllister.
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Episode 93 - The Caves of Androzani (with Paul Scoones)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 7 secondsA perennial consensus choice for one of the Greatest Of All Time Doctor Who episodes, The Caves of Androzani features an intense script by Robert Holmes, one of Peter Davison's most well-rounded and Doctor-ish performances, groundbreaking direction by Graeme Harper, Roger Limb's best-ever score, and... well, so much else to praise.
My guest this week is truly one of the foremost experts on all things Androzani. It's Paul Scoones (@Paul_Scoones), author of the most recent DVD production notes on the story. Always a great time talking to Paul, and he was game enough to try out our newest game...
The news this week is provided by Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker)!
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"Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 92 - Planet of Fire (David Barsky; Graeme Burk, and Mark from Trap One)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 43 minutes and 3 secondsPlanet of Fire was a Doctor Who episode with an awful lot happening in it. We here at Doctor Who Literature are of course very fond of it. So, to celebrate, here's an episode... with an awful lot happening in it.
Graeme Burk (@graemeburk) from Reality Bomb joins us to discuss his favorite Doctor Who TV story from the past 60 years.
Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) from The Trap One Podcast joins us for a correspondent's piece on the island of Lanzarote.
David Barsky checks back in with us to discuss Planet of Fire, the record albums of Peter Wyngarde, surprising messages coded in our DNA, and what it's really like to walk on red-hot lava flow.
The song "I Remember It Well" from the film Gigi can be found here.
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"Doctor Who – Planet of Fire" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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A Conversation with Andrew Smith
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 17 minutes and 38 secondsIn a bonus episode in between our looks at the 1984 and 1985 Target novelizations, we're joined by Andrew Smith (@Andr3wSmith), author of the classic Doctor Who episode (in every sense) Full Circle.
This is a great time to revisit my episode on the Full Circle novelization, which was written by the man himself.
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Episode 91 - Frontios (with Si Hart)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 12 secondsIt's Frontios week on Doctor Who Literature. This is one of the underrated gems of the Peter Davison story, but Si Hart (@Si_Hart) and I are here to spread the word.
The new 60th Anniversary mini-season trailer dropped on the day that this episode releases. Jason gives his instant reaction to the trailer -- perhaps too instant, as Jason had not seen the concurrent BBC tweet identifying Neil Patrick Harris' character!
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"Doctor Who – Frontios" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 90 - The Highlanders (with Daniel Knight)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 27 secondsThe last Doctor Who novelization published before I became I fan of the TV show, it's The Highlanders. Joining us to discuss is a guest who's visited the Culloden battlefield several times, and who actually purchased his copy of this book in the Highlands, it's Daniel Knight (@DanielKnight1973)!
Musical cues featured in this episode include The British Grenadiers and The Skye Boat Song. One particular gag in the text owes a life debt to Netflix's late lamented "The Who Was? Show".
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"Doctor Who – The Highlanders" features cover art by Nick Spender.
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Episode 89 - Inferno (with David Barsky)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 53 minutes and 48 secondsJason flew all the way to Los Angeles to record this week's interview with David Barsky, one of the producers of this podcast and an important figure in the development of the show. Sitting in Barsky's nearly 3,000-book science fiction and fantasy TV and film library, we enthuse about Inferno, book and TV, and also talk about Peter Cushing, The Twilight Zone, and a host of other related (and, of course, unrelated) topics. Includes an encore presentation of Kate Orman's audio essay from last week's episode on The Aztecs. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us! "Doctor Who – Inferno" features cover art by Nick Spender. 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://anchor.fm/doctorwholit. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit/message
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Episode 88 - The Aztecs (with Ross from Gallifrey's Most Wanted)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 45 minutes and 33 secondsA jumbo-sized episode as Ross (@traitken) from Gallifrey's Most Wanted (@GallifreysMWPod) stops by to discuss The Aztecs, both the 1964 Doctor Who TV serial and the 1984 novelization. We have lots to say about it... as well as about critical readings of the story, OPPENHEIMER, Bing Crosby, and our favorite American soap operas.
Also contributing to the show this week are Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) with an introductory segment, and Doctor Who author Kate Orman, who co-wrote this week's audio essay on the Aztecs book.
Audio from Game 7 of the 1960 World Series: an excerpt, and the recovered full game video.
Also discussed this week is James Cooray Smith's Substack essay on The Krotons.
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"Doctor Who – The Aztecs" features cover art by Nick Spender.
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Episode 88 - The Aztecs (Ross Aitken; Kate Orman)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 45 minutes and 49 secondsA jumbo-sized episode as Ross (@traitken) from Gallifrey's Most Wanted (@GallifreysMWPod) stops by to discuss The Aztecs, both the 1964 Doctor Who TV serial and the 1984 novelization. We have lots to say about it... as well as about critical readings of the story, OPPENHEIMER, Bing Crosby, and our favorite American soap operas.
Also contributing to the show this week are Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) with an introductory segment, and Doctor Who author Kate Orman, who narrates her own 1992 essay on the Aztecs book.
Audio from Game 7 of the 1960 World Series: an excerpt, and the recovered full game video.
Also discussed this week is James Cooray Smith's Substack essay on The Krotons.
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"Doctor Who – The Aztecs" features cover art by Nick Spender.
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Bonus Episode - L.I. Who 60 (with Conrad Westmaas)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 50 minutes and 6 secondsThis week it's an unplanned bonus episode replaying the audio of two fan panels Jason moderated at L.I. Who 60 (@LIDoctorWhoCon) last weekend, with permission to record from all panelists.
Special thanks to Conrad (@HairOfTheHound_), without whom this week's episode would not exist.
"60 for 60" features Jason, Keir Hansen (@GallifreyRadio), Drew Meyer (@whoandcompany), Hannah Long (@HannahGraceLong), and Jan Fennick.
The Target Books discussion features Jason, John Peel, Kathryn Sullivan, Rob Bardsley, and Dan Murphy.
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Episode 87 - Warriors of the Deep (with "UK Jason" McLaughlin)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 53 secondsOne of Jason's early favorite Doctor Who episodes, Warriors of the Deep, comes up for discussion. Joining in the fun is Jason McLaughlin (@jangomac72) of Bearded Geek Toy Reviews.
This episode also features music by Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) as we explore that '80s vibe!
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"Doctor Who – Warriors of the Deep" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 86 - The Dominators (with Frazer Gregory)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 10 secondsAnd now, the episode of Doctor Who Literature that you've all been waiting for... the showdown between Frazer Gregory (@FelixFrazer) and myself over what many believe (but not Frazer) is one of the worst Doctor Who tales of all. But today, the debate will be settled (or not).
Also appearing this week are Stacey Smith?, reading an excerpt from Look at the Size of That Thing, and Bill Evenson (@BillEvenson) reading an excerpt from Outside In.
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"Doctor Who – The Dominators" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Doctor Who Podcast Day trailer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 23 secondsHello, and thank you for downloading the Doctor Who Literature podcast. This special trailer is being released on August 9, 2023, which has been designated Doctor Who Podcast Day. Please enjoy the brief introduction to the show, and, whatever you do, keep turning the pages!
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Episode 85 - Enlightenment (with Jason and Callie)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 30 secondsA very special guest joins us this week to discuss Enlightenment... my daughter! She has much to say about Barbara Clegg and how this story is unique in showing the female perspective in Doctor Who's early years.
Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) also has a song for us this week. With a YouTube video!
This concludes our run of ten straight Peter Davison books. The Target range's focus is about to shift in a major way. And be sure to join in next week for what may well be our Biggest Episode of All Time.
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"Doctor Who – Enlightenment" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 84 - Snakedance (with Jim Sangster)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 31 minutes and 21 secondsThe novelization of Snakedance is published the month after the novelization of Kinda, so it fell to Terrance Dicks to adapt both Doctor Who Mara stories from the small screen to the printed page. Terrance doesn't have all that much to add to Christopher Bailey's complex themes and explorations of the dark sides of human nature... but we have plenty to add to the discussion.
Joining me this week is Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker). Jim also contributed our show logo, and this week's celebrity voice impression sketch. Along the way, we'll talk about the great Hollywood movies, EuroVision and Top of the Pops, Nellie Bly, and... well, many other topics.
Superman: The Movie can be purchased or streamed on Amazon, while My Dinner With Andre can be watched free on YouTube.
You can hear the voices of H.G. Wells and Walt Whitman on YouTube, and also watch the entirety of the January 1973 Foreman v. Frazier heavyweight title fight.
Lastly, for more on Nellie Bly, check out the Bowery Boys Podcast, as I always do for all things NYC.
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"Doctor Who – Snakedance" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Bonus Episode - A Conversation with Ian Potter
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 42 minutes and 30 secondsDelighted to welcome to the show this week Ian Potter, who's done remarkably good work with Big Finish, Black Archives volumes on The Myth Makers and Carnival of Monsters, and with RIffTrax Presents. A great conversation, do not miss!
And Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) has a correspondent's piece for us about the recent Target Books Day in London. Thanks, Jim!
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Episode 83 - Kinda (with Dale Smith)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 27 minutes and 51 secondsRejoining me this week is Dale Smith, author of several Doctor Who novels and Black Archives books, including a forthcoming (August 2023) look at The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The book this week is 1982's Kinda, novelized in 1984.
Jason has several other podcast episodes out on other shows, including A Kettle and Some String, and new Trap One episodes repackaging my interviews with Philip Hinchcliffe and Elizabeth Morton. Please enjoy (after you've downloaded this episode first).
Friend of the podcast James Cooray Smith also has a terrific Psychic Paper article up about The New Adventures, well worth a read. Jason previously did a documentary about the first four NAs over on Trap One.
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Episode 82 - Mawdryn Undead (with Steven B. from New To Who)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 5 secondsSeason 6 of Doctor Who Literature starts a week early as our bonus episode is delayed. We jump into the 1984 books by looking at Mawdryn Undead with the capable help of Steven B. (@steedstylin) from the New To Who podcast (@NewToWhoPodcast). We have a lot to talk about.
Steven's new project is Reimagining Doctor Who, which comes highly recommended.
Many thanks to Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) for research assistance and for a dramatic reading from the diaries of Angus Mackay, a member of the Mawdryn Undead guest cast.
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Episode 81-B - The Five Doctors, Part II (Elizabeth Morton; Graeme Burk, David Barsky, and Stacey Smith?)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 57 minutes and 34 secondsAs we continue on with our look at The Five Doctors, Doctor Who's 20th anniversary special, this week we are joined by Elizabeth Morton (@LiverpoolGirl72), author of the new novel The Orphans from Liverpool Lane. We'll discuss Elizabeth's strong Doctor Who family connection, and, of course, with two Doctors in her household already, who's her favorite? The answer may surprise you.
A panel of three great friends of the podcast then join Jason to discuss Five Doctors -- is it the greatest episode of all time? Again, the answer may surprise you. Welcome back to Graeme Burk (@GraemeBurk), Professor Stacey Smith?, and David Barsky.
Jason then examines the back half of the Terrance Dicks' Five Doctors novelization.
Next week we'll finish up our look at The Five Doctors and will have another bestselling author for you to join the conversation.
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"Doctor Who – The Five Doctors" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 81-A - The Five Doctors, Part I (with James Cooray Smith)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes and 56 secondsThis week, it's The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary special for Doctor Who, aired (at least in the States) exactly on the 20th anniversary, and the novelization, by episode writer Terrance Dicks, came out the same week. We're now at three times the 20th anniversary, but this story still has a powerful hold.
We'll be bringing you three straight episodes exploring Five Doctors - in every dimension, in every detail - and this week my guest is James Cooray Smith, author of many Black Archives titles such as The Massacre, and keeper of the great Psychic Paper Substack. James and I have much to discuss; there's probably enough material in here to cover seven episodes, let alone one, as we discuss Five Doctors and beyond -- way beyond.
Music heard this week includes a 1980s US cartoon TV theme (sung by John Sebastian!), the theme to the PBS staple This Old House, some old school late '80s hip-hop, and a Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) homage to Tulips from Amsterdam.
Shout-out to the Metebelis 2 Podcast.
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Episode 80 - Arc of Infinity (with Bill Evenson)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 34 secondsJoining me this week is Bill Evenson (@BillEvenson) of the Frankenstein Minute Podcast (@FrankenMinute). This was Jason's first Doctor Who cliffhanger; Bill came to the story later, but we're both fond of it, even against conventional wisdom.
Naturally the conversation takes several twists and turns. No conversation with Bill fails to reference the 1987 World Champion Minnesota Twins.
This episode also features a musical composition by Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker), and includes a few feature, #DoctorWhoOnPluto
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Episode 80 - Arc of Infinity (with Bill Evenson)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 36 minutes and 30 secondsJoining me this week is Bill Evenson (@BillEvenson) of the Frankenstein Minute Podcast (@FrankenMinute). This was Jason's first Doctor Who cliffhanger; Bill came to the story later, but we're both fond of it, even against conventional wisdom.
Naturally the conversation takes several twists and turns. No conversation with Bill fails to reference the 1987 World Champion Minnesota Twins.
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Episode 79 - Terminus (with Steven Alexander)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 45 minutes and 6 secondsThank you for downloading this episode of the Doctor Who Literature podcast. We know you have a choice... and we know that not many Who fans are gonna wanna sit through a 105-minute discussion on Terminus -- but this is a strong episode. Promise!!
Steven Alexander (@stealexanderuk) from the Robots in Your Eyes podcast (@RobotsInEyes) is my return guest this week. He has a LOT to say about "Terminus", both TV serial and book. We'll discuss religion, disease, Norse mythology, the movie Alien, and epic 1920s Hollywood silent-film-blockbusters... and "Terminus".
The 1923 Cecil B. DeMille production of The Ten Commandments can be watched on YouTube.
The 1993 HBO original movie And The Band Played On can be watched on Max.
Paul Scoones' excellent article on the Doctor Who DVD information text commentary tracks can be found here.
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Episode 78 - Earthshock (with Jon Arnold)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 39 minutes and 25 secondsEarthshock was a signal moment in the journey of many Doctor Who fans when it aired in March 1982, from the surprise reveal of a returning monster, to the unexpected departure of a regular cast member. Ian Marter's August 1983 novelization of the story is a bit different from what we saw on television, but is no less impactful.
We're very happy to have with us this week Jon Arnold (@The_Arn) as a first-time Doctor Who Literature guest. Jon can be heard on two other excellent podcasts, the Doctor Who-inspired Strangers in Space (@strangerscast), as well as the football (soccer)-themed @BustingBallsPod. Jon has also written several terrific volumes in Jason's favorite Who non-fiction range, The Black Archives from Observe Books, including a look at a TV story previously examined on this very show, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. And don't forget Jon's contributions to the Silver Archive range; Jon and Jason also discuss TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" this week.
Also mentioned this week is Jim Sangster (@monster_maker)'s newest DWLit-themed T-shirt.
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Episode 77 - Four to Doomsday (with Jason Davis, and Matt West)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 51 minutes and 11 secondsFor a story like Four to Doomsday, what else could we do but give you three terrific interviews, with two guests?
Up first is Jason Davis (@TheJasonDavis), writer and editor extraordinaire, of TheJasonDavis.com, This interview was recorded live at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles in February 2023, and you already heard the first half of that interview in my Harlan Ellison special. This is the rest of that conversation.
Then I was joined on short notice by Matt West (@WingedPodcast) of Q the Winged Podcast and Miwk Publishing (on which Matt gives me a pronunciation lesson).
Followed by a return visit from Jason Davis.
Between the three of us and the three interviews, he hit just about every corner of science fiction from television to the printed page.
You can find some more of Matt's work on the original Pyramids of Mars DVD.
And Jason (this podcast's Jason) was most recently on Trap One to discuss the Season 9 Blu-ray Collection.
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Episode 76 - Castrovalva (with Graeme Burk)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 36 minutes and 38 secondsAs much as I love Season 18 and its novelizations... the Season 19 premiere, "Castrovalva", and its novelization, are right up there. Especially the novelization, says my guest this week, Graeme Burk (@graemeburk) from Reality Bomb. We both read out favorite passages from the book -- and then quickly get off on several wide-ranging tangents, before coming back to the greatness of "Castrovalva".
Simon Guerrier (@0tralala) recently tweeted out the first page of David Whitaker's unfinished novelization of "The Enemy of the World".
Groucho Marx duets with his then 8-year-old daughter on a song from The Mikado.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmEuXaea8rY
Graeme references the 1964 documentary on Culloden, which can be found here.
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Episode 75 - Meglos (with Conrad Westmaas)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 47 minutes and 46 secondsThe new trailer for the Autumn 2023 Doctor Who specials is up!
Conrad Westmaas (@HairOfTheHound_) is back this week as we discuss "Meglos". Conrad tries to win back his 20 Questions crown... how well will that go? We also play a lively game of show-and-tell.
The "Josie and the Pussycats In Outer Space" series can still be found on DVD.
The full cut of Peter Howell's "The Astronauts", mentioned this week, can be heard in full.
"Doctor Who – Meglos" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 74 - Time-Flight (with Frazer Gregory)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 37 minutes and 58 secondsIt's 1983! And the second-ever novelization of a Peter Davison story, released just in time for the end of TV's Season 20.
Joining me this week is Frazer Gregory (@FelixFrazer). We have an epic discussion of "Time-Flight" the book and TV, and play an involved game of "Target Books First Lines" -- turning the tables on Frazer after he sprung this game on ME on an earlier episode.
You can hear a lot of Frazer's recent appearances on other Doctor Who podcasts such as WHO Corner to Corner.
And Jim Sangster (@MonsterMaker), who contributed the excellent show open this week, can recently be heard on Reality Bomb and the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast.
You can read Waris Hussein's 1963 diaries here.
Also mentioned in this episode is David Gerrold's very funny book about the genesis of Star Trek: TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles".
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Episode 73 - The Sunmakers (with Lewis Baston)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 40 minutes and 55 secondsWhat is The Sun Makers on TV? A simple satire on 1970s' British taxation? A subversive takedown of capitalism? Colonialism? All of these things? Lewis Baston (@LewisBaston5) has written the book on this story -- literally -- and is back this week to discuss with us.
Please purchase Lewis' Black Archive volume on Sun Makers here.
Last week, one memorably cranky reviewer on Apple Podcasts described my guests as "ghastly woke zombies". You bet we are! And even more of that this week. Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) has gone ahead and designed the Ghastly Woke Zombie T-shirt.
And friend of the podcast Brian Burkart has given us the K-9 Roomba.
"Doctor Who and the Sunmakers" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 72 - Logopolis (with Jonathan Blum)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 51 minutes and 23 secondsOne of Jason's favorite Doctor Who TV episodes and novelizations is the subject of this week's episode.
Joining me is long-time Doctor Who author Jonathan Blum, back for his third appearance.
Kate Orman was on the schedule but unable to join us this week, but please purchase and listen to her incredible new Big Finish audio novel, The Dead Star.
John Fraser, who was the principal guest star in Logopolis, wrote a terrific autobiography several years ago which you can still find -- even if, sadly, the book doesn't describe his three weeks on Doctor Who.
Jason's most recent guest spot on the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast can be found here.
"Doctor Who – Logopolis" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 71 - Full Circle (with Jim Sangster)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 49 minutes and 56 secondsJoining me this week to wrap up the E-Space Trilogy -- the first story in the trilogy is the last to be novelized -- is Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker), the designer of our excellent new logo, and the musical genius behind... well, you'll hear it within today's episode.
Check out Jim's RedBubble Store, my official Doctor Who convention T-shirt outfitter, and from which Jim wore a selection during our recording for this week.
You can catch Jason on the most recent podcast guest appearance on the most recent episode of Gallifrey's Most Wanted.
This week's episode frequently references James Cooray Smith's excellent Doctor Who-themed Substack.
A new James Bond novel is out, and author Kim Sherwood has a surprising connection to Doctor Who's "Full Circle"...
"Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 70 - The Visitation (with Mark from Trap One)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 31 minutes and 42 secondsThis week, it's the first Peter Davison novelization, the first Season 19 novelization, and the first photographic cover. We love all three, no surprise.
Our guest is the superb @Quark_McMalus of Trap One Podcast.
You can find an image of the proposed (and rejected) cover painting for this novelization here.
Doctor Who: Doom's Day Hours 14-11 by M.G. Harris is due out in August.
We have a new logo beginning this week and it's all thanks to @Monster_Maker! It's absolutely lovely and I can't believe it's mine!
If this week's book sounds familiar, it's possibly because the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast covered it last week, also with the help of @Monster_Maker.
And don't forget to tune in NEXT week, when our special guest is... @Monster_Maker.
The full 1963 version of "Meet the Mets" can be found here.
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Episode 69 - The Leisure Hive (with Si Hart)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 42 minutes and 56 secondsWelcome to your weekend of Jason. This weekend I can also be found on the following just-released podcast episodes:
We're All Stories in the End: Camera Obscura
Trap One: The Season 2 (William Hartnell) Blu-ray Collection
Doctor Who Literature: The Eight Doctors
Meanwhile this week, the ubiquitous Si Hart brings his talents back to DWLit. And brings not one, not two, but, how gratifying, THREE copies of the Leisure Hive novelization.
We also discuss the significance of Lalla Ward's bathing costume, the many splendors of Season 18, and whether or not, when it comes to playing "20 Questions", Si is smarter than an AI program.
"Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Bonus Episode - The Eight Doctors (with Stacey Smith?)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 50 secondsHappy April 1st, y'all!
The topic of our annual April Fool's episode is Terrance Dicks' generally derided 1997 novel The Eight Doctors. But, no fooling, Stacey and I just get into a pretty hard-hitting debate about all sorts of things related to the book.
Back with a regular episode tomorrow!
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Episode 68 - The Keeper of Traken (with Lelon Stoldt)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 38 minutes and 52 secondsWe continue on our Season 18 run with our third straight novelization from the season -- unusually, all so far in story order. "The Keeper of Traken" on TV is a delightful gem, and the book is not too far behind it.
Joining me this week to celebrate Season 18 -- as well as the many other topics which inevitably come up -- is Lelon Stoldt (@LelonStoldt) from the InDOCtrination Podcast, a delightful show in which Lelon reads his way through the Target novelizations with his daughters -- in story order. You can catch their latest episode here.
All our guests are up for a rousing game of "20 Questions"... but what happens when an AI program attempts the same? Find out... the results will shock you.
"Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.]
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Episode 68 - The Keeper of Traken (with Lelon Stoldt)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 38 minutes and 52 secondsWe continue on our Season 18 run with our third straight novelization from the season -- unusually, all so far in story order. "The Keeper of Traken" on TV is a delightful gem, and the book is not too far behind it.
Joining me this week to celebrate Season 18 -- as well as the many other topics which inevitably come up -- is Lelon Stoldt (@LelonStoldt) from the InDOCtrination Podcast, a delightful show in which Lelon reads his way through the Target novelizations with his daughters -- in story order. You can catch their latest episode here.
All our guests are up for a rousing game of "20 Questions"... but what happens when an AI program attempts the same? Find out... the results will shock you.
"Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.]
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Episode 67 - Warriors' Gate (with Adam Clegg)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 40 minutes and 24 secondsOur journey through Season 18 continues with the novelization of "Warriors' Gate" -- and, for a short time only, the Target books match up by publication order AND story order!
Jason's guest this week is Adam Clegg (@AdamJClegg), a popular returning guest, and co-host of both The Real McCoy Podcast and Harry Sullivan Is An Imbecile!. We are both delighted by Warriors' Gate, both in print and on TV. As a result, this conversation is much more on topic than usual. But there's still time for a game of 20 Questions.Jason then breaks down the text of the novelization, which is in many ways a stark departure from the previous Target books that we've been examining in publication order. What is the significance of the April 1982 release date?
"Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 66 - State of Decay (with Denise Sutton)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 30 minutes and 10 secondsSeasons 18 through 21 of the Classic Series are my era of the show, and this week's novelization, January 1982's "Doctor Who and the State of Decay", is the first novelization of the JNT era. You'll be hearing a lot more Peter Howell music on this show the next few seasons!
After a brief roundup of some distressing current events, we revisit Harlan Ellison, one of the topics from last week's show. The anthology referenced is "This Book Needs No Introduction, by Harlan Ellison".This week's guest is the always wonderful Denise Sutton (@CupOfTea69).
"Doctor Who and the State of Decay" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Bonus Episode - Chris Boucher and Harlan Ellison (with Philip Hinchcliffe and Jason Davis)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 57 secondsThis week we take a break in between the 1981 and 1982 seasons to explore the legacies of two writing titans.
Harlan Ellison wrote the 7-page introduction that appeared in most American reprints of Target novelizations, put out by Pinnacle Books. How did that essay come to be commissioned, and why did Harlan write it? We have answers! We're joined by Jason Davis, who edited several of Harlan's collections, and shares his knowledge with us, in an interview recorded live at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles in February 2022.
You can find Jason at Humanity Is My Business.
We are then rejoined by Philip Hinchcliffe, Doctor Who's producer between 1974 and 1977, and producer for Chris Boucher's first two TV episodes, to discuss the work and legacy of Mr. Boucher, who passed away in December 2022. This interview was recorded in January 2023.
And stay tuned for a bonus conversation, also recorded live at Gally, with long-time show contributors David Barsky and Bill Evenson. This conversation is, ah... much less scholarly and stately than the other two.
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Episode 65 - An Unearthly Child (with Mark from Trap One)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 44 minutes and 18 secondsDoctor Who's origin story is our focus this week.
There is so, so much to discuss, and it's fitting that Mark from The Trap One Podcast is the one to join me this week. We discuss both the TV serial -- Doctor Who's first four weeks on television in late autumn 1963 -- and the novelization, which came out 65th in Target's publication run but is indeed the first story.
Mark and I have lots and lots of memories this week. And lots more in my audio essay, following the conversation with Mark.
You can find for purchase two Doctor Who spinoff media tales mentioned by Mark:
--"Hunters of the Burning Stone", a comic book sequel to this adventure.
--"The Last Day at Work", a Big Finish freebie audio play also riffing on this adventure.On YouTube you can find:
--the 1976 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Weebles set.
--Game 6 of the 1981 World Series, which aired the same week this novelization was published.
"Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 64 - The Enemy of the World (LIVE -- with Stacey Smith?)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 23 minutes and 15 secondsThis episode of "Doctor Who Literature" was mostly recorded live at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles between February 16 and 18, 2023.
Stacey Smith? joins me to discuss the episode and novelization of the week, the pandemic, the convention, and her international travels. And Dale Santos returns from the Gally dealer's room with some fascinating book-related treasures.
The con is not over yet and there's plenty more con-related content to come over the next few episodes!
"Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World" features cover art by Bill Donohoe.
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Episode 63 - The Creature from the Pit (with Frazer Gregory)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 5 seconds"The Creature from the Pit" as a TV episode has divided fandom over the years, but fortunately, my guest this week, the great Frazer Gregory (@FelixFrazer), fall onto the same page in discussing both the episode and the January 1981 David Fisher novelization.
However, Frazer doesn't find "20 Questions" such an easy time of it...
"Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit" features cover art by Steve Kyte.
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Episode 62 - The Monster of Peladon (with Jo Short)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes and 20 secondsDecember 1980 marks a watershed moment for the Target novelizations range -- the last calendar year in which more than half a given year's books will be written by Terrance Dicks. We will look back and pay tribute to his contributions to the range during this episode -- though of course he will have many more novelizations put out over the next decade-plus.
Joining me as a first-time guest this week is Jo Short (@thebrainofspock). Technical problems transpired to make this a very short interview, but Jo came packed with insights, so there's not a wasted moment."Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon" features cover art bySteve Kyte.
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Episode 61 - The Horns of Nimon (with Ross Aitken)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 34 minutes and 11 secondsWe've got a show bursting at the seams this week.
We have a new Season 9 Classic Series Blu-ray collection trailer, and it is very emotional.Jason previously discussed this week's book, "Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon" over on our sister podcast, The Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast.
My guest this week is the great Ross Aitken (@traitken), from such amazing podcasts as Gallifrey's Most Wanted (@GallifreysMWPod). Ross, like Jason, never shies away from strong opinions, and there are some great ones this week.
We discuss some Hall of Fame athletes this week as well, and joining the Doctor Who Literature guest reading Hall of Fame is the one and only Jim Sangster (@monster_maker).
Ross and Jason briefly discuss the game that broke Jason's heart when Jason was just days old, Game 7 of the 1973 World Series. We have very different rooting interests in this game.The stakes are very high in this week's game of "Guess That Cliffhanger".
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Substack is an incredible ride.
"Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon" features cover art by Steve Kyte.
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Episode 60 - Nightmare of Eden (with Pete Lambert)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 35 minutes and 59 secondsJanuary 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the releases of the first three Target novelizations. Happy Birthday to Doctor Who novels!
My guest this week, and it's a fun, wide-ranging chat, is fan favorite Pete Lambert (@Prof_Quiteamess). Fresh off his appearance discussing "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" on another podcast, Pete has several fresh takes about the way Buffy/Angel and Doctor Who have influenced each other over the years, and we detour to a brief lovefest about "House, M.D.".
The story of the week is "Nightmare of Eden", Bob Baker's final "Doctor Who" script before departing to the world of Wallace and Gromit, and this is the final novelization of any of his stories. How does the TV production differ from Baker's intended story? And how does the great Terrance Dicks bring the story back to basics?
Pete will have his hands full with a game of "Guess That Cliffhanger".
"Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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Episode 59 - The Keys of Marinus (Philip Hinchcliffe; Jim Sangster)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 2 hours, 7 minutes and 57 secondsPossibly our biggest and boldest episode yet. The great Philip Hinchcliffe is back to discuss his third and (sadly) final Doctor Who novelization; August 1980's "The Keys of Marinus". Always an honor to speak to Philip, who had not read this book in decades and gained a new perspective on the text.
And Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) is back to discuss "Marinus" in both TV and book incarnations and why "Marinus" is so important to 21st-century "Doctor Who"... as well as Jim's prolific creative work and DW content, Bette Davis, limericks, and the long-awaited return of everyone's favorite game, "Guess That Cliffhanger".
The Bette Davis/George Colouris interview may be found in its entirety here.
The "Blake's 7" anthology for which Jim provided illustrations may be found and purchased here."Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus" features cover art by David McAllister.
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Episode 58 - The Armageddon Factor (with Paul Scoones)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 27 minutes and 18 secondsWe're very excited to welcome Paul Scoones (@Paul_Scoones) to Doctor Who Literature. Paul wears many hats in the "Doctor Who" universe and we'll discuss almost all of them today. We'll also discuss pronunciations, genealogy, the long and benevolent shadow of Terrance Dicks... and play a game of "20 Questions".
Read Paul's accounting of the recovery of Episode 1 of "The Crusade", which occurred 24 years ago this week.
You can find the TSV novelizations -- including two written by Paul himself -- here.
Bonus reading on the Curse of the House of Atreus.
"Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.
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