Traveling the Vortex
- Description:
- A podcast dedicated to the show Doctor Who with a perspective from two Midwest United States fans, and one person being introduced to the Doctor for the first time.
Homepage: http://travelingthevortex.com/
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/travelvortex?format=xml
- Episodes:
- 1436
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:1:12:41
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:3:39:05
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 72 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes and 51 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 6 January 2011 (8:03am GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 12 May 2025 (3:06pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 3 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes and 53 seconds
Traveling the Vortex Episodes
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Episode 549 – Or, is it 548, or Maybe 547?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 42 minutes and 19 seconds
In this week’s show, we review the recently released Big Finish audio Doctor Who: Once and Future: Past Lives. This is part of the studio’s offering for the 60th anniversary year.Plus, Shaun brings us this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ with a look at The Amazing World of Doctor Who audiobook from BBC Physical Audio.
And, we discuss the recently announced episode titles for the upcoming anniversary specials.
Enjoy!
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Episode 549 – Or, is it 548, or Maybe 547?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 42 minutes and 20 secondsThis week we review 'Doctor Who: Once and Future: Past Lives' from Big Finish and 'The Amazing World of Doctor Who' from BBC Physical Audio The post Episode 549 – Or, is it 548, or Maybe 547? appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 548 – Episode of the Damned
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 43 minutes and 25 secondsThis week we look at some more comics as part of our year-long celebration of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary. This time we review the Fourth Doctor adventure, ‘City of the Damned’. While it may not precisely connect to ‘Star Beast’, which was the first to feather Beep the Meep, it is one of two stories leading into that story.Also, a comic that does directly link to the 60th anniversary, because it is currently ongoing, we review the first four parts of ‘Liberation of the Daleks’, which is being published in Doctor Who Magazine and features a new adventure for the Fourteenth Doctor.
Plus, a look at the news of the week, including the announcement of a renowned American actor Jonathan Groff.
And we have some news concerning the upcoming Doctoberfest, Who North America’s annual three-day festival celebrating Doctor Who fandom taking place in Hendricks County, Indiana, You’ll have to listen to find out who.
Enjoy!
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Episode 548 – Episode of the Damned
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 43 minutes and 25 secondsThis week we look at two comics, City of the Damned with the Fourth Doctor and Liberation of the Daleks parts 1-4 featuring the Fourteenth Doctor. The post Episode 548 – Episode of the Damned appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 547 – Bring It On!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 15 secondsWe’re back to our adventures in the Time War, with the Big Finish audio, Gallifrey: Time War 3. We rejoin the recently exiled Romana and Narvin as they search the vortex for Leela.Plus, we discuss the BBC Ident 60th Anniversary teaser.
And, Glenn has a ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ of Paradise Towers: Paradise Found, a sequel to the classic Sylvester McCoy, Seventh Doctor story from Cutaway Comics.
Enjoy!
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Episode 547 – Bring It On!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 15 secondsBack to the Time War. This time with a review of Gallifrey: Time War 3 from Big Finish. Plus a SN2M on Paradise Towers: Paradise Found from Cutaway Comics. The post Episode 547 – Bring It On! appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 546 – Great Dane One
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 44 secondsIn this episode, we really delve into Season 6B, the narrative space between the end of The War Games and the beginning of Spearhead from Space. We kick things off with the recently released Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games from Big Finish which features the stories The Final Beginning by Mark Wright and Nicholas Briggs and Wrath of the Ice Warriors by Andrew Smith.Then we review the short story, Save Yourself written by Terrance Dicks which is found in ‘The Target Storybook’.
And Glenn gives a ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ of Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road which was just released by Big Finish.
Plus we discuss some recent news including composer Murray Gold returning to Doctor Who and Titan’s Doom’s Day 2 issue comic story featuring the return of Missy.
Enjoy!
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Episode 546 – Great Dane One
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 45 secondsWe review 'Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games' from Big Finish and the short story, 'Save Yourself' from 'The Target Storybook'. The post Episode 546 – Great Dane One appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 545 – We Librarians are a Tough Breed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 19 secondsIn this week’s show, we are back to Act Three of the Last Great Time War. Again joining the War Doctor for his darkest adventure yet, with the Big Finish audio drama, The War Doctor Begins: He Who Fights With Monsters.Plus, we talk about some 60th-anniversary tie-in announcements including a graphic novel and some books coming later this year.
And an update from Doctor Who: Wolds Apart, the online TCG.
Enjoy!
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Episode 545 – We Librarians are a Tough Breed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 20 secondsThis week we review 'The War Doctor Begins: He Who Fights With Monsters' from Big Finish. The post Episode 545 – We Librarians are a Tough Breed appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 544 – Good Name for a Salad
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 43 minutes and 33 secondsThis week we take another turn celebrating 60 years of Doctor Who, with something that tangentially connects to the upcoming specials. We are reviewing ‘The Iron Legion’ comic strips featured in Doctor Who Weekly issues 1 through 8, written by Pat Mills, and John Wagner, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Then we turn to the Big Finish audio, The Comic Strip Adaptations – “Doctor Who and the Iron Legion”, adapted from the comics by Alan Barnes. Wondering what the connection to the 60th Anniversary is? Listen to the end to find out,Plus Keith talks about the newly released hidden object mystery game, Doctor Who: An Unlikely Heist. It’s this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’
Enjoy!
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Episode 544 – Good Name for a Salad
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 43 minutes and 34 secondsThis week we review 'The Iron Legion' comic strips and 'The Comic Strip Adaptations - Doctor Who and the Iron Legion' from Big Finish. The post Episode 544 – Good Name for a Salad appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 543 – Designing Corridors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 53 minutes and 30 secondsWe’re back in the Time War this week, continuing with act three of the saga. This time with a review of Big Finish’s The War Doctor Begins 3 – Battlegrounds. Hear what we thought about this three-part story.Plus, Glenn reviews the Doctor Who: William Hartnell – Complete Season Two Blu-Ray set. in this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’.
And we talk about some recent casting news.
Enjoy!
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Episode 543 – Designing Corridors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 53 minutes and 30 secondsThis time we review Big Finish's 'The War Doctor Begins 3 - Battlegrounds.' The post Episode 543 – Designing Corridors appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 542 – You’re Making Me Giddy!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 51 minutes and 55 secondsThis week we begin our exploration of the so-called Season 6B. That’s the fan-derived “missing season” of adventures the Second Doctor embarks on BEFORE he regenerates and is stranded on Earth. We start this series with a setup of the events that lead to Season 6B. We review the novelization of The War Games written by Malcolm Hulke and the short story, War Crimes, from the short story collection, Short Trips.Enjoy!
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Episode 542 – You’re Making Me Giddy!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 51 minutes and 55 secondsWe start an exploration of Season 6B with a review of 'The War Games' novelization and the short story, 'War Crimes.' The post Episode 542 – You're Making Me Giddy! appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 541 – On to Plan G
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 29 secondsThis week we return to the Time War. We continue Act Three with the second installment in The War Doctor Begins series with Volume 2, The Warbringer.
Plus, in this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ Glenn reviews the rest of the fourth volume of The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, All of Time and Space.
We also talk Oscars.
And we discuss the recent announcement for the next multimedia crossover event, Doom’s Day.
Enjoy!
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Episode 541 – On to Plan G
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 3 minutes and 30 secondsThe week we review, 'The War Master Begins, Volume 2. The Warbringer' from Big Finish. The post Episode 541 – On to Plan G appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 540 – We’ve Come to Get Our Ball Back
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 5 secondsThis week we look at the animated version of The Abominable Snowmen which was released with both a Black & White and Color version of the story in the UK in September 2022 and in North America in December 2022. This is our second go-around with the story. We reviewed the reconstruction by Loose Cannon back in Episode 175 – An Intelligent Design.Plus in our ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review” – Keith gives us a look at the new Doctor Who mobile game, Lost in Time.
And we do get into a spoiler discussion of The Mandalorian Chapter 17: The Apostate. You can skip forward to 00:14:45 to avoid getting spoiled on the episode.
Enjoy!
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Episode 540 – We’ve Come to Get Our Ball Back
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes and 6 secondsThis week we review the recently released The Abominable Snowmen animated story. Plus, Keith has a review of the Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game. The post Episode 540 – We've Come to Get Our Ball Back appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 26 secondsT
his week we slide into Act Three of our journey through the Time War. This time we review The War Doctor Begins, Volume 1 – Forged In Fire from Big Finish.And, we have a new segment we call the “Something New, Two Minute Review”. Glenn does a quick spoiler-free review of the first story in The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space boxset, also from Big Finish.
Plus, we take a moment off-topic to talk about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.
Enjoy!
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Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 27 secondsThis week we begin Act Three of the Time War with The War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire. The post Episode 539 – From Tots to Killer Commandos appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 538 – Diamonds are Forever
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 52 minutes and 49 secondsThis show we do something a little different. This time, as part of our 60th Anniversary celebration of Doctor Who, we are looking at the Doctor Who Diamond logo and its variations through the years. We discuss the TV logo, the familiar merchandise logo, publications logos, and more.This is is just one episode that will focus on 60 years of Doctor Who leading up to Doctor Who day and the anniversary later this year.
Enjoy!
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Episode 538 – Diamonds are Forever
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 52 minutes and 50 secondsThis week we turn our attention to the Doctor Who diamond logo and look at the various iterations through the years. The post Episode 538 – Diamonds are Forever appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 537 – One Big Continuity Error
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 55 minutes and 32 secondsIn this week’s episode, we take an unexpected detour back to Act Two of the Time War to pick up the recently released Doctor Who – The Time War 5: Cass from Big Finish. We decided to switch to this review instead of moving on to The War Doctor Begins series to keep some continuity in our Time War reviews. Please forgive us if you were expecting the latter.Enjoy!
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Episode 537 – One Big Continuity Error
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 55 minutes and 32 secondsThis week we review the recently released 'Doctor Who - The Time War 5: Cass' The post Episode 537 – One Big Continuity Error appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 536 – Family Reconciliation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 39 minutes and 39 secondsIn this podcast episode, we look at the recently released documentary Doctor Who Am I. It’s the story of an infamous Doctor Who screenwriter who is reluctantly dragged back into the American Whoniverse. We’ll give our impression of this film.Plus, we discuss the latest Doctor Who Collection Blu-ray set featuring the Third Doctor.
Enjoy!
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Episode 536 – Family Reconciliation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 39 minutes and 39 secondsIn this episode, we look at the recently released documentary 'Doctor Who Am I.' The post Episode 536 – Family Reconciliation appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 535 – Spot on Landing
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 14 secondsOur travels through the history of the Time War continue, and we make a spot on landing at the Big Finish audio drama, Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters 2. Of course, only one of the four stories actually takes place during the Time War, but we wanted to go ahead and review the entire box set anyway, Hear what we thought of these stories.Plus, we discuss some more new series casting news.
Enjoy!
Links mentioned in the show:
The Diary of River Song 1.4 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 437
Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1.3 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 453
The Legacy of Time – Reviewed in TTV Episode 440
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Episode 535 – Spot on Landing
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 15 secondsThis week we review 'Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters 2' from Big Finish The post Episode 535 – Spot on Landing appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode – 534 – Race Fast Safe Car
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes and 42 secondsIn this episode, we continue our journey through the history of the time war, this time with a review of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventure – Time War, Volume 4 by Big Finish Productions.We also talk trailer news and new Doctor and companion outfit reveals.
Enjoy!
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Episode – 534 – Race Fast Safe Car
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes and 43 secondsIn this episode, we review Big Finish's Time War, Volume 4 featuring the Eighth Doctor and Bliss. The post Episode – 534 – Race Fast Safe Car appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 533 – Seeing Green Monkeys
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes and 0 secondsOur journey through the Tome War continues this time with the Eighth Doctor Big Finish Adventure, Time War Volume 3. Find out what we think of this installment in the series.The post Episode 533 – Seeing Green Monkeys appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 533 – Seeing Green Monkeys
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes and 0 secondsWe review the Eighth Doctor Big Finish Adventure, 'Time War Volume 3' The post Episode 533 – Seeing Green Monkeys appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 532 – Chance Meetings
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 6 secondsIt’s book review time. And it’s a long one.In this episode, we review Temporal Logbook 3: Changed Lives from our friends at Pencil Tip Publishing.
This is an anthology collection by various authors. All proceeds from the publication are donated to SETTLED, an independent charity providing free and trustworthy information, advice, and support in different languages to EU citizens in the UK. And we are excited to have our very own Shaun Collins who was asked to write one of the short stories in the book.
Plus we discuss the recent announcement of a new companion played by Millie Gibson.
Enjoy!
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Episode 532 – Chance Meetings
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 46 secondsWe review Temporal Logbook 3: Changed Lives from our friends at Pencil Tip Publishing The post Episode 532 – Chance Meetings appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 531 – Tag, You’re It!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 27 secondsIn this episode, we take another brief hiatus from our travels through the Time War.
New Doctor Who has graced our TV screens with the long-awaited Doctor Who: Centenary Special, The Power of the Doctor. Hear what we thought of the culmination of the Whittaker/Chibnall era and celebration of the BBC’s 100th year.
Also, we discuss the new/old logo and the official announcement that Doctor Who will be coming to Disney+ next year.
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Episode 531 – Tag, You’re It!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 21 minutes and 28 secondsIn this episode, we discuss the long-awaited Doctor Who: Centenary Special, 'The Power of the Doctor' The post Episode 531 – Tag, You're It! appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 530 – Renegade Name Changer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 58 minutes and 35 secondsWe continue with Act 2 of the Time War and this time land at Bliss’ home colony for Big Finish’s Eighth Doctor – Time War Volume 2,We discuss our likes and dislikes about this box set.
Enjoy!
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Episode 530 – Renegade Name Changer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 36 secondsIn this episode, it's more Time War travels as we review Big Finish's 'Eighth Doctor - Time War Volume 2' The post Episode 530 – Renegade Name Changer appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Patreon Exclusive #3 – The Losers Review ‘Home Team’ (October 2022)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes and 43 seconds**UPDATE** We are now making this exclusive content available to anyone to download! Okay, supporters. Here is an exclusive for you. In the early part of 2022, we took part in a contest to guess the most Oscar award winners at the 2022 Oscars. We called it the Pod vs. Pod Oscar completion. It was hosted by Gold Standard-The Oscars Podcast and Flicks with Friends and we were pitted against some of the ladies of...
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Episode 529 – Trying to Avoid the Time War
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes and 50 secondsAs the title of this episode hints, we continue our journey through the Time War with the Doctor and his companions, both real and fake. This time we tackle the Big Finish Eighth Doctor box set, Time War 1.Plus we catch up on some other pop media we took in this week.
Enjoy!
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Episode 529 – Trying to Avoid the Time War
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes and 50 secondsThis week we review 'The Eighth Doctor: Time War 1' from Big Finish The post Episode 529 – Trying to Avoid the Time War appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 528 – Hope You Brought Biscuits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 1 secondAfter a brief break, we resume our journey through the Time War as we enter Act Two of the story. This time another Timelord enters the foray. We join the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan with two stories. First, it’s Big Finish Short Trips 7.10 – “All Hands on Deck”, featuring Susan and the Eighth Doctor. Then we move on to the box set, Big Finish’s “Susan’s War”.Hear what we thought of these stories, plus a quick recap of what we’ve been up to while we were gone.
Enjoy!
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Episode 528 – Hope You Brought Biscuits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 55 secondsWe resume our journey through the Time War with Big Finish's Short Trips 7.10 - 'All Hands on Deck' and 'Susan's War' The post Episode 528 – Hope You Brought Biscuits appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 527 – REDACTED
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 1 secondWe take a break from the Time War and review the recently released, Doctor Who – Redacted, an audio series produced by BBC Studios and featuring. Charlie Craggs as Cleo Proctor, Lois Chimimba as Abby McPhail and Holly Quin-Ankrah as Shawna Thompson. Juno Dawson acted as the lead writer for the series. Find out what we thought of this unique Doctor Who spin-off story which does feature Jodie Whitaker as the Doctor.Enjoy!
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Episode 527 – REDACTED
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 53 minutes and 55 secondsThis week we review the BBC Studios audio series, 'Doctor Who - Redacted' The post Episode 527 – REDACTED appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 526 – The Most Wonderful Man in the Universe
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 41 secondsOur travels through the Time War bring us back to the first of the War Master box sets finishing off stories 2 through 4 of The War Master – Only the Good starring Derek Jacobi. Hear what we thought of what is understood to be The Master’s last adventures before we pick up again with him in Utopia,Plus we discuss the death of David Warner.
And talk of Doctor Who possibly coming to Disney+ streaming service.
Enjoy!
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Episode 526 – The Most Wonderful Man in the Universe
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 42 secondsThis week we finish off the War Master box set - 'Only the Good' with stories 2 through 4 The post Episode 526 – The Most Wonderful Man in the Universe appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.
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Episode 525 – Grab Your Cannons, We’re Going Gardening
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 1 secondIn this episode, we review The War Master, Volume 7 – Self-Defence. Hear what we think of this story starring Sir Derek Jacobi, with a special appearance by David Tennant as The Doctor.We continue our year-long journey through the Time War.
Plus, we discuss the recent MCU film, Thor: Love & Thunder.
Enjoy!
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