Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro
Radio Free Skaro is possibly the most popular, most prolific and charmingly irreverent (but never irrelevant) Doctor Who podcast around. Since August 2006, hosts Warren (in Vancouver, BC) and Steven (in Edmonton, AB) have provided listeners with their brand of amusing Doctor Who praise and punishment. A year later, Chris (also in Edmonton, AB) was added to the team, and The Three Who Rule were born.
Recommended by Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Free Skaro provides an entertaining and diverting listen for the diehard or casual Doctor Who fan. New episodes usually appear on Sundays, following a loose magazine format of the three hosts discussing the news and events of the past week in the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures. They have also recorded special commentary podcasts for classic series and new series episodes of Doctor Who along with interviews of some of the brightest of the Doctor Who luminaries. Radio Free Skaro is also the official podcast of Gallifrey One, the world’s largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.
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Radio Free Skaro #1021 - Don't Mention Dr. Who
It’s a real grab bag of news this week with Peter Davison critiquing the current series of Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi being cool as hell at Glastonbury, and a truly mammoth editorial by Chris about the Blu-ray for The War Games in Colour and the cost thereof given that it is only one disc. Somehow we get an hour out of this, and we also have an extensive interview with long-time friends and Televisual Specialists John Williams and Neil Perryman about their new podcast where they watch every television show ever made – World of Telly!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- BBC statement on complaint about Ncuti Gatwa-Billie Piper regeneration coverage
- Peter Davison on the current state of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who Magazine Special #70: The Horror Issue due Sep 24
- Preview of ‘Night of the Shreek’ from the 2026 Doctor Who Annual
- The War Games in Colour North American Blu-Ray release
- Classic Second Doctor adventure ‘The Moonbase’ coming to vinyl
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway due Nov 2025
- Doctor Who and sustainability
- Peter Capaldi onstage with Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury
- Ncuti Gatwa introduces JADE at Glastonbury
- Laundry Files RPG 2nd Edition preorder announced – and Warren wrote for it!
Interview:
Preview — Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth
We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Twenty-five years after his death, Adams’s books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42”, have seeped deep into public consciousness. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’s former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’s personal friends like Stephen Fry and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most beloved and visionary writers of our time.
Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.
Radio Free Skaro #1020 - ChatRTD
If you enjoy baseless speculation about the future of Doctor Who, The War Between the Land and the Sea, RTD’s career prospects, and most importantly, musings about Edmonton AM radio frequencies past and present, then this episode of Radio Free Skaro is for you (you sicko)! Plus we cover a new official Doctor Who quiz book from Beth Axford and “The Moon Cruise” by Esmie-Jikiemi-Pearson, some Steven Taylor Big Finish goodness, Steven’s recent podcast promiscuity and the second part of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Visitation”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Will The War Between The Land and The Sea all drop at once on iPlayer and Disney+?
- Doctor Who Magazine 618 released
- RTD’s column from DWM 618
- The Fourteenth Doctor and the Meep action figure set now available
- The Official Doctor Who Quiz Book by Beth Axford coming Sep 2025
- New Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda novel ‘The Moon Cruise’ by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson coming in Nov 2025
- Big Finish released two new audiobooks read by Peter Purves to celebrate 60 years of Steven Taylor
- Doctor Who Season 1 Blu-Ray releasing Tuesday in North America
- Doctor Who The War Games in Colour releasing Tuesday in North America
- Steven on The Incomparable Doctor Who Season 2 wrap-up
- Steven on the Strangers in Space Doctor Who news update episode
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #1019 - Nothing is Forgotten
There’s new stirrings in the world of Doctor Who production, one being an official BBC search for new producers of an new animated Doctor Who series for Time Tots on CBeebies, and a much more tenuous rumour about discontent between Russell T Davies, a potential streaming suitor, and a push for a grittier, aged-up series. Join the Three Who Rule who cogitate on the possibilities of Doctor Who’s future, along with Big Finish news, the improbable return of 80s laff-fest Spaceballs, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for The Visitation!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who – The TARDIS is set to land on CBeebies
- Doctor Who pre-school animation: invitation to pitch
- Doctor Who Season 2 coming August 18 to DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook (UK)
- Report: BBC and RTD at ddds with potential new Doctor Who partner
- Excerpt from the new Fifteenth Doctor novel ‘Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box’, available now
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Last Queen of the Nile, due Sep 2025
- What if the Classic Doctors Regenerated like Modern Day Doctors? by Rob Ritchie
- Spaceballs 2 announcement
- Pik-Sen Lim died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #1018 - Gallifroogle
Doctor Who Season 2, and the Ncuti Gatwa era, are over, Billie Piper is The Doctor (maybe?) and the Three Who Rule are left to pick up the pieces and look at the Doctor Who Unleashed – 20 Years in Wales retrospective, Amanda-Rae Prescott’s critique of the Fifteenth Doctor era for Den of Geek, more Dugga Doo shenanigans, a look at friend of the show Rachel Talalay’s use of the “oner” in the TV show Without a Trace, and more, merely setting the stage for the return of Fluid Links!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Steph de Whalley appearing at Gallifrey One
- Doctor Who Unleashed – 20 Years in Wales
- Season 2: Epilogue
- Amanda-Rae Prescott’s critique of The Fifteenth Doctor era
- A Tour of the Rani’s Bone Palace with Jonah Hauer-King
- Dugga Doo Jumps Into the Doctor’s Timestream
- Doctor Who and the Dugga Doos (Reconstruction)
- Rachel Talalay: How a One-er becomes Whatever: Without A Trace
- Who Me! by David J Howe due Oct 9
- Doctor Who: Jubilee Paperback due Mar 5 2026
- Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight Paperback due Mar 5 2026
- Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster: 4th Doctor Novelization Audio CD – Unabridged due Sep 4
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Bad Terms due Aug 2025
- Prentis Hancock 1942-2025
- Fluid Links
Radio Free Skaro #1017 - Desperately Seeking Susan
It’s the end, but the moment is prepared for as Steven, Warren, and Chris give their varied takes on “The Reality War”, the final episode of Season 2 and the last bit of Doctor Who on our screens until we’re graced with The War Between the Land and the Sea, presumably later this year(?) A marathon session covering a controversial-ish regeneration, RTD’s storytelling habits, speculation on the Disney+ deal, further speculation on the future of Doctor Who and television in general, and so much more as the discussion spans more than two hours! Listen if you dare!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E08 “The Reality War” Review
- Ncuti Gatwa Says Goodbye to Doctor Who
- Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa says final farewell to the TARDIS as the Fifteenth Doctor regenerates
- Doctor Who S2E08 Unleashed
- Doctor Who S2E08 Behind the Scenes
- “Doctor Who has ‘changed lives’ of LGBT people”
- The War Between the Land and the Sea teaser
- Lorne Balfe doing music for TWBTLATS, offering recording session viewing
- Doctor Who Unleashed: 20 Years in Wales airing June 7 at 7pm on BBC One, 6am on iPlayer
- Extract from the Fifteenth Doctor original novel ‘Fear Death by Water’, book out now
- Preview of new Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda adventure ‘Spectral Scream’, book out now
- Catherine Tate announced for Edmonton Expo
- Big Finish The First Doctor Unbound: Knights of the Round TARDIS due Sep 2025
Radio Free Skaro #1016 - Bonestorm
It’s “Wish World”, the penultimate episode Season 2 of Doctor Who, but the moment has been prepared for! What did Steven, Warren, and Chris think of this lead-up to next week’s finale “The Reality War” and all the many campy bits therein? Will the Doctor regain his identity and crack the code of a 1950s inflected dystopia? Will Ruby work out the mystery of a forgotten world? Will Belinda get anything to do? Tune in and find out! Plus Barbie, Big Finish, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E07 “Wish World” Review
- Doctor Who S2E07 Unleashed
- Doctor Who S2E07 Behind the Scenes
- Varada Sethu Interviews Carole Ann Ford
- Dugga Doo full version
- Dugga Doo 24/7
- Fifteenth Doctor Barbie due July
- Ruby Sunday Barbie due July
- Doctor Who Magazine 617 released
- Doctor Who: River Song Choose Your Own Adventure Hardcover due Feb 12, 2026
- Big Finish Call Me Master: Monsters due September 2025
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Alixion due September 2025
- Bonnie Langford & Colin Baker answer Big Finish listener questions
- Big Finish: Star Cops – Conflict returns in 2026
- Peter David died
- BBC arts broadcaster Alan Yentob dies aged 78
Radio Free Skaro #1015 - Murder on the Dance Floor
It’s finally time for us to face up to the fact that the Eurovision in Space episode is here. So what did the Three Who Rule think of the glitz, glitter, and glamour of The Interstellar Song Contest? You may be surprised at the results! Join us as we muse over surprising cameos, the return of an iconic villain, and our descent into cynicism as we speculate on RTD’s current approach, the remaining two episodes and what lies in wait for Doctor Who generally. Plus minor snippets of news, missing episodes yelling, and more! Next week…Wish World, featuring both The Tripods and the Sandbaggers!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E06 “The Interstellar Song Contest” Review
- Archie Panjabi joins Doctor Who as legendary character the Rani
- Radio Free Skaro #979, on the casting of Archie Panjabi
- Russell T Davies teases Wish World
- Richard Price behind the scenes bloot 1
- Richard Price behind the scenes bloot 2
- Doctor Who S2E06 Unleashed
- Special episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed announced celebrating 20 years of revival
- Doctor Who S2E06 Behind the Scenes
- Ncuti Gatwa did not announce UK jury points at Eurovision, Sophie Ellis-Bextor took his place
- Sue Malden on Doctor Who missing episodes at Film is Fabulous event
- Doctor Who’s next two series already written despite ‘Disney funding cuts’, reports The Mirror
- Jane Tranter on US co-productions
- The Happiness Patrol: Unhappily Ever After kickstarter from Cutaway Comics, threshold met
Radio Free Skaro #1014 - A Troll on the Web
The Three Who Rule weigh in on an episode full of of firsts as The Doctor and Belinda head to 2019 Nigeria in “The Story and The Engine,” a mix of mythology, storytelling, and a big ol’ spider! What did they think of this psychological thriller set in a barbershop that also wanders through a web of dimensions? Plus what were Millie Gibson and RTD on about on The One Show and Morning Live, respectively? And what’s Eric Roberts’ Master up to? All these questions won’t be answered, but enjoy anyway!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E05 “The Story & the Engine” Review
- Doctor Who S2E05 Unleashed
- Doctor Who S2E05 Behind the Scenes
- The Story & the Engine prequel
- Compilation of past Doctor clips and the source stories
- “The Reality War” simulcasts on Disney+, iPlayer, and BBC One at 7pm UK time on May 31
- Millie Gibson on The One Show talking about the finale
- RTD on Morning Live
- The Jon Pertwee Collection Audio CD due July 4
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity 2025 competition open, closes mid-June
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: Master! begins July 2025
Radio Free Skaro #1013 - Like and Subscribe
Doctor Who delves into the fetid swamps of online discourse this week as Ruby Sunday returns to Doctor Who and the UK experiences seesawing public sentiment in “Lucky Day!” Did the Three Who Rule enjoy it, or more to the point, how much did they not like it? Listen and learn! Plus the aforementioned Millie Gibson is set to grace Gallifrey One, Ncuti Gatwa is announcing UK scores at Eurovision, whatever that means (Chris explains), The Savages and The War Games in Colour are on their way to Blu-ray in North America, books, Big Finish and more! Next Week: The Story and the Engine!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Millie Gibson Makes Her North American Convention Debut at Gallifrey One
- Janet Fielding Added to Guest List for Gallifrey One 2026
- Gallifrey One LAX Marriott block opens May 9
- Doctor Who “Lucky Day” Review
- Doctor Who Unleashed S2E04
- Doctor Who S2E04 Behind the Scenes
- Doctor Who YouTube channel hits 2M subscribers
- Ncuti Gatwa to announce UK scores at Eurovision
- Doctor Who Season 2 finale coming to cinemas across the UK & Ireland
- Doctor Who: Season One Blu-ray coming to North America on June 24
- The Savages available for Canadian preorder (May 20)
- The War Games in colour available for Canadian preorder (June 24)
- Doctor Who – Time and Space for Everyone goes out May 19
- Big Finish The Death and Life of River Song: The Dissolution of Time due August 2025
- Doctor Who Myths and Legends: The Reeltime Pictures Story due Aug 30, released at Whooverville
- Exterminart! The Doctor Who Dalek Art of Andrew Skilleter updated edition available for preorder
- Classic Who on U&Eden in the UK starting May 5
Radio Free Skaro #1012 - Sending Our Love Down The Well
Russell T Davies returns to cosmic horror, a medium in which he excels, in “The Well”, an episode full of invisible enemies, reigns of terror, and a need to listen! What did the Three Who Rule think of this scary excursion 400,000 years into the future? And more to the point, did you know Steven helped get HD footage into The War Games In Colour? Plus new Big Finish including Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill’s first audio adventure, a book about Kangs (who don’t conquer), a big ol’ Quatermass box set, and more! Next week, will it be our Lucky Day?
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Daphne Ashbrook & Yee Jee Tso Celebrate 30 Years of the TV Movie at Gallifrey One
- Doctor Who “The Well” Review
- Doctor Who Unleashed S2E03
- Behind The Scenes S2E03
- Doctor Who Magazine 616
- The War Games in Colour Blu-Ray coming to North America on June 24
- The War Games footage comparison
- Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Vampire Weekend due July 2025
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Time War – Uncharted: Pursuit due June 2025
- Big Finish Doctor Who: The Ruins of Kaerula due June 2025
- “As A Kang Should Be” by Dale Smith released by Obverse Books
- The Quatermass Xperiment Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray coming in June
Radio Free Skaro #1011 - Ring-a-Ding-Dong Dandy
It’s “Lux” time at Radio Free Skaro Towers and the Three Who Rule have thoughts about both the two-dimensional (mostly) villain of the title and more including RTD and Murray Gold song crimes, whether or not this whole Pantheon thing is panning out, how ring-a-ding good The Doctor and Belinda are together, *that* fan scene and more! Plus news of books, DWM, and more Gallifrey One news!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One 2026 Hotel Reservations Open May 9
- Anita Dobson at Gallifrey One 2026
- Doctor Who “Lux” Review
- Doctor Who Unleashed S2E02
- Behind the Scenes: Lux
- Alan Cumming and director Amanda Brotchie on bringing Mr Ring-a-Ding to life in Doctor Who
- Russel T Davies has “no time” for Doctor Who too woke criticisms
- Russell T Davies hints at ideas for Seasons 4 and 5
- The Well on BBC One Apr 26, 7:20pm
- Q&A with Michael van Kesteren who designed Scoot
- Doctor Who Magazine 616 due Apr 24
- Black Archive #76: Logopolis due April 2025
- Doctor Who: Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box coming June 12
- Doctor Who: One Night Only (A Fela Kuti Story) coming August 21
- Season 7 Blu-Ray available for order in Canada
- Jean Marsh dies, aged 90
Radio Free Skaro #1010 - Killer Queen
It’s new Doctor Who time! Steven, Warren, and special guest Heather Berberet of the Free the Squee fame have thoughts to share about The Robot Revolution, the first episode of Season 2 and the debut of new companion Belinda Chandra as played by Varada Sethu! Robots! Roommates! Rebels! Plus Doctor Who Unleashed talk, Graham Norton appearing in the show as himself, RTD being cryptic about the future of Doctor Who on CBCC Newsround, the debut of World of Telly from the House of Tachyon, and more! Next week, Mr. Ring-a-Ding terrorizes 1952 Miami!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E01 “The Robot Revolution”
- Doctor Who Unleashed S2E01
- Behind the Scenes: The Robot Revolution
- Graham Norton to Appear In “The Interstellar Song Contest”
- Ncuti Gatwa presents answers on Jeopardy!
- Russell T Davies on CBBC Newsround
- “73 Yards” and “Dot & Bubble” Named Finalists for the Hugo Awards
- History of Doctor Who on The Front Row on Radio 4 Extra on April 14
- Murray Gold to appear on In Tune on Radio 3 on April 17
- Doctor Who: 20 Secrets From 20 Years on BBC Radio 2 on April 20
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Space Security Service: The Voord in London coming June 2025
- Big Finish: Special edition Robert Shearman novelisations due October 2025
- World of Telly Episode 1: Moonbase 3
- Jess Jurkovic: Reuniting Roman Theme (from The War Games)
- The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV’s First Sci-Fi Classic by Toby Hadoke coming May 12
- Next Week: Lux, airing April 19 at 715pm on BBC One
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #1009 - Temu Judd Nelson
With One! Week! To! Go! before the new series of Doctor Who graces our internet-connected devices and (in the UK) tele-appliances, there’s a surfeit of news to talk about including interviews with Russell T Davies, Varada Sethu, the same and Ncuti Gatwa on The One Show, as well as observations of the show’s 20th anniversary, the usual Canadian content digressions and silliness, and an exciting interview with Exterminate-Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who author John Higgs!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Peter Davison and Paul McGann Headline Gallifrey One 2026; Tickets Now On Sale!
- The Robot Revolution airs on BBC One at 6:50pm on April 12
- Doctor Who Season Two premiere in London on March 31
- RTD, Jane Tranter and Joel Collins at the Season 2 premiere
- RTD “dying to find out” Doctor Who’s fate beyond Season 2
- RTD clarifies comments about finding a replacement show runner
- RTD says episode 6 may not go out on BBC One
- Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu on BBC’s The One Show on April 2
- Varada Sethu interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter
- Doctor Who Unleashed returns April 12
- Doctor Who Season 2 Behind The Scenes trailer
- Get to know your brand new TARDIS team with Ncuti and Varada!
- Doctor Who Will Celebrate Its Revival’s Big Anniversary With a New Documentary
- BBC Outlines Transformation Strategy Amid Budget Constraints
- Waris Hussein on BBC Front Row on Radio 4 on April 7
- Doctor Who: 20 Secrets From 20 Years on BBC Radio 2 on April 20
- Big Finish: The War Doctor stories available on BBC Radio 4 Extra during April
- 1965 BBC Radio production of 1984 starring Patrick Troughton
- 1965 BBC Radio production of 1984 (longer)
- DWAS Doctor Who: 20 Years On at the BFI on May 4
- Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill announced for Fan Expo Canada
- Ace (or ‘I Wanna Be Like Sophie Aldred’) – Official Music Video
- Radio Free Skaro livestreams start April 13
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #1008 - In Some Form or Another
It’s an exciting week of Doctor Who news on this here Radio Free Skaro estate, with a new (if you don’t speak German) trailer for Season 2, a concerning comment from Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter about the future of Doctor Who, more moaning from Steven and Warren about the Interstellar Song Contest, Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu on a media tour of the U.S., various printed matter previewing the new season, 4K blu-rays of the 60s Dalek films, more moaning about the Youth of Today and their laptop viewing, and more! Feel the excitement build as we close in on two weeks before new Doctor Who!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Season 2 Official Trailer – Disney+
- Disney+ new key art and press release
- Doctor Who Season 2 Blu-Ray available for preorder, no release date yet
- Charlie Condou joins Doctor Who for “The Interstellar Song Contest”
- Ncuti Gatwa and Verada Sethu on Good Morning America
- Ncuti Gatwa on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Jane Tranter on BBC’s The Media Show
- Doctor Who Magazine 615 released, previews first 3 episodes of season 2
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 69 – 20 Years of the Ninth Doctor
- Season 2 Preview in SFX Magazine
- Radio Times Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Issue
- The Robot Revolution Target novelization by Una McCormack due July
- Lux Target novelization by James Goss due July
- The Well Target novelization by Gareth L Powell due July
- Peter Cushing Dalek films due in 4K on June 24 from Severin Films
- BBC Studios’ FAST channels debut on LG TVs in EMEA
- Adventures in Time & Space exhibit runs from May 3 – Nov 2 at the Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
- Recovered, a Film is Fabulous festival, is happening in Leicester on May 11
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Snare due August 2025
- Big Finish Smith & Sullivan debuting July 2025
- The New Who Generation: A 20-Year Adventure of Fandom
Radio Free Skaro #1007 - The One and Only Billy Shears
We here at Radio Free Skaro Towers pride ourselves on our ability to shoehorn Canadian content into our discussion of a British institution, but prepare yourself for a megaton-level of maple syrup as we welcome fellow Canuck Graeme Burk with a look back at the 20th anniversary of modern Doctor Who and all the surrounding hoopla, broadcast machinery and piracy that surrounded it! Buckle up – it’s the trip of a lifetime!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Season 2 episode titles revealed
- Season 2 episode titles video
- Kadiff Kirwan joins new season of Doctor Who
- The War Games in Colour coming to UK Blu-ray on April 21
- Doctor Who: The Savages Blu-ray coming to North America May 20
- The Prisoner Ultimate Edition 1/12 Scale Figures Kickstarter Launching Soon
- Tom Baker’s 2000 “This Is Your Life” episode airing on BBC 4 on March 26
- Radio Times celebrates 20 years of nuWho with 6 variant covers
- Eccleston’s first interview about Doctor Who (April 2004)
- “New TV Series in Detail” from BBC Cult
- Modern Doctor Who at 20 YouTube playlist
- Planet of the Doctor
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #1006 - Hidden in Plain Sight
It’s a week of podcast adjacent activity as the fine folk at the Merseyside Doctor Who Group shouted out this very podcast on the occasion of our breaching the transom of 1000 episodes, David Tennant hosts one Russell T Davies on his podcast and most importantly, fine gentlemen Neil Perryman and John Williams announce an oncoming storm known as World of Telly! Plus, we have news and base speculation about both the new Character Options 3rd Doctor and sonic and possible future iterations, crochet fan works, behind the scenes camera excitement from Terror of the Suburbs, and a chinwag with Steven Swaby from Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder, the new exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con Museum!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Merseyside Doctor Who Group
- David Tennant Does a Podcast With…Russell T Davies
- Neil Perryman and John Williams’ new podcast World of Telly coming soon
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Troughton Years available for pre-order
- Evolution of the Toy Dalek: Collecting Through The Ages released
- AmiguWHOmi: Crochet Adventures in Time and Space Paperback due Aug 21
- Crocheted Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: The Monster Makers Paperback due Sep 2
- Simon Guerrier’s photos from Terror of the Suburbs shoot
- Doctor Who The Third Doctor and Sonic Screwdriver from Character Options
- Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill no longer appearing at Calgary Expo, on the 2026 guest list
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke due May
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Past Forward due June
- Simon Fisher-Becker died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #1005 - Release the Alpha Probe
It’s another exciting week of almost there but not quite new Doctor Who and as such the BBC released a new trailer for Season 2 mere moments before we released last week’s episode, as befits the tenor of our times. We also go into detail on a since-expunged German Disney+ Season 2 trailer with new footage, actor Freddie Fox, reflections on criminal behaviour when Rose leaked 20 years ago, and most importantly, new Doctors Who in Little People form the good folk at Fisher Price. Only slightly less important, our Miniscope about pioneering Doctor Who producer and director Mervyn Pinfield! Come with us and enter the Sense-Sphere!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Season 2 trailer launched, guest stars announced
- Steven Guesses Dcotor Who Season 2 Trailer Clips
- Actor Freddie Fox joins Season 2 cast of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who season 2 – Everything you need to know
- 20th Anniversary of “Rose” Leak
- Terror of the Suburbs – Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 7
- Looking For Dursley nominated for RTS West of England Awards 2025
- Doctor Who: Cybermen – The Ultimate Guide Paperback from DWM due 22 May
- Fisher Price Little People Collector Doctor Who Special Edition Set
- Opening shot of Give Us a Break
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #1004 - Recoloury 7
It’s official, Doctor Who is returning April 12 on BBC One, iPlayer, and Disney+, and will include Doctor Who alum Alan Cumming as an animated ne’er-do-well along with “Eurovision in Space” according to Who scribe Juno Dawson and much more, including children creating comic book creatures, much Big Finish news including friends of the show Riley Silverman and Paul Booth writing Short Trips. and our feature interview with Peter Cocker and Toby Hadoke about the Season 7 Collection Blu-Ray!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who season 2 arrives on BBC and Disney+ on April 12 with Alan Cumming to guest star
- Disney Season 2 press release
- Doctor Who “was a top 5 series on Disney+ globally every week it aired” said Disney
- The Mirror states Juno Dawson’s will be “Eurovision in Space”, go out May 17 before the Eurovision final
- Peter Purves spoke of his time on Doctor Who at the BFI event for The Savages animation
- Doctor Who Propstore auction raises £245,243 for BBC Children in Need
- Blake’s 7 The Collection Season 2 available for preorder (UK)
- Doctor Who Magazine #614
- Creating Monsters: The Story behind the new Doctor Who comic strip, “Dance ‘Til You Drop”
- Former Doctor Who VFX provider The Mill shuts down as parent company Technicolor collapses
- Big Finish – Call Me Master: Inner Demons released
- Doctor Who’s Sacha Dhawan wants Michelle Gomez team-up for Big Finish
- Big Finish – Doctor Who: The Ruins of Kaerula due June
- Big Finish Doctor Who Short Trips: Tales from the Vortex due April featuring new writers
- Film is Fabulous takes hold of giant film collection from a private collector
- Target Book Club – Celebrating Doctor Who Books with a day of talks and guests – happening July 19
- Doctor Who: The Art of Time Travel Hardcover due Nov 20
- Michael Herbert’s “Things are not always what they seem” The Writing and Politics of Malcolm Hulke available
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #1003 - Anamorphic Pam
It’s the week after Gallifrey One which means two things: post-Gally malaise AND a giant pile of news, including a release date of April 12 for Season 2 on iPlayer (and also theoretically Disney Plus), speculation on the future of Doctor Who as per usual, a boatload of Big Finish, new books, a new RTD-penned series called “Tip-Toe” coming next year to Channel 4, and endless Youtube cogitation mostly revolving around Steven reacting to things. Take a listen if you dare!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who returns April 12
- “Doctor Who has not been shelved” – BBC responds to rumours
- Russell T Davies writing Tip Toe, a new 5-part series on Channel 4 debuting in 2026
- Juno Dawson’s Season 2 episode “the most ridiculous episode they’ve ever done… and the most expensive”
- Doctor Who season 2 – Christopher Chung joins the Whoniverse
- Re-edited “Fear Her” back on iPlayer
- Doctor Who Collection: Jon Pertwee Season 1 coming June 3 (US link)
- Missing Doctor Who story ‘The Savages’ returns as animation
- Classic Doctor Who YouTube channel now has multiple complete stories (US only)
- New Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra novels due May 29
- Black Archives Silver Nemesis book by James Cooray Smith released
- Script Doctor 20th anniversary edition due Mar 7
- Doctor Who: The Moon Cruise Hardcover due Nov 13
- Radiophonic Workshop Archive now available for online purchase
- Spitfire Audio – BBC Radiophonic Workshop [Walkthrough]
- Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper reunite for Big Finish in August
- Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Fractures and Knightfall starts June 2025
- Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes due May 2025
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: Operation: Vengeance due Oct 2025
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: Mirror Matter due July 2025
- Doctor Who: What Still Remains: 7th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Aug 7
- Doctor Who: Counterstrike: 15th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Oct 2
- Doctor Who: Firefall: 15th Doctor Audio Original Audio CD due Oct 2
- Survival’s Julian Holloway dies, aged 80
Radio Free Skaro #1002 - 1002 Alzarian Nights
It’s a bittersweet podcast today as we wrap up what has been a fantastic weekend at Gallifrey One, our home away from home. But it’s even more sad as it’s been announced that Gallifrey One will end its unprecedented run of conventions in 2028. It will take a while for the Three Who Rule to process this (probably more than the three years the convention has left), but fun is still had with Doctor Who writer Andrew Smith joining the Three for a recap of the convention, Big Finish secrets, and naturally, talk of The Sandbaggers.
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Radio Free Skaro #1001 - Cozy Threads
Radio Free Skaro #1000 - Mystery Science Theatre 1000
It’s Gallifrey One, it’s the start of a mammoth weekend for Doctor Who fans, and it is a milestone for the Three Who Rule – their ONE THOUSANDTH episode! And what better way to pass the one thousand barrier than a full length interview with Doctor Who writer and former show runner Steven Moffat, and current Doctor Who executive producer Julie Gardner! Thanks to Shaun Lyon, Graham Kibble-White, Jack Kibble-White, Ken Deep, and special thanks to Paul McGann for narrating our opening video!
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Radio Free Skaro #999 - 10-0-11-0-0 by 02 from Galactic Zero Centre
It’s that time of year again, our pre-Gallifrey One rundown of the greatest convention on Earth as we go through the schedule with a fine tooth comb, examine which panels and other events we and others are excited about, and as a special bonus this year you’ll get to hear Steven go completely off the rails about UK television stalwart Z-Cars!
Next stop: Gallifrey One, and Episode 1000 with Steven Moffat and Julie Gardner LIVE on stage on Friday!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One Preview
- Gallifrey One schedule
- Gallifrey One convention map
- Gally changes due to escalator issue
- Catherine Tate announced as guest at Calgary Expo April 24-27
- The War Games in Colour got 0.43M viewers
- ‘Doctor Who’ Producer Jane Tranter to Chair 50th Edinburgh TV Festival
- The Tenth Planet coming to vinyl for Record Store Day on April 12
- Ace Jacket: A Doctor Who Celebration for Fans and Cosplayers coming July 2025
- Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia due Oct 29, 2026
- BF Doctor Who – The Fugitive Doctor: Dead or Alive due July 2025
- BF Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs Clarke due May 2025
Radio Free Skaro #998 - The Taking of Soul Patch One
It’s an exciting week for Doctor Who news with more Gallifrey One updates, a list of Doctor Who Season 2 writers released to an eager public, a frankly insane amount of Doctor Who props coming up for auction, Big Finish releases all over the dang place, and the concluding episode of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Moonbase”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Meet the new writers of Season 2
- Gallifrey One update January 28
- Gallifrey One update January 30, schedule complete
- Steven Moffat addresses possibility of another return to Doctor Who
- Doctor Who charity auction for Children in Need
- Doctor Who Magazine #613 released
- Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 10: 1970
- Big Finish: The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted is out now
- Big Finish The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 4 – Last Stand due March
- Big Finish: Susan’s War: Grandfather Time due in March
- Big Finish: Torchwood Rictus due March
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #997 - Kill The Moonbase
The Swarm is vicious and malignant this week, consuming Steven’s vocal chords in a perilous fashion, so it’s up to Warren and Chris to help with news descriptions about the Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One live show, episode 1000 featuring Doctor Who showrunner and writer/producer Steven Moffat and executive producer Julie Gardner for an hour of wit and wisdom. Plus, the aforementioned Gallifrey One schedule is out in the wild, news from Russell Tovey on The War Between The Land and The Sea, a new trailer for the Season 7 Blu-Ray Collection, tat, exhibitions and Episode Three of our exciting and smooth-voiced Classic Series Commentary for “The Moonbase”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Radio Free Skaro: Mystery Science Theatre 1000 announcement
- Gallifrey One programming
- Russell Tovey talks The War Between the Land and the Sea and more with Variety
- Season 7 Collection trailer
- Doctor Who Magazine 613 due Jan 30
- The Daleks in Colour Music by Tristram Cary and Mark Ayres coming February 21 on vinyl
- The Science of Doctor Who exhibition heads to the US starting March 15
- Me and Him and Who – JNT day at the Burgess Institute in Manchester on February 1
- Toby Hadoke’s obituary for Barbara Clegg
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #996 - I'm A Tiger When My Dander's Up
The Swarm (but not the COVID kind) has befallen a husky-voiced Steven this week and yet in spite of that (or because of it?) he made an appearance on Edmonton radio, one 880 CHED, and explained to local norms both the exciting world of Doctor Who and the mysterious practice of Radio Free Skaro-ing, which you can listen to on this very episode! Plus we have even more Gallifrey One news, an interesting and free TARDIS diary for UK folk, and Episode Two of our exciting and very focused Classic Series Commentary on “The Moonbase”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Steven on 880 CHED radio
- New Gally guests announced
- Gallifrey One update, main program schedule coming in a week or so
- Debut of Telefantasy Time Jump with Paul Cornell and Liz Myles
- Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill appearing at Calgary Expo (April 24-27)
- Lovarzi free slim TARDIS pocket diary (UK Only)
- Big Finish Day 2025 will be on June 21 at the Derby QUAD
- Christopher Benjamin died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #995 - Simply to Amuse
This week Radio Free Skaro gets POLITICAL (not really) as we interview three-time mayor of Calgary and current Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi as he relates his massive love for one Doctor Who! Join us as we wax nostalgic about KSPS, his fondness for a certain scarf-wearing Doctor, and his take on amongst other things the latest Doctor Who Xmas special! Plus a Gallifrey One update, stats and media analysis, praise of Tubi, classic Canadian TV chatter, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One Update, including 2026 and 2027 date changes
- RFS Gallifrey One Live Show Announcement
- Doctor Who finished 6th for Christmas Week with 5.911M viewers
- Classic Doctor Who removed from BritBox UK and ITVX Premium
- First weekly Dalek 1:2 scale kit is out now
- The Chimes of Midnight hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
- Jubliee hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9
- Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Writings and Politics of Malcolm Hulke by Michael Herbert due later in 2025 from Telos Publishing
- Barbara Clegg died Jan 7
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #994 - Insufficient Opinions
It’s a glorious day as Tom Baker becomes a Member of theOrder of the British Empire and the Three Who Rule are here to celebrate this momentous occasion along with news of further Gallifrey One guests, Phil Collinson trolling us all with War Chief intrigues, Toby Hadoke’s annual In Memoriam, Big Finish news as usual and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Moonbase”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Tom Baker awarded MBE for Services to Television
- More New Guests at Gallifrey One 2025
- Doctor Who Magazine 612
- Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on February 1
- The Savages screening at the BFI on February 28
- Phil Collinson fuels the War Chief/Master link
- Toby Hadoke’s 2024 In Memoriam
- Toby Hadoke’s Arnold Yarrow obituary
- Jess Jurkovic: Record, Reuse, Recycle – 60s Doctor Who Incidental Music
- Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show released
- Big Finish The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show behind the scenes
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Doctor Who – Short Trips: War Stories released
Classic Series Commentary
Radio Free Skaro #993 - The Hotel at the End of the Universe
It’s the annual tradition of our Radio Free Skaro livestream with Steven, Warren, and special guest Kyle Anderson as they look at “Joy to the World,” the latest traditional Xmas special written by Steven Moffat, along with a tsunami of other Doctor Who content including the Doctor Who Proms, behind the scenes fun like Unleashed and The War Games in Colour! Also, Thrill to fulsome praise of The Space Pirates, and less enthusiastic about The Savages, which has nothing to do with any of the above!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- “Joy to the World” Review
- Doctor Who Season 2 Teaser
- Doctor Who Season 2: First Look
- Everything We Know About Doctor Who Season 2
- Doctor Who Unleashed: Joy to the World
- Doctor Who overnight viewing figures on BBC One – 4.11m, 6th for the day
- “The War Games” in Colour review
- The War Games in Colour available for pre-order in the UK
- Doctor Who at the BBC Proms review
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out December 29 at 4:45pm
Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 23
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Radio Free Skaro #992 - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Sad news this week as we mark the passing of both novelist David A McIntee and fellow podcaster Siobahn Gallichan, and we extend our sympathies to their loved ones at a difficult time. There’s also news of Season 7 coming to the Doctor Who Collection Blu-ray series, the lead up to Doctor Who Christmas Week (culminating in “Joy To The World” on Christmas Day), extended badinage about a mail order Dalek model kit that extends over the next decade(!), Tom Baker’s Xmas message, and an interview previewing “The War Games in Colour” with Mark Ayres and Kieran Highman!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- New trailer for “Joy to the World”
- Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who Podcast
- Russell T Davies and Writer Steven Moffat Tease Christmas Special
- Rose Ayling-Ellis MBE to guest star in Doctor Who Season 2
- Build your own 1:2 scale Dalek
- Season 7 Collection blu-ray set announced
- Season 7 PDF content, courtesy Richard Bignell
- Doctor Who Season 25 Canada preorder link, North American release due Feb 25
- Radio Times Tom Baker 50th Anniversary Bookazine
- Tom Baker Christmas 2024 message
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: Missy Parts One to Three starts April 2025
- David A McIntee died
- Siobhan Gallichan died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 22
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 21
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 20
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 19
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 18
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 17
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 16
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Radio Free Skaro #991 - The Son of Doctor Who
It is the beginning of Warren’s 54th trip around the Sun (aka Hot Orbie) as we release this episode and as such the Three Who Rule ponder news of new Gallifrey One guests, the official announcement of an animated recon of the 1966 Doctor Who story “The Savages”, an unofficial and very cool animated recon of “The Wheel in Space”, Doctor Who audio news, Steven’s overcomplicated Andor-Doctor Who-Disney+ conspiracy-laden paranoia, and an exciting interview with both Paul and Sonny McGann from Chicago TARDIS! Enjoy!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One guest update: Sheppard, Herron, Redman, Robinson, Handcock, Houser
- RTD & Steven Moffat interview from the Radio Times shoot
- Missing Doctor Who story ‘The Savages’ returns as animation
- The Savages Amazon UK preorder link, shows Mar 24, 2025 release
- The Wheel in Space unofficial animation profiled on Josh Snares’ YouTube channel
- The Wheel in Space animation playlist
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 68 – The 2025 Yearbook released Dec 12
- Doctor Who: Where’s the Doctor? Paperback due 19 Jun. 2025
- Doctor Who: Dracula Paperback due 28 Aug 2025
- Doctor Who: Agent of the Daleks: 1st Doctor Audio Original due 6 Mar 2025
- Doctor Who: The Cloud Exiles & Other Stories: Doctor Who Audio Annual due 3 Apr 2025
- Doctor Who theme added to Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive
- Big Finish The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan due Mar 2025
- Arnold Yarrow (Bellal in Death to the Daleks) dies aged 104
- Radio Free Skaro Livestream: “Joy To The World” Review: December 26, noon PT/3pm ET/8pm UK
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 15
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 14
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 13
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 11
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 9
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Radio Free Skaro #990 - Borad Subsequent Moviefilm
It’s a banner weekend in Vancouver as one Taylor Swift graces Warren’s fair city with the final shows of the Eras Tour, and yet the Three Who Rule soldier on (and show just how out of touch they are) with talk of the new trailer for Joy To the World, Doctor Who showrunner holiday photoshoots, some The War Games in Colour backpatting and badinage, a truly inspiring Borad figurine, and the showcase of this episode, Steven’s interview from Chicago TARDIS featuring Season 25 luminaries Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Mark Ayres, and Dominic Glynn!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine #611 Released
- Doctor Who showrunners unite for exclusive Radio Times festive shoot
- Joy to the World trailer
- Joy to the World will go out at 5:10pm GMT Dec 25 on BBC One
- Joy to the World will drop at 9:10am PST/12:10pm EST on Disney+
- The Doctor Who Proms will go out Dec 24 at 4:10 PM GMT on BBC Two
- The War Games in colour will go out Dec 23 at 9pm GMT on BBC Four
- Josh Snares on the 50% Doctor Who Podcast talking about The War Games colourization
- Phil Sims won Best Design RTS award for Doctor Who
- Ncuti Gatwa nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the Critics Choice TV Awards
- Harrop Buckley Borad figure available to preorder
- Joy to the World DVD/Blu-Ray preorders (Amazon UK), date not yet listed
- Season 9 UK Blu-Ray Standard Packaging due Feb 3
- Season 25 Blu-Ray US preorder (Amazon)
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 8
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 7
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 6
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 5
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 4
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 3
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Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 2
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Radio Free Skaro #989 - Lombard Support
Steven is a special correspondent from Chicago TARDIS this week while Chris and Warren hold down their respective home forts in Edmonton and Vancouver to bring you news of Disney+ promoting Joy to the World(s), an onslaught of BBC Doctor Who programming around Xmas including the aforementioned special, The War Games In Colour, and the Doctor Who Proms! We’ve also got Big Finish news, an auction by Who director Rachel Talalay of one of her amazing gum bichromate prints of a TARDIS set photo, and from Lombard (Chicago’s Abbotsford) Steven’s interview with Sacha Dhawan and Jo Martin!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Disney+ Doctor Who promo
- Disney+ Doctor Who promo not a typo?
- BBC Christmas 2024 TV and iPlayer line-up, includes Joy to the World synopsis
- UK TV License fee to increase with inflation
- Special ‘Joy to the World’ Sonic Screwdriver available now
- Doctor Who at the Proms to run 109 minutes
- Space Babies script features a musical scene was cut
- Doctor Who Magazine 611 cover has callbacks to The Eleventh Hour
- Next Big Finish War Master box sets “His Greatest Trick” (due Oct/25), “Deeds Without Names” (due Oct/26)
- Big Finish Sirens in Time, the first release, gets special edition
- Doctor Who auction to support Children in Need happening Feb 2025
- Rachel Talalay-signed Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Gum Bichromate Print at auction, supporting ACLU of SoCal
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends goes out Dec 29 @ 4:45pm Dec 29
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2024 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 1
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Radio Free Skaro #988 - A Mild Curiosity in a Junkyard
Happy Doctor Who Day Weekend! And we celebrate with a bumper length episode! “The War Games” in Colour, coming December 23! (With a tiny bit of help from us…) Steven Moffat returning to Gallifrey One! Plus, a surfeit of Doctor Who tat to celebrate the show’s 61st anniversary, new and exciting action dollies, Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut, and the return of the increasingly irritating (for Warren) Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with guest contestants Erika and Kat!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Steven Moffat announced as guest for Gallifrey One, replacing Phil Collinson
- Chicago TARDIS schedule announced
- The War Games in colour, 90-minute run time
- Doctor Who Season 1 deleted scenes
- Scripts for Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials and Season 1 now available
- Doctor Who unveils all-new escape room with Fifteenth Doctor battling the Daleks
- Doctor Who Day gifts and offers
- Fifteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear now available
- Casio and Doctor Who countdown to Christmas with a limited edition gift package
- B&M 2024 Friends & Foes of The Doctor action dolly set
- B&M 2024 History of the Daleks Set 19 action dolly set
- Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide available now
- Doctor Who – Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act (Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut) is out now
Trivia Mr Fibuli:
Radio Free Skaro #987 - A Succulent Chinese Meal
It’s an exciting week for Doctor Who content as a new “Joy to the World” clip surfaced on Children in Need featuring snark, dinosaurs, and a Silurian in a briefcase along with a teaser from the episode’s writer, one Steven Moffat! Plus a “Coming in 2025” trailer for Disney+ that does not feature Doctor Who at all? Controversial? Not really. Plus Ncuti Gatwa in Vanity Fair being handsome as usual, a sneak peek at updated Blake’s 7 effects, and an exciting adventure in space and time as we present a special anniversary-themed Classic Series Commentary of the raw pilot recording of “An Unearthly Child”, a flub-filled exploration of early 1960s television production!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads
- Gallifrey One call for panelists
- Doctor Who teaser on Children in Need
- Children in Need raised over £39M
- Steven Moffat teases “Joy to the World”
- Doctor Who not listed in Disney+ “Coming In 2025” Trailer
- Ncuti Gatwa profiled in Vanity Fair (paywall)
- Gatwa posted some clips of the Vanity Fair photoshoot
- Blake’s 7 Series 1 Updated Effects
- Colin Baker reunited with his Doctor Who title sequence
- Big Finish: Faithful Friends due Jan 2025
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Call Me Master: Inner Demons due Feb 2025
- AMC completes purchase of BBC America for $42M
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #986 - Down and Safe
Things have taken a turn for the truly awful in the world this week, but Radio Free Skaro is here to assuage your worries (Steven) or at least acknowledge them (Warren). If you’re looking to distract yourself from the latest grim fandango, we have news of deleted scenes coming November 23, unaired footage of David Tennant running around the TARDIS set in “The Star Beast”, props on the auction block, Big Finish art critiques, and an interview with Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-Ray contributors Jonathan Helm, Chris Chapman, and Chris Thompson!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who deleted scenes coming November 23
- Doctor Who Magazine 610 released
- Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide due November 21
- TARDIS prop from “Eve of the Daleks” up for auction for Children in Need
- Doctor Who Unaired footage: introduction to the TARDIS from the Star Beast
- Big Finish Companion Chronicles: Families due Apr 2025
- Big Finish Short Trips 2024 winner announced, will be released for free Dec 29
- Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series B available now
- The Andrew Skilleter Doctor Who Art calendar 2025 available
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #985 - Angry Petulant Rhinos
It’s a Current Producer-Palooza at Gallifrey One this coming February with Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins announced as guests for Gallifrey One, and that’s not all on the news list including a “world exclusive preview” of “Joy to the World” coming to Children In Need on November 15, some Robert Banks Stewart iPlayer controversy, Sylveste(r) McCoy missing episodes discovered, an action dolly report and more, including the concluding Terry Nation Miniscope segment, covering “Genesis of the Daleks”, “The Android Invasion”, and “Destiny of the Daleks”! Do you have the right to listen? You do!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins announced as guests for Gallifrey One
- “World exclusive preview” of Joy to the World on Children in Need on November 15
- Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom removed from BBC iPlayer
- Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series B available now
- Luke Harrison interviews Richard Martin from 2018
- Two missing 1978 TV episodes featuring Sylvester McCoy have been found
- Doctor Who: Titan Bi-Generation Figurine Set
- Doctor Who: Titan Fifteenth Doctor Figurine
- Doctor Who 15th Doctor Calendar
- Black Archive: Under the Lake/Before the Flood released
- Doctor Who: Fear Death by Water hardcover by Emily Cook due May 29
- Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show due December
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Infiltration due January 2025
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #984 - Intellect and Nomance
It’s time for some overanalyzing, pondering and intellectual cogitating as the Three Who Rule examine the second anniversary of the Disney+ and Doctor Who agreement, as well as a fascinating survey from the UCLA (partially funded by Disney) of what teens are both watching and want to see! Plus, a detailed hashing-over of where to start watching Doctor Who if you’re a novice, some random tat, and Part Three of our Terry Nation Miniscope covering Planet of, and Death to, the Daleks!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Two Years since Doctor Who/Disney+ Partnership was announced
- Teens Want To See Less Sex, More Friendship In Movies & TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds
- Disney Unveils First Star Wars And Marvel TV Show 4K Blu-Rays With Dolby Vision
- Official Doctor Who website: Where to start with Doctor Who?
- Ncuti Gatwa wins Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs for DW; Euros Lyn wins for directing Heartbreaker
- Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 Standard Edition due Dec 2
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity due November 2024
- Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #983 - Spherical Hieroglyphics
Controversy stalks the BBC as the question is asked: did they censor Ncuti Gatwa’s comments on The Graham Norton Show about a possible third season of New New Doctor Who? And the answer is…likely not. What is much more probable is the Three Who Rule excoriating the current state of television while referring to a recent Deadline story on that same topic, but enough of these dour matters! There’s a new Gallifreyan translator that can turn your words into circles, an Adventures in Type and Space book on the way featuring the work of Sid Sutton, and part two of our Terry Nation Miniscope, where we delve into his work on “The Chase”, “Mission to the Unknown”, and “The Daleks’ Master Plan”! Assemble the Galactic Council!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The BBC allegedly did not censor Gatwa’s remark on The Graham Norton Show
- Katherine Pope of Sony Pictures laments gaps between TV seasons
- Official Doctor Who Gallifreyan Translator
- Adventures in Type and Space: The Sid Sutton Collection due November 25
- Alvin Rakoff died
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #982 - A Gin-Fueled Tour of the Finer Salons
It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
- Doctor Who Magazine #609
- Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
- BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
- ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #981 - Dollar Store Taxi Driver
It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine 609
- Variety article on toxic fandom
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #980 - Close To The Edit
It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
- Andrew Smith Just Giving page
- Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
- TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
- Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
- Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
- Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
- Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
- Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
- Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
- Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
- The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
- Vader Sessions (Remastered)
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #979 - Doctor Who and The Invasion, Starring Peter Ustinov
On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji
- Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season
- Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024
- Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025
- Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television
- Geoff Hinsliff died
- David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died
Radio Free Skaro #978 - The Blue Screen of Death
Despite a dearth of real news, and because of one glorious piece of fake news from the Onion, the Three Who Rule faff on less than usual this week, with a look at various Blu-Ray controversies, David Banks in Doctor Who magazine, a Classic Who event at the cool-name-having Electric Palace movie theatre. Plus our Classic Series Commentary for the final episode of “Planet of the Spiders”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Onion: Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’
- Doctor Who Magazine #608
- Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray due October 24
- Blake’s 7 Series 1 collection available for pre-order (Amazon US)
- Classic Doctor Who night on September 19 at the Electric Palace
- Doctor Who Limited Edition Tankard
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #977 - A Well Lit Tragedy
A Gallifrey One guest announcement tops the RFS headlines as Jenna Coleman aka Clara Oswald is set to arrive in Los Angeles this upcoming February! Plus Russell T Davies is in the latest SFX to explain how TV works to you nerds, so what better time for the Three Who Rule to add their uninformed insights to the pile? An Emperor Davros dolly is on the way from B&M, Ncuti Gatwa’s theatrical spectacular The Importance of Being Earnest heads for cinema screens and more, before a Classic Series Commentary on the penultimate episode of both “Planet of the Spiders” and the Jon Pertwee era!
Links:
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- Jenna Coleman announced as guest of Gallifrey One
- RTD says Season 3 renewal won’t come until after Season 2 airs
- BFI redux screening of The Happiness Patrol on September 29
- B&M 2024 Remembrance of the Daleks – Emperor Davros
- B&M 2024 The History of the Daleks #18
- Ncuti Gatwa’s The Importance of Being Earnest getting UK cinema release
- Doctor Who finalists for five BAFTA Cymru Awards (aka The Welshies)
- Breakdown of the first scene of The Power of the Daleks
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #976 - Pex, Lies, and 2-Inch Videotape
The Radio Free Skaro crew dips further into their nostalhia-tinged well of archive videotape fetishism this week, in addition to deep analysis of the Youtube algorithm, Star Wars Outlaws, and Steven’s never ending quest to ignore current media trends and lose himself in production minutiae. And just to add to the second-hand smoke, rampant alcoholism and leaded gasoline, it’s back to 1974 for our Classic Series Commentary of “Planet of the Spiders”, Part the Fourth!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who BBC Proms
- RTD mentions the DW Prom will be on UK TV at Christmas
- BFI Blake’s 7 screening happening October 5
- Blake’s 7 Series 1 Collection PDF Archive
- BBC Videotape editing training film c. 1967
- 1969 print interview with Frazer Hines discovered, with rehearsal shots from The Space Pirates
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #975 - Achievement in a Thankless Role
Warren has returned from his European travails, and just in time as casting for The War Between the Land and the Sea (henceforth known as TWBTLATS) is announced to much fanfare, A Disney poobah nods approvingly at Doctor Who as an idea, Catherine Tate herself hosts the BBC Proms, and Blake’s 7 news takes the internet (well, us) by storm with an amazing box set on the way for the UK (and North America?). All this as a preamble for some of the greatest acting in British televisual history as we commentate on Part Three of Planet of the Spiders!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Cast announcement for The War Between the Land and the Sea
- The War Between the Land and the Sea readthrough of all 5 eps happened Mon Aug 19
- Disney Chief Backs ‘Doctor Who’ As “Really Good Fit” After Ncuti Gatwa’s First Season
- Catherine Tate hosting the 2024 Doctor Who Proms Aug 26
- Radio Times’ Doctor Who Proms preview with Murray Gold
- Doctor Who: The Adventures Before Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2024
- Doctor Who: The Sequels Hardcover – 20 Mar. 2025
- Doctor Who Icons 1 Paperback – 24 Oct. 2024
- Doctor Who Icons 2 Paperback – 21 Nov. 2024
- Doctor Who Icons 3 Paperback – 24 April 2025
- Bad Wolf launches the Blaidd Writers Program, RTD will mentor winners
- Big Finish Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter: Saving Time due Oct
- Blake’s 7 Series A coming to Blu-ray on November 11 (UK)
- Blake’s 7 Series A collection trailer
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #974 - Phantom of the Goth Opera
While Warren tours Europe, after having chatted with Doctor Who scribes Paul Cornell and LM Myles at Worldcon (which you can hear on this podcast), Doctor Who composer (and Edmonton native) Sam Watts steps in as co-host! Hear of Tales of the TARDIS, Sarah Jane Adventures, and other audio delights as news of a new Jodie Whittaker Blu-ray set is announced, overseas filming for The War Between the Land and the Sea is confirmed, and is a renewal for a third season of Doctor Who or perhaps another new spinoff in the works?
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine 607
- Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Years on Blu-ray due November 5 (US)
- Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Years on Blu-ray due November 5 (Canada)
- The Tom Baker Collection Deluxe 4CD Set due Sep 27
- Big Finish to temporarily roll back website to previous version
- Doctor Who: On Ghost Beach: 15th Doctor Audio Original due November 7
- Doctor Who: Sting of the Sasquatch: 15th Doctor Audio Original due Nov 7
- Doctor Who: The Official Quiz Book due Mar 20, 2025
- David Whitaker by Simon Guerrier Paperback Edition Who Shop pink and grey cover variants
Guest:
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #973 - This Is Democracy Manifest
With Warren galavanting around Glasgow for WorldCon, and Chris on assignment, the Three Who Rule are augmented by two of Verity!, namely Erika and Deb, for this episode, wherein such delights as Doctor Who archival chatter and praise for the 1975 BBC serial “The Legend of Robin Hood” are central to the discussion. But Warren does check in with an interview with noted author and Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch, recorded in Glasgow!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Los Angeles awarded hosting duties for WorldCon 2026
- Official Doctor Who Podcast SDCC Panel
- Doctor Who Cyberman Episode screening at Riverside Studios on August 17
- David Whitaker postscript / Terry Nation party from Simon Guerrier
- Steven on the Who’s He Podcast
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #972 - Metal British LEGO
It’s an international podcast of mystery as Warren radiophonically joins the podcast from Edinburgh in his continued journey across Europa as he and the other Two Who Rule discuss the latest news from Doctor Who about Catherine Tate’s return to Gallifrey One, the full Who and Trek SDCC panel is new viewable by all and sundry, Steven guests on the Nerdist’s Laser Focus podcast with esteemed colleague Kyle Anderson, and we return to the longest chase scene in Doctor Who history in Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary of “Planet of the Spiders”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Catherine Tate Returns to Gallifrey One
- Doctor Who x Star Trek: Full SDCC Panel with Russell T Davies and Alex Kurtzman
- 60th Anniversary Episodes due on Blu-Ray Dec 10
- BBC set to edit disgraced Huw Edwards out of Doctor Who episode after guilty plea
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 67: The Missing Doctor Who
- Steven on the Nerdist’s Laser Focus podcast talking about Old British Sci-Fi
- Doctor Who at The BBC Who Are We? Audio CD coming December 5
- Two new dates added for Big Finish live story recording
- Cubicle7 RPG Humble Bundle
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #971 - The Theatre Kid of Nations
What do you do to follow up on a historically spectacular Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France? Why, you head to San Diego Comic-Con where Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson. and Russell T Davies kept a hall (H, in particular) enthralled with hints of the second Disney+ season of Doctor Who, a preview of the Xmas special, casting and confirmation of the existence of The War Between The Land and The Sea, and more! We not only have our own meagre insights into things SDCC but also a report on the ground from Drs. Heather Berberet and Stacy Watnick of the Free The Squee podcast, who were in Hall H and have much, much more to tell us about goings on at the con! As another SDCC fixture once said, Excelsior!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who – Into The Whoniverse panel from SDCC
- ‘Doctor Who’ Spinoff ‘The War Between the Land and Sea’ Announced
- “Joy to the World” preview clip and Nicola Coughlan introduction
- Ncuti Gatwa and Russell T Davies Tease Season 2, ‘Epic Danger and Epic Growth’ As Well As ‘Growing Danger’
- New Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver from Character Options revealed at SDCC
- Doctor Who segment at Entertainment Weekly
- Doctor Who/Lower Decks crossover game event coming August 1
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction coming to Comic-Con Museum in March 2025
- BBC Commercial Reports Dip in Sales and Earnings Amid Market Challenges
- Doctor Who Season 1 now on RTE Player in Ireland
- Doctor Who – The Daleks In Colour (Original Television Soundtrack) coming September 13
- Doctor Who “The Crusade” vinyl coming October 4
- BF The First Doctor Adventures: The Living Darkness due Jan 2025
- BF Zygon Century due Jan 2025
- Annette Badland added to the guest list at LI Who
- Ysanne Churchman, voice of Alpha Centauri, dies, aged 99
Report:
Radio Free Skaro #970 - Take California
San Diego looms as 2024’s Comic Con and all the attendant Doctor Who goodies within await! We’ve got news of official merchandise, hints of special correspondents from said Con of Comics, Louise Jameson returning to Doctor Who, Disney intrigues and a controversial Deadline article, and a special bonus tirade from Chris about Madame Tussauds in London followed by a warm restorative bath in Star Trek novel nostalgia by both Chris and Warren as Steven looks on in confused silence. Plus the beginning of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of the Spiders”! Prepare yourselves, Two Legs!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who heads to San Diego Comic-Con 2024
- Titan reveals SDCC exclusive merchandise
- Louise Jameson & Seán Carlsen at Gallifrey One 2025
- Disney leak: Doctor Who a “low budget show” for Disney, Season 2 appears to premiere March 28
- Deadline: ‘Doctor Who’s Regeneration: Has The Disney Gamble Paid Off?
- Doctor Who Magazine #606
- The Fifteenth Doctor has arrived at Madame Tussauds London
- The Gold Archive: Invasions of Earth: A Secret History due October 31
- Big Finish: Goth Opera (by Lizbeth Myles, adapted from Paul Cornell’s book) now available
- Big Finish – The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers – No Place Like Home due Dec 2024
Classic Series Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #969 - Only Nixon Could Go To China
Thasmin Returns! That’s right, Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill are back in audio form in just announced Big Finish adventures, just one of the many highlights of a busy week of Who news, including a Doctor Who panel at San Diego Comic Con, D23 without Who content, and detente has been reached as Doctor Who’s Russell T Davies and Star Trek guy-in-charge Alex Kurtzman share a panel at SDCC title “Inaugural Intergalactic Friendship Day!”! A shocking lack of Farscape and Starlost representation, but here we are. Also even more audio news, Susan Twist materializing at Gallifrey One, and an interview with Doctor Who Blu-Ray High One and Nothing at the End of the Lane creator Richard Bignell!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill return to Doctor Who in new Thirteenth Doctor adventures
- Doctor Who panel in Hall H at SDCC on Friday, July 26
- Star Trek and Doctor Who come together for Inaugural Intergalactic Friendship Day on July 30
- No Doctor Who programming at Disney D23 event
- Doctor Who wins Outstanding achievement in family programming at TV Critics Association awards
- Susan Twist appearing at Gallifrey One
- Scene explaining sudden burst into song was cut from The Devil’s Chord
- The Happiness Patrol screeing at the BFI on August 31, on sale Jul 9
- DWM Special #67 The Essential Guide to Missing Doctor Who due Oct 30
- The Time-Travelling Almanac by Simon Guerrier due Oct 3
- Big Finish – Once and Future Coda coming November 2024
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Curse of Time, celebrating 50 Years of The Fourth Doctor, due Dec 2024
- Peter Davison on 25 years of Big Finish
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #968 - We Are Going to Be Too Late Again
It’s time again for some televisual detective work as Tim Burrows of the Missing Episodes Podcast joins Steven for a fulsome discussion on the latest news in the ongoing search for lost Doctor Who episodes and the collectors hoarding, curating, and preserving them. Plus we’ve got news of Russell T Davies discussing new companion Varada Sethu, the first block of Gallifrey One guests for 2025 is announced, Ncuti Gatwa heads to London Comic-Con in November, Season 25 coming to Blu-ray, endless tangents about letterboxing versus 4:3 and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Showrunner Russell T Davies talks casting the Doctor’s new companion
- First Gally 2025 guests announced – Colin, Sylvester, Katy, Frazer, Gooderson, etc
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing at London Comic-Con in November
- Season 25 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range, coming October 21
- Paul McGann to star in special live recording of Big Finish’s Eighth Doctor Adventures
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #967 - Foaming Ones and Zeros
With the end of Season One of Doctor Who, the Three Who Rule fall back on old habits (not unlike a certain showrunner) and return to the fertile fields of Fluid Links! Nothing will be solved but a whole lot will be discussed as they blather in a confused fashion about questions sent in by you, the viewer! Plus some new information about upcoming spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, pondering on the very nature of a modern Doctor Who showrunner, some very quick cogitating as Marvel returns to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The War Between The Land and the Sea starts shooting in September
- The War Between The Land and the Sea, director Dylan Holmes-Williams, producer Edoardo Ferretti
- Radio Times poll for Doctor Who Season 1 episodes
- BBC defends Doctor Who ratings as show is “top drama for under-35s this year”
- Doctor Who Season 1 coming to Blu-ray on August 12 (UK Only)
- Marvel Studios Heading Back To Hall H At San Diego Comic-Con
- Big Finish – The War Master: Future Phantoms due November 2024
Radio Free Skaro #966 - My Empire of Dirt
The moment has arrived for the Doctor, Millie and their big fluffy dog Sutekh as the universe gets dusted, mysteries are solved to varying degrees of success, and the Three Who Rule reach unforetold levels of Grumpy Old Man-ism as they discuss “Empire of Death”, the finale to Doctor Who, Season 1! What did they think of the first finale of the RTD2 era? Were their memories jogged by a certain cramped TARDIS? Who’s pointing at what, and why? Abase yourselves, insects, and find out!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E08 “Empire of Death”
- “Empire of Death” in-vision commentary
- Tales of the TARDIS: Pyramids of Mars
- Gabriel Woolf interview
- Doctor Who Magazine #605
- Big Finish – Third Doctor Adventures: The Quintessence due October 2024
- Dalek 63-88 “The Lost Toymaker Scripts”
- Kickstarter for Starlost Unauthorized and the Quest for Canadian Identity
Radio Free Skaro #965 - Abase Yourself, You Groveling Insect
It’s the penultimate episode of Doctor Who Season 1 and the mysteries are piling up in UNIT HQ! Who or what is Susan Twist? What about the cloaked lady who may or may not be Ruby’s mum? Why in the name of all the gods in the pantheon is Sutekh causing trouble and blinged out in Disney finery? The Three Who Rule don’t have the answers but they do have baseless speculation and a bunch of irrelevant Classic Who references to tide us over until next week! Plus some book and comic and Big Finish stuff but let’s be real…..SUTEKH’S BACK!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Magna Carta Day
- Review: Doctor Who S1E07 “The Legend of Ruby Sunday”
- Reminder: A new Tales of the TARDIS episode airing on BBC Four on June 20
- Doctor Who: Print The Legend now available
- BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor
- Doctor Who: The Official Guide coming August 15
- Doctor Who: Annual 2025 coming September 5
- Doctor Who: Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories coming September 19
- Cutaway Comics Paradise Towers: Volume 1: Paradise Found graphic novel due Oct 30
- Cutaway Comics Lytton: Volume 1 graphic novel due Oct 30
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Conspiracy of Raven due July 2024
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Susan’s War: Family Ties due August 2024
- Next Time: “Empire of Death”, Saturday, June 22 at 640pm on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #964 - Fowl and Fallibility
It’s Regency drama, gossip, and scandalous dances on this week’s Doctor Who adventure, “Rogue!” The Bridgerton fans are losing their minds at this episode, including one Ruby Sunday, but what did the Three Who Rule think of this theatrical and romantic undertaking? Plus we pay tribute to William Russell, Doctor Who’s original Man of Action and Knight of Jaffa, and we encourage you to listen to our own interview with Mr. Russell from 2012. Plus Big Finish celebrates 25 years, Tales of the TARDIS mystery, and this very podcast gets called out for both its numerous crimes and its place as one of the best Doctor Who podcasts! Will wonders never cease?
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E06 “Rogue”
- Returning to the Regency
- William Russell, Doctor Who legend, dies aged 99
- Carole Ann Ford’s tribute to William Russell
- RFS 298 with William Russell interview
- A new Tales of the TARDIS episode airing on BBC Four on June 20
- Radio Times: Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson star in Tales of the TARDIS
- Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Sirens of Time – Redux due November 2024
- Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The War Master starts in July
- Big FInish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Deathworld due in July
- Next Time: S1E07 “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” June 15, 630pm on BBC One
- Radio Times lists RFS and The Memory Cheats as one of the best DW podcasts
Radio Free Skaro #963 - White Mirror
Doctor Who shows its range again with “Dot and Bubble,” an adventure that goes from the superficiality of social media all the way to some very real-world issues in what’s ostensibly a Doctor-lite episode but is in fact very heavy. Does it seem like we’re dancing around the content of the story? Well, we are! Tune in and listen to our takes, then find out about a new visual guide chronicling the adventures of Character Options dollies, a sneak peek at the first 15th Doctor comic, the further exploits of the Terry Nation Army, more Big Finish excitement including Christopher Eccelston’s final audio adventure (for now), and more! Don’t slide us!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E05 “Dot and Bubble”
- Indiegogo for Go Figure! A Visual Guide to Character Options Doctor Who Action Dollies
- Terry Nation Army: Every Mistake in “Planet of Decision”
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction moves to New Zealand
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Star-Crossed, the last Ninth Doctor box set (for now), is now available
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Trials of a Time Lord due August 2024
- Titan Comics Official Trailer: The Fifteenth Doctor Comic Book
- Next Time: “Rogue” – June 8, 6:45pm, BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #962 - I Saw Her Standing There
A very divisive episode of one Radio Free Skaro as the Three Who Rules review “73 Yards,” a parable of Welsh magic, loopy time conundrums and craven Prime Ministers (well, one at least). What did they think of this Millie Gibson acting tour-de-force and what in the dickens is the mysterious lady saying? Listen and find out! Plus DWM 604, virtual production, a rabbit hole discussion of 4K Blu-Rays and much, much more! Also, why not metric?
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E04 “73 Yards”
- Doctor Who Magazine 604
- DWM Print the Legend bookazine due June 6
- Bringing Virtual Production to Doctor Who
- 2-part finale of Season 1 to be screened in cinemas across the UK
- Doctor Who wraps production on Season 2
- Pertwee’s Take-Away shirts now on TV Cream’s Redbubble store
- Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War – Uncharted 1: Reflections due October 2024
- Next Time: Dot and Bubble 650pm June 1 on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #961 - Kiss Kiss Boom Boom
Steven Moffat returns to the world of Doctor Who with Boom, a tension-filled episode with land mines, Anglican Marines, many a trope from his previous era, and more! The Three Who Rule are well-known Moffat-ites to be sure, but did this measure up to their thoughts and prayers? Plus the media blitz continues with Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Time Magazine (of all things) and a halfhearted stab at the increasingly irrelevant…stats! Ahhh-aahhhhh!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti Gatwa on how to pronounce his name: “n-SHOO-tee”
- Review: Doctor Who S01E03 “Boom”
- Pertwee’s Burgers
- Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat on returning with Boom and putting the Doctor “on a knife’s edge”
- Doctor Who #4 on Disney+ on opening weekend (paywall)
- BBC One overnights for Space Babies 2.6M, The Devil’s Chord 2.4M, Boom 2.04M
- Ncuti Gatwa on the cover of Time Magazine
- The BIG Interview: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat
- Hollywood Reporter Interview with Steven Moffat
- Hollywood Reporter Interview with Russell T Davies
- How ‘Doctor Who’ Exec Producers Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner Helped Transform South Wales Into a Buzzing Hive of Production
- Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words due August 2024
- Big Finish: The War Doctor Rises: Morbius the Mighty due August 2024
- Brandon Schatz and Danica LeBlanc nominated for an Eisner Award
- Next Time: “73 Yards”, 650pm Saturday May 18 on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #960 - Space Baby Lasagna
Doctor Who returns! Two new episodes dropped this weekend as we enter both the wacky madcap hijinks of “Space Babies” and the outright lunacy of “The Devil’s Chord”! What did the Three Who Rule think of CG baby mouths, Jinkx Monsoon vamping all over the place, Beatles instrument accuracy and more? Listen to our multi-hour discourse but know this: the twist at the end is that song isn’t very good. Plus the media onslaught continues with Ncuti Gatwa on Canadian radio, RTD dropping secret controversies in Men’s Journal, Big Finish fun and golden sonic screwdriver tat, and more! Next week, we see how it all goes…Boom!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E01 “Space Babies”
- Review: Doctor Who S1E02 “The Devil’s Chord”
- Doctor Who Unleashed is available for purchase on iTunes in North America
- Men’s Journal: Russell T Davies Interview: Giving “New Energy” to a “Classic Show”
- Russell T Davies confirms more diverse writers for Season 2
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson & Russell T Davies Talks New Series with Kyle Anderson
- Ncuti Gatwa on CBC Q Radio
- Special Doctor Who BBC One ident aired May 6
- Doctor Who: The Fourteenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver (Exclusive Gold Metallised Edition) coming July 5
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years now available
- Doctor Who – Death in the Stars by Bonnie Langford with Jacqualine Rayner due Aug 22
- Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip opportunity now open until the end of June
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Dominant Species due September 2024
- New Titan Comics DW Humble Bundle
- Long Island Who: August 23-25, 2024
- Gallifrey One: February 14-16, 2025
- “Boom” airs Saturday, May 18 at 6:50pm on BBC One
Radio Free Skaro #959 - Time of the Season
It’s less than one week until Doctor Who enters a new era on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer, and the Disney+ money machine has been busy bussing Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson all around New York City to promote the show, look generally gorgeous wearing many different looks, and riding a Doctor Who-themed NYC subway car! There’s also chatter about Doctor Who: Unleashed, the TARDIS at Disneyland, theatre productions, and more, with our friend Sarah Murphy sitting in as guest host!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti and Millie on Good Morning America
- Ncuti and Millie on ABC News
- Ncuti Gatwa on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”
- Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on their “great chemistry”, loving Jon Pertwee and the future of Doctor Who
- Rolling Stone: ‘It’s About Time’: Ncuti Gatwa on Becoming the New Face of ‘Doctor Who’
- “Space Babies” airs at 6:20pm on BBC One; “The Devil’s Chord” at 7:05pm on May 11
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Message to the Fans
- Doctor Who segment on Blue Peter airing May 10
- Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa set for Madame Tussauds
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing in “The Importance Of Being Earnest” from November-January
- Paul Cornell awarded Terrance Dicks Award for lifetime achievement in Doctor Who writing
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Deathworld due July 2024
- Big Finish: The Doctor’s Daughter returns for four new adventures in October
- Companions: Sixty Years of Doctor Who Assistants due later in 2024
- Ice Hot, a collection of stories set in Paradise Towers, coming May 20
- The Incomparable 714: You Can’t Protect People From Doctor Who
- Andrew Orton YouTube
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #958 - Ghost Threat
The Doctor Who publicity machine is slipping into second gear with Gatwa and Gibson making the rounds of a BBC premiere, chat shows, Variety Magazine, and more, but that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from marinating in questionable nostalgia as they recall viewing The Phantom Menace for the first time 25 years ago, aka the Dawn of Anticipointment. Plus we issue an all hands on deck alert for next week’s Gallifrey One Hotelmageddon, and Warren emerges from the Metaverse to give his take on the just released PS VR2 version of The Edge of Time! Don your own Helmet of Pretend and join us!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One 2025 hotel block on sale May 3
- BBC Press Launch of Season 1
- Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on The One Show on April 26
- Variety: Doctor Who Regenerates
- Doctor Who Magazine #603
- Doctor Who Magazine Special: 50 Years of the Fourth Doctor coming May 2
- “The Church on Ruby Road” will be under Season 1 on Disney+ starting May 10
- Doctor Who Season 1 to be released on Blu-ray in the UK on August 12
- Doctor Who Prom coming August 26; tickets on sale May 17
- Doctor Who: The Edge of Time now on Playstation VR2
- Film is Fabulous pilot study reveals previously missing BBC treasures
- Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed due May 2024
- Big Finish: The Trials of a Time Lord due August 2024
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Great Beyond due September 2024
- Big Finish Torchwood due July – October 2024
Radio Free Skaro #957 - What Are The Movellans Watching?
The hype train has left the station for Doctor Who as Entertainment Weekly, SFX, Attitude, and other pulp-based data products celebrate the impending Full-On Ncuti Gatwa Era along with the BBC and Disney+ releasing promo illustrations, and most importantly of all the release of Movellan action dollies, which caused spontaneous disco-infused celebrations across the United Kingdom. There’s also the quite suspicious timing of a restored Let It Be hitting Disney+ two days before the two-part premiere of Doctor Who, and most exciting of all, Episode Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One 2025 Tickets Now Available; Hotel Reservations on May 3
- New BBC promo image promoting Doctor who launch
- New Disney+ promo image promoting Doctor who launch
- Entertainment Weekly: A new (re)generation: Inside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who
- Entertainment Weekly: Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa Breaks Down Every Doctor in the Show’s History
- Doctor Who Season 1 preview in SFX Magazine
- Ncuti Gatwa on the cover of the 30th anniversary issue of Attitude magazine
- Disney+ streaming the original “Let It Be” on May 8, two days before The Devil’s Chord
- Doctor Who Ruins of Skaro Collector Figure Set
- Character Options Ruins of Skaro reveal video
- The Prisoner Retro Style Action Figures Wave 2 Kickstarter
- BBC Books to publish three original Doctor Who novels featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound begins September 2025
- The Game of Rassilon finale being released April 24
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #956 - Lesser Mithril
We’re less than a month away from new Doctior Who on Disney+ and the BBC and to help us navigate this stormy sea of streaming madness is professor, media expert, and all-around lovely fellow Derek Kompare as we look into the BBC’s inevitable admission that Varada Sethu is joining the cast of the show, a fascinating Beatles-centric (or lack thereof) interview in Empire Magazine with Ncuti Gatwa and one Russell T. Davies, archive film musings, Chicago TARDIS news, and a very important televisual anniversary! Plus Episode Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who – First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson ahead of Season Two
- Empire Magazine Interview with Russell T Davies and Ncuti Gatwa
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Russell T Davies in the Radio Times TV 100 list
- The Celestial Toymaker to be released June 10/11 in the UK, North America
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years available soon
- Film is Fabulous! Pilot Study: Documenting Private Film Collections
- Chicago TARDIS adds Jo Martin to guest list with Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann
- Big Finish: Torchwood: The Restoration of Catherine coming June 2024
- Twelfth Doctor, Cyberman ornaments coming from Hallmark for Christmas 2024
- Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street (April 12, 1973)
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #955 - The Roblox of Death
Chris is a wandering vagabond this week, trolling both the Internet and ourselves with images of the real Magna Carta, but the real highlight of this week is the appearance of one Kyle Anderson of Nerdist fame for his thoughts on Doctor Who trailers, the current media landscape, and more! Plus we have news of one Dr. Who in Roblox form, the release of the Companions of Doctor Who on April 10, and River Song is back in Big Finish’s “Death and Life of River Song: Last Words”! Plus Past Chris returns in Episode Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- BBC launches new Wonder Chase experience on Roblox
- The Companions of Doctor Who Available April 10
- Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words coming August 2024
- Doctor Who’s WEIRD History of Regeneration
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #954 - Heaven On Their Minds
Another new Doctor Who trailer! New episode titles unveiled! Golda Rosheuvel is in Episode 1! All this and more in a timey-wimey episode of the podcast, which contains much Mrrahh Business, more cast announcements, a light dusting of contempt for AI, a Steven Moffat conversation on Youtube, and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who – Golda Rosheuvel jumps aboard the TARDIS as episode titles are revealed
- New BBC Doctor Who Trailer
- Doctor Who Magazine 602
- Two Doctor Who episodes nominated for Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
- Doctor Who 2024: BBC Confirms 4K For The Full Series
- BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints
- BBC Director General nevertheless revealed there are bold plans for AI going forward
- Russell T Davies says end of BBC is ‘undoubtedly on its way’
- BBC looks for commercial deals as it faces potential end of licence fee
- Doctor Who cited as evolution of of how funding for high-end scripted drama could evolve in the UK
- BBC must spend more on TV in Wales, says report
- Steven Moffat in conversation at Glasgow University
- Doctor Who: I, TARDIS: Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box Hardcover due July 11
- Doctor Who: I, TARDIS: Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box Audio CD due July 11
- Big Finish – The War Doctor Rises begins August 2024
- Big Finish – Torchwood: Disco coming May 2024
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Radio Free Skaro #953 - Sweet Childs of Mine
In an exciting adventure in time and mostly space, Chris joins Warren in Vancouver for a very special episode of Radio Free Skaro where we look at a new Disney+ Doctor Who trailer featuring dinosaurs, Ruby Sunday stepping on a butterfly, glimpses of upcoming mysteries, and clearly a whole lot of Disney+ money. Plus confirmation Steven Moffat is back for at least one Season 1 episode, Russell T Davies using a Canadian emoji to not only tease the audience but also confound us, Big Finish celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a very special day, some MRAHHH BUSINESS from Doctor Who producer Jane Tranter ,and our Miniscope examining the work of Thirteenth Doctor-era director Jamie Childs!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- New Disney+ Trailer
- Steven Moffat writes episode for new season of Doctor Who with Julie-Anne Robinson directing
- RTD uses 🇨🇦 emoji on his Instagram post about Moffat
- First Big Finish Day 2024 guests announced
- I, TARDIS coming from BBC Books July 18
- Pre-orders are up for Titan Comics’ Fifteenth Doctor Issue #1
- ‘Doctor Who’ Producer Jane Tranter Says British TV Tax Credits Must Be Updated
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #952 - Let's Do The Time Zone Again
After a long and punishing era of North America tapping its toes and drumming its fingers waiting for the adventures of Doctor Who on their televisual devices, Disney+ has upended the universe with a global release on its streaming service with the result that North Americans will see the show Friday afternoon and the UK will suffer the INDIGNITY of having their beloved Gallifreyan arrive at midnight, a crime as monumental as the United States seceding from the Commonwealth. We also have Steven Moffat allegedly writing the 2024 Xmas special, man about town and Nerdist scribe Kyle Anderson’s look at regenerations, and an interview with Chris Chapman about his Graham Williams documentary on said collection,”Darkness and Light: The Life of Graham Williams”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Returns May 10/11, Premiering on iPlayer/Disney+ at Midnight UK Time
- BBC Press Release on Doctor Who Premiere
- Radio Times: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat ‘returns to write 2024 Christmas special’
- Alison Sterling’s CV said Steven Moffat is writing the 2024 Christmas Special (directed by Alex Pillai)
- From Nerdist: Doctor Who’s Regeneration Has NEVER Made Sense w/Kyle Anderson
- Philip Hinchcliffe – the DNA of Doctor Who Vol 1 due June 1
- Doctor Who The Adventures Before due Oct 3
- Doctor Who: In Wonderland
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed due May 2024
- Titan Comics reveals artwork for Fifteenth Doctor’s debut issue
- Season 15 Collection Launch Trailer
- Richard Bignell’s List of PDF archive material on the Season 15 Collection
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #951 - Magna Karma
It’s time for a mea culpa about Magna Carta by the Three Who Rule (much less than before) before we move on to the news of the moment, including Rachel Talalay highlighting female Doctor Who directors and appearing in Edmonton to celebrate her film work, Mark Ayres going to bat for the Celestial Toymaker’s experimental animations, the BBC with an AI-generated foot in its mouth after it decided simple humans can’t possibly promote their Doctor Who material, Warren has news of scribbling for an RPG merchant ,and the second part of a completely historically accurate exploration Classic Series Commentary of Magna Carta AND shapeshifting robots in…”The King’s Demons”, Part the Second!
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- Radio Times: Rachel Talalay: Doctor Who’s female directors have defied the odds
- Mark Ayres defends “experimental” Celestial Toymaker animation
- BBC is exploring generative AI to increase experimentation and improve Doctor Who promotion
- Big Finish: Bernice Summerfield: The Eternity Club series bundle starts September 2024
- Kickstarter for The Laundry Roleplaying Game: Second Edition
- Pamela Salem obituary in the Guardian, by Toby Hadoke
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #950 - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
On this most important Magna Carta Day (yes, we know it’s actually June 15), the Three Who Rule are digging deep on morsels of news including the BFI screening of the Celestial Toymaker along with some Hot Takes on the current state of AI, the Sea Devils spinoff supposedly starting shooting on March 4, new casting, “The Daleks in Colour” available for digital purchase, an entirely made up new villain called the RUSAN, an upcoming convention for The Tripods which sold out within hours, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for “The King’s Demons”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Celestial Toymaker screening at BFI on March 2
- Doctor Who Sea Devils begins production March 4
- Gallifrey One 2024 Wrap-Up and 2025 Update
- Doctor Who Magazine #601
- Genesis Lysea, Gwïon Morris Jones join cast for Season 1
- Makalla McPherson directing Doctor Who in Season 2
- Amanda Brotchie directs block 3
- Doctor Who feature in Disney twenty-three magazine
- The Daleks in Colour now available for digital purchase in North America
- BBC buys out ITV’s stake in BritBox for $322M/£255M
- Big Finish – Dark Gallifrey: Morbius due April 2024
- Big Finish – Sontarans vs Rutans: In Name Only due April 2024
- Tickets for Tripods 40, a convention celebrating The Tripods, are now on Sale
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Radio Free Skaro #949 - Official Pretend
It’s the week after Gallifrey One but your dedicated town criers The Three Who Rule are here to give you the latest facts from the worlds of Doctor Who including a BFI showing of The Celestial Toymaker on March 2, a surfeit of scripts from the BBC, even more Blu-rays from the BBC Shop (sorta), and even more Big Finish news, most of it announced at the aforementioned Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles! But all this is burying the lede as the BBC Archive’s Youtube channel rewards us with a visit in 1990 to…the BBC Film and Tape Library! And also, the Three remember the great Pamela Salem.
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- The Celestial Toymaker screening at BFI on March 2
- Fifteenth Doctor’s Audition and hundreds of other scripts released
- Meet ‘The Edge of Destruction’ on vinyl this Record Store Day
- Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 9: 1971
- Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour due March 19 (North America)
- Doctor Who: Peter Davison Complete Season 2 due April 2 (North America)
- Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker due May 14 (North America)
- Doctor Who: Tom Baker Complete Season 4 due July 9 (North America)
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey starts April 2024
- Big Finish: The Casebook of Paternoster Row due April 2024
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Echoes due May 2024
- Big Finish launches Doctor Who audio drama podcast
- Open Air, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 8 March, 1990
- Pamela Salem (1944-2024)
Radio Free Skaro #948 - Cosmic Joyride
That’s a wrap from Gallifrey One this year, but what a weekend it was! Disney+ chose Gallifrey One as the time and the place to launch their promo campaign for Doctor Who, including a special message to the convention and a new promotional poster. Gallifrey One Program Director Shaun Lyon tells us what went into that. Also, Simon Guerrier talks about BBC Television that eventually inspired Doctor Who, and Peter Harness joins us to preview his new series Constellation, premiering February 21 on Apple TV+!
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Radio Free Skaro #947 - I Am The Master
Quite a treat for all of us on this episode as we are joined by none other than Sir Derek Jacobi, legend of stage and screen, portrayer of The Master in Doctor Who in 2007, and also the most charming and affable of fellows! The Three Who Rule, along with Erika from Verity! and Jason Snell from The Incomparable, also ruminate on how their Friday and Saturday went at Gallifrey One, including a full rundown of the live show to kick off the convention!
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Radio Free Skaro #946 - More Than Sixty Years in the TARDIS
Radio Free Skaro returns to the stage at Gallifrey One with their kick-off show MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS IN THE TARDIS! Join the Three Who Rule, along with a bonus Two-Minute Time Lord segment from Chip Sudderth, as they talk to Doctor Who composer Segun Akinola, Doctor Who and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy documentarian Kevin Jon Davies, and actors Annette Badland, Shaun Dingwall, and Jaye Griffiths!
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Radio Free Skaro #945 - Miracle on Ice
The moment has arrived! Once again the Three Who Rule, along with Two-Minute Time Lord Chip Sudderth, dive into our annual preview of the Gallifrey One schedule along with tips for newcomers, fanning over various aspects of ancient and modern televisual craft, and highlighting various panels we’re on including our live show, “Radio Free Skaro: More than 60 Years in the TARDIS” at 11 a.m. Friday February 16th on the main stage! It’s our favorite weekend of the year and our honour to guide you, the listener though it. See you in L.A.!
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- Gallifrey One: One Week and Counting
- Gallifrey One Preview
- Michael Jayston died
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Novel Adaptations: Goth Opera due July 2024
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Metamorphosis due June 2024
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Missy: Bad Influence due May 2024
Radio Free Skaro #944 - The Fugitive (Dolly)
It’s the calm before the (Gallifrey One) storm….except when it comes to action dollies! Warren has received his Fugitive Doctor dolly and if you watch the Youtube version, you’ll see her in all her gun-toting, Pre-Hartnell-ing glory, as well as enjoy our banter about American vs. UK The Thick of It(s), Gallifrey One Kaffeelatsches, Doctor Who Magazine’s stunning 600th issue cover, and s surfeit of Big Finish news! The mind reels!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One update
- Doctor Who added to RTÉ Player in Ireland
- Consolidated 28-day ratings for 60th Anniversary specials
- Doctor Who Magazine #600
- Doctor Who Magazine #600 – Behind The Cover Shoot
- Season 15 Graham Williams documentary at the BFI Feb 4
- The Quiz of Rassilon at the BFI bar Feb 4
- Big Finish The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles: You Only Die Twice coming Mar 2024
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Born To Die coming Mar 2024
- Big Finish The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Quin Dilemma coming Mar 2024
- Big Finish The Dream Team due Apr 2024
- Big Finish Torchwood “Ianthology” due March, April, and May 2024
Radio Free Skaro #943 - Klaatu Varada Sethu
Hot on the heels of last week’s news of Varada Sethu joining the TARDIS crew, Sethu was seen in public filming new scenes for Doctor Who. But no announcement was made by the BBC! Curious… the Three Who Rule discuss. Also, much attention (and many dollars) is paid to new Fugitive Doctor Action Dolly news, debates over which is the on true Doctor action dolly to buy, and more. But the main event is discussing the work of Doctor Who director Michael Ferguson in Part Two of our Miniscope!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Varada Sethu seen shooting Doctor Who
- Fugitive Doctor and TARDIS set released by Character Options
- Jo Martin and Al Dewar talk Fugitive Doctor action dolly
- Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby Sunday, and Wrarth Warrior Action Dollies at London Toy Convention
- The Church on Ruby Road, available on DVD and Blu-ray on February 12 (UK)
- Read an exclusive excerpt of ‘The Church on Ruby Road’ novel
- 2024 Doctor Who Yearbook Released
- Big Finish – Torchwood: Sabotage with Ace due Feb 2024
- Big Finish – Torchwood One: I Hate Mondays due May 2024
Miniscope
Radio Free Skaro #942 - The Inferno Club
Breaking news!(?) Reports over the weekend have stated that Millie Gibson has left Doctor Who, with the new companion being Varada Sethu. The Three Who Rule discuss and debate the news! Also, the Gallifrey One schedule is out, the Doctor Who world celebrates Tom Baker’s 90th birthday, what we know of Season 1 of Doctor Who, and more!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One schedule of events published
- Tom Baker turns 90
- The Mirror: Millie Gibson To Not Feature in Season 2; Varada Sethu to be New Companion
- What to expect from Ncuti Gatwa’s first season of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who producer says to expect Easter eggs and an “amazing ending” to Ncuti Gatwa’s first season
- Is the BBC hinting at the Fendahl returning?
- BFI screening of Horror of Fang Rock on February 4, sold out in 10 minutes
Miniscope
Radio Free Skaro #941 - The Way Back
The time of Gallifrey One looms (no, not THOSE looms) with a month to go until everyone’s favorite Doctor Who convention in Los Angeles, and we’ll be there with our live show, “Radio Free Skaro: More Than Sixty Years In The TARDIS” on Feb. 16th at 10:30 a.m. in the Pacific Zone of Time! Gallifrey One also put out an update with new guests and more, and the UK will soon be blessed with the next Collection Blu-Ray covering Season 15! Plus stats (feh), annuals, and more to the point, an interview with author Jonathan Helm and designer Graeme Robertson about their book, Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series A! Speed, standard by six!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Radio Free Skaro: More Than Sixty Years In The TARDIS, Friday, February 16 at 10:30am
- Gallifrey One update
- Season 15 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range
- Leela vs the Time War | The Collection: Season 15 Announcement Trailer
- Season 15 Collection Blu-ray To Be Released June 4 on BBC Shop
- The Church on Ruby Road final BBC One viewing figures
- Doctor Who Annual 2025 due Oct 15
- Doctor Who: Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories due Jul 9
Interview
Radio Free Skaro #940 - 2024: The Year We Make Content
It’s 2024! But there are no new episodes of Doctor Who yet this, at least until May 2024. When in May? The Three Who Rule have thoughts and opinions on this scheduling conundrum, as well as updates on the upcoming Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, semi-confirmation of the upcoming Sea Devil spinoff The War Between The Land and the Sea, some stats of little to no consequence, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One 2024 Early January Update
- Doctor Who Magazine 599
- Amanda Brotchie (Gentleman Jack) is directing for Season 2 of Doctor Who
- Amanda Brotchie IMDB profile (does not yet mention Doctor Who)
- Report: The War Between the Land and the Sea starts production March 4
- Doctor Who was streamed 10 million times on iPlayer over Christmas
- Big Finish: Doctor Who Buried Threats with Christopher Eccleston and Lisa Bowerman due Feb 2024
- Big Finish: Torchwood – Poppet due Jan 2024
- Big Finish 2023 Paul Spragg Memorial winning story available for free
- Michael Herbert online seminar on Malcolm Hulke on January 22
- Toby Hadoke’s In Memoriam 2023
- Toby Hadoke’s Richard Franklin obituary
Radio Free Skaro #939 - The Anticipation of Failure
It’s the return of the Radio Free Skaro holiday party! With all Three Who Rule in the same place for the first time in years, along with Three Who Rule-adjacent Erika and Kat, what better way to ring in 2024 than with a new edition of Trivia, Mr. Fibuli! We are again using the Official Doctor Who Quiz Book by Jacqueline Rayner. How will host Steven torture Warren, Chris, Erika, and Kat with deep dive Doctor Who questions this time?
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Radio Free Skaro #938 - Good Night, and Good Luck
It’s Christmas, and for the first time since 2017, the Three Who Rule get to blather on Boxing Day about a Doctor Who Christmas episode, this one being “The Church on Ruby Road”! Yes, let’s hear their thoughts on Ncuti Gatwa’s new Doctor, Ruby Sunday, the mysterious Mrs. Flood, the somewhat odious goblins and their infant-craving King, and…a musical number. Plus a trailer for what we’ll see in May 2024 when the Ncuti Gatwa era both begins and continues, Steven pointing out the inaccuracies of 1960s drum kits, and so much more!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Church on Ruby Road
- Doctor Who returns in May 2024
- Disney+: New Home, New Who – May 2024
- Doctor Who – Season 1 Teaser
- The Church on Ruby Road in-vision commentary
- The Church on Ruby Road BBC One overnights: 4.73m, 3rd for the day
- The Giggle final BBC One viewing figures 6.85M, 10th for the week
- The Daleks in colour UK artwork reveal
- Imagine…Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
- Rare photos from The Mind of Evil discovered
- AdWeek: The Marketing of Doctor Who Is About to Enter a Whole New Dimension
- Deadline: ‘Doctor Who’ Producer Bad Wolf Gets $54M Boost From Unusual Deal To Make BBC Sci-Fi Series
- Richard Franklin (1936-2023)
- Richard Franklin on Radio Free Skaro #297
Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 23
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 22
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 21
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Radio Free Skaro #937 - Eat The Baby
Attention all I, Claudius cosplayers, stand ready! Sir Derek Jacobi is headlining Gallifrey One in February, so get all your Brother Cadfael questions prepared ahead of time! Also, there’s a surfeit of Ncuti Gatwa content for you to enjoy as we hurtle toward The Church on Ruby Road! The aforementioned episode also has a Target book, of which we have more exciting news on several fronts, and for all you transaction enthusiasts, a…series of auctions including one with Jon Pertwee? Listen and learn!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Sir Derek Jacobi Headlines Gallifrey One
- Ncuti Gatwa guested on The Graham Norton Show on December 15
- Ncuti Gatwa interviewed by Lizo Mzimba
- Preview clip from “The Church on Ruby Road”
- Doctor Who takeover on Blue Peter
- Blue Peter: Behind the scenes at NEW Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and Russell T Davies
- The Church on Ruby Road teaser from Disney+
- The Church on Ruby Road media screening
- Ncuti Gatwa’s New Sonic Screwdriver
- The Goblin Song – Official Lyric Video
- Millie Gibson interviewed by Paul Kirkley in Waitrose Weekend
- Profile on Painting Practice about their work on the 60th Anniversary Specials
- The Giggle BBC One overnights 4.62M, AI 85
- Wild Blue Yonder final BBC One viewing figures 7.14M, 9th on UK TV for the week
- Ncuti Gatwa appearance on Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 show on December 13
- The Giggle Target novelisation extract
- The Church on Ruby Road Blu-Ray/DVD preorder available
- BBC Books to publish novelisation of ‘The Church on Ruby Road’ on January 25
- The Church on Ruby Road novelization audio CD due Feb 29
- Target Books 10 book collection released Nov 29
- Children of the Circus novelization from Oak Tree Books released Dec 14
- Magic the Gathering DW 60th anniversary cards due Apr 26
- Imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me airing December 18 at 10:40pm on BBC One
- Reeltime Pictures Reverse the Polarity Starring Jon Pertwee
Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 17
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 15
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 13
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 11
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Radio Free Skaro #936 - Ncuti's Got The Shoes
We’ve come to the end…and the beginning. And a bi-ginning as David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa team up to defeat the dreaded Toymaker in the form of Neil Patrick Harris in fine form and multiple accents. Puppets! UNIT! Melanie Bush! Giggling! Listen to the Three Who Rule prognosticate for a frankly shocking amount of time about the final Tennant special, the upcoming Christmas special “The Church on Ruby Road” with one Ncuti Gatwa, and more!
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- The Giggle
- “The Giggle” commentary with Russell T Davies, David Tennant and Phil Collinson
- Doctor Who Unleashed – “The Giggle”
- “The Giggle” – Behind the Scenes
- “The Church on Ruby Road” trailer
- “The Church on Ruby Road” airing December 25 at 5:55pm on BBC One
- Doctor Who releasing Christmas single, The Goblin Song, on December 11
- David Tennant’s Tour of the new TARDIS
- Interactive DW art sculpture using refurbished tech
- Final BBC One viewing figures for The Star Beast 7.61M, 10th for the week on British TV
- Doctor Who Magazine #598
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, and Russell T Davies appearing on Blue Peter on December 15
- Reminder: Ncuti Gatwa guests on The Graham Norton Show on December 15
- Part-missing adventure ‘The Celestial Toymaker’ to be completed with new animation
- S17 standard release Blu-Ray, due Jan 22 in the UK
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Victory of the Doctor due February 2024
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Revolution in Space due February 2024
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends – The 7th Dimension airing Dec 30 on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 10
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 9
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 8
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 7
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 4
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Radio Free Skaro #935 - The Slow Path
It’s Wild! It’s Blue! It’s a Yonder! Yes, the second of three Doctor Who specials starring the Fourteenth Doctor has now graced our streaming televisual boxes and the Three Who Rule have thoughts and opinions on this spooky two-hander set on the edge of creation! Plus a last reunion with Bernard Cribbins, more Doctor Who: Unleashed and Youtube behind the scenes insights, Sylvia Noble’s tuna madras recipe, a Gallifrey One update, and the usual flood of news, tidbits and more!
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- Wild Blue Yonder
- Bernard Cribbins’ only scene was in Wild Blue Yonder
- Doctor Who Unleashed – “Wild Blue Yonder”
- Wild Blue Yonder: Behind the Scenes
- The Official Doctor Who Podcast – “Wild Blue Yonder”
- Wild Blue Yonder BBC One overnights
- Next Time Trailer: “The Giggle”
- Sylvia Noble’s Tuna Madras recipe
- “The Church on Ruby Road” coming to BBC One, iPlayer, and Disney+ on Christmas Day
- SFX Christmas Preview
- Rachel Talalay on CBC News
- BBC Radio: The Media Show with Jane Tranter
- Imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me airing December 18 at 10:40pm on BBC One
- Gallifrey One 2024 Guest Update
- Deadline: ‘Doctor Who’ Shakes Up Writers’ Payment Structure After Disney+ Boards BBC Sci-Fi Series
- Monsters and Blue Peter: A History
- First Living Paintings Doctor Who book available
- Big Finish – Sontarans vs Rutans due January – April 2024
- Big Finish – Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Chaos Cascade due January 2024
- Big Finish Day 2024: June 8, 2024
- Doctor Who Christmas Specials screening at the Paley Center, December 27 – January 7
Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 3
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 2
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Radio Free Skaro – 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #934 - The Number of The Meep
Doctor Who is back, and so are Russell T Davies, The Doctor (the Fourteenth version, more or less), Donna, her family, new addition Rose Temple-Noble, and a suspiciously cute furbag sprung from the comic book pages known as The Star Beast! What did the Three Who Rule think of the inaugural episode of the RTD2 era, the differences between 10-Tennant and 14-Tennant, the resolution of the MetaCrisis, and everything else? Take a listen, and then dive deep into the Daleks In Colour, the Fifteenth Doctor meeting William Hartnell (sorta), a cavalcade of VAM, and all the other bibs and bobs that come with the 60th anniversary of our favourite show! Wait for it…Allons-y!
Links:
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- The Star Beast
- The Star Beast BBC One overnights 5.08M
- New Doctor Who title sequence
- Doctor Who Unleashed – “The Star Beast”
- The Star Beast: Behind the Scenes
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trailer, narrated by Paul McGann
- The Official Doctor Who Podcast on The Star Beast
- In-Vision commentaries return on BBC iPlayer
- Next Time Trailer: Wild Blue Yonder
- The Giggle going out at 6:30pm Dec 9 on BBC One
- Cardiff Bay water projection show celebrating the 60th
- Totally Doctor Who now on iPlayer
- “The Daleks in Colour” review
- Ncuti Gatwa appears at the end of An Adventure in Space and Time
- An Adventure in Space and Time edited to remove An Unearthly Child content
- David Tennant reads a CBeebies Bedtime Story
- Report: Sea Devils 5-part spinoff series The War Between The Land and the Sea to film this spring
- Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on December 15
- Radio Times Doctor Who 60th Anniversary photo shoot
- BF Master! Planet Doom due Feb 2024
- Dominic Glynn’s Doctor Who: The Survival Remixes now available
Radio Free Skaro #933 - Plunger Cutaway
There’s only a week or less (depending on when you listen) for new Doctor Who but wait! There already IS new Who in the form of a Children In Need segment starring Doctor Who the Fourteenth, a Skaro marketing middle manager, a Mark III travel machine, and a new and somewhat controversial Davros! Plus we have a flood of celebratory radio and television programmes about Our Favorite Show on its 60th anniversary, Vworp Vworp and comic book news, Amazon Prime and Tubi showing Who 2.0 and Classic Who respectively AND an interview with Benjamin Cook, Rich Tipple and Kieran Highman on their sterling work colourizing “The Daleks”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Radio Free Skaro Livestreams
- BBC Children in Need Doctor Who segment
- Children in Need Doctor Who Unleashed
- New to Who guide from the Doctor Who YouTube channel
- Wild Blue Yonder will air at 6:30pm Dec 2 on BBC One
- Nicola Coughlan joins cast for Ncuti Gatwa’s Season 2
- Gatwa mentioned the First and Fifteenth Doctors share scenes
- BBC releases colourized images from The Daleks
- Colourized, omnibus version of The Daleks airing November 23 on BBC Four
- The Daleks coming to Blu-ray in North America on February 27
- Series 1-10 now available on Prime Video in Canada
- Classic Doctor Who now on Tubi
- The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who launches Kickstarter
- Vworp Vworp issues 6 available now
- Fifteenth Doctor comic from Titan Comics coming for Free Comic Book Day 2024
- 60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
- Missing Doctor Who episodes audio on BBC Sounds
- Surviving Doctor Who – an A-Z with Toby Hadoke on BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years documentary coming to BBC Radio 4 on November 19
- Radio 2 Celebrates Doctor Who at 60 through December 3
- Murray Gold: Hitting The Right Notes special coming to BBC Radio Solent on November 23
- Doctor Who: The Welsh Connection on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Huw on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Who edition of Bargain Hunt to air November 23 on BBC One
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Friends and Foes on BBC Radio 4 Nov 24, 9pm
- Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story on CBeebies on November 24
- Doctor Who: Secrets and Scandals on Channel 5 on November 25, 830pm
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder opens in Wellington NZ June 1, 2024
- Doctor Who event at Pulse and The Kings in Cardiff, Nov 25
Interview
Radio Free Skaro Livestream Reviews on YouTube Begin November 26
Doctor Who is returning to BBC One and iPlayer in the UK and to Disney+ for the rest of the world, and you can listen in on Radio Free Skaro's live episode recordings of our reviews! We'll be reviewing the three David Tennant specials live on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/radiofreeskaro). Here's our recording schedule: “THE STAR BEAST” review: Sunday, November 26 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK “WILD BLUE YONDER” review: Sunday, December 3 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK “THE GIGGLE” review: Saturday, December 9 7pm PT/10pm ET/3am UK Also, submit your comments in the live chat using #FluidLinks for our 2023 Fluid Links Advent Calendar!
Join us starting Sunday, November 26 as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who!
Radio Free Skaro #932 - The Dark Crystal
Another week, another absolute deluge of Doctor Who news has buried the Three Who Rule in minutiae. Amongst the highlights are The Star Beast news, Steven Moffat absolutely dominating a Best Of poll in DWM, the name of the Christmas Special being nonchalantly announced by Disney , Ncuti Gatwa looking dapper as usual in British GQ, and so…much…more! Also, we correct the record of onscreen Metebelis crystals, dispel rumours of a new spinoff starring Paul McGann, and kibosh an erroneous story about missing episodes!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who airing at 6:30pm on BBC One on Saturday, November 25
- The Star Beast cast list
- Doctor Who Christmas special “The Church of Ruby Road” dropping December 25 on Disney+
- Colourized version of “The Daleks” airing at 7:30pm on November 23 on BBC Four
- The Daleks in Colour coming to Blu-ray in the UK on February 12, 2024
- “The Star Beast” premiere happened at Battersea Power Station on November 6
- Daleks and Cybermen not returning in Series 14
- Doctor Who Magazine 597
- Moffat tops Doctor Who Magazine top 10 poll
- Doctor Who: 60 Moments in Time from Doctor Who Magazine
- Ncuti Gatwa profile in GQ Magazine
- A Beginner’s Guide to Doctor Who from the Royal Television Society
- Peter Davison Season 2 Blu-Ray available for preorder at Amazon US
- Simon Guerrier’s David Whitaker book is out now
- Revenge of the Cybermen soundtrack re-release due Nov 24 on CD and vinyl
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Friends and Foes coming to BBC Radio on November 24
- Doctor Who: Through Time collection on BBC Sounds
- Big Finish Short Trips 2023 winner announced
- BFI Missing Believed Wiped 2023 happens Dec 3, tickets went on sale Nov 9
- Fourteenth Doctor Build-a-Bear
- Red Dwarf prequel in the works from Rob Grant
- The Box of Delights revealed as the RSC Christmas show in Stratford
- Steven on Pull to Open
Radio Free Skaro #931 - Across the Whoniverse
It’s time for some Tales…of the TARDIS, as the Three Who Rule were thoroughly charmed by a nostalgia bomb measuring several megatons with appearances by former Doctors, companions and a Metebelis crystal! There’s also a tidal wave of news including SFX magazine’s many articles including interviews with RTD, David Tennant and Phil Collinson, novelizations of the three Tennant specials, audio documentaries, Billie Piper returning to Gallifrey One, and our feature look at the new Doctor Who reader Adventures Across Space and Time with Paul Booth, Joy Piedmont, Matt Hills, Tansy Rayner Roberts!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Colourized, omnibus version of The Daleks airing November 23 on BBC Four
- BBC officially brands the extended Doctor Who universe the “Whoniverse”
- Tales of the TARDIS dropped on iPlayer November 1, RTD promises bigger plans for it
- 2005-2022 Doctor Who will not be on Disney+
- SFX Doctor Who preview
- New BBC Doctor Who archive site
- Covers for the three Tennant special novelizations revealed
- The Star Beast novelization by Gary Russell
- Wild Blue Yonder novelization by Mark Morris
- The Giggle novelization by James Goss
- Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who report on Newsnight
- Special Fourteenth Doctor sketch will feature in Children in Need
- Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years documentary coming to BBC Radio 4 on November 19
- Murray Gold: Hitting The Right Notes special coming to BBC Radio Solent on November 23
- Doctor Who: The Welsh Connection on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Huw on BBC Radio Wales on November 23
- Doctor Who edition of Bargain Hunt to air November 23 on BBC One
- New Doctor Who inflight entertainment channel on board British Airways’ flights
- Billie Piper announced for Gallifrey One
- Big Finish Doctor Who The Last Day begins Dec 2023
- Children of the Circus, audio sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, available for pre-order
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #930 - Remember, Remember the 25th of November
As we crawl ever closer to the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and three David Tennant specials the news has gone from a trickle to a flood and the Three Who Rule are struggling to stay above the waves of information and indeed, this very strained metaphor. We have a release date (November 25!), a Disney+ trailer, a press release, promo pics, writer news, BluRay and Big Finish updates, a Humble Bundle and most importantly, a project to create the longest Doctor Who scarf ever. Thrill to our debate as to what makes a “proper” Doctor Who scarf and discover if you are a Scarf Truther or merely sane.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who returning to Saturdays for Tennant specials starting November 25
- BBC Tennant specials press release
- Tennant specials to be broadcast in 4K
- First promo pic for “Wild Blue Yonder”
- First promo pic for “The Giggle”
- Writers Kate Herron and Briony Redman Join Doctor Who
- Filming begins on Ncuti Gatwa’s second season
- RTD profile “imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me” coming to BBC One, date TBD
- Doctor Who preview in Empire Magazine
- David Tennant regeneration behind the scenes
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials available to pre-order on Steelbook, DVD and Blu-ray
- The Underwater Menace coming January 9, 2024 to North America
- Doctor Who missing stories animations to continue, more Hartnell likely
- Missing Doctor Who episodes resurrected on BBC Sounds
- Toby Hadoke’s Surviving Doctor Who An A to Z begins Nov 18 on Radio 4 Extra
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Rani Takes on the World: The Revenge of Wormwood due January 2024
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Storm of the Sea Devils due throughout 2024
- Dan Slott’s Doctor Who one shots released early for MCM London Comic Con
- Humble Bundle Doctor Who megabundle
- Longest Doctor Who scarf project
- Jodie Whittaker contributed artwork to a fundraiser raising £37,500
- Film is Fabulous
Radio Free Skaro #929 - Sunken Treasures
The controversy continues as An Unearthly Child remains AWOL on the BBC iPlayer, and further flashpoints occur as the Three Who Rule wildly speculate on the continued insistence of the BBC to pretend it’s still 2008 while Disney+ does whatever it’ll do in regards to airing the upcoming David Tennant specials and beyond. Plus animation, a Who exhibit at Riverside Studios, Vicki is back in Big Finish form and Warren has an interview with author DG Valdron about his three-book series diving deep into Doctor Who fan films, “The Pirate’s Histories of Doctor Who”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- BBC confirms Doctor Who’s first story won’t be in iPlayer back catalogue
- BBC Studios and Toshiba TV unveils new partnership to mark Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary
- Doctor Who not yet on November press release for Disney+
- Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration TV premiere on BBC Four on November 1
- Interview with the three showrunners
- David Tennant to host Talking Doctor Who documentary Nov 1
- 2023 UK viewing trends
- More Doctor Who animations confirmed during Underwater Menace BFI event
- 2024 Doctor Who Annual
- Doctor Who exhibit at Riverside Studios
- Doctor Who: The Survival Remixes – EP by Dominic Glynn pre-order now available
- Film is Fabulous reveals three missing 1960s BBC TV programmes
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Daleks due Jan 2024
- 2023 Hugo Award Winners
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #928 - The Tribe of None
If you’re looking for new things to hum as you while away the days to the 60th anniversary and its specials, wait no more! The new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune is now in the wild, along with the Fifteenth Doctor’s theme just aching to bust out of your speakers and into your heart. You’ll need all that love because although the BBC will soon put almost all of Classic Who and the various spinoffs on the iPlayer, "An Unearthly Child" is a bone of contention between the son of writer Anthony Coburn and…the rest of the internet. Plus we have Disney+ intrigue and speculation, a new edition of Outside In, music and audio news, and part the fourth of Classic Series Commentary for "Mawdryn Undead"!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- New Doctor Who theme
- Fifteenth Doctor theme “Fifteen”
- Doctor Who @ 60 concert on BBC Sounds
- Alex Pillai and Peter Hoar announced as S15 directors
- All existing Classic and Modern Doctor Who will be on BBC iPlayer starting November 1
- Doctor Who: How the TV show’s first writer became lost in time
- Classic Doctor Who not expected to come to Disney+
- Who Are We: Doctor Who? The Classic Years audio documentary on BBC Sounds Oct 21
- Doctor Who Magazine 596 released
- Electronic Sound magazine 106 has a profile on the Radiophonic Workshop and 7″ single
- Outside In Regenerates due Nov 23, preorder available
- Dominic Glynn’s “The Survival Remixes” due Nov 24, preorder live Oct 16
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: In the Bleak Midwinter due December 2023
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #927 - Fonts of Knowledge
It’s getting close to new Doctor Who and the 60th anniversary and it’s also getting close to new Gallifrey One, as seen by the first batch of guest announcements including Alex Kingston, Lalla Ward, Segun Akinola, and more! In 59th anniversary news, Doom’s Day comes to an end, there are new dollies on the way, and our special feature interview is a talk with Graham Kibble-White, Jack Kibble-White, and Stuart Manning about their upcoming book, Adventures in Type and Space! Fontacular!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Gallifrey One guest announcement
- DoctorDonnathon
- Final instalment of Doom’s Day
- The Deadly Assassin, two Dalek sets coming from Character Options
- Revenge of the Cybermen and Time of the Rani soundtracks coming Nov 24
- Big Finish The Art of the Audio Adventures book due Nov 2023
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #926 - Unconfidential
Doctor Who has been Unleashed! Yes, Confidential is returning in the form of Doctor Who: Unleashed and roaming around biting people and then having a nap or possibly catching a frisbee in its teeth. In reality a whole new generation of behind-the-scenes nerds will have a new look at the process of making Doctor Who, which is most exciting. There’s also the Doctor Who @60 concert, which is headed to the iPlayer and BBC Sounds on October 15 and will include the new Who theme along with other new and old material, which is most exciting. Plus Doctor Who RPG news, Simon Guerrier’s two new David Whitaker-themed books, another chapter in the ongoing Season 20 Blu-Ray scandal, and Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Unleashed coming to BBC Three, iPlayer in November
- Doctor Who @60 concert coming to BBC Radio 2 October 15, iPlayer later
- DW @60 concert will feature the debut of the new theme
- RTD, Moffat and Chibnall together for the DW @60 concert
- Michael Gambon died
- David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure With Television coming November 6
- Simon Guerrier also writing the Black Archive book for The Edge of Destruction, due Oct
- Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: 60 Moments In Time due Oct 26
- DW Collection Peter Davison Season 2 coming January 23 (BBC Canada link)
- DW Collection Peter Davison Season 2 coming January 23 (BBC USA link)
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who: Sixty Years of Adventure Book 1 due 4Q23
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who: Sixty Years of Adventure Book 2 due 4Q23
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Broken Hearts due Nov 2023
- Time and the Rani soundtrack listed on Amazon UK as “under sink storage”, due Nov 24
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #925 - Phoenix Without Ashes
The time has come once again for everyone to lose their collective minds as a real, proper, UNIT-y, Toymaker-centric trailer graces our internet and airwaves featuring David Tennant, Donna Noble, Jemma Redgrave, and Ncuti Gatwa in two minutes and change of new footage! What did the Three Who Rule think? And what are their opinions on news such as a UK free live tv service over broadband, a Radio Times list of the top 100 television shows and radio programs, and what do they think about Big Finish Ood adventures featuring Torchwood! All of that is mere piffle however compared to the main event, a long-gestating analysis of Canadian sci-fi television “legend” The Starlost, featuring Steven, Warren, Harlan Ellison editor, author and friend Jason Davis and Incomparable host and producer Annette Wierstra. Prepare the Bounce Tube!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- 60th Anniversary Trailer
- BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 to launch free live TV service over broadband
- Rachel Talalay, Jeff Rawle coming to Chicago TARDIS
- Doctor Who makes Top 100 list of UK TV & radio programmes
- Big Finish Torchwood Oct/Nov/Dec 2023 releases
Feature:
Radio Free Skaro #924 - Rills on Film
Is a missing episodes return on the horizon via private film collectors? We talk to Tim Burrows of the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast to learn more. It’s also a bumper crop of news this week as Miriam Margolyes is confirmed as the voice of Beep the Meep, Simon Guerrier measures the length, intensity and frequency of the Screams of Mel, Steven spends an inordinate amount of time cogitating about the upcoming Doctor Who Limited Edition New Who box set, we ponder the significance of Disney’s D23 being held at the same time as WorldCon in Glasgow (August 8-12, 2024), and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Miriam Margolyes officially confirmed as voice of the Meep
- Tennant and Tate 15 years later
- Doctor Who Magazine 595
- Simon Guerrier analyzes Mel’s screams
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (Canada)
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (US)
- Doctor Who: The White Dragon 13th Doctor graphic novel due Mar 1, 2024
- D23 announces August 8-12, 2024 as dates for next convention
- Doctor Who: Redacted podcast returns for second series Sep 18
- Second Doctor regeneration video
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #923 - Force Sensitives
For the first time in almost 20 years, #WhoSpy has returned to give you all sneak peeks from behind the scenes of Doctor Who (from a year ago now, but still!) Plus we have new photos in EW that are ever-so-slightly different from what we’ve already seen of the three Tennant specials, a spurious rumor about Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who, and Jemma Redgrave saying “not really, no” to a UNIT spinoff, plus a BFI premiere, a yearbook, Dan Slott’s “Once Upon a Time Lord” is finally almost here, and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- #WhoSpy returns
- Entertainment Weekly Doctor Who preview contains new photos
- Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who?
- Jemma Redgrave confirms she’s back in Doctor Who, denies UNIT spin-off
- Gallifrey One 2024 update
- The Underwater Menace BFI premiere happening October 21
- Doctor Who Magazine Special #65 2024 Yearbook due Jan 24
- Titan Comics “Once Upon A Time Lord” by Dan Slott due October 24
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #922 - The British Rocket Group
It’s a bumper crop of news this week with confirmation of Ncuti Gatwa’s second season being built as you read this, Rose Noble as played by Yasmin Finney, more Marvel and Disney+ machinations, and hold onto your wallets because Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering is due to arrive in October, if you haven’t already spent your cash on audio annuals, new Big Finish releases and a plane ticket to Chicago TARDIS to see Doctor Who legend Carole Ann Ford! All this, and we also have an extensive interview with one Toby Hadoke about all things Quatermass!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Series 15 production underway, lasting from July 2023-May 2024
- BBC confirms Rose Noble as the character played by Yasmin Finney
- Doctor Who 60th anniversary musical celebration coming September 28
- Marvel Shows Shift Premiere Dates Due To Strikes & New Disney+ Strategy
- Disney+ passes on “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, non-Disney IP that was already completed
- Disney also passes on Nautilus UK Series
- Doctor Who Annual 2024 due September 7
- Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering coming October 13
- Doctor Who: The Phaser Aliens & Other Stories audio annual due March 2024
- Big Finish Torchwood: Dog Hop due September 2023
- Big Finish The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers – Rogues Gallery due October 2023
- Carole Ann Ford added to Chicago TARDIS guests
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #921 - Maudlin Undead
It’s a mystery that isn’t as the BBC publishes then pulls confirmation that Ncuti Gatwa’s first series will air in “Spring 2024”, as we all suspected. This had the unsurprising effect of clickbait farms pondering on Doctor Who’s future, which in actuality will also feature Big Brother and Dead Set’s own Davina McCall and Indira Varma! We also have a video essay about I, Claudius (because of course we do), details on the book launch of Simon Guerrier’s “David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television”, Big Finish endings and audiobook news, and most excitingly, Part One of our Classic Series Commentary of “Mawdryn Undead”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- BBC “confirms” Spring 2024 debut for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season, Indira Varma in “Christmas special” 2023
- Davina McCall appearing in Christmas special
- Video essay on multicam directing in I, Claudius
- David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television: Book Launch
- Take a glimpse behind-the-scenes of Doctor Who 40 years ago
- Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen: 6th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD due Feb 1
- Doctor Who: The Phaser Aliens & Other Stories: Doctor Who Audio Annual due Mar 7
- Doctor Who: River of Death: 6th Doctor Audio Original due Mar 7
- Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon: 4th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD due Apr 4
- BF Gallifrey: War Room 2: Manoeuvres due September 2023
- BF Doctor Who – Once and Future: Time Lord Immemorial due October 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: Enemy Mine due December 2023
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #920 - The Canadian Mafia
A new era of action dollies is upon us with more Daleks, Colin Baker with a new coat and and AND a Richard Hurndall dolly for all you devoted Hurndallists to enjoy (pineapple not included)! There’s also Blu-Ray uprez news, pointless banter about Supermen and 90s classic(?) film Hackers, Cutaway Comics releases and the main feature, an interview with “Pull to Open” author Paul Hayes about the birth of Doctor Who!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine 594
- Four actors announced for upcoming episodes, Yasmin Finney sticking around?
- Doctor Who 14th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Standard Edition
- B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 13 The Five Doctors
- B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 14 Revelation of the Daleks
- B&M 2023 The Sixth Doctor and TARDIS
- A newly remastered Series 1 – 4 Blu-ray of Doctor Who is coming soon to the UK
- Season 20 – The Collection UK release date confirmed as Sep 18
- Cutaway Comics Omega & Sutekh – Gods and Monsters due Sep 2023
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #919 - Better Call Saul
Animated adventures are back! At least, The Underwater Menace is coming soon to DVD and Blu-ray, both in colour and black and white! There’s also a 60th anniversary concert on the way, an illustrated edition of Rose arriving on November 23, the sad news that luxury dollyists Big Chief Studios are shuttering their doors, some truly bizarre photos from the 1973 Radio Times retrospective on Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary, and the second of our two-part Miniscope on Saul Metzstein, featuring the esteemed director’s work “The Snowman”, “The Crimson Horror”, and “The Name of the Doctor”! Well, Trenza my Lores!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated in 2023
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary concert coming Autumn 2023
- Deluxe illustrated edition of ‘Rose’ coming Nov 2023
- Big Chief Studios closing
- Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Then Legendary Tapes screening Sep 22 in Hastings
- Brain of Morbius cinema screening in Newcastle Nov 18
- Radio Times 10th Anniversary retrospective
- The Companions of Doctor Who edited by David Bushman and Ken Deep, due Feb 2024
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #918 - Once Upon a Time in the Metz
The news remains fallow in these Times of No Who Yet, but we do have missives from the further adventures of Doom’s Day, colourization of old episodes on many fronts, an action dolly magazine spectacular, Tom Baker’s son’s Who-themed Nottingham pub and part one of our Miniscope examination of director Saul Metzstein’s work, featuring “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” and “A Town Called Mercy”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 64 – Action Figures – The Essential Guide 2005-2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Doom’s Day: Dying Hours (hours 2000-2300) due September 2023
- Doctor Who classic The Smugglers gets colour revamp
- Doctor Who colourizations by jamesknox817
- Missing episodes in collectors hands?
- Doctor Who-themed pub in Nottingham run by Tom Baker’s son
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #917 - F for Fake
Unlike last week’s veritable tsunami of info, this week we have a quieter news offering, including a staggeringly expensive 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver replica, more bon mots from Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa via Rolling Stone, Gav Rymill noodling with AI to recreate missing episodes (sort of), Doom working through her Day in game form, and the highlight of this week’s episode: an interview with skilled Photoshopist and bon vivant Andrew-Mark Thompson, author of “This Is A Fake – A Collection of Unreal Things”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who and the Sonic Screwdriver
- Rubbertoe Replica 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Rolling Stone UK cover shoot video
- New instalment of Doom’s Day called AI am the Doctor coming soon
- BFI to show colourized early DW as part of Missing Believed Wiped
- Gav Rymill testing AI for recons
- Doctor Who The Sun Makers Original Music Soundtrack Orange Vinyl LP
- Doctor Who The Visitation Original Music Soundtrack Green Vinyl LP
- BF Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon – Trapped due Sep 2023
- BF Doctor Who – Once and Future: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 due Sep 2023
- Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection due Sep 1
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #916 - Electro Quarterstaff
After subjecting you to an intense bout of trivia last week, we have a surfeit and indeed a tsunami of News Content for you, including a new sonic for the Fourteenth Doctor, promo pics, a pink TARDIS Barbie cross-promotion, Ncuti Gatwa being funny and fashionable in a Rolling Stone UK interview, new books, audios, missing episode musings, a gigantic Blu-Ray set off all the Doctors from Eccleston to Whittaker, another Blu-Ray set for Season 20, and much, much more!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- New promo pics
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver sold out
- Series 14 wraps filming (Instagram link)
- Series 14 wraps filming (Wales Online link)
- Doctor Who/Barbie pink TARDIS crossover promotion
- Ncuti Gatwa interview in Rolling Stone UK
- Doctor Who Magazine 593
- Fourth Doctor comics Anthology, including The Star Beast, coming November 2
- Season 20 announced as the news classic Blu-Ray set
- Season 20 Blu-Ray set trailer “The Passenger”
- “The Passenger” behind the scenes
- The Five Doctors event at the BFI on September 16
- Richard Bignell’s Season 20 PDF archive
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (US)
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (Canada)
- 60th Anniversary specials Target novelizations
- Liberation of the Daleks paperback due Nov 2
- The Tom Baker Record Collection brings 4 Classic Stories to vinyl
- Doctor Who: Escape the Daleks!: 3rd Doctor Audio Original due Jan 4, 2024
- Doctor Who: The Cuckoo: 12th Doctor Audio Original due Dec 7
- Praxeus could have had Autons
- Andrew Skilleter 2024 Doctor Who art calendar
- Patrick Troughton Blue Plaque Unveiling
- Terry Burnett’s film collection reveals missing episode of Hugh and I
- Steven on the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast
- John Nettleton died
Radio Free Skaro #915 - The King's Head
Several self-styled Doctor Who “experts” in the form of Warren, Chris, Kat and Erika square off against trivia master and Smug Poltroon Steven in our semi-annual trivia showdown aptly named “Trivia, Mr Fibuli”! Based on Jacqueline Rayner’s Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book from 2014. Who will emerge triumphant in this contest of intellect, skill and pointless fact-knowing? Tune in and find out!
Radio Free Skaro #914 - Rate Limit Exceeded
The news is sparse this week, as sparse as the Thursday/Friday schedule for San Diego Comic Con, reflecting the general malaise of the entertainment media complex in these times of IP dominance and labour strife. But that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from giving their half-baked opinions on costuming, editing video tape via razor blades and gumption, the non-legacy of VR, and Threads, the latest in a long line of social media hellsites. So go on, skeet that toot into your eardrums, tweeps! Not the nighttime crowd, obviously.
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- SDCC Hall H Schedule
- SDCC Panel: Titan Comics Doctor Who
- The 1960s Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part three
- Peter Davison reveals scrapped plans for Five(ish) Doctors Reboot follow-up
- How Jack the Ripper Shaped The Talons of Weng Chiang
- 2023 Hugo Awards nominees
- Doctor Who The Target Book Club happening July 16
- Sacha Dhawan coming to Long Island Who
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Intelligence for War due Oct 2023
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Missy: Bad Influence due Apr 2024
- Doctor Who Hidden Mysteries update adds difficulty level and new content
Radio Free Skaro #913 - Most People Depart With a Scream
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…by the Three Who Rule who are ringing in Canada Day weekend by wringing out the very last vestiges of the Timelash, our popular(?) time-filling exercise in Doctor Who reflection. We also have news of Doctor Who mostly absent from SDCC, MIA for Fortnite, and country cousin Star Trek all but vanishing from Crave, which continues to be Canada’s HBO by going from quite decent to very crappy in under a year. Next week…not the Timelash, that’s for sure!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Pride Month wrapup
- Doctor Who will be present in the Exhibit Hall at SDCC
- Titan Entertainment Unveils Doctor Who and My Hero Academia Merchandise for SDCC
- The Black Archive upcoming release schedule
- Doctor Who Am I available for free on Tubi
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unbound due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Two’s Company due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Box of Terrors audio novel due Nov 2023
- Doctor Who/Fortnite crossover delayed
Radio Free Skaro #912 - Halt H
It is a sad week for the media and for Steven as Disney and many Makers of Pretend aren’t going to San Diego Comic Con, which means Doctor Who likely won’t, which means Steven likely won’t. Curses! We do however have news of Doctor Who books, Big Finish and Paul McGann appearing at LI Who in costume as well as digressions into Canadian history and Pink Floyd (as you do) in the penultimate instalment of…the Timelash!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Magazine 592 released
- Marvel, Netflix, Sony, HBO and Universal to Skip SDCC
- Pull To Open – 1962-1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who coming July 24
- Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas due October 2023
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Diary of River Song: The Orphan Quartet due August 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023
- Paul McGann doing photo ops in costume at LI Who
Radio Free Skaro #911 - What Is Your Imurjinsee
While we wait for news regarding Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con (or not), The Three Who Rule managed to squeeze out more than an hour of top quality banter at Ncuti Gatwa’s nudity skills, Lenny Rush joining the Doctor Who cast, and the Timelash, which was stuffed to the gills with events of a chronological nature which were then commented upon! Want to hear derisive sneers about Strange New Worlds and Disney+ censorship of “The French Connection”, not to mention the Golden Age of McDonalds Ashtrays? This is the podcast for you!
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Radio Free Skaro #910 - One After 909
The Classic Companion Reunion Victory Tour as one Melanie Bush aka Bonnie Langford is set to join Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who for an adventure in space and/or time next year! Doom has also started experiencing their first of twenty-four hours of mayhem and of course we have the Timelash to entertain you with ad-hoc takes of time gone by. But more importantly, we have Gav Rymill of the Terry Nation Army in a return interview about his fantastic fan series of videos about Skaro’s crankiest denizens! Set aside a few rels and listen, won’t you?
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Bonnie Langford returns to Doctor Who
- Doom’s Day – Doom’s first hour
- Titan Comics Doom’s Day “A Doctor in the House? Part One” available for pre-order
- Doctor Who Chronicles 1963-64 now available
- BBC Books to Publish ‘Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse”, due Nov 16
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #909 - I've Got A Feeling
It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Terry Burnett film archive handed over
- “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
- Network Distributing closes
- Waris Hussein diaries, part two
- Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
- Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
- Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
- The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
- Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall
Radio Free Skaro #908 - Maggie Mae
It’s the Eve of Doom’s Day as the BBC ramps up its transmedial multimodal whatsit starring Sooz Kempner for a debut on June 5th! The Three Who Rule cogitate on this monumental and somewhat confusing chronological crisis, along wth much more, including Indira Varma as the mysterious Duchess, Frazer Hines writing an Evil of the Daleks novelization, a contraband 1997 Doctor Who annual, Doctor Who and Top Gear going into the metaverse for some reason, the Revised Return of the Wife in Space, and the ever enjoyable Timelash!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Indira Varma joins Doctor Who as The Duchess
- Doctor Who Magazine 591 released
- Prepare for Doom’s Day
- Four to Doom’s Day vinyl due Aug 25
- Big Finish Doom’s Day details
- Big Finish UNIT – Nemesis: Masters of Time due July 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: Ascension due Feb 2024
- BBC Studios takes Top Gear and Doctor Who into the metaverse
- Evil of the Daleks to be novelized by Fraser Hines
- Evil of the Daleks audio release due Oct 26
- Jamie Mathieson’s first draft of Flatline released
- ILLUMINART 2 The Doctor Who Art of Andrew Skilleter due Sep 2023
- Unofficial Doctor Who Annual 1997 due May 30
- Revised Adventures with the Wife in Space coming Nov 2023
- 60 Years of Doctor Who celebration at Jodrell Bank July 23
Radio Free Skaro #907 - Let It Be
It is one of the more fallow news weeks in recent memory as we have merely one Big Finish and a few novels to speak of, BUT that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from chewing up all of time and space with both the Timelash and and AND the return of Fluid Links! How does WKRP figure into the Tom Baker era? Why do Nimons wear loincloths? These questions and more are yours to hear and yell at in frustration!
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Radio Free Skaro #906 - Dig It
We now have titles for the upcoming Doctor Who David Tennant specials, and a teaser trailer featuring Beep The Meep, Neil Patrick Harris as whoever he might be, and not a whole lot else! Still, it’s something, as is Regency costumes on Ncuti Gatwa and Co., Disney+ losing money due to cricket (so we’ll blame that on the fifth Doctor) , Big Finish, NFTs, analog NFTs in the form of Doctor Who themed Magic: The Gathering cards, and as ever the Timelash, where we decided Alec Baldwin has been hoarding 16mm prints of missing episodes! It’s Wednesday, Lemon!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- David Tennant specials episode titles revealed
- New Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials trailer
- Gatwa, Gibson, and Jonathan Groff pose in new Regency-era outfits
- Disney+ sheds subscribers
- Doctor Who Chronicles #8 – 1963-64 due June 8
- Make Your Own TARDIS Book Nook with Blue Peter
- Big Finish Freebies start with an Eccleston episode
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity open to submissions
- Doctor Who Magic: The Gathering Cards Are Up For Preorder
- BBC files NFT trademark for Doctor Who logo
Radio Free Skaro #905 - I Me Mine
It’s a race agains the clock as to the excitement of Chris and Steven and the consternation of Warren we recorded this episode right before Game Two of the Edmonton Oilers playoff series with Vegas and tensions were running high (except for Warren who couldn’t care less), but STILL we bring you news of a cryptic 60th anniversary teaser and Eurovision trailer yet to come, a fine Twitter thread from James Moran on the deplorable conditions UK television writers face as they watch the WGA strike in America, Jonathan Groff joins the Doctor Who cast to the delight of musical enthusiasts (not us) and of course we dive into history with The Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who season 14 is so far “unaffected” by writers’ strike
- James Moran thread on the WGA strike
- Doctor Who airs new footage of 60th anniversary in cryptic teaser
- New teaser breakdown
- Jonathan Groff joins Doctor Who cast
- The 1963 Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part one
- Doom’s Day: Hours 14-11 due Aug 31
- Artwork Revealed for 2023’s Doctor Who Target Novels
- Kklak!: The Doctor Who Art of Chris Achilleos updated paperback released
Radio Free Skaro #904 - Across the Universe
A beloved tunesmith is back in action as Murray Gold returns to Doctor Who, the latest in a string of RTDists to join their blue box pals once more. If horror and panic is more your thing, the LAX Marriott does HOTELMAGEDDON as the first Gallifrey One room block will be available May 12, so gird your loins appropriately! Also there’s a Blue Peter contest, David Tennant’s hair is completely out of control, The Ultimate Adventure has been restored, and The Timlelash gives your the musings of three creaking skeletons who like their stories. Allons and indeed…y
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Murray Gold returns to Doctor Who
- Murray Gold re-introduction video
- Doctor Who Magazine 590 released
- Gallifrey One hotel block opens May 12
- Blue Peter set visit contest
- Blue Peter contest David Tennant video
- Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader coming in November
- Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure restored
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: The Artist at the End of Time due June 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Far from Home due June 2023
- Big Finish The War Master: Solitary Confinement due June 2023
Radio Free Skaro #903 - Dig a Pony
It’s a week of casting and backsides this week as we see Jinkx Monsoon’s costume and Ncuti Gatwa’s…form-fitting costume dominate fan headlines, along with Fortnite news, Doom’s Day comic book shenanigans, a BBC brand manager job that involves driving a forklift(?), and perhaps the greatest heavy lifting of all…The Timelash!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- 60s costumes revealed for Series 14
- Jinkx Monsoon’s outfit revealed
- Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa to perform Shakespeare at Coronation Concert
- Is Fortnite getting Doctor Who content?
- Job posting: Brand Asset Manager – Doctor Who
- Spearhead From Space screening at the BFI on June 11
- Brian Croucher, Richard Ashton, Mickey Lewis added to LI Who guest list
- Doctor Who The Complete History Digital Editions Issues 81- 90 available
- Doctor Who: Doom’s Day on sale from Titan Comics July 5
Radio Free Skaro #902 - Two of Us
It’s another fallow week of news in The Land of Who but that won’t stop us going on about Star Trek Picard, Star Wars Celebration and maybe even some BBC show where Steven Moffat won the Terrance Discks Award for Writers, a new batch of novels arrive for the 60th anniversary, Once Upon a Time Lord gains a cover, the Timelash does the thing it does (going through the years and making offhand remarks) and…for real this time, Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of Giants”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Moffat wins Terrance Dicks Award for Writers
- Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebrated with new series of novels
- Doctor Who Magazine 61-80 Bundle Complete History Special Issue
- Doctor Who Once Upon a Time Lord from Titan Comics cover art released
- Big Finish Star Cops – The High Frontier: 2 now available
- Murray Melvin died
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Radio Free Skaro #901 - The Jinkx of Monsoon
Chris is absent this week due to a case of the Post-UK Vocal Swarm but in his stead steps in Verity co-host and eminent contrarian Kat Griffiths to discuss Jinx Monsoon appearing in upcoming Doctor Who, Big Finish releases, random Star Wars musings as a torrent of information emerges from Star Wars Celebration in London, and, of course, the Timelash! Fear not, Chris is also back through the magic of time travel as we continue on with our Classic Series Commentary for Part Two of “Planet of Giants”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One 2024 tickets now on sale
- Jinkx Monsoon joins the new series of Doctor Who
- Ncuti Gatwa tops Radio Times TV 100 list
- Doctor Who: An Unlikely Heist available on Apple Arcade
- Doctor Who: The Teeth of Ice featuring the 8th Doctor, due Aug 3
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest due Sep 2023
- Big Finish trailer for Once and Future: Past Lives
- Peter Day died
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Radio Free Skaro #900 - 900 Year Diary
Amazingly, we’ve reached episode 900 of this here internet audio programme and we celebrate with not only the news of the day, including DWM tidbits, Big Finish and more audio fun, and the ever-present Timelash, but with the first of three exciting Classic Series Commentaries about the 1964 William Hartnell classic “Planet of Giants!”
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Magazine 589 released
- Directors discuss the new TARDIS set
- Casting news from Doctor Who Magazine
- Doctor Who Am I available
- Radiophonic Workshop videos on BBC Archive YouTube Channel
- Serpent Crest 10 LP set due May 26
- Big Finish Rani Takes on the World: The Revenge of Wormwood due April 2023
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #899 - Doom Patrol
It’s All-900 Episode’s Eve, and we have news of….Doom. What is Doom? Who is Doom? Why is Doom? Join the Three Who Rule who endeavour to piece together this multimedia mystery, discuss Chris’s recent sojourn to the UK and Wales, wander through the Timelash as per usual…and that’s before we dive into Part the Second of our Lennie Mayne Miniscope!
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Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #898 - Awarding the Mainprize
What is Doom’s Day and does it have anything to do with Urbankans? Nothing presumably, as it is a new audio adventure teased mysteriously as of this recoding, but Steven and Warren shall pick apart what few clues they have as Chris is on Special Assignment and absent from most of the proceedings this week. We also have news of Henry-Tennant regeneration hijinks on Red Nose Day, a simply wonderful trailer for the new Series 9 collection, the ever-present Timelash, and Part One of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director Lennie Mayne!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- BBC Doctor Who “Doom’s Day” teaser
- Doctor Who: Four from Doom’s Day: Doom’s Day Audio Original
- Doctor Who on Red Nose Day
- Doctor Who bosses ‘planning UNIT spin-off with Jemma Redgrave’
- New trailer for the Doctor Who Series 9 collection
- DWM Special on Doctor Who Showrunners
- BF Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: Comrades-in-Arms due May 2023
- BF Torchwood: Among Us – Part 2 due June 2023
- Kit Pedler in BBC story about pollution from 1971
Radio Free Skaro #897 - Radio Freaks Skaro
It’s another exciting week of Doctor Who news as various content mills continue to draw the last bits of blood from the stone that is our Chris Chibnall interview, Russell T Davies says he’s focused on Doctor Who for “years to come,” Doctor Who: Lost in Time, a new mobile game that’s been on our phones for months launches, and a very expensive teddy bear set to arrive in time for the 60th anniversary! All this and the Timelash, where we do deep dives into the kind of minutiae you only get here, on Radio Freaks Skaro!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Russell T Davies’s focus is on Doctor Who for ‘years to come’
- Moffat to write for Series 15?
- Red Nose Day to show off new 14th Doctor costume
- Big Finish The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Pioneers due May 2023
- Doctor Who Redacted renewed for Season 2, but not with Ella Watts as producer
- Doctor Who Annual 2024 due Sep 7
- Doctor Who: Lost in Time mobile game launches
- The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Bear by Steiff
Radio Free Skaro #896 - Walkman on Sunshine
We continue to bask in the glow of our Chris Chibnall interview at Gallifrey One and lo, so has the internet as excerpts appear around and about the internet in the form of news articles and Youtube commentary. But we trundle on towards the future with director announcements for the impending Gatwa Era and indeed the past with the Timelash and our Modern Series Commentary from the Capaldi classic “The Lie of the Land!” Monkadelic!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Radio Times: Chris Chibnall wanted to bring back Doctor Who spin-offs
- Radio Times: Doctor Who: Flux was almost axed, reveals Chris Chibnall
- Julie Anne Robinson officially unveiled as director for Block Three
- Ben Chessell announced as director for Block Four
- Doctor Who Magazine 588 released
- Fan animation of the first 10 minutes of The Celestial Toymaker
- Part 2 of The Celestial Toymaker animation
- Audio adaptation of The Making of Doctor Who coming June 1
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Past Lives details announced due May 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unleashed due May 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: Prisoners of London by Matthew Waterhouse due July 2023
Commentary
Radio Free Skaro #895 - The Exit Interview
It’s the week after Gallifrey One and we have an extra special treat for you, an hour-long interview with outgoing Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall! Listen to the man himself as he delves into the move from Xmas to New Year’s specials, dealing with COVID (and the making of the Doctor’s message to fans from her closet) and much, much more. We also have figurine and audio news, Doctor Who Am I on Blu-ray and the ever-present Timelash. Not bad for three exhausted malcontents!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One
- Chris Chibnall
- Scifi Collector to relaunch Doctor Who figurines
- The Amazing World of Doctor Who record store day release
- Doctor Who Magazine Complete History issues 41-60 collection released
- Doctor Who Am I iTunes pre-order
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Doctor Chronicles: The Tenth Doctor: Defender of the Earth due November 2023
- Big Finish Once and Future guest cast announced
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Radio Free Skaro #894 - Cinema Verity
We wrap another year at Gallifrey One! And it’s a very special episode of the podcast because Deb, Erika, Kat, Liz, and Lynne from Verity! join Steven to recap their weekend as they head off on podcast hiatus, hopefully soon to return. Also, we have interviews with the great Bonnie Langford (attending her first Gallifrey One in 22 years!), Doctor Who comics artist Dan Slott, and Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa Yuille circle back on how much has happened since the launch of Doctor Who Am I. Next week: a feature length interview with former Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall…
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Radio Free Skaro #893 - Whittaker & Whitaker
It’s the Sunday at Gallifrey One! Join us as Steven, Warren, and Chris recap the Friday and Saturday of the convention, from their live show hijinks on the Friday, Steven’s commentary panel with Chris Chibnall et al, Warren’s interview panels several actors from Who’s past, and the general vibe of Jodie Whittaker’s first ever Gallifrey One! And speaking of Whit(t)taker, Simon Guerrier tells us about the research he’s discovered about David Whitaker, Doctor Who’s first story editor! And coming soon: a feature length interview with former Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall…
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Radio Free Skaro #892 - Get Back
It’s Gallifrey One time! And once again, it is our great honour to kick off Gallifrey One on the main stage on the Friday morning of this simply superlative convention. Listen as Colin Baker plays musical chairs and makes a punching bag out of Warren! Hear Sophie Aldred and Janet Fielding tell tales of returning to the show decades later! Find out how director Jamie Magnus Stone and production Dafydd Charmer coped with COVID while making Flux! And laugh as the Three Who Rule vamp to cover for the initial absence of Craige Els and Patrick O’Kane!
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Radio Free Skaro #891 - To Where You Once Belonged
It’s the preamble to the most wonderful time of the year as we eschew the news of the week and go full bore with our annual Gallifrey One preview! Listen to us cogitate about the first Gally since 2020 (and the pandemic) to feature attendance by every single one of the Three Who Rule who will open the con with our live show Get Back at 11 a.m. Friday the 17th! As is tradition, we go through the stuffed to the gills schedule and highlight both things were looking forward to and panels, photo ops, commentaries and more that you might wish to attend, should you be in Los Angeles!
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Radio Free Skaro #890 - Mrah Business
It’s just under two weeks until the Three Who Rule descend upon the LAX Marriott for Gallifrey One….which is now sold out! In the meantime RTD hints at all of Doctor Who once again gracing the iPlayer, there’s mmmrahhhh business to speak of involving BBC Studios bigwig talk of growth, mergers and acquisitions and other such financial tomfoolery, along with an “impossible” new TARDIS set and The Timelash, where we travel back in time to guess and frankly make things up about the week in Doctor Who!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One sold out, latest update
- All of Doctor Who on iPlayer?
- BBC Studios boss talks Doctor Who
- Doctor Who Magazine 587 released
- New TARDIS interior set
- Doctor Who Chronicles 7: 1988 due Feb 16
- Planet of the Ood audio CD due July 13
- The Waters of Mars audio CD due July 13
- Kerblam! audio CD due July 13
Radio Free Skaro #889 - Spin City
Finally our live show can be revealed as we Get Back to Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, CA! Plus the Gally schedule is out in the wild, there are updates afoot about said convention, and RTD is confirming spinoffs but not confirming Edgar Wright as a future director, whatever misleading GQ headlines may imply. And to continue the string of new and exciting content Jo Jones appears in a trailer for the Season 9 – The Collection set, news of LI Who guests, and of course the feature we love and you tolerate, The Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Radio Free Skaro: Get Back, live at Gallifrey One
- Gallifrey One schedule released
- Gallifrey One late January update
- Doctor Who spinoffs confirmed?
- Season 9 Blu-Ray announced
- Season 9 US Amazon link
- Season 9 Canada Amazon link
- Defenders of Earth – Season 9 Bliu-Ray teaser
- Doctor Who: A Complete History volume 2 issues 21-40 released
- LI Who guests announced
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Eighth of March: Strange Chemistry due March 8
- Big Finish The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 1 due October 2023
Radio Free Skaro #888 - The Number of the Meep
As we veer closer to Gallifrey One at the LAX Marriott, none other than Chris Chibnall, he who what ran Doctor Who most recently is on his way to Los Angeles to answer your (pre-approved, no comments please) questions! Plus we have news of new actors just announced by current/future Doctor Who showrunner Russell The Davies for upcoming Who, a tour of another showrunner’s writer’s room as Steven Moffat gave a tour of his scribbling nook and the Timelash, where we’ll probably talk about showrunners!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Chris Chibnall announced for Gallifrey One
- Gallifrey One mid-January update
- Anita Dobson and Michelle Greenidge guesting on Doctor Who
- The Home of the WHOniverse
- New Target books announced for the range’s 50th anniversary
- A tour of Steven Moffat’s writing studio
- Big Finish “Interludes” included with some 2023 releases
Radio Free Skaro #887 - Aneurin in the Fire
It’s a slow week for Doctor Who news but that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from prattling on about Gallifrey One and Long Island Who updates, an upcoming book about Doctor Who story editor and writer David Whitaker by one Simon Guerrier, and a deep dive into both forgotten and unused Doctor Who story titles of days gone by and the extensive writing career of one Ingrid Pitt! Myrka kicker, actor, and novelist, oh my!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gally guest announcement, Whittaker receptions
- Katy Manning announced for LI Who
- Jemma Redgrave and Aneurin Barnard join the new series of Doctor Who
- David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television by Simon Guerrier due 2H 2023
- Josephine and the Argonauts by Paul Magrs due Aug 24
Radio Free Skaro #886 - In Vino Veritas
We have an extra special third chair this week, as Erika Ensign of Verity! substitutes for Chris, give us an update on the status of said Doctor Who podcast, and we discuss all manner of Who news including the benefits of combined virtual and in-person cons, new guests coming to Gallifrey One (mere weeks away!) and an onslaught of tat including box sets, audio, digital histories and more! All this and the ever-present Timelash and a staggering web of Who actors related to, partnered with or married to other Who actors that’s sure to confustigate you with befuddlement!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Magazine 586
- Gallifrey One guest announcement
- Verity! appearing virtually at Console Room
- The Smugglers and The Underwater Menace being animated?
- Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to the US on March 28
- Doctor Who The Collection Season 2 coming to Canada on March 28
- Doctor Who: The Complete History being made available digitally, starting with issues 1-20
- Vworp Vworp! Volume 5 available for pre-order
- DWAS Celestial Toyroom Annual 2023 released
- Series 13 Specials Soundtracks on CD due Jan 13
- The Lagoon Monsters 10th Doctor Audio CD
- BF 2022 Short Trip The World Tree available for download
- BF Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due Feb 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unleashed due May 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Daleks! Genesis of Terror due May 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Doctor Who and The Ark due June 2023
- BF Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023
- Doctor Who Relationships twitter thread from @DrWhoCastCrew
- Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who In Memoriam 2022
Radio Free Skaro #885 - Who's There?
Happy New Year! It’s the beginning of 2023 so what better way to ring in the new year with two things recorded in 2022! First we have the Timelash, and then we bring you the adventures of PCap, Bill, and a bunch of wacky termite infested kids as they take on a haunted house, a weirdo landlord and more in our Modern Series Commentary for “Knock Knock”!
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Radio Free Skaro #884 - Holiday Special Deathmatch
Happy Holidays all and especially a Happy Boxing Day to those in Canada and the UK. And quite a sock to the jaw it was to see a Doctor Who 60th anniversary trailer on Xmas Day! Still nothing new with Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Doctor but we do have more of Tennant’s Who the 14th, Donna Noble, and most importantly, Beep The Meep! If that wasn’t enough, we’re joined by Kat Griffiths of Verity! and Erika Ensign of Verity!, Lazy Doctor Who, Total Party Kill and more for the first and only Doctor Who Holiday Death Match where we decide once and for all the all-time champion Xmas/New Year special! Get ready for fierce debate, divisive opinions and…maybe some boxing? Tune in and find out!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- 60th Anniversary Specials teaser
- Ruth Madelay joins the cast
- 60th Anniversary Specials press release
- Gallifrey One guest update
- Mark Tonderai directing for Ncuti Gatwa’s first series
- Doctor Who staying on HBO Max?
- Big Finish Doctor Who —The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Shades of Fear coming February 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: Comrades-in-Arms coming May 2023
- Big Finish Blake’s 7 S1 Novelization box set due May 27, 2023
- Stephen Greif died
- Toby Hadoke’s Chris Boucher obituary
Deathmatch:
Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 23
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 22
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 21
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 20
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 19
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Radio Free Skaro #883 - The Very Powerful and the Very Stupid
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Cosplayer Christmas as Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson aka The Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s respective costumes have been revealed! Listen to two fashion illiterates and one Certified Dandy speculate on what it all means and mostly just deciding they look neat. Also we mourn the loss of Chris Boucher, cogitate upon the mysterious winnowing down of Who content on many services worldwide as the Disney Plus transition looms, and the ever-popular Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- 2022 Fluid Links Advent
- Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume press release
- Ncuti Gatwa/Millie Gibson costume reveal video
- Chris Boucher died
- Is Doctor Who leaving Crave January 6?
- Only three episodes left on TVNZ; Eve of the Daleks leaving January 1
- Most of what’s left of Doctor on ABC iView is leaving by January 9
- Some Classic Doctor Who specials leaving BritBox UK on December 25
- New Season 2 Blu-Ray trailer from Benjamin Cook
- Big Finish War Doctor stories on Radio 4 Extra & BBC Sounds from Dec 17
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Return of Jo Jones due February 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The First Doctor Adventures: The Demon Song due February 2023
- Big Finish Worlds of Doctor Who – Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road due April 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood: The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello due Feb 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood: Among Us – Part 1 due May 2023
- Jane Sherwin died
Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 18
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 17
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 16
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 15
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 14
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 13
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 12
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Radio Free Skaro #882 - A Well-Prepared Meal
It’s another exciting week for fans of one Doctor Who as shooting begins on the Ncuti Gatwa era and the RTD hint-o-rama initiative fills the pages of Doctor Who Magazine. The BBC is planning to go online only over the next decade, saddening owners of CRT televisions all over the United Kingdom, and we have the usual tat and Big Finish news along with a Timelash celebrating(?) Warren’s upcoming birthday. All this and the concluding Classic Series Commentary for “Earthshock”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Filming begins for Ncuti Gatwa
- Doctor Who Magazine 585
- BBC preparing to go online only
- The Curse of Clyde Langer’s iPlayer absence
- First look at Edinburgh’s Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder Exhibition
- Big Finish Short Trips 2022 winner announced
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Short Trips Volume 12 due Feb 2023
- Big Finish The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: All of Time and Space due Feb 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello due Feb 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood The Thirst Trap due Mar 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood Launch Date due Apr 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Connections released
- Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Visitants released
- Doctor Who Production Diary Vol 1 due Summer 2023
- This Is A Fake by Andrew-Mark Thompson due Sep 2, 2023
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2022 edition debuts Dec 25
- Shirley Coward died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 11
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 10
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 9
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 8
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 7
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 6
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 5
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Radio Free Skaro #881 - Beryl Reid's Moon Boots
With Warren in the Eastern Zone of Time, the Three Who Rule spend a late Friday night jabbering about Doctor Who like the cool guys they are (not). This consists of not only the rather light assortment of news for the week but also marvelling over the many and various streaming services giving us random Classic Who 24/7. Living the dream! And indeed you will be too as we also bring you 80s Cybermen waving their fists angrily in Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Earthshock”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gally call for panelists extended to Dec 10
- History of the Doctor Who logo
- Doctor Who Magazine 2023 Yearbook released
- Eve of the Daleks soundtrack released digitally
- The Sarah Jane Adventures on iPlayer
- The Amazing World of Doctor Who: Doctor Who Audio Annual due Apr 20, 2023
- Nightmare Fair audio CD due June 1, 2023
- Silver Nemesis audio CD due July 6, 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Shades of Fear due Feb 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest due Apr 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood: Among Us Part 1, 2, and 3 due May – July 2023
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 4
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 3
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 2
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Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 1
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Radio Free Skaro #880 - The 59th Anniversary Song (Feelin' Groovy)
It’s the 59th anniversary of one Doctor Who television program, and the Three Who Rule examine a cornucopia of celebratory material, including a new actual diamond (illustration) for the iconic diamond logo, Big Finish’s monumentally ambitious, a years-in-the-making multi-Doctor series coming in 2023, substantial rumours of Dalek and Cybermen spinoff shows, and more! Plus we have interviews with Doctor Who Magazine’s Paul Kirkley and Doctor Who writer and fan Beth Axford about the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era! Let’s get a shift on!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- New spinoffs featuring Daleks and Cybermen?
- Doctor Who 60th Anniversary logo
- Anniversary artwork from Lee Binding
- Fourteenth Doctor page on official website
- Thirteenth and Fourteenth Doctor action dollies
- Doctor Who Series 13 Specials soundtrack
- William Russell is officially given Guinness World Record
- Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Time War – Cass due January 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood Double due January 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future due May 2023
- Big Finish War Master Solitary Confinement due June 2023
- Big Finish War Master Rogue Encounters due December 2023
- Big Finish War Master Future Phantoms due December 2024
Feature:
Radio Free Skaro #879 - The Ruby in the Smoke
The TARDIS just got a little more crowded, or at least it will a year from now when just-announced companion Millie Gibson AKA Ruby Sunday joins Ncuti Gatwa AKA The Doctor. We also have a look forward at Gallifrey One which just announced new guests and a look back as we share what we like and what we didn’t about the Chris Chibnall era with friends of the show Sage Young and Graeme Burk! You want opinions, we got ‘em!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Millie Gibson announced as new companion Ruby Sunday
- Millie Gibson announced on Children in Need
- Ncuti Gatwa interviews Millie Gibson
- Gallifrey One mid-November update
- Season 24 gets a UK standard packaging re-release
- Big Finish The First Doctor Adventures: The Demon Song due Feb 2023
- Big Finish UNIT – Nemesis: Objective: Earth available now
Feature:
Radio Free Skaro #878 - A New Body at Last
Chris is back from an undisclosed location and mysterious activities (listen to find out) as we mull over the surfeit of news and views bursting forth from the latest Doctor Who Magazine, rumblings that Doctor Who’s budget could be $10 million an episode thanks to their Disney+ overlords, audio adventures extraordinaire, and more! Plus we have the ever-present Timelash and and exciting excusion into Cyber-based nefariousness with our Classic Series Commentary for Part Two of “Earthshock”!!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Budget could triple, up to £10M per episode
- Doctor Who Magazine 584
- Me & Him & WHO due December 2022
- The Ice Kings audio due January 5, 2023
- The Romans audio due January 5, 2023
- The Renegades audio due February 2, 2023
- The Seeds of Death audio due February 2, 2023
- Four From Doom’s Day audio due June 1, 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood: The Empire Man coming December 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross – AWOL available now
- Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Time War – Cass coming January 2023
- Doctor Who Race to the TARDIS Expanded Universe board game
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Returns December 1
The Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar is returning! From December 1 to 24, each day we’ll answer a Fluid Links question submitted by you, the listeners! You can submit questions to us either on Twitter, using the hashtag #FluidLinks, or comment below on this post. Subscribe to our podcast to receive our episodes on your listening device, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube page for video versions of our Fluid Links episodes!
Radio Free Skaro #877 - Destroy Them At Once
On this thrilling episode of Radio Free Skaro, Chris is on assignment and in his stead the redoubtable Erika Ensign of Verity! fame joins in the fun as we examine the final incidence of Stats (cue the music), Ben Pickles’ amazing show reel from his years on the show, the ever-present Timelash, and part one (featuring Chris!) of our Classic Series Commentary for “Earthshock”! (Cyberman Voice) Excellent!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Final ratings for “The Power of the Doctor”
- “The Power of the Doctor Blu-ray” coming to North America December 13
- “The Power of the Doctor” script now available from BBC Writers Room
- Doctor Who now available until November 6 in Fall Guys video game
- Ben Pickles’ Doctor Who show reel
- William Hartnell Season 2 Collection Blu-ray coming December 5 (UK)
- Gravitas Ventures acquires North American distribution rights for Doctor Who Am I
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: What Lies Inside? now available
- Peter Capaldi announced as recipient of BAFTA Scotland Outstanding Contribution Award 2022
- Dudley Simpson IS Doctor Who season 2
- A World of Demons: The Villains of Doctor Who out now
- Peter Davison wearing his Fifth Doctor costume for photo ops at LI Who
- Tachyon TV returns in 2023
- David Keep
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #876 - The Mouse That Roared
It’s an epic-length RFS this week as the predicted onslaught of RTD2 era-to-be news overwhelms us, including the surprise but not surprise that Disney+ will be the worldwide host of our favorite televsion show everywhere but in the UK, where it will remain on the BBC. New Doctor Ncuti Gatwa is everywhere and everywhen including press conferences, BBC intro videos and more, and we have a look at the MRAHH BUSINESS of it all with media professor and all around fine fellow Derek Kompare! We also have author and Doctor Who screenwriter Paul Cornell with his take on what has come and what is yet to be along with a look at Saucer Country, his latest comic book project. All this AND The TImelash? Yes indeed!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- BBC and Disney Branded Television join forces on Doctor Who
- Ncuti Gatwa Annonunces Doctor Who Is Coming to Disney+
- Ncuti Gatwa photo with the TARDIS
- Ncuti Gatwa attends BBC/Disney+ Launch
- Disney+ Doctor Who launch press conference
- CTV Sci-Fi loses Doctor Who
- BBC America loses Doctor Who
- ABC loses Doctor Who
- TVNZ loses Doctor Who
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Guide to Doctor Who
- New Doctor Who logo unveiled
- The Power of the Doctor BBC One overnight viewing figures
- The Power of the Doctor BBC One Appreciation Index
- The Power of the Doctor BBC America ratings
- The Power of the Doctor Behind the Regeneration video
- Tennant & Tate’s specials costumes on display at MCM Comic-Con
- William Russell sets Guinness World Record
- Six new Character Options action dollies sets due in November
- Character Options video about the new sets
- Gallifrey One panels announced, call for panelists opened
- Series 4 wins a Radio Times poll for best NuWho series
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Kaleidoscope available
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #875 - And Introducing David Tennant as The Doctor
It’s the end of an era, but the moment has been prepared for! But have the Three Who Rule prepared for the cavalcade of companions, story threads (tied up) and FEELS of “The Power of the Doctor”? What do they think of our new 14th Doctor, who is also our old 10th and possibly 10.5 and definitely Handy Doctor? Or in the words of the man himself, “What? What? WHAT??”
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Power of the Doctor
- Farewell, Jodie and Mandip!
- David Tennant is the Fourteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa the Fifteenth
- Three 2023 specials confirmed, will air for the 60th anniversary in November
- Ncuti Gatwa’s first episode will be in the 2023 “festive period”
- 2023 teaser video
- David Tennant discusses returning to the role of The Doctor
- Regeneration trailer
- Liz Truss almost broke the trend of a UK PM having a Who episode go out during their tenure, sort of
- Gallifrey One mid-October update
- LI Who Meglos guest list
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Connections due Dec 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: He Who Fights With Monsters due Dec 2022
- Big Finish Class: Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince due Jan 2023
- Big Finish Torchwood: SUV available
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: The Unbegotten available
- Temporal Logbook III: Changed Lives from Pencil Tip Publishing released, supporting SETTLED
- Chris on the Pull to Open podcast
Radio Free Skaro #874 - The End of the Time of The Power of The Doctor
There is only one week left in the era of the Jodie Whittaker era of Doctor Who! This week saw the (embargoed) premiere in the UK, a broadcast time (at last), and some promotional material, care of Doctor Who Magazine. Kyle Anderson from Nerdist drops by to give his thoughts and opinions on the lead-up to the Whittaker/Chibnall finale, plus the era as a whole. Next week: new Doctor Who!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Power of the Doctor press screening held Oct 11
- The Power of the Doctor BBC One broadcast will be at 7:30pm
- TVNZ will simulcast The Power of the Doctor
- Doctor Who Magazine 583 released
- The Power of the Doctor UK Steelbook/Blu-Ray/DVD release Nov 7
- Big Finish Rose Tyler – The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds available
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who — Master! Nemesis Express available
- Doctor Who: Special 2023 from Titan Comics due Aug 15, 2023
Radio Free Skaro #873 - Is That All There Is
All hail Jodie Whittaker, for she is the headlining guest of Gallifrey One 2023 and that is wondrous for all and sundry. We also, shockingly enough, have a new (but underwhelming) trailer for “The Power of the Doctor”, confirmed to grace our airwaves October 23! Plus a traipse through The Timelash, the Radio Times appealing to hoarders everywhere to give up missing episodes, and for all you sports fans out there, the RFS hat trick of Steven finally getting COVID! All curse the Swarm!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Jodie Whittaker to headline Gallifrey One 2023
- The Power of the Doctor trailer, October 23 broadcast confirmed
- Ace has her iconic bomber jacket in The Power of the Doctor
- Doctor Who Magazine 583
- RTD will be around for at least two series
- Radio Times missing episodes treasure hunt
- Season 8 Blu-Ray to get UK reissue in standard packaging Nov 14
- Doctor Who Am I UK Blu-Ray release Nov 28
- Demon Quest 10 LP limited release signed by Tom Baker
- Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Visitants due December 2022
- Big Finish The Doctor Chronicles: The Eleventh Doctor: Geronimo! released
- Titan Comics Doctor Who #1 from Nov 2020 released for free
- Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection Volume 2 due Dec 1
- GoFundMe for Lynne & Michael Thomas
Radio Free Skaro #872 - Don't You Think She Looks Tired?
It’s Part the Second of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director James Hawes, with our hot takes about shows from more than a decade ago, namely “The Christmas Invasion”, “New Earth”, and “School Reunion”! What are our thoughts? You’ll have to drum your fingers waiting as we cogitate about Big Finish releases, the ever-present Timelash, Tennant, Tate and lockdowns and the ever-present blight of prequels in today’s streaming media environment!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Tennant & Tate’s return was spawned from the lockdown tweetalongs
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who — Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross — AWOL coming Nov 2022
- Big Finish UNIT — Nemesis: Objective: Earth due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Star Cops – The High Frontier: 1 due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War — Destiny now available
- Big Finish Doctor Who — Unbound: 1-8 Collected available now
- 1968 BBC training film
- 1974 Making Match of the Day
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #871 - One Louder
A monumental episode as there are now more Radio Free Skaro episodes in the wild than there are Doctor Who episodes! And to celebrate this, Chip from Two-minute Time Lord joins us to give us a temperature check on the current state of Doctor Who. Also, we present the first half of our Miniscope on Doctor Who director James Hawes, who helmed “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- BBC officially unveils Centenary special title and artwork, but no broadcast date
- The Power of the Doctor promo photos, part the first
- The Power of the Doctor promo photos, part the second
- RTD posted a group shot of him, Gatwa, Collinson and Andy Pryor
- Big Finish Torchwood: A Postcard from Mr Colchester freebie released
- Big Finish Torchwood: Death in Venice released
- The Art of Phil Bevan due in October from Telos Publishing
- The Doctor Who (Unofficial) Quiz Book due Oct 13
- Cyberman: The Quest for Pedler revised limited edition hardback available from Fantom Publishing
- Coventry University naming its new arts and humanities building after Delia Derbyshire
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #870 - Doctor Who Title Generator
After months of waiting, drumming our fingers, and alternating between hype and apathy, or hype-athy if you will, we finally have a title for Jodie Whittaker’s final story as the Thirteenth Doctor, and that title is…The Power of the Doctor. Not much to go on, but that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from mightily cogitating based on those five words, as well as talking about the new Flux soundtrack, Daleks in comic strip form, more Big Finish stuff, and as always, The Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Magazine 582 reveals “The Power of the Doctor” as the centenary special title
- Doctor Who: Flux soundtrack release info
- Doctor Who Chronicles Issue 6: 1973 due Oct 6
- Daleks: Ultimate Comic Strip Collection due Oct 1
- Time Meddler BFI screening Oct 29, in support of Season 2 Blu-Ray
- Doctor Who Am I new trailer
- Big Finish Torchwood: SUV due Oct 2022
- Big Finish UNIT – Nemesis: Objective: Earth due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions released
Radio Free Skaro #869 - A Belly Full of Wine
It is a sad day worldwide as noted Doctor Who fan Queen Elizabeth II has passed onto her final rest, and at any rate we have very little Who news to discuss but we do have Big Finish updates, a Cubicle7 Doctor Who RPG Humble Bundle, Steven and Erika are Hugo winners again but most importantly The Timelash delves into Doctor Who history and plumbs the depths of trivial nonsense for you, dear listener!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Elizabeth II was a Doctor Who fan
- Tom Kingsley reportedly directing Doctor Who
- Season 13 specials Steelbook etc releases due, no date set
- Doctor Who Am I UK DVD release November 7
- Dr Who and the Daleks vinyl & Blu-Ray set due October 31
- Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD vinyl & Blu-Ray set due October 31
- Gary Russell talks of “recasting” The Abominable Snowmen for the animated release
- Cubicle7 Humble Bundle in support of Children in Need
- Black Archive #21 – 30 bundle now available
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross — AWOL due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: What Lies Inside? due Nov 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty 2 now available
- 2022 Hugo Awards
Radio Free Skaro #868 - I Think It's Going To Be a Long, Long Time
The Fallow Times of No Doctor Who and Even Less Information continues, but our friends across the pond at least had events with real live Doctor Who people to meet at FCC Birmingham and Whooverville 13, Abominable Snowmen BFI excitement, and most importantly, our thoughts on Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and even more importantly still a pristine copy of William Shatner in his 1978 performance of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” in pristine 3/4-inch U-matic quality! All of which is mere lead in to The Timelash, hashing out key (and not so key) dates in Doctor Who history so you don’t have to!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Abominable Snowmen Blu-Ray trailer
- Black Archives #60 – The Sun Makers now available
- Big Finish The Third Doctor Adventures: Kaleidoscope due Oct 2022
- Titan Comics Doctor Who: Origins 4, last of the Fugitive Doctor series, now available
- First-generation copy of William Shatner’s “Rocket Man” found
Radio Free Skaro #867 - Panic! At the Disco
Yes, the moment you’ve all waited for is happening, the official airdate for the as yet unnamed Doctor Who Centenary Special is….sometime in October. No, what we’re ACTUALLY excited about is the return of the Timelash, where we hash over decades-old minutiae to paper over the fact we have next to nothing for news to report. But we do have the conclusion of our gripping two-part commentary for “The Trial of a Time Lord”, Part Fourteen! Megabyte that modem with some carrot juice!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Doctor Who Centenary special will air in October
- Big Finish The Fourth Doctor Adventures: New Frontiers, with Anjli Mohindra, coming March 2023
- Big Finish Gallifrey – War Room: Allegiance released
- Big Finish Torchwood: Suckers released
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #866 - Still in the Nursery
What mysteries are in store for us with David Tennant’s already intriguing return in the year of 2023? A recent appearance by Ol’ Ten himself at a Boston convention hints at a lot while saying nothing, and a new trailer for the Doctor Who Season 2 – The Collection highlights the return of Vicki (aka Maureen O’Brien!) Plus there’s the usual tat and Big Finish missives and the start of our two-part Classic Series Commentary for “The Trial of a Time Lord”, Part the Thirteenth! Masters and Valeyards and the Matrix, oh my!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Tennant said many more people are involved in his filming
- Season 2 announced for next Blu-Ray collection
- Season 2 Blu-Ray trailer
- Season 2 Blu-Ray Amazon Canada preorder
- Season 2 Blu-Ray Amazon US preorder
- Doctor Who 10th most-watched Box Set on iPlayer, Apr-Jun 2022
- Doctor Who Magazine 581 released
- Andrew Skilleter 2023 Doctor Who art calendar available for preorder
- Doctor Who coming to Magic: The Gathering
- The Celestial Toymaker coming to vinyl
- BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcasting some Tennant Big Finish audios
- Big Finish Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Geronimo! due October 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Into the Stars released
- Doctor Who nominated for 2022 Saturn Award
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #865 - Legacy Panel
It’s the sixteenth(!) anniversary of Radio Free Skaro and what better way to celebrate than with a trivia contest with questions ranging from gimme to nigh-impossible about Doctor Who featuring not only the Three Who Rule but also Erika Ensign and Kat Griffiths of Verity! Cheer, boo, cogitate alongside and stifle a swear or two as we’re all subjected to a barrage of factoids from Jacqueline Rayner’s “Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book”, a fine tome written by a Who expert and not an intern at the Trivial Pursuit ofice! Plus the usual news and nonsense but mostly…trivia!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti Gatwa begins filming in November
- Christmas specials to return?
- Andy Pryor talked of the drive to cast more disabled actors
- Gallifrey One discussion panel/TARDIS Talks submissions close Aug 15
- Character Options 8th & 10th Doctors and Daleks
- Doctor Who Am I bought by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution
- Series 13 to air in France on NRJ 12 in France
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: The Unbegotten coming October 2022
- Big Finish Torchwood: SUV due Oct 2022, The Lincolnshire Poacher Nov 2022, The Empire Man Dec 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The War Doctor Begins: He Who Fights Monsters coming Dec 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Undreamed available now
Trivia:
Radio Free Skaro #864 - Home of Genredoms
It’s been a week of HBO intrigues as the American home of Doctor Who (for now) goes through massive structural changes, ditches the $90 million Batgirl film for a tax writedown, and presumably turns everything it owns into a reality show. Here to explain the business machinations, or at least further muddy the waters, are the Three Who Rule. But there’s more in the form of a Chicago Fan Expo panel featuring our very own Steven, Erika Ensign of the Verity! Podcast, Nerdist senior editor and friend of the show Kyle Anderson, and academic and Who impresario Paul Booth!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Ncuti Gatwa to return for Sex Education season 4
- HBO Max in trouble?
- Cybus Industries countdown
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 61 “Guest Stars” due Aug 11
- Doctor Who and the Daleks illustrated hardcover
- Big Finish The Diary of River Song: Friend of the Family due Jan 2023
- Big Finish The Diary of River Song: Two Rivers and a Firewall released
- Nichelle Nichols died
Feature:
Radio Free Skaro #863 - Sax and Drums and Rock and Roll
It’s the return of the Three Who Rule as Chris rejoins the august Radio Free Skaro crew from his recent sojourns in the United Kingdom and it’s a tragedy that it is in the sad circumstances of the passing of acting titans and Doctor Who stars Bernard Cribbins and David Warner this week. We pay tribute to these two gentlemen of stage and screen as well as looking at the latest Big Finish releases, and indeed a Humble Bundle that you will purchase! We also have a Miniscope about Doctor Who composer Carey Blyton featuring musician and Youtube impresario Jess Jurkovic!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Bernard Cribbins died
- RTD’s tribute to Cribbins
- Tennant and Tate’s tribute to Cribbins
- David Warner died
- Abominable Snowmen UK home media release due Sep 5
- Abominable Snowmen BFI screening Sep 3
- Big Finish Humble Bundle
- Big Finish Classic Doctors New Monsters: Broken Memories due Oct 2023
- Big Finish Classic Doctors New Monsters: The Stuff of Nightmares released
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #862 - When You Wish Upon a Star
Two Who Rule (Steven and Warren) have returned from exile on Dulkis (vacation) this week and in lieu of Chris, who continues to explore the farthest corners of the United Kingdom, we have esteemed guest co-host Dr. Heather Berberet, psychologist and frequent guest host! Just as importantly, Heather is in San Diego giving us boots on the ground insights on goings on at San Diego Comic Con, as well as weighing in on such topics as Disney possibly distributing the RTD2 era of Doctor Who, Segun Akinola leaving the show, and a sad day for tat collectors as Eaglemoss goes out of business. But cheer up! Bonhomie, jocularity and optimism are our watchwords as we ascend to your podcast listening devices once more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Disney in Talks With BBC to Stream ‘Doctor Who’ Series
- First Gallifrey One 2023 Guests Announced
- Doctor Who Magazine #580
- Segun Akinola leaving Doctor Who at end of Whittaker run
- Doctor Who Confidential aka Doctor Who Unleashed to return?
- An Interview With BBC Studios CEO Tom Fussell
- BBC Studios Posts Record Annual Financials as Production Sales Jump 56 Percent
- BBC Drama total budget vs. streaming hits
- Doctor Who science exhibition Worlds of Wonder heads to Scotland
- Part Works publisher Eaglemoss goes out of business
- Titan Comics Doctor Who Humble Bundle until July 29
- The Doctor Who Quiz Book by Beth Axford due September 29
- Matthew Sweet’s BBC programme about the Dalek movies
- Doctor Who at the BBC: The Collection: The First Nine Volumes due December 1
- Big Finish Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games released
- Big Finish Torchwood: Death in Venice ft Ace due September 2022
- Big Finish Doctor Who — The Third Doctor Adventures: Kaleidoscope due October 2022
- Big Finish Star Cops – The High Frontier 1 due November 2022
- Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Visitants due December 2022
- Big Finish The War Master: Escape from Reality due December 2022
- Anjli Mohindra Returns as Rani in Big Finish
Radio Free Skaro #861 - European Vacation
It’s week two (of two) of our vacation, so her his our second episode composed entirely of Fluid Links! Your comments and questions, sent to us and randomly drawn, answered, deliberated, and discussed!
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Radio Free Skaro #860 - Holiday Road
With the Three Who Rule taking a vacation in various parts of the world, for the first time since 2010, we’re banking a couple episodes composed entirely of Fluid Links! Your comments and questions, sent to us and randomly drawn, answered, deliberated, and discussed!
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Radio Free Skaro #859 - The Omelette Memorandum
It’s Vacations Eve for Steven and Chris and besides that the news of the week is weirdly enough Ryan Gosling wearing a Ncuti Gatwa T-shirt but hey, we’ll take what we can get! And what we get is pretty much the Timelash, a ton of Big Finish including Chronovore Content (or Chron-Con as it is also known) from Friend of the Show Liz Myles, and the finale of our gripping Classic Series Commentary for Part Four of “The Space Museum”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- BritBox expands its spending
- Ryan Gosling wears Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor shirt
- Shirt designed by Matthew Purchase
- The BBC removed the design from RedBubble
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Into the Stars due August 2022
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Undreamed due August 2022
- Big Finish Master!: Nemesis Express due October 2022
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths due November 2022
- Big Finish Seventh Doctor Adventures: Silver and Ice released
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #858 - Freedom of Choice
It’s the Time Before the Time of The RTD this week, as showrunner part deux Russels T Davies was a guest on the Triple C (Creative Confidence Collective) webinar and spoke of disability in the media, his writing process, creativity and the current state of the world, and we at RFS have listened and jotted down our meanderings. There’s also additional photographic evidence of Neil Patrick Harris being in Doctor Who to mull over, a call for Gallifrey One discussion panel topics and TARDIS Talks, our usual wallowing in the past with the Timelash, and part three of the gripping 1960s serial “The Space Museum” to outright ignore and blather over! Enjoy!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- RTD Webinar
- David Tennant & Neil Patrick Harris set photo
- Doctor Who Magazine 579 released
- Gally discussion panel submissions open
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Nine released
- Big Finish Torchwood: Dead Plates released
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #857 - The Blue Box Files
Plenty of news this week, including the arrival of one Neil Patrick Harris in some form or fashion for the 60th anniversary celebrations of one Doctor Who next year, playing…that would be telling. Also a ton of Target novelizations, audio dramas both Big Finish and otherwise and Cubicle7 tabletop role playing game fun is on the way AND we have an interview with Ella Watts, the director/producer of Doctor Who Redacted, the 10-part BBC Sounds podcast-o-rama featuring everyone’s favourite Time Lord and a crew of investigators out to crack the code of the Blue Box! VWORP!!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Neil Patrick Harris joins Doctor Who
- Russell T Davies posted a pic of Neil Patrick Harris in costume
- 2022 Target books due July 14
- Fires of Pompeii audio release due July 14
- Eaters of Light audio release due July 14
- The Resurrection Plant audio release due Aug 4
- The Android Invasion audio release due Aug 4
- The Keys of Marinus audio release due Sep 1
- The Second Earth Adventures collection due Sep 1
- Doctor Who Chronicles 5: 1967 now available
- Doctor Who Annual 2023 due Sep 1
- Cubicle 7 Doctor Who RPG Secrets of Scaravore due Q1 2023
- Cubicle 7 Doctor Who RPG Game Master screen due Q1 2023
- Big Finish The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Undreamed ft Cherylee Houston due Aug 2022
- Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Adventures: What Lies Inside? and Connections due fall 2022
- Big Finish The War Master: Self-Defence new available
- Midnight as a stage play
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #856 - The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobos
The fallow times continue with mere dribs (not even drabs available) of news this week other than one Big Finish adventure, Pluto TV arriving soon in the Great White North, and Steven appearing soon at a Doctor panel at Chicago Fan Expo, but somehow the Three Who Rule managed to get 50 minutes of joyful banter and abject nonsense out of their brains for you dear listener, all before continuing with our exciting and as-always totally on topic commentary for the hell-bent for leather adventure saga “The Space Museum”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Big Finish Out of Time 3: Wink released
- PlutoTV coming to Canada Fall 2022
- Terrance Dicks A Celebration Oct 2
- Fan Expo Chicago July 7-10
Commentary
Radio Free Skaro #855 - Anarchy in the UK
Have you ever wanted to manage the Doctor Who brand? Yes, the dream of many a British schoolchild can be yours if you have extensive experience in said management of brands and Doctor Who and probably a bunch of other stuff dummies like the Three Who Rule don’t understand. And that’s the news as new Doctor Who continues to be made, away from prying eyes! But we also have perennial fan favorite (is it though?) the Timelash, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary about anything but “The Space Museum”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who seeking another Brand Manager
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Into the Stars due Aug 2022
- Fourth and Twelfth Doctor Build-A-Bears
- LI Who Meglos 2022 welcomes Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Sophie Aldred, Frazer Hines, David J Howe and Samantha Howe
Radio Free Skaro #854 - The Redemption of Innes Lloyd
We return to the Times of Fallowness after weeks of blockbuster news involving new and old Doctors and other such delights, but we still have cogent analysis of the BBC’s new digital machinations, insane tale-spinning about Steven traveling back to 1975 and saving missing episodes from incinerator-loving poltroons in The Timelash, the usual tat and nonsense and and AND…that’s it. Banter! Enjoy it! Or else!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Plan to deliver a “digital first” BBC
- BBC Four and CBBC moving online
- Worlds of Wonder exhibition open in Liverpool, runs until Oct 30
- Season 22 Blu-Ray due Oct 18 in North America
- Abominable Snowmen Blu-Ray due Dec 6 in North America
- Doctor Who Magazine 578 released
- Doctor Who Chronicles #5 1967 coming soon
- DWAS released Pets in Time, a charity anthology supporting the RSPCA
- Big Finish War Master: Escape from Reality due Dec 2022
- Big Finish The Diary of River Song: Two Rivers and a Firewall due August 2022
- Edge of Reality and The Lonely Assassins getting a physical console release together Oct 18
- Doctor Who Am I won the Sci Fi London Film Festival Audience Award
- The Game of Rassilon Season 4 coming soon
Radio Free Skaro #853 - A Rose by Any Other Name
The casting announcements will continue because morale improves! Official news from Auntie Beeb about Yasmin Finney joining the cast as Rose (but not THAT Rose, despite what Variety may say) as well as one Rachel Talalay AKA SuperWhoDirector back on the show! Plus the usual audio, Terry Nation Army and Timelash shenanigans and a feature interview with Matthew Jacobs and Vanessa Yuille, the co-directors and co-producers of fandom-focused documentary Doctor Who Am I!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Yasmin Finney cast as Rose
- “Lily” casting notice from March
- Filming with Tennant and Tate has begun, Rachel Talalay directing
- Season 22 Blu-Ray UK release due June 20
- Doctor Who Magazine 578 due May 26
- Terry Nation Army: Movie Daleks Cross into the TV Series: An Expensive Failure
- Time Fracture closing in early June
- The Sensorites vinyl release due July 22
- Series 1 & 2 soundtrack re-release on vinyl due May 27
- Big Finish Gallifrey: War Room due July 2022
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures: New Frontiers due March 2023
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Water Worlds now available
- Big Finish Torchwood: War Chest now available
- Isle of Man issued BBC Centenary stamps including a Doctor Who stamp
- Vangelis died
Feature:
Radio Free Skaro #852 - Happy Times and Places
BREAKING NEWS KLAXON! Everything old is new again as only a week after the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, the BBC and Russell T Davies have announced the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the show in a series of specials that…could be pretty much anything, given Mr. Davies’ proclivity for mystery. What are the Three Who Rule’s take on this stunner of an update? You can probably guess from our previous rantings and/or praise, but tune in anyway! All of this is not to overshadow a corker of an interview with Who expert, actor, podcaster and Friend Of The Show Toby Hadoke, along with news of tat, annuals, Big Finish goings-on, and the Timelash! So please, if you will, Allons-y!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Whittaker’s finale to air in October, will be 90 minutes
- James Cooray Smith writes about Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor
- Moffat talks Gatwa
- McCoy & Capaldi congratulate Gatwa, Gatwa replies to McCoy
- Big Finish War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds released
- Big Finish Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War – Destiny due September 2022
- Hornet’s Nest signed vinyl collection available
- Legend of the Sea Devils script available at the BBC Writer’s Room site
- Nothing at the End of the Lane breakdown on Shada
- Unofficial 1988 Annual due this month
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #851 - Ncuti Gatwa is The Doctor
Lo and behold, a new Doctor Who has appeared! Ncuti Gatwa is the new (but interestingly, not announced as the 14th) Doctor, as seen by an interview on the BAFTAs red carpet with Gatwa himself and one Russell T Davies. With months to go before Jodie Whittaker’s final foray as her incarnation of the Doctor and more waiting besides after that, let the baseless speculation commence! We also have news from Big Finish, Dominic Glynn’s historic Korg synthesizer can be YOURS (for a price), and the ever-present Timelash! But most importantly…GATWA!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Instagram post ahead of the BBC announcement
- Ncuti Gatwa & RTD interviewed at the BAFTAs
- Ncuti Gatwa Netflix interview from 2020
- UK relaxes COVID filming restrictions
- Doctor Who Am I premiering at Sci-Fi London on May 21
- Dominic Glynn selling autographed CDs of his Doctor Who work
- Dominic Glynn selling his Korg M1 used for Survival
- Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder opens this summer in Liverpool
- Radiophonic Workshop performing at the Science Museum Oct 7
- Big Finish Audio Novels: The Dead Star due Jan 2023
- Big Finish Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest due Apr 2023
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures Back to Earth released
- Big Finish Paul Spragg annual Short Trips competition opens, runs through end of June
Radio Free Skaro #850 - The Memory Cheats
This week in the first (of two?) Radio Free Skaro episodes, it’s the final revenge of STATS! at least until the Autumn and the Three Who Rule examine how Legend of the Sea Devils did in a historical context, a gripping start to an episode featuring Big Finish news, the return of the Terry Nation Army, the ever-present Timelash and, as a special treat, an interview with author Richard Molesworth about his new book The John Nathan-Turner Doctor Who Production Diary 1979-1990!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils final BBC One viewing figures 3.47M
- Doctor Who Magazine 577 released
- Eve of the Daleks/Legend of the Sea Devils UK Blu-Ray release May 23
- The Production Diary of John Nathan-Turner
- The Daily Doctor book due September 22
- Terry Nation Army Season 2 begins
- Big Finish Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 3 due August 2022, Volume 4 due October 2023
- Tribute to Verity Lambert at Riverside Studios May 29
- Ann Davies died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #849 - Running Out The Clock in Florida
To the dread of Warren and delight of Steven and Chris, STATS return (and they are abysmal) for “Legend of the Sea Devils”, which spins off into a multi-faceted diatribe on the current state of streaming, including the abject failure of CNN+ and the rapid descent (more STATS) of Netflix’s subscriber base. But lest you think there’s no Doctor Who content we have news of Jo Martin and Sacha Dhawan joining the ranks of Big Finish, comics and Gallifrey One hotel booking info, and rounding it all out…The Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils BBC One overnight viewing figures
- Legend of the Sea Devils BBC America overnight ratings
- Legend of the Sea Devils behind the scenes video
- Lizo Mzimba said the next Doctor may be announced soon
- BritBox expanding across Scandinavia
- Gallifrey One hotel booking information
- The Fugitive Doctor and Sacha Dhawan’s Master join Big Finish
- Big Finish Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon Volume 2 Other Worlds due October
- Big Finish The War Master: Self-defence due June
- Big Finish The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games due July
- First look at Titan Comics Doctor Who Special 2022, due July 7
Radio Free Skaro #848 - There Should Have Been Another Way
It’s a live episode of Doctor Who and a livestream of Radio Free Skaro as the Three Who Rule don their flippers and talk in low whispers about “Legend of the Sea Devils”, a veritable gumbo of Thasmin, piracy and pieced together but somewhat enjoyable nonsense. But hey, how about that densely packed next time trailer that you’ll have to wait to see until October (maybe?). In the meantime, revel in our Timelash-ing, the Cushing films adding a couple K to their filmic resolution, a DWM action figure spectacularo and more! Li-s-s-s-s-t-e-n!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils
- Radio Free Skaro twitter poll
- Eve of the Daleks/Legend of the Sea Devils due June 28 on Blu-Ray in Canada
- The Master, Daleks, Cybermen, Ace, Tegan and others return for Whittaker’s final episode
- Doctor Who website refresh
- Peter Cushing Doctor Who Movies get UK re-release July 10, 4K Blu-Ray release in June/July
- BFI screening of the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies June 19
- Trailer for 4K release of Cushing Doctor Who movies
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 60: Action Figures The Essential Guide 1963-1996 due April 21
- Big Finish Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War – Genesis released
- Sonny Caldinez died
- Jeremy Young died
Radio Free Skaro #847 - Our Flag Means Death
With a week to go before Sea Devils become Legendary, the Three Who Rule are trawling through what little promotion has eked out of the BBC and its subordinate broadcasters to divine just what we’re in for as of April 17. But that day will not only mark the return of our soggy beaked friends but also the debut of a new dramatic Doctor Who podcast called Doctor Who: Redacted, the return of the LAX Marriott HOTELPOCALYPSE on May 6, Peter Capaldi at 18 meeting Jon Pertwee, and the final episode of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of Evil”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils goes out at 7:10pm on BBC One
- BBC America debuts Legend of the Sea Devils at 2:10pm EDT
- Legend of the Sea Devils behind the scenes photos
- Doctor Who: Redacted official podcast debuts April 17
- Gallifrey One 2023 con hotel reservations open May 6
- Sophie Aldred added for Chicago TARDIS, hotel reservations open
- Samsung Plus Doctor Who channel
- Peter Capaldi with Jon Pertwee in 1976
- Big Finish Seventh Doctor Adventures: Silver and Ice due June 2022
- Big Finish Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty 2 due September 2022
- Big Finish Out of Time unofficial companion animation done by Josh Snares
- 2022 Hugo Awards finalists announced, to be presented at Chicon 8 in September
- June Brown died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #846 - He's Not That Special
Doctor Who fandom is aflutter this week with the release of a glorious new trailer announcing the casting of none other than Matt Berry as the new Doctor Who! Of course this was all a cunning April Fool’s jape by none other than Who animator Rob Ritchie, but if you enjoy profane nonsense we highly recommend it. The REAL trailer this week for “Legend of the Sea Devils” also charmed us with its soggy swashbuckling (of seatbelts), and of course we have the usual Big Finish blast of new announcements, Peter Davison convention shenanigans, and the third episode of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of Evil”! Enjoy, or be banished to a pit full of anti-matter!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils trailer
- Legend of the Sea Devils airs April 17 on BBC One
- Legend of the Sea Devils airs April 17 on BBC America
- Legend of the Sea Devils airs April 17 on CTV Sci-Fi
- Legend of the Sea Devils airs April 18 in Australia
- Legend of the Sea Devils airs April 18 in New Zealand
- Toast of London Doctor Who April Fool’s video by Rob Ritchie
- Peter Davison at Wales Comic-Con
- Gallifrey One 2023 tickets now on sale
- Noel Clarke allegations will not be investigated by The Met
- Doctor Who Magazine 576 released
- Big Finish Mind of the Hodiac now available
- Big Finish Torchwood: War Chest due May 2022
- Big Finish Torchwood: Dead Plates due June 2022
- Big Finish Emancipation of the Daleks audio novel, read by Dan Starkey, due July 2022
- Wonderful Books video on TARDIS materialization
- Doctor Who The Return of Robin Hood by Paul Magrs due July 21, 2022
- Gary Russell won the first annual Terrance Dicks Award for Writers at The Capitol
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #845 - Nothing Hill
Hugh Grant’s short national nightmare is over, as the dapper gent himself dismissed all speculation that he is in the running as the next Dr Who and thus sent the pondering hordes back to their speculations. But you, dear listener, need not ponder about the other news this week as we have not-quite-breaking missives about new “Legend of the Sea Devils” pictures, a trip through the Timelash, a surfeit of Big Finish releases yet to come, many of which are authored by Friend Of The Show and Verity! co-host Lizbeth Myles, and Part Two of our “Planet of Evil” Classic Series Commentary! Contain that anti-matter!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Legend of the Sea Devils promo pics
- Hugh Grant is not The Doctor
- Redesign of the Sea Devils
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures – Water Worlds due May 2022
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures – The Nine due June 2022
- Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Seabird One due June 2022
- Big Finish Master! Nemesis Express due October 2022
- Big Finish Torchwood – The Black Knight by Liz Myles released
- Dr. Who & the Daleks: The Official Story of the Films book due September 6
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #844 - The 4H Club
Another fallow week of news and surprisingly little tat as we tap our toes and twiddle our thumbs in anticipation of “Legend of the Sea Devils” but we do have confused old person ramblings about Fortnite, nostalgic old person waxings in The Timelash, and the first part of our elderly Classic Series Commentary musings about the classic 1975 Doctor Who story “Planet of Evil”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One 2023 tickets go on sale April 2
- Doctor Who in Fortnite
- Doctor Who Fortnite video
- Big Finish The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Back to Earth due May 2022
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures – Solo released
- Doctor Who Series 11/12 Trading Cards due May 18
- DWAS creates the Terrance Dicks Award for Writers, first to be given at The Capitol April 2/3
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #843 - Paint It, Black
It’s another week where the Doctor Who news is thin on the ground and Christopher Eccleston offhandedly calling multi-Doctor stories a “cash grab” is grist for the clickbait mills but hold on to your hats, because we have a Miniscope about Ian Stuart Black, the writer of not only “The Savages”, but also “The War Machines” and and AND “The Macra Terror”! Buckle up, crab enthusiasts!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Eccleston preemptively says no to multi-Doctor story
- Big Finish: The Eighth of March – Protectors of Time released
- Big Finish: The Diary of River Song – Two Rivers and a Firewall due August 2022
- First Doctor Who touch-to-see draft given to Louis Moorhouse
- Lynda Baron died
- Stewart Bevan obituary by Toby Hadoke
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #842 - A Wolf at the Door
This week on Radio Free Skaro: Russell T Davies teases imminent production of Doctor Who, a historic anniversary, more speculation on BBC America’s future with Doctor Who, a monumental day to look back at in The Timelash, and Emily Cook drops by to talk about Doctor Who Magazine 575!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Russell T Davies at Wolf Studios
- Doctor Who Magazine 575
- Chicago TARDIS 2022 first guests
- Big Finish Stranded 4 due April
- Big Finish First Doctor Adventures – The Outlaws due April
- Big Finish UNIT: Nemesis – Agents of the Vulpreen released
- Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner reprint due March 14
- Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse
- Mary Whitehouse diaries
- Inside the Mary Whitehouse diaries
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #841 - After the Gold Rush
It’s the week after Gallifrey One and Steven is full of stories, adventures and happy thoughts about his experiences at the con, as all three of those Who Rule look forward to the recently announced 33 1/3 edition of Gallifrey One in 2023. Plus we dip into the distant past via The Timelash, talk VCR archeology and network TV, and plow through a veritable mountain of audio and dolly tat, and more! Your ears are required!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One 2022 Recap
- Gallifrey One 2023 will be February 17-19
- Season 17 North American Blu-Ray moved up to April 5
- Dead Air vinyl due on Record Store Day, April 23
- The Code of Flesh audio due Oct 6, 2022
- The Ice Kings audio due Jan 5, 2023
- The Time Monster audio due Mar 16, 2023
- Warriors of the Deep audio due May 4, 2023
- The Fires of Pompeii audio due Jul 14, 2022
- The Zygon Invasion audio due Jul 14, 2022
- The Eaters of Light audio due Jul 14, 2022
- Big Finish Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon due October
- Big Finish Gallifrey War Room begins July 2022, wraps up Feb 2025
- Big Finish Torchwood One: Nightmares due Apr 2022
- Big Finish Bayban Ascending audio book available
- Warriors of the Deep Character Options action dollies set
- Hallmark itty bittys 4th Doctor and Dalek plush set available
- Cubicle 7 announces Doctors & Daleks RPG, and a separate RPG using D&D 5e rules
- Cutaway Comics Gods and Monsters kickstarter
- Stewart Bevin died
- Henry Lincoln died
Radio Free Skaro #840 - The Sweet Hereafter
Our last podcast of the weekend at Gallifrey One features an interview with journalist, writer, and TV critic Matthew Sweet, responsible for those stellar long form interviews on the Doctor Who Blu-ray sets. And Chip from Two-Minute Time Lord and Erika from Verity! join Steven to wrap up the day and the convention as a whole. It’s been a wonderful weekend of healing and togetherness and we hope the podcasts this weekend helped share the atmosphere here with you.
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Radio Free Skaro #839 - The Bask of Mandragora
The second of three podcasts this weekend from Gallifrey One is all recorded outside in the balmy, sunny, COVID-safe surroundings of the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles! First up, guest host Paul Booth talks about both his experiences with the Doctor Who TARDIS Talks this year, as well as a similar 60th anniversary pilgrimage to what Steven is undergoing. Then, Rob Ritchie, ex(?) of the Doctor Who animated range talks about the future of the range and his work on it up until now. Sunglasses on!
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Radio Free Skaro #838 - Radio Free Skaro: In Flux
After a year away, Radio Free Skaro is happy and proud to be back at Gallifrey One in 2022! With two-thirds of the Three Who Rule unable to be here this year, it is up to Steven and trusty sidekick/tech producer Chip Sudderth to kick off the festivities with RADIO FREE SKARO: IN FLUX, the first live show of the weekend with guests Sylvester McCoy, Matt Strevens, Jon Davey, Jonathan Watson, and Stephen Gallagher!
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Radio Free Skaro #837 - The Mask of Mandragora
It’s that time of year again, as Galllifrey 2022 arrives next week and with it will come the live show “Radio Free Skaro: In Flux” and with THAT will come the Two-Minute Time Lord himself, Chip Sudderth, who will be in Los Angeles along with Steven and is in fact here now on this very program! As is tradition we highlight the many highlights of the Gally schedule and the added twists of this year’s convention as we navigate the Ongoing Weirdness. But that’s not all! We also have an interview with Big Finish’s Steve Berry who reveals both that fine organization’s plans and presence at Gallifrey One but also lets slip some details on this very audiogram!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One update, COVID testing on-site
- Gallifrey One preview
- Forces TV to show 12 classic Doctor Who stories
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators released
- Big Finish First Doctor Adventures: The Outlaws due April
- Big Finish Companion Chronicles: The Second Doctor Volume 3 due April
Features:
Radio Free Skaro #836 - Unlimited Rice Pudding
It’s the conclusion of our “Remembrance of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary where we blatantly ignore foundation-shattering lore and Gallifreyan artifacts and yander on about something irrelevant, probably. Plus we have Gallifrey One news, the ever-present dip back into history with The Timelash, BFI screenings, and new Big Finish initiatives, and an interview with DWM’s Emily Cook where she reveals her righteous disdain for…stats! Ahhh-ahhhhh! STATS!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One update
- Doctor Who Magazine 574
- BFI Revelation of the Daleks screening
- Big Finish Unbound: Doctor of War – Genesis
- Doctor Who and the Daleks illustrated edition
- B&M Dalek Assault Mini Bobble Set
Commentary:
- Remembrance of the Daleks episode 4
- “How I Made Ace’s Jacket”
- @who_fx looks at Remembrance of the Daleks in 2016
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro 835: Diamonds Are Forever
The rumours of The Return of Tennant strengthen and grow, driving at least two of the RFS-ians into states of pearl-clutching cold sweats and another into cautious optimism. Guess which ones! Plus we have news of Jodie Whittaker’s regeneration scene, the Gallifrey One schedule is released (including details of the Radio Free Skaro live show), a dip into history with The Timelash, and our Classic Series Commentary for Part Three of “Remembrance of the Daleks”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Tennant rumour persists and adds Catherine Tate
- Jamie Magnus Stone talks about Whittaker’s regeneration
- Gallifrey One 2022 programming on Sched
- Radio Free Skaro: In Flux
- Gally guest update: Bonnie Langford out, Eric Roberts and Sophia Myles in
- Doctor Who voted second best BBC show ever made
- Missing episodes held to ransom in the Middle East?
- The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 due May 1
- Series 13 scripts added to the BBC Writer’s Room
- New Doctor Who mobile game due in 2022 from ESGG
- Big Finish The Eighth of March: Protectors of Time due on International Women’s Day
- Spencer Chapman died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #834 - Hooray For Everything
This week the Three Who Rule has a grab bag of news including movement afoot on the upcoming RTD2 era, fan silliness as David Tennant is floated as the new Doctor for the umpteenth time to Warren’s monumental umbrage, Season 22 detective work by Chris and an interview between Steven, Joshua Bayer, and Peter Farrell of EVE Online as the massive strategy game crosses into the Whoniverse AND Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Remembrance of the Daleks”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One January 19 Update
- RTD2 era “in production”
- Phil Collinson returns to produce Doctor Who
- Tom Baker Season 6 Blu-Ray due for release in North America Apr 19
- Season 22 will be the next Blu-Ray release
- Season 22 Blu-Ray trailer
- EVE Online/Doctor Who crossover
- The Zygon Invasion Target novelization
- Fires of Pompeii Target novelization
- Eaters of Light Target novelization
- Androids of Tara updated Target novelization
- Stones of Blood updated Target novelization
- Tales of Time and Space audio collection
- Big Finish UNIT: Nemesis – Angels of the Vulpreen features Quarks
- Big Finish Torchwood early 2022 titles announced
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #833 - Working For The Weekend
It’s been a whiplash week of MRAHH BUSINESS news as BBC America is allegedly pulling out of Doctor Who missing episodes animation, Nadine Dorries threatens to end the license fee and thus doom the BBC, and Jo Martin gets her own Doctor Who comic for Free Comic Book Day! Plus we have Big Finish and book news, a new Weeping Angels board game, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for “Remembrance of the Daleks”! Cue the “little girl with a balloon” music!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One January 2022 update
- Gallifrey One 2022 charity is the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
- Jodie Whittaker at London Comic Con
- Mandip Gill at London Comic Con
- BBC America reportedly pulling funding from Classic Doctor Who animations
- BBC license fee to end
- Galaxy 4 due in Canada April 5
- Galaxy 4 due in the US April 5
- The Essential Terrance Dicks volume 1 paperback
- The Essential Terrane Dicks volume 2 paperback
- Jo Martin Doctor appears in the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day issue
- Big Finish Out of Time 3: Wink features the Sixth and Tenth Doctors
- Season 14 Blu-Ray getting UK re-release in standard packaging
- Doctor Who: Don’t Blink board game
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #832 - Super Super Fun
It’s a bumper crop of content this week as we dive into the works of Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell in the Miniscope including “Scream of the Shalka”, “Father’s Day”, and “Human Nature/The Family of Blood”! Plus we have our Doctor Who Magazine check-in with Emily Cook, a bunch of Big Finish news and Warren and Steven SQUARING OFF about nostalgia, streaming, and their own personal States of Decay, with Chris as the voice of reason! It’s all come Full Circle.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Eve of the Daleks BBC One overnight viewing figures
- Eve of the Daleks BBC AI
- Eve of the Daleks BBC America overnights
- Big Finish Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty released
- Big Finish UNIT: Brave New World Volume 1 brings back Bambera
- Big Finish “interludes” to accompany Doctor ranges in 2022
- Doctor Who Magazine 573
- Doctor Who Magazine Chronicles 2007 due February
- DWAS Celestial Toyroom Annual 2022
- Doctor Who/EVE Online crossover
Miniscope:
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #831 - The Lines at Midnight
It’s 2022, and that means a new Doctor Who New Year’s Day special and some Dalek shenanigans as tradition dictates, this time in the form of “Eve of the Daleks!” Join the Three Who Rule as they ruminate upon a Mametesque character piece starring Yaz, Dan, the Doctor, and two time looped guest stars and the aforementioned Daleks in a self storage romp! Plus the return of a much pined-for monster this Easter and the usual news, tat and dips into the past via The Timelash…and the on-screen manifestation of Thasmin!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Eve of the Daleks review
- Legend of the Sea Devils, this spring
- 14th Doctor casting underway, some Series 14 episodes written
- Matt Strevens is done on Doctor Who
- Flux storyline to continue through the Whittaker specials
- Eve of the Daleks press pack
- Gallifrey One guest announcement: Bonnie Langford, Anjli Mohindra
- New/better negative of The Daleks ep 7 found
- Revamped Season 17 Blu-Ray trailer
- Abominable Snowmen Blu-Ray listed on Amazon.ca, no release date
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators due February
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Old Friends due February
- Doctor Who Magazine 573 due January 6
- Doctor Who Magazine 2022 Yearbook available
- Doctor Who Annual 2023 due September 1
- Throwback enamel pin TARDIS set 2
- Throwback enamel pin TARDIS set 3
- Toby Hadoke’s In Memoriam 2021 video
Radio Free Skaro #830 - The Clanging Chimes of Doom
A happy Christmas to all of you at home! It’s Christmas 2021, and thanks to the circumstances of the world, it may well be going off the rails for you! So let’s sit back, set the year-o-meter to 2005, and watch along with us as we provide for you a commentary for the first Doctor Who Christmas special – the original, you might say – Russell T Davies’ first foray into a Doctor Who Yuletide tradition, “The Christmas Invasion”!
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 24
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 23
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 22
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 21
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 20
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Radio Free Skaro #829 - Out of the Wilderness
As we hurtle towards Christmas, New Year’s Day and a new Doctor Who adventure, the Three Who Rule are killing time (it had it coming) with discussions of the just announced Hugo Awards, Stats, Big Finish releases, vinyl, comics, various other bits of tat and most importantly an interview with Paul Hayes, the author of “The Long Game,” a comprehensive look at all the inner machinations leading to the return of Doctor Who on our screens in 2005! Listen and be illuminated!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- 2021 Hugo Awards announced
- 2022 Specials Writers and Directors
- The Vanquishers final BBC One viewing figures 4.61M
- Season 17 Blu-Ray listed on Amazon.ca then pulled
- Season 17 Blu-Ray listed on Amazon.com
- Character Options “Robot” set due 2022
- Big Finish Short Trips winner
- Big Finish Mind of the Hodiac guest cast announced
- The Hornet’s Nest coming to vinyl
- DWM Yearbook 2022 due Dec 30
- The Dr Who Unofficial Annual 1988 due March 2022
- Dan Slott writing a new series for Titan Comics
- Timeslides: The Doctor Who Art of Colin Howard available for preorder
- The Invisible Artist by Jeff Cummins available for preorder
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 19
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 18
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 17
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 16
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 16.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 15
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 15.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 14
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 14.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 13
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 13.
Radio Free Skaro #828 - All Out Of Flux
The Time of the Flux is over but mere weeks remain before the New Year’s Day special “Eve of the Daleks” so the Three Who Rule do a deep dive into stats, The Timelash, another visit from Emily Cook from Doctor Who Magazine, a big Gallifrey One guest announcement Big Finish, news of extending their Who license to 2030, and more! Listen, and fill that Who sized hole in your heart until the New Year!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One guest announcement
- Gallifrey One attendee guide released
- Eve of the Daleks airs at 7pm, New Year’s Day on BBC One
- Moffat mentions being told by RTD about his return
- The Vanquishers BBC One overnights 3.58M
- The Vanquishers AI 76
- The Vanquishers BBC America overnights 411K, highest for the series
- Survivors of the Flux final BBC One viewing figures 4.72M, 25th for the week
- Doctor Who Magazine 572 released
- Big Finish extends Doctor Who license to 2030
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators due February
- Big Finish The War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds due May
- Chris Achilleos died
- KKLAK: The Doctor Who Art of Chris Achilleos being reprinted
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends programme begins January 1
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 12
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 11
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 11.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 10
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 10.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 9
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 8
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 7
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 6
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.
Radio Free Skaro #827 - Time's Champion
It’s the conclusion of Doctor Who: Flux and the Three Who Rule stayed up late (but not as late as the brave and valiant livestream viewers!) to hash out what they liked, what they didn’t, and what baffled and confused them as Series 13 reached the end of its six-part saga with “The Vanquishers”. But there’s more to come as “Eve of the Daleks” is headed our way on New Year’s Day and..well, that’s it until Easter! Between the very new Flux discussion and the near endless pondering during the Timelash about 625-line video and the animated fate of “The Feast of Steven”, we managed to eke out almost two hours of quality banter, so we hope you like it!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers review
- Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers RFS twitter poll
- Survivors of the Flux BBC One overnight viewing figures 3.82M
- Survivors of the Flux AI 77
- Survivors of the Flux BBC America overnights 334K
- Village of the Angels final BBC One viewing figures 4.55M
- Doctor Who will return in Eve of the Daleks on New Year’s Day
- Sony completed its majority stake purchase of Bad Wolf
- Big Finish Peladon with the 6th and 8th Doctors, River Song and David Troughton
- Doctor Who: The BBC Radio Episodes collection
- Doctor Who: The Resurrection Plant
- Doctor Who: Origin Stories
- Flux pin badges
- Gallifrey One will require proof of vaccination
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 5
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Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 4
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 3
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 2
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.
Radio Free Skaro – 2021 Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #826 - Across The Multiverse
It’s time for the Three Who Rule to analyze Doctor Who: Flux – Chapter Five: “Survivors of the Flux”, a veritable casserole of content featuring a multitude of planets, times, Time, Swarm, Azure, more cranky tunnel building, and globe-spanning pottery quests. Did it measure up to last week’s Weeping Angel nail-biter? And what treats yet lay in store for us when Flux concludes next week? More to the point, we have statistical ploddings and historical wanderings to amuse you with along with news, views and other things you can peruse!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Flux Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux review
- Survivors of the Flux RFS twitter poll
- Village of the Angels BBC One overnight viewing figures 3.45M
- Village of the Angels AI 79
- Village of the Angels BBC America overnights 318K
- Once, Upon Time BBC One final viewing figures 4.67M
- Bernard Holley died
- The Abominable Snowmen to be animated in 2022
- Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures: Charlotte Pollard – The Further Adventures
- Big Finish Day April 23, 2022
- Doctor Who and Jodie Whittaker on The Dengineers
Radio Free Skaro #825 - The Village on the Edge of Forever
The Angels have the podcast! Or at least the attention of the Three Who Rule, who did not blink or look away from “Village of the Angels” and for your own safety you should keep your ears peeled to their deep and cogent thoughts along with Warren’s pointless digressions and surface-level analysis of Star Trek. Of course there are also stats and a Timelash focused on that most auspicious of dates, November 23! Join us or get quantum extracted back to 1967 or 1901!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels review
- Flux Chapter Four RFS twitter poll
- Flux Chapter Six title: The Vanquishers
- Once, Upon Time BBC One overnight viewing figures 3.76M
- Once, Upon Time Appreciation Index 75
- Once, Upon Time BBC America overnights 337K
- War of the Sontarans final BBC One viewing figure 5.10M, 13th best for the week
- Thirteenth Doctor TARDIS set dismantled
Radio Free Skaro #824 - Well, How Did I Get Here?
This week it’s a gamut of emotions including elation, confusion, and intrigue for the Three Who Rule as they examine the third chapter of the Doctor Who: Flux series aka “Once, Upon Time”! What did we think about this story involving everything and the pre-Hartnell kitchen sink? Tune in and find out! We also have news from Gallifrey One and LI Who, Blu-Ray updates, our usual Timelash archeology, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Flux Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time review
- Flux Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux
- RFS Twitter poll for Once, Upon Time
- Whittaker’s finale tentatively titled “The Centenary Special”
- War of the Sontarans BBC One overnight viewing figures 3.9M
- Halloween Apocalypse BBC One final viewing figure 5.79M, 9th best for the week
- BBC America Halloween Apocalypse overnights 339K
- BBC America War of the Sontarans overnights 309K
- Doctor Who Magazine 571 released
- Doctor Who production moving to Wolf studios
- Flux US Blu-Ray/DVD release due February 8
- Flux Canada Blu-Ray/DVD release due February 8
- Galaxy 4 DVD trailer
- Web of Fear North American DVD due February 1
- Faceless Ones and Fury from the Deep hit UK BritBox Dec 23
- Gallifrey One 2022 discussion panel list & update
- LI Who presents Time-Flight 2021
- Big Finish Seventh Doctor Adventures: Silver and Ice due June 2022
- Delia Derbyshire day runs online Nov 23
- Roy Holder died
- Henry Woolf died
- Petra Mayer died
Radio Free Skaro #823 - Radio Free Skaro #823 - Rice Pudding and Hard Liquor
This week on Doctor Who: Flux – it’s a War! With Sontarans! Plus some noodling about with Azure and Swarm, pots and pans and probic vents and more in the second of six new episodes of one Doctor Who television programme. Join the Three Who Rule for their rumination on a Rutan-free conflict zone as well as reflections on the legacy of Bob Baker, the usual historical delvings in The Timelash and, to Warren’s horror, the return of STATS!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Flux Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans review
- Flux Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time Nov 14, 6:30pm on BBC One
- Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels Nov 21, 6:20pm on BBC One
- An intro to Dan Lewis
- The Halloween Apocalypse BBC One overnight viewing figures 4.43M
- The Halloween Apocalypse BBC One AI 76
- Flux Chapter One RFS poll result
- Flux Chapter Two RFS poll result
- Flux DVD/Blu-Ray/Steelbook due Jan 24 in the UK
- Bob Baker died
- Bob Baker & Dave Martin RFS Miniscope Part 1
- Bob Baker & Dave Martin RFS Miniscope Part 2
- Time Fracture reopens Nov 26
- Time Fracture trailer
- Doctor Who Magazine 571 will have three covers
- Big Finish The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty due January 2022
- Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Stranded 3 due December 2021
- Titan Comics Empire of the Wolf due Nov 17
- Doctor Who: The Return of Robin Hood by Paul Magrs due July 2022
- Doctor Who: A Short History of Everyone due July 2022
- 2021 Children in Need limited edition Fourth Doctor Pudsey
- 2021 Children in Need limited edition Eleventh Doctor Pudsey
Radio Free Skaro #822 - The Massacre of Hallow's Eve
New Doctor Who has arrived in the form of Doctor Who: Flux – Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse and it is a humdinger of a spectacle with new and old monsters, Vinder, Dan, several other people, a dog man and a universe-eating monstrosity headed straight for planet Earth! What did we think? How many times did Steven watch it? Why do Yaz and the Doctor have a mattress in the TARDIS control room? Tune in and find out!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Halloween Apocalypse review
- The Halloween Aplocalypse dedicated to Julie Ankerson
- Mandip Gill talks to Entertainment Weekly
- Steven Moffat apologizes for leaking the presence of the Weeping Angels
- War of the Sontarans November 7, 6:15pm on BBC One
- Gallifrey One October update
- City of Death BFI screening December 5
- Evil of the Daleks streaming on BBCAmerica.com
Radio Free Skaro #821 - Apocalypse Soon
In merely a week we’ll have new Doctor Who to discuss as Doctor Who: Flux – Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse arrives to please our eyeballs, but in the meantime listen to the Three Who Rule talk about Class, binge vs once a week episode drops, the general incompetence of a certain Canadian sci-fi channel, buffoonish press pack drops and a truly epic length Timelash where they invent the exciting and entirely fictional new television mystery series Mumford & Fay starring Suranne Jones and Judi Dench!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Halloween Apocalypse, October 31, 6:25pm on BBC One
- The Halloween Apocalypse, October 31, 2:25pm EST on BBC America
- The Halloween Apocalypse, October 31, 7:55pm EST on CTV Sci-Fi
- Doctor Who: Flux press pack
- BBC America extended cut?
- The story of Class
- Gallifrey One discussion panel submission form
- Doctor Who 2005 may not have happened
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 8 now available
Radio Free Skaro #820 - No Flux Given
After pining, complaining, and begging for the Doctor Who Series 13 trailer, it has finally arrived and the Three Who Rule will pass judgment on it along with an epic-length episode featuring a visit from Emily Cook from Doctor Who Magazine and an interview with Gavin Collinson and Richard Wilkinson from Maze Theory about the new Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality video game. Plus Big Finish as always, Sony buying Bad Wolf, Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill shooting their final bits for the show, and a code giveaway for the aforementioned The Edge of Reality! Pew Pew (mostly puzzles) Pew!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who: Flux trailer
- The aliens of Flux
- Series 13 guest stars
- Chibnall writing all Flux episodes, one with Maxine Alderton
- The Chibnall era wraps production
- Azhur Saleem directed three episodes of Flux
- Sony buying Bad Wolf?
- Doctor Who on Pluto TV Europe
- Doctor Who Magazine 570
- Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality released
- Michael Ferguson died
- Toby Hadoke’s Who’s Round with Michael Ferguson
- Big Finish Charlotte Pollard – The Further Adventuress due January 2022
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 3 released
- Peter Capaldi’s first music album due November 19
- Jess Jurkovic does City of Death
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #819 - So Glad We Can Finally Talk About This
Our long international nightmare is over, sort of, as we finally have an airdate for the premiere of Doctor Who: Flux of Halloween night (in the UK) though a new trailer remains elusive. What is omnipresent is our (mostly Steven’s) utter rage at the BBC’s marketing “efforts” for the new series as all social media was deleted and then reinstated for…reasons? Besides invective and suspicion we also have musings on the past via the Timelash, Season 17 gets The Collection Blu-ray treatment, and the second and concluding part of our Classic Series Commentary for "The Edge of Destruction"!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who: Flux premieres October 31
- Doctor Who: Flux teaser
- Doctor Who: Flux teaser pics
- Sontarans over Liverpool
- RTD fighting for the BBC’s future
- Season 17 Blu-Ray announced
- Season 17 Blu-Ray trailer
- Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality gameplay
- Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Stranded 3 due December
- Big Finish The Worlds of Blake’s 7 features the return of Colin Baker
- “I’ll Explain Later” episode guide available
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #818 - Name Walrus Face
It’s been a week since the surprise announcement that Russell T Davies is returning to our favourite televisual drama, and yet there is nothing in the way of Series 13 teasing to satiate our base desires for more Who. Nothing, that is, except the Three Who Rule discussing a whole slew of action dollies, nostalgic remembrances via The Timelash, slagging off Canadian TV as is tradition, and a riveting commentary on Part the First of 1964’s bottle episode(s) psychodrama "The Edge of Destruction"!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Jodie Whittaker to appear on The Graham Norton Show October 15
- Jodie Whittaker on The Lineup Podcast with Shaun Keaveny
- New Doctor Who science exhibition to tour the UK starting May 2022
- Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones details
- An Unearthly Child First Doctor and TARDIS set
- Earthshock action figure set
- The Five Doctors action figure set
- Evil of the Daleks action figure set
- Planet of the Daleks action figure set
- TARDIS pin collection, with First, Fifth, Tenth, and Thirteenth Doctor TARDISes
- Seventh Doctor pink TARDIS pin
- Ninth Doctor TARDIS pin
- Big Chief Studios definitive collection featuring the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors
- BBV Nick & Caroline Uncut DVD due June 2022
- Blake’s 7 Annual 1982 now available
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #817 - Bad Wolf Too
This was supposed to be a slow news week but a phoenix in the form of one Russell T Davies smashed such expectations with news he is returning to re-helm Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary and beyond in a new Golden Age of Telestreaming Audiovisuals. What does it all mean? Join the Three Who Rule as they madly cogitate over the implications of the announcement and muddle through their own complicated feelings on this most weighty of developments. Plus the usual Timelashing, Big Finish updates, video game-ry, and more! But mostly, let’s be honest, all-consuming RTD banter.
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- The Timelash (This Week in Doctor Who History)
- Russell T Davies returns as Doctor Who show runner from 2023
- The Long Game book about the return of Doctor Who due November
- Extended Doctor Who universe?
- Bad Wolf Productions
- Doctor Who Mystery clues
- John Bishop wraps filming
- US approves travel for fully-vaccinated people from more countries
- Fan Expo Canada going ahead as planned
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Lost Warriors set
- Big Finish Missy and the Monk available
- Big Finish Doctor Who The War Doctor Begins – Warbringer due December
- Andrew Skilleter Exterminart! book due November
- Edge of Reality due on consoles in October
- John Challis died
- Morris Perry died
Radio Free Skaro #816 - James Corden Being Tolerable
Chris is away this week but we keep it in the Canadian family with our third chair as we welcome Sarah Murphy for her first proper appearance on the show! This week, topics include the final Doctor Who ARG clue reveal (by mistake?), vaccines will be mandatory for Gallifrey One attendees in 2022, Galaxy 4 is getting the animation treatment, and Emily Cook drops by to talk about the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine! Oh, and a healthy dose of Canadiana for your three hosts.
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- Final Doctor Who ARG video reveal
- Vaccinations will be mandatory for attendees at Gallifrey One 2022
- Edmonton Expo 2021 postponed to 2022
- Animated “Galaxy 4” coming to UK DVD and Blu-ray November 15
- Doctor Who Magazine 569
- The Timelash (This Week in Doctor Who History)
- Big Finish announces second Ninth Doctor series, due in 2022 and 2023
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures 11 – Solo due March 2022
- Ruth Madeley joins Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures in May 2022
- Big Finish The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles: Timejacked!, coming November 2021
- Big Finish Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Volume 2, out now
- Torchwood: Curios now available from Big Finish
- Profile on Rich Tipple about colourizing B&W Doctor Who
- Fundraising for Across Time and Space, by Tony Cross
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Radio Free Skaro #815 - Billie Piper and The Hobbits
As we careen into the autumn (and while other franchises like Star Wars and The Matrix announce their plans and trailers for the future), Jodie Whittaker is talking about Life after Who, Christopher Eccleston is out of Calgary Expo, Big Finish unleashes another tsunami of content, and we take an epic dive in another busy week in Doctor who history in The Timelash! Bask in the banterful badinage, won’t you?
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- The Timelash
- Evil of the Daleks BFI screening today
- Jodie Whittaker talks post-Who
- Eccleston withdraws from Calgary Expo, still slated for Dallas next weekend
- Big Finish Jenny – Still Running due November
- Big Finish Torchwood – The Grey Mare due December
- Big Finish The Lost Resort and Other Stories now available
- Doctor Who Chronicles Issue 3: 1983 due September 30
- Doctor Who Atlas now available
- Tony Selby died
- Vera Fusek died
Radio Free Skaro #814 - Kill Me On a Monday
This week on the show, put your Sherlock (and definitely not #superwholock) hats on because there are new clues in the decreasingly cryptic Doctor Who ARG for you to peruse, and a possible leak about what the next Classic Collection Blu-ray release will be? Also, news from Whooverville 12, Big Finish excitement by way of Torchwood, The Eleven, and Dark Season and the fourth and final commentary by the Three Who Rule about the Three Who Rule in…State of Decay!
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- The Timelash
- New #FindTheDoctor clue
- Whooverville 12
- Season 17 – the next WhoRay release?
- Evil of the Daleks due November 16 in North America
- Doctor Who story chronological list
- Big Finish Dark Shadows by Russell T Davies due November
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: Ashenden due October
- Big Finish Doctor Who: The Eleven now available
- BBC Audiobooks due this fall
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #813 - Tuberculocusts
As we wait for both a new series of Doctor Who (and, indeed, a new showrunner and new Doctor), let us instead keep you occupied with talk of conventions during the Time of COVID, a deep dive into the Timelash looking back at many season premieres, and Part Three of our “State of De
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- The Timelash
- Chicago TARDIS will require COVID vaccinations
- Extract from the Terrance Dicks Target volumes
- Big Finish Lost Stories: Mind of the Hodiac due March 2022
- Big Finish Torchwood Empire of Shadows available
- Big Finish Torchwood The Red List, featuring Ace, due November
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #812 - Consonantal Driftwood
This week we’ve got more mystery clues for you to peruse, Big Finish art and releases to amuse and a clikbait article about possible future showrunners that will at best bemuse. There’s also talk of current showrunner Chris Chibnall’s message in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, the impaled Cyberman figure you never knew you needed from Hero Collector, and Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “State of Decay”!
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- The Timelash
- BBC America Series 13 Press Release
- Doctor Who /mystery clues so far
- Doctor Who Loot Crate
- Screenrant Show Runner list
- Doctor Who Magazine 568
- Big Finish Lost Warriors, next for the Ninth Doctor
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures volume 8, due October
- Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones welcomes Marina Sirtis
- Big Finish The Early Adventures After the Daleks available
- Big Finish The Early Adventures The Secrets of Det-Sen available
- Big Finish The God of Phantoms by Philip Hinchcliffe available
- Titan Comics brings around the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors
- Who & Me by Barry Letts expanded edition due this month
- Vworp Vworp issue 4 due September
- Upcoming Hero Collector figurines including an impaled Cyberman
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Radio Free Skaro #811 - The Birthday Cake Scene
It was on this very day in history, August 15, in 2006, that this one humble podcast was cast forth into the world, back when the universe was less than half its present size. And now, in celebration of our 15th anniversary, we feature news of directors for Series 13 of Doctor Who, and a special edition of Fluid Links! Thank you all for listening over the past decade and a half, no matter when you jumped on for the journey!
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- The Timelash
- Series 13 director news
- Doctor Who Mystery site clue
- Radio Times poll names Michael Sheen the fan favourite to replace Whittaker
- Two Fourth Doctor “missing” stories to be mounted by Big Finish
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor “Respond to all Calls” released
- Around the World with Big Finish
- Richard Bignell playing with Smugglers home video footage
- Cutaway Comics Eldrad Must Live
- Andrew Skilleter 2022 calendar, featuring VHS covers
- Free RPG module from Cubicle 7
- The Lonely Assassins now on consoles
- Taproot Edmonton names RFS podcast of the week
Radio Free Skaro #810 - The Tiffany Network
In the wake of Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall’s mutual decision to leave the good ship Doctor Who we have precisely the sort of pointless speculation, cogitation and puffery you’d expect from three fans with nothing but wisps of info to grasp to, along with some serious digression into the current nature of television, why CBS is still a tedious money machine, action dolly and Big Finish news, and more! All this and part the first of our commentary for the original Three Who Rule in “State of Decay”!
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- The Timelash
- Upcoming action figure sets: The Sensorites, The Keys of Marinus, Power of the Daleks, Day of the Daleks
- Al Dewar video on the new action figures
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 58 – Directors
- Capaldi may not want to do a multi-Doctor story
- Suicide Squad Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion video
- Big Finish War Master: Self-Defence
- Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles
- Ralph Watson died
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Radio Free Skaro #809 - Travel Hopefully
It’s a monumental week of news as Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker and current showrunner Chris Chibnall announced they will be leaving the show in 2022 after the next (truncated) series and a triplet of specials. What does this portend? Well, endless fannish debate, worry, and fevered hand-wringing to which we will contribute our small portion starting now. Heading back to the present we have a “Mystery” ARG website baffling fans via cryptic conundrums, a tsunami of Big Finish conundrums, convention news, and an interview with Jess Jurkovic, who transcribes and performs Dudley Simpson scores via piano! Plinkity plonk!
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- The Timelash
- Whittaker, Chibnall to leave Doctor Who in 2022
- Babylon 5 creator offers to run Doctor Who
- Doctor Who “mystery” site
- Evil of the Daleks BFI screening Sep 12
- Big Chief 1/6 scale Day of the Daleks collection
- Eccleston at Fan Expo Canada in October
- Ottawa Comic-Con postpones due to COVID concerns
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 3 due in December
- River Song: New Recruit sees River meeting the Third Doctor
- Big Finish Torchwood: The Great Sontaran War due October
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: Ashenden due October
- “Based on the Popular BBC Televsion Serial” fourth edition available for a donation
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #808 - Rhythm Composer
It’s San Diego Comic-Con at Home time again, which means all of two panels concerning Doctor Who, one about the quite delightful Missy Comic from write Jody Houser and artist Roberta Ingranata and the other featuring Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop and Chris Chibnall! The panel revealed about as much as you’d guess, as did a teaser trailer. In fact the only real information was new cast member Jacob Anderson recently of the Game of Thrones parish is in Series 13. We also discuss the Guardian clickbait article currently making the rounds, dollies, Big Finish, games and, to Warren’s dread, a history of viewing figures! Listen if you dare!
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- Doctor Who SDCC@Home panel
- Jacob Anderson joins Series 13 as Vinder
- Series 13 Team TARDIS group shot
- Titan Comics SDCC@Home panel
- Doctor Who Magazine 567
- Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston at Fan Expo Dallas
- Why it’s time for Doctor Who to die
- Second Doctor and TARDIS Abominable Snowmen set announced
- Figurine Collection 13th Doctor TARDIS console
- Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones
- Orcini comic available to order separately, comes with bonus materials
- Louis Moorhouse interviews Tom Baker
- The Edge of Reality game hits PC and consoles in September
- New licensing deals for Doctor Who announced
- Adam Martyn’s #doctorwhoratings YouTube series
- Missing episode of Morcambe and Wise found
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Radio Free Skaro #807 - Letts Make Magic
In about a week we’ll either learn absolutely nothing or possibly slightly more than that as Doctor Who holds a panel at SDCC@Home featuring Jodie Whittaker, Chris Chibnall, Mandip Gill, new companion John Bishop and a “special guest” (possibly the ghost of Richard Hurndall?) and RFS will be there, at home, in a slightly delayed fashion to cover it. But here in the present there’s audiobooks, a new version of the Doctor Who Role Playing Game, and more catching our attention, along with the final part of our Barry Letts directorial Miniscope, covering “Carnival of Monsters”, “Planet of the Spiders”, and “The Android Invasion”! What are you waiting for, Lett’s CSGo!
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- The Timelash
- SDCC@Home Doctor Who panel July 25, 10am
- SDCC@Home Titan Comics panel July 23, 1pm
- Neve McIntosh at Chicago TARDIS
- Billie Piper at MegaCon Orlando
- Time Fracture has flooding issues, cancellations
- Brian Hodgson’s memoir
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 2 released
- Time and the Rani audio CD
- Timelash audio CD
- Face of Evil audio CD
- Reign of Terror audio CD
- Android Invasion audio CD
- Keys of Marinus audio CD
- Nightmare of Eden audio CD
- Sarah Jane Adventures added to UK BritBox
- Upcoming Abominable Snowmen action dollie set?
- TARDIS console lava lamp
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who RPG second edition coming soon
- Pip Madelay’s YouTube channel
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #806 - Salamander Six Zero
It’s the return of the Miniscope! Barry Letts has both written and directed for Doctor Who (on top of his tenure as producer from 1970-74) but he finally has his day in our segment analyzing the work of behind-the-scenes notables here for his directing on “The Enemy of the World” and “Terror of the Autons”. We also talk about the upcoming Comic-Con at Home Doctor Who panel on July 25, a bevy of Big Finish releases, and look back at some notable, non-broadcast related dates in history in The Timelash!
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- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Comic-Con at Home panel happening July 25
- BBC Studios earnings down 17% due to COVID shutdowns
- John Barrowman a guest at Calgary Expo 2021
- Big Finish’s The Diary of River Song: New Recruit in October 2021
- Missy and the Monk coming from Big Finish in September 2021
- Doctor Who: The War Doctor Begins – Warbringer coming to Big Finish December 2021
- Big Finish dedicates an upcoming Early Adventures release to Jackie Lane
- Missy #4 from Titan Comics out July 14
- Doctor Who TVM Producer Philip Segal’s model building
- Toby Hadoke begins a guest stint on Coronation Street
Radio Free Skaro #805 - Kids in America
It’s another exciting week in Doctor Who-age as the latest non-event in the “who is the next Doctor Who” saga reaches its inevitable limp conclusion, but to bring balance to the Force, “The Evil of the Daleks” is coming to DVD and Blu-ray in animated form! Plus Big Finish is bringing back not only the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny, for a second series, but also Sir Derek Jacobi for some audio chinwaggin’ about his legendary career, and of course we delve into Doctor Who history once again as we enter the…Timelash!
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- Olly Alexander’s agent dispels rumours
- The Evil of the Daleks gets animated
- The Evil of the Daleks teaser trailer
- Big Finish Jenny Series Two due November
- Derek Jacobi in conversation with Big Finish
- Ashes to Ashes joins BritBox
- Peter Capaldi to release music album
Radio Free Skaro #804 - The Most Banterful Time of the Year
You asked for news and banter? Well, here’s your news and banter! Our first “banterful” episode in a long while, Erika Ensign of Verity! joins Steven and Warren for a look at the week that was in Doctor Who news, the years that were in Doctor Who history in The Timelash, plus we debut a new monthly segment looking into the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine with DWM editorial assistant and writer, Emily Cook!
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- The Timelash
- Jackie Lane (1941-2021)
- Doctor Who Magazine 566 with Emily Cook
- Jo Martin announced as guest for Galllifrey One in 2022
- Christopher Eccleston coming to Calgary Expo in September
- Peter Capaldi, Jessica Raine star in new Steven Moffat series “The Devil’s Hour”
- Doctor Who: Age of Chaos graphic novel due July 1, written by Colin Baker
- Design For Doctor Who book from Piers D. Britton coming July 1 to US/UK/AUS/IND
- Simon Guerrier review of Design For Doctor Who
- Louis’ campaign to bring DW to blind children
Radio Free Skaro #803 - King Kong Abbadon
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for, as we wrap up our Torchwood Revisited commentary series with “End of Days” from Torchwood Series 1. But the news and banter that you know and love comes first with guest Heather Berberet subbing for Warren while he communes with nature to talk about rumours of Jodie Whittaker leaving Doctor Who in 2022, the return of conventions in the coming months, and what went on in this week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash!
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- Happy 39th birthday Jodie Whittaker
- Jodie Whittaker to leave in 2022?
- Radio Times followup to the Whittaker rumour
- Christopher Eccleston to attend Orlando MegaCon in August
- Web of Fear Blu-Ray/DVD with animated episode 3 due in August
- Web of Fear animated preview clip
- The Myth Makers on vinyl due in August
- Doctor Who Chronicles: 1975 released
- Alex Kingston joins Time Fracture
- Missy comic #3 out now
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures 2 due in August
- Big Finish War Master: Killing Time due in August
- Big Finish Torchwood Curios featuring the return of Bilis Manger due September
- Toby Hadoke’s Damaris Hayman obituary
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Radio Free Skaro #802 - Captain Armin Tamzarian
Various parts of the world seem to be opening up, emerging from our long pandemic slumber, and the World of Who is no different, with Long Island Who and Chicago TARDIS selling passes to their November conventions, the BFI holding Doctor Who screening events, and BBC America canvassing questions from the Who-polloi to ask the cast of Series 13, currently nearing the end of production. Also, we have possibly the best episode of Torchwood Series One as we join the timey-wimey, Cardiffy-Wardiffy adventures of “Captain Jack Harkness” in our Torchwood Revisited commentaries!
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- BBC America seeking fan questions for Series 13 cast
- LI Who Time-Flight passes went on sale
- Chicago TARDIS single day passes on sale June 14
- Season 24 Blu-Ray delayed a week in the UK to June 28
- Class back on the iPlayer
- Missy meets the Meddling Monk in Big Finish, due September 2021
- More Doctor Who characters added to Funko Pop! Blitz
- Doctor Who Annual 2022 due September 2021
- Titan cancels Captain Jack comic which tied into Series 13
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #801 - Dirk Swear Jar
On this episode of Radio Free Skaro, not only do we have our new regular feature of looking back at the week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash, we also have news of Doctor Who: Time Fracture, which is hosting actual human beings in adventures in space and time even as we speak! Plus Big Finish is bringing Doctors Five and Ten together to fight Cybermen, Rachel Talalay explains the secrets behind Mondasian Capaldi carries, and we start to wind down our Torchwood Revisited commentaries with episode 11, “Combat”!
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- Big Finish Out of Time 2 released
- Big Finish Peladon set with David Troughton due 2022
- Rachel Talalay talks the Cyberman carrying Capaldi (also bonus video)
- Rachel Talalay charity auction
- Time Fracture: Meet the cast and crew
- Radio Times podcast visits Time Fracture
- Doctor Who Hero Collector advent calendar due September
- Doctor Who News Page celebrates 25 years
- Damaris Hayman died
- Godfrey James died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #800 - 1-800-RADIO-FREE-SKARO
It’s another exciting week of Doctor Who missives, including Big Finish comings and goings, Time Fracture hints and how-do-you-dos, and of course our new weekly feature about looking back at this week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash! All mere introduction for our Torchwood Revi chronolicious episode “Out of Time”!
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- Doctor Who Magazine 565
- Legends of Camelot by Jac Rayner
- The Wonderful Doctor of Oz by Jac Rayner
- Season 24 Blu-Ray delayed in North America
- Season 10 & 18 UK Blu-Rays getting re-released
- Time Fracture to feature screen-used props
- Big Finish 2022 Doctor Who audios
- Season 6B implications of the 2022 Big Finish releases
- Big Finish supercut of the 275 monthly releases
- Rittenhouse Archives secures rights to Doctor Who trading cards
- Jo Martin videos on Time Fracture’s Instagram (1, 2, 3)
- Roy Scammell died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #799 - Specific Footwear
We’re almost at 800 episodes (or so) so why not formally introduce a new segment on this week’s episode of Radio Free Skaro? Join us in The Timelash, where we look back this week in Doctor Who history to find our what successes and/or failures were changing the lives of Doctor Who fans of yesteryear. If you enjoy more news and banter with your jazz odyssey known as Radio Free Skaro, then we hope you enjoy our new direction! And we also have our ninth instalment of Torchwood Revisited with everyone’s favourite episode “Random Shoes”!
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- BBC Copyright enforcement kerfuffle
- Season 24 Blu-Ray trailer
- Doctor Who Chronicles Issue 2: 1975
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Short Trips Competition
- Big Finish UNIT Nemesis
- BBV Jon Pertwee Uncut Interview
- Alex Kingston does a reading from The Ruby’s Curse
- First chapter of The Ruby’s Curse available for free
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #798 - Smell the Glove
Normality may be crawling back into our disease-ridden lives as Whooverville 12 (in Derby) and Long Island Who (in the form of Time-Flight 2021) announce in-person events in September and November, and if you wanted every Doctor to appear in an interactive theatrical piece named Time Fracture, now you can! But if you’ve been pining for Captan Jack Harkness in the same, no such luck. Meanwhile Christopher Eccleston has returned for real in Ravagers and as if that wasn’t enough, we continue our Torchwood Revisited commentaries with “They Keep Killing Suzie”!
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- LI Who 2021 going ahead in-person
- Whooverville 12 going ahead in-person
- All the Doctors will be in Time Fracture
- John Barrowman removed from Time Fracture
- Big Finish removes Torchwood Absent Friends from release schedule
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures Ravagers out now
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures Respond to all Calls due August 2021
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 8 due October 2021
- K-9 Audio Annual due November 2021
- Rachel Talalay made a behind the scenes video about Heaven Sent
- Yee Jee Tso re-released his photo book as an ebook
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Radio Free Skaro #797 - Silver Nemesis
With Warren fighting bears in the wilderness of British Columbia this weekend, our friend Heather Berberet joins us for the news this week, and what great news to discuss in the first guest announcement for Gallifrey One in 2022! We also have follow-up to the Noel Clarke controversy, VR goggles, missing episodes, audio releases – and that’s all before the main event, our Torchwood Revisited commentary for “Greeks Bearing Gifts”! And happy 25th anniversary this week to the Doctor Who TV Movie!
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- First Gallifrey One guest block
- Noel Clarke allegations extend to his time on Doctor Who
- Galaxy Four tipped to be the next animated release
- Harry Van Gorkum interview about almost being the Eighth Doctor
- Children in Need will offer more Doctor Who bears in 2021
- Upcoming BBC Audio releases
- Big Finish Six Versus Eleven due September
- Brit SciFi Online event hosted by The National Space Centre
- Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
- Obverse Books Black Archive sale
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #796 - Farm Crime
This week, the major Doctor Who-related news is the very thorough article in The Guardian about the allegations of sexual assault and abuse against former Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke as described by a group of 20 brave women. We also have news of Doctor Who Magazine, Big Finish, and the increasingly intriguing, immersive theatre experience Doctor Who: Time Fracture, along with our continuing Torchwood Revisited commentary series featuring the rural mayhem that is “Countrycide!”
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- Noel Clarke Guardian article
- Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition 57
- Doctor Who Magazine 564
- Big Finish received Guinness World Record for their monthly range
- Jason & Nick from Big Finish on the Radio Times podcast
- Big Finish Fifth Doctor Adventures – Forty due 2022
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 2 due July 2021
- Big Finish Watchers by Matthew Waterhouse due January 2022
- Big Finish The Lone Centurion Volume 2 due July 2022
- Time Fracture to feature David Bradley and John Barrowman
- David Bradley Time Fracture interview
- John Barrowman Time Fracture interview
- Cubicle7 will continue producing the Doctor Who RPG
- Frank Cox died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #795 - Deadbeat Dad Beat Dead
Are you burning to ask Christopher Eccleston a question about his return to Doctor Who via Big Finish? Well too bad, it already happened, but you can watch said Q& A on the Official Doctor Who YouTube Channel! Also we have news of New York Comic-Con returning in physical form(?) and of Peter Capaldi reading 1984, Kickstarters and other such frippery, and our latest commentary for the Torchwood Series One episode “Small Worlds!” And get vaccinated! By this time next week, all of the Three Who Rule will be halfway there!
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- Christopher Eccleston Big Finish Q&A
- New York Comic Con plans physical event for 2021
- JNT interview coming from BBV in May
- BFI screening of Dragonfire June 12
- Big Finish Torchwood Empire of Shadows bring back Zachary Cross Flane
- Beyond the Doctor: London, 1965
- Sample of Peter Capaldi reading 1984
- Paradise Towers: Paradise Found kickstarter
- Sisters with Transistors movie
- Time Fracture full cast announced
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #794 - The Computer Wore High Heels
There comes a time in the life of every podcast when they must do something they do not wish to do, but that they know they have to do and that time is now for Radio Free Skaro with the Torchwood Revisisted commentary for “Cyberwoman”, a baffling hodge-podge of robotics and puerile nonsense. Or are we overreacting? But before we subject you to this televisual atrocity, there’s Big Finish news, Hugo Awards finalist updates, and more!
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- Steve’s Doctor Who theme remix
- John Bishop clip from The Graham Norton Show
- The Ice Warriors vinyl release
- Doctor Who Moho animation test
- 2021 Hugo Awards finalists
- Big Finish The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Lost Resort and Other Stories due September
- The Prisoner action figure kickstarter
- Helen McCrory died
- Felix Silla died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #793 - March of the Swivelheads
As the global pandemic abates (everywhere but Canada, currently in the throes of The Swarm 3.0) Doctor Who news is…somewhat sedate. But we do have news of a Canadian release date for the Season 24 Blu-ray, Dalek auctions, a Devil’s End comic book Kickstarter, and copious praise for the student-produced Mission to the Unknown from 2019! And as if that wasn’t enough to overload your sensorium, our Torchwood Revisited commentaries continue with “Ghost Machine”!
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- Season 24 Blu-Ray due August 3 in Canada
- Dalek Terror Record Store Day release
- Devil’s End comic book kickstarter
- Screen-used Dalek prop up for auction
- Mission to the Unknown remake wins a fictitious award
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #792 - Sex Gas Woman
The publicity blitz for the Christopher Eccleston tsunami of Big Finish work kicks into high gear this week and we’re here to give you all the Eccelstonian Updates along with talk of a Doctor Who atlas, a history of the VIrgin Publishing novels and a new unofficial Sarah Jane anthology! But we all know why you’re here, to hear our take on the exciting and not at all puerile Torchwood adventure “Day One”, where everything changes! Again!
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- Doctor Who Magazine 563
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures, Volumes 3 & 4
- Gizmodo interview of Christopher Eccleston
- Nerdist interview of Christopher Eccleston
- Big Finish unites the Fourth Doctor and Alan Turing
- The Who Adventures book by David J Howe
- Doctor Who Atlas due in September
- Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter book
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #791 - Nothing Changes
It’s a tsunami of audio drama as Big Finish throws many a soundscape at us, including some Tom Baker adventuring written by friend of the show Liz Myles (due out in 2022)! Plus a Ninth Doctor audio trailer for you Ecclestonians! Also Terrance Dicks is declared essential reading via the medium of books, UK Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-rays adopt standard packaging (whoo!). But we’re just avoiding the inevitable here, the start of our Torchwood Revisited commentaries, starting with Series One, Episode One: “Everything Changes”! It is the 21st century, after all.
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- San Diego Comic-Con Plans
- The Essential Terrance Dicks titles released
- UK Blu-Ray Classic Who reissues
- Fantom Season 8 Blu-Ray preview with Chris Chapman
- Upcoming Classic Who animated releases?
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures trailer
- Big Finish The God of Phantoms due August 2021
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Series 11 and 12 getting extra stories
- Big Finish Torchwood Madam I’m
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #790 - Seasons in the Sun
Spring has sprung (or, for those in the Antipodes, fall has fallen), and there is a renewed sense of optimism in the world in general, and the Doctor Who world specifically. Why? Because Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill bring the Thasmin energy to a new Red Nose Day cameo, The Lonely Assassins is thrilling mobile game players the world over, and the Doc
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- 2020 The Movie: Comic Relief featuring Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill
- Fury from the Deep DVD released in North America
- The Lonely Assassins release trailer
- The Lonely Assassins orchestral theme recording
- Big Finish The Doomsday Contract released, Hitchhiker’s Guide trailer also released
- Peter Howell book “Radiophonic Times” due April 2021
- Peter Howell’s new website
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #789 - The Lonely Assassins
Ever wonder if assassins feel job-related ennui? Now’s your chance to find out as we shine a spotlight on The Lonely Assassins, a new mobile Doctor Who game from Maze Theory where you help crusading scientist Petronella Osgood battle various baddies through your phone-related device. Game writer Gavin Collinson joins us for an interview about said mobile pew-pew-ing, and stay tuned on Twitter this week for a chance to win a prize pack for The Lonely Assassins!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Doctor Who & Casualty on Comic Relief
- Series 8 Steelbook
- Joy Wilkinson interview about novelizing The Witchfinders
- Mark Gatiss interview about novelizing The Crimson Horror
- Paul Vanezis and Peter Crocker talking about missing episodes in private hands
- Big Finish The War Doctor Begins due June
- Big Finish has Dodo join The First Doctor Adventures Volume 5, played by Lauren Cornelius
- Big Finish Torchwood, The Five People You Kill In Middlesbrough due June
- Big Finish box set sales for out of print CDs
- Doctor Who won the Radio Times best SF/Fantasy Award
- David Bailie died
Radio Free Skaro #788 - The Revolution Is Not Being Televised
It’s a grab bag of broadcast and streaming and televisual chicanery this week as the Three Who Rule ruminate about the imminent debut of BBC First, a new channel in Canada from BBC Studios, the return of BBC Three in the UK, the Shame of CTV Sci-Fi and more, before handing over these musings to much smarter people, namely former Doctor Who magazine editor Tom Spilsbury and chair and associate professor of film and media arts professor at Southern Methodist University Derek Kompare as they examine where media is going and how Doctor Who plays into this chaotic new world. Please stand by!
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- John Bishop initially turned down Doctor Who
- BBC First coming to Canada
- BBC Three returns to broadcast TV
- Season 8 Blu-Ray trailer
- Doctor Who Magazine 562 released
- The Target Book gets a paperback release
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers due May 2021
- Big Finish Mind of the Hodiac by Russell T Davies due 2022
- Big Finish Time Lord Victorious: Echoes of Extinction due April 2021
Discussion Panel:
Radio Free Skaro #787 - You Asked, We Meandered
Gallifrey One is back, and it’s about time! Yes, dates have been confirmed and the NFL has been defeated as Gallifrey One returns to the LAX Marriott on February 18-20, 2022, its traditional President’s Day weekend. Something to look forward to as the snow melts and the COVID vaccines flow. In the meantime, it’s the return of one of our favourite segments, where you, the listener, pick the topics! Yes, it’s Fluid You asked, we meandered!
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- Gallifrey One 2022 gets confirmed dates
- Final tweetalong will be Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
- Big Finish Day 2021 will be virtual, 2022 planned to be in Derby
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 7 due May 2021
- Big Finish Lone Centurion Volume 1 due April 2021
- Peter Capaldi donated a script for charity
Radio Free Skaro #786 - The Children of Watford
We took a break from the news last week to revel in Gallifrey One events of the past and to look forward to better times in the future, so this week we catch up with all the news we missed, including several Big Finish releases, new books, But let’s get to the heart of this thing, as Hunter S. Thompson once said, with our commentary for “Revolution of the Daleks” with Verity’s own Deb Stanish!
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- Jodie Whittaker reads a bedtime story for kids in Watford
- Fury from the Deep on BBC America
- New Doctor Who Build-A-Bear
- Lockdown Who “The Genuine Article” followup to Love & Monsters
- A Town Called Mercy tweetalong
- Deepfake tech used for missing Doctor Who episodes
- Hero Collector Revolution of the Daleks figurines
- Warriors of the Deep and Sontar-Ha! WhoTalk commentaries
- Southside Broadcasting Graeme Harper podcasts
- Big Finish The Doomsday Contract from a script by John Lloyd
- Big Finish Doctor Who: The Early Adventures
- Big Finish Torchwood Lease of Life
- Big Finish Lady Christina Adventures Series 2
- Look at the Size of That Thing book by Bill Evenson and Stacey Smith?
- The Ruby’s Curse, by Alex Kingston
- The Ruby’s Curse audiobook, read by Alex Kingston
- Doctor Who and Science by Marcus K Harmes and Lindy A Orthia
- Dalek Combat Training Manual by Mike Tucker, Gavin Rymill and Richard Atkinson
- Paradoxes and Possibilities kickstarter
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #785 - Tales of Gallifrey One: Gallifrey Stands By
In any other year, this would be our last transmission from the LAX Marriott and Gallifrey One, tired but happy after another year with our favorite convention and our favorite people. However in this time of COVID 19 such things are not possible (temporarily!) so we’ve done the next best thing and have Gally impresario Shaun Lyon here to discuss conventions past and future, how to deal with a global pandemic, and more! We also present the last of our Tales of Gallifrey One archive interview series with chats with Freema Agyeman (2013), Garrick Hagon (2015), Howard Burden (2017), and Jamie Childs & Wayne Yip (2019)!
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #784 - Tales of Gallifrey One: A Day in the Life of a Day
The Saturday at any Gallifrey One has traditionally been our busiest, gathering as many interviews as we could to flesh out our weekend release schedule. On this episode of Radio Free Skaro, we flash back to a particularly notable Saturday at the 2012 edition of Gallifrey One, where we interviewed William Russell, Waris Hussein, and Philip Segal, all in the course of an afternoon. We were so young and hungry back in those days!
Radio Free Skaro #783 - Tales of Gallifrey One: All The World's a Stage
Usually at this time of the week, at this time of the year, we would be kicking off Gallifrey One with a live show featuring a number of guests attending the convention that year. So this year, as part of our Tales of Gallifrey One series, we present a "greatest hits" selection from our various live shows of years past. Here is Peter Davison (2016), Philip Hinchcliffe (2013), Terrance Dicks (2014), Pete McTighe, Vinay Patel, and Joy Wilkinson (2020), Julian Glover (2016), Patricia Quinn (2016), and Chip Sudderth's Two-Minute Time Lord presentation from 2015. Enjoy!
Radio Free Skaro #782 - Tales of Gallifrey One: Waiting For The Gift of Sound and Vision
Thus begins Tales of Gallifrey One, our look back at some of our favourite interviews from past editions of Gallifrey One! This episode features a chat with acclaimed Doctor Who director Graeme Harper from 2010, an interview with Doctor Who producer and production manager Tracie Simpson from 2011, and a conversation with legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop musician and sound effects genius Dick Mills, recorded in 2013.
Radio Free Skaro #781 - Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits
This week on the podcast, it’s another edition of our Doctor Who trivia game show Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with special guests Benji Clifford and Nick Briggs of the Benji and Nick Show! Also, we’ve got news about more Big Finish releases, John Bishop begins shooting his scenes for Series 13 of Doctor Who, and also the full and complete (and 100% accurate) history of British television. Also, keep watching the skies this week for some Gallifrey One-related content as we look forward to what would have been the greatest weekend of the year…
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- Boom Town tweetalong
- Dinosaurs on a Spaceship tweetalong
- Love and Monsters tweetalong
- Doctor Who Magazine 561
- The Lonely Assassins launches March 19
- Big Finish Gallifrey: Time War 4 due this month
- Big Finish UNIT Nemesis Volume 1 due November 2021
- Big Finish The Lone Centurion Volume 1 due April 2021
- Big Finish Torchwood: Gooseberry due April 2021
- Directed by Douglas Camfield revised edition
- Fury from the Deep DVD US release date March 16, 2021
- Grant Imahara Memorial Study Lounge fundraiser
Trivia Mr Fibuli:
Radio Free Skaro #780 - I Thought There'd Be Stars
It’s been a very quiet week for Doctor Who news, but that won’t stop us from waffling on about KSPS Doctor Who broadcast schedules of yesteryear, Babylon 5 upgrades and other such ephemera! Mere distraction though for part three of our Rachel Talalay Miniscope, where we look at World Enough and Time, the Doctor Falls and Twice Upon a Time!
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- Season 24 Blu-Ray available for preorder in Canada
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 1 due April 2021
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 2 due July 2021
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 3 due October 2021
- Toby Hadoke’s obituary of Philip Martin in The Guardian
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro - Archive Interview With Rachel Talalay (2017)
For the next three weeks, we are presenting some archive content in the leadup to our three-part Miniscope on the works of director Rachel Talalay.
Rachel has been a friend to us here at RFS, appearing no fewer than six times, and we thought it was worth re-releasing our interviews and commentaries with her over the years as a lead-in to our conversations about her work on Doctor Who.
Here is our final interview with Rachel Talalay (so far) on the podcast. This one was released across two episodes of Radio Free Skaro, 608 and 609, in the runup to the 2017 Christmas special “Twice Upon a Time”, where Warren visits the home of Rachel Talalay again to talk about that, as well as the two-part finale to Series 10.
Join us on January 31 for the third and final part of our Miniscope on director Rachel Talalay, where we look at “World Enough and Time”, “The Doctor Falls”, and “Twice Upon a Time".
Radio Free Skaro #779 - A Hell of a Bird
It’s an auspicious week in world history as a titan ascends to his rightful place…that’s right, Tom Baker is 87 years old and we are better for it. There’s also official news of a Doctor Who Season 24 Bluray as part of The Collection series with VAM aplenty, a Missy comic from Titan Comics, Big Finish’s “Return of the Cybermen” and and and…the second part of our Rachel Talalay miniscope featuring her work on Heaven Sent and Hell Bent!
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- Tom Baker turned 87
- School Reunion tweetalong
- Season 24 Blu-Ray set announced
- Season 24 Blu-Ray set trailer
- Season 24 Blu-Ray set clean artwork
- Season 8 Blu-Ray set due June 1 in Canada
- Doctor Who Chronicles 1965
- Missy comic series begins in April
- Andrew Cartmel’s Script Doctor reprint
- Big Finish Return of the Cybermen trailer
- Big Finish to produce 1985 Russell T Davies spec script
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Eleven due September 2021
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro - "Hell Bent" Commentary with Rachel Talalay (2016)
For the next three weeks, we are presenting some archive content in the leadup to our three-part Miniscope on the works of director Rachel Talalay.
Rachel has been a friend to us here at RFS, appearing no fewer than six times, and we thought it was worth re-releasing our interviews and commentaries with her over the years as a lead-in to our conversations about her work on Doctor Who.
Back in the spring of 2016, Rachel Talalay joined us to participate in director’s commentaries for both “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent” on Radio Free Skaro episodes 533 and 534. Here now is the commentary for “Hell Bent”.
And join us on January 24 for Part Two of our Miniscope on director Rachel Talalay when we look at “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent”.
Radio Free Skaro - "Heaven Sent" Commentary with Rachel Talalay (2016)
For the next three weeks, we are presenting some archive content in the leadup to our three-part Miniscope on the works of director Rachel Talalay.
Rachel has been a friend to us here at RFS, appearing no fewer than six times, and we thought it was worth re-releasing our interviews and commentaries with her over the years as a lead-in to our conversations about her work on Doctor Who.
Back in the spring of 2016, Rachel Talalay joined us to participate in director’s commentaries for both “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent” on Radio Free Skaro episodes 533 and 534. Here now is the commentary for “Heaven Sent”.
Stay tuned later in the week for the re-release of our commentary for “Hell Bent”.
Radio Free Skaro - Archive Interview With Rachel Talalay (2015)
For the next three weeks, we are presenting some archive content in the leadup to our three-part Miniscope on the works of director Rachel Talalay.
Rachel has been a friend to us here at RFS, appearing no fewer than six times, and we thought it was worth re-releasing our interviews and commentaries with her over the years as a lead-in to our conversations about her work on Doctor Who.
From episode #507 of Radio Free Skaro (released December 2015), Warren visits the home of Rachel Talalay in Vancouver for an extended discussion about the making of “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent”.
Stay tuned later in the week for the re-release of our commentary for “Heaven Sent”, recorded with Rachel Talalay in 2016.
Radio Free Skaro #778 - Say Something Nice
We’ve got news about Gallifrey One, tat, stats, loads of Terrance Dicks book-related nonsense and the usual news niblets, but more importantly, we’re starting our epic three-part miniscope journey on the work of director Rachel Talalay with “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven”! Join the Three Who Rule as they effusively praise one of the best directors in the history of the programme!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Gallifrey One update
- Revolution of the Daleks BBC One Live+7 viewing figures
- Hero Collector Revolution of the Daleks pins
- Hero Collector Classic Doctors Pin Set #2
- Delayed Target releases due March 11
- The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1
- The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 2
- Peter Craze died
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro - Archive Interviews With Rachel Talalay (2014-15)
For the next three weeks, we are presenting some archive content in the leadup to our three-part Miniscope on the works of director Rachel Talalay.
Rachel has been a friend to us here at RFS, appearing no fewer than six times, and we thought it was worth re-releasing our interviews and commentaries with her over the years as a lead-in to our conversations about her work on Doctor Who.
This instalment features our first two interviews with Rachel. The first is Warren’s interview with her, which we originally released on Radio Free Skaro #445 in the runup to the Series 8 finale in 2014, as well as our second chat with Rachel from Radio Free Skaro #463, recorded in a very busy lobby at the LAX Marriott at Gallifrey One in February 2015.
Thanks for listening to these, and we hope you enjoy the first part of our Miniscope on director Rachel Talalay, covering “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven”, on the next episode of Radio Free Skaro.
Radio Free Skaro #777 - The Erato Adventures of Hercules
As we return to a Dearth of new Doctor Who here in the early days of 2021, we are forced to comfort ourselves with the cold logic of “Revolution of the Daleks” stats, as well as Big Finish’s exciting reveal of Christopher Eccleston’s audio debut! Throw in some dribs and drabs of audioboks and other ephemera but enough stalling, it’s time to tear off the bandage and suffer with us for the second half of our Classic Series Commentary of “The Creature from the Pit”!
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- Gallifrey One hotel update
- BBC airing kid’s lessons during lockdown
- Revolution of the Daleks BBC One overnight viewing figures
- Fury from the Deep DVD due March 16 in Canada
- Doctor Who Magazine 560 released
- Hand of Fear audio CD released
- Savages audio CD due in February
- Beyond the Doctor: The Kairos Ring due in February
- Second Monsters Collection on Audible
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Series 10 Volume 2 due in February
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravages details announced
- Big Finish Out of Time features David Tennant and Peter Davison
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #776 - You Say You Want A Revolution
The moment has arrived! The moment being John Barrowman, Chris Noth, a bunch of Security Drone-leks and the Return of (and breaking of) the Fam as Jodie Whittaker graces our screens once more as the Doctor in “Revolution of the Daleks”! What did the Three Who Rule think of the only new Doctor Who we’ll see for months and months? How did we react to Graham and Ryan leaving the TARDIS? And more to the point, who the hell is John Bishop? Tune in and find out!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Revolution of the Daleks review
- John Bishop joins Doctor Who
- John Bishop teaser
- Revolution of the Daleks on Blu-Ray in Canada March 2
- Revolution of the Daleks soundtrack on streaming music services
- Series 13 will air when it’s done
- Lee Binding Profile (free link) (paywall Telegraph link)
- Big Chief Studios K-9 Mark II
- Big Finish Torchwood Absent Friends featuring David Tennant
- Philip Martin died
- Mark Eden died
- Toby Hadoke’s 2020 Doctor Who In Memoriam video
- Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends – 7th Dimension
Radio Free Skaro #775 - Organonic Chemistry
The countdown has begun for both an end to Our Year of Complete Garbage 2020 and “Revolution of the Daleks”, airing New Year’s Day and which apparently contains a new scene filmed in the aforementioned Year Of Badness. The New Year’s special will also be available from the BBC in 4K HDR, and if audio is your thing, gentleman voiceslinger Nicholas Briggs has some tips on voicing the Daleks! But let’s be honest here, you’re clamouring for our thoughts in our Classic Series Commentary on the Fourth Doctor story “The Creature From The Pit”! Don’t bore us, let’s get to Chloris!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Revolution of the Daleks had footage added in 2020
- Revolution of the Daleks Defence Drones teaser
- Revolution of the Daleks in 4K HDR on the BBC
- iPlayer 4K HDR information
- Nicholas Briggs talks about voicing the Daleks
- A Christmas Carol first draft released as part of the tweetalong
- Abigail’s Song fan choir video
- The Lonely Assassins teaser
- TARDIS bedroom door
- Blake’s 7 Annual 1982 fan effort
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 24
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 23
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 22
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 21
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.
Radio Free Skaro #774 - The Pepsi Generation
With mere days before the Doctor, the fam, and Captain Jack square off against decidedly slim and stylish Daleks in “Revolution of the Daleks” on N, tweeting and audio seem to be the order of the day to fill the emptiness in our Who-craving souls. But while all this ephemera may seem like a mere distraction, true nonsense is only achieved on the cosmic battleground that is Trivia, Mr. Fibuli as adjudicated by Verity, Lazy Doctor Who and Total Party Kill’s own Erika Ensign!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Eccleston begins his Big Finish recording
- #DalekDay December 21 will feature a Resolution tweetalong
- A Christmas Carol tweetalong happens December 20
- The Runaway Bride tweetalong happened December 18
- RTD shared an excerpt from his first Doctor Who fan script from the 80s
- The Unquiet Dead tweetalong happened December 12
- Doctor Who amongst top 10 most tweeted UK shows
- BBC Select launching in the US & Canada in early 2021
- Horror of Fang Rock on vinyl
- Doctor Who Magazine 2021 Yearbook released
- Edmonton Expo scheduled for October 2021
- Free Comic Book Day will be August 14, 2021
- Jeremy Bulloch died
Feature:
- Trivia, Mr Fibuli
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 20
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 19
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 18
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 17
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 16
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 16.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 15
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 15.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 14
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 14.
Radio Free Skaro #773 - Briggs & Stratton & Bates
With less than a month to go before Captain Jack, Chris Noth, an imprisoned Doctor and the (presumed) televisual splendor of “Revolution of the Daleks” hits our viewing screens, news of our favourite program is thin on the ground. Call it the calm after the storm that was theThere’s some novelized audio and other aural shenanigans to tell you about…which is apt as we have Big Finish impresario, Dalek voice and man about town Nicholas Briggs in the interview chair!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Doctor Who Magazine 559 released
- Doctor Who Magazine 559 previews Revolution of the Daleks
- Daleks! wrapped its 5-episode run
- Meglos novelization audio CD
- The Wheel in Space novelization audio CD
- Battlefield novelization audio CD
- Big Finish Tenth Doctor Classic Companions due September 2022
- David & Georgia Tennant Doctor Who charity quiz
- Paul Cornell’s Doctor Who scripts on the BBC Writer’s Room site
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 13
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 13.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 12
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 12.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 11
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 11.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 10
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 10.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 9
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 8
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 7
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.
Radio Free Skaro #772 - No Time To Die
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentaries have reached the season finale with “The Timeless Children”, and Dr. Anita Sengupta drops by to nerd about Doctor Who, Cybermen, and the economics of spaceship construction with us! Also, Ryan and Graham will bow out of Doctor Who in “Revolution of the Daleks”, possibly leaving only the Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin alone, together, for Series 13.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Revolution of the Daleks release date trailer
- Revolution of the Daleks 71 minutes long, on BBC One at 6:45pm
- Revolution of the Daleks on BBC America at 8pm
- Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole leaving Doctor Who
- John Barrowman talks about Revolution of the Daleks
- Doctor Who leaving UK Netflix in January 2021
- BritBox launched in Australia
- Big Finish Stranded 2 due March 2021
- Big Finish The Robots Volume 3 due December 2020; The Robots Volume 4 due June 2021
- Big Finish Masterful special scene released
- Dave Prowse died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 6
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 5
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 4
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 3
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 2
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.
Radio Free Skaro – 2020 Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #771 - Die Another Day
It’s almost December! We’re just about through the calamity that has been 2020, and it’s ending with a bang with news of “Revolution of the Daleks”, including the return of Captain Jack, a teaser, a trailer and more to come in the days ahead. Also, our annual Fluid Links Advent Calendar starts December 1, and we also present our Doctor Who Sericommentary for Ascension of the Cybermen with author and artist Sophie Miles!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Captain Jack is back
- Revolution of the Daleks teaser
- Full Revolution of the Daleks trailer due Nov 29
- Radio Times shows off the new Dalek style on its cover
- Toby Hadoke’s discovery about the Hartnell opening titles
- Season 8 Who-Ray due in 2021
- Season 8 Who-Ray trailer
- New Web of Fear release to have episode 3 animated
- Web of Fear teaser
- 50th Anniversary steelbook
- The Edge of Time soundtrack on vinyl
- Telos reprinting Time’s Champion for charity
- Omega comic kickstarter added a stretch goal featuring Brian Blessed
- Fans recreate a bit of each nuWho episode during lockdown
- Doctor Who Time Fracture has its launch delayed
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #770 - Spectre
Happy Doctor Who Day Eve! In celebration of the looming 57th anniversary of the original broadcast of “An Unearthly Child”, we bring to you two features of some renown! Firstly, Toby Hadoke drops by to talk about his new Doctor Who podcast initiative, Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels, which launches November 23. And our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentaries continue as Katelyn and Brenna from The Queer Archive join us to watch and talk over “The Haunting of Villa Diodati”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- BBC tweetalong for The Timeless Children
- The Pilot tweetalong
- UNIT on Call with Emily Cook and Jon Culshaw
- “Latency” Radiophonic Workshop concert
- Learn to code with the Thirteenth Doctor
- The Edge of Time gets a Time Lord Victorious update
- Chicago TARDIS virtual event
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Short Trips winner
- Pointless Celebrities Sci Fi & Fantasy episode
- Doctor Who Comic Day was November 21
- BBC Motion Graphics archive
Interview:
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #769 - Quantum of Solace
There’s news afoot! Doctor Who news in fact, with His Chibs himself updating all Whovians on the fact that Series 13 has begun production, with eight episodes rather than ten due to a certain virus being a jerk. We’ve also got more Doctor Who lockdown tweetalongs, Big Finish missives, Daleks! out in the world, and most importantly, our Series 12 Commentary for “Can You Hear Me?” with writer, comedian, and podcast gamer Riley Silverman!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Series 13 begins production
- Daleks! episode 1
- Doctor Who set VIP tour competition for Children in Need
- Whittaker and Gill on Children in Need
- Turn Left tweetalong
- Emily Cook and Jon Culshaw collaborate for Children in Need
- Doctor Who Lockdown website
- Doctor Who Magazine 558
- Doctor Who Magazine: The Daleks comic collection
- Big Finish Time Lord Victorious Echoes of Extinction delayed
- Big Finish Master! due March 2021
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 7 due May 2021
- Big Finish Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Volume 2 due September 2021
- Omega comic kickstarter
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Radio Free Skaro #768 - Moonraker
It’s been a good weekend, dear listeners, and we hope you’ll enjoy today’s episode. For our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentary for “Praxeus”, we invite on someone who is new to the podcasting world, but not to Doctor Who. Sandya Narayanswami has been a Doctor Who fan since 1963, watching it every week with her family in the UK, and she talks about her history with Doctor Who (and, amongst other things, being an occasional scientific advisor on Star
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- Moffat’s final word on Blink
- Blink script, draft one
- Husbands of River Song tweetalong November 7
- Fan effort for Abigail’s Song
- Eric Roberts live action promo for Master!
- Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10, Volume 1 due January 2021
- Big Finish War Master Killing Time due August 2021, with Katy Manning and Sarah Sutton
- Big Finish Torchwood Collection due January through March 2021
- Maze Theory to open US office
- Doctor Who Infinity on sale
- Geoffrey Palmer died
- John Sessions died
- John Sessions’s TV Movie audition tape
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Radio Free Skaro #767 - You Only Live Twice
It’s November 2020! And to celebrate(?), we have an episode full of Doctor Who news, Star Trek analysis, Sean Connery remembrance, and the main even with writer and TARBIS podcaster Connie Gibbs!
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- Gallifrey One hotel update
- Tom Baker Guardian interview
- Coal Hill & Witch’s Familiar action dollies
- Series 7 Steelbook
- Radiophonic Workshop concert November 22
- Fantom commentaries for Attack of the Cybermen and UNIT stories
- Toby Hadoke to do four Doctor Who podcasts
- Children in Need to feature Doctor Who content
- Sophie Iles charity art stream
- K-9 Megabytes book
- Sean Connery died
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Radio Free Skaro #766 - Thunderball
Halloween Tweetalongs, Big Finish First Doctor box sets, and Billie Piper appearing on David Tennant’s podcast mark another week in the Time of the Swarm, along with some musical educational content along the way from Segun Akinola in the form of a chat on Instagram. But why ponder future events when we can go back to the past along with costume and cosplay expert Amanda-Rae Prescott for our latest Doctor Who Series 12 Commentary on “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”!
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- Halloween tweetalong for Blink
- Billie Piper on David Tennant’s podcast
- Big Finish The First Doctor Adventures Series 5
- The Wintertime Paradox audio version
- Composing for Film & TV panel with Segun Akinola
- BBC Studios deal with Bilibili
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Radio Free Skaro #765 - The World is Not Enough
COVID-19 continues to rampage through society and the latest victim of its viciousness is Calgary Expo, delayed from April to late July. In the meantime, you can watch The Faceless Ones on iTunes, enjoy some Children in Need content in the form of Doctor Who Pudseys and lockdown short stories, pine for The War Doctor Begins from Big Finish, with a recast War Doctor (controversy!), or sit back and listen to our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentary for “Orphan 55” with special guest and cohost of Earp Chirp and Agents of Smooch Annette Wierstra!
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- Calgary Expo 2021 postponed
- Doctor Who Adventures in Lockdown due November 5
- Who Ray work resumes production
- The Faceless Ones on iTunes
- Children in Need Thirteenth Doctor Blush bear
- Children in Need Tenth Doctor Pudsey bear
- Doctor Who Magazine 557 released
- Big Finish The War Doctor Begins due starting June 2021
- Big Finish Colony of Fear and The Blazing Hour due March 2021
- Big Finish Lady Christina Series 2 due July 2021
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Radio Free Skaro #764 - The Spy Who Loved Me
New Doctor Who alert! Well, two new promo pics for the upcoming holiday special “Revolution of the Daleks”, at any rate, and we’ll take it in this Time of the Swarm. More Dalek related content on the way with the Daleks! trailer (featuring Mechanoids!), lots of news from the online version of New York Comic-Con, including a couple of new Doctor Who video games, and, most importantly, our Doctor Who Series 12 commentary for “Spyfall – Part Two” with Head Over Feels CEO and fanfic author extraordinaire Kim Rogers!
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- Revolution of the Daleks promo pics
- NYCC 2020 Doctor Who panel
- NYCC 2020 Time Lord Victorious panel
- NYCC 2020 Maze Theory panel
- Daleks! begins November 12
- Daleks! first look
- Time Lord Victorious Blu-Ray collection
- Big Finish Genetics of the Daleks due December 10
- The Lonely Assassins mobile game announced
- The Edge of Reality console/PC game announced
- Doctor Who Lost TV Episodes 5-CD collection
- Doctor Who and the Underworld audio CD
- Arc of Infinity audio CD
- Paperback release of Roger Delgado’s biography
- Grant Morrison has pitched for Doctor Who
- Delia Derbyshire movie premieres October 15
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Radio Free Skaro #763 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
It’s that time again, friends, where we dust off the previous series of Doctor Who, having let it settle in our minds for the past few weeks (or, given that it’s 2020, the past few decades in the longest year ever) and take a fresh look at it with some friends both new and old. This week, we look back at “Spyfall – Part One”, with guest Rachel Donner, as we begin the odyssey of our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentaries!
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- Doctor Who Magazine Production Design special
- The Wintertime Paradox book due October 15
- Big Chief Sixth Doctor
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Radio Free Skaro #762 - The Curse of The Curse of the Black Spot
It’s trivia time again! Coming off Warren’s stunning victory in the first instalment of our new trivia segment Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, we invite our friend Kyle Anderson along to challenge both Warren and Chris as we play the latest version of Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit. Also, the Radio Times readers have chosen David Tennant as their favourite Doctor (just), new action dollies are coming, and we give you det
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- David Tennant voted most popular Doctor
- Six new Character Options sets
- New Time Lord Victorious figurines
- Dhawan’s Master officially comes after Gomez’s
- Jodie Whittaker to appear on Who Do You Think You Are?
- Tasmanian fossil named after Tom Baker
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Radio Free Skaro #761 - Fountains of Wayne
Are you ready for Bradley Walsh to join Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill on the Doctor Who panel at New York Comic-Con on October 8? Are you ready for some amazing looking new Doctor Who figurines from Eaglemoss? Are you ready for an impromptu deep dive into the history of the Canadian Football League? Be ready, and also be ready for, there’s a new Miniscope with the director of Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars and Resolution…Wayne Yip!
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- New York Comic-Con Doctor Who Panels details
- Big Finish Dalek Universe
- Doctor Who Magazine 556
- Eaglemoss Electrode Dalek
- Eaglemoss 13th Doctor in tuxedo
- Eaglemoss Alien Ambassador
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Radio Free Skaro #760 - Quick Prophet, Small Return
It is with a heavy heart we relay the news that Gallifrey 2021 has been postponed due to the ongoing awfulness that is the world, more specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s merely a pleasure deferred however, as all memberships are being shifted to Gallifrey 2022 when hopefully the world is a better and healthier place. We also have news of a Jodie and Mandip (psst, Thasmin confirmed) panel at virtual NYCC, a new Daleks animated program to tie in with Time Lord Victorious, and more! And to top it off, a deep dive into Doctor Who missing episodes with Tim and Paul from Doctor Who – The Missing Episodes Podcast!
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- Gallifrey One 2021 postponed
- New York Comic-Con Doctor Who panel announced
- Daleks! animated show coming in November
- Daleks! teaser
- Fury from the Deep trailer
- BritBox UK getting Blake’s 7, Survivors and the Cushing Dr. Who films
- Diana Rigg died
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Radio Free Skaro #759 - Daleks Conquer and Destroy
The Time Lord is victorious, and we now have issue #1 of the Doctor Who Comic and trailer to prove it as David Tennant tosses high collars over the brown suit for the latest transmedia adventures of our favourite Galllifreyan. Mark your calendar for Titan’s Doctor Who Comics Day on Nov. 21, and keep your ears peeled for new BBC Audio on the horizon! But let’s stop shilly shallying, shall we? We have our Classic Series Commentary over the concluding episodes of “The Power of the Daleks”!
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- More Whoray releases in the works
- Time Lord Victorious trailer
- Doctor Who Comics Day November 21
- Upcoming BBC Audio releases: Enlightenment, The Keeper of Traken, The Web Planet
- The Macra Terror wins RTS award
- The Doctor Who Cookbook Blu-Ray feature also wins RTS award
- Star Trek Day
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Radio Free Skaro #758 - I Am Your Servant
The moment you have waited for has arrived! Well, honestly just Warren was waiting for Character Options Daleks from “The Chase”, otherwise known as “secretly getting Cushing Daleks into the Dolly Canon.” And here they are! Also, there’s some news of further Big Finish Tenth Doctor adventures, the re-emergence of a Colin Baker graphic novel, rumours of newly animated missing Patrick Troughton adventures, and Episodes Three and Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Power of the Daleks”!
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- Survival supercut
- Character Options Chase Daleks
- Time Lord Victorious Comics series trailer
- James Goss talks Time Lord Victorious
- Big Finish Out of Time pairs David Tennant with Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker
- The Age of Chaos due for reissue in 2021
- Blackpool Remembered
- Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen – next to be animated?
- The Power of the Daleks 2016 vs 2020 animation
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Radio Free Skaro #757 - Vulcan Nerve Pinch
Time is fracturing! Of course you knew that, given the pandemic has jumbled all sense of continuity and indeed sanity, but also because of a new immersive experience called Doctor Who: Time Fracture which premieres in London in February 2021. Also Titan Comics is relaunching the pencil and ink adventures of Doctor Who, River Song is meeting K-9 and the Mechanoids in the Realm of Audio, and we begin our commentary for Power…of the Daleks!
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- Time Fracture website
- Time Fracture trailer
- Time Fracture UNIT promo 1
- Time Fracture UNIT promo 2
- Time Fracture UNIT promo 3
- Doctor Who Magazine 555
- Titan relaunching Doctor Who Comic
- Big Finish Diary of River Song volume 8
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Radio Free Skaro #756 - Trivia, Mr. Fibuli
It’s the fourteenth anniversary of Radio Free Skaro! From humble beginnings in 2006 to slightly less humble surroundings now, we hope we’ve entertained you over the years. And to celebrate this milestone, we’re introducing a new game show: Trivia, Mr. Fibuli! Where we…well, we just play Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit for a while. Moons of madness! See who wins the epic battle of Doctor Who facts between Warren and Chris, with Steven serving as the adjudicator! Revel
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- The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances tweetalong
- Matt Smith, Karen Gillan & Arthur Darvill panel
- The Deadly Assassin supercut
- The Daleks’ Master Plan making-of by Josh Snares
- Big Finish December 2020 releases
- Time Lord Victorious timeline
- Time Lord Victorious origins
- Worlds Apart digital TCG announced
- Team TARDIS Diaries Volume 1, Paper Moon
- Team TARDIS Diaries Volume 2, Ghost Town
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Radio Free Skaro #755 - Bittersweet Symphony
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- Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who via Big Finish
- Fury from the Deep DVD/Blu-Ray details
- BBC America will broadcast The Faceless Ones
- The Curse of Fenric supercut
- Thirteenth Doctor with blue top action figure
- Big Finish introduces a new Fourth Doctor companion, due in 2024
- Big Finish Echoes of Extinction rounds out their Time Lord Victorious offerings
- Doctor Who Annual 2021 will tie in with Time Lord Victorious, due September 3
- Time Lord Victorious Comics #1 covers
- Lytton comic stretch goal for Orcini one-off
- Andrew Skilleter Target designs mug & coaster sets
- Two charity collections from Obverse Books
- Victor Pemberton radio drama The Slide being rebroadcasted
- 2020 Hugo Awards
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Radio Free Skaro #754 - Smurf Minotaur
Stop! There will be no battle here! Unless you mean the final two episodes of our Classic Series Commentary for “Battlefield”, which features in this here episode of Radio Free Skaro. The Three Who Rule also go over the news from the past week, including Doctor Who’s first ever Emmy nomination, a recap of some of the notable events of Comic-Con At Home, and some general confusion about oxen!
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- The Runaway gets Emmy nomination
- Regenerations charity anthology due August 3
- Time Lord Victorious/Titan Comics SDCC Panel
- Red Dwarf The Promised Land SDCC Panel
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Radio Free Skaro #753 - Helicopter Parents
This week begins our Classic Series Commentary for the Sylvester McCoy Season 26 opener “Battlefield”! Twisting Warren’s arm to watch his favourite era of Doctor Who is a favourite pastime for the other Two Who Rule. Also, Dan Peck from The Game of Rassilon, a fun and entertaining Doctor Who RPG podcast, drops by for a chat. Plus, news on virtual conventions for Chicago TARDIS and Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine, and more!
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- Ghost Light highlights video
- Power of the Daleks Special Edition trailer
- Hollow Planet print and play game
- SDCC@Home Titan Comics Time Lord Victorious panel
- Time Lord Victorious figurines announced
- Doctor Who Magazine 554
- Dalek Combat Training Manual
- BritBox UK to get UFO, Sapphire & Steel, The Prisoner and more
- Chicago TARDIS 2020 goes virtual
- Big Finish Day 2020 goes virtual
- Eric Saward kickstarter for Lytton comic series
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Radio Free Skaro #752 - I'm A Doctor, Not A Doctor
The last Classic Who tweetalong, a Torchwood: Children of Earth supercut, and a Big Ol’ Delgado action dolly are in the news this week, along with the tragic news of the passing of actor Maurice Roeves and Mythbusters host, engineer, and Gallifrey One mainstay Grant Imahara. But along with that we’ve got answers, pedantry and obfuscations with our latest edition of…Fluid Links!
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- Survival tweetalong
- Survival tweetalong bonus content
- Torchwood Children of Earth 29-minute supercut
- Big Chief Studios Roger Delgado Master due August 2021
- Marco Polo 4-LP vinyl release due September 11
- Latest DWAS TARDIS Magazine released
- Maurice Roeves died
- Grant Imahara died
Radio Free Skaro #751 - The Dog's Name Was Indiana
Truncated Doctor Who? Normally nerds would scream bloody murder at such impertinence, but not when it’s the official Doctor Who YouTube page with half hour versions of “The Masque of Mandragora” and “The Hand of Fear”! Other bibs and bobs this week included photos of Matt Smith trying on test outfits before he went full tweed, Big Finish news and Target book delays, but let’s be frank, you’re here for the second part of our look at look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on “Listen”, “Time Heist”, “Flatline” and “The Husbands of River Song” in…the Miniscope!
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- Masque of Mandragora 30-minute edit
- The Hand of Fear 30-minute edit
- Matt Smith test outfits
- Time Lord Victorious: Minds of Magnox due December 3
- The Fifth Doctor fights The Daleks in 8 Big Finish stories
- Big Finish Torchwood late 2020 monthly releases
- Target books delayed to March 2021
- Time Scope charity anthology
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #750 - Soon Be Middle Aged
Both America and Canada celebrated their birthdays this week, and Radio Free Skaro was there on July 1st via Twitter to highlight the Doctor Who accomplishments of some notable Canucks working in the Doctor Who trenches over the show’s 50-year history. In other news, we’re all addicted to varying degrees to the simplistic Thirteen tile game, and there’s a Series 6 Blu-Ray steelbook headed to UK fans in early August. Whoop! But let’s cut to the chase here, it’s our 750th episode, and to celebrate, we have the first part of a look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on Doctor Who…in the Miniscope!
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- Radio Free Skaro celebrates Canadians involved with Doctor Who
- Thirteen game
- Series 6 Blu-Ray Steelbook UK release
- Louis Mahoney died
- Earl Cameron died
- Doctor Who’s Line Is It Anyway charity special
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #749 - A Flock of Pangols
Hotelmageddon! Yes, even in this time of the Swarm, the love for Doctor Who and celebration of said televisual program continues unabated as we all hope to see each other at Gallifrey One in February 2021 at the LAX Marriott, the room block for which is now sold out. In the meantime, there’s a great panel with three Doctors Who and friend of the show Riley Silverman, plus the usual Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine and whatnot, plus a new discussion about noted communist agitator Malcolm Hulke! And if that isn’t enough proletariat agitprop, we have the second half of our “The Leisure Hive” commentary! Tachyoneriffic!
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- Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block sold out
- Whittaker, Smith and Tennant interviewed together for HBO Max promo
- Riley Silverman also interviewed Whittaker, Smith and Tennant for Nerdist
- Doctor Who Magazine contributions to Time Lord Victorious begin in issue 556
- Doctor Who Magazine 553 released
- Worlds Collide remote Doctor Who escape room experience
- Big Finish brings Alex Kingston and David Tennant together again in The Tenth Doctor and River Song
- Big Finish Gallifrey Time War 4 wraps up the series, due February 2021
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho spinoff debuts in August
- Doctor Who and the Communist article about Malcolm Hulke expanded
- Hulke author Michael Herbert gave a talk about Hulke, with guest Katy Manning
- Kyle Anderson to moderate Red Dwarf panel for Comic Con @ Home
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Radio Free Skaro #748 - Three Minutes of Brighton Beach
The news is thinner than David Tennant’s waistline this week, despite the appearance of good ol’ Number 10 along with current TARDIS occupant 13 herself on James Corden’s late night talk show. Gallifrey One hotel rooms are opening up this week, a peek at Time Lord Victorious and…that’s the extent of it. Perhaps it’s the fault of the advanced science of tachyonics as seen in Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for…”The Leisure Hive”!
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- Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block opens June 26
- Doctor Who can’t be made to the same standard with distancing rules
- Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant were on the Late Late Show with James Corden
- Whittaker and Tennant judged a cosplay contest on the Late Late Show
- Time Lord Victorious comics announced
- First look at Time Lord Victorious #1
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Radio Free Skaro #747 - Fun Space Time Box
Now that the Doctor Who tweetalongs are winding down, we’re back to the Time of (Almost) No News, which seems apt given the Cavalcade of Things occurring in the real world at the moment, but there’s some Steven Moffat bonus content in the form of “The Best of Days”, a bonus bit of Nardole/Bill content, along with the script for “Blink,” one of his most lauded works, being available for download. Plus there’s some hot Rory content coming from Big Finish, learnin’ stuff from Twinkl and the BBC, and the antithesis of education in the form of…Fluid Links!
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- The Best of Days by Steven Moffat
- The Best of Days will be Moffat’s last Who work
- Script for Blink released
- Season 14 UK Blu-Ray re-release
- Big Finish’s The Lone Centurion brings back Rory
- Educational DW resources released by Twinkl and BBC Studios
- Twinkl Doctor Who Educational resources
Radio Free Skaro #746 - The Man Who Wasn't There
Sometimes the world outside our Doctor Who fandom has to be accounted for and engaged with. We hope we can bring some levity to your week nonetheless, but we implore you to do your own reading, research and thinking. We also have a miniscope with Steve Thompson, the (possibly fictional?) writer of “The Curse of the Black Spot”, “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”, and “Time Heist”, and we will once and for all determine if he exists! Or will we?
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- Final tweetalong for World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls canceled
- World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls scripts made available
- Black Girls Create tweetalongs
- The Secret of Novice Hame extra for New Earth/Gridlock
- The Guardian profiled Who fandom during lockdown
- TARDIS Touchdown Techniques extra for The TARDIS Chronicles
- The Faceless Ones DVD delayed in Canada
- Conundrum from the Doctor Who Audio Annual released for free
- Big Finish Time Lord Victorious announcement
- Big Finish Time Apart features a solo Fifth Doctor
- Doctor Who Pub Quiz Night in support of the Lily Foundation
- Black Girls Create
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #745 - Ice Road Truckers
The tweetalongs will continue until morale improves, which it has, due to tweetalongs! Specifically New Earth, Gridlock and Rings of Akhaten along with some Long Song bonus content. Want more? Noel Clarke interviews RTD and if you’re American, HBO Max has all of “new Who” for you! Plus more Big Finish, DVD news, and Doctor Who on Turkish television along with the grand finale of our Planet of the Daleks commentary featuring..the Three Who Rule!
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- New Earth/Gridlock tweetalong
- Rings of Akhaten tweetalong
- The Long Song fan choir
- Noel Clarke interviews Russell T Davies
- HBO Max launched in the US
- Big Finish in Lockdown video
- The Faceless Ones North America DVD release
- Lost TV episodes collection 4 CD release
- Big Finish brings together Tom Baker and David Tennant
- DWAS releases Doctor Who Audio Guide volume 2
- Doctor Who Magazine 552 released
- Doctor Who comes to Turkish TV
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #744 - CSO Miami
The pandemic podcasts continue with this week’s guest Danica Leblanc, co-owner of Edmonton-based comic shop Variant Edition, who updates us on the trials of retail and general survival in the Time Of COVID. But we’re not alone, as there is a breaking Gallifrey One update, more tweetalongs, Big Finish announcements, new dollies coming to North America, assorted nonsense, and the continued excitement of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with special guest Paul Cornell!
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- Gallifrey One planning to go ahead for 2021
- An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong happened May 23
- Doctors Assemble! extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- David Bradley message extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- The Fires of Pompeii tweetalong bonus content, The Descendants of Pompeii
- Listen tweetalong happened May 20
- A Poem by Steven Moffat for the Listen tweetalong
- Fear is a Superpower extra for the Listen tweetalong
- The Unsung Heroes of Doctor Who series from Fantom kicked off
- Six new Character Options action dollies sets due in June
- Peter Davison revamped his home recording studio
- Big Finish War Master volumes 5 and 6 announced
- Big Finish announces Master!
- Big Finish Masterful artwork released
- Big Finish The Doomsday Contract by John Lloyd announced
- Big Finish The Lovecraft Invasion announced
- 2021 Doctor Who annual available in September
- The TARDIS Chronicles Volume 1 by Paul Smith available
- Doctor Who The Monster Vault book due in October
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Radio Free Skaro #743 - Resting Prentis Face
The lockdown continues across the world, and this week we welcome one Erik Stadnik from the Czech Republic and Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room fame to regale us with tales of eastern European quarantine along with good natured badinage about this week’s news, which includes further tweetalongs, “Time Lord: Victorious” news, new Doctor Who video games, and a boatload of Who scripts from Series 12 for your enjoyment! And speaking of fun, we have the first two episodes of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with comedian, Who-storian, writer Toby Hadoke!
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- All Series 12 scripts available from the BBC Writer’s Room
- Segun Akinola took part in a Hollywood Reporter roundtable
- The Zygon Isolation bonus content from the Zygon Invasion/Inversion tweetalong
- The next tweetalong will be for The Fires of Pompeii
- The Radio Times is organizing a tweetalong for An Adventure in Space and Time
- Initial Time Lord Victorious books announced
- Maze Theory developing two new Doctor Who video games
- WhoLanta doing a virtual convention May 30
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Radio Free Skaro #742 - The Ogron Implosion
The Swarm continues, and with it comes fine Doctor Who-related content such as the tweetalong for “The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion” with one Peter Harness, who is also this week’s featured guest! (Stay tuned for the short discussion about Eurovision!) We also wrap up the first half of our epic Classic Series Commentary of “Frontier in Space” and “Planet of the Daleks” with Big Finish writer, Verity! co-host, and “The Time Monster” advocate Liz Myles!
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- Next Tweetalong is for The Zygon Invasion/Inversion with Peter Harness and Ingrid Oliver
- “Pompadour” bonus content for The Girl in the Fireplace
- Radio Times behind the scenes in 1970
- 2020 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity from Big Finish
- New Who Talk releases for The Robots of Death and The Pirate Planet
- BBC releases Sci-fi-themed video conferencing backdrops
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Radio Free Skaro #741 - Sippy Cups on the Moon
This week, Deb Stanish of Verity! joins us to banter about news of a transmediatastic multiplatformeriffic project called “Time Lord: Victorious” which will span novels, comics, audio and escape rooms (somehow) and may be just the thing to fill the void left by No Doctor Who for the next little while! And if that’s not enough, how about some “The Power of the Daleks” Blu-ray news, a “Dalek” (by Rob Shearman) prequel, and another Dalek prequel (sort of) in the form of parts three and four of our commentary for “Frontier in Space” with friend of the show Kyle Anderson!
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- Time Lord Victorious debuts in September
- Time Lord Victorious produced by James Goss, with contributions by several companies
- Power of the Daleks Special Edition due in the UK July 6
- Doctor Who Magazine 551 released
- Telos Publishing put together a book on Doctor Who exhibitions
- Sven and the Scarf prequel to Dalek
- The Girl in the Fireplace tweetalong with Steven Moffat and Sophia Myles
- Big Finish’s Shadow in the Sun first story produced in the lockdown, due May 12
- Wally K Daly died
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Radio Free Skaro #740 - Danger: Bulk Flour
The love for Doctor Who and indeed humanity itself continues, with many a Doctor thanking the NHS for their sterling service this week, a new tweetalong with the inestimable Paul Cornell and his stories “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”, and extra bonus prequel/epilogue material for those same stories. And he’s not the only wordsmith cranking out the characters as Joy Wilkinson of “The Witchfinders” fame penned a short story as well! Plus there’s the first two parts of our “Frontier in Space” commentary! Let’s not forget our special guest Chip Sudderth, our fourth Beatle and eternal chum! He’s here for more than two minutes!
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- The Doctors say Thank You
- “The Simple Things” short story by Joy Wilkinson
- Farewell, Sarah Jane
- Lockdown tweetalong for “Dalek”
- Lockdown tweetalong for “Human Nature”/”The Family of Blood”
- “Shadow of a Doubt” prequel for Human Nature
- “The Shadow in the Mirror” epilogue for The Family of Blood
- Season 14 TARDIS console
- Calgary Expo cancelled
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Radio Free Skaro #739 - Lockdown of the Daleks
SwarmFest 2020 continues and with it we have a Doctor Who tsunami of tweetalongs, tie-ins, and tat, which makes up for conventions as far and wide as San Diego and London going online (in the case of DWAS’s CapitalCon) and just flat out not happening (SDCC). But if you’re looking for premium Doctor Who online content, we have our latest Miniscope examining the work of last week’s interview subject, Paul Wilmshurst, that work being his directorship of “Kill The Moon”, “Mummy on the Orient Express”, and “Last Christmas”! And if you like math, contagion, and the analysis of such things, we also have noted author, mathematician and man about town Robert Smith? popping by!
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- Ed Hime reportedly writing for Series 13
- “The Shadow Passes” short story by Paul Cornell
- Lockdown tweetalong for The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End
- New Sarah Jane Adventures content due
- Rory’s Story tie-in for The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- Suranne Jones’s message for The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- Neil Gaiman released some script pages and talked script changes during The Doctor’s Wife tweetalong
- A Heaven Sent tweetalong happened
- A Torchwood tweetalong for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang also happened
- A lockdown singalong for Long Song from The Rings of Akhaten is in the works
- Sadie Miller to play Sarah Jane Smith in Big Finish’s Return of the Cybermen
- The Unofficial Master Annual 2074 released
- DWAS holding its Capital Convention online
- DWAS is resurrecting its TARDIS magazine/fanzine
- San Diego Comic-Con 2020 canceled
- Pip Baker died
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Radio Free Skaro #738 - Absence of the Daleks
As we continue to hide in our own personal escape pods from Swarm 2020, we’re joined my writer, playwright and Resurrector of the Daleks Robert Shearman, who tells us firsthand about dealing with COVID-19, finishing his new book “We All Hear Stories in the Dark”, and chimes in on the latest Who news and various other bits of balderdash. And not only that, we have an interview with Paul Wilmshurst, director of Series 8 episodes “Kill The Moon”, “Mummy on the Orient Express”, and “Last Christmas”!
Links:
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- The Doctor talks about self-isolation
- The Doctor talks about the NHS
- Steven Moffat penned “The Terror of the Umpty Ums”
- Big Finish “Wicked Sisters” brings together The Fifth Doctor and Leela
- 2020 Hugo Award finalists announced
- An Afternoon with Graeme Harper rescheduled for November
- Honor Blackman died
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Radio Free Skaro #737 - Colourization of the Daleks
As humanity hunkers down to ward off the global pandemic, the Three Who Rule are joined by Big Finish’s head of publicity Steve Berry for the news, and what news there be with Doctor Who tweetalongs, short stories, and hints of more missing episodes from one Philip Morris keeping us sane in our respective bunkers, along with (of course) some Big Finish info from Mr. Berry himself. Plus we have two of the wizards what whom colourized an episode of “The Daleks’ Master Plan” in the form of precocious rascals Kieran Highman and Richard Tipple! Enjoy!
Links:
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- Fantom Films Time Space Visualizer featuring Philip Morris and Enemy of the World
- Fantom Films teases new commentary for “The Space Pirates”
- Fantom Films next tweetalong will be Silver Nemesis on April 11
- Something Who Ep 20 with Steven
- New Thirteenth Doctor short story from Pete McTighe
- Next Doctor Who Lockdown will be The Doctor’s Wife with Neil Gaiman
- Previous Doctor Who Lockdown: The Eleventh Hour
- Amazon Prime made The Eleventh Hour free on April 3
- New animated short story “The Raggedy Doctor”, by Steven Moffat
- Torchwood “Captain Jack Harkness” tweetalong with John Barrowman
- Free content coming soon to the Big Finish app
- The Time War Volume 4 coming from Big Finish September 2020
- Torchwood Dinner and a Show by Gareth David-Lloyd due June 2020
- Hamish Wilson passes away from COVID-19
- Colourized clip of “The Evil of the Daleks” from Kieran Highman
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Radio Free Skaro #736 - Isolation of the Daleks
The original Three Who Rule Time Team Fam are back after a couple weeks apart and there’s a frankly insane amount of news to plow through after three weeks off the clock. And and AND we have your Fluid Links questions answered…or at least mulled about in a pointless manner! We hope we can continue to provide you nonsense and distractions during these troubling times.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Gallifrey One 2021 Tickets On Sale
- Calgary Expo postponed
- North American Season 26 Blu-Ray delayed for some
- Record Store Day and Massacre vinyl release postponed to June 20
- Big Finish Day postponed
- Big Finish updates schedule, stops shipping CDs
- Special message from Jodie Whittaker
- “Things She Thought While Falling” short story released
- Celebrating 100 years of Patrick Troughton
- New Day of the Doctor intro released after tweetalong
- Rose prequel released after tweetalong
- Rose sequel released after tweetalong
- Vincent and The Doctor tweetalong announced
- North American Season 14 Who-ray due July 21
- North American Dr Who and the Daleks Blu-Ray due July 7
- North American Dalek’s Invasion Earth 2150 AD Blu-Ray due July 7
- The Faceless Ones easter egg list compiled by David J Howe
- Faceless Ones Blu-Ray hits #1 on UK chart
- Series 12 soundtrack due April 3
- Details for The Sun Makers and The Visitation soundtracks due May 1
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy gets a new vinyl release
- Big Finish Return of the Cybermen announced
- Big Finish Third Doctor adventures brings back The Daleks
- Big Finish Torchwood releases for April & May 2020
- Big Finish Paternoster Gang Heritage 3 due May 2020
- Doctor Who Roblox content was made available
- The Wife in Space Volume 1 released, more to come
- Obverse Books offering 3-for-2 promotion for Black Archive books
- Doctor Who Magazine 550 due April 2
- David Collings died
Radio Free Skaro #735 - High School Confidential
In this special episode of Radio Free Skaro, we present our contribution to the recent Who For Schools initiative with our commentary for the 2006 Doctor Who episode “School Reunion”! But there’s a twist! Listener Drew Walko helped to support the campaign and so gave each of the Three Who Rule a secret phrase to try to insert into the podcast. Can you guess what each phrase is? Can we? Listen and find out, and thank you for your support for Who For Schools!
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Radio Free Skaro #734 - WHO Is The Doctor, Too
The world is going through a tough time right now with many of us hunkering down to try to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus (friends, by doing nothing we are doing our part). So we at Radio Free Skaro hope to try to entertain and educate you over the coming weeks as we usually do, and this week, Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? drop by to talk about their new book, Who Is The Doctor 2, the follow-up to the successful first volume of this unofficial Doctor Who episode guide! Stay safe, everyone.
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Radio Free Skaro #733 - Atta Girls
The Timeless Wait has begin, but the Three Who Rule won’t let a little thing like a long monotonous stretch of time until new Doctor Who stop them from babbling about their favorite television show! Not when there’s stats, retrospectives, a ridiculous amount of tat and, most importantly of all, in celebration of International Women’s Day, an interview with Louise Jameson, writer and producer of ATA Girl 2, out today from Big Finish!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Gallifrey One 2021 Tickets On Sale
- The Timeless Children BBC One overnights
- The Timeless Children BBC America overnights
- Ascension of the Cybermen BBC One Live+7
- Ascension of the Cybermen BBC AI
- Series 12 home video version will include Resolution
- Series 12 soundtrack due April 3
- Regenerating The Doctor, March 13
- The Trip of a Lifetime: The Making of Modern Doctor Who by Edward Russell due Winter 2020
- The Massacre being released on vinyl for Record Store Day
- A Dalek Awakens escape room
- Doctor Who Magazine 549 features Jo Martin on the cover
- The Timeless Children t-shirt
- B&M Third Doctor Monster of Peladon action figure set
- B&M Eighth Doctor & Dalek Interrogator Prime action figure reissue
- B&M War Doctor and Dalek Scientist action figure reissue
- B&M Seventh Doctor and Axis Strike Squad Dalek action figure reissue
- Corgi 13th Doctor knitwear
- Hero Collector Chibi-style Doctor Who pins
- Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard added for G’Day of the Doctor
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #732 - For Services to The Division
The time has come for “The Timeless Children” being timeless! Will Doctor Who canon and continuity survive? Can the Doctor and the Master ever make nice? What will become of the Time Fam? Most importantly, what was the opinion of your humble servant podcasters on this, the finale of Series 12? You will obey…by listening! Also stats, tat, Target books and t-shirts. And no new Doctor Who until the holiday season!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Gallifrey One 2021 Tickets On Sale
- The Timeless Children
- Revolution of the Daleks to air during festive season
- Ascension of the Daleks BBC One overnights
- Ascension of the Daleks BBC America overnights
- Ascension of the Daleks BBC America Live+3 ratings
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati BBC One Live+7 viewing figures
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati BBC One AI
- Fugitive of the Judoon BBC One Live+28 viewing figures
- Doctor Who will not be rested
- 12th Doctor console
- The Timeless Children t-shirt
- Ascension of the Cybermen t-shirt
- The Haunting of Village Diodati t-shirt
- Can You Hear Me? t-shirt
- Blurbs for upcoming Target novelizations
- I Am the Master short story collection
- Doctor Who Humble Bundle
- Big Finish Cry of the Vultriss
- G’Day of the Doctor fundraiser
Radio Free Skaro #731 - Game of Drones
It is the Time of Descent for the Three Who Rule as they have just returned from Gallifrey One and are still in the thrall of the post-con blues, but for the Cybermen (and indeed one television programme called Doctor Who) it is the Time To Ascend…to something or other, as determined next week. In the meantime, here’s a review of “Ascension of the Cybermen”, the first part of the two-part Series 12 finale! Also, we catch up on our Stats segment after skipping it last week, Torchwood returns to the iPlayer, Big Finish explores more nooks and crannies of the Whoniverse, and you can Build-A-Bear yourself a Doctor!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Ascension of the Cybermen
- Christopher Eccleston announced for Calgary Expo
- Maxine Alderton's CV lists her as Season 13 "core writer"
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati BBC One overnights
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati BBC America overnights
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati BBC America Live+3 ratings
- Can You Hear Me? BBC One overnights
- Can You Hear Me? BBC America overnights
- Can You Hear Me? BBC One Live+7 ratings
- Can You Hear Me? BBC One AI
- Can You Hear Me? BBC America Live+3 ratings
- Praxeus BBC One Live+7 ratings
- Praxeus BBC One AI
- Youku buys Doctor Who
- Doctor Who Series 12 sold to France
- Torchwood's entire run now on iPlayer
- Doctor Who Build-A-Bear announced
- Big Finish "Stranded" brings back Tom Baker's Caretaker
- Big Finish Torchwood "Tropical Beach Sounds" features Michael Palin
- Big Finish Torchwood "Dissected" brings back Martha Jones
- Big Finish Missy Series 2 due in July 2020
Radio Free Skaro #730 - I Hate Canadians
What a weekend! Not only did the Three Who Rule attend Gallifrey One and had a wonderful time (as you will hear in this podcast), but they had a new episode of Doctor Who to watch in the form of "The Haunting of Villa Diodati", a scary haunted house story beautifully filmed and impeccably acted! Also, Steven recounts his experiences interviewing Christopher Eccleston on the main stage at Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #729 - These Go To Eleven
Presenting our live show from Gallifrey One 2020! Listen as we interview an astounding number of guests, including Peter Davison, Michael E Briant, Margot Hayhoe, Gary Russell, Tilly Steele, Mark Dexter, Matt Rohman, Sallie Aprahamian, Pete McTighe, Vinay Patel, and Joy Wilkinson, with the return of Chip Sudderth as the Two-Minute Time Lord!
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Radio Free Skaro #728 - On Our Way To Gallifrey
It’s Gallifrey One time again! For the eleventh year, Radio Free Skaro will be heading to the greatest Doctor Who convention in the world, and once again, we give a rundown of what to expect, what to prepare for, and what to recover from if you are attending the convention this year. And don’t forget to come our live show, as we, the official podcast of Gallifrey One, kick things off on Friday morning with Radio Free Skaro: These Go To Eleven!
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Radio Free Skaro #727 - Yes, I Can Hear You, Clem Fandango
Immortal beings (who are expressly not the Eternals, Guardians, or Toymakers), evil, nightmares, mental health, and giant hands are just some (alright, most) of the topics tackled in this week’s Doctor Who episode, “Can You Hear Me?”, and the Three Who Rule have opinions and conjecture to bandy about for days in an episode that provoked a lot more discussion than we thought we would. And it’s our first episode of several this week as our Gallifrey One Preview Episode follows on Tuesday! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One 2020 live show: These Go To Eleven!
- Can You Hear Me?
- Finale teaser trailer
- Finale episode titles, Ian McElhinney and Steve Toussaint to guest
- Millennium FX no longer working on Doctor Who after Praxeus
- Praxeus BBC One overnights
- Praxeus BBC America overnights
- Praxeus BBC America Live+3 ratings
- Fugitive of the Judoon BBC final ratings
- Fugitive of the Judoon AI
- UK demand for Doctor Who “exceptional”
- Spyfall Part One and Part Two BBC Live+28 ratings
- Praxeus t-shirt
- UK Season 12 Blu-ray re-release due March 2
- Faceless Ones home video details
- Doctor Who Magazine 548 released
- Sophie Aldred talks “A Childhood’s End” on the Penguin Books podcast
- Big Finish brings together Captain Jack and River Song
- Final Big Finish Short Trips for 2020 announced
- The Witchfinders audio novelization
- Keith Barnfather’s “The Doctors” series on Amazon Prime
- The Edge of Time gets a physical release for Playstation VR
- Doctor Who baking sets due later in 2020
- Jacqueline Hill biography came out Nov 23, 2019
- Millennium FX no longer working on Doctor Who after Praxeus
Radio Free Skaro #726 - The Talking Cat of Ontario
Birds, globetrotting, and hapless travel vloggers are all part of the mix in “Praxeus,” the latest adventure in Series 12 of Doctor Who as the Doc & Co race against time, disease, environmental catastrophe, and general crankiness to save the world! What did the Three Who Rule think of this planetary runaround? You know the drill. And you also know this is the place for news of tat, Big Finish tat, even more tat, and s…tats. Ahhhhhh-aahhhhhh! Stats!
Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One 2020 live show: These Go To Eleven! – Gallifrey One update – Praxeus – Fugitive of the Judoon BBC One overnight viewing figures – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror final BBC One viewing figures – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror AI – Fugitive of the Judoon BBC America overnight ratings – Fugitive of the Judoon Live+3 BBC America ratings – Fugitive of the Judoon t-shirt – Tickets for the BFI screening of Talons of Weng-Chiang on sale soon – Big Finish Subterfuge due March 2020 – Replica Tenth Doctor sonic screwdriver – You On Target book released – Doctor Who Annual 2021 – Doctor Who Christmas Anthology – Doctor Who The Monster Vault – Doctor Who Atlas – Kurt Adler Doctor Who stocking – Kurt Adler Time War Dalek ornament – Kurt Adler Pting ornament – Kurt Adler 13th Doctor ornament – Nicholas Parsons died
Radio Free Skaro #725 - Rhinoceros Party
There is simply no way to describe the latest episode of Doctor Who without spoiling it, so please dive right in and listen to the Three Who Rule’s thoughts about “Fugitive of the Judoon,” which has…Judoon! And a whole lot else that impacts greatly on Series 12 and indeed the history of the show…which again we dare not utter here! Just listen! And may we further entice you with stats, action dolly news, and further updates to our Gallifrey One live show, Radio Free Skaro: These Go To Eleven!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One 2020 live show: These Go To Eleven! - Gallifrey One 2020 Schedule available - Gallifrey One 2020 update - Whittaker to stay a third series - Fugitive of the Judoon - Judoon Captain named after Paul Condon - Radio Times interview with John Barrowman - Series 12 latter half trailer - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror BBC One overnight viewing figures - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror BBC America overnight ratings - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror BBC America Live+3 Day ratings - Orphan 55 final BBC One viewing figures - Orphan 55 AI 77 - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror t-shirt - Tom Baker in conversation with Nicholas Briggs - Talons to be screened at the BFI March 14 - Season 14 Blu-Ray clean artwork - Big Finish Susan's War due April 2020 - New Big Finish 4-story Torchwood series begins April 2020 - Updated Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit - Doctor Who Mistress of Chaos graphic novel due July 5 - 5.5" 13th Doctor action figure due next month - 5.5" Graham action figure due next month - 5.5" Reconnaissance Dalek due next month - 5.5" electronic TARDIS due next month - B&M 13th Doctor companion set due mid-2020 - Adric gold star badge due June 10
Radio Free Skaro #724 - The Edison Twins
Two titans of early 20th century industry and invention square off in the fourth episode of Doctor Who Series 12, "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" as the aforementioned Mr. Tesla and one Thomas Edison battle space scorpions, patent law and the Time Fam in New York City. But a far greater horror for Warren exists in the form of STATS! and we have so, so many of those cursed viewing figure numbers to discuss. Plus, we officially announce our upcoming Gallifrey One live show Radio Free Skaro: These Go To Eleven, featuring an impressive array of guests that will no doubt electrify you! Er, in a good way.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One 2020 live show: These Go To Eleven! - Radio Free Skaro site redesign – Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror – Orphan 55 BBC One overnight viewing figures – Orphan 55 gains 60% ratings on BBC America – Final Skyfall Part One BBC One viewing figures – Final Skyfall Part Two BBC One viewing figures – Final Skyfall Part One BBC America ratings – Final Skyfall part Two BBC America ratings – Skyfall Part Two AI 82 – Orphan 55 BBC America initial ratings – Orphan 55 t-shirt – Whittaker & Chibnall to speak about Series 12 at BBC Studios showcase – Series 12 North America DVD/Blu-Ray due May 5 – Next Classic Who-Ray set will be Season 14 – Season 14 Who-Ray trailer – Gallifrey One program preview – Colourized Daleks' Master Plan Episode 2 teaser – Doctor Who Runaway VR game on Steam and YouTube – Paradise of Death and Ghosts of N-Space vinyl releases
Radio Free Skaro #723 - Marb Station
It’s an abrupt left turn for Doctor Who and the Time Fam as they wander through the pristine and apocalyptic settings of “Orphan 55”, the third new episode of our favourite show and our first not to involve spies, laser shoes or smashed up Gallifrey globes. What did the Three Who Rule think of this dusty romp with an ecological message? Plus more Gallifrey One guests, some details about our upcoming Gallifrey One live show, and an epic deep dive into more viewing figures in our Stats section!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Orphan 55 – Spyfall Part Two BBC One overnight viewing figures – Spyfall Part Two got 589K viewers on BBC America – Lizo Mzimba talks viewing figures – BBC America ratings boosts for Live+3 – Spyfall Part Two t-shirt – Episode titles and synopses up to episode 6 – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror again at 7:10pm on BBC One – Warren Brown and Matthew McNulty to guest in Series 12 – Gallifrey One guest update, evening receptions on sale – Gallifrey One update – The Visitation soundtrack due on CD and vinyl – The Sun Makers soundtrack due on CD and vinyl – Doctor Who joke book due July 23 – John Griffiths died
Radio Free Skaro #722 – Humanity is Over (If You Want It)
The Master is back for the second week in a row in “Spyfall – Part Two” as Series 12 of Doctor Who continues! A romp across the centuries ends with a big surprise but more importantly, what were the thoughts of the Three Who Rule with the first proper story of Series 12 and Chris Chibnall’s first two-parter? More to the point, where is all this continuity leading us as we dive into the rest of this series? Plus we have the return of Warren’s favourite segment – Stats!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Spyfall Part Two – Skyfall Part One Appreciation Index of 82 – Skyfall Part One got 790,000 BBC America viewers – Orphan 55 synopsis, BBC One broadcast time of 7:10pm – Doctor Who Magazine 2020 Yearbook – Doctor Who Appreciation Society 2020 Annual fanzine available for free – Game of Rassilon podcast Season 2 starts January 15
Radio Free Skaro #721 – Where Worlds Collide and Days are Dark
The dawn of a new decade means only one thing: NEW DOCTOR WHO! Doc and the Time Fam are back and battling enemies old and new in “Spyfall – Part One”, a globetrotting bit of intrigue involving glowing aliens, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, and more! What will happen next!?!? Well, we’ll give you some updates on tat, new actors for series 12, a Gallifrey One update, a celebration of Terrance Dicks and the return of Stats! You have been warned.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Spyfall Part One – Terrance Dicks dedication – Terrance Dicks A Celebration happening March 15 – Spyfall Part One BBC One overnight viewing figures – Spyfall Part Two synopsis – Series 12 to have linking theme – Sacha Dhawan edited out of promotional material – Radio 1 interview with Jodie Whittaker – James Buckley announced for Series 12 – Series 12 on iTunes Canada – Weekly t-shirts available via Forbidden Planet in the UK – First Series 12 shirt available for preorder – Gallifrey One guest announcement – Gallifrey One charity auction info – Doctor Who demand on BritBox UK outpaced other shows 20:1 – German Season 23 Blu-Ray release – Big Finish Diary of River Song series 7 due this month – Toby Hadoke’s 2019 Doctor Who In Memoriam
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 23
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
Radio Free Skaro #720 – Babu Frik and Frak
And lo, a much beloved saga has come to its end, and with it, the Three Who Rule will ruminate on the highs and lows of their favorite characters as they reach their final destiny. But that’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which we will not speak of until after we get through this here list of Doctor Who news! And said list includes new bits and pieces of the TARDIS interior, upcoming Blu-ray steelbook releases, Britbox in the UK, Big Finish, and to cap it all off, an interview panel from Chicago TARDIS with Louise Jameson and John Leeson!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Changes to the Series 12 TARDIS console room – Hot Topic to release Series 12 merch after every episode – UK Series 12 home video release including steelbook – Series 5 steelbook due in February – North American reissues of Dalek Invasion of Earth, Invasion, Two Doctors, Revelation of the Daleks – Classic Doctor Who comes to UK BritBox on Boxing Day – A McGann TV series would have had prior Doctors and Ace – Big Finish Stranded due July 2020 – Big Finish Torchwood Expectant out now – Paul Cornell’s 12 Blogs of Christmas – Donald Tosh died – Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 22
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 21
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 20
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 19
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 18
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 17
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 16
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 16.
Radio Free Skaro #719 – You’re Nicked, Briggs
Tatsplosion! All the merchandise madness we deferred last week in place of actual proper Series 12 news must be faced now, and with tremendous vigour! And, hoo boy, is there a lot of tat to discussion from upcoming Big Finish releases to more modern Target novels to comics, t-shirts, miniature spinning TARDISes…madness! We also have Gallifrey One guest updates, wandering Judoon, AND an interview with Big Finish impresario, voice of the Cybermen, Judoon, (and Daleks?) in Series 12, and writer Nicholas Briggs!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – Gallifrey One guest update – Anjli Mohindra and Laura Fraser announced for Series 12 – Big Finish “Doctor Who: Masterful” brings John Simm back as The Master – Big Finish Chase the Night due January 2020 – Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 6 due May 2020 – Immersive Doctor Who theatrical experience coming to London in 2020 – Doctor Who fan film produced by Welsh school – New Target books due July 2020 – Doctor Who Magazine 546 released – John Levene autobiography available in hardback – Thirteenth/Tenth Doctor comic crossover happens during Blink – Big Chief Definitive Series Fourth Doctor – TARDIS consoles due February 2020 – Spinning TARDIS replica available – Hero Collector Figuring Collection, Time Lords Set #1 featuring The Curator and Romana II – Hero Collector episodic t-shirts – Hero Collector pin badge Doctor Who collection – Thirteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver with visual effects – Race to the TARDIS board game – Time Ladies talk Doctor Who merchandise – Judoon at Victoria Station – Wendy Williams died
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 15
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 14
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 13
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 13.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 12
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 12.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 11
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 11.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 10
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 10.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 9
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.
Radio Free Skaro #718 – Everything Changes on New Year’s Day
Everything is happening! As we hurtle towards New Year’s Day and the premiere of “Spyfall”, the first of a two-part episode of Doctor Who Series 12, the info we were waiting all of 2019 for is now flying fast and furious and the Three Who Rule are all that stands between you and total cranial destruction! So let’s get right to this melange of promotional show appearances, UK, US, and Canadian air dates, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with former Doctor Who brand manager Edward Russell! Listen, or you will be destroyed (by news!)
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – 30 years since Survival aired, piece by James Cooray Smith – Series 12 opens with “Spyfall”, airing New Year’s Day – Episode 1 first look – Series 12 release date trailer – The series will open with a 2-parter – Some Series 12 episodes will have a cold open – BBC One will broadcast Spyfall at 6:55pm – BBC America will broadcast Spyfall at 8:00 ET/PT – CTV Sci-Fi confirms New Year’s Day broadcast of Spyfall – Jodie Whittaker on the Graham Norton Show – Jodie Whittaker given silver record for Yellow, her Children in Need contribution – Fathom Events holding Spyfall screening January 5 – Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla will appear in Series 12 – Russia buys Series 12 and will offer older series on demand – Total TV Guide – BBC America Doctor Who marathon begins December 24 – BBC America Doctor Who marathon will include The Macra Terror – Michelle Ryan announced for Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One 2020 ticket resales open – Who 77 Promotions presents An Afternoon With Graeme Harper – Jonathan Morris’s project on which Doctor Who scripts exist – Gareth David-Lloyd catches someone trying to deface the Ianto shrine – DC Fontana died – Richard Easton died
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 8
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Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 7
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 6
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 5
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 4
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 3
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 2
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.
Radio Free Skaro #717 – One Month Away
As the 2019 calendar strikes December, we are officially one month until new Doctor Who (likely) returns on January 1! And to that end, we bring you an interview Steven did with Tosin Cole, recorded live on stage at Chicago TARDIS, where Tosin teases elements of Series 12 of Doctor Who while also discussing his work on Series 11. But before that, Paul Booth drops by to talk with Steven about the convention, the news of the week, that Series 12 trailer, and more!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Chicago TARDIS 2019 – Pearl Mackie announced as Gallifrey One guest – Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tracie Simpson headline Gallifrey One guest announcement – Doctor Who (likely) returns January 1 – New First and Thirteenth Doctor and Companion sets from Hero Collector – Big Finish Class series 3 & 4 announced, due April 2020 – Big Finish The Prisoner Volume 3 released – Doctor Who Infinity Announces Full Launch
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2019 Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #716 – We Watched That Space
Happy 56th birthday, Doctor Who! And what better way to celebrate than with a new Series 12 trailer featuring Cybermen, a giant scorpion, guest stars like Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry, and most importantly, the Doctor in a tux! Of course there’s always other tat and such to celebrate, such as goodies from Big Finish, the World Cup of Terrance Dicks, and Big Finish releases, and we have our final Series 11 commentary for “Resolution” with Danica LeBlanc!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Happy Doctor Who day! – Series 12 trailer – Radio Times trailer breakdown – Nerdist trailer breakdown – S12 wrapped filming – Chibnall mentioned series 13 is in the works, with him at the helm – Sir Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry confirmed for series 12 – Robert Glennister and Goran Visnjic confirmed for series 12 – Whovian complaint form – First 8 selections in the World Cup of Terrance Dicks – Final 2 selections in the World Cup of Terrance Dicks – DWAS charity appeal in the name of Terrance Dicks – Celestial Toyroom reaches issue 500 – Edge of Time soundtrack available on all major streaming services – Delia Derbyshire Day, and a video about the founding women of electronic music – Big Finish Diary of River Song series 7 due January 2020 – Big Finish ATA Girls series 2 due for International Women’s Day 2020 – Big Finish Legacy of Time fan art competition
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #715 – State of Temporal Grace
Friends, the Doctor Who dark time is nearly over. Not only do we now have the names of the writers and directors behind Series 12 of Doctor Who, but come November 23, we should have a firm picture of what will consist of the series, as well as when it will begin airing! How about that? We cover all of the Series 12 in this episode of the podcast, plus a bevy of other coverage of The Edge of Time VR game, and more, and cap it off with our Series 11 commentary for “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”, with guests Heather Berberet!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Series 12 writers and directors announced – Gally mid-November update – Whittaker, Cole and Gill before BBC Children in Need – BBC Children in Need Doctor Who segment – The World Cup of Terrance Dicks – Kklak! The Doctor Who art of Chris Achilleos – Doctor Who Magazine 545 released – Doctor Who Ground Zero paperback – Resurrection of the Daleks paperback due June 2020 – Revelation of the Daleks paperback due June 2020 – Electronic Sound Magazine celebrates Delia Derbyshire – 7″ Yellow Vinyl Doctor Who Theme – Big Finish Dark Universe due January 2020 – Big Finish Sixth Doctor anthology due for Christmas – Edge of Time coming to arcades November 23 – Edge of Time theme tune – Edge of Time Soundtrack – Edge of Time music Making Of featurette – Edge of Time playthrough – Capaldi features in TV Guide’s Favourite TV Moments of the Decade – The Memory Cheats Series 3 winds down – RFS contribution to The Quiz of Rassilon – Steven’s interview schedule at Chicago TARDIS – An Unearthly Convention – Ian Cullen died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #714 – Watch This Space
Watch this space! Keep watching, as the BBC Doctor Who Twitter presence consistently teases us with a trailer or announcement or something or other, apparently coming on the show’s 56th anniversary of November 23, 2019. Now watch some more! Or just listen to the other news on hand, including Britbox launching in the UK, a BFI screening of the feature-length documentary about John Nathan Turner in the Series 26 Blu-Ray set, Sonic Screwdriver tat, and the resumption of the Doctor Who Series 11 Commentaries with “It Takes You Away” with Nicole Hill!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Watch This Space – BritBox launches in the UK, Doctor Who absent until Boxing Day – Season 26 Blu-Ray Due March 24 in the US – Feature length JNT documentary from Season 26 Blu-Ray set to have BFI screening – Big Finish First Doctor Adventures Volume 4 – Sonic Screwdriver collection – An Unearthly Convention – Chicago TARDIS
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #713 – I Know So Little About Telebiogenesis
Animated Doctor Who reconstructions, off-the-cuff HBO Max reveals of future Doctor Who series, Jodie Whittaker being a Coldplay superfan and most importantly MORE STAR COPS are all in the news mix this week, and our feature interview is with Gavin Rymill and Jon Green, the Youtube documentarians behind the Dalek 6388 deep dive known as “Terry Nation Army”. Take a listen and find out how they plumb the depths of BBC administrivia to bring you a comprehensive look at how Doctor Who’s most iconic villains go from script to screen to shopping mall openings!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Doctor Who teases “Watch This Space” – HBO Max apparently confirms at least two further seasons of Doctor Who – “Fury From The Deep” to be animated in 2020 – “Fury From The Deep” teaser video – Sophie Aldred Doctor Who novel “At Childhood’s End” coming February 2020 – Members of Coldplay surprise Jodie Whittaker as she records for Children in Need – Big Finish Star Cops: Mars 1 due December 2019, with Mars 2 due June 2020 – Big Finish Blake’s 7 Restoration Part 2 featuring the final work of Paul Darrow as Avon is out in November
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #712 – Stay On Target
The #WhoForSchools initiative has officially launched, and we have the list of commentators on hand for you! Special guests include Sophie Aldred, Andrew Cartmel, Vinay Patel, Peter Harness, and a veritable buffet of Doctor Who podcasters commenting on Series 26 and having fun for a good cause! We also have a release date for “The Edge of Time” VR game, alternate covers for the Thirteenth/Tenth Doctors crossover event from titan Comics, and an interview with Simon Guerrier about the newly released Doctor Who: The Target Storybook!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – #WhoForSchools commentary participant list – Series 11 supercut – Edge of Time release date – First look at Titan Comics Doctors 10 and 13 crossover – Upcoming Keith Barnfather releases featuring Sil – Target Storybook excerpt
Interview:
– Simon Guerrier – Target Storybook, released Oct 24
Radio Free Skaro #711 – The Sorting Hat’s Grandpa
It’s a celebration of anniversaries this week as Doctor Who Magazine, the esteemed publication that has been by the Three Who Rule and many, many others for decades, celebrated its 40th anniversary this past week. And the tenth anniversary season of Classic Doctor Who finally saw its Blu-ray release here in North America, in a slimmer case than in the UK. Oh, the controversy! But the real celebration is welcoming Joy Piedmont from Reality Bomb for the Series 11 commentary of “The Witchfinders”!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Season 10 Blu-Ray released in North America – Doctor Who Magazine 544, 40th Anniversary issue, released – DWM Doctor Who Companion, Twelfth Doctor Volume 2 – Brief history of the Virgin New Adventures – Terry Nation Army video about the Mechanoids – Doctor Who night at the Natural Museum History Lates, October 25
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #710 – The Learning Hall
This week marks the launch of the #WhoforSchools initiative, a charitable effort spanning the Doctor Who podcast community and spearheaded by Reality Bomb’s Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont, along with Hockey Feels co-host Rachel Donner, to help fund educational access. Your own hosts have appeared on several different commentaries spanning the 14 episodes of season 26, along with with many other Who luminaries. This week also marks milestones like the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine, as well as the release of a recreation of the lost Hartnell episode “Mission to the Unknown” by University of Central Lancashire students that if you squint hard enough might as well be Classic Who! Plus we have a Series 11 Commentary for “Kerblam!”, with The Time Ladies, AKA Beth Axford and Kezia Newson!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – “Mission To The Unknown” recreation released on Doctor Who YouTube Channel – Doctor Who features at London Comic-Con October 25-27 – Doctor Who Magazine celebrates 40th anniversary – The Unofficial 1987 Doctor Who Annual – “Max Warp” from Big Finish coming vinyl – “Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror” coming from Obverse Books – Arthur Darvill coming to Chicago TARDIS – Stephen Moore, famous as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android, has died
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #709 – Look How They Shine For You
New York Comic-Con has come and gone, and while there was no official Doctor Who TV-related presence there, we here at Skaro HQ still have a Christopher Eccleston panel at NYCC to tell you about, in addition to upcoming DVD and Blu-ray news, comic releases, the Mission to the Unknown remake, and Jodie Whitakker rising up the charts with her cover of “Yellow” for Children in Need. And we top it off with our Series 11 commentary for “Demons of the Punjab”, with guest Claudia Boleyn!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 sold out – Christopher Eccleston NYCC panel – NYCC Titan Comics news – Mission to the Unknown debuts Oct 9 on YouTube – Updated Trial of a Time Lord Blu-Ray set trailer – North American DVD re-releases – Children in Need Got It Covered album due Nov 1 – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (UK Only Link) – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (Spotify) – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (Apple Music) – 1984 Philadelphia Doctor Who convention footage, featuring Ian Marter and Terrance Dicks
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #708 – The Play’s The Pting
Christopher Eccleston Alert! That’s right, the iconic actor who brought Doctor Who back from obscurity will be at Gallifrey One in 2020. Fantastic! The Three Who Rule also briefly review Eccleston’s new book “I Love The Bones Of You”, plus determine whether the new David Tennant Blu-ray collection is worth your money. And join us for our Series 11 Commentary for “The Tsuranga Conundrum”, with Verity!, Lazy Doctor Who and Earp Chirp’s own Erika Ensign!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Christopher Eccleston announced for Gally – Complete David Tennant Years Blu-Ray remarks – Upcoming Big Finish Short Trips due in 2020 – Build-A-Bear Doctor Who collection due 2020
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #707 – Not All Spiders Sit On The Back
A long-delayed promise of one Mr. Stephen Fry being in or around Doctor Who may come to fruition, as rumours abound he’ll star in the first episode of the upcoming Series 12 (which the BBC currently seems uninterested in promoting…). Otherwise it’s all spinoffs and tat, with Big Finish putting out a multi-Master and Daleks adventure, a Bernice Summerfield colouring book and new, non-Character Options dollies! Mere preamble to this week’s commentary for “Arachnids in the UK” with Den of Geek entertainment journalist and Legitimate Salvage co-host Kayti Burt!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Edmonton Expo – Christopher Eccleston cancelled for Edmonton Expo – Christopher Eccleston Rose City Comic Con panel – Stephen Fry reportedly in Series 12 premiere – The Master vs The War Master in Big Finish – Bernice Summerfield colouring book – Doctor Who Magazine 543 – Andrew Skilleter 2020 Target Calendar Collection – Alternate 5.5″ Thirteenth Doctor action figure… with coat! – Alternate Thirteenth Doctor 5.5″ action figure…coatless! – Thirteenth Doctor Christmas ornament – Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS Christmas ornament – Fourth Doctor Christmas ornament – New Paradigm Daleks Christmas ornaments – Weeping Angel Christmas tree topper – Radio Free Skaro’s contribution to The Quiz of Rassilon
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #706 – Surfer Rosa
Our Series 11 Commentary series rolls along this week with the much lauded, Hugo Award Finalist “Rosa”, and to watch this hard hitting episode, we welcome our guest commentator Ly Cao from Pixel Who! But before that, Steven and Chris discuss the first Gallifrey One guest announcement for 2020, muse about Doctor Who being at New York Comic-Con next month, and wonder what the name of Doctor Who’s Canadian home will be…
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Gally 2020 first batch of guests – Macra Terror North American DVD details – Freema Agyeman returns to Big Finish and Torchwood – Edmonton Expo Christopher Eccleston panel Sep 21, 11am – SPACE rebrands as CTV Sci-Fi
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #705 - Uncle Terrance
The world of Doctor Who was thrown aback this week with news that beloved television writer and novelist Terrance Dicks passed away at the age of 84. Dicks’ contribution to the show and indeed many of our childhoods can’t be overestimated, from his time working with Barry Letts during the 1970s to his prodigious run on the Target novelizations, “The Five Doctors”, the New Adventures…the mind reels. We also continue our Series 11 commentary series with a look at “The Ghost Monument”, featuring Deeper Cuts host and Head Over Feels Tony Stark consulting expert Shannon Dohar!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Terrance Dicks died – Robert Shearman writes about Terrance Dicks – Season 26 announced for Blu-Ray release – Season 26 Blu-Ray trailer, by Pete McTighe – Season 26 Blu-Ray clean artwork – BFI Curse of Fenric screening – Season 23 Blu-Ray UK release pushed back 2 weeks – Series 11 nominated for 4 Welsh BAFTAs – NYCC exclusive Tzim Sha Funko Pop – Quiz of Rassilon, with RFS contribution
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #704 – Eat My Salad, Halloween
The news may be thing on the ground here at Radio Free Skaro headquarters, with Christopher Eccleston convention news, amusing fanvids, and other such fripp and indeed frapp, but we’re very happy to debut our Series 11 Commentaries with our first guest, Bustle movie editor and Head Over Feels co-founder Sage Young, who joins us for the commentary of “The Woman Who Fell To Earth!”
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Eccleston to talk about I Love The Bones Of You – Christopher Eccleston New York Comic Con panel Thursday October 3, 11am – Harry Sullivan from The Ministry – Gallifrey Stands fan edit – Vengeance on Varos novelization audiobook – Vworp Con action dollies panel
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #703 – Hail Jex, Hail The Unalive
It’s nearing the end of the summer for us in the northern hemisphere, and thus our summer podcast time filling comes to an end with the second half of our Miniscope on modern series writer Toby Whithouse! But first, listen to Steven become cynical about streaming services, become more excited as the first Gallifrey One guest announcement looms, and enjoy the surfeit of Doctor Who audio releases soon to be playing in your ears (after you listen to us, hopefully).
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 Late Summer Update – All About Doctor Who in Bath, October 5 – Doctor Who Magazine 542 – Closer look at B&M Exclusive action figures – Complete David Tennant on North American Blu-Ray – BBC Audio recent releases – BBC Audio upcoming releases – Louise Jameson reads Image of the Fendahl – Dragonfire as read by Bonnioe Langford – Big Finish Sixth Doctor and Peri box set – Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles due February 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Dalek/Movellan two-parter due spring 2020 – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part One, “The Movellan Manoeuvre” – Big Finish New Countermeasures Part Two, “The Dalek Gambit” – Big Finish competition to write for Bernice Summerfield
Miniscope:
– Toby Whithouse – A Town Called Mercy – Under the Lake – Before the Flood – The Lie of the Land
Radio Free Skaro #702 – Tin Dogs and Tin Gods
Doctor Who writer Toby Whithouse is the Miniscope’s last victim for the year, and this week we’re looking at his work on “School Reunion”, “The Vampires of Venice”, and “The God Complex”. And it’s a good thing he has so much material, because the news this week was a study in minimalism. But if you want hot takes on the newest Black Archive release, the “Ghost Monuments” photo project and most importantly, a sneak peek at the LAX Marriott’a new carpet, then this podcast is for you!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Black Archive does Battlefield – “Ghost Monuments” photo project – Jess Jurkovic’s Dudley Simpson IS Doctor Who, episode 4 – Preview of the new LAX Marriott carpet
Miniscope:
– Toby Whithouse – School Reunion – Vampires of Venice – The God Complex
Radio Free Skaro #701 – Don’t Scare The Skarasen
Rumors, nonsense and mumblesuch ruled the world of Doctor Who this past week, with the internet once again eating its own tail with claims Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall and star performer Jodie Whittaker are leaving the programme. The Three Who Rule dig into the potential falsities (of which there are many) and truths(?) of the situation. But on to finer fare, such as Russell T Davies talking at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, a Pat Gorman tribute from Toby Hadoke, Big Finish, the Game of Rassilon podcast live in Burbank, and a commentary about Zygon terror that isn’t from the 21st century! Titivate those fronds!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Chibnall fired rumour – In Conversation with RTD – Pat Gorman tribute by Toby Hadoke – Doctor Who Magazine Target Books special – 3 new Big Finish Short Trips announced – The Game of Rassilon Live – This episode sponsored by BBC Audio
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #700 - Valley of the Dollies
DOLLYGEDDON! There is no other way to describe the oncoming wave of plastic pals headed our way thanks to Character Options, spanning from Big Finish adventures to an Androgum-ized Second Doctor to the Imbecile himself, Harry Sullivan. There’s also a new batch of on-demand DVDs, the modern series of Doctor Who moving to HBO Max in 2020, A Christopher Eccleston memoir, and more! Plus we have an interview with TV Years impresario Graham Kibble-White about that very publication’s upcoming look at nostalgic sci-fi!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – HBO Max to be home of US Doctor Who streaming – Edge of Time gameplay – UK Blu-Ray Steelbook release of the Tennant Specials – Upcoming BBC Shop Region 1 DVD on demand releases – Colourized Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1 – B&M Two Doctors action figure set – B&M 7th Doctor & Cybermen action figure set – B&M Sontaran Experiment action figure set – B&M 7th Doctor & Dalek action figure set – B&M War Doctor & Dalek action figure set – Eighth Doctor & Dalek action figure set – B&M Fifth Doctor & TARDIS Caves of Androzani action figure set – B&M Fourth Doctor & TARDIS Shada action figure set – Big Chief Third Doctor figure – Big Chief renews Doctor Who license – Christopher Eccleston memoir due September 19 – Big Finish First Doctor Companion Chronicles Volume 3 – Doctor Puppet original ending – This episode sponsored by BBC Audio
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #699 – The Greatest Show in the Galaxy’s Edge
Let’s get down to brass tacks here: the current Doctor Who Time Team are going to be action dollies according to teasings from the Character Options folks. All other news pales in comparison, but we do have updates on new Big Finish Productions, “The Power of the Daleks” photos going for a whole lot of cash at an auction, and an (unofficial) 13th Doctor LEGO TARDIS console room. But the true highlight is of course your questions and comments to us about that show we all like in the form of…Fluid Links!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – BritBox coming to the UK in 2019 – Character Options action figures of the current Time Team – LEGO Thirteenth Doctor TARDIS Console – Doctor Who Magazine 541 released – Two more Fourth Doctor Big Finish series due 2022 & 2023 – Big Finish follows up The Greatest Show in the Galaxy – More Big Finish Short Trips due 2020 – Intrusion Countermeasures Group novels – Power of the Daleks photos sell for almost £7000 – This episode sponsored by BBC Audio
Radio Free Skaro #698 – Chromophonic Workshop
Who would have thought we’d see the day Christopher Eccleston would grace the hallowed ground of Edmonton, Alberta, the sacred land of two-thirds of Radio Free Skaro? And yet here we are, as Mr. Eccleston will be a guest of Edmonton Expo (not affiliated with RFS) in September! Alas, North America isn’t so lucky when it comes to DVD and Blu-rayss, as we’ll have to wait until Christmas for the Colin Baker Blu-Ray set, but you can get Big Finish’s 20th anniversary extravaganza The Legacy of Time right now! And speaking of things you can do right now, why not listen to our interview with visual effects wizard, compositor and animator Rob Ritchie, veteran of Doctor Who animated reconstructions and special editions! Do so! At once!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Christopher Eccleston announced for Edmonton Expo – Colin Baker Season 2 North American Blu-ray release coming December 3 – Complete David Tennant Blu-Ray due in North America September 17 – “The Macra Terror” North American release pushed back to November 19 – Matthew Sweet interviews Eric Saward about new Doctor Who novelizations – Big Finish “The Legacy of Time” now available – Big Finish “Donna Noble: Kidnapped” announced for May 2020
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #697 – Let Slip The Dogs Of Bor
Recorded live from Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport after his flight home was canceled! Steven staves off travel exhaustion to bring you happenings regarding Jon Pertwee, The Macra Terror animation, San Diego Comic-Con Doctor Who merchandise (but not any actual Doctor Who Series 12 panels…), and more, before Chris and Warren swoop in to save him, like The Garm did for a weakened Nyssa, in the Season 20 story “Terminus”, the Classic Series Commentary for which is your reward. Stock up on hydromel and join us!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Matthew Sweet talks to Sean Pertwee about Jon Pertwee – Richard Bignell talks to Charles Norton about Macra Terror animation – Terry Nation Army YouTube series – BF Torchwood Serenity released early to coincide with 10th anniversary of Ianto’s death – BF Gallifrey Time War 3 due February 2020 – DW Edge of Time VR game will have a demo at SDCC, BBCA SDCC booth details – SDCC exclusive Titan Thirteenth Doctor issue 9 – New K-9 series in development – Whooverville XI coming to the QUAD in Derby on August 31
Classic Series Commentary:
– Terminus
Radio Free Skaro #696 – At Least He Tried
Braving dodgy hotel wifi, swarms of non-Doctor Who nerds, and Fourth of July fireworks displays, The Three Who Rule have a different look this week with Erika Ensign of Verity! and Bill Evenson of Frankenstein Minute joining Steven for a brief recap of CONvergence in Minneapolis! But rest assured, Warren and Chris are back in time for the second half of our Miniscope on workmanlike 1980s Doctor Who director Ron Jones!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Reminder: Jon Pertwee Radio 4 programme – David Tennant Specials Blu-Ray Steelbook – Cushing Dalek films on Britbox – New Doctor Who Funko Pops due October – Children In Need cover album featuring David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker – Tenth Doctor and Donna Big Finish Story “Death and the Queen” coming to vinyl – Black Archive book wins Sir Jules Vogel award – DW shortlisted for Best Family Drama at TV Choice awards – Noel Clarke to receive honour at British Urban Film Festival – Katy Manning announced for An Unearthly Convention – Glyn Houston (1925-2019) – Erika Ensign on Verity! – Bill Evenson on Frankenstein Minute
Miniscope:
– Ron Jones – Frontios – Vengeance on Varos – Mindwarp
Radio Free Skaro #695 – ‘Atta Boy
There is a cavalcade of Doctor Who news this week, most of it treats for your ears as Big Finish has gone MAD WITH POWER in celebrating their 20th anniversary with live streams, vinyl, new series and most importantly action dollies from some of its more notable adventures. But that’s just a teaser as we have the first part of our analysis of journeyman 1980s director Ron Jones in…the Miniscope!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Series 12 to cover issues about plastic waste, more talk of a holiday episode before the series – Doctor Who Magazine 540 released, with a Jon Pertwee focus – Radio 4 Extra Jon Pertwee celebration goes out July 6 – First look at Big Finish-inspired action dollies – Big Finish celebrates 20 years with 20 hours of live streaming – Big Finish Wave of Destruction on vinyl a Sainsbury’s exclusive – Big Finish Torchwood Latter Days due September 2019 – Big Finish Torchwood Soho due June 2020 – Big Finish announces The Robots series – The Man from Venus audio, written/directed by Steve Broster – First 10 North American Doctor Who DVD reprints available to order – Video comparing the original and redone special effects from the DVD/BD ranges – Myth Makers 143 featuring Eric Roberts now available – Doctor Who Edge of Time interview with Maze Theory – An Unearthly Convention tickets go on sale July 1, first guests announced – DWAS announces The Capitol Five in April 2020, first guests announced
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #694 – All You Need Is Love
A veritable avalanche of Doctor Who news hit us right in the probic vent this week with new Season 23 Blu-Ray news, annuals, books of fiction, audio plays, Fluxx (whatever that is) and so much more! In fact you could say all this news is doing double duty as we delay the inevitable, AKA the second part of the Gareth Roberts miniscope!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Happy 37th birthday, Jodie Whittaker – Season 23 Blu-Ray debuts Sep 23 in the UK – Season 23 Blu-Ray trailer, written by Pete McTighe – Season 23 Blu-Ray clean artwork – 50th anniversary of The War Games finishing transmission – The End of Time cinema screening details – Doctor Who Annual 2020 due September 19 – Star Tales collection announced for release December 5 – Star Tales clean artwork – SDCC-exclusive Pting Funko Pop – Fluxx 13th Doctor expansion due August 7 – Big Finish day was June 22 – Big Finish Fourth Doctor series 9 to feature Adric, one story by Andrew Smith – WhoTalk commentaries for The Daleks and The Curse of Peladon – An Unearthly Convention, Nov 23-34 on Long Island – Mandip Gill won the Eastern Eye People’s Choice award – Vinay Patel won the Eastern Eye Best Scriptwriter award for Demons of the Punjab – William Simons died
Miniscope:
– Gareth Roberts – The Lodger – Closing Time – The Caretaker
Radio Free Skaro #693 - Love's Labour's Won
As we creep ever closer to the Time of New Doctor Who (aka Series 12), there is rumour and mumblesuch about actors and directors involved in Series 12. Also, scrappy upstart Pluto TV is showing some Classic Who in North America, VR things are happening, new(ish) dollies ad Big Finish and our latest Miniscope, featuring writer Gareth Roberts. We concentrated on Roberts writing contributions for both parts of the Miniscope, but we would be remiss to ignore the controversy surrounding Roberts' views on trans people. As such, if you feel you shouldn’t listen, we completely understand.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Series 12 director and actors revealed? – PlutoTV begins broadcasting Classic Doctor Who – Edge of Time VR shown at E3 – New Character Options range announced for B&M – Thirteenth Doctor enamel pin – Big Finish The Time War 3 features The Valeyard – Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who Companion – The Twelfth Doctor Part One – Doctor Who won a Rockie award – Doctor Who put forward for 9 Emmy categories – Long Island Doctor Who event this fall
Miniscope:
– Gareth Roberts – The Shakespeare Code – The Unicorn and the Wasp – Planet of the Dead
Radio Free Skaro #692 – Welcome to Coquitlam
Good news, everyone! “Time-Flight” is being animat….no wait, we mean “The Faceless Ones! Yes, one of the few airport-focused Doctor Who stories is getting the pen-and-ink treatment, and not only that, a number of Classic Who DVDs are being released on demand through the North American BBC Shop! And for those of you who enjoy single-POV non-VR versions of VR content (and also acronyms), the playthrough of “The Runaway” is out in the wild! But all this newfangled technology aside, let’s do a deep dive into fake monsters and post-Susan adventures with a commentary for…”The Rescue”!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – The Faceless Ones to be animated for 2020 release – 10 Classic Doctor Who DVDs to be produced on demand – The Runaway VR Playthrough – “The Jon Pertwee Files” to go out on Radio 4 Extra July 6 – Christopher Eccleston set to appear at New York Comic-Con – Paul Darrow died
Classic Series Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #691 – The Reminder Room
Dinosaurs! Yes, the CSO sock puppets are back in part two of our Classic Series Commentary of the 1974 story “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”, so join us for Malcolm Hulke’s cutting social commentary, UNIT shooting at things that aren’t there, time being scooped, and more! Plus news from Big Finish, Target-adjacent shenanigans, and the return to theatres of…”The End of Time”?! You do you, Doctor Who.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Doctor Who Magazine 539 released – More “lost” Classic Who stories produced by Big Finish – Peter Howell-era Jodie Whittaker opening titles – Dominic Glynn-era Jodie Whittaker opening titles – Target Trawl book due in July – The End of Time 10th Anniversary cinema screening – Steven Thorne died – Royce Mills died
Classic Series Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #690 - Kklak Attack
Well, it looks like the “all new monsters or bust” rule is out the window for Doctor Who Series 12, as fan favourites(?) the Judoon are returning to do battle, help out, or merely observe the Doctor and her friends! Plus more VR shenanigans as “The Edge of Time” premieres at MCM London, and dialling back the Timescoop to more analog charms, we have the first half of our “Invasion of the Dinosaurs” Classic Series Commentary! KKLAK!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – The Judoon return for Series 12 – The Judoon and Jodie Whittaker on location in Gloucestershire – Doctor Who Series 11 coming to Crave in Canada on June 14 – Doctor Who: The Edge of Time VR game to launch in September – The Edge of Time premiering at MCM London Comic Con – Doctor Who: The Edge of Time teaser – Radio Times celebrates Jon Pertwee with rare photos – Dudley Simpson tribute from Jess Jurkovic
Classic Series Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #689 – The Marks of Mandragora
If you missed the Tribeca Film Festival, and chances are you did, never fear because “Doctor Who: The Runaway” is now ready for your VR-addled eyeballs, at least if you live in the UK. If you’re into more traditional media, we have “The Evil of the Daleks” vinyl news and a storybook devoted to the ends, beginnings, almost-weres and never-was of the beloved Target novelisations. Our Miniscope this week features gentleman author and TV veteran Louis Marks, as we look at his work on “Planet of Giants”, “Day of the Daleks”, “Planet of Evil”, and “The Masque of Mandragora”! Make yourself a salami sandwich and enjoy!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – The Runaway launched May 16 – The Runaway will be on demo at UK public libraries – Evil of the Daleks due on vinyl July 12 – The Target Storybook due October 24 – Support Red Nose Day USA, enter to win breakfast with Jodie Whittaker on the Doctor Who set – Red Nose Day USA Whittaker contest promo video – Who memorabilia at auction May 30 – Eric Saward will be doing a signing for his Resurrection of the Daleks novelization at Forbidden Planet London
Miniscope:
– Louis Marks – Planet of the Giants – Day of the Daleks – Planet of Evil – The Masque of Mandragora
Radio Free Skaro #688 - Muppet Sandbaggers
There is next to nothing going on in the world of Doctor Who right now, at least not anything the production team wants public, but what we do have is a surfeit of your questions and comments for another edition of Fluid Links! Listen to the Three Who Rule ponder, cogitate and meander from the point based on your inquiries!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Doctor Who will return… at Christmas? – Preview of the Titan Thirteenth Doctor trade paperback
Radio Free Skaro #687 – Physical Graffiti
Have you ever wanted to move into a tower with all the modern conveniences, including roving colour-coordinated gangs, a failed hero, homicidal old ladies and trundling robots? Why not live vicariously through the Three Who Rule’s Classic Series commentary for “Paradise Towers”, which has all that and more? Plus we have news of a “Planet of the Daleks” screening at the BFI, musical insights from Segun Akinola, upcoming Big Finish releases, and a perk for our Patreon subscribers!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – BFI screening of Planet of the Daleks – Doctor Who Magazine 538 – Big Finish The Creeping Death on vinyl – Big Finish The Lives of Captain Jack Volume 2
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #686 – Dimensions in Gatiss
It’s time for Part 2 of our look at the latter works of writer Mark Gatiss in the Miniscope, featuring “Robot of Sherwood”, “Sleep No More”, and “Empress of Mars”! While these three stories aren’t at the level of “An Adventure in Space in Time” (or “Cold War” or “The Crimson Horror” for that matter), the Three Who Rule do their best to find the good amongst the bad, and.. they do? Tune in to find out!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets now on sale, hotel sold out – Review of The Runaway from Tribeca Film Festival – Doctor Who The Animation Collection, due June 4 in North America – Black Archive #30, Dalek Invasion of Earth, and #31, Warriors’ Gate – New To Who Podcast Hinchcliffe & Holmes retrospective with Chris and many others
Miniscope:
– Mark Gatiss – Robot of Sherwood – Sleep No More – Empress of Mars – First Mark Gatiss Miniscope, on Radio Free Skaro #323
Radio Free Skaro #685 – Time and the Gatiss
Erstwhile gentleman, writer, actor and lifelong Doctor Who fan Mark Gatiss is the star attraction in not only this week’s Miniscope but the next, such was his prodigious output in the Steven Moffat era. This week we look at “Cold War”, “The Crimson Horror”, and the Who-adjacent and magnificent “An Adventure In Space And Time”! Plus Gallifrey One ticket news, Season 10 Blu-ray adulation, and more!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets now on sale – Gally 2020 90% sold out, Hotel block on sale April 26 – First look at The Runaway – Season 10 Blu-Ray set announced – Season 10 Blu-Ray trailer – Season 10 Blu-Ray set clean artwork – Series 4 Steelbook due in the UK May 27 – RTD wouldn’t return to Doctor Who – Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition 52 – Tosin Cole announced for Chicago TARDIS – The Doctor Who Society of Canada presents an escape room at Ottawa Comic-Con
Miniscope:
– Mark Gatiss – Cold War – The Crimson Horror – An Adventure in Space and Time – First Mark Gatiss Miniscope, on Radio Free Skaro #323
Radio Free Skaro #684 – Our New Insect Overlords
Are you ready to be menaced by some insect movement? Put on your beekeeper outfit (there are no bees in this story) and grab for the Off spray (probably quite dangerous, please don’t do that) as we commentate over the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the 1965 Doctor Who story “The Web Planet”! Also, we have news of Doctor Who on Pluto TV, a new Series 12 director, BBC Audio releases for te month of April, and some real-world insect science! Zaaaaaaaarbi!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets now on sale – Lee Haven Jones directing Series 12 Block 2 – Series 11 costumes added to Madam Tussaud’s Blackpool exhibit – Pluto TV to offer free Doctor Who episodes in the US – Spring 2019 Doctor Who BBC Audio Releases – Australian wasp named after Zygons
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #683 – Greyscale Separation Overlay
There’s extraordinarily little in the way of news this week, other than the fact that your Time Team (and a big ‘ol crew) are currently shooting Series 12 and saying nothing about it. But if you said to yourself “hoo boy would I like to hear people talking about insect movement, possibly by Roslyn de Winter,” are you in for a treat! Yes, the Three Who Rule are doing a Classic Series Commentary for the 1965 story “The Web Planet” in all it’s ambitious flawed glory, right here on this podchannel! Settle into a cocoon of mucus and nutrients and enjoy!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Doctor Who Series 12 filming in Tenerife – “Rosa” and “Demons of the Punjab” are Finalists for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form Hugo Award
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #682 – Ganymede User Systems
Exciting times here for the Three Who Rule as it’s time for the first Miniscope of 2019! The subject is writer Jamie Mathieson, scribe of four stories from the Peter Capaldi era (“Mummy on the Orient Express”, “Flatline”, “The Girl Who Died” (co-written with Steven Moffat), and “Oxygen”). And in the news, reports of a new production designer for Series 12, a host of new and upcoming Doctor Who related media releases, and an important sale from the fine vendors who were to appear at the now canceled ReGeneration Who!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Dafydd Shurmer, Series 12 Production Designer? – “Rosa” nominated for BAFTA Must See Moment award – Big Finish’s Medley of Masters – Unofficial 1972 Doctor Who Annual – Free Comic Book Day 2019 Forbidden Planet exclusive cover by Jessica Martin – Myth Makers Retrospectives charity anthologies – “The White Witch of Devils End” due March 2020 – ReGeneration Who artists and vendors group – Shane Rimmer died
Miniscope:
– Jamie Mathieson – Mummy on the Orient Express – Flatline – The Girl Who Died – Oxygen
Radio Free Skaro #681 – The Tree Won’t Harm You
With Brexit, the Mueller Report and many other swirls of uncertainty in our current climate, isn’t it nice to know that we can take you back to a more peaceful time, when all you had to worry about was predatory trees, crazed mine workers and a couple of renegade Time Lords? That’s right, we’re doing our first Classic Series Commentary of the year with “The Mark of the Rani!” Plus we have news from the Black Archive, Big Finish, and a chance for you (if you live in the UK) to work on Doctor Who!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – BBC receives student-made “Mission to the Unknown” – Watch a clip of the animated “The Macra Terror” – Future Black Archive book for “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” – Katarina returning to Doctor Who via Big Finish – Big Finish adjusting overseas pricing structure – Doctor Who training opportunity
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #680 – The Planet That Slept
A new set of shiny Blu-ray discs stuffed with Doctor Who content is on its way to store shelves in the form of the Season 18 box set, the third such season set from BBC Studios. So we decided to talk again to Russell Minton, executive producer of the whole range for BBC Studios, about the Season 18 set, and about the future of the range in general. There is also talk of special screenings for “Logopolis” (in the US) and “The Macra Terror” (in the UK) that occurred this past week, and Bradley Walsh posing for selfies with everyone during some public filming for Series 12 in Wales!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – S12 currently filming in Barry – Logopolis grossed $143K in US cinema screenings – BFI Macra Terror screening – Bookwyrm due March 18
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #679 – A Field In Wales
It’s a Radio Free Skaro episode to lose sleep over, quite literally this week, as Steven and Chris tackle the news of the week as well as daylight saving time while Warren, absent for various reasons, sits content in his time eddy, away from proceedings. The main event this week, though, is an interview recorded at Gallifrey One this past February with noted director Ben Wheatley, who helmed “Deep Breath” and “Into The Dalek” to usher in the Peter Capaldi era!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Doctor Who VR game at the Tribeca Film Festival – Macra Terror art, BFI screening March 16 – Catherine Tate to appear at Calgary Expo – The Second Doctor to meet The Master in Big Finish – Radiophonic Workshop to perform at Apollo 50 event on July 20 – UK kids to learn about Doctor Who theme – Chicago TARDIS announces three Class actors – Moris Farhi died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #678 – Poster Child
It was a sad week in the Doctor Who fandom community as it lost Jennifer Adams Kelley, a titan involved with North American conventions since the 1990s. We pay tribute to her and her legacy with two of her dearest friends and fellow convention organizers, Shaun Lyon and Steve Hill. Graeme Curry, writer of “The Happiness Patrol”, also passed away all too soon. But to hopefully cheer us all up, we also present to you an interview from Gallifrey One with Radio Times Doctor Who poster artist and photographer Stuart Manning!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gally 2020 tickets on sale April 13 – The Mirror muses Doctor Who may return to Saturdays – BritBox coming to the UK – BritBox already doomed in the UK? – First Twelfth Doctor Big Finish audio released – Record Store Day release of Galaxy 4 on vinyl – Record Store Day release of Destiny of the Daleks on vinyl – Graeme Curry died – Jennifer Adams Kelley died – Jennifer Adams Kelley obituary – Gallifrey One – Chicago TARDIS – Red White and Who
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #677 – Enter Chapman
The post-Gallifrey One concrud, blues and longing for the next Gallifrey One have begun, but that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from discussing the various tidbits of news that wandered over the transom over the last week, as well as an interview with Doctor Who DVD and Blu-Ray maestro Chris Chapman about the upcoming Season 18 Blu-ray set, plus some teasers about what is to come! And as an added bonus, the Randomizer is hauled out to select the first Classic Series Commentary and Miniscope instalments for the upcoming year! And send flowers, sympathy and lozenges to Steven’s voicebox!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One – First Series 12 production staff – Stephen Fry in Series 12? – Win breakfast with Whittaker and Gill – Mission to the Unknown being remade – Radiophonic Workshop at Hastings Fat Tuesday – 1968 Radiophonic Workshop album re-released
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #676 – Pulled In All Directions
Another Gallifrey One is in the books! Listen as a weary Three Who Rule recap their weekend, beginning with the Radio Free Skaro live show on the Friday, through to all the panels, interviews, and discussions had by all throughout the weekend. And also enjoy a double-bill interview with Series 11 directors Jamie Childs and Wayne Yip!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One 2019 schedule via Sched – Virtual reality special of Doctor Who coming soon from the BBC
Radio Free Skaro #675 – Radio Free Skaro: VidFIRE and Fury
It’s Gallifrey One time! The 30th iteration of Gallifrey One is upon us, and once again it is the distinct pleasure of the Three Who Rule to open the convention with their live, this time called “VidFIRE and Fury”! Hear Colin Baker discuss his newfound love for the Thirteenth Doctor! Listen as Yasmin Bannerman talks about spending 6 hours in a makeup chair to look like a tree! And pull your chair closer to hear the Doctor Who Restoration Team give the latest on the Classic Series Blu-ray sets, as well as the status of missing Doctor Who episodes!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One 2019 schedule via Sched – Radio Free Skaro will open Gally with “VidFIRE and Fury”, with guests Colin Baker, Jamie Childs, Yasmin Bannerman, Steve Roberts, Mark Ayres, Paul Vanezis, and Richard Molesworth – Radio Free Skaro Gally meetup, Friday at Noon, Program C – New & returning Gally attendee guide
Radio Free Skaro #674 - 30 For 30: The Gallifrey One Story
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, whether it’s the Lunar New Year or, if you’re the Three Who Rule, the upcoming Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles! As is custom, we go through the schedule, describe the panels that excite and entice us, offer some advice to newcomers and generally nerd the heck out about a magical weekend with friends old and new!
Radio Free Skaro #673 – The Way We Were
The most wonderful time of the year for the Three Who Rule is upon us as the 30th edition of Gallifrey One is right around the corner. Before we look ahead to this year’s event next week with our annual Gallifrey One preview show, join us as we take a look back at the previous ten years of the convention and our experiences with it, and how the greatest Doctor Who convention on Earth has helped make this podcast what it is today.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One 2019 schedule via Sched – Radio Free Skaro will open Gally with “VidFIRE and Fury”, with guests Colin Baker, Pearl Mackie, Steve Roberts, Mark Ayres, Paul Vanezis and Richard Molesworth – Radio Free Skaro Gally meetup, Friday at Noon, Program C – Tony Curran announced for Gally – Doctor Who 4th most popular programme on iPlayer – Infinite Quest/Dreamland Blu-Ray – Jodie Whittaker will be on Episode 3 of David Tennant’s podcast, due February 11 – Clive Swift died
Radio Free Skaro #672 – Jenny and the Bets
With Gallifrey One Month almost upon us, there’s only one more chance for STATS! to make Warren’s life a living hell, and the other Two Who Rule jumped at the chance like the animals they are, but also found the kindness to share with you, dear listener, news of Big Finish, Series 12 filming in South Africa, and one David Tennant starting his own podcast of chinwagging with his actor friends. Plus we have the last of our Chicago TARDIS interviews, with none other than Catrin Stewart!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One schedule now online via Sched – Radio Free Skaro will open Gally with “VidFIRE and Fury”, with guests Colin Baker, Pearl Mackie, Steve Roberts, Mark Ayres, Paul Vanezis and Richard Molesworth – Radio Free Skaro Gally meetup, Friday at Noon, Program C – Walter Koenig and Ben Wheatley announced for Gally – Series 11 stats highs and lows – Series 12 filming in South Africa – Delta and the Bannermen wrap party video – Saward Dalek books due in hardcover in 2019 and paperback, with Target notations, in 2020 – Tom Baker on Graham Norton’s radio show, talking about Scratchman – David Tennant launches a podcast – Big Finish Gallifrey: Time War 2 due in March – Big Finish adapting Doctor Who Weekly comics, volume 1 due in March – Things to do while waiting for Series 12, including listening to Radio Free Skaro
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #671 – Road to Nowhere
The last (sniff) stats update for the season, Gallifrey One news, Dalek novelizations, and Dalek vinyl releases are all in the mix in this week’s news, but the meat of the matter is an interview with director Wayne Yip, who ushered New Year’s special “Resolution” onto our screens! Join Mr. Yip as he discusses stunt driving pod cars, remote control Daleks, the logistics of directing, and more!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Resolution final BBC One viewing figures, AI 80 – Catherine Tate and John Barrowman announced for Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One guest & Babylon 5 update – Resurrection of the Daleks to be novelized – Revelation of the Daleks to be novelized – Daleks’ Master Plan on vinyl – Big Finish releases more info about the upcoming Missy set – BritBox breaks 500,000 subscribers – Tom Baker says… You Really Got Me
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #670 – Curran Account
Have you ever wanted to see block transfer computation on the big screen? Your time has come as “Logopolis” hits theatres this March in the US and the BFI in February in advance of the release of the Doctor Who Season 18 box set! And as if that isn’t enough deep dive craziness, Big Finish is going to fill your summer with stories of the War Master and the Eighth Doctor politely nodding at each other and perhaps battling for the fate of the universe. Plus tales of tat, accolades and awards, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with Vincent Van Gogh himself, actor Tony Curran!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Resolution almost final BBC One viewing figures – Doctor Who topped the Rotten Tomatoes Best Reviewed Sci Fi/Fantasy 2018 category – Jodie Whittaker and Doctor Who nominated for National Television Awards – Series 11 Soundtrack came out January 11 – Catherine Tate and John Barrowman announced for Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One exclusive Titan Comics covers – Shaun Dooley shot the Whittaker in silhouette promo photo – The BBC published The Woman Who Fell To Earth and other scripts – Logopolis BFI screening February 17 – Logopolis US cinema screenings March 13 – Big Finish to release Eighth Doctor and War Master set, due July 2019 – Scratchman also due in audio book, read by Tom Baker – Interview with Christel Dee and Simon Guerrier about The Women Who Lived – Her Universe Thirteenth Doctor cross body bag – W Morgan Sheppard died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #669 – Nicholas of the Quancing Briggs
Don’t think for one minute that a lack of Doctor Who is going to stop us from examining the viewing figures for “Resolution” in staggering (some would say pointless) detail, along with the surprising return of Doctor Who to Twitch, new Gallifrey One guests (including RFS favourites like directors Wayne Yip and Rachel Talalay), and most importantly an interview with the Man of A Thousand Voices (and of course the Daleks), Nicholas Briggs! Listen or be exterminated!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Steven on Perfect Night In – Warren on Who and Company – Resolution BBC One overnight viewing figures – BBC America Resolution ratings – Classic Doctor Who back on Twitch – New, high quality off-air audio recordings found from Classic episodes – Early January Gallifrey One guest update – CONsole Room
Interview:
– Nicholas Briggs – Chicago TARDIS
Radio Free Skaro #668 – DIY of the Daleks
After waiting a whole series for a classic Doctor Who monster to rear its ugly noggin and fight the Time Fam, the OG Badass of Whodom, one D.Alek itself made a splash and racked up a pretty serious body count in “Resolution,” the New Year’s Day special and the last new Who we’ll see in some time. So what did Steven, Chris and Warren think of this murderous romp through Sheffield and various dank interiors? Fetch some peanut butter to grease geo-feudal locks, sit down with a nice glass of mulled wine and a custard cream, and enjoy!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Review of Resolution, New Year’s Day 2019 – Doctor Who moments made into art prints – Toby Hadoke’s 2018 Doctor Who In Memoriam video
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro #667 – Chain Reaction
With mere days to go before the Doctor Who New Year’s Day special, “Resolution”, the Three Who Rule (and their LEGO Fluid Links doppelgängers) are getting antsy, but at least there’s plenty of news to delve into, including Gallifrey One updates, more stats, additional Christmas content from both the BBC and Doctor Puppet, and most excitingly, an interview from Chicago TARDIS with director extraordinaire of both Classic and Modern Who, Graeme Harper! Listen and be filled with pace and energy!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Gallifrey One mid-December update – Resolution to air on SPACE, New Year’s Day at 8PM EST – The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos final BBC One viewing figures – Series 11 averaged 7.96M BBC One viewers – Rosa tops Series 11 Radio Times poll – Doctor Who Christmas short – The Story of Rose, from The Women Who Lived – Doctor Puppet “The Planet that Came for Christmas” commentary – Captain John returns in Big Finish – Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day 2019 cover – Official 13th Doctor cosplay trench coat – Official Thirteenth Doctor fairisle cardigan – Bill Sellars died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 23
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 22
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 21
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 20
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 19
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 18
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 17
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.
Radio Free Skaro #666 – Woe To You, Oh Earth and Sea
With no new Doctor Who until New Year’s Day in the form of “Resolution”, how will the Three Who Rule cope with their withdrawal pangs? Why, by celebrating the arrival of the Number of the Beast, Episode 666, with a commentary for the Series 2 episodes “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit”, two of the most devil-centric episodes ever! (And also two of the best Doctor Who episodes ever!) Yes, we’re aware of the Daemons pedants, move along. Plus we have Series 11 Blu-Ray news, Series 11 soundtrack info, some tat discussion, and possibly even scarier than ol’ Scratchman himself, stats!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Doctor Who Magazine #533 – New Resolution promotional images – Series 11 Blu-ray due January 14 in the UK; “Resolution” due February 18 – Series 11 Blu-ray due January 29 in US/Canada – Series 11 soundtrack due January 11 – Thirteenth Doctor’s theme music video – “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” BBC One overnight viewing figures – “It Takes You Away” BBC One final viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 ratings – Doctor Who 3rd most tweeted BBC show in 2018 – Doctor Who, Mandip Gill win Fictitious Awards – The Story of Susan, from The Women Who Lived – River Song meets Susan in upcoming Big Finish release
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 16
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 16.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 15
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 15.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 14
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 14.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 13
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 13.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 12
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 12.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 11
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 11.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 10
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 10.
Radio Free Skaro #665 - The Revenge of Bandraginus V
“The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” is upon us, and with it comes the end (almost) of Series 11, Jodie Whittaker’s first run as one Doctor Who, and the Time Fam’s dramatic arcs (such as there are) more or less..concluded? So what did the Three Who Rule think of this episode, the new series, Chris Chibnall’s efforts as Doctor Who showrunner and all other permutations thereof? Plus news of a quite Christmas-y nature, a title for the New Year’s Special, some Who-adjacent neatness and more!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Episode 10 review, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” – Doctor Who “Resolution” Coming New Year’s Day – Doctor Who Series 12 to premiere in early 2020 – Jodie Whittaker confirms return for Series 12 – “It Takes You Away” overnight viewing figures – “The Witchfinders” final viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 ratings – Series 11 Soundtrack coming soon? – BBC America Doctor Who Yule log – “The Macra Terror” being animated for DVD release, coming March 2019 – “The Macra Terror” teaser video – “The Secret Story of the BBC Christmas Tapes” airing December 23 on BBC4 – River Song meets UNIT in the next Big Finish UNIT box set – Box of Delights soundtrack due January 4 in the UK – Doctor Who Worlds Collide ticket sale dates announced – Cybermen at launches for two Worlds Collide cities
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 9
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 8
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 7
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 6
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 5
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 4
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 3
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.
Radio Free Skaro #664 – Off the Reyals
The Time Team go to Backwards Land this week in the latest episode of Doctor Who, “It Takes You Away”, but is it an emotional roller coaster, a tribute to Norwegian amphibians, a confusing mess, or all of the above? Join the Three Who Rule as they leap through a portal into a world of bon mots, badinage and bafflegab! Plus stats (in Norwegian) and the return of the RFS Advent calendar, now with bonus Youtube and LEGO!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube – Episode 9 review, “It Takes You Away” – Promo images, synopsis released for New Year’s Day special – “The Witchfinders” overnight viewing figures – “Kerblam!” final viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 ratings – BBC iPlayer had its highest ever usage in October – Jodie Whittaker to read a story for CBeebies – Series 18 Blu-ray announced; February 25 in UK, March 19 in North America – Series 18 Blu-ray release trailer – Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon due from BF & BBC Studios due September 2019
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 2
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.
Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #663 - Witchfinder Pursuivant
It’s time to find some witches with the Three Who Rule as Doctor Who and the gang/team/fam navigate superstition, 17th century sexual politics and an extremely flirtatious King James in “The Witchfinders”! Plus stats, which sounds uncomfortably close to “Satan,” actual Satan with Tom Baker adapting his barking mad idea “Scratchman” into a novel, Big Finish scheduling their releases well into the End Times, and surely the greatest harbinger of the Apocalypse, a new 13th Doctor Funko Pop without a coat. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!?! NO COAT!!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 8 review, “The Witchfinders” – Chicago TARDIS – Kerblam! BBC One overnight viewing figures – “Demons of the Punjab” BBC One final viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 ratings – Tom Baker novelizing Scratchman, book and audiobook due out January 24, 2019 – Special edition Warriors’ Gate audio release – Big Finish announces three more Time War box sets – Seventh Doctor and Mags team up in Big Finish trilogy due out April 2019 – Doctor Who opening titles supercut – BBC posts 10 hour loop of new Doctor Who opening theme – Video of William Hartnell blue plaque unveiling – Thirteenth Doctor without coat Funko Pop
Radio Free Skaro #662 – Amazon Robots on the Moon
The Doctor and her Time Pals sign up as temporary wage scoundrels at the titular “Kerblam!” (aka Space Amazon) and the Three Who Rule are here to tell you what they thought of this treatise on modern work, robots and bubble wrap along with news, stats, a special shift from Christmas to New Year’s Day and more! So fire up this podcast and get in line for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and whatever other arbitrary celebration of consumerism keeps annoying “teammates” from pestering you about productivity!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 7 review, Kerblam! – Episode 9 & 10 titles – Episode 11 to go out New Year’s Day – BBC America will also show episode 11 on New Year’s Day – Series 12 to air in 2019 – Children in Need 2018 Doctor Who piece – Demons of the Punjab BBC One overnights – The Tsuranga Conundrum BBC One final viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 ratings – Jodie Whittaker turns on the Regent Street Christmas lights – New Cardiff Doctor Who experience coming? – Doctor Who Magazine 532 released – Christopher Eccleston speaks out about his “blacklisting” – Big Finish pairs The Fifth Doctor with Jenny – Doctor Who “Choose Your Future” journal due in December – Gallifrey One 2019 Discussion Panels
Radio Free Skaro #661 – The Undeadly Assassins
On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice being signed, it seemed fitting on the day of Remembrance that the tone of this week’s Doctor Who struck a more sombre tone, and that’s exactly what we got in “Demons of the Punjab”, written by Vinay Patel. The Three Who Rule give their thoughts on the episode, as well as all the news of the week that was, including an expanded stats section!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 6 review, Demons of the Punjab – The Tsuranga Conundrum BBC One overnight viewing figures – Arachnids in the UK final BBC One viewing figures – BBC America Series 11 Ratings – Series 12 in preproduction – Gallifrey One 2019 guest update – Chicago TARDIS – Doctor Who supports Children in Need – Wheel in Space animation sample at Missing Believed Wiped – Big Finish brings back the Paternoster Gang – Bandai Namco canceling Doctor Who Battle of Time – Thirteenth Doctor 5.5″ action dollie – Doctor Who Christmas apparell
Radio Free Skaro #660 – Doctor of Hope and Lego
We’re at the halfway point of Doctor Who’s new Time Team’s first series, and “The Tsuranga Conundrum” is the final of the initial Chibnall quartet of stories. Confused yet? Well, luckily the above unpronounceable quandary is a straight ahead adventure that the Three Who Rule are here to decipher for you, along with a summary of all the news, previews, and yes….stats. Staaaaaaatsss…
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 5 review, The Tsuranga Conundrum – Episode 7 titled Kerblam!, episode 8 titled The Witchfinders – Arachnids in the UK BBC One overnight viewing figures – Rosa BBC One final viewing figures – New Big Finish Fourth Doctor companion – Big Finish The Eighth of March celebrates female Doctor Who characters – Big Finish Torchwood vs Doctor Who Monsters – Class soundtrack due December 7 – Doctor Puppet merchandise – TV Years Volume 2
Radio Free Skaro #659 – The Web of Fear
The Doctor and her fam…errr, TARDIS Team land back in Sheffield and smack dab into spiders, ethically dubious American businessmen and RTD-level family drama in “Arachnids in the UK”, the latest instalment of the eleventh series of Doctor Who. Will the quintessentially Whovian juxtaposition of the domestic with the deeply weird engage the Three Who Rule, or will arachnophobia turn to eight-legged tedium? You won’t know until you listen! Also, stats. Harrumph.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 4 review, Arachnids in the UK – The Ghost Monument BBC One ratings – Rosa BBC One overnight viewing figures – MusicTech interview of Segun Akinola – New Yorker interview of Segun Akinola – BritBox adds new Dalek stories on Halloween – Big Finish Third Doctor series 5 – River Song Big Finish Series 6 to feature Yeti and the Great Intelligence – Big Finish River Song Series 6 to feature Sontarans, Drashigs and Ogrons – Doctor Who Pez dispensers – Doctor Who escape game to be called Worlds Collide – Red Dwarf Series I-VIII Bluray due in January – The Radiophonic Workshop do the soundtrack to Possum – Derrick Sherwin died – Radio Free Skaro #420, featuring a Derrick Sherwin interview – Moffat says current Who risks looking cheap
Radio Free Skaro #658 - The Spirit of Rosa
For a show about time travel, Doctor Who doesn’t really go deep on matters historical, preferring a quick tour and a laugh to really getting into events as they unfold. But that changed this week with “Rosa,” a look at how civil rights hero Rosa Parks herself changed the world, and how the Doctor and the Time Team deal with both alien threats and a very different (but also somewhat familiar) world to 2018. What did Steven, Warren, and Chris think of the episode? And will a very special addition to the stats report cause Warren to finally lose what’s left of his mind?
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 3, “Rosa” – Episode 5 titled The Tsuranga Conundrum, episode 6 called Demons of the Punjab – Arachnids in the UK goes out on BBC One Oct 28 @ 7:00pm – The Ghost Monument overnight BBC viewing figures – The Woman Who Fell to Earth final BBC ratings and Appreciation Index – Segun Akinola Q&A – Kamelion returns via Big Finish – Big Finish Zygon Hunt released on vinyl – New Zealand Doctor Who silver coin
Radio Free Skaro #657 – Fish Fingers and Custard Creams
It’s the second week of new Doctor Who and one Jodie Whittaker and her Time Friends are wandering an alien planet, fighting killer bedsheets and practicing Venusian aikido, and the news has not let up one jot. New TARDIS, new title sequence, new appearances, the Dreaded Stats return to menace Warren and delight Steven and Chris and a surfeit of tat, videos, Big Finish and more!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 2, “The Ghost Monument” – Ben Pickles talks about the new title sequence – Episode 3 & 4 details released – Rosa will go out on BBC One at 6:55pm Oct 21 – Featurette on the new TARDIS – The Woman Who Fell to Earth BBC One overnight viewing figures – BBC America viewing figures for The Woman Who Fell to Earth – New York Comic Con Doctor Who panel – Chibnall and Strevens interviewed by TV Insider – Jodie Whittaker Q&A with SPACE – Jodie Whittaker on The Social – Jodie Whittaker Reddit AMA – Doctor Who streetwear collection at Selfridges – Honest Trailers takes on nuWho – Honest Trailers takes on Classic Who – Big Finish Tenth Doctor volume 3 announced – River Song series 6 & 7 announced – Big Finish Short Trips to continue through 2020 – DWAS unveiled the William Hartnell blue plaque – Bernard Cribbins autobiography released – Tony Curran announced for Chicago TARDIS
Radio Free Skaro #656 - No Sir, All Thirteen
The long, long wait is finally over as Doctor Who returns to our screens all new but somehow every bit as Who-ish as ever. What did your esteemed hosts think of “The Woman Who Fell To Earth?”, not to mention Jodie Whittaker, said earth-falling woman and the new Doctor Who? Listen to both their thoughts and news of all the hype and glory leading up to Series 11 starting…now!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Episode 1 “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” – Series 11 Coming Soon – Episode 1 Behind The Scenes – Stuart Manning poster for The Woman Who Fell to Earth – “The Ghost Monument” airs at 655pm on October 14 on BBC One – BBC America had a Doctor Who pre-party and after-party – BBC America Panel from New York City Comic-Con – Lynne & Erika from Verity! appeared on the preshow – Jodie Whittaker on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall on Build Series panel – Jodie Whittaker talks about the genesis of her costume – Her Universe Doctor Who collection now available at Hot Topic – Jodie Whittaker on the Radio Times cover – Jodie Whittaker surprises Sheffield schoolchildren – Gallifrey One early autumn update – Doctor Puppet Episode 8 – the final episode? – Doctor Puppet complete score available – Doctor Who Limited Edition Thirteenth Doctor Barbie unveiled – Big Finish celebrates the 13th Doctor – Doctor Who Infinity announces episode 4 and episode 5 – Missy being added to Doctor Who Legacy – Phil Morris announces non-Doctor Who missing episode find on The One Show – Titan Comics Humble Bundle
Radio Free Skaro #655 – Her Majesty
The countdown is on with one week to a new Doctor and a new era, and the media frenzy continues unabated with Jodie Whittaker playing an entirely non-canon Theremin on the Graham Norton Show, talking on BBC Radio6, giving us the first(ish) glimpse at her Doctor with a 53 second clip, and frankly a staggering amount of news that can’t possibly be summed up with these pithy remarks. We also have a quick visit from Paul Cornell to discuss his last-ever Doctor Who week available now in a new Titan Comics Humble Bundle, and last week’s Series 11 panel from Edmonton Expo, with Earp Chirpers and Whovians Erika Ensign and Annette Wierstra, Variant Edmonton comic book purveyor (and Doctor Whoocher) Danica LeBlanc…and Steven.
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Edmonton Expo – Series 11 will debut at 6:45pm BST on BBC One, simulcast on SPACE and BBC America – NYCC will include a simulcast viewing and Q&A afterward with Whittaker, Chibnall and Strevens – Only “The Woman Who Fell To Earth” will be simulcast – SPACE will also simulcast the premiere – SPACE free preview, and premiere will be on space.ca – Sheffield press launch for Series 11 – Press launch photos – NYCC Doctor Who panel details – SPACE interview with new friends/companions – The Series 11 theme tune samples the original – Whittaker did her own stunts for episode 1 – Clip from episode 1 shown on The Graham Norton Show – Whittaker on Shaun Keaveny’s Radio 6 show, starts after the two hour mark – Whittaker surprises fans – Big Finish “Cold Vengeance” on vinyl – Unofficial 1972 Doctor Who Annual due February 2019 – BARB expanding recording of devices used to view content – Jenna Coleman at Chicago TARDIS – Titan Comics Humble Bundle – Paul Cornell’s final Doctor Who work is part of this Humble Bundle
Interview:
Edmonton Expo Panel:
– Edmonton Expo – Steven Schapansky – Erika Ensign – Danica LeBlanc – Annette Wierstra
Radio Free Skaro #654 – Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
With a mere two weeks to go before Series 11 of Doctor Who graces our screens, the news is arriving with increased ferocity, including a new trailer, articles in Doctor Who Magazine and the New York Times (!), cinema screenings, media appearances by one J. Whittaker, and more! But while you look forward to October 7, why not jump back through the decades to 1971 (and forward to Earth’s future) with our hair-obsessed commentary of episodes four to six of “Colony in Space!”
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Edmonton Expo – Episode 2 titled “The Ghost Moment” – Second Series 11 trailer – Series 11 teasers from Chibnall – Chris Chibnall interview for doctorwho.tv – New York Times article on Jodie Whittaker – Jodie Whittaker reads reaction tweets – Georgia Tennant tweets her support for Whittaker – Doctor Who Magazine 530 released – Series 11 title sequence and music may not appear until episode 2 – DWAS Series 11 premiere party – Canadian Series 11 Premiere cinema screenings – American Series 11 Premiere cinema screenings – Jodie Whittaker’s BBC promotional appearances – Series 11 effects being done by DNeg – Missy gets her own Big Finish series – Earthshock BFI screening – Christopher Eccleston memoir due in 2019
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #653 – Dent Captain Dent
Beginnings and endings this week as the build-up to Series 11 continues with the official premiere in Sheffield on September 24 – and you could be there! (But not to actually see the screening). And we tip our toque to the Doctor Who Information Network, Canada’s longest running Doctor Who fan organization, closing its doors at the end of October. But the main event is a trip back to 1971 and the planet Uxarieus as we commentate overtop of the first three episodes of “Colony In Space”!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Doctor Who Information Network ceasing operations October 31 – Series 11 Premiere Red Carpet event contest – Season 19 Blu-Ray available for preorder in Canada – Shada available for US digital download – New K-9 series in the works
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #652 – The Glass Ceiling
It’s official! Doctor Who, starring one Jodie Whittaker as Dr. Who, will air on October 7 worldwide (well, the UK, USA, and Canada, so far, and October 8 in Australia), and we’re pleased as punch about it. To build up and celebrate the impending arrival of Thirteen, BBC America is doing a timey-wimey marathon, Australia is doing cinema screenings the next day, and Canada’s own Space is…showing the episode. Plus we have Edmonton Expo news, some gushing over the upcoming (circa 1981) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Blu-ray, and an interview with man-about-town and TV Years editor Graham Kibble-White!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – “The Woman Who Fell To Earth” debuts October 7 – Series 11 Teaser – Doctor Who Magazine will have spoiler-free previews of Series 11 Episodes 1 & 2 – BBC America will simulcast the Series 11 premiere – BBC America “13 Days of Doctor Who” marathon – SPACE will debut Series 11 day & date – ABC debuts Series 11 October 8 – Australia cinema screenings will be October 8 – Edmonton Expo schedule available for Matt Smith and David Tennant panels – Doctor Who Infinity released for mobile devices – Doctor Thirteenth book debuts November 6 – Mr Men 13 Doctors Collection due March 7, 2019 – Heather Hartnell interview – Jacqueline Pearce died – Lovett Bickford died – Peter Benson died – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remastered Blu-Ray and BFI screening
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #651 – Shipshape and Bristol Fashion
Sad news this week as legendary production designer Michael Pickwoad passed away at age 73, leaving behind a legion of fans and a body of work that included iconic Doctor Who sets over 71 episodes but spanned a decades-long career in film and television. He will be missed. We also speculate about a likely Sunday start date in October for Series 11, we have news of a Doctor Who fan experience coming to Johannesburg, Matt Smith being cast in Star Wars: Episode IX, and most excitingly, part two of our Miniscope featuring 1970s writing duo Bob Baker and Dave Martin!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Michael Pickwoad died – Radio Free Skaro interview with Michael Pickwoad – African Doctor Who Experience – Sheridan Smith returns to Big Finish – Preview of Thirteenth Doctor Issue #2 – Matt Smith cast in Star Wars Episode IX
Miniscope:
– Bob Baker – Dave Martin – The Invisible Enemy – Underworld – The Armageddon Factor – The Nightmare of Eden
Radio Free Skaro #650 – The Fabulous Bristol Boys
A rather staggering pile of Doctor Who news this week, including the announcement of all the new writers and directors for Series 11, a Bill action dolly becomes a little more real, Doctor #5’s first season gets the Blu-ray treatment, and more Doctor Who convention news than you can shake a stick at! And just for you, dear listeners, the first of a two-part Miniscope featuring the dynamic duo of writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, AKA the Bristol Boys! A Miniscope? Now this is outrageous!
Links:
– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Series 11 writers and directors – Profile on Jennifer Perrott; Australia to get Series 11 Premiere cinema screening – Profile on Malorie Blackman – Bill action figure preorder – Season 19 Blu-Ray due Nov 19 in the UK – Season 19 Blu-Ray due Dec 4 in the US – Season 19 trailer – Season 12 Blu-Ray replacement disc update – Big Finish 20th anniversary box set, The Legacy of Time – Doctor Who & Torchwood audios Humble Bundle – Dalek Audio Annual due in December 2018 – Doctor Who Magazine “World of Doctor Who” special edition – Black Archive #23, The Curse of Fenric by Una McCormack due Sep 3 – 2019 Art of Andrew Skilleter calendar – Final Patrick Troughton convention appearance, recorded the day before his death – Whooverville X begins Sep 1 – Graeme Harper, Frazer Hines and Nicholas Briggs announced for Chicago TARDIS – 2018 Hugo voting stats
Miniscope:
– Bob Baker – Dave Martin – The Claws of Axos – The Mutants – The Three Doctors – The Sontaran Experiment – The Hand of Fear
Radio Free Skaro #649 – The Power of The Power of Kroll
Cast your minds back to the early days of Radio Free Skaro when there just hosts, Steven and Warren, and they would press record and then plan what they were going to talk about? Well, this episode is a throwback to those pre-smartphone days of the podcast, with Steven and Warren convening in a hotel room in San Jose, CA (home of WorldCon 76), along with guests Jason Snell, Helene Wecker, and Erika Ensign, to talk about how Doctor Who became a part of our lives, and where the show is going from here. What better way to celebrate our twelfth anniversary!
Guests:
Radio Free Skaro #648 - Dwellings of Simplicity
It’s a lazy August weekend as Radio Free Skaro approaches its twelfth(!) aniversary, but soon one Mr. David Tennant will grace the home planet of the Three Who Rule as he will be joining fellow Doctor Matt Smith at Edmonton Expo in September! Plus we have news of new E-Space adventures with the Season 18 time team (in Big Finish form), big-scale Thirteenth Doctor action dolly fun (in Big Chief form), and the main event, a Classic Series commentary for Peter Davison’s debut story, “Castrovalva”!
Links:
– David Tennant announced as guest at Edmonton Expo – The Fourth Doctor returns to E-Space in Big Finish in 2020 – Synopsis for “Destination: Bandril” by Jonathon Morris and Lance Parkin – Big Chief Thirteenth Doctor figure coming soon – “Doctor Who: Battle in Time” collectible card game – Classic Series Commentary: “Castrovalva”
Radio Free Skaro #647 – To Infinity and Beyond
This week on Radio Free Skaro, we’re looking to the future as the first wave of Gallifrey One guests get announced for 2019, Series 11 of Doctor Who wraps up filming, a new Thirteenth Doctor publicity photo emerges, and many a soundtrack (well, two) for Classic Who drops from the sky into your ears. And if that isn’t enough sensory overload, we have an interview with notable game merchants Susan and Lee Cummings as they discuss their upcoming Steam and mobile game, Doctor Who Infinity!
Links:
– Gallifrey One 2019 first guest block announced – Series 11 wraps filming – Thirteenth Doctor Titan Comics Issue 1 variant covers – Thirteenth Doctor promo image, “On Top of the World” – Doctor Who Fan Show Steven Moffat interview part 3 – William Hartnell blue plaque at Ealing Studios – The Invasion soundtrack – The Five Doctors soundtrack – Eccleston & Tennant DVD collection – Smith DVD collection – Capaldi DVD collection – Silver Nemesis 30th anniversary DVD announced then unannounced – Alan Bennion died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #646 – Flipping Cat Fights All Hours of the Day
Insanity levels are slightly lower in this, the week after San Diego Comic-Con, but there’s still plenty to discuss including Jodie Whittaker being a proper cinephile (at a now sold out appearance at Somerset House), a new book about the women of Doctor Who, upcoming Doctor Who merchandise discovered live on Amazon during the podcast, John Levene chronicling the saga of his life and times, Doctor Who: Infinity and Big Finish news, and the main event – the return of Fluid Links, where you ask the tough questions and we meander with half-baked responses!
Radio Free Skaro #645 - New Best Friends
It's San Diego Comic-Con! There is an absurd amount of news from the world's largest media convention this week, including a new and mysterious Doctor Who trailer, a panel featuring Jodie Whittaker, Mandop Gill, Tosin Cole, showrunner Chris Chibnall and executive producer Matt Strevens, new Series 11 artwork, Jodie wowing everyone with a surprise appearance at the Her Universe fashion show, a press conference or two and (takes breath) reports from on the ground at SDCC with the Nerdist’s Kyle Anderson and Doctor Who on the Couch’s Heather Berberet! Sit down and get yourself a snack because this is the annual SDCC edition of Radio Free Skaro and it's going to be a whopper!
Radio Free Skaro #644 – The Universe is Calling
Trailer! Teaser? Either way, a rather brief look at Series 11 of Doctor Who that shows the new friends Ryan, Yasmin, and Graham, a brief shot of Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who #13, and several unhealthy food options was released to the world just before this podcast recording! Yes, the PR onslaught has begun, with Jodie on the cover of EW, dolly news, San Diego Comic-Con news, Amazon listings, and and AND a miniscope featuring Daniel Nettheim, director of “The Zygon Invasion” and “The Zygon Inversion”, “Extremis”, and “The Pyramid at the End of the World”!
Links:
– Doctor Who on Twitch – Series 11 trailer – Jodie Whittaker on the cover of Entertainment Weekly; BBC America to simulcast Series 11 Premiere – Thirteenth Doctor figurine range – Titan Comics San Diego Comic-Con panel – David Tennant and The Muppets – More of David Tennant and the Muppets – Peter Davison and The Muppets – 2019 Doctor Who mini calendar features Thirteenth Doctor era exclusively – BBC America showing Shada – Torchwood on Twitch – Twice Upon A Time in 4K – Eccleston/Tennant DVD box set – Matt Smith DVD box set – Peter Capaldi DVD box set – Carole Ann Ford joins David Bradley on Big Finish – Season 12 Blu-Ray replacement discs
Miniscope:
– Daniel Nettheim – The Zygon Invasion – The Zygon Inversion – Extremis – The Pyramid at the End of the World
Radio Free Skaro #643 – Serendipity
The news elves are busily working their magic as we edge closer to San Diego Comic-Con, which will sport the likes of Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Chris Chibnall, Matt Strevens at the BBC America Doctor Who panel occurring at the spacetime vector of Thursday, July 19, 11:45 am PT! The BBC is also going all legal to track down the nefarious leakers of The Clip, and friend of the show Wayne Yip is directing the Series 11 episode to air at (or around) Christmas! Also Season 12 DVD news, Big Finish wandering into territories Trek and what you’ve all been waiting for…part two of our gripping commentary on “The Green Death”!
Links:
– Doctor Who on Twitch – Doctor Who San Diego Comic-Con panel details announced – BBC tries to find the Series 11 clip leak source – Wayne Yip directing Series 11 episode airing at Christmas – Season 12 Blu-Ray popular, says a UK sales chart – Season 12 trailer – Season 12 disc replacement – Big Finish getting into Star Trek
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #642 – The Nut Hutch
Last week’s vast wasteland of not-news has been replaced by a verdant jungle of news-news, most notably the announcement of Segun Akinola as the new composer for Doctor Who! Plus Matt Smith comes to Edmonton, and comics and calendars that sort of feature Jodie Whittaker or flat-out don’t. There’s other news of course, but this is a mere tease to part one of our commentary for the Jon Pertwee story “The Green Death”, so dive back with us to June 1973 and hippies, environmentalism, and giant maggots!
Links:
– Doctor Who on Twitch – Segun Akinola announced as new Doctor Who composer – Segun Akinola BAFTA profile – Segun Akinola Soundcloud – Jodie Whittaker comic issue 0 – Jodie Whittaker calendar snub – Matt Smith announced for Edmonton Expo – Philip Hinchcliffe’s unused Season 15 plans – New Target novelization audiobooks – BBC Sounds app announced for iPlayer Radio and Podcasts – Big Finish celebrates 20 years of recording – Torchwood Series 6 begins in October from Big Finish – Third Doctor Who Infinity story revealed
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #641 – Bazalgette City
This week on Radio Free Skaro, it’s time for the nation’s favourite game show* (*not an actual game show) as we dive headlong into another edition of the Miniscope. This week, it’s director Ed Bazalgette, who guided the recent episodes “The Girl Who Died”, “The Woman Who Lived”, and “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” into port. What did the Three Who Rule think of the former guitarist from the 1980s band The Vapors and his work in Doctor Who? Listen and find out! Also, with Doctor Who being produced under a cone of silence as of late, early discussion veers from Doctor Who on Twitch to Amazon reviews to Star Wars to Star Trek and so on. Be warned.
Links:
Miniscope:
– Ed Bazalgette – The Doctor’s Meditation – The Girl Who Died – The Woman Who Lived – The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Radio Free Skaro #640 - Restoration Glee
It’s a jam-packed extravaganza from 1975 this week as we dive deep into the impending release of the Doctor Who Season 12 Blu-Ray starring one Tom Baker as Dr. Who, with interviews from executive producer Russell Minton and director/producer Paul Vanezis what worked on that there shiny set of discs! Plus banter from two of the Three Who Rule who ventured to their local cinemas to view all 625 glorious lines of resolution of “Genesis of the Daleks”. Also San Diego Comic-Con news, the odd tale of Doctor Who on Crackle in Latin America, and more!
Links:
– Genesis of the Daleks – UK Season 12 Blu-Ray release delayed – Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con – Chloe Dysktra Medium post – Original Doctor Who Comic-Con panel moderator is no longer – Doctor Who Series 10 long-listed for Emmy – Crackle to distribute Doctor Who in Latin America – Jodie Whittaker promoting Cystic Fibrosis UK
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #639 – Born Slippy
The Quest is the Quest, if by quest you mean watching the 1978 classic series story “Underworld” and getting through it without great suffering. We kid – two thirds of the Three Who Rule are devout fans of this Tom Baker gem. Will the final third turn his frown upside down? Also, the classic series continues to delight on Twitch, the modern series is on BBC iPlayer, and the TV broadcast home of Doctor Who in Canada is regenerating…
Links:
– All of NuWho on iPlayer – BBC to close Maida Vale studio by 2022 – SPACE rebrands as CTV Sci-Fi
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #638 – London 1965
The topic of Doctor Who missing episodes has been dormant relatively recently, but a tangent in an interview with producer/director Paul Vanezis, who has aided in the recovery of other previously missing Doctor Who episodes, may raise the profile once again. (Listen to the interview with Steven starting at 30:36; JR Southall joins Steven later to discuss what Paul said). Elsewhere, Doctor Who on Twitch has been an unprecedented success, launching new memes and generating fresh enthusiasm amongst a whole new generation of Doctor Who fans!
Links:
– Doctor Who on twitch a hit! – London 1965 memes – Season 12 blu-ray revamped visual effects – Doctor Who Magazine 526 released – Big Finish returns to Class – Big Finish Infamy of the Zaross due on vinyl June 16 – Doctor Who series 10 and Class coming to UK Netflix in June – TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual – Doctor Who jobs
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #637 - Strong Work
Director James Strong faces the eagle eye of the Miniscope this week, with a look at classics like “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit”, not-so classics (but not his fault!) like “Daleks in Manhattan” and “Evolution of the Daleks”, and romps big and small like “Voyage of the Damned”, “Partners in Crime”, and “Planet of the Dead”. Plus news of “Genesis of the Daleks” cinema screenings (well, one) at the BFI, Twitch streaming Classic Who, Bell Media cancelling Innerspace like a bunch of jerks, and more!
Links:
– UK Genesis of the Daleks cinema screening with guest Philip Hinchcliffe – SOLD OUT! – 500+ Doctor Who episodes to stream on twitch – Radiophonic Workshop Albert Hall performance live streamed – Hiotchhiker’s on vinyl, for the first time – Innerspace canceled
Miniscope:
– James Strong – The Impossible Planet – The Satan Pit – Daleks in Manhattan – Evolution of the Daleks – Voyage of the Damned – Partners in Crime – Planet of the Dead
Radio Free Skaro #636 - Intelligent Listening For Beginners
Dollies! Yes, to the delight of Warren and probably no-one else, Character Options is set to release new plastic Who friends, most of which are variants of current models but also the first action dolly for Bill! Also, BBC Television Centre lives on in Google Street View form, and in exciting interview news, we have a chinwag with Andrew Smith, whose latest work for Big Finish is Hour of the Cybermen (1980s!), the First Doctor Volume 2 (1960s!) and Star Cops: Mother Earth (more 1980s!) Cue up your compu-cassettes and enjoy!
Links:
– UK Season 12 Blu-Ray delayed – The Enduring Magic of the Radiophonic Workshop – Google Street View scan of BBC TV Centre – Cushing TARDIS on the auction block – Character Third Doctor and TARDIS – Character Eleventh Doctor set – Character 1970s set – Character Twelfth Doctor set – Fairford Festival – Graham Strong died
Interview:
– Andrew Smith – Big Finish Hour of the Cybermen – Big Finish First Doctor, Volume 2 – Big Finish Star Cops Mother Earth, Part 1
Radio Free Skaro #635 – The Sense-Snore-Ites
Progress, in rumour form at any rate, as a tentative and maybe kinda sorta true list of directors for Series 11 makes its way onto the internet, along with scuttlebutt of a BBC, Channel 4 and ITV streaming service in the works. Not to leave Canada out fo the mix, “Genesis of the Daleks” tickets finally go on sale so those of us will finally be able to view 1970s PAL video on the big screen, as it was truly meant to be seen. And speaking of viewing things in a right and proper manner, we have the second half of our gripping and not at all ponderous commentary on “The Sensorites”! Grab your stimulant of choice and enjoy!
Links:
– Gallifrey One hotel block – Series 11 Director list… but maybe not final? – UK Broadcasters devising joint streaming service – Genesis of the Daleks Canadian screening tickets now on sale – Thirteenth Doctor books – Knock Knock script up for auction – Doctor Who Infinity teases “The Orphans of the Polyoptera” – Babelcolour First Doctor colourization teaser – Sylvester McCoy and Robert Picardo at the Edinburgh Fringe
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #634 – Captain Maitland and the Time Team
There’s a new bunch on the block in the form of Doctor Who Magazine’s new Time Team, so we talked to DWM writer Benjamin Cook about how he put together this new crop of young Who fans to helm the magazine’s longstanding feature. Also, we bring you the first half of our commentary of the 1964 classic(?) “The Sensorites”! Plus: Big Finish news, Doctor Who cinema screenings in Canada, and the oncoming Gallifrey One hotel panic…
Links:
– Gallifrey One hotel block – Doctor Who Magazine 525 out – Canadian Genesis of the Daleks screening on June 14 – RTD & Moffat talk Target books with Tom Spilsbury – An Unearthly Child script sold for £6200 – River Song and four Masters in Big Finish – Hour of the Cybermen synopsis and artwork – Energy of the Daleks on vinyl – Devil’s End Free Comic Book Day issue, cover A – Devil’s End Free Comic Book Day issue, cover B
Interview:
– Benjamin Cook – Doctor Who Magazine
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #633 – The Erato Adventures of Hercules
The weather is warm, the flowers are blooming and the Doctor Who news is…sparse. Almost non-existent in fact, other than delicious morsels like the Series 9 soundtrack arriving in our eardrums, an official announcement on that US “Genesis of the Daleks” cinema screening on June 11, and of course what you’ve all been waiting for, the second part of our Christopher Barry miniscope, featuring his work on “The Mutants”, “Robot”, “The Brain of Morbius” and perennial favorite (to Chris, at any rate) “The Creature from the Pit”!
Links:
– 1988 UK response to Doctor Who season 24 – Series 9 soundtrack available, “The Shepherd’s Boy” sample track – Genesis of the Daleks cinema screenings press release
Miniscope:
– Christopher Barry – The Mutants – Robot – The Brain of Morbius – The Creature from the Pit
Radio Free Skaro #632 – Barry From Coquitlam
One of the most prolific directors in Doctor Who history finally gets his time in the Miniscope as the Three Who Rule look at the first half of the career of Christopher Barry, breaking down his work on “The Daleks”, “The Rescue”, “The Romans”, the missing stories “The Savages” and “The Power of the Daleks” (as best as possible), and concluding with 1971’s “The Daemons”. Also, while Warren is in New York, news on Gallifrey One, BBC Wales, and upcoming cinema screenings of “Genesis of the Daleks”…
Links:
– Gallifrey One 2019 – Sold Out! – BBC Wales new broadcast centre – Genesis of the Daleks cinema screening? – Black Archive – Marco Polo – Infinity wins Game Developer Conference award – BBC sound effects site
Miniscope:
– Christopher Barry – The Daleks – The Rescue – The Romans – The Savages – The Power of the Daleks – The Daemons
Radio Free Skaro #631 – Bandril on the Run
In what can only be described as the universe screwing with us, and because the world of Doctor Who seems to be in lockdown, we have precisely one and a half items of news today, the content of which we shall not divulge in order to create a questionable air of tension before the main event…Fluid Links! Yes, enjoy the Three Who Rule’s shaky insights as we field questions from you, the listeners!
Links:
– Forbidden Planet Target book signing – Moffat, RTD and Michael Grade
Radio Free Skaro #630 - Throw Away Your Gun
Gallifrey One News! As in the fact that tickets for the 30th edition of the greatest convention on Earth go on sale on April 14th. Also, said convention was featured in the latest Doctor Who Magazine! Plus we have tales of Rachel Talalay declining to work on Series 11, BBC rumourmongering, comic, Target novel shenanigans via RTD and The Moff and a commentary for “The Happiness Patrol” brought you to thanks to the generosity of #WhoAgainstGuns!
Links:
– #WhoAgainstGuns wraps up – Gallifrey One ticket purchase link active – Doctor Who Magazine 524 – Talalay not directing for Series 11 – Series 11 to have some Classic Who elements – Hour of the Cybermen, from Big Finish – Titan Comics Road to the Thirteenth Doctor – BBC Worldwide becomes BBC Studios – “Based on the Popular BBC Television Serial” third edition available – Russell T Davies tweaks the novelization for Rose – Steven Moffat makes Peter Cushing canon in Day of the Doctor
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #629 – Red Hulke
Welcome to April! Which means we’re now only about six months until Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the new Doctor Who! Until then, we’ve got #Whoagainstguns final tallies, some sneaky hints from Philip Morris about “The Web of Fear” Part 3, Hugo nominations for Verity! and Doctor Who “Twice Upon a Time”, and a deep dive into Malcolm Hulke’s left wing leanings with “Doctor Who and the Communist” author Michael Herbert in part three of our Malcolm Hulke Miniscope! Ypa, comrades!
Links:
– Gallifrey One 2019 tickets go on sale April 14, 12:00pm PDT – #WhoAgainstGuns campaign ends – #WhoAgainstGuns broke $20,000 with the help of Rachel Talalay – Phillip Morris says Web of Fear 3 may soon be found – Twice Upon A Time, Verity! nominated for Hugo Awards – Series 9 Soundtrack, including limited Stuart Manning art – Christopher Eccleston makes his first convention appearance at London Film & Comic-Con 2018
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #628 – Hulke Smash!
A cranky Chris (Eccleston), a snippet of Steven (Moffat) and a serendipitous Series 11 opening sequence concept are all in the news this week, but let’s be honest, you’re here for the trenchant insights of one Kyle Anderson of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room podcast and Nerdist fame (and, we suppose, the Three Who Rule’s meagre offerings) as we delve into the second of our three-part Malcolm Hulke Miniscope with a look at “Colony in Space”, “The Sea Devils”, “Frontier in Space”, and “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”!
Links:
– #WhoAgainstGuns – Eccleston speaks out about his time on Doctor Who – Snippet of Moffat’s first Day of the Doctor draft – eBook release of A Second Target for Tommy – Stuart Manning’s Series 11 opening sequence – Doctor Who Infinity game trailer – Doctor Who Infinity interview with Susan Cummings
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #627 – The Incredible Hulke
It’s another pre-October week of hints and dribbles of Doctor Who news, including loose-lipped thespian Alan Cumming revealing he has a role in Series 11, audio and Target news, Tom Baker Blu-Ray excitement, and more. All mere preamble to the first part of our Malcolm Hulke Miniscope, featuring Nerdist scribbler and noted cineaste Kyle Anderson to help us look at “The Faceless Ones”, “The War Games”, “Doctor Who and the Silurians” and “The Ambassadors…of Death”!
Links:
– #WhoAgainstGuns – Alan Cumming in Series 11 – Doctor Who audio recordings archived – Final covers for new Target books – Tom Baker Season 1 Blu-Ray – Series 3 Steelbook – Lady Christina returns in Big Finish – More WhoTalk Commentaries – Delia Derbyshire portrait at Coventry University – Ken Dodd died
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #626 – Pyramid of Goop
A jam packed, bumper edition of Radio Free Skaro this week! Not only do we provide you with an update on the #WhoAgainstGuns initiative with Joy Piedmont and Graeme Burk, but we also bring you a full length commentary for the 1987 special effects-laden spectacular that is “Time and the Rani”, with special guest Jonathan Helm of WHO FX! There’s also a bevy of Doctor Who merchandise to tell you about, including the just announced Season 12 Blu-ray set!
Links:
– #WhoAgainstGuns – Rachel Talalay writes about the Women’s Gallifrey One panel – Season 12 Blu-Ray due June 11 in the UK – Season 12 Blu-Ray due June 26 in North America – New 6th Doctor Big Finish companion – Rose Target book audio CD – Chriswtmas Invasion Target book audio CD – Day of the Doctor Target book audio CD – Record Store Day City of Death vinyl release – Record Store Day Tomb of the Cybermen vinyl release – One Doctor, Two Hearts book – Tommy’s Top Ten charity book – Topps 2018 Doctor Who signature trading cards – Special Weapons Dalek by Robert Harrop Designs – The Radiophonic Workshop play The Royal Albert Hall – Matt Smith on Desert Island Discs
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #625 – Gangsters on the Moon
#WhoAgainstGuns is a cause launched by our friends at Reality Bomb and spearheaded by a larger network of friends and podcasters, and the Three Who Rule are happy to lend their support, as you can hear in this podcast. Further to that, we present our final two interviews from Gallifrey One 2018 – one with Doctor Who scribe Peter Harness, and another with Philip Martin all about his iconic 1970s BBC series “Gangsters”!
Links:
– #WhoAgainstGuns – Piers Wenger says Series 11 will have a number of female writers – “Shada” scripts up for auction – William Hartnell’s personal script for “An Unearthly Child” up for auction – “The Enemy of the World” DVD delayed one week – Paul Simpson named new editor for Obverse Books’ Black Archive range – Peter Miles died – The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #624 – Scholarly Scribblings
As the Con Crud, post-Gally blues and general middle-aged malaise hit the RFS crew, they nevertheless soldier on with news of new Doctor Who logos, Lost Dimensions, new Target novelizations and more, before two sets of interviews from Gallifrey One, the first with Titan Comics brand manager Chris Thompson and the second with scholarly Whovians Joy Piedmont, who ran the academic symposium at last week’s Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, and Derek Kompare, a media professor who participated in said high-brained shenanigans! Listen and learn!
Links:
– The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One – New Doctor Who logo unveiled – New Doctor Who logo T-shirt – New Target novelizations coming April 5 – Sarah Jane Adventures now on BBC iPlayer – Titan Comics’ The Lost Dimension Book 1 out now, Book 2 coming March 20 – Pearl Mackie coming to Chicago TARDIS 2018 – Make-up artist Dorka Nieradzik died
Interviews:
– Chris Thompson from Titan Comics – Joy Piedmont – Derek Kompare
Radio Free Skaro #623 – A Pinch of Minchin
The Three Who Rule return for another episode from Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, where they’ve been blown away by the top-notch insights and hilarity of the guests in attendance, from outgoing showrunner Steven Moffat’s take no prisoners Q&As to Camille Coduri’s hilarious response to “what’s your favorite sonic screwdriver?” But there’s still comic book news, effects updates and the debut of Britbox Canada to consider, along with an interview with series producer Brian Minchin! Allons and indeed…y!
Links:
– The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One – Deleted scene from Series 8 hints at Gallifrey – Thirteenth Doctor Comic Announced – Seventh Doctor Comic Announced – BritBox Now in Canada – Multiple effects companies providing VFX for Series 11
Radio Free Skaro #622 – Radio Free Skaro and the Seven Keys to Doomsday
For the seventh year in a row, it was Radio Free Skaro’s great pleasure to kick off the greatest Doctor Who convention on Earth, Gallifrey One! With guests Sylvester McCoy, Rona Munro, Stephen Wyatt, Philip Martin, Hayley Nebauer, and Lawrence Gough, the convention got off to a roaring start. Come for the guests, stay for the microphone failures! And stay tuned Sunday for a Gallifrey One wrap-up episode!
Links:
Radio Free Skaro #621 – City of Weeping Angels
Intrigue reigns as rumours swirl of a possible move to Sunday night for Series 11 of Doctor Who, along with more concrete news of a “The Enemy of the World” special edition DVD, with commentary moderated by none other than friend of the show Simon Harries! We’ve also got comic book news, some exclusive info about Series 11, and, as we’re in a celebratory mood, why not indulge in our Gallifrey One preview show! Enjoy, and you’ll hear from us next week in Los Angeles!
Links:
– The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One – Gallifrey One update – Doctor Who moving to Sunday nights and starting in October? – “The Enemy of the World” Special Edition DVD coming in March – Original “The Day of the Doctor” excerpt to feature in charity book – Big Finish Fourth Doctor audios now airing on BBC Radio 4 Extra – Doctor Who “The Lost Dimension” graphic novel Book 1 due February 20
Radio Free Skaro #620 – Doctor, I Let You Go
With months to go before new episodes and a new Doctor, fans and indeed the media are grabbing at any vague crumb they can find, as evidenced by the Radio Times online arm clickbaiting their way into several stories telling us…precisely nothing. But ex-Who poobah Steven Moffat also spoke recently about what he would have done had David Tennant stayed on as the Doctor (spoilers: more or less series 6) and Titan’s Doctor Who line is coming back this summer for Free Comic Book Day, and will in some way introduce their take on Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor! But the main event is the second half of our look at Steven Moffat’s time showrunning Doctor Who, as Heather Berberet, Kyle Anderson and Paul Booth return to look at the Peter Capaldi era!
Links:
– Series 11 Episode 1 will be 65 minutes – Steven Moffat and what might have been – Titan relaunches Doctor Who line this summer – Toby Hadoke’s “For The Love Of Doctor Who” – Jeremy Wilkin died
Panel:
– Heather Berberet – Kyle Anderson – Paul Booth – DePaul Pop Culture Conference
Radio Free Skaro #619 – Can I Have An Apple?
The countdown to Gallifrey One continues, with the official convention schedule out for your perusal and ticket transfers up and running until January 31! Also, news of Jo Whit/P-Cap salary equilibrium…and, well that’s it for the news really. And good thing too, because we have part one of our mammoth look back at the Steven Moffat era! This segment focuses on the Matt Smith years and features Doctor Who on the Couch’s Heather Berberet, Nerdist scribe, and co-host of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room, Kyle Anderson, and educator, podcaster and all around lovely fellow Paul Booth!
Links:
– Gallifrey One schedule – Gally ticket transfers close Wednesday – Jodie Whittaker earning the same as Capaldi – Complete History to extend to Twice Upon A Time
Panel:
Radio Free Skaro #618 – Life of Bryant
Gallifrey One is edging closer to reality and we’re pleased to announce our live show will start off the Friday festivities with “Radio Free Skaro and the Seven Keys to Doomsday,” with Sylvester McCoy, Rona Munro, Philip Martin, Stephen Wyatt, Hayley Nebauer and Lawrence Gough! We also have news of other Gally guests, Blu-ray missives regarding Shada and Season 12, audio updates both Big Finish and otherwise, and our interview from Chicago TARDIS with Peri Brown herself, Nicola Bryant!
Links:
– Radio Free Skaro Gallifrey One 2018 Live Show! – Gally guest update, program preview – Shada – Season 12 Blu-ray? – Doctor Who Fan Show Steven Moffat interview part 2 – Big Finish undertaking original productions – January BBC audiobooks – Peter Wyngarde died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #617 – Two Direction
The Series 11 news train continues unabated, with director announcements, pointless speculation on the amount of Doctor Who content headed our way from the BBC, Gallifrey One news, Time Lord science (which is elevated in Leicester), and a brief but lovely interview from Long Island Who with Dalek operator and Big Finish writer and director Barnaby Edwards!
Links:
– Series 11 Block 2 directed by Mark Tonderai – Series 11 Block 3 directed by Sallie Aprahamian – Series 11 to be over 11 hours? – Whittaker will use her Yorkshire accent – Whittaker filmed her regeneration scene the day after she was announced as The Doctor – Steven Moffat Fan Show interview, part 1 – Gally adds Redgrave, loses Clarke, Richardson and Ford – Gally announced more guests, sale of reception tickets – Gally exclusive Titan Twelfth Doctor cover – Science of the Time Lords – David Fisher died – David Fisher Miniscope
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #616 – No Unwanted Opinions Please
Welcome to 2018 which, for now at least, is the Time of Not Much Happening, exemplified by a rather sparse news list this week in the form of “Twice Upon A Time” stats, writer non-participation, new Gallifrey One guests, and the fact that Doctor Who is filming in South Africa! But also, for your edification and entertainment, we also have an interview with Sophie Aldred and Lisa Greenwood from Chicago TARDIS. Listen, enjoy and patiently wait for Series 11 with the rest of us!
Links:
– Doctor Who filming in South Africa? – Sarah Dollard not writing for Series 11 – Twice Upon A Time final BBC One viewing figure – Gallifrey One welcomes Brian Minchin, Lindsey Alford, Paul Cornell, Caroline Symcox, Keith Barnfather, Bill Baggs and others – Chicago TARDIS 2018 tickets on sale – Blake’s 7 turns 40
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #615 – The Three Doctors
A year is about to expire, with a new 365 days around the sun just around the corner, and with this transition comes…stats. Yes, those of you who need to know the intimate details of eyeballs upon telescreens during the airing of “Twice Upon a Time”, fret no longer, we have all that information and more, including a truly mindbending look at how television scientists (including several Restoration Team boffins) extracted footage of Morecambe and Wise from a film canister full of goo. Plus news of a Bill Potts action dolly, Britbox coming to Canada, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with three Doctors, the trio of physicians in question being Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy! Let’s hope all of you have a happy New Year with no complications!
Links:
– Twice Upon A Time BBC Overnights – Twice Upon A Time UK Audience Appreciation – Capaldi writes to unsure fan – BritBox coming to Canada in 2018 – Morecambe & Wise episode restoration – Peter Capaldi Years Blu-Ray Set – Bill action figure – 2017 Doctor Who In Memoriam – LI Who on hiatus
Interview: – Peter Davison – Colin Baker – Sylvester McCoy – Chicago TARDIS
Radio Free Skaro #614 – The Long Way Round
And so the Peter Capaldi era ends, the Jodie Whittaker era begins, and the David Bradley era sneaks in through the side door for “Twice Upon A Time”, the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas Special. But what did the Three Who Rule think? Join them as they examine the final story of the Steven Moffat era, and the precious few seconds we have until Autumn 2018 of an entirely new Doctor! And, by popular (two people, let’s be honest) request, we also have a spoiler-filled discussion of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, squared away near the end for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing.
Links:
– Twice Upon A Time review – Twice Upon A Time regeneration scene – Twice Upon A Time fan show – Doctor Who topped Twitter trends – Series 9 soundtrack due early 2018 – Radiophonic Workshop 60th Anniversary celebration – Roger Delgado biography – Doctor Who stuff for Free Comic Book Day 2018 – Regeneration effect available on Facebook
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 24
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 23
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 23.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 22
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 22.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 21
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 21.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 20
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 20.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 19
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 19.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 18
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 18.
Radio Free Skaro #613 – It Won’t Be Easy
Only a week and several more hours until “Twice Upon a Time”, and the Whovian Hype Machine ™ is in full swing, with new clips, a behind the scenes look at the making of the Xmas special airing on Space, and and AND Big Finish releases their new First Doctor adventures on Xmas Day! It’s beginning to look a lot like Hartnell…er, Bradley! Plus, Gallifrey One panels, Amazon Prime news, and so much more! And this week’s interview is with Big Finish jack-of-all-trades and Dalek voiceman Nick Briggs from Chicago TARDIS!
Links:
– Second Twice Upon A Time trailer – New Twice Upon A Time clip – Doctor Puppet tribute to the 12th Doctor – SPACE airing Twice Upon A Time at 9pm EST and a Christmas Day marathon of Series 10 – SPACE “End of an Era” special – Steven Moffat calls Doctor Who “the greatest show in the world” – BBC America airing Twice Upon A Time at 9e/8c and “Farewell to Peter Capaldi” special afterward – BBC America week-long Doctor Who marathon – Amazon Prime Video in the US gets Series 10 in January – Big Finish First Doctor Adventures Vol. 1 comes out December 25 – WhoTalk Earthshock and Edge of Destruction commentaries – First all-female author Doctor Who children’s book due on International Women’s Day – Gallifrey One 2018 call for panelists
Interview:
– Nicholas Briggs – Chicago TARDIS
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 17
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 17.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 16
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 16.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 15
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 15.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 14
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 14.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 13
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 13.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 12
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 12.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 11
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 11.
Radio Free Skaro #612 – 120 BPM
Doctor Who musical legend Dudley Simpson passed away recently, and his amount of work in Doctor Who was so massive that it warranted a special Miniscope to cover it! And who better to invite along for this tribute than Mark Ayres, a fan of Dudley’s himself, but also the musical maestro tasked with honouring the recent release of “Shada” with a delectably Dudley-esque score. Also, Advent Calendars galore, Christmas Specials, “Twice Upon a Time”, and more!
Links:
– BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar – “Twice Upon A Time” BBC One broadcast will be 5:30PM – “Twice Upon a Time” promo pics – BBC One Christmas Trailer – “Twice Upon a Time” DVD/Blu-ray artwork – Graham Kibble-White interview with Steven Moffat – Win a lunch with Russell T Davies!
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 10
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Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 9
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 8
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 7
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 6
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 5
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 4
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.
Radio Free Skaro #611 - Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime
It’s December and for Doctor Who fans that means Twice Upon of Time is upon us in less than a month…which means a veritable blitz of promotions, news, news about promotions, and so forth. There’s also incoming tat, a story about anamorphic lenses for all you cineastes, and most importantly, interviews with outgoing Doctor Who brand manager Edward Russell and legendary director Waris Hussein! Merry not quite Christmas yet, everyone!
Links:
– Twice Upon A Time promo image & synopsis – BBC America Twice Upon A Time teaser – Twice Upon A Time at Canadian cinemas – Twice Upon A Time Australian Preview – Twice Upon A Time at Danish cinemas – Doctor Who on the Radio Times cover – iPlayer adding box sets for Christmas – BBC Worldwide and BBC Studios merge – New lenses, new filmic look for Series 11 – Series 9 on Netflix UK – Peal Mackie reads bedtime stories for CBeebies – Blu-Ray release of the Peter Capaldi years – Shada delay for North America? – Dr Men vinyl figures – War Machine figure – Long Island Doctor Who
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 3
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Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 2
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.
Radio Free Skaro – 2017 Advent Calendar, Day 1
This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.
Radio Free Skaro #610 – And Then There’s The Accent
It’s the weekend of American Thanksgiving, which can only mean one thing in the Doctor Who world – Chicago TARDIS! Steven once again represented the Three Who Rule in the midwest, getting interviews, meeting many Doctor Who fans, and generally creating mayhem (he was in bed by 11:00pm every night). And this episode features an onstage interview with Doctor the Fifth, Peter Davison, and Tegan Jovanka herself, Janet Fielding! Also, Paul Booth drops by to talk about the various news items of the week, including many exciting details about the new release of “Shada”!
Links:
– Tom Baker Doctor Who Day message – Tom Baker records new live action scene for “Shada” – First Look at “Shada” – A BBC Radio 2 special ft. Jo Whiley & Peter Capaldi airs Dec 21 – Jodie Whittaker will run 6 Music on Christmas Eve from 6pm-2am – The UK North will get special advance screenings of “Twice Upon A Time” – Delia Derbyshire gets posthumous PhD – Peter Davison – Chicago TARDIS
Interview:
– Peter Davison – Janet Fielding
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #609 - Golden Years
As we hurtle towards Christmas, and more importantly, the premiere of “Twice Upon A Time”, the BBC has delivered a snippet of said story featuring one Peter Capaldi, David Bradley and Mark Gatiss trading badinage in Twelve’s TARDIS, and it is a delight. Also, Steven Moffat was announced to appear at the biggest Doctor Who convention in North America, Gallifrey One, to the general giddiness of the Three Who Rule. Besides all this news, we also have the second part of Warren’s interview with director Rachel Talalay, along with a look at one her stories for our final Second Chances segment with comedian and writer Riley Silverman!
Links:
– Twice Upon a Time clip from Children in Need – Children in Need sets a record for donations – Twice Upon a Time will be the end for Murray Gold – Steven Moffat to headline Gallifrey One – John Smith hired to work on Series 10 & Twice Upon a Time – Whoblique Strategies charity anthology coming this month – Chicago TARDIS, Nov 24-26, 2017
Interview:
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #608 - As The World Falls Down
This week on Radio Free Skaro, join two thirds of The Three Who Rule from Long Island Who as Steven and Warren are joined by Deb from Verity! and Alyssa from Whovian Feminism and This Week in Time Travel to talk about the sad passing of Doctor Who music icon Dudley Simpson, some upcoming DVD and audio releases (like Star Cops from Big Finish!), but really dig in to the main event: the new outfit unveiled for Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor! Also in this episode: the first of a two-part interview with director Rachel Talalay, and Luke from TMDWP joins us to talk about “World Enough and Time”!
Links:
– Jodie Whittaker’s costume revealed – References in Jodie Whittaker’s costume – The Vanity Fair take on Whittaker’s costume – The Vogue take on Whittaker’s costume – Dudley Simpson dies at age 95 – Children in Need to have Twice Upon A Time clip – William Hartnell years of “The Doctors” interview series due on DVD Nov 13 – The Daemons of Devil’s End due on DVD on Nov 13 – Big Finish announces new Star Cops audio series – LI Who 5, November 10-12
Interview:
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #607 – Future Legend
Sad news to impart this week, with the death of Doctor Who director and television pioneer Paddy Russell, who directed “The Massacre”, “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”, “Pyramids of Mars”, and “Horror of Fang Rock”, along with many other non-Who programmes on UK television. We also have news of Shada on DVD in North America, the continued audio adventures of River Song, doings transpiring at Titan Comics regarding the Doctor Who comics line, and in Second Chances we look at “The Eaters of Light” with Doctor Whooch host and Edmonton comic shop owner Danica LeBlanc!
Links:
– Paddy Russell died – Paddy Russell Miniscope from Radio Free Skaro #487 – Shada on DVD in North America on January 9 – River Song in Big Finish for at least three more series – Titan Comics Doctor Who range to have a brief hiatus – Nick Pegg fired from Doctor Who Magazine – Doctor Whooch #125 – LI Who 5, November 10-12
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #606 – Life On Mars
News is slowly ramping up on the Series 11 front, with directors and executive producers being hired and supposedly hired for the debut series of new Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker and head writer Chris Chibnall, “Twice Upon a Time” in Canadian theatres and Shaaaaaaadaaaa in Australian ones, Gallifrey One guest updates, WOTAN beating up Torchwood (as is right and proper) and in this week’s Second Chances…Mark Gatiss’ “Empress of Mars” with writer Tai Gooden!
Links:
– Jamie Childs directs for Series 11? – Sam Hoyle producing Series 11 – Twice Upon A Time in Canadian cinemas – Shada Australian cinema release – Gallifrey One guest update: Murray Gold announced! Pearl Mackie cancels! – WOTAN vs Torchwood in Big Finish – LEGO Dimensions officially dead, as is the planned Doctor Who set
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #605/A - Doctor Who Series 11 Update
Breaking news! Details about the upcoming Series 11 of Doctor Who were announced by the BBC not long after our regular episode was released, so the Three Who Rule are here to report (but, really, mostly speculate) about the casting announcements and other details that were released regarding Jodie Whittaker’s first season as Doctor Who!
Links:
– BBC Doctor Who news release – Radio Times article – Bradley Walsh as Graham – Mandip Gill as Yasmin – Tosin Cole as Ryan
Radio Free Skaro #605 – Moonage Daydream
There’s nothing Doctor Who-ish on TV until Christmas…but there is an hour with debonair man of the 1970s, Jon Pertwee, who graces the BBC iPlayer with an hour of his many charms in the imaginatively named “An Hour with Jon Pertwee!” There’s also movement afoot in things game, textual and action dolly, with Big Finish going (even more) digital, A Parliament worth of Dalek Dollies and possibly the premature end of LEGO Dimensions. Our Second Chances this week also marks the end of the Monk Trilogy as Drew Meyer joins us to look at “The Lie of the Land!”
Links:
– Doctor Who Magazine 518 – Big Finish releases 51-100 go digital only – An Hour with Jon Pertwee – Parliament Dalek figuring set – LEGO Dimensions pulled? Future Doctor Who set DOA? – Doctor Who wins Ally award for LGBT inclusiveness
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #604 – The Man Who Sold The World
We have a long time to wait for new Who (not counting Peter Capaldi’s swan song this Christmas) but already rumors are swirling about how incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall will give us his vision of the good Doctor. In the meantime, we have DVDs headed our way along with an animated version of Shada, the red-headed stepchild of not-quite-lost classic Who stories. And this week’s Second Chances features author and Reality Bomb podcaster Graeme Burk, with his (and our) look at…”The Pyramid at the End of the World”!
Links:
– Series 11 format change? – Shada to be completed with animation – Series 10 home video release – Christmas script charity auction
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #603 - Sound and Vision
Happy Thanksgiving (in Canada)! This week, we have new from New York Comic Con, as one Peter Capaldi charmed the good folk of the Big Apple for one final time as Doctor Who, plus we have news of cinematic screenings of “Twice Upon A Time”, explosive details about Danny Hargreaves’ future and the new season of Doctor Who, and and AND Chip, our friend from This Week in Time Travel and Two-Minute Time Lord, joins us for a look at the start of the Monk Trilogy (such as it was) and all the japery and indeed Papery in…”Extremis!”
Links:
– Capaldi at New York Comic Con – Twice Upon A Time to get US cinema screenings – The Companions, illustrated by Russell T Davies – Danny Hargreaves kept on by the new production team – Trevor Martin died
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #602 – Station to Station
Warren returns to the fold this week, to examine both various dribs and drabs of Doctor Who news and to debate amongst the Three Who Rule as to the worth of the new Star Trek: Discovery series. What would a podcast between three nerds be without spurious Trek talk, you ask? Well, it would be a podcast with pop culture reporter Edie Nugent taking a look at Series 10’s space-set not-zombie nail-biter, “Oxygen,” in our Second Chances series!
Links:
– Alex Kingston at Edmonton Expo – The Wheel in Space recons on BritBox – Gallifrey One ticket transfers open – Gallifrey One supports the Pop Culture Hero Coalition – Milk VFX Doctor Who Series 10 showreel – Doctor Who Fan Show with RTD & James Goss – Now We Are All 600 podcast with Russell T Davies, James Goss and Richard E Grant – The Barrowmans honour Lis Sladen – Child Out of Time book due October 16 – Radiophonic Workshop on Radio 6 – Doctor Who Infinity game due Spring 2018 – Titan Kawaii Doctor Who figures coming January 18
Second Chances:
– Edie Nugent – Oxygen
Radio Free Skaro #601 – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Knock Knock! Who’s there? Kara Dennison, that’s who, as the esteemed blogger, fan, and interviewer for Onezumi Events joins the Three Who Rule to look back at “Knock Knock” in our continuing Second Chances series re-reviewing Series 10 in the lead up to “Twice Upon A Time”. Speaking of which, a synopsis for the 2017 Christmas Special was posted (then deleted), and there’s exciting news of a new series of First Doctor audio stories from Big Finish starring David Bradley as the First Doctor!
Links:
– David Bradley plays The First Doctor in Big Finish – Once Upon A Time synopsis – Tom Baker Years interview collection – Sarah Jane Adventures 10-year anniversary – Who Talk commentaries for Claws of Axos and First Doctor historicals – Visual effects books get worldwide release – Donate to Andrew Smith’s charity run
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #600 – Subterraneans
600 episodes of Radio Free Skaro! Will the madness ever cease? Not this episode, as we delve into “Thin Ice” with virtuoso Doctor Who comics artist and Twitter bon vivant Rachael Stott for her take on monsters under the Thames, racist punching, and the continued excellence of one Bill Potts! Plus news about the original K-9 and Company theme, P-Cap at New York Comic Con and RTD retconning Harriet Jones! Flydale North lives again!
Links:
– Peter Capaldi spotlight at NYCC – Original K-9 and Company theme demo unearthed – Russell T Davies reveals Harriet Jones didn’t die after all – Doctor Who Fluxx card game due Nov 23 – Seventh Doctor’s hat and Necros Dalek miniature go up for auction Sep 26
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #599 – Ashes to Ashes
Space-time has become distorted and silly once again with the appearance of a tall stranger, AKA Chris, in Vancouver with Warren! Not only that, but Twitter man about town Tom Dickinson is here for our Second Chances segment to take a gander at “Smile,” where hill give his thoughts on robots, emoji and nanite-human colonization policies. Plus news of the Doctor Who Experience and Class waving goodbye, Jodie Whittaker waving hello (via a Rolling Stone interview) and upcoming Gallifrey One guests of some renown!
Links:
– Gallifrey One guest announcement – Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, David Bradley! – The Doctor Who Experience closed – Doctor Who Experience goodbye video – Class officially cancelled – Jodie Whittaker Rolling Stone interview – Capaldi had auditioned for DS9 – Rachel Talalay auctioning off memorabilia for charity – The Book of Whoniversal records due September 28 – RTD & James Goss interview podcast due September 28 – Doctor Who and the Krikketmen due January 18, 2018 – Steven’s c.1994 fan film Doctor Who titles – Steven: Fun With Feedback 1 – Steven: Fun With Feedback 2
Second Chances:
– Tom Dickinson – Smile
Radio Free Skaro #598 – Lady Stardust
As we slog through the Dark Times before the Doctor Who Xmas special “Twice Upon a Time”, the news is a bit thin on the ground, though we have new Gallifrey One guests (including a bevy of them connected to “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”), upcoming Big Finish, and…the start of our new series of looks back at Series 10: Second Chances! Heather Berberet from Doctor Who On The Couch joins us to take a look at the debut of Bill Potts and the introduction of a mysterious vault in...”The Pilot!”
Links:
– Gallifrey One guest announcement – Series 10 DVD/BD due November 7 on North America – Captain John returns to Torchwood – September Big Finish releases
Second Chances:
Radio Free Skaro #597 – Look What You Made Us Do
It’s a veritable gumbo of info this week, with on outgoing showrunner praising an incoming Doctor, Big Finish and Black Archive books news, tales of Peter Capaldi and lifetime achievement awards for Russell T Davies…and a brand new Fluid Links! Your questions, our answers, and practically nothing is resolved! Will this episode thus extend into infinity? Listen….and fiiiiind oooooouutttt!!
Links:
– Jodie Whittaker’s intro has been recorded – Jared Garfield is Ben Jackson – Listen script charity auction – RTD gets lifetime achievement award – In Conversation with RTD, James Goss and Christel Dee – Alex Kingston announced for Edmonton Expo – The Daleks soundtrack due September 15 – Toby Hadoke’s Who’s Round with Graeme Harper, part 1 – Toby Hadoke’s Who’s Round with Graeme Harper, part 2 – Big Finish Tales from New Earth – YANA and Sharaz Jek figurines – Upcoming Black Archive book release schedule – Tales of Terror teaser short story
Radio Free Skaro #596 - The Lionhearted
Warren has returned from Worldcon, and has tales of Finland, Stockholm and international nerdery to share with Steven, Chris and all you good people before we move to the main event, an interview with author and superfan Steven Hill about Red White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America. Years in the making, this weighty tome is a comprehensive look at Doctor Who on North American screens, and leaves no televisual stone unturned. Tune in, why don’t you?
Links:
– Worldcon 75 – Matt Smith sings the Doctor Who theme to Jodie Whittaker – Anniversary of erasing Doctor Who tapes – Survival soundtrack, September 15 – The Happiness Patrol remixes, September 18 – Dominic Glynn on Start The Music! – Victor Pemberton died
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #595 – The Origins of Mr. Who
With Warren away at Worldcon this week (where while Doctor Who did not win a Hugo for “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, Steven did for his work on Uncanny Magazine!), it’s left to Steven and Chris to talk about the first interviews with Jodie Whittaker since her unveiling as the new Doctor, and other sundry items that tend to fill a news list in the middle of August. But the main feature this week is an interview with friend and author Graeme Burk about his upcoming book “Sydney Newman: Head of Drama”!
Links:
– Jodie Whittaker on Radio 6 – Jodie Whittaker video about becoming The Doctor – Doctor Who loses the Hugo – Toronto Doctor Who event adds Richard Willis – Mr Men Jack and Rose preview – The Missy Chronicles, due in February – Earl Cameron turns 100
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #594 – Is That Finger Loaded?
It’s the dog days of August, and with no new Doctor Who on the horizon for several months, what better way to spend a couple hours of that time with the Three Who Rule as they watch and commentate on “The Android Invasion”, the 1975…er…classic from the Tom Baker era. And while Warren is away in Scandanavia in advance of Worldcon in Helsink next weekend, Chris and Steven update you all with news of a radio appearance by Jodie Whittaker, a bevy of Big Finish news, and several pieces of merchandise you won’t be able to live without! Now let’s all have a ginger beer!
Links:
– Jodie Whittaker on Radio 6 – Christmas was almost cancelled – Series 10 deleted scenes – Animated Shada from BBC Worldwide – Blink, 10 years on – Upcoming Big Finish releases – Tenth Doctor and Web of Fear audios – Doctor Who Audio Annual – Doctor Who Mr Men figurines – 2018 Doctor Who calendar – Yeti figurine – Christel Dee interview part 4
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #593 - School Ties and Martian Lies
The Quiet Times have returned, with the Series 10 finale and San Diego Comic-Con receding in the distance and a long wait to December 25 ahead of us. But that doesn’t stop the dogged determination of the Three Who Rule, who won’t let a little thing like a lack of new material stop them from chattering on about one Mr. Who! And as a bonus we have an interview with Class and Doctor Who director Wayne Yip and a roll of the randomizer to determine which classic commentary will happen next week! Dare you listen? You dare indeed!
Links:
– Unproduced Series 4 Script from Mark Gatiss – Nicholas Hoult was meant to be in Who – Peter Davison left twitter – Christel Dee interview part 2 – Twice Upon A Time North American home video release – Series 10 Part 2 North American home video artwork
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #592 – I Was Fond Of Her Too, Jamie
Comic-Con! Yes, SDCC has come and gone once again, and with it we now have a trailer for “Twice Upon a Time,” the swan-song for one P-Cap and the glorious retconning of one D-Brad as the First Doctor, along with words and thoughts from gentleman scribe Kyle Anderson, who gives us an almost-live look from the ground as he left the BBC panel, as well as filling us in the Classic Who panel he moderated featuring Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sophie Aldred! Plus a simply staggering pile of news about dollies, the continued stir over a female Doctor, and so..much..swag. And sadly, we also have to report the passing of both Deborah Watling and Trevor Baxter, who will be sorely missed.
Links:
– Twice Upon A Time trailer – Comic-Con Doctor Who Panel – SDCC IMDB interview with Capaldi, Moffat and Kevin Smith – SDCC Empire interview with Capaldi, Moffat and Gatiss – SDCC Entertainment Weekly interview with Capaldi, Moffat, Mackie, Gomez and Gatiss – SDCC Classic Doctor Who panel, moderated by Kyle Anderson – SDCC SyFy interview with Davison, Aldred and C Baker – Wheel in Space telesnap recon preview – Deborah Watling died – Trevor Baxter died – Big Finish tribute to Trevor Baxter – 13th Doctor Announcement Stats – The BBC Responds to Whittaker Casting Complaints – Capaldi’s Salary Revealed – Whittaker to get parity salary – Tom Spilsbury’s interview Hartnell challenge – The Simpsons jokes about a female Doctor – Series 10 DVD/BD Box Set release date? – Character Options renews license, 13th Doctor stuff available Autumn 2018 – Penguin Random House extends book license – Doctor Who RPG Humble Bundle – Christel Dee Interview (Part 1) – Big Finish to do Doctor’s Daughter audio – River Song features in Titan’s The Lost Dimension
Radio Free Skaro #591 – The Future is Female
The Whoniverse was on the edge of its seat today, for the announcement of…the second instalment of Fluid Links! But of course we actually mean the historic announcement of the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to take on the the role and the flag-bearer for Chris Chibnall’s new era of Doctor Who, due late next year. What do the Three Who Rule think of the announcement? Listen and find out! And also Fluid Links, we may have mentioned those earlier.
Links:
– Jodie Whittaker IS THE DOCTOR! – Jodie Whittaker on Wikipedia – First Jodie Whittaker interview – Chibnall said he always wanted the next Doctor to be a woman – The Doctor Falls final BBC One viewing figures – Retro TV adds more Classic Who – North American Series 10 Part 2 home video release – Brian Minchin joins Hartswood Films – Tom Spilsbury steps down as Doctor Who Magazine editor – Doctor Who marketing job opening
Radio Free Skaro #590 – Blue Man Group
Series 10 may be over, but your questions have just begun! Fluid Links returns (and re-returns next week) for us to answer, dodge and blatantly lie our way through your thoughtful enquiries about the ast series of Doctor Who…and the Xmas special still to come!
Links:
– World Enough and Time final BBC One viewing figures – The Doctor Falls BBC America ratings – The Doctor Falls Appreciation Index – San Diego Comic-Con Doctor Who panel details – SDCC Classic Doctor Who Panel, hosted by Kyle Anderson! – Toronto Doctor Who hosts Eric Saward – Red, White and Who preorder begins August 21
Radio Free Skaro #589 – Without Hope, Without Witness, Without Reward
Lo, the (almost) end has come, and the Three Who Rule have thoughts, feels and comments about “The Doctor Falls,” the penultimate episode for both director Rachel Talalay and showrunner/writer Steven Moffat. What did the three scoundrels think of this stew of Masters and Mondasians? More to the point, what’s going on with the First Doctor and the upcoming Xmas special? So many questions! Next week, the return of Fluid Links, but only pertaining to Series 10, so no questions about Nimons and Axons!
Links:
– The Doctor Falls review – Christmas Special press release – Christmas Special promo pic – Doctor Who Fan Show interviews Moffat & Talalay – Moffat homage to RTD as mentioned in the Fan Show – Matt Lucas says goodbye – Michelle Gomez says goodbye – The Doctor Falls BBC One overnight viewing figures – The Eaters of Light final BBC One viewing figures – World Enough and Time Appreciation Index – The Thirteenth Doctor’s actor should be known soon – Gallifrey One guest announcement – Peter Capaldi and Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con – LI Who guests – Voord and Tetrap figurines – Planet 14 Information
Radio Free Skaro #588 - Doctor Who and The Genesis of the Cybermen
Live from Gloucestershire, it’s Radio Free Skaro! With Steven visiting the United Kingdom, it seemed only right to watch and review this week’s Doctor Who (the show, not the character) in the nation where it was created. And so noted Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell and esteemed podcaster Dave Probert join Steven in talking about “World Enough and Time”, a dazzling writing effort from Steven Moffat, directed with chilling precision by Rachel Talalay, and acted to perfection by the main cast. Listen in to talk about the episode, about how the promotion of the series may have muted its impact, and a live stats report to the delight of all!
Links:
– Doctor Who S10E11 “World Enough and Time” – “World Enough and Time” overnight viewing figures – “Empress of Mars” final viewing vigures – “The Eaters of Light” AI – Bath Festival “Creating Doctor Who” panel on October 2 – Big Finish Cybermen sale – Dr. Tenth Christmas book coming October 17 – Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, and Sue Vertue creating new “Dracula” adaptation
Radio Free Skaro #587 - Death By Scotland
Gloom, doom, and light-eating tentacle dogs are the topic du jour for the Three Who Rule, as they viewed the Rona Munro penned, Charles Palmer helmed “The Eaters of Light” and formed cogent, well reasoned analyses of the third to last episode of Series 10, and didn’t at all speculate wildly about Mondasian Cybermen, bearded former Masters, Missy’s weird turn towards mercy and more. And speaking of Masters, Big Finish just announced that Derek Jacobi will return to his “Utopia” role as the Doctor’s best enemy with a new series of “War Master” audios, which recent BF convert Warren is feverishly anticipating! Plus Moffatt and Chibnall interviews, side glances at Funk Pops, and…yes, stats. Now go eat a fried Mars Bar and stand around on a dark Scottish moor contemplating the futility of existence! Go on!
Links:
– The Eaters of Light Review – The Eaters of Light BBC One overnight viewing figures – World Enough and Time promo image – The Lie of the Land final BBC One viewing figures – The Empress of Mars Appreciation Index – The Doctor Falls synopsis – Doctor Who Countdown Concert – Chibnall: The Man Who Reinvented The Cliffhanger – Doctor Who Experience to close September 9 – Big Finish War Master stories coming in December – Simon Guerrier interviewed Steven Moffat – Troughton Years interview collection – Dalek documentary crowdfunding effort – SDCC exclusive Clara Funko Pop
Radio Free Skaro #586 – Jackdaw Meanderings
A spot of tea, a biscuit, some empire-building and hostile action against upright crocodiles are the order of the day as the Three Who Rule look at “Empress of Mars,” Mark Gatiss’ latest (and last?) foray into the world of Doctor Who and Wayne Yip’s second directorial run for Series 10. Plus more news of Gatiss and Who, comics, Big Finish, stats (feh) and a Canadian wins breakfast with seven Doctors! By the moons we honour thee!
Links:
– Empress of Mars review – Empress of Mars BBC One overnight viewing figures – Empress of Mars was almost about Brexit – Details of the proposed Sleep No More sequel/prequel – Pyramid final BBC One viewing figures – Lie of the Land Appreciation Index – World Enough and Time synopsis – Capaldi’s regeneration to be different? – RTD says he knows who the next Doctor will be – Alan Cumming twice turned down the role of The Doctor – Moffat reflects on Blink, 10 years later – Gatiss also leaving with Moffat & Capaldi? – Rakhee Thakrar new 8th Doctor Big Finish companion – First Titan “Lost Dimension” covers – A Canadian won the contest to have breakfast with 7 Doctors – Peter Sallis died
Radio Free Skaro #585 – Fake News Central
It’s the end of the Monk Trilogy with the Toby Whithouse scripted and Wayne Yip directed “The Lie of the Land”…but what were the Hot Takes™ of the Three Who Rule (reunited, and it feels so good) on the curtain-draped corpses with the lightning and the brainwashing and the what not? What of Bill and Nardole and their quest to find the Doctor? And most importantly…what of Peter Capaldi’s new coat!? Plus we have news of stats, steelbooks and the Resurrection of Ruprecht! Listen..and pay no mind to that monk hovering over your shoulder!
Links:
– “The Lie of the Land” review – “The Lie of the Land” BBC One overnights – “Extremis” BBC One final viewing figures – “The Pyramid at the End of the World” Appreciation Index – “The Eaters of Light” synopsis – Doctor Who Magazine talks Episodes 8-11 – Patrick Ness won’t write any more Class – Ice Warrior prop head found and restored – Series 2 BluRay steelbook – Fantom Audio alternate “The Green Death” commentary – Master Car
Radio Free Skaro #584 – Pyramid Power
We’ve reached the middle portion of the Trilogy of the Monks with “The Pyramid at the End of the World”, and who better to lend a hand ruminating on tractor beams, world peace, pandemics and panic than Wife in Space impresario Neil Perryman? Neil joins the Two Who Rule (in the form of Warren and Steven) to hash out what in the actual hell is going on with these mysterious robed fellows, before getting to the most important news of the week…Doctor Who branded skin care products. Stats, speculation, and the great nation of China single-handedly resurrecting Classic Who (in our minds) and more!
Links:
– Episode 7 – “The Pyramid at The End of the World” – Episode 7 edited due to Manchester bombing – “The Pyramid at The End of the World” overnight ratings – “Oxygen” final viewing figures – “Extremis” AI: 82 – “The Empress of Mars” synopsis – Rachel Talalay directing Christmas Special – Doctor Who renewed for five more series? – First guest announcement for Gallifrey One 2018 – Downtime Region 1 DVD release – Titan Comics summer event – New Doctor Who licensees
Radio Free Skaro #583 - The Meddling Monks
We’re at the midway point of Series 10 (sniff) so what better time for Steven Moffat to check in on the show he runs by penning another episode himself in the form of “Extremis”, a mind-bending escapade that took viewers from England to the Vatican and all points in between. Or did it…? Once again, the inestimable Kyle Anderson steps in as a replacement for one of the Three (in place of Warren this time) to join Chris and Steven on this review. What did they think? What of the Monks? And the occupant of the Vault? In this podcast we are revealed…
Links:
– Episode 6 – “Extremis” – Moffat and Mulkern talk “Extremis” – “Extremis” BBC One overnight viewing figures – “Oxygen” overnight viewing figures – Oxygen Appreciation Index – Jamie Mathieson talks Gus and Oxygen – “Knock Knock” final BBC One viewing figures – “The Lie of the Land” synopsis – Michelle Gomez leaving Who along with Moffat & Capaldi – …or is she? – Michelle Gomez reddit AMA – Big Finish releasing second Tenth Doctor audio series – BBC shutting down TV episode downloading service – Radiophonic Workshop’s “Burials in Several Earths” released – Who poetry book written by James Goss and Illustrated by Russell T Davies due in September – Doctor Who Time Vortex 360 web-based game released – Eric Pringle reportedly died
Radio Free Skaro #582 – Every Breath You Take
It’s that most wondrous time of the year again, Base Under Siege-mas, in the form of Jamie Mathieson’s anti-corporate not-zombie saga “Oxygen”! What did the Three Who Rule think? Listen and find out, before their oxygen credits are depleted and they’re sucked into the cold, meaningless vacuum!
Links:
– Episode 5 – “Oxygen” – “Thin Ice” final ratings – Knock Knock AI rating – 83 – “The Pyramid at The End of the World” synopsis – Geoffrey Bayldon (1923-2017)
Radio Free Skaro #581 – Is There A Doctor In The House?
It’s time for Steven, Warren and noted Nerdist Kyle Anderson to assess the timbre of “Knock Knock,” the Mike Bartlett penned ode to lumber-based horror and insectile consumption. Did the Two Who Rule and Kyle consider this story a mighty oak or a mere sapling in the forest of Series 10? Plus news of a new series of Torchwood via Big Finish starring (Lumber)Jack Harkness and the rest of the gang plus new recruits, and a thrilling dive into the prehistory of computer games. No trees were harmed in the production of this podcast.
Links:
– Doctor Who S10E04 “Knock Knock” – “Knock Knock” overnights – 4.32m, 24.9% share – Doctor Who: The Fan Show with David Suchet and Mike Bartlett – Stay at the house used for exteriors for “Knock Knock” – Kyle Anderson’s “Knock Knock” review on Nerdist – Smile final BBC One viewing figures 5.98M, 23rd for the week – “Thin Ice” AI: 84 – S10E06 “Extremis” synopsis – “Knock Knock” character was meant to be related to Harry Sullivan – UK DVD/BD S10 releases: Part 1, May 29; Part 2, July 17, will include binaural version of “Knock Knock” – New Big Finish companion for Fourth Doctor – New Torchwood full cast audio series from Big Finish, takes pace after Miracle Day – Doctor Who Skype Bot – Doctor Who Nerd Block figures, first is Tennant from End of Time – New K-9 design revealed
Radio Free Skaro #580 - Fish Food Frolics
It’s 1814, and Regency London is cold, racist, and beset by a big fish under the the Thames…but the Doctor and Bill are on the case! As are Steven, Warren and Nerdist’s own Kyle Anderson (for the second week running) with their take on Sarah Dollard’s sophomore Doctor Who effort “Thin Ice,” as well as a detailed examination of stats, new Mr. Men books, free Comic Book Day, and rampant dismissal of frenzied speculation on the occupant of The Vault!
Links:
– Doctor Who S10E03 “Thin Ice” – “Thin Ice” overnight viewing figures – “Smile” AI – 83 – “The Pilot” final viewing figures: 6.68m, 10th for the week – Den of Geek interviews Ep 1 and 2 director Lawrence Gough – S10E05 “Oxygen” synopsis – Class ratings on BBC America – Class DVD/BR details – Mark Gatiss “wasn’t approached” to be new showrunner – Steven Moffat to appear at the Hay Festival (May 25-June 4) – Michelle Gomez narrates “Dr. Twelfth” – New Doctor Who/Mr. Men books coming for Two, Seven, Eight, and Nine – Four Doctors crossover in Titan Comics starting in September – Peter Capaldi at Calgary Expo
Radio Free Skaro #579 – The Crooked Smile
A rare occurence on this week’s Radio Free Skaro in that two thirds of the regular Three Who Rule are absent. So we present to you Two other Rulers! Erika from Verity! and Kyle from Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room join Steven (Chris and Warren are off somewhere making tea) to review the second episode of this most recent series of Doctor Who. Will they be smiling or in their appreciation of it? Or will they merely be gritting their teeth and pretending as to not get murdered by cute robots? Isn’t that everyday anyway?
Links:
– Doctor Who S10E02 “Smile” – “Smile” – overnight viewing figures – Memorial University prof inspires robots on new episode of Doctor Who – “The Pilot” AI – 83 – “Knock Knock” synopsis – Knock Knock to get a binaural audio edition on iPlayer for headphone users – David Bradley back as the First Doctor in the Christmas special? – David Bradley is cagey about the Christmas Special – Class North American DVD/BR release July 11 – Oxford English Dictionary adding some DW words: Sonic Screwdriver, TARDIS, Dalek, Cyberman – Radiophonic Workshop concert and Q&A at the Science Museum June 16, £25 – BBC Studios in Wales gets new head of drama
Radio Free Skaro #578 – A Star in Her Eye
The time has finally arrived, with new Doctor Who gracing our screens and Bill, a new companion, capturing our hearts. Puddles, Movellans and so much more danced across our eyeballs this past Saturday in “The Pilot”, and the Three Who Rule have thoughts and bon mots to share about the return of Who and the stories still to come! But like all Moffat-era Who, there are twists and turns still to come, like the fact that Capaldi says he’s filmed the regeneration before the Christmas episode was lensed. Mystery and intrigue!
Links:
– The Pilot! – The Pilot BBC One overnights! – Steven Moffat’s Series 10 episode guide! – Capaldi says he’s filmed his character’s death scene! – Thin Ice synopsis! – Big Finish’s The Helm of Awe! – The Pescatons and Doctor Who Sound Effects vinyl re-release!
Radio Free Skaro #577 – Second Chances
It’s a week before new Doctor Who, which means a veritable tsunami of news, previews and madness, including the surprise reveal that John Simm will come back as the Master and possibly cause a shipping paradox the likes of which hasn’t been seen since SuperWhoLock! In other surprises, Britbox announced they’re streaming most of Classic Who, “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” was nominated for a Hugo, and we have a new segment called Second Chances looking at that very story with Titan Comic Tenth Doctor scribe Nick Abadzis!
Links:
– Series 10 wrapped filming! – Series 10, second trailer! – John Simm returns as The Master! – The Pilot airs at 7:20pm on BBC One! – Smile synopsis! – Series 10 first 10 titles & writers & directors! – Series 10 press pack interviews! – Introducing Bill Potts! – Series 10 teaser image! – Christmas Special begins filming in July! – Pearl Mackie only around for one year? – Prime in New Zealand begins Series 10 on April 17! – BritBox brings Classic Who back to streaming! – Doctor Who Comics Day is September 2! – Doctor Mysterio gets a Hugo nomination! – Tim Piggot-Smith died. – Gallifrey One 2018 tickets went on sale!
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #576 – The Fisher King
We’re in the final stretch run of The Year (and a bit) of No Doctor Who, as Series 10 is less than two weeks away! There’s spoiler-free talk of synopses, the character of Bill Potts is revealed to be gay (hooray!), and there are various promotional things happening in and around the premiere of “The Pilot” on April 15. And we take our last look inside the Miniscope for this year with a detailed analysis of the works of writer David Fisher, author of four stories from the later Tom Baker era!
Links:
– Synopsis for The Pilot! – Season 10 Plot Setup! – Bill will be gay! – Capaldi and Mackie at the BFI & RT TV Festival – Mr Men at the Doctor Who Experience – Myths & Legends book! – RiffTrax covers The Five Doctors! – The Almost Doctors! – Sydney Newman’s Centenary!
Miniscope:
– David Fisher – The Stones of Blood – The Androids of Tara – The Creature from the Pit – The Leisure Hive
Radio Free Skaro #575 – Beyond the Valley of the Thals
With new Who slowly ambling towards our eyeballs, the news pace has picked up somewhat, with publicity stills, tantalizing details concerning Ice Warriors, and the release of the 1999 charity special “The Curse of Fatal Death” on Youtube (otherwise known as ‘streaming VHS’)! But this is a mere tease, the frothiest of fripperies, the lightest of garnishes (and so forth, please get on with it) to the reappearance of one Kyle Anderson, Nerdist scribbler and all-around fine fellow, as we complete our commentary of….The Daleks!
Links:
– Ice Warrior episode teasers! – Series 10 publicity stills! – The Pilot gets a New Zealand cinema screening! – Australian Doctor Who panel show debuts after The Pilot! – Chibnall will write the new Doctor’s first words! – Red Nose Day Doctor Who charity auction! – Red Nose Day Doctor Who charity lottery! – The Curse of Fatal Death re-released by the BBC!
Commentary:
– The Daleks! The Mutants! The Dead Planet! – Kyle Anderson!
Radio Free Skaro #574 – Valley of the Thals
It’s time for a visit to The Dead Planet to see some Mutants in “The Daleks” with the Three Who Rule and Doctor Who: The Writers Room podcaster, Nerdist scribe and gentleman bounder Kyle Anderson as a special guest! Thrill to Steven’s knowledge of televisual minutiae, twirl to Kyle’s searing insights, sashay to Chris’s detailed analysis and recoil at the sight of Warren’s brain melting at the (in his sole opinion) grinding tedium of the early Hartnell era! Plus news like the first official Series 10 trailer, but who needs that when you’ve got survivors escaping an ordeal and an ambush, thus expediting a rescue!
Links:
– Series 10 Episode 1 will be called The Pilot! – Series 10 will have a 3-parter in the middle! – Official BBC Series 10 trailer released! – Missy’s reaction to the trailer! – Australian cinema details for the Series 10 Premiere! – Paul Cornell’s Chalk – New Radiophonic Workshop album! – “Directed by Douglas Camfield” by Michael Seely!
Commentary:
– The Daleks! The Mutants! The Dead Planet! – Kyle Anderson!
Radio Free Skaro #573 – Stevie Nicks
No sooner did we joke about Mondasian Cybermen in Series 10 than they magically appear in a publicity shot with one Peter Capaldi! While we’d like to claim prophetic wisdom in this matter, we had no inside knowledge and this was likely a “going out in style” wish from one Mr. Capaldi, and we are all the better for it. P-Cap will also be gracing the small, inconsequential town of Calgary, AB for Calgary Expo at the end of April, to the delight of bouffant enthusiasts across the Canadian prairies! And in other good news, we have two interviews to round out our Gallifrey coverage, one with the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen (plus many others) and Big Finish man about town Nicholas Briggs, and the other with writer, director, actor and Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg! Do we have the right? Of course we do!
Links:
– Peter Capaldi at Calgary Expo! – Series 10 trailer “A Time for Heroes” – Mondasian Cybermen and Rachel Talalay are back in Series 10! – Class episode 1 as part of the Series 10 Premiere cinema experience! – Big Finish Humble Bundle! – Spare Parts on vinyl!
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #572 – Comic Sans
As the weeks tick slowly down to new Doctor Who, we have a short teaser to discuss, with sparks and Capaldi hair and Nardole and Bill! Gallifrey One 2018 tickets go on sale soon, so get your purchasing fingers limbered! The Series 10 premiere will hit theatres in April, and we salute John Hurt’s last turn as the War Doctor in the Big Finish production “Casualties of War”! Finally, we have two interviews from Gallifrey One for you, with novelist, comic book scribe and Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell, as well as Titan Comics brand manager Chris Thompson!
Links:
– Gallifrey One 2018 tickets go on sale April 8 – Series 10 teaser – First five Series 10 episode titles revealed? – US cinemas will get the Series 10 premiere April 17 & 19 – Trailer for Big Finish “Casualties of War”, John Hurt’s last performance as the War Doctor – Disney Time Tom Baker links from 1975 – Missing Who event May 27, ft. Deborah Watling, Peter Purves, Sue Malden, Philip Morris, Graham Strong – Gallifrey One: 28 Days Later
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #571 – Silver Nitrate
Post-Gally blues…or post-Gally buzz? The Three Who Rule were in high spirits this week, energized by a most wonderful gathering of the tribe in Los Angeles. This episode presents two interviews from Gallifrey One, first with TV consultant for the BFI, Dick Fiddy, and second with Red Dwarf and Doctor Who costume designer Howard Burden! Tally ho!
Links:
– Class final BBC One viewing figures – Series 10 Parts 1 & 2 DVD and Blu-Ray – Pertwee Years interview collection – Gallifrey One: 28 Days Later
Interviews:
Radio Free Skaro #570 – Happiness Will Prevail
In our second of two episodes this weekend from Gallifrey One, the Three Who Rule run down all the fascinating sights and sounds they’ve seen this weekend at Gallifrey One, give the inside scoop on what happened to a couple of missing guests from their live show on Friday, and speculate some more about Peter Capaldi’s departure and Chris Chibnall’s arrival! Also, an interview with musician Dominic Glynn, and a missing episodes update from the Restoration Team’s Steve Roberts!
Links:
– Chris Chibnall almost convinced Peter Capaldi to stay – Gallifrey One: 28 Days Later
Radio Free Skaro #569 – Radio Free Skaro: Victorian Gothic Folly
Hooray for Gallifrey! The Three Who Rule are back for their ninth(!) trip to Gallifrey One, the real happiest place on Earth, and for the sixth(!!) year running, it has been their honour to help launch the convention in style with their very own live show. This year, Paul McGann, Philip Hinchcliffe, Roger Murray-Leach, Rachael Stott, and Nick Abadzis were the guests, and a grand time was had by all. Listen in and enjoy!
Guests:
– Paul McGann – Philip Hinchcliffe – Roger Murray-Leach – Nick Abadzis – Rachael Stott
Links: – Gallifrey One: 28 Days Later
Radio Free Skaro #568 – The Shining World of the Seven Systems
Our favorite weekend of the year is here in less than a week, the Whovian celebration known as Gallifrey One! We’ll be there doing our live show at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the main hall with our live show, “Radio Free Skaro: Victorian Gothic Folly,” but in the meantime get comfortable as we break down what we’re looking forward to seeing and doing at the LAX Marriott, and stay tuned next week for shows from the con!
Links:
– Missy promo for Series 10 – Doctor Who Magazine #509 confirms Series 10 writers and directors – Class Ep 5 and 6 final ratings on BBC One – BFI hosting a panel discussion for Series 10 on April 9 – Delia Derbyshire 80th birthday electronic music heritage project – “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” DVD extras – “The Power of the Daleks” DVD extras – Gallifrey One: 28 Days Later
Radio Free Skaro #567 - The Clock Strikes Twelve
Capaldexit! Yes, the Three Who Rule were sideswiped (as was everyone else) by Peter Capaldi’s surprise announcement that he was leaving the role of The Doctor, and after admonishing the UK press for baseless speculation, the RFS crew engaged in frankly hypocritical predictions of their own. That plus stats, Series Ten news and a 70 minute(!) Miniscope about writer/director Terence Dudley round out this episode! Enjoy!
Links:
– Peter Capaldi leaving after Series 10. – Peter Capaldi’s tenure. – Ben Whishaw is the bookie’s favourite for the next Doctor! – Series 10 starts April 15 on BBC One! – Series 11 may start Autumn 2018! – Series 10 starts April 15 on BBC America! – Class premieres April 15 on BBC America! – Series 10 writer list! – Mark Gatiss brings back the Ice Warriors! – Gareth David-Lloyd announced for Gally! – Naoko Mori announed for Gally! – Gallifrey One Schedule! – Class eps 7 & 8 BBC One viewing figures! – Class eps 3 & 4 BBC One final viewing figures! – Big Finish wins BBC Drama award! – Doctor Puppet War Doctor puppet!
Miniscope:
– Terence Dudley! – Meglos! – Four to Doomsday! – Black Orchid! – The King’s Demons! – K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend! – K-9 and Company fan titles!
Radio Free Skaro #566 – Never Cruel Or Cowardly
It is with a heavy heart that we mark the passing of acting legend John Hurt, beloved by Whovians for his portrayal of the War Doctor in “The Day of the Doctor” but with a career spanning the best of film, TV, and the stage. In happier news, we can now announce the guests for our Gallifrey One live show (contained within) and some other notable Gally news, updates and miscellany! We also announce the winner of our Whographica giveaway contest! Plus stats (bleh) and a commentary for the 1978 story “The Ribos Operation”! To me, Sholakh!
Links:
– John Hurt died. – Radio Free Skaro… Live From Gallifrey One 2017! – Gallifrey One guest update and reception info! – Who’s Queer Now? featuring Russell T Davies! – Class BBC One ratings!
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #565 – Warning: Graphic Content
Dollies, Nardole and a reliably batty, 83 years young Tom Baker are the mere froth on the fancy latte of Whographica, an exquisite collection of infographics featuring incredibly nerdy deep dives into the corners and recesses of Doctor Who trivia. We interviewed authors Simon Guerrier, Steve O’Brien and Ben Morris, to find out what went into this expansive and frankly obsessive labour of love. Adjust your rectangular framed glasses, straighten your turtleneck, and enjoy! And listen in to see how you can win a copy of Whographica (courtesy BBC Books) of your very own!
Links:
– Gallifrey One guest update! – Gallifrey One miscellaneous update! – Matt Lucas sticks around for longer! – Class viewing figures for episodes 3 & 4! – Class episodes 1 and 2 appreciated! – Upcoming 5.5″ action figures! – Playmobil pop culture figures! – Happy birthday Tom Baker! – Rodney Bennett died.
Interview:
– Whographica! – Simon Guerrier – Steve O’Brien – Ben Morris
Contest:
Radio Free Skaro #564 – At Long Last, Wendy Padbury
For seemingly every single Doctor Who convention that one or all of the Three Who Rule have ever attended, Wendy Padbury has been there. Standing next to them in lines, walking past them in the hallway, but never, ever a guest on Radio Free Skaro. Until today! Ms. Padbury joins a panel of fine thespians (and Doctor Who companions) Anneke Wills, Deborah Watling, Louise Jameson, and Lisa Greenwood (and all interviewed by our very own Steven) recorded at Chicago TARDIS from this past November!
Links:
– Class Ep 1 and 2 overnight viewing figures on BBC One – Toby Hadoke’s 2016 In Memoriam video
Chicago TARDIS Interview:
– Anneke Wills – Deborah Watling – Wendy Padbury – Louise Jameson – Lisa Greenwood
Radio Free Skaro #563 – Murder By Illusion
And so we enter another fallow period as the Christmas special recedes into the dark recesses of 2016 but new Who has yet to arrive. What to do? How about diving deep into the history of Doctor Who with an interview with behind-the-scenes specialist and Twitter phenomenon @WhoSFX? Yes, you will listen to said interview! You will, or suffer the consequences!
Links:
– Happy birthday William Hartnell! – Class debuts on BBC One tomorrow! – The Return of Doctor Mysterio final BBC One viewing figures! – Power of the Daleks in colour now at the BBC Store!
Interview:
– WhoSFX
Radio Free Skaro #562 – And So We’re Told This Is The Golden Age
Goodbye 2016, and hello new year! And what better way to ring in a new wander around the sun than stats? Well, practically anything, but that’s all we’ve got! All, that is, except for an interview with Big Finish impresario and voice of the Daleks Nick Briggs, recently conducted at LI Who by Warren! Enjoy, or you will be exterminated!
Links:
– Gallifrey One guest update! – The Return of Doctor Mysterio sets BBC America record! – The Return of Doctor Mysterio Appreciation Index – Long Island Doctor Who
Interview:
Radio Free Skaro #561 - Lucy & Grant: Dawn of Justice
Superheroics! Derring-do! Balderdash, mumblesuch and in the middle of it all stands one man, Doctor Mysterio! Yes, after a year of waiting for new Who, the Three Who Rule ruminate over this year’s Xmas special, “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” featuring P.Cap, N.ardole and comic book shenanigans in NYC! And as if that wsn’t enough, there is extensive post-game bleating about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story at the end of the show, featuring spoilers aplenty! So be it, Jedi!
Links:
– The Return of Doctor Mysterio review! – Series 10 Coming Soon Trailer – Mysterio BBC One Viewing Figures – Mysterio DVD/Blu-Ray details – More Fantom alternate commentaries – New Fourth Doctor series announced by Big Finish – New Comic about The Ghost, written by George Mann – Free Comic Book Day details – The Doctor Puppet’s fifth Christmas episode
Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 24
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 23
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 22
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 21
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 19
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Radio Free Skaro #560 – Affirmative, Mistress
It is the week before the Advent of Doctor Mysteriousness, and so the news is a little light as fandom sits in the eye of the hurricane. But there is word of both Toby Whithouse musing on Twitter about his upcoming Series 10 episode, and Leela joining the War Doctor in his audio adventures in the new year! And speaking of Leela, both Louise Jameson and John Leeson are featured this week as Steven interviewed them at the recent Chicago TARDIS convention! Savage Tin Doggerel, ahoy!
Links:
– Tom Baker Christmas message – Toby Whithouse is writing for Series 10 – Class comes to BBC One in January – Doctor Who Magazine 2017 Annual – Chicago TARDIS
Interviews: – Louise Jameson – John Leeson
Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 18
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 17
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 16
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 15
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 14
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 13
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Radio Free Skaro – 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 12
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Radio Free Skaro #559 - Here's One We Made Earlier
It’s beginning to look a lot like Mysterio, as the Xmas Special Hype Machine revs up its engines and heads straight for our hearts while we eagerly anticipate the first new Doctor Who gracing our eyeballs in close to a year. Superheroics dominate the news, but we also have an interview with Classic Who companions Peter Purves and Anneke Wills from Chicago TARDIS! And do keep listening to our daily Advent Fluid Links, which get more Christmas-y by the day!
Links:
– New trailer for “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” – “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” in Danish cinemas December 26 and 28 – “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” on Region 1 Blu-ray and DVD on February 21 – “The Power of the Daleks” Region 1 DVD artwork and extras – Big Finish announces Doctor Who main range releases for 2017 – Peter Capaldi shooting script up for auction – Actor Johnny Dennis has died – Chicago TARDIS
Interviews: – Peter Purves – Anneke Wills
Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 11
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 10
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 9
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 8
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 7
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 6
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Radio Free Skaro #558 – Class is Dismissed
Class has ended! And with the conclusion of Patrick Ness’s adventure in YA Doctor Who-ness, Warren and Steven (Chris has been felled by The Swarm this week) take a look at the finale and the series in total, as well as examining new Big Finish releases, Xmas special related news, and more! We also have an interview with author, playwright, writer of “Dalek”, and co-writer of the newly released Running Through Corridoers one Robert Shearman, from Chicago TARDIS! Listen, if you dare!
NOTE: our discussion of Episode 8 of Class occurs from 22:10-34:15.
Links:
– Class episode 8, “The Lost” – The Return of Doctor Mysterio BBC One Broadcast time! – BBC Christmas 2016 trailer. – Wayne Yip is directing Doctor Who series 10! – Daniel Nettheim directing Doctor Who series 10! – Heaven Sent/Hell Bent screening in Denver with Rachel Talalay – Denver screening in support of the ACLU – New Zealand cinema screening of The Return of Doctor Mysterio – December Big Finish releases. – Ninth Doctor figure from Big Chief now available. – Coventry road to be named after Delia Derbyshire. – Chicago TARDIS
Interviews: – Robert Shearman
Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 4
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 3
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 2
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Radio Free Skaro - 2016 Advent Calendar, Day 1
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Radio Free Skaro #557 - Bananas Are Good
It’s Chicago TARDIS time, which means interviews with various Doctor Who personages of note, in this case one Michelle Gomez, aka Missy, aka the Master, aka a wonderfully bananas actress from the Land of Kilts who is soon to be filming her appearance in Series 10! Plus a review of the penultimate episode of Class, news of Rona Munro (and the possibility of Missy sidling into her episode) and more! Well, not much more, to be honest Just listen, you poltroons!
Links:
– Class episode 7, “The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did” – The Return of Doctor Mysterio comes to Canadian cinemas – The Return of Doctor Mysterio Australian broadcast details – Ken Grieve died – Chicago TARDIS
Interviews: – Michelle Gomez
Radio Free Skaro #556 – Reanimation of the Daleks
The Daleks return to North America this week from the dustbins of history and into your iTunes/BBC America/other in the form of “The Power of the Daleks” in its reanimated glory. And the Three Who Rule are on the case, in the form of interviews with both soundsmith extraordinaire Mark Ayres and Whostorian Toby Hadoke about the making of the animated episodes, as well as the upcoming DVD extras! We also have our usual review of Class, a look at new footgage from “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” and Children In Need, a bloggy Easter Egg from Jamie Mathieson, and more!
NOTE: our discussion of Episode 6 of Class occurs from 19:10-34:00.
Links:
– Class episode 6, “Detained” – Return of Doctor Mysterio clip on Children In Need – Pudsey goes missing…featuring The Doctor! – US cinemas get The Return of Doctor Mysterio – Jamie Mathieson and Rona Munro are writing for Series 10 – Jamie Mathieson talks about writing for Series 10 – Target book guide, “Based on the Popular Television Serial” – The Power of the Daleks
Interviews: – Mark Ayres – Toby Hadoke
Radio Free Skaro #555 - Imurjinsee Egsit
Warren is in Long Island, NY this week, enjoying the fourth iteration of the east coast nerd gathering known as LI Who, and has a report from the trenches for you dear listeners. Thanks to schedules, wifi, and probably rock monsters, Warren couldn’t watch Class in time for the show, but Steven and Chris are on the case to give you their take on Episode 5 of the Doctor Who spinoff. However, Warren is present for the commentary for the sentimental favourite (but not altogether good) Season 15 story “The Invisible Enemy”, recorded in the blissful, innocent time of October 2016. Remember that time? Remember…?
Links:
– Class Episode 5, “Brave-ish Heart” – Power of the Daleks iTunes preorder – Doctor Who Experience to close in 2017 – The Pirate Planet novelized by James Goss – Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner, from Miwk Publishing – First look at Doctor Who Mr. Men – Kandles fan art by Robbie Bonham – Kandles fan art by Mike Rieger – Long Island Doctor Who
Commentary:
Radio Free Skaro #554 – Kandles and Kompany
Class, er, classed up the joint this week, but the big news in Doctor Who was the return of “The Power of the Daleks”, the long lost and newly animated story released in the UK this week. Power will wander around the world later in the month and will also eventually be available in colour(!), if kicking puppies and hating life generally is your thing. All this and more of your questions on…Fluid Links!
Links:
– Class, Episode 4 “Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart” – Class has strong premiere on Space in Canada – “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” to be previewed on Children in Need on November 18 – “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” in US cinemas December 27 and 29; tickets available November 18 – “The Power of the Daleks” – where and when to watch around the world – 50 years since Patrick Troughton – Stuart Manning designed the UK steelbook Power artwork – “The Power of the Daleks” previewed on Twitter – BBC Newsnight report on missing archive television – New Statesman article about missing episodes – November releases from Big Finish – Indiegogo for David J Howe’s Doctor Who merchandise museum – Andrew Skilleter Doctor Who art calendar
Radio Free Skaro #553 - Dr. Who and the Computers
Daleks! Cybermen! And Class! Yes, We’ve got news of “The Power of the Daleks”, which will make it to Canadian cinemas later than everywhere else (as is right and proper, or at least expected), and our (spoiler time stamped) review of Class Episode 3, “Nightvisiting”! But the main event is a look at the legacy of Cybermen creators Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis with Blue Box Podcast host J.R. Southall in…the Miniscope!
Links:
– Class, Episode 3 “Nightvisiting” – Three Class novels have been released – Doctor Who Christmas Special Preview from BBC America – 50th anniversary of the first regeneration in Doctor Who – “The Power of the Daleks” DVD artwork & extras – “The Power of the Daleks” coming to Canadian cinemas on November 30 – “The Power of the Daleks” coming to Australian Cinemas on November 12 – Doctor Who Comics Humble Bundle from Titan Comics – Original Doctor Who Hardcover Books Being Reprinted – Jon Pertwee Gets A Blue Plaque
Miniscope:
Guest:
Radio Free Skaro #552 - Class Is In Session
At long last, Class is here! Yes, two episodes of the newest spin-off of Doctor Who have landed (in the UK and Canada) and the Three Who Rule have their thoughts to share with you…unless you wish not to hear them, being in the United States! We’ve conveniently put bridging music before and after our review, and put the time of said review in the show notes, for you, our American listeners (who don’t download tv shows like fiendish criminal vandals). Besides that, we also have action dolly news, confirmation of Missy in Series 10 of Doctor Who, a discussion by three middle-aged nerds about the viewing habits of millennials, and more!
NOTE: our discussion of Episodes 1 and 2 of Class occur from 12:30-46:40.
Links:
– Class…Episode 1! – Class…Episode 2! – Doctor Who…On InnerSPACE! – Steven Moffat Confirms…Missy Is Back! – Charlie Brooker…Was Approached To Write Doctor Who! – Power of the Daleks…Behind The Scenes! – 13 Doctors…Action Dolly Set! – Millennial…TV Viewing Habits! – Class cast and Patrick Ness…At MCM London Comic Con! – Gallifrey One…Guest Update! – Steve Dillon…Died.
Radio Free Skaro #551 - Hungry Like The Wolves
Chip, of the currently on hiatus Two-Minute Time Lord, current Whovian gadabout, and man about town rejoins Two of the Three Who Rule (Chris is still punching his liver with an assortment of British liquids) for a brief sojourn through a paltry news list this week! Dribbles of info about Class (which premieres October 22 in various parts of the Commonwealth)...and not much else. But wait! Chris travels from the past to the present to comment on the past (confused? We are) as RFS is plagued by "The Curse...of Fenric"! Links:
– Class Ep 1 and 2 available on BBC Three at 10am on October 22 – Class: everything you need to know about the Doctor Who spin-off – Doctor Who marathon on Space on October 22 leading up to Class premiere – “The Power of the Daleks” in theatres in US on November 14 – 10th anniversary Torchwood story from Big Finish – Doctor Who “Mr. Men” books coming Spring 2017
With:
Radio Free Skaro #550 - Make America Day-and-Date Again
With New York Comic-Con upon us, the Doctor Who news is (at last) coming fast and furious with two(!) trailers for Class out in the wild and a panel featuring Steven Moffat, Peter Capaldi, Matt Lucas, Brian Minchin and new companion Pearl Mackie at the con teasing what's in store for the Christmas special and beyond! And with Chris off in the UK foraging for beer and scotch eggs, it was up to friend of the show Chip Sudderth to ably assume the third chair to cogitate upon matters Who with the Two Who Rule. We also have a report from Kim and Sage of Head Over Feels direct from NYCC! It's a cornucopia of news on this, the most Canadian of Thanksgivings.
Links:
– Doctor Who returns in “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” – Full NYCC Doctor Who on BBC America Panel – Classic series Doctor Who writer to write for Series 10 – Doctor Who Facebook Live chat on Space – Full NYCC Class panel – New Class trailer #1 – New Class trailer #2 – Interview with new Doctor Who script editor Nick Lambon – The Guardian interview with Pearl Mackie – Long Island Doctor Who updates – Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas book, including free download – Digital version of Doctor Who pinball game released – Doctor Who wins Welsh BAFTA for Special and Visual Effects – Peter Capaldi nominated for Scottish BAFTA
With:
– Kim and Sage from Head Over Feels – Chip from Two-Minute Time Lord
Radio Free Skaro #549 - Doctor Spats
The spinoff Class continues to dominate discussion amongst the Doctor Who intelligentsia, with a panel incoming this week at NYCC and controversy raging about the late arrival of said spin-off in the United States of America. And for a second week running (to cover for technical SNAFUs last week at Edmonton Expo) we have another edition of Fluid Links! Listen, and feel both artron and rift energy surge through you in a fit of discontinuity! Links:
– Class airs in Australia on ABC2 starting October 24 – Class – Behind The Scenes – Doctor Who panels streaming at NYCC – Amazon Video streaming Doctor Who panel on October 7 – DWAS Polarity Day Celebrates The Third Doctor on October 23
Radio Free Skaro #548 - Absinthe and a Dead Bird
The Three Who Rule are at conterminous space coordinates this week, and despite the ever-present danger of the Blinovich Limitation Effect (not to mention cooties, con crud, and wayward glitter), they were able to record this episode "live" at Edmonton Expo! Besides controversy embroiling Class's premiere next month in the UK and Canada and next year (!) in the USA, they were also able to tackle some of your Fluid Links, all while surrounded by cosplayers, fans, furries, and the ever present smell of onions.
Links:
– Class premieres October 22 on BBC Three; Peter Capaldi appears in Episode 1 – Class premieres October 22 on Space – Class premieres Spring 2017 on BBC America – 2016 Doctor Who Christmas special enters production – Writing Doctor Who with Steven Moffat from BBC Writers Room – BFI Power of the Daleks screening details – Silva Screen re-release of 1983 Radiophonic Workshop album – “Anoraks” Kickstarter – Andrew Smith Just Giving page – Radio Free Skaro at Edmonton Expo!
Radio Free Skaro #547 - Seville Unrest
Class fever is building, as evidenced by a fan-made trailer and bits and pieces of official ephemera dribbling out of the BBC about the upcoming Doctor Who spinoff. We've also got news of a slap-fight between Steven Moffat and John Barrowman, a hipster vinyl Big Finish release, and Steven's appearance on Edmonton college station CJSR, where he helped break down the different shooting styles of classic and current Who! Plus, we have the conclusion of our commentary for that cannibalistic soap opera known as..."The Two Doctors!" Links:
– Fan-made…Class Trailer! – Class…Does Social Media! – Barrowman and Moffat…Have A Tiff! – Chimes of Midnight…On Vinyl! – Wallace Shawn…At Edmonton Expo! – All That Matters…With Steven As Guest!
Commentary: – The Two Doctors…Episode 3!
Radio Free Skaro #546 - Hipsters of the Quawncing Grig
This week, we begin the first of a two-part commentary for "The Two Doctors", a Robert Holmes romp with Two, Six, hipster cannibals, tall Sontarans, and Elton John as a disco scientist. Enticing! But before the main event, the Three Who Rule reflect on the 50th anniversaries of both Star Trek and The Prisoner, two shows that along side Doctor Who were seminal viewing experiences for their younger selves. Dive into the past with us, won't you?
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Radio Free Skaro #545 - The Mark of the Ayres
A chance meeting with a newly married couple blessed by one Mr. Peter Capaldi, dribs and drabs of Class news, and….a Miniscope! Musical scientist Mark Ayres is the subject of keen-eyed observations from the Three Who Rule, only one of which (Steven) have any real musical expertise but the bulk of the Miniscope is an interview with said Mr. Ayres, a scholar and gentleman tunesmith of the highest renown. Open your ears and enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #544 - The Dog Days of August
New York Comic Con happens in October, with a strong presence from both Doctor Who and Class. But what if you a) are impatient and b) live not on the eastern seaboard of the United States but the East Midlands in the UK? Well, if you can wait until September 3 you can attend Whooverville 8 in Derby, and we have convention organizer and all-around gentleman Steve Hatcher on this week to tell us a little more about this fan-centric celebration of all things Doctor Who. Plus news (such as it is), and the Doctor Who Magazine Series 9 readers poll results! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #543 - Two One Contact (Is The Answer)
Rumours, mumblesuch and nonsense dominated the news week, from Power of the Daleks teases that weren’t to the chance (slim to in actual fact…none) that Doctor Who would shoot soon in Warren’s own homestead of Vancouver. All poppycock! But you can count on the veracity and verisimilitude of the Three Who Rule as they tackle another exciting set of…Fluid Links!
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Radio Free Skaro #542 - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
10 years! That’s a whole lot of talking by three jaunty Canadians about a British television program of little repute by the name of Professor Whom. But after a smattering of news, the Three Who Rule move quickly on to an extended series of interviews with the fine people with whom we’ve shared our podcasting adventures with, including: Ken Deep of Podshock fame, Deborah Stanish, Katrina Griffiths and Erika Ensign of Verity!, Chip Sudderth of the Two Minute Time Lord, and Simon Harries, John Williams and Neil Perryman of Tachyon TV! Phew! Here’s to ten more years of meandering drivel from Canadian interlopers who have no right to talk of Britain’s televisual crown jewel!
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Radio Free Skaro #541 - The Tholian Web
It’s a bowl of mixed treats in the news list, from Peter Capaldi’s third anniversary to Class showrunner Patrick Ness being offered a chance to write for proper Doctor Who. Mysterious! Also Doctor Who Legacy, the TV Movie on Blu-Ray (sorta kinda), and a report from Warren who is attending Anglicon in Seattle. All this and the conclusion of our commentary for "The Web of Fear"! You will bow to the will of the Great Intelligence…or be destroyed! And make sure to tune in next week for our tenth anniversary special, where we reflect on anything other than ourselves! O Canada!
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Radio Free Skaro #540 - The Velvet Web
The Doctor Who news this week consists of action dollies, laments for the (on hiatus) Bookshelf Doctors, and not much else. But the Three Who Rule used their powers of bloviation to ponder, surmise, and otherwise cogitate for longer than was strictly necessary before getting to this week's highlight, Part the First of our commentary for the 1968 story "The Web of Fear". As an extra bonus, the commentary for the (still missing) Episode 3 features archive audio from missing episodes hunter Phil Morris!
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Radio Free Skaro #539 - Quark's Bar
With San Diego Comic-Con in full swing as of this recording, there’s…well, news of a sort at any rate. David Tennant will appear in Family Guy as the Tenth Doctor (yay?), various doodads and cards are available at SDCC (getting warmer) and non-Who silliness like a new Star Trek TV series trailer (yay!) along with Dirk Gently (yaaaaa…I dunno.) But why concentrate on the present when you can dive decades into the past with director Morris Barry in…the Miniscope!
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Radio Free Skaro #538 - Time Crimes
The news drought continues, but that doesn’t stop us from coming up with spurious, quasi-Doctor Who related detective shows, Pigbin Josh Christmas adventures and quite possibly the worst analysis of the UK’s political climate since Donald Trump visited a golf course. All this and Fluid Links, chums! The mind reels!
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Radio Free Skaro #537 - A Towering Intelligence
San Diego Comic-Con looms like a monolith on the very edge of our collective nerd conscience, and though Doctor Who officially will not be at this year’s SDCC, Titan Comics will be holding a panel and slaking the fires of word-balloon fueled fever! Add to that a contest for signed copies of issues #500 and #501 of Doctor Who Magazine, and Warren’s live-tweeting adventure chronicling the Director’s Guild of Canada with Rachel Talalay and Amanda Tapping (Storify link in the show notes) and you’ve got yourself a podcas…..but wait! There’s also a commentary on the classic series adventure "The Time Warrior" for you to enjoy! Oh yes, and three old men trying to talk about Pokemon and failing utterly. Shame them, for they deserve it.
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Radio Free Skaro #536 - No Complications
Doctor Who Comics Day, Big Finish, and Steven Moffat’s agonies over Series 7 top the news this week, as does the ascent of Piers Wenger to Grand Poobah of Commissioning of Things of a Dramatic Nature for the BBC. But what you really want to know about is the work of Classic Series director Paul Bernard, who helmed "Day of the Daleks", "The Time Monster" and "Frontier In Space" and we have an examination of his work…in the Miniscope!
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Radio Free Skaro #535 - Douglas, King of Scots
Gallifrey One guests! A radiant Pearl Mackie sharing her first day on set for Series 10! Classic Who on PBS, and this very podcast being highlighted by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Arts blog! All mere preamble to the commentary for “The Husbands of River Song,” with special guest Douglas Mackinnon, the director of said story! Learn about all the secrets of filming the 2015 Christmas Special! You will enjoy or die!
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Radio Free Skaro #534 - To The End Of The Universe
For a Year With No Doctor Who, this week brought a surfeit of news, including tales of actors and writers headed for Series 10 (which begins filming this week!), news about Class, Doctor Who being included on the initial Emmy nomination list for the first time ever, and more! The mind veritably reels at this cornucopia of informational entertainments. But let’s be honest, you’re here for even more Rachel Talalay, and RFS delivers, as the acclaimed director joins us for the second of her two-part commentary, this one for "Hell Bent"!
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Radio Free Skaro #533 - The First Second of Eternity
Let’s just take it as read that there was no news this week of any consequence and move right to the main event. Director Rachel Talalay joins Steven and Warren this week for a commentary on "Heaven Sent", the penultimate episode of this series of Doctor Who and, let’s be honest, one of the best episodes of the show ever to be produced, old or new. And next week she’s back with Hell Bent with Steven and Chris! But why are you reading this? Listen and enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #532 - Roll D84 For Initiative
There’s very little news this week, as per usual, and what we do know comes from cons across the land, including Michelle Gomez talking about her future on the show at Fan Expo Dallas, and where Peter Capaldi also proved (once again) his fan bona fides with an amazing imitation of a scene from "Day of the Daleks"! But vast these mere baubles of information aside and drink in the thoughts of the Three Who Rule as they answer your questions with the return of….Fluid Links!
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Radio Free Skaro - A Day in the Life of Big Finish
Presenting a standalone episode featuring our documentary "A Day in the Life of Big Finish", surrounding the production of the Big Finish story "Vampire of the Mind". Featured in the documentary: Colin Baker, Kate Kennedy, Alex MacQueen, Jamie Anderson, Ian Atkins, and Nicholas Briggs.
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Radio Free Skaro #531 - A Chib Off The Old Block
It's the return of the Miniscope! The segment wherein the Three Who Rule discuss the contributions of notable creator folk throughout the history of Doctor Who, and to welcome back this popular segment, we talk about showrunner-designate Chris Chibnall's prior writing efforts in Doctor Who. Also, our friend Chip from the Two-Minute Time Lord drops by for the news, which is filled with talk about issue 500 of the venerable Doctor Who Magazine, including an excellent interview with current showrunner Steven Moffat. Next week: the return of Fluid Links!
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Radio Free Skaro #530 - Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Comics, commentaries, audio adventures (both new and rumoured) and a celebration of Doctor Who’s many female scientists make for a busier newslist than usual in this, The Year With No Doctor Who, and this week you even get bonus tut-tutting about Target book arrangements and criminal dips to black on CraveTV’s streaming editions of the programme. A summons to the high court of the League of Fandom is in the maoi and should be arriving at their offices soon, fear not. And if that made-up legal nonsense doesn’t engage you, how about a commentary for “Face the Raven” with Deb Stanish of Verity! fame and Alyssa of Whovian Feminism?
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Radio Free Skaro #529 - Enter Sandman
Hotelmageddon! The annual minute-or-less scramble for rooms at the LAX Marriott for Gallifrey One was once again a frenzied affair, and the Three Who Rule have the scars to prove it. But they also have news, such as new Big Finish War Doctor stories, including one by friend of the show Andrew Smith, and a new Twelfth Doctor sonic on the way to set your hearts (both of them) aflame! But wait! There’s also a commentary for Sleep No More, featuring Kathleen Schowalter! YOU WILL LISTEN!
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Radio Free Skaro #528 - Sgt. Pepper Taught The Band To Play
As The Year With No Doctor Who drags on, new cracks in spacetime emerge, amongst them a back-and-forth war between the BBC and its enemies in government and without, and the surprising news that Chris Chibnall might adopt the (predominantly) American model of a writer's room for his tenure as showrunner for Doctor Who. Intriguing! And while thinking about the future, why not reflect on the past? Specifically, ponder upon the legacy of the twentieth anniversary of the TV Movie, with a panel recorded at LI Who featuring Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Matthew Jacobs, and Gary Russell! And as if that isn't enough, we have an interview with Yee Jee Tso about "Time and Spaces," his photo book contrasting the Vancouver shooting locations of the movie in 1996 and today!
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Radio Free Skaro #527 - The One With Big Ron
After a banner week of...well, a new companion announcement and accompanying short, which counts for a lot in this, The Year of No Doctor Who, we're back to an absolutely desolate news list-ette with barely anything of consequence beyond an art show about Target Books. Which is admittedly pretty cool! And we've also put the Series 9 commentaries on the back burner, but only temporarily, because this week we have an interview with Peter Harness, writer of "The Zygon Invasion" and "The Zygon Inversion", and all around classy fella to boot! Listen and learn (about Zygons)!
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Radio Free Skaro #526 - The Twin Dilemma
New Doctor Who! A whole two minutes of it, featuring just-announced new companion Pearl Mackie, AKA Bill, AKA AsBill (according to some Wags of Fandom.) We’ll dive into what the Three Who Rule think of the Doctor’s new best friend given the tiniest of morsels with which to analyze her origins and attitudes, as well as swim deeply into the fetid waters of stats, from whose rotten grip no-one escapes unscathed. Also comics, Target books, confusing DVD releases, and a commentary for "The Zygon Inversion" with The Doctor Who Fan Show’s Christel Dee!
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Radio Free Skaro #525 - The Parent Trap
Gallifrey! Yes, the yearly ticket scramble and subsequent endorphin rush that is the Gallifrey One pass-purchasing passel of pugilism has once again come and gone, with nearly 3300 tickets sold. But that’s nearly a year away, and in present Earth time there is a Torchwood comic and, unfortunately, the death of Roj Blake himself, Gareth Thomas. And! We have a commentary for "The Zygon Invasion, with Uncanny Magazine editor and Verity podcaster Lynne M. Thomas!
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Radio Free Skaro #524 - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Warm up those #school related hashtags and get your fanfic pencils sharpened, because while this may be the Year Of No Doctor Who, there?s movement afoot with Patrick Ness?s Who spinoff, Class, which just announced its cast! And while not quite Doctor Who, it?s still exciting that Rachel Talalay has announced she?ll be directing an episode of Sherlock! Huzzah! Meanwhile, we?ve got a commentary on ?The Woman Who Lived? with editor, writer and all around lovely person Amal El-Mohtar!
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Radio Free Skaro #523 - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
Japes, buffoonery and falsehoods dominate the news this week, with beloved entertainer and Deadite murderer Bruce Campbell claiming he’ll be the next Doctor..all in service of April Fool’s Day. What a card! And bless him for trying because there’s almost nothing else happening as the Year of No Who limps along. However, we at RFS are doing our part to fill the gap with our Series 9 commentaries, including this week’s look at “The Girl Who Died” with Alyssa from Whovian Feminism!
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Radio Free Skaro #522 - Far Beyond The Stars
Streaming! Guinness World Records! Novels! LEGO Dimensions! And treacly articles about Steven and Erika’s trans-national romance! There’s actual news this week, which is a minor miracle. But more importantly, our Series 9 commentaries continue as librarian, educator and all around good egg Joy Piedmont joins the Three Who Rule to discuss…”Before The Flood!” Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #521 - Near Beyond The Moon
With literally no news whatsoever this week in the world of Doctor Who, our attention wanders to gatherings of the nerd tribes, specifically this weekend at (Re)generation Who in Maryland....and Peter Capaldi making an appearance at La Mole Comic Con in Mexico! Doctor Who (aka "Doctor Misterio" in Mexico) is so popular he was mobbed at the airport by adoring fans..as is only right and proper. And we continue our Series 9 commentaries with Alisa Stern of Doctor Puppet (known in Mexico as "Doctor Marioneta") as we dive...Under The Lake!
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Radio Free Skaro #520 - All Norms Are Our Enemies
Intrigue abounds this week as the BBC ask Capaldi to stay on past the Reign of Moffatt, Sir Peter (not actually a Sir) drops hints about a new companion, calls for more diversity AND draws his predecessors. What a guy! But wait, there’s also a commentary about The Witch’s Familiar, with Hockey Feels co-host and friend of the show Rachel Donner! Go Local Sports Team!
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Radio Free Skaro #519 - The Creeds of Cowards
Big Finish dominates the news this week, with old and new companions and Doctors flitting about throughout the audio spectrum like flitty things that flit. But the main event is our the start of our Series 9 commentaries, beginning with special guest Una McCormack as we tackle "The Magician's Apprentice"!
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Radio Free Skaro #518 - Abbot & Costello
Streaming is the new stats! By which we mean there’s a lot of discussion this week of strange shifts in where and when one can watch Doctor Who, with Canadians having to turn to CraveTV (or the Space Channel), Americans confused as to if Doctor Who will be on Amazon Prime or not, and general chaos reigning supreme. So really, not like stats at all, which are rock-solid numbers indicating a result. But lo, we also have an interview with James Cooray Smith, the author of the Obverse Books Black Archive tome on the 1966 Doctor Who story, The Massacre, out very soon! Listen…and learn!
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Radio Free Skaro #517 - Quel Dommage
It’s the post-Gally period, which means lots of pent-up news of middling interest, debates about terrible video games of yesteryear, silly spoofs and condescension towards Britain’s national treasures. But the treat of the week is a previously unaired interview with one Russell T. Davies from 2011, courtesy of writer and interviewer Jeffrey Berman. Jeffrey hosted a show seen locally in Los Angeles where he interviewed notable writers about their work and writing process. The first season aired in 2008, but while interviews were conducted in 2011 (including RTD) they have never been heard…until now! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #516 - Comparisons Are Odious
Gallifrey One! Two-thirds of the way through the convention, the Three Who Rule talk about their experiences so far, reminisce about the live show from Friday, and reveal some of the details of the "Gallifrey One is Required" video that featured during that show (The movie will be on the podcast feed on Monday, so if you want to avoid any chatter about that, skip to the 11:00 mark!). Also, Steven talks to Christel Dee of The Doctor Who Fan Show and Kim and Sage from Head Over Feels about their experiences at Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #515 - Gallifrey One Is Required
It's Gallifrey One time! And for the fifth straight year, Radio Free Skaro was proud as punch to open the convention with a live stage show! Revel in the tales of "The Five(ish) Doctors" with Peter Davison! Be enthralled with the writing process with Sarah Dollard and Jamie Mathieson! Hear the secrets of casting with casting director Andy Pryor! Listen as Julian Glover recounts tales of working with Steven Spielberg! And experience the quintessence of eccentricity that is Patricia Quinn! And stay check out the feed on Monday to see the special video that played before the live show!
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Radio Free Skaro #514 - Station to Station 27
Gallifrey One! Whether its your first time at the world’s biggest and best fan-run Doctor Who convention, or you’re an old hand at ribbons, Lobbycon, and the occasional panel, there’s something for everyone from February 12-14 at the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles. We’ll be kicking off the con with our annual live show on Friday, but we also did our level best this episode to give advice and recommendations so that you’ll have a fun time amongst your fellow Whovians. We’re not perfect, so be sure to check gallifreyone.com for all the info you’ll need!
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Radio Free Skaro #513 - A Day In The Life Of Big Finish
Is it true? Is Doctor Who leaving Netflix and Hulu in the US? It certainly appears that way, and the Three Who Rule range from perturbed to sanguine at this development, tempered with speculation on a possible BBC streaming service. Plus there’s news of dolls, coloring books, poorly considered song choices by future showrunners, and a full length documentary by Steven from the heart of Big Finish’s HQ in deepest London. What mysteries do these auditory magicians hold in their secret lair! Listen…and learn!
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Radio Free Skaro #512 - The New World Order
The Doctor Who world was rocked this week by the news that Steven Moffat will be stepping down as showrunner, to be replaced by Chris Chibnall, showrunner of Broadchurch and writer of Torchwood, Life on Mars and yes, Doctor Who fame. What did the Three Who Rule think of this seismic shift, not to mention the fact that there won’t be any new Who until Christmas of this year? More to the point, what are their views on digitizing Doctor Who pinball? Never let it be said we don’t focus on the important issues here at RFS. Just in case baseless speculation isn’t your thing, we also have an interview with Katy Manning, recorded at LI Who and presented here for your listening pleasure.
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Radio Free Skaro #511 - Ground Control to Major Tom
For almost as long as Doctor Who has been around, there have been excited scribes chronicling its triumphs, tragedies, terrors and the finer points of Terileptil husbandry. Chief amongst these chroniclers of Time Lord lore has been Doctor Who Magazine, currently under the expert tutelage of gentleman editor Tom Spilsbury, our interview subject for this week’s episode. We also have a mere sprinkling of news, most of it Big Finish related! We also pay tribute to a couple of titans we lost this past week in David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Listen…if you dare!
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Radio Free Skaro #510 - The Fateful Eight
This week on Radio Free Skaro, the meat of the matter is an interview in two parts with the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann, the first of which was held at LI Who and the second at Chicago TARDIS! Timey-wimey, and indeed locationy…waitony. Yeah. Also, stats! Yes, the news this week consists of the last gasp of statistical data as we parse the viewing numbers for “The Husbands of River Song,” along with dollops of merchandising and other dribs and drabs of newsy bits and pieces.
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Radio Free Skaro #509 - Petronella Candle
Stats! A nightmare scenario for Warren, and a garden of numbered delights for Steven and Chris, but either way paltry material for the post-series 9, pre-Gally news list. However, this week we have an interview with Petronella Osgood herself, Ingrid Oliver, recorded recently at Chicago TARDIS! Straighten your question mark collars, sit up straight, and enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #508 - Code Name Damsel
It’s Christmas! And in finest non-denominational fashion, the Three Who Rule are celebrating with not only plain red cups from noted purveyors of paganism Starbucks but also have seen “The Husbands of River Song” and have opinions on said…husbandry! Plus just a smidgen of news for you to consume along with the turkey, Tofurkey and other holiday meal staples you and your hold near and dear. And stay tuned to the end as Steven, Warren, and Chris talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Spoilers!
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Radio Free Skaro Patreon Special #3: Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Commentary
Yes, beloved Patreon subscribers, it's time for a holiday treat(?) as we unleash the commentary to the second of two Dalek films made in the 1960s, 1966's "Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D." onto an unsuspecting internet! Thrill to the adventures of Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, and most importantly, insouciant man of mystery Philip Madoc as they battle the diabolical pepperpots from Skaro in glorious color! Watch as Robomen engage in all manner of automated hijinks! Swoon as Daleks are trashed hither and yon! Drink, yell and be merry! Happy holidays!
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Radio Free Skaro #507 - Slates and Sliders
It was a slow week for news, and the Three Who Rule thought they were in comfortable and familiar territory by recording a tiny news list on a Thursday...only to be scooped by Gallifrey One guest announcements the next morning! While you won't hear about Michelle Gomez or Ingrid Oliver's appearance-to-be at the LAX Marriott this February, you will here an epic-length interview with their occasional boss, director Rachel Talalay! Warren sat down with her for the better part of an hour in Vancouver and got the goods on Heaven Sent, Hell Bent and what's next for the film and tv impresario!
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Radio Free Skaro #506 - A River Runs Through It
It's the first week of post Doctor Who depression, but the Three Who Rule are soldiering on and giving you stats, comic book news, somewhat confused explanations of role playing games and...and interview with Alex Kingston, from the stage of Chicago TARDIS to your ears. Your cat ears. Don't worry, it'll make sense once you listen to the interview. Really.
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Radio Free Skaro #505 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Series 9 is over….and what a way to go! Time Lords, Clara, Me, hybrids, mythology, mystery and a certain retro time machine make for some delicious Feels Gumbo on this week’s Radio Free Skaro. From Rachel Talalay’s fine direction to subtle performances from both P-Cap and J-Co and everything in between, this episode had it all, and the Three Who Rule dive deep into “Hell Bent” for you, dear listener. Also discussed is the upcoming "The Husbands of River Song", and the new line of Doctor Who inspired fashions from Hot Topic!
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Radio Free Skaro #504 - A Bird In The Hand
The penultimate episode of Series 9, "Heaven Sent" has arrived, and it’s a surreal, cerebral acting triumph for one Peter Capaldi, an expertly crafted bit of storytelling from showrunner Steven Moffat and director Rachel Talalay, and a dazzling artistic achievement from editor Will Oswald and musician Murray Gold. It’s also a lead in to….well, you’ll just have to listen to have us (ever so lightly) spoil the upcoming events past “Heaven Sent” and into “Hell Bent.” Plus stats, rumination on the future of television, allusions to the Prisoner, talk of Tom Baker’s cabbage fetish, and more!
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Radio Free Skaro #503 - Let Me Be Brave
And so we come to the end of Clara Oswald, one of the most consequential companions in the history of Doctor Who and the focus of “Face The Raven,” the third to last story in Series 9. What did the Three Who Rule think of Clara’s departure, writer Sarah Dollard’s debut, and the return of Rigsy? And, as the Three catch up on various news items of the past couple weeks, what of stats, comics, DVDs and other frip-frap? Next week, Steven calls in from Chicago TARDIS and we look at “Heaven Sent,” the Capaldi one-hander leading into the Series 9 finale. Woot!
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Radio Free Skaro #502 - Live From New York
Goodbye England, and hello New York! Long Island, to be precise, the home of Long Island Who and the setting of this episode of Radio Free Skaro. Steven, Warren, and Chris took in “Sleep No More,” Mark Gattis’s found footage exploration of sleep deprivation and eye gunk, and then leapt to the stage in front of a live audience to give ill informed opinions and generally ponce about! (Note: there is a slight buzz for the first six minutes of the recording, but it disappears after that.)
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Radio Free Skaro #501 - Osgood As It Gets
Warren, Steven and Erika are winding down their UK journey, but they’re still wandering around London, Derby, Cardiff and elsewhere with stunned looks in their eyes and swelling love for Albion in their hearts. Meanwhile, "The Zygon Inversion" has graced our screens, and the Three Who Rule have some things to say about it, and the much talked about performance of one Peter Capaldi! Plus news, and an interview with current Doctor Who production designer Michael Pickwoad! Next week, Long Island Who, live (ish) from NYC (ish)!
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Radio Free Skaro #500 - Hither and Thither
THIS…IS…ENGLAND! At least it is for Steven, Warren, and Erika, who with the help of the lovely Simon Harries are currently wandering around Albion, fighting dinosaurs, ATMOS, Autons and jet lag as they drool like wide-eyed schoolchildren at famous sights and the drearily commonplace. But first, Chris joins Warren and Steven live from the colonies to review “The Zygon Invasion,” the first of a two-part sucker-punch starring everyone’s favorite phallic shapeshifters. All this and dollies, Tate and Tennant in audio form and more! Next week, more adventures in England, Wales and parts in between!
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Radio Free Skaro #499 - Knightmare On Elm Street
The Doctor reunites with Ashildr/Me…but is she a friend of an enemy? More to the point, was "The Woman Who Lived" better or worse than the episode that preceded it, “The Girl Who Died?” Also, is it possible to contain the sheer amount of squee generated when Sir John Hurt was announced as a guest at Gallifrey One? Perhaps the antidote (or “anti-squee”, if you will) is an upcoming K-9 film…co-starring Omega? The mind reels! Anyway, listen on, and look out, England, Steven and Warren are coming to visit you next week!
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Radio Free Skaro #498 - Suddenly Susan
Fandom held its collective breath to witness the return of The Doctor's granddaughter Susan, in the form of Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams, and instead of that half-baked and silly theory they got a cracking good story about Vikings, immortality and clarity regarding the thorny Visage De Capaldi issue that has plagued us since Deep Breath. Gripping stuff! And a good thing too as the news is very sparse this week, consisting of important action dolly matters and the DVD release of a (more or less) fan film from 20 years ago. Tune in, won’t you?
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Radio Free Skaro #497 - A Fifth Of Beethoven
"Before the Flood" left Warren baffled and Steven and Chris intrigued, but what else did your three hosts think of the second episode of Toby Whitehouse’s brain-twisting two-parter? Did the paradoxes and guitar solos excite or infuriate them? More to the point, what developments in both LEGO, Big Finish audios and increasingly pointless DVD covers caught their eye? WHAT I ASK YOU!? Listen, and find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #496 - The Underwater Menace
Doctor Who dives beneath the waves for “Under the Lake,” a base under siege story with ghosts, flash cards and British Sign Language….but what did Steven, Warren and Chris think of the first part of this soggy saga? More to the point, what is their hot take on “Class,” the just announced Doctor Who spin-off to be produced next year by BBC Wales(possibly at the expense of Doctor Who)? And as if that wasn’t enough, we also have Steven interviewing Clara Oswald herself, Jenna Coleman, recorded live onstage at Edmonton Expo!
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Radio Free Skaro #495 - A Frown Called Mercy
We’re headed back to Skaro for "The Witch’s Familiar", the second part of the opening story of Series 9, and the Three Who Rule have thoughts, opinions, and perspectives to share on the latest thread in the grand tapestry that is the life of Ernest Q. Davros. (Yes, that’s his name, but shhh, SPOILERS.) Despite the lack of stats, as is only right and proper, there was also news of conventions, Minecraft Doctor Who, and yes…a 5 inch Missy dolly or two. Truly, these are wondrous and expensive days for action dolly aficionados. Next week…Under the Lake!
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Radio Free Skaro #494 - The Boy Who Would Be King
An old enemy returns (or two!) in "The Magician’s Apprentice", the first new Doctor Who in many months and the premiere episode of Series 9. Daleks and Missy and Davros, oh my! What did the Three Who Rule think? And what did they have to say about Jenna Coleman leaving Doctor Who? Tune into over an hour of their mad bleatings, including musings on #TeamHoodie, clam bombs, and the staggeringly important matter of the Capaldi Bouffant!
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Radio Free Skaro #493 - Another Brick in the Wall
One week to go until Doctor Who Series 9 premieres, and what better way to rev up the hype engines than a rather cryptic prologue featuring P-Cap, Karn and Ohila, last seen in “The Night of the Doctor”? In fact, all manner of activity is rolling to the boil in the Who-o-sphere, including a new Game Maker app coming soon from the BBC, Time Squad dollies to adorn your desk or crying chamber, and other fun bric-a-brac. And speaking of bricks, our feature interview this week is with Pete Hickman, BBC Worldwide Producer of Digital Entertainment and Games and driving force behind the Doctor Who portion of LEGO Dimensions! Build high for happiness!
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Radio Free Skaro #492 - The Log Driver's Waltz
With only two weeks to go before we get new Doctor Who, the news is coming fast, including a new trailer for Episode 1 "The Magician’s Apprentice", a (very short and mysterious) video from Series 9 finale director Rachel Talalay, the upcoming DVD release of "The Underwater Menace" (!) and so much more! As if that wasn’t enough to stew your petunias, we also have author and Reality Bomb impresario Graeme Burk co-hosting this week and telling us about “The Doctors are In," the new book he and Robert Smith? have penned! Hurrah!
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Radio Free Skaro #491 - And Introducing Maisie Williams as The Doctor
Back from the Hugo Awards and reunited once more, the Three Who Rule have a grab bag of newsiness this week, including the sad cancellation of the New York Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular “for reasons”, Peter Davison’s upcoming autobiography, and more! But the main feature of this week’s episode is the return of Fluid Links, where we answer listener questions and, at least once or twice, engage in actual debate! Stirring stuff!
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Radio Free Skaro Patreon Special #2: Dr. Who and the Daleks Commentary
Peter Cushing is known to many as the face of Hammer Horror or Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars. But to a generation of British kids caught in the frenzied madness known as Dalekmania in the mid-1960s, he was also Dr. Who, kindly professor and non-canonical Time Lord battling the Daleks in two separate (non-canonical) adventures! The first of which we bring to you (non-canonically) in the form of an entertaining commentary, with much gratitude, loyal Patreon contributors! To Skaro, in glorious colour!
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Radio Free Skaro #490 - Smoke on the Water
Another Hugos has come and gone, and with it two-thirds of the Radio Free Skaro crew can cross “host pre and post show at the Hugos and ad-lib for almost a half hour during same” off their bucket list. Though the Hugos were…dogged with controversy, in the eye of the storm all was calm and in fact Steven and Warren (along with Verity’s own Erika Ensign) were pleased to attend their first Worldcon, an international celebration of science fiction and fantasy that pre-dates (and was interrupted by) World War II! And as if that wasn’t enough, the Two and Verity Who Rule bring you all the latest Doctor Who news, of which there is a smattering! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #489 - Revolution 9
A new trailer for Series 9 of Doctor Who was released this week, simultaneously stoking and dampening the fires of Steven and Warren’s clinically insane theories regarding the upcoming Capaldis of Pompeii story/rumour/nonsense. But more lunacy awaits, with Tom Baker intoning that he is joining the Star Wars universe (!?) Hacette putting out a mammoth collection of Doctor Who books chronicling the history of the show from start to finish, and the Doctor Who Fan Show interviewing Titans Comics impresario Andrew James (link in the show notes). We also have an interview with Hugos person-in-charge David D’Antonio, who talks to Steven about the upcoming Worldcon in Spokane and the Hugo Awards taking place at said con. Tune into the pre and post Hugos live show next Saturday on UStream to see Steven and Warren debase themselves like grovelling insects on the newfangled invention of video!
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Radio Free Skaro #488 - A Conspiracy of Comics
Can three idiots blab on like maniacs about nothing for the better part of an hour? Emphatically yes! If you’ve ever wanted to hear rampant, baseless speculation about a certain possible episode coming in Series 9 that is most likely untrue and frankly insane, well then, friend, this is your podcast! Aslo if you’d like to hear writer Paul Cornell, artist Neil Edwards and Titan Comics editor Andrew James talk about the upcoming Doctor Who Comics Day on August 15, as well as the mini-series "Four Doctors", this is also your day! Everything’s coming up you!
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Radio Free Skaro #487 - Dinosaurs in a Lighthouse
Despite a somewhat sparse news list this week, the Three Who Rule managed to engage in ill-informed badinage for longer than was strictly necessary, covering exciting topics like a new and even more evil form of stats, and the differences between versions of Netflix. Thrilling! But lest you think that’s all they had in store, keep listening…as the Miniscope returns to examine the collected works of pioneering classic Who director Paddy Russell, who helmed four stories from 1966-1977!
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Radio Free Skaro #486 - The Devil in Red Velvet
Conventions and clips dominate the news, with events in Germany, Australia and of course goings on concerning the upcoming Long Island Who, but also a look back at the New Adventures era through the fine folk at Myth Makers and a very...old-fashioned look through newsreel footage at the wedding of Jon Pertwee. The Man Himself is also the subject of a recently unearthed (and Youtubed) documentary, not to mention the focus of much praise from current TARDIS resident Peter Capaldi, who praises Three in an interview with Christel Dee on the Doctor Who Fan Show. All mere prelude to the return of Fluid Links, where we answer your questions about the program, no matter how silly or sublime!
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Radio Free Skaro #485 - Past Christmas
Guest announcements for Gallifrey One and Chicago TARDIS! LEGO Doctor Who talk! Capaldi dolly banter! Warren becoming enraged by Star Trek: Into Darkness and almost saying a naughty word! Yes, it's business as usual again here at Radio Free Skaro headquarters after the madness that was San Diego Comic-Con, but lo, we also have something special this week, the return of Nerdist scribe Kyle Anderson, who joins us for a commentary of the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special "Last Christmas"! What better time than mid-July to get into the holiday spirit…of nightmares!
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Radio Free Skaro #484 - San Diego Capaldi-Con
Nerd Christmas! Yes, San Diego Comic-Con is wrapping up for another year, but you can keep your Batmans and your Supermans and your Deadpools and your WHO CARES NEW DOCTOR WHO TRAILER! LEGO DIMENSIONS WITH ALL THE DOCTORS! And most importantly, 5.5 INCH P-CAP DOLLY! Of course there was much more news from San Diego of interest to Doctor Who aficionados, and we also have an on-the-spot report from gentleman scribe Kyle Anderson of the Nerdist, who was on the ground at Hall H for the entire con! Whee!
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Radio Free Skaro #483 - The Adventures of Space Dad
With San Diego Comic-Con mere days away, the mystery, hinting, and oblique teasing is reaching a fever pitch, with not only the main players on Doctor Who’s creative team storming Hall H on Thursday, July 9, but also a Titan Comics panel to whet your fannish interest, along with toys, exclusives and all manner of madness for the Three Who Rule to weigh in on. Next week we’ll have friend of the show and rakish flaneur Kyle Anderson calling in from SDCC to give us all the news on Series 9 and the all important State of Capaldi’s Bouffant, but for now, enjoy an interview with comedian, Doctor Who enthusiast and fine fellow Toby Hadoke about his new BBC radio play, “The Dad Who Fell To Earth”!
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Radio Free Skaro #482 - Once Upon A Time In America
In a move sure to shake the very foundations of audio drama, Big Finish is introducing new series Doctor Who characters into the BF-i-verse, and River Song will be the tip of the proverbial spear in this assault of awesomeness. That was but one (but probably the coolest) bit of news this week, including San Diego Comic Con ruminations, Chicago TARDIS news and various other informational nuggets. But our interview this week is with Chicago TARDIS and Gallifrey Base impresario and overall fine fellow Steven Hill, who discusses his Red, White and Who book project chronicling the adventures of the good Doctor in the United States of America. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! And so forth.
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Radio Free Skaro #481 - Tin Can Danny
The news reached dire levels of non-existence this week, but the Three Who Rule soldiered on in exactly the sort of way Twelve would have roundly disapproved of. Despite there being little movement other than comic book rumblings (in the fall, no less!) there was a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of the commentary for "Death In Heaven", with none other than the inestimable J.R. Southall of the Blue Box Podcast and Starburst Magazine lending us his sharp eye, keen brain and devastating wit.
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Radio Free Skaro #480 - The Talons of Dr. Chang
News! News! News! So much news this week, from Vines of P-Cap playing guitar to Series 9 rumours, royal honours, convention doings and undoings, and (fake, but awesome) Doctor Who LEGO video games! The mind boggles! “But what else, you fiends?!” you declare, and for you, beloved listener, we also have Verity’s own Tansy Rayner Roberts with us for a commentary on "Dark Water", the penultimate Series 8 showstopper featuring water, darkness and more!
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Radio Free Skaro #479 - Run Forest Run
Like a bolt from the blue came the first set of Gallifrey One guest announcements, including one Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor but the first in our hearts (for this year, at any rate.) But lo, across the pond there was news of the Doctor Who Festival, to be held the same weekend in November as Long Island Who! Confused? The news is just the beginning of your confoundining (not a word) as the RFS crew and Nancy Alegria of The Happiness Patrol go into the woods for their "In the Forest of the Night" commentary!
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Radio Free Skaro #478 - Shallow Grave
The news this week is sparse, so of course conspiracy theories abounded amongst the Three Who Rule involving Zimbabwe, missing episodes, cricket, and madness. But lo, there was a small morsel of news, and that was the fact that San Diego Comic Con will in fact have a Doctor Who panel (featuring Capaldi, Moffat, Minchin, Coleman and Gomez) on Thursday, so we can tell you much earlier....whatever they reveal! But let's get down to brass tacks here, by which I mean a commentary on the Series 8 standout episode "Flatline", with Verity's own Liz Myles! Forward...to the second dimension!
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Radio Free Skaro #477 - Sarcopha-Gus
If Radio Free Skaro was ever made into a lackluster dystopian future series of adventures for the tween set (which it won’t, ever), it would have to be called “Digression,” because that was the tenor of the first few minutes of this episode. Eurovision is rightly disparaged, Warren is baffled by football, and Steven vainly (sort of) tries to get things back on track by lovingly describing Peter Capaldi’s swelling bouffant. Gross. But there’s also a commentary for the Jamie Mathieson penned “Mummy on the Orient Express,” featuring Reality Bomb’s own Alex Kennard! You have 66 seconds to start listening!
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Radio Free Skaro #476 - Ravolox and Bagels
We promise, this is almost certainly the last time we jabber on about superhero movies...but that is in fact what happens at the start of this week's episode, until Chris lobs a well-deserved boot heel into the proceedings and gets the Other Two Who Rule back on track and talking about Doctor Who...in the form of comic books! Oh, sweet irony. Sweeter still are a couple of vintage interviews supplied by (and in one case featuring) composer Dominic Glynn and iconoclastic Doctor Who producer John Nathan Turner! Interspersed with those chats are some preview tracks from Glynn's new EP "The Ravolox Remixes", available on iTunes May 18!
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Radio Free Skaro #475 - In Praise of Fangirls
It was a wild week to be a fan of Doctor Who and other sic-fi franchises this past week! Gallifrey One memberships went on sale and crashed ticket sales sites, Osgood and the Zygons are returning in Series 9, Torchwood audio plays are coming to Big Finish, and Avengers: Age of Ultron is filling movie theatres all over the world. What better week, then, to talk to Sam Maggs, author of the new book "The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy", an instruction manual for fangirls new to the fold, as well as an educational tome for those who aren't!
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Radio Free Skaro #474/A - Easy Laughter with Rob Shearman
In this special mini-episode of Radio Free Skaro, Steven interviews writer Robert Shearman about his recent trip to New York to watch a production of his 1992 play "Easy Laughter", as performed by Dirt [contained]! Rob and Steven also talk about Series 8 of Doctor Who, and Rob gives an update on the soon-to-be-released Running Through Corridors Volume 2.
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Radio Free Skaro #474 - Mayhem of the Mooninites
As Steven dips further into cricket insanity, a factor leading to his inevitable emigration to India could be the fact that Doctor Who will soon start broadcasting there for the first time. How can he possibly resist? Or perhaps a trip to New York to see the Symphonic Spectacular in October? One thing we can all agree on is that you should all journey between the pages of You and Who: Contact Has Been Made Volume Two, which contains writing from both Steven and Warren! And, and AND! As if the previous nonsense wasn’t enough, we have not only an interview with “Kill the Moon" writer Peter Harness, but also a commentary for that self same episode, featuring Phil Cannon of the Who’s He? Podcast! The mind boggles!
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Radio Free Skaro #473 - The Invisible Enemies
What’s better than a commentary of the Series 8 episode "The Caretaker" with The Memory Cheats co-host Josh Zimon joining the Three Who Rule? Very little…except Wife in Space impresario Neil Perryman joining Warren and Steven for a look at the news! Yes, it’s a bumper crop of guest stars, walk ons, and non-Canadian opinions as these two podcast titans bump the quality up a notch, or at least negate the enormous drag factor of faux-humble Canucks. Can you contain your excitement and or relief? Tune in and find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #472 - Do The Hustle
In what may be a new record for top-of-the-show off-topic banter, much hashing out of the new Star Wars trailer (of course) occurred, along with Steven’s descent into schedule and archived newspaper madness, wherein he charts out exactly when he (and by extension the other Two Who Rule) began watching Doctor Who on KSPS, the semi-local PBS station. Besides this lunacy, much discussion was had of a Series 8 soundtrack release (3 discs!), Dominic Glynn’s excellent Ravalox Remixes of his original scores for 80s Who, Christopher Eccleston's recent comments on why he and Doctor Who parted ways, and much, much more! And! We also have Jono Park from the Zeus Pod podcast for a commentary on Time Heist! Can you stand the excitement?! Probably not, no.
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Radio Free Skaro #471 - A Flurry of Murray
It’s a little early to start talking about Gallifrey One’s next con in 2016..or is it? Not since tickets go on sale on May 4th (10 a.m. Pacific) and the Marriott’s block of hotel room goes on sale a week later on May 11th! And if the world’s greatest convention isn’t your thing, some sweet faux-Target novel covers of Series 8 stories might be to your liking. No? How about some superbly crafted pewter figures of Silurians? Old William Hartnell footage? Calgary Expo news? Not easy to please, are you? Fine, have an interview with Doctor Who composer Murray Gold, then, and hear him talk about creating music for Doctor Who in 2005 and in 2015, and also hear him reveal details about the upcoming Series 8 soundtrack. Ingrate.
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Radio Free Skaro #470 - Fear Makes Companions Of Us All
Every day Peter Capaldi proves himself more and more of a Doctor Who fanboy, and his latest japes at the Doctor Who experience are but the first bit of good news this week, including free comic books, new Big Finish, Dominic Glynn remixes, and more! But the showcase of the episode is an interview with Verity! podcaster and author Liz Myles, who has co-edited a book of essays called “Companion Piece” all about the good Doctor’s friends and assistants. We also have a bonus interview from Warren at Vancouver Fan Expo with Jamie Gervais, digital artist and all around good egg. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #469 - Dramatic Delights
Happy post-10th Who birthday, everyone! What with Peter Capaldi visiting the Doctor Who Experience and entertaining children with birthday cakes and charm, it’s easy to forget that other things were happening in the world of Who this week, like Big Finish announcing they’ll be making their audio adventures until at least 2020, or a mad genius 3D printing a bust of the aforementioned Mr. Capaldi. All mere preamble though, as this week we bring you an interview with biographer Richard Marson, who is following up his excellent book on John Nathan-Turner with “Drama and Delight: The Life of Verity Lambert.” Intrigued? Then lend us the use of your aural cavities for an hour and change!
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Radio Free Skaro #468 - Ten Years On
Ten years ago, a dream came true for many long-time fans of Doctor Who. A show long feared dead returned, stronger and better than ever....but in order for that to happen, many talented people had to come together in front of the camera and behind the scenes for a show no-one yet believed in. Director Joe Ahearne was one such individual, directing five Eccleston-era stories and witness to the chaos of that first season. He spoke to us about those days, his experiences working with Eccleston and RTD, and more! We also have snippets from press conferences held at the time, to give you more of a flavor of the atmosphere as the clock counted down to the return of Doctor Who. Happy anniversary, everyone!
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Radio Free Skaro #467 - Schrodinger's Kid
Steven, Warren and Chip are back this week with a news list that could charitably be described as anemic, though it also covers the charitable doings of one Peter Capaldi and goes from Comic Relief to comic books to conventions and...well, not a lot more. It is the slow time for Doctor Who, after all. BUT! There is also a commentary track for Episode 4 of Series 8, "Listen", featuring Steven, Warren, Chris and Telos AM co-host (and host of Colour Separation Overlay!) and all around fine gentleman Lindsey Mayers, examining the finer points of monsters, blankets and the end of the universe!
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Radio Free Skaro #466 - Electro Quarterstaff
The Two Who Rule and Chip are back, with a somewhat sparse but interesting news list featuring a fascinating Steven Moffat interview in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, a Capaldi plushie (henceforth referred to as CuddlePaldi), news of the BBC spinning off a studio division, a truly excrable survey of Doctor Who viewers circa 1988, and (not much) more! But the meat of the matter is a commentary featuring not only the regular RFS crew but also the inestimable Graeme Burk, author and Reality Bomb impressario. Band of brothers, fighting together!
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Radio Free Skaro #465 - The Needs of the Many
It was a sad week for genre fans, with the passing of Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy into the starry night, and though it isn’t strictly Doctor Who, it was the opinion of this week’s RFS crew of Warren, Steven and Chip (Chris is on an Away Team mission) that it behooved them to pay tribute to a man who for many acted as our gateway into fandom. Doctor Who wasn’t without loss this week with the passing of Barry Newbery, one of the program’s most prolific designers and the man behind the beloved (by Warren) secondary TARDIS control room. But it wasn’t all sadness…there’s also Daleks! Let’s all get real close to those pesky pepperpots, with the help of the RFS regulars and guest commentator David Hooie of the “Hoo on Who” podcast as they venture forth….Into the Dalek!
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Radio Free Skaro #464 - Musique Concrud
Fighting off con crud, sleeplessness and the ever-present post Gallifrey One blues, the Three Who Rule were joined by fourth Beatle Chip of Two Minute Time Lord fame for the news, and by author and televisual scholar John Williams for a commentary of "Deep Breath", the first of our Series 8 commentaries that will hopefully enthrall and entertain you over the coming weeks! Truly an occasion for many numerals and capital letters in an episode write up.
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Radio Free Skaro #463 - Remember Me To Gallifrey
You’d think we’d have run out of amazing people to talk to at Gallifrey One, but lo! We are here to prove you wrong! Our guests include Rachel Talalay, the director of "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven", 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie writer and documentarian Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Legacy creators Susan and Lee Cummings (and stay tuned till the end of the podcast for a special promo code for the game, courtesy Doctor Who Legacy), and Athena Stamos, who was the model for Cinder in the the game. All this and a Gally roundtable of fans and friends to round out our 2015 coverage of the best convention in the world. Allons-y, in the name of everything!
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Radio Free Skaro #462 - Nothing is Forgotten
Day Two of Gallifrey 2015, and Radio Free Skaro is on the ground with interviews with many and various Who luminaries, like Jason Connery ("Vengenace on Varos" and the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood), Restoration Team wizard Steve Roberts, who gives us an update on the status of "The Underwater Menace", Garrick Hagon (Ky from The Mutants and Biggs Darklighter from Star Wars), costumers extraordinaire Stephen Prescott and Bob Mitsch, and Paul Booth, the editor of Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who. Tomorrow….even more things related to Doctor Who, if you can believe it!
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Radio Free Skaro #461 - Radio Free Skaro: Behind The Magic
It's Gally time! The Three Who Rule graced the main stage at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles for the fourth time in as many years with special guests Jamie Mathieson (writer of "Flatline" and "Mummy on the Orient Express"), Phil Ford (writer of "Into the Dalek", as well as "The Waters of Mars", and acres of Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures episodes), special effects wizard Danny Hargreaves, Sylvester McCoy era script editor Andrew Cartmel, and Doctor Who art director (and Sherlock production designer) Arwel Wyn Jones. All this and a moving tribute to the new series from Chip, the Two Minute Time Lord! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #460 - 26 Seasons and a Movie
It’s that time of year again, the annual genuflection by the RFS crew on the upcoming funfest that is Gallifrey One. Revel in the excitement of a new year of friends, costumes, hilarity, adult beverages, and the best convention in all the galaxy. Or, if you’re sick and tired of hearing about #gally1…your long nightmare is almost over. All this and real honest to goodness Doctor Who LEGO is on the way! What an age we live in. Next week, expect some voluminous output from Los Angeles, California, including our live show, Radio Free Skaro: Behind The Magic!
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Radio Free Skaro #459 - Colour Separation Overlay
With Gallifrey One looming ever closer, the Three Who Rule looked far and wide for news, and found very little, other than the discovery of a lost Desert Island Discs from 1965 starring none other than one William Hartnell, and of course the long-awaited release of Seasons of War, the unofficial War Doctor Anthology in support of the Cauldwell Chirldren’s charity helping UK kids with autism. But all this was mere preamble to Color Separation Overlay, a new pilot project from Lindsey Mayers, and featuring Dennis Slade, Izis Mollinedo and our own Steven to talk about race and representation in Doctor Who. Put on your thinking caps and enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #458 - Raspberries and Fire
Gallifrey One! Mere weeks from now the noble RFS crew will take the stage in Los Angeles to deliver Radio Free Skaro: Behind the Magic, and here in this very podcast we announce our lineup! Who are they? Listen and find out! You’ll also hear a drabble of news, but more importantly, we also have a fun interview panel from Chicago TARDIS with Annette Badland, Noel Clarke, and Camille Coduri! Can you stand the excitement? Are we capable of asking things in a non-hyperbolic manner? The answer to both questions is surely no!
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Radio Free Skaro #457 - I Heard It Through The Irvine
As the countdown to Gallifrey One ramps up, so too do new guest announcements, including Torchwood alumni Naoko Mori (Tosh) and McCoy era script editor Andrew Cartmel! In other news, riots and other carnage were avoided after Netflix renewed their rights to Doctor Who and a host of other BBC properties which were due to expire at the beginning of February. After the civil unrest and damage caused by the recent Oscar snub of the LEGO movie, we should all be relieved that everything worked out. But lo, there are also interviews from Chicago TARDIS in this episode of Radio Free Skaro, and they are thus: Mat Irvine, Doctor Who special effects whiz from the 1970s and 1980s, and a panel featuring Annette Badland of Aliens of London and Boom Town fame, Sonita Henry from The Time of the Doctor and Ellie and Joseph Darcey-Alden, the young wards of Victorian Clara Oswald in the Snowmen!
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Radio Free Skaro #456 - Love And Monsters
To the excitement of all and sundry, or at least the 3,500 people attending Gallifrey One in under a month’s time, it was recently announced that John Barrowman, Captain Jack Harkness himself, will be gracing the LAX Marriott for his first ever appearance at North America’s leading Doctor Who convention. The news of Barrowman’s visit to the City of Angels churned the Three Who Rule to a totally hetero, manly and strapping lather and only the titanic dullness of of statistics could cool them down. But hark! There was yet more excitement, as Camille Coduri’s interview with Steven onstage at Chicago TARDIS features in this week’s episode! Anecdotes, tales and japery await!
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Radio Free Skaro #455 - Andrew Smith, When The Mists Fell
Fancy a return to Alzarius? We did, so we contacted classic Doctor Who and Big Finish writer Andrew Smith about “Mistfall,” his upcoming Big Finish audio play which sends the Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Tegan back to E-Space. Andrew also joins us to look at the news of the week, including stats, plush Tennants, and a possible controversy concerning Netflix! Toby Hadoke also makes a special appearance to reflect with Steven on the life and times of Bernard Kay, the accomplished actor who appeared in The Daleks, the Crusade, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space, and who sadly passed away this week. Enjoy, and look forward to next week, where we continue our Chicago TARDIS interviews with the fantastic Camille Coduri!
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Radio Free Skaro #454 - Tangerine Dream
Mind games, face huggers and tangerines...that's what passes for Christmastime when the Doctor gets involved. Sarcastic elves, a sassy Santa, and questionably CG reindeer round out Doctor Who's dip into surreality on this latest Xmas special, "Last Christmas", from the pen of Steven Moffat and directed by Paul Wilmshurst. So what did the Three Who Rule, brains slowed by turkey and Tofurky, think of P-Cap's first foray into Yuletide adventure? Down some egg nog, tear yourself away from erudite political discussion with the relatives, and have a listen!
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Radio Free Skaro Patreon Special #1 - Dimensions in Time Commentary
Happy Holidays to our beloved listeners across the world! And thank you to our supporters on Patreon who have pushed us over the $80/episode mark in our ongoing Patreon fundraising campaign. To celebrate both of these wonderful occasions, we look back in time to provide a commentary on another blessed event in the history of Doctor Who - the 1993 charity special "Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time"! Listen to the Three Who Rule regale you with insights and whimsy about this infamous "celebration" of Doctor Who's 30th anniversary, as well as reflect on how Doctor Who was looked upon at that time by the BBC and the general public and how Dimensions in Time might have represented the best possible celebration that could be mustered. And all of this is thanks to you, Patreon subscribers! Thanks. This is all down to you. Enjoy!
Watch Dimensions in Time along with us!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCeMIQpFBc
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Radio Free Skaro #453 - Eight is Enough
With mere days to not only "Doctor Who: Last Christmas” but also our review of said Xmas special and even more thrillingly, our Patreon-inspired (and cringe-inducing) commentary for the infamous 1993 Children in Need special “Dimensions in Time,” the Three Who Rule ably tackled the last Fluid Links segment of the year! Questions, inquiries, posers and puzzlers abound as this Series 8 focused Q&A takes centre stage for this pre-holiday bit of RFS shenanigans. Also news, dolly derision, comic book neatness and a cool teaser for a War Doctor short film coming next year! Whee!
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Radio Free Skaro #452 - In The Nick of Time
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Last Christmas, which is dominating both our thoughts and the promotional efforts of the BBC Publicity department. Maybe that’s why most of our news is focused on that upcoming holiday where they show a new Doctor Who story and some other, largely irrelevant events rides its coattails. Plus there’s news of a Doctor Who theme park, which is greeted by the confusion and derision only three middle aged nerds with no concept of what the kids today are into could muster. All that questionable content, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen and countless other creatures, Nick Briggs, who is also one of the main creative forces behind Big Finish! What are you waiting for?
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Radio Free Skaro #451 - Celsius 451
With the Three Who Rule firmly back in place and order restored to the galaxy, there was great rejoicing and much waffling about next to nothing, not to mention the controversial and wrong headed use of the terms “P-Cap”, “J-Co,” and “S-Claw.” in reference to the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special "Last Christmas". But wait! The main feature is an interview with Mickey Smith himself, Noel Clarke, by our very own Steven recorded live on stage at Chicago TARDIS. And and and….nerd rage from Warren about the highly important matter of the 3.75 inch dolly. Blasphemy!
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Radio Free Skaro #450 - Billie Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The annual tradition of US Thanksgiving (as we Canadians call it) brings about another yearly custom - Chicago TARDIS! This year's edition has been quite wonderful, bringing together most of the main cast of Series 1 of the new series to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Doctor Who returning to our screens. Our own Steven had the honour of interviewing several of these notable folks onstage, and on this podcast we bring you a chat with none other than Rose Tyler herself, Billie Piper! Also, Erika and Lynne from Verity! drop by to give their thoughts on the convention. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #449 - Super 8
For the first time ever (we defy you to prove us wrong, RFS pedants, DEFY YOU) Radio Free Skaro is coming out on November 23rd, better known this year as the 51st anniversary of Doctor Who, our favorite program. And while there's no new Who to discuss until Christmas, we have assembled a crack team of nerds in the form of Gallifrey One impresario Shaun Lyon, podcast gadfly Felicity Brown and Chip Sudderth, the Two Minute Time Lord to share their thoughts on Series Eight. What are you waiting for? Get listenin'! And Happy Doctor Who Day!
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Radio Free Skaro #448 - The Road to Qdoba
And so begins the Dark Times, otherwise known as waiting a month and a bit after the end of Series 8 for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. In the meantime, the Three Who Rule tackled stats, poured one out for sci-fi TV legend Glen A. Larson, and most importantly, devoted the bulk of the episode to your Series 8 related questions with the return of Fluid Links! Burning inquiries, inquiring questions, questionable burning and more! Next week, a Series 8 roundtable with Shaun Lyon, Felicity Brown, and Chip Sudderth!
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Radio Free Skaro #447 - All the President's Cybermen
And with that, Series 8 of Doctor Who is over! After a radical turn towards darkness and drama it all came together with “Death in Heaven,” the final episode of the series and the P-Capstone on the 12th Doctor’s inaugural year. From the machinations of Missy (AKA The Master) to the glorious fake-out of Jenna Coleman as the Doctor in the opening titles all the way to…well, there’s some Cyber-shenanigans which the Three Who Rule cover in great detail. And as a bonus, we have an Long Island Who report from The Memory Cheats and Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway co-host (and all around fine gent) Josh Zimon!
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Radio Free Skaro #446 - The Moffat Master Plan
The penultimate episode of Series 8 is upon us, with Cybermen, the afterlife, and Missy, who is revealed as….well, you should certainly watch “Dark Water” (penned by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay) before listening to the Three Who Rule expound upon the contents therein, or risk a mega-spoiler of cataclysmic magnitude. Have you watched? Good. Then enjoy our banter on the excellent direction, subtle performances, and the sometimes….excited reaction of certain segments of fandom when a beloved character takes a a sharp right turn into a different form. Next week, the finale, "Death in Heaven", and news from Long Island Who!
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Radio Free Skaro #445 - Can't See The Forest For The Trees
"In the Forest Of The Night" already looks to be one of the most polarizing episodes of Series 8, and there's no shortage of opinion on this week's Radio Free Skaro to go around. Along with Steven and Warren, Nerdist wordsmith Kyle Anderson joined in (pinch-hitting for an unavailable Chris) to take a look at a story about...well, trees. Warren also interviewed Rachel Talalay, the director of both "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven", the penultimate and final episodes of the series, and her thoughts on Doctor Who, the differences between directing for UK and American television, and a whole host of other topics are here for you to enjoy. Plus stats, general annoyance about the lack of a 5" P-Cap action dollie, audio news, and all manner of jaunty amusement await you!
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Radio Free Skaro #444 - Boneless Chicken Wings
Doctor Who is often at its best when it mixes domesticity with the fantastical, and the Jamie Mathieson penned, Douglas Mackinnon directed “Flatline” was no exception, if the rapturous reception (spoilers) of the Three Who Rule for this week’s episode is anything to go by. Thrill to their enthusiasm! Enjoy their musings! Agree with them or else! All that passive-aggressive goodness and the usual stats, tat and flibbity flap awaits!
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Radio Free Skaro #443 - Execute Order 66
Trains! Space! A mummy! Jelly babies! Foxes! All things in writer Jamie Mathieson's “Mummy on the Orient Express,” this week’s episode of the obscure and not well regarded televisual program known as Doctor Who, and all subjects for debate for the Three Who Rule, who mulled all these elements plus rampant lying, Bechdel cabs, and much more! Also stats, comics books, Foxes' spoiler-y music video, and much more! Well actually, that’s really about it. But enjoy regardless!
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Radio Free Skaro #442 - Through The Thick and Thin
“Kill the Moon,” this week’s episode of Doctor Who, has proven to be one of the most divisive in recent memory, with fandom loving it or despising it but certainly not dismissing it. Was it the “game changer” showrunner Steven Moffat made it out to be? Has Peter Capaldi’s Doctor plumbed the dark depths of jerkery, and was he justified in doing so? So many questions for the Three Who Rule to muddle through and cogitate upon! And they do! Oh yes and there are some stats as well, but then you'd expect that, wouldn't you?
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Radio Free Skaro #441 - Officer's Mess
When we found out that Gareth Roberts was the scribe behind “The Caretaker,” we all expected a rompity-romp-romp, much like “The Lodger” and “Closing Time.” And while this story did have rompy moments, it was also funny, touching and filled with nice character touches that you’ll only find out about if you listen to our review. So do so! This weekend was also when Edmonton Expo descended on the Edmonton Expo Centre in sunny Edmonton, Alberta, and Steven was there to moderate a panel on Doctor Who and more specifically Series Eight with Erika Ensign, convention general manager Shane Turgeon, and Sara Ellen. Tune in to find out what these noble souls thought of P-Cap, J-Co, The Moff and everything else we’ve seen so far in Series Eight!
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Radio Free Skaro #440 - All Hail The Great Architect
The beauty of Doctor Who is that it can be any story, anywhere and anywhen…and yet inexplicably there’s never really been a heist episode. Well, no longer! “Time Heist,” by writer Steve Thompson of “Curse of the Black Spot” and “Journey to the Center of the TARDIS" (ahem) fame. Did this story surpass his previous attempts? The reception by the Three Who Rule is mixed, to say the least. We also have an interview with writer and Peter Harness, the scribe behind “Kill the Moon.” And that’s what you call a podcast with things in it, so listen and enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #439 - For What It's Worth
As showrunner for Doctor Who, Steven Moffat is mostly known for beginnings and endings of series, but this week the Moff brought us “Listen,” a standalone story that delves into beginnings, endings and fear itself. So, did Moffat overload the story with his personal tropes, take the show in an interesting direction, or…well, listen to the opinions of the Three Who Rule for their thoughts on the matter. There’s also tat, stats, Gallifrey One guest updates and more, including a diversion into some serious action dolly madness. Listen! Please.
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Radio Free Skaro #438 - Rocket Robin Hood
Robin Hood! Robots! Shenanigans! Etc! Things took a turn for the romp-y in “Robot of Sherwood,” the latest episode of Doctor Who, but what did the usually taciturn and P-Cap-ian Three Who Rule think? Eh? Listen as the three acerbic grouchwads expound upon the story in question and also reflect on stats and what a blight they are on human society. But that’s not all, not by a long chalk! We also have an interview with director Douglas MacKinnon, whose handiwork will be seen later this series in "Time Heist", "Flatline" and, next week, in "Listen”! So…do so!
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Radio Free Skaro #437 - Death to the Daleks
The first proper P-Cap story, where he’s out of bed and sassing off to soldiers, Daleks and everyone in between, has arrived on our TV screens, tablets, laptops and eyeballs. You’d think after years of Dalek stories the well would be dry, but in fact….well, you’ll just have to listen to the Three Who Rule’s take on “Into the Dalek” to find out. Do they enjoy Capaldi’s surly and cerebral take on the Doctor? Is there such a thing as a “good” Dalek? Most importantly, is Missy the Master? The Rani? Romana? Dodo? No, because that would be stupid. As a bonus, listen to Steven and Chris thrill (and Warren cringe) with a surfeit of stats from last week’s airing of Deep Breath. Stats, you say? Yes. Yes we do.
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Radio Free Skaro #436 - Planet of the Pudding Brains
After months of waiting, feverish panic, speculation, madness, leaked scripts, world tours and other such lunacy, the first episode of Doctor Who, Series 8, titled “Deep Breath”, is upon us. You know what that means? Stats! So, so many stats. And, to a lesser extent, the opinions of Steven, Warren and Chris regarding Peter Capaldi’s debut episode and right-turn portrayal of everyone’s favourite Time Lord. Of course there was other news to ruminate upon, but…who are we kidding here, you want the “Deep Breath” goodness. And you shall have it! Tally-ho!
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Radio Free Skaro #435 - Into The Darkness
Only one week to go until the premiere of Series 8, or as Warren (and no-one else) terms it, 8mageddon, and there’s news of trailers, radio trailers, misguided Tom Baker biopics, Doctor Who world tours and more. But more importantly, Friend of the Show, all around fine gent and writer of some renown Phil Ford returns to talk about “Into the Dalek,” his contribution to Series 8 due to grace our screens in just a couple of weeks, but also about the Deep Breath premiere in Cardiff and just how wonderful Peter Capaldi really is, both on and off camera. And if you’ve ever wanted to know what ringtones the Three Who Rule have on our phones, well….you’re welcome.
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Radio Free Skaro #434 - We Sing In Praise Of Total War
Newsmageddon continues! With only two weeks to go before the premiere of Deep Breath across the planet, the Doctor Who hype machine is in full swing, from the world tour making it’s way through the UK before heading overseas to early reviews of the premiere episode (all spoiler-free, of course.) Online content, the Moff saying stuff that may or may not be true and so….much…more. But that’s not all! We also have the final Miniscope of the year, this time profiling BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Jonathan Gibbs with the help of eminent smart music lady Emily Kausalik from the Doctor Who: Time Signatures podcast! Huzzah!
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Radio Free Skaro #433 - I Eat The Celery
"Morgus! You stinking offal! Look at me!"
Yes, a day long anticipated by the Three Who Rule Has finally arrived as they were privileged to tackle the all-time classic The Caves of Androzani as a commentary. While they had long feared such a task would devolve into silent slack jawed amazement, they did their damnedest to inform and entertain to the standard being played out on screen. There's also morsels of news regarding cinema screenings and other such frippery, but c'mon! Caves! Yeah!
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Radio Free Skaro #432 - Down and Out in San Diego
With San Diego Comic Con’s annual media megashow winding down, Radio Free Skaro brought in a Special Report from Nerdist editor and all around fine fellow Kyle Anderson as our man on the scene to let us know about the Big! Who! News! almost live from the source. Well, it turns out there hasn’t been very much news to speak of Who-wise, with the BBC likely focusing their energies on launching their world tour, and….showing us a new 15 second trailer. And……showing the premiere in cinemas worldwide! Holy cats! Despite the dearth of SDCC news, rest assured our list is chockablock full of items of interest, and as if that weren’t enough, we also have the last Fluid Links for quite some time! Madness!
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Radio Free Skaro #431 - Birth of the Titans
With San Diego Comic Con looming, roving Radio Free Skaro reporter Warren Frey took it upon himself to interview Andrew James, the editor of the new Doctor Who range at Titan Comics. James spilled the beans on SDCC plans, a Doctor Who Day promotion across the U.S. and the U.K. and much more, but first…a massive (one could even say Titan-ic) amount of news. From the leak of Deep Breath (or a somewhat unfinished version of it, anyway) to action dolly news, Big Finish updates and more, the Three Who Rule were overwhelmed by an avalanche of information. And all this without an official Doctor Who panel at Comic Con! Madness. Pure madness.
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Radio Free Skaro #430 - Limb's Whims
It was a week of great tumult in the world of Doctor Who, with the leaking of the first five scripts for Series 8 taking the internet by storm and sending Whovians into spasms of joy, guilt, fear and loathing. Though the scripts have presumably spread far and wide, Who-dom has heeded the call of #keepmespoilerfree and as of release of this episode, no major spoilage is happening in the more reputable corners of the internet.
While lest you think #8gate was the only thing happening in Who this week, rest assured there was movement in the realms of comics, Classic Who (with Retro TV bringing back our old friend on August 4th, starting with “An Unearthly Child”) and shoddily made, possibly foreign but certainly amusing “versions” of Doctor Who from Japan and….well, wherever the hell Beedeer is from.
All this, and an interview with 80’s music maestro Roger Limb in the Miniscope! Listen! WE COMMAND IT!
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Radio Free Skaro #429 - Busy Nothing Hyperspace
It was an exciting week in the world of Doctor Who, with a new teaser, with news of the return of the Cybermen, the addition of the esteemed Frank Cottrell Boyce to the writers team (plus another female director, Sheree Folkson, joining the production team), and a premiere screening taking place in Cardiff. Once all the new shiny is talked about, though, the Three Who Rule dip back in time to commentate over the third part of the Key to Time season, 1978's "The Stones of Blood"! Ogri, sausage sandwiches, well tamed crows, location videotape, Megara - all sorts of things to enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #428 - Believe It Or Not
The Series 8 news is slowly building as we hurtle towards August 23rd, the just-announced debut date for Peter Capaldi (aka P-Cap), the 12th (13th?) Doctor in a feature-length adventure called "Deep Breath". But mixed with excitement is disappointment for some fans, as there will be no San Diego Comic Con panel this year...which makes sense given Doctor Who is to be gallivanting around the globe shortly on a world tour of seven different cities on five continents. But all this is mere preparation for the return of Fluid Links, where we answer your questions about Doctor Who, nonsense, and Doctor Who nonsense! Which questions did we pick? Listen and find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #427 - The Perils of Tharils
With no Chris this week, Steven and Warren enlisted the help of erstwhile scribe, podcaster and gentleman japesman Kyle Anderson of the Nerdist, Doctor Who: The Writer's Room, WTF Are You Watching, and Awesomely Bad Movies fame. Much fun was had as news of comics, schedules, and action dollies (oh so many dollies) was discussed with great gusto. And as a bonus, we also have an interview with Stephen Gallagher, writer of 1980s Doctor Who stories "Warriors' Gate" and "Terminus"! Ever had questions about time-jumping lions? You bet you do, and they’re about to get answered!
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Radio Free Skaro #426 - Telesnap Crackle Pop
Fancy a Doctor Who historical? Even those that don't exist anymore (for now)? The Three Who Rule certainly did, and so writer John Lucarotti, the scribe behind “Marco Polo,” “The Aztecs,” and “The Massacre (of St. Bartholomew’s Eve)" was the focus of this week’s Miniscope. Warren decided to go down a more textual path, and read the Target novelization of Marco Polo, while Steven and Chris braved the wild world of fan recons. How does Mr. Lucarotti fare under the glare of 2014’s wildly different pacing and tastes? Only one way to find out! But before that, our old friend Chip from Two-Minute Time Lord drops by to visit and talk about the news of the week, such as it is. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #425 - Rupu's Drag Race
The randomizer, it has been noted, can be a harsh mistress. Bear that in mind when you cast an ear to our commentary to "Frontios", the somewhat maligned but still intriguing apocalyptic Fifth Doctor tale of hunger, strife, fascism and….giant snails. And if slimy Tractators aren’t your thing, tune in for news, debunking of missing episode non-rumours, and as always, talk of LEGO!
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Radio Free Skaro #424 - The Day of The Day of the Doctor
The Three Who Rule tuned their brainwaves to Doctor Who Magazine’s latest poll naming all of our favourite show’s stories from best to worst, along with favourite (and not so favourite) Doctors, companions, and other movers and shakers. Did they agree with the choices of thousands upon thousands of fans? Let’s just say there was some dissent in the ranks!
Mere preamble, however, to Fluid Links, where we answer your questions, from the sublime to the silly, about Doctor Who and somewhat less Time Lord related activity. If you’ve ever wanted to know what podcasts Warren listens to, here you go! And let’s be honest, you’re dying to know. Really.
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Radio Free Skaro #423 - The Life Aquatic with Michael E Briant
Doctor Who is coming back in August, and the internet has the brief, presumably-Capaldi-silhouette-filled trailer to prove it! But the RFS lads were equally enamoured with a recently released fan trailer of P-Cap and J-Co traipsing around in the rain, made by none other than the mysterious John Smith, who not only created the stellar Wholock trailer that consumed the internet, but also appears in Warren’s own Skaromantic Comedy as the random victim of a comely Dalek lass!
But enough quasi-self-promotion, today’s Miniscope guest is none other than Michael E. Briant, director of "Colony in Space", "The Sea Devils", "The Green Death", "Death to the Daleks", "Revenge of the Cybermen", and "The Robots of Death"! Though we included our cogent analysis on said stories, we also went straight to the man himself, with an in-depth interview with Steven about his time on the show, the freedom afforded a television director in the 1970s, and even Briant’s new life as a full-fledged sailor. Avast, ye dogs!
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Radio Free Skaro #422 - Nobody Slaps Cyril Shaps
A shocking (O’ the Quawncing Grig) amount of news this week, including the inclusion of Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay as a Series Eight helmer for two episodes, Doctor Who returning to Lanzorate for the aforementioned Series Eight, A Doctor Who comics Humble Bundle, and more! By far the coolest news of the week, at least for production nerds such as ourselves, was the release by Restoration Team member Paul Vanezis of a behind the scenes video showing the process of cleaning up and transferring the recently discovered film print of Enemy of World. Sprockets! Gears! Troughton on a beach! And speaking of Troughton, this week’s commentary is the all-time classic Tomb of the Cybermen! Sit back, warm up a mug of your favourite beverage, and enjoy as Cyril Shaps and some other people battle the second-deadliest foe in the Whoniverse! We also announce the winner of our RFS Giveaway contest for a signed copy of Paul Cornell's "The Severed Streets"!
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Radio Free Skaro #421 - Lordi of the Rings
In one of the slowest news weeks in recorded history, the urge for a good strong session of Fluid Links flowed through the Three Who Rule, who did their darndest to answer the questions of you, the listener, in as snappy and entertaining a manner as possible. As a special bonus, this week we also have an interview with Fairlith Harvey, the artistic director of Geekenders, a nerdlesque/theatre group in Vancouver who will soon remount their production of Don’t Blink, a tribute to every Doctor…with tassels thrown in for good measure. Fairlith discuss not only burlesque but feminism, nerd culture, and the influence of cosplay on burlesque and vice versa. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #420 - The Fact of Fiction
Will someone just rename this the “Pointless Speculation about Star Wars Episode VII Podcast” already? After listening to the opening of this week’s Radio Free Skaro, they might! The Three Who Rule did eventually bring the latest Doctor Who news to the table, along with an interview with writer, script editor and classic series producer Derrick Sherwin, but (mostly due to Warren, as usual) there were many digressions, including unrestrained bile for new Terminator films, studious avoidance of discussion of a certain naughty parody film, and the aforementioned Sturm Und Drang about a certain movie with laser swords coming Xmas 2015. Next week, the return of Fluid Links! Submit your ideas on Twitter using hashtag #FluidLinks and we may just draw it for discussion!
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Radio Free Skaro #419 - Mazza Kazza Jazza
An exciting time for Doctor Who and other genre fans in southern Alberta as they descended upon the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in their thousands upon thousands to witness, among other events, the Matt Smith and Karen Gillan panel! Our own Steven files his report from the con, including audio from the panel itself! Later, Mark Ayres drops by to talk about the massive 11-disc box set containing music from 50 years of Doctor Who (available for pre-order now!), including shedding some light on those long lost Dudley Simpson tracks that are now available for you to buy! A jam packed episode celebrating a jam packed week in Doctor Who!
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Radio Free Skaro #418 - Rodney's Funscreen
What derails the Three Who Rule from the week's news and a gripping Miniscope about classic series director Rodney Bennett? Why, it's the #firsttargetnovel Twitter discussion from Full Circle scribe and all-around gentleman Andrew Smith! Your hosts thoroughly enjoyed drenching themselves in novelised nostalgia, and loon forward to further trips to the fannish past. Eventually, the fellas settle down and talk about the work of Mr. Bennett, who helmed three stories in the Tom Baker era - "The Ark in Space", "The Sontaran Experiment", and "The Masque of Mandragora". But what of the future? What wondrous commentaries and other aural delights are in store for you, dear listener? WHAT!?
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Radio Free Skaro #417 - Arcturan Mega-Donkey
Pertwee! Jo! Troughton the younger! An incontinent skull! With a cast like that it can only be the Three Who Rule's commentary on "The Curse of Peladon"! Watch a prince in short pants fight a revolution, superstition and a questionable monster suit in this Third Doctor...classic? Also, news and discussion, including the exciting news that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are coming to Calgary Expo! And....well, you know the drill. Listen!
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Radio Free Skaro #416 - Random Access Memories
Sadly, a trio of recent deaths in the Doctor Who world lead off this week's episode, as we remember the contributions of writer/actor Glyn Jones, director Derek Martinus, and the Rani herself, Kate O'Mara. But with new Doctor Who still months away, trickles of information are beginning to emerge as to the shape of Series Eight, including returning writers (Gareth Roberts), new actors (Tom Riley) and…well, that’s about it. It’s only April! One thing you won’t have to wait for is the return of Fluid Links, where the Three Who Rule once again take your questions about the show and use their tiny mind-computers to formulate opinions. Next week, it’s another classic series commentary with "The Curse of Peladon"! Whee!
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Radio Free Skaro #415 - More Of A Table Wine
It’s the return of the Miniscope! The focus this time is on Michael Hayes, the accomplished director who at first blush wanted nothing to do with Doctor Who but learned to love the show after directing "The Androids of Tara", "The Armageddon Factor" and the rightly beloved "City of Death". What did the Three Who Rule think? Turn on your audio-visualizer and find out! But before that, news of Mark Gatiss writing more episodes of Doctor Who, and can it really be nine years since Doctor Who returned to our screens? Amazing!
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Radio Free Skaro #414 - Caesar Salad
Only a mere month after the celebrations of Gallifrey One 2014, the 26th iteration of the best convention in the world…sold out in 75 minutes this Friday. The Three Who Rule, poised over their keyboards intently, managed to secure their registration and will be in Los Angles in February 2015, and hope to see many of you there! Gallifrey aside, there was news this week of bespoke music collections, a trailer for upcoming BBC America series Real History of Science Fiction, and a magnificent interview by one Mr Toby Hadoke of one Russell T. Davies in one Who’s Round podcast! And as if that’s not enough, we have a classic commentary of the Krotons, featuring robots, Philip Madoc, and quite psychedelic visuals in black and white!
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Radio Free Skaro #413 - Block Transfer Computation
It’s the return of Fluid Links! Yes, everyone’s favourite mercury-based connection thingy is back, and we’ve got (some) of your questions to hash over, cogitate upon, and generally discuss. Good thing too, because the news is pretty thin on the ground this week. But there is talk of intriguing Season 8 guest star Keeley Hawes, Olaf Pooley (Professor Stahlman in "Inferno") turning 100, and whimsical speculation about Fonzie LEGO minifigs jumping over LEGO sharks. Meta!
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Radio Free Skaro #412 - Ahearne It Through The Grapevine
The Three Who Rule are travelling back in time this week to the wild, wooly days of 2005, when a certain program about a madman in a box first re-graced our screens after a long, long hiatus. Though we take the success of Doctor Who as a matter of course these days, in those early stories the show could have easily failed, and the fact that it didn’t is in no small part due to the work of one Joe Ahearne, gentleman director and subject of the Miniscope. Join Steven, Warren and Chris as they dissect the work of one of the most important directors of new Who…and also waste your time beforehand with news, japes and the introduction of P-Cap and J-Co to the “irritating shortened names for actors” pantheon.
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Radio Free Skaro #411 - Kicking the Styres
The classic commentary returns to Radio Free Skaro, in the form of a brief but enticing little number known as "The Sontaran Experiment"! Despite its quick running time, the adventures of Styre and Friends packs in adventure, spills, stunts, Terry Walsh in an unconvincing wig, and a pint-sized pugilist from another world who just wanted to make friends through torture and rigorous scientific villainy. The Three Who Rule were happy to lend their bon mots to this drama, sometimes even staying on point and discussing salient matters on screen! Next week, the return of the Miniscope, with Eccleston-era director Joe Ahearne!
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Radio Free Skaro #410 - Love From Gallifrey, Boys
With Gallifrey One 2014 behind them, the Three Who Rule rallied their weakened, battle-scarred livers and turned their attention to Matt Smith’s last hurrah, "The Time of the Doctor". Much appreciation! Such regeneration! But first, news, updates and other matters of import! And next week, the classic series commentaries return with “The Sontaran Experiment!” And a week afterwards, the Miniscope reborn! Who will be the focus of the unblinking spreadsheet-y eye of the ‘Scope? You’ll just have to listen to find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #409 - Gallifrey Falls No More
The year's most anticipated event on the calendar of the Three Who Rule and many thousands other Doctor Who fans has come and gone as Gallifrey One: 25 Glorious years has now concluded! Over 3700 attendees, guests, and volunteers enjoyed the event, and Radio Free Skaro was proud to be able to bring a little bit go Gally to you all each day. On this final episode from Gallifrey One, we interview Series 8 writer Phil Ford, "Closing Time" director Steve Hughes, Gallifrey One program director Shaun Lyon, and Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide authors Paul Cornell and Keith Topping. We also announce our plans for the next few weeks while we all wait for Series 8 to premiere! Enjoy, and thanks for listening!
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Radio Free Skaro #408 - The Case of the Missing Episodes
Day two of Gallifrey One 2014, and the bright eye of the Three Who Rule cast its fiery, lidless wrath upon the missing episodes. Steven and Chris interview Restoration Team head and video genius Steve Roberts on his own, and missing episode experts Damian Shanahan and Jon Preddle together. But lest you think we’re all about dusty old stories of yesteryear (which, let’s be honest, we sort of are) we also have Erika Ensign of the Verity Podcast and Jason Snell, the impresario behind The Incomparable podcast. So sit back, relax and let the good feelings flow over you as we bring you the finest bits of Gally straight from our mice to your ears.
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Radio Free Skaro #407 - Running Through Black Light
Day Two of Gallifrey One 2014! We ring in this auspicious occasion with the august personage of Dominic Glynn, musician extraordinaire and composer of what many (well...us, anyway) consider the best arrangement of the classic opening theme. And we continue with the Lovely Person Agenda with the presence of author and bon vivant Rob Shearman and comedian, actor and 60s BBC barman Toby Hadoke, who performed his one-man show "My Stepson Stole my Sonic Screwdriver" here at Gallifrey One only last night! But instead of covering that fine event, we spend 20-odd minutes berating the pair of them for not publishing Volume Two of Running Through Corridors. That's Radio Free Skaro, all class.
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Radio Free Skaro #406 - Radio Free Skaro: Gallifrey Stands
It's that time of year again, everyone! Gallifrey One celebrates its 25th edition at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott, and once again, the Three Who Rule were proud and honoured to kick off the convention with a live show recorded on the main stage. Radio Free Skaro: Gallifrey Stands featured guests Colin Baker, Terrance Dicks, David Banks, Stuart Milligan, and Toby Hadoke, and launched the weekend in style. Enjoy the live episode, enjoy the opening movie sequence (YouTube link will soon be available!), and enjoy another weekend of fun and frivolity at Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #405 - Gallifrey Rises
Once again the greatest con of cons that has ever conned is here! Yes, Gallifrey One 2014 is mere days away, and the Three Who Rule reprise their official (not really official) Gally preview episode. Cosplay! Writers! Billie Piper! Arthur Darvill! Doctors Six and Eight (and David Banks)! Panels, drinks, friends, and so much more! This week, look forward to daily podcasts as always from Gallifrey One, starting with our live show from Los Angeles on Friday, "Radio Free Skaro: Gallifrey Stands"!
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Radio Free Skaro #404 - Page Not Found
In the dog days before the wondrous rapture that is the Gallifrey convention in the greater Los Angeles area, the news was sparse and the fans were restless. However, the reveal of Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor costume sparked not only excitement and fevered speculation across Who fandom but was also the cause of an ill-advised tangent on cosplay by Warren, Steven, and Chris, who know less than nothing about such matters and have been replaced by trained seals in 6th Doctor costumes. Next week, the semi-demi-official Gallifrey 2014 preview episode! But for now, a commentary by the Three Who Rule for "The Day of the Doctor"!
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Radio Free Skaro #403 - Fluid Links
The Three Who Rule aren’t known for feedback, which is befitting of their hubristic megalomania and general dedication to evil. But in a new feature called Fluid Links, we’ve invited you, the listener, to submit topics of note for us to hash over, debate, pettily argue and break into tears over. Shocking lack of imagination or new era of transparency and openness? You be the judge.
Also news, LEGO, emulated video games, funny books, Gally announcements and DVD releases!
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Radio Free Skaro #402 - Pop! Pop! Pop!
The days are long and the news is sparse, but that didn’t stop the Three Who Rule from tackling a smattering of stats and DVD news in order to get to the important stuff, a commentary for "An Adventure in Space and Time". Chris was available for the news but wasn’t for the commentary, so in his stead TV historian and bon vivant Simon Harries lent his considerable knowledge to an analysis of Mark Gatiss’ love letter to Doctor Who’s fascinating origins. Thrill to stories of BBC Television Centre! Watch David Bradley own the screen as William Hartnell! Listen to three grown men gibber incoherently over that scene at the end! Pop Pop Pop!
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Radio Free Skaro #401 - Nightmare in Silver
It’s the beginning of the next 400 episodes of Radio Free Skaro, and what better way to start off this new era than with talk of Star Wars, weather in Florida, hockey, Tim Hortons and other irrelevant meanderings! The Three Who Rule eventually focused their energies and relayed what little Doctor Who news eked out this week, including such gems as new guests for Gallifrey 2014 (and the lineup for our own live show on Friday, February 14th), the return of friend of the show Phil Ford to Doctor Who, and other assorted newsy morsels.
All mere preamble to a commentary recorded this summer at Westercon for "Silver Nemesis". We’re not saying our commentary is good, but rest assured it is better than the story itself, so have a listen to it, won’t you?
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Radio Free Skaro #400 - Matt Finish
From its origins on a humble Skype connection in 2006 to the quasi-shabby status it endures today, Radio Free Skaro has tried to entertain, inform and educate its listeners about the wonderful world of Doctor Who. And in this, its 400th episode, it may have finally succeeded. Joining us for a retrospective roundtable on the Matt Smith era were Chris and Laura Mead of the Oodcast, Luke Harrison of TMDWP, Kyle Anderson of the Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room (and Nerdist fame) and Chip, the Two Minute Time Lord. What did these luminaries, and to a much lesser extent, Steven, Warren, and Chris think of Matt Smith’s run as the Doctor? You’ll just have to listen to find out. You’ll also have to endure some blather about stats beforehand. Vegetables before you get your dessert!
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Radio Free Skaro #399 - Handles With Care
The Fall of the Eleventh is at last upon us as Matt Smith took his final bow in the 2013 Doctor Who Christmas Special, "The Time of the Doctor". Crammed with all sorts of the Doctor's past enemies and a number of other surprises, the episode was topped off with a momentous performance from the outgoing Matt Smith. But what do the Three Who Rule think of this one? Did it pack enough emotional wallop after the spectacle that was the 50th anniversary? Did Matt Smith go out in a blaze of glory like Christopher Eccleston, or did he limp to the finish line like some (well, we) think David Tennant's Doctor did? Listen and find out. Oh, and Peter Capaldi is the Doctor now. We think this is a good thing, and it will make the wait for Capaldi's first proper outing as the Twelfth Doctor a very long one indeed...
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Radio Free Skaro #398 - 10,000 Maniacs
Despite the obvious dangers of the Blinovich Limitation Effect, the Three Who Rule came together in Edmonton for a pre-Xmas, pre-Time Of The Doctor powwow. Besides many and various clips, rumours and idle speculatings about ToTD, the big news was the announcement that Rose Tyler herself, Billie Piper, will be a guest at Gallifrey One, mere weeks away! Other morsels of information also teased the jingle-belled minds of the RFS crew, topped off by a final set of interviews from Chicago TARDIS with volcano enthusiast Tracey Childs and notable Davros impresario Terry Molloy. And if lava and genocidal geniuses doesn’t capture the holiday spirit, what does? Nothing, that’s what.
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Radio Free Skaro #397 - Corvette Winter
As Matt Smith's time in Doctor Who approaches its end, the BBC is starting to ramp up promotion of Smith's finale episode, "The Time of the Doctor", with a new trailer and a series of very intriguing promo pics. These topics and more form some key discussion points for the Three Who Rule this week, but no stats this week in honour of Warren's birthday celebrations! (Little does he know that there are no stats to discuss this week, anyway). However, the feature items in this week's episode are two interviews from Chicago TARDIS. Dan Hall drops by again to give an update on the final two Pup Ltd related DVDs coming up in 2014, "The Moonbase" and "The Underwater Menace", and the lovely Nina Toussaint-White (Mels from "Let's Kill Hitler") speaks to Steven in an interview recorded live on stage. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #396 - The Great Canadian Wheat Plains Are Safe
Statspocalypse! Yes, in a moment that Warren has feared since the inception of Radio Free Skaro, the 50th Anniversary generated stats to such a degree that they may have become sentient and declared war on humanity. And despite Warren’s hatred of the Devil Numbers, Radio Free Skaro gave you, the listener, comprehensive coverage of viewing figures, iPlayer requests, and other such pointless spreadsheetery.
But it wasn’t all stats (thankfully)! News of Other Doctor dollies, in-depth articles on 3D and the Radiophonic Workshop and more besides peppered the news list, leading up to the main event, the Missing Episodes panel from Chicago TARDIS, featuring Ed Stradling and Dan Hall of the DVD range and our own Steven as moderator. Note to Gallifrey Base users: Try not to divine rumour and nonsense from the facts and statements of truth in said panel. That is all. Thank you and good day! (puts on bowler hat, storms off stage left)
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Radio Free Skaro #395 - Bigger On The Inside
As if the build-up to and the celebration of Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary wasn't enough, the very next week after "The Day of the Doctor" wowed and amazed countless fans worldwide, more than two thousand of those fans gathered at Chicago TARDIS to revel in the celebration. Join Steven, with special guests Graeme Burk, Ken Deep, and David and Marty Hooie as they reminisce about another successful edition of the annual Midwestern convention. But that's not all! Steven spent the weekend gathering interviews with many of the guests, both onstage and off, and the first of these is presented to you here: an onstage interview with everybody's favourite Sontaran, Dan Starkey, famous for his wonderful portrayal of Strax. Listen for more interviews in future weeks from Chicago TARDIS!
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Radio Free Skaro #394 - One Day Like This
The long, long wait is over. Doctor Who celebrated 50 years of thrilling us all with the adventures of a madman with a box in high style, with not only "The Day of the Doctor", but also the stunning "An Adventure in Space and Time" and Peter Davison’s “The Five(ish) Doctors”, a whimsical treat for lovers of both the classic and new series.
Let’s not forget that 94 countries and many movie theatres simulcast "The Day of the Doctor" on Saturday, and for the first time ever the Three Who Rule are able to relay what it felt like to watch a big-screen adventure with the Doctor(s) surrounded by the love of many, many fans cheering and whooping at every twist and turn.
It was indeed a monumental week, but there’s still the Christmas Special and the end of Matt Smith’s run in a month, and next week a special RFS from Chicago TARDIS! Allons-Y, Geronimo, and for God’s Sake, GALLIFREY STANDS!
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Radio Free Skaro #393 - Flight Through Eternity
With less than a week until "The Day of the Doctor", the Two Who Rule (Warren and Steven, Chris was on assignment with UNIT) were positively giddy with anticipation for the 50th anniversary adventure to hit their eye bulbs in glorious 3D. But before that momentous event, the BBC released “The Night of the Doctor,” with a shocking appearance by Paul McGann! Lest you think that was the only treat for Whovians this week, a 2-minute clip from Day of the Doctor was also released in conjunction with Children in Need (which we will not discuss here, spoilerphobes), and various idents and other fripfrap also helped to fuel the hype machine. But, let’s be honest, what you’re really here for is our final Miniscope, this time with Richard Molesworth (author of a new book called "Robert Holmes: A Life in Words") discussing the Phillip Hinchcliffe era. We’ve very much enjoyed doing these Miniscopes, and we hope you’ve enjoyed listening to them. And three lucky listeners won copies of Adventures with the Wife in Space, written by friend of the show (and last week’s guest!) Neil Perryman! Who were the winners? You’ll just have to listen to find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #392 - The Final Phase
Radio Free Skaro #391 - The Death of Doctor Who
The tsunami of news (or, if you will, newsnami) continues this week, with tales of conventions, extras, tie-ins, and so, so much about An Adventure in Space and Time. All but mere pre-amble to the second part of the John Nathan-Turner miniscope, with special guest Steve O’Brien, who spares nothing in his analysis of the somewhat shaky years comprising the tail-end of JNT’s era as producer of Doctor Who. The Three Who Rule also give their thoughts on the latter half of the JNT era, rounding out a jam-packed episode of Radio Free Skaro sure to pale in comparison to the utter madness that is the final weeks before the 50th anniversary. Prepare yourselves!
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Radio Free Skaro #390 - The Watcher
It was one of the more exciting weeks in Doctor Who recently with global cinema screenings of "The Day of The Doctor" being announced around the world, and Big Finish's 50th anniversary story "The Light At The End" being given an early release, one month before the actual anniversary itself. The resulting chaos showed that no internet site knows the wrath of an impatient group of Doctor Who fans, but at the end of the day, thousands of fans will be watching the 50th Anniversary story in 3D together in cinemas (the Three Who Rule included!) on November 23 and 25. Once the furore of this died down on the podcast, the Skaro boys turn back the clock to delve into the first half of the John Nathan-Turner era in the Miniscope, with the wonderful Rob Shearman!
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Radio Free Skaro #389/A - The Light At The End
It's another cutaway episode! This time around, we devote some time in the middle of the week to the world of Big Finish and their own celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. To do so, Steven interviews Big Finish executive producer Nick Briggs, who is also the writer and director of Big Finish's own 50th anniversary story "The Light At The End", a story which features all Doctors Four through Eight in an extravaganza that will be released in November. Big Finish will be making an announcement regarding the special soon, so enjoy this interview as it whets your appetite for what's to come...
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Radio Free Skaro #389 - A Holiday For The Doctor
A trailer! A trailer! Maybe not THE trailer we've all been waiting for, but certainly a fitting tribute to 50 years of Doctor Who, with a frankly insane number of homages and visual cues stuffed into a minute of pure nostalgia. In true timey-wimey fashion, the Three Who Rule recorded the bulk of this episode BEFORE the trailer came out, but Steven and Warren were able to admonish their past selves and give their brief thoughts on the trailer, mostly consisting of "ooo," "ahhh," and "gear!"
But lest you think a minute of visually splendiferous pandering was all that was covered in this episode of RFS, feast your earballs on a Miniscope featuring an interview with Liz Myles, the co-editor of Chicks Unravel Time and a member of the Verity! podcast, as she sings the praises of the Graham Williams era. Steven, Warren and Chris also cover the peaks and valleys of the Williams era, in addition to bantering about non-trailer related news. Fantasallonsonimo!
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Radio Free Skaro #388 - 50 Ways To Love Your Doctor
On the way to a light week for Radio Free Skaro, the world of Doctor Who decided to explode in a shower of the awesomeness that is nine previously missing episodes from the 1960s being found, returned, and released to an adoring public via iTunes. Naturally, the Three Who Rule felt compelled to give you their thoughts on both "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear", unseen for decades, but they also bring you interviews with the esteemed Paul Cornell, who talks about "Scream of the Shalka" (now out on DVD), his upcoming comic, The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, which will close out IDW Publishing's Doctor Who series, and an exclusive Doctor Who book-related announcement. And we all also talk to Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?, authors of the phenomenal new book Who's 50. So much for a week off! Next week: the beginning of the second half our popular Producer Miniscope series!
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Radio Free Skaro #387/A - Missing Episodes Special
FOUND! Against all hope and logic, nine episodes of Doctor Who once thought lost forever have been found and returned to the BBC Archives. Such a monumental occasion warrants a rare Radio Free Skaro cutaway episode, wherein the Three Who Rule discuss the return of five episodes of The Enemy of the World and four episodes of The Web of Fear, the extravagant efforts that Doctor Who's newest hero, Philip Morris of Television International Enterprises Archives, went to in order to uncover these lost treasures...and also reveal a little bit of the intense research that was done by the Skaro boys over the past few months to try to get to the bottom of all the rumours! Rejoice, Who fans!
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Radio Free Skaro #387 - The Velvet Web
As we turn the corner into October in this 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who, the Three Who Rule reach the halfway point in their odyssey of covering the eras of each producer of the classic series in the Miniscope. This week, the Barry Letts epoch is the focus, a five year stretch of classic episodes that vaulted Doctor Who from a Saturday tea-time tradition to a British television institution. A lifelong fan of the era, Gary Russell, who has been involved with the show in many ways since the early 1980s, joins us to discuss the many strengths of Lett's time on the show. Steven, Warren, and Chris also reunite to discuss the news of the week, including details of a worldwide simulcast of The Day of the Doctor, which were announced earlier this week. Fun and exciting!
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Radio Free Skaro #386 - The Ordeal
The producer Miniscope series plows onward as special guest John Williams from Tachyon TV joins in to discuss the Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin era. An era of selecting a new Doctor and ever-changing roles for the production team, Bryant and Sherwin were responsible for... well, you'll just have to listen and find out, won't you? With Warren unavailable, Steven and Chris tackle the news of the week including discussion on the latest (what some may call) blunder on the part of the BBC's 50th anniversary "celebrations", and yes, even talk about audio stuff! And books! And cosplay! And we announce the winner of our Twitter contest for a Region 1 Doctor Who Complete Series 7 box set! When the Warren is away, the mice will play!
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Radio Free Skaro #385 - A Change of Identity
The Miniscope madness continues this week with an examination of the Innes Lloyd era, with a little help from JR Southall of Starburst Magazine and the Blue Box Podcast, and Deborah Watling, AKA Victoria Waterfield. But before "regeneration and bases under siege" (and a whole lot more) fall under the hawk-like gaze of the RFS crew and their guests, news of DVD releases, theatrical showings of "The Day of the Doctor" and flagrant disregard for the term "rels" were the order of the day. Enjoy, and a quick note: all rel-related pedantry should be aimed squarely at Warren, who will dismiss said pedantry out of hand.
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Radio Free Skaro #384 - A Battle of Wits
Our second entry in our Producer era Miniscopes sees us tackle the John Wiles era, a controversial six months in Doctor Who's long history that ushered in great changes and foreshadowed a great many more. Joining us to discuss the finer points of this tumultuous time is Toby Hadoke, and we also bring you an interview with Peter Purves, who played Steven Taylor throughout the Wiles era. Before that, Simon Harries drops by to discuss the news of the week with Steven and Warren. A jam packed episode, to be sure!
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Radio Free Skaro #383 - The Firemaker
As most of you might be aware, Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013, and the Three Who Rule are also doing their part to mark the occasion by celebrating and analyzing the era of each producer who helmed the show from 1963 through until the Fox TV movie in 1996. First up, the first producer - the original, you might say - Verity Lambert, who set in stone much of what we know and love about Doctor Who with help from her story editors David Whitaker and Dennis Spooner. And joining us for this segment is Doctor Who writer Jonny Morris to provide insight and opinion on the first two years in the programme's history. We look forward to peeling back the curtain on classic Who for the next several weeks leading up to the 50th anniversary on November 23!
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Radio Free Skaro #382 - Behind the Sophist
Despite the Doctor Who world being split between multiple conventions this weekend (or because of it), the news was a bit thin this week, but that didn't stop the Three Who Rule from spinning their creative wheels in new and exciting directions, including the creation of Sofa-ism, a philosophy based on sitting around on your couch. Canada's national shame, otherwise known as Nickelback, was also name checked far more than necessary (ie. at all.) All this and an appearance from Sean Homrig of the Tardis Tavern podcast for our Name of the Doctor commentary! The mind reels at the riches in store for you. Next week: the producer Miniscopes begin in earnest!
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Radio Free Skaro #381 - Silver Fox
The Three Who Rule welcome back our very good friend Chip from the Two-minute Time Lord podcast as we all talk over Neil Gaiman's most recent Doctor Who effort, Nightmare in Silver. Has some time and distance since the story's initial broadcast allowed our hearts to warm to it more, or was the extremely divisive reaction from fandom warranted and still valid? Will the effort satisfy 80s Hair Band pedants? News of the week, with Chip filling in for a very busy Warren, and which includes talk of what might just be the worst merchandise tie-in ever, rounds out this episode of Radio Free Skaro. Excelsior!
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Radio Free Skaro #380 - A Study in Crimson
"Whimsical yet terrifying" is an apt way to describe "The Crimson Horror," this week's commentary, but also an accurate portrayal of current Who news. What missive struck fear into the stalwart hearts of the Three Who Rule? Possibly the fact that CBC executives wanted to dub over Christopher Eccleston's Northern England accent with something more suitable to Canadian ears. Perhaps a Newfie accent would have made more sense. Or perhaps it was the notion that filming on Series 8 of Doctor Who won't begin until January? The horror continued with a discussion of David Lee Roth's storied career, what constitutes a bad fan (hint: probably everything) and more! And that's before the commentary, with special guest Deb Stanish of the Verity Podcast! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #379 - Inside the Spaceship
Radio Free Skaro #378 - Peter XII
Peter Capaldi is the Twelfth Doctor! Announced during a worldwide live TV broadcast, Peter Capaldi was introduced to an Elstree TV studio full of delighted fans and an entire planet full of excited watchers, and the result is near unanimous - Steven Moffat's sole choice for the role was the right. Good thing the Three Who Rule recorded the news two days before the announcement...and got the announcement right! Amazing foresight (luck) on their part! However, Erika from Verity! not only drops by to talk with Steven about the live broadcast of Capaldi's reveal, but also joins the crew for a commentary on the Series 7 episode "Hide". All hail Peter the Great! And the new Peter, too!
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Radio Free Skaro #377 - Emergency Luke
On thisss week'sss Radio Free Ssskaro, the Ice Warriors return! Well, one of them does in the Cold War era episode called...er..."Cold War", of which there is a commentary presented. Luke from TMDWP joins us, replacing Seattle-bound Warren, to give us not only his thoughts on one of his favourite episodes from the recent series, but also to tell us about the Sylvester McCoy BFI event that occurred on July 27. Also, much news and speculation is discussed, as well as a whole host of merchandise to make sure your pockets are liberated of any spare cash. Expect more of such things as we get closer and closer to the event of the year in November!
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Radio Free Skaro #376 - I'll Be In My Trailer
San Diego Comic Con! Over the years SDCC has become a mecca not only of pop culture, cosplay and general lunacy, but also an important platform by which Doctor Who announces mammoth events like, say…the 50th Anniversary Special Trailer. The crowds went wild in Hall H, and mere moments later, entitled fans worldwide bristled in anger, fury and impotent frustration that they were not included in the fun IMMEDIATELY. What they should have done is focused their…enthusiasm at this week's episode of RFS, which contains not only news from SDCC and elsewhere but also a commentary for The Rings of Akhaten, featuring costumer Mette Hedin and Erik Stadnik of the Doctor Who: The Writer's Room. Now that's value! Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #375 - Scaling the Shard
With San Diego Comic Con looming in just a week's time, the news list was filled to bursting with silly plastic dolls, lunch boxes and of course the con itself, which will feature a Sunday session with Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, and Mark Gatiss, as well as the iconic David Bradley who appears as the iconic William Hartnell in the iconic Adventures in Space and Time. But before SDCC comes the BBC Proms, a snippet of which you will hear on this very program! Toss in DVDs, ebooks, telesnaps and more and you've got a veritable gumbo of podcast goodness of #sharknado proportions. But wait, there's more! A "The Bells of Saint John" commentary with which to fill your earholes with mirth, glee and mirth-glee! Listen! Now!
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Radio Free Skaro #374 - The Inside Story
The Three Who Rule went west to Westercon this week, special guests of the 66th edition of one of the longest running science fiction conventions in the world. Much fun was had, much sun was enjoyed, and all three of the RFS hosts were very active on a variety of panels throughout the weekend. One such panel devoted to the history of Radio Free Skaro is presented in this episode, in which the past seven years of RFS podcasts are recounted, the highs, the lows, from humble beginnings to the recent triumphs of today (what other podcast has had a commentary of Delta and the Bannermen, we ask you?). We hope you enjoy our introspective look at a podcast that we truly do enjoy producing every week to hopefully entertain and distract you from your minor inconveniences.
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Radio Free Skaro #373 - Jeff Podcast
And thus begins the calm before the storm for Radio Free Skaro. One week before the Three Who Rule jet off to Sacramento to participate in Westercon 66, after which weeks of blockbuster episodes from commentaries to Miniscopes will take you all the way to the 50th Anniversary Special, the Three let there hair down, invite a couple friends over, and have a bit of fun and frivolity. First, Kyle Anderson of Nerdist and Doctor Who: The Writers Room fame drops by after far too long to talk about the news of the week in Doctor Who, and Toby Hadoke also drops by to tell everyone how his fabulous Who's Round podcast is coming along, what's in store in the weeks to come, and how can help Toby in his epic quest to gather a production anecdote from every single televised Doctor Who story. So sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy yourself with us!
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Radio Free Skaro #372 - The Chain
It has been one crazy week in the world of Doctor Who, with rumours of scores of missing Doctor Who episodes being found, then not found, then found again, then, finally, all of them declared not missing but destroyer. The end. Is it, though? The wait for a new Doctor will also have to wait awhile, so there is very little in the way of solid news to discuss this week, but that didn’t stop the Three Who Rule! One thing is for sure, though – Radio Free Skaro will be at Westercon 66 in Sacramento in a couple weeks, and the convention organizers Kevin Roche and Andy Tremblay are here to tell you all about it. It’s looking like it might be an interesting summer in this, the 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who!
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Radio Free Skaro #371 - Bless the Rains
The Doctor Who rumour mill was in full blown chaos this week with Twelfth Doctor casting rumours giving way to tales of hoards of missing episodes being recovered. The Two Who Rule (Chris managed to escape the mongering of said rumours) neatly sidestepped harmless (or harmful) speculation by delving into talk of the future of the film industry and 3D TV and its relation to Doctor Who. But Chris returns (and Warren departs) to talk to Neil Perryman, dear friend and author who is writing the upcoming Adventures of the Wife in Space book, based on his hugely successful blog. Listen on!
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Radio Free Skaro #370 - Pride (In The Name of Who)
Another week and still no new Doctor Who. The long 6-month wait for the 50th Anniversary Special means speculation about the show's future in the form of the next actor (or will it be actress?) to play The Doctor. But it's not all bad as there are always stats to be had, always new Doctor Who merchandise to be discussed and/or mocked and of course talk of DVDs and just how lucky we are as Doctor Who fans to have the Restoration Team. Featured in this jam-packed episode of Radio Free Skaro is an interview with Michael D. Thomas, who as co-editor of Queers Dig Time Lords, talks about the queer segment of Doctor Who fandom and what draws people to our beloved show. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #369 - A Tale of Two Doctors
In an uneventful, post finale, nothing ever happens week, The Three Who Rule….wait, HOLD ON, JUST A SECOND…..Chris isn't on the show this week. Oh, and also, Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who.
Yes, the floppy haired foetus who charmed his way into our hearts in the Eleventh Hour has decided to vacate the TARDIS, but not before the 50th Anniversary and Christmas specials this year. Smith's tenure spanned arguably the greatest period of global mainstream popularity the show has ever seen, and it is likely the search and selection of the next Doctor will garner more than a little attention from both fans and the not-we. Let the speculation, tears, jeers, madness, forum bile and lunacy begin! We also have news, japes, Warren trying and failing to explain Guardians of the Galaxy to Steven, and a winner for our DVD caption contest! Hooray!
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Radio Free Skaro #368 - Iron Pants
It may be six months until new Doctor Who, but…we've got stats! So, so many stats. Also, Warren gets a lot of facts wrong (as usual), we've invented an exciting new drink called "whiskwee", and for the first time in RFS history, we have a contest to win a DVD box set of Series 7 and The Snowmen! Check our Facebook page on Monday, May 26 for all the details on how you can win these shiny platters of loveliness.
But while you wait to pitch wits against your fellow Whovians, listen to the Torchwood panel from last month's Calgary Expo featuring the brilliant bon mots of John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd and moderated by Steven. Fun was had! Pants were shed! And swears were uttered, so keep the kid lets away (or wear headphones) as we shred the iTunes "explicit" tag into a million tiny pieces.
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Radio Free Skaro #367 - Everybody Hurts
Well, the most recent series of Doctor Who has wrapped up, and what a way to do it - a fangasmagoria from Steven Moffat containing notable nods to the past and tantalizing hints of what's to come. "The Name of the Doctor" gave fans what they wanted (and more) in a 50th anniversary story, and it was six months early! But what did the Three Who rule think of this extravaganza? Also discussed in this episode were the now assured future of Doctor Who and the show's return in Series 8, stats, more stats, and the potentially damaging effects of Eurovision. And now, six months to wait until more new Doctor Who...but what else does the BBC have in store before then?
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Radio Free Skaro #366 - The Emperor's New Clothes
Neil Gaiman's sophomore effort is one of the most divisive in the history of new Doctor Who, with some fans adoring his take on the Cybermen and others viewing precocious children and speedy metal men with disdain. But what did the Three Who Rule think? What are Chris's views on the Proper Use of the Pimp Hand? Was Steven his usual cheery self, and did Warren find time to admonish his fellow nerds for overexcitement? Mix in stats, leaked Series 7 DVDs, fake Target book covers, and more, and you've got yourself a veritable jambalaya of Doctor Who conversation for slightly less than an hour!
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Radio Free Skaro #365 - Fondant Surprise
Northern England in the Victorian era, monsters, lizards, Sontarans, lame GPS jokes and latched-on kidlet drama all made "The Crimson Horror" a roller coaster ride of emotion for the Three Who Rule. But was it a ride full of thrills and chills or merely a routine trundle through well-worn paths of dramaturgy? Were endless stats enough to send Warren into a fit of apoplectic rage? Do nerds get angry about any and all news about the 50th anniversary special? All these questions will be answered in this exciting episode of Radio Free Skaro! Except the nerdrage, that's one of life's eternal mysteries.
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Radio Free Skaro #364 - Smoke On The Horizon
For decades, fans of Doctor Who have been wondering and dreaming of what amazing thrills and sights exist within The Doctor's TARDIS. The 50th Anniversary of the programme seems to be an appropriate time to finally peel back the curtain on The Doctor's magical time-space machine, and Stephen Thompson's script, free of crippling 20th century BBC budgets, took us for a ride. But what did the Three Who Rule think? After that, Chris and Steven are joined by Erika and Katrina from Verity! in Calgary, talking about the massive event that is Calgary Expo, which attracted 60,000 fans (and many Doctor Who cosplayers) to southern Alberta this weekend. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #363 - Ghost Lite
Awoooooo! Scary stuff! That's what this week's instalment of Doctor Who was, as "Hide", a tautly written and directed thriller, enthralled many a fan and viewer. But what did the Three Who Rule think? They were widely split with their opinions of writer Neil Cross's first effort, "The Rings of Akhaten"; will Cross make Chris cross, or will it be smooth sailing for all involved? Also discussed are changing pronunciations of planet names throughout the years (because, yes, Metebelis-gate is casually mentioned in this episode), the title of the Series 7b finale, the return of the Doctor Who Proms, and some exciting action figures coming your way later this year. Awooooo!
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Radio Free Skaro #362 - Ice Hot
After a wait of almost 40 years, the Ice Warriors have returned to Doctor Who, with at least (and let's be honest, at most) one heavily armoured, lumbering green menace is back to make the lives of an 80's crew of Soviet submariners a soggy, terrifying hell. Mark Gatiss, a Who polymath with some hits and a few misses under his belt, brings the claustrophobic terror with "Cold War," but the real question is, what did the Three Who Rule think of the story? With precious little to discuss besides this episode and stats, stats, stats (and more stats) they expostulated at length, coming perilously close to beating Douglas McKinnon's expertly paced tale's running time with their balderdash and bafflegab.
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Radio Free Skaro #361 - The Borings of Akhaten
After a rollicking opening to Series 7B last week, we were treated to a new episode in "The Rings of Akhaten" that received almost no love from any of the Three Who Rule. In fact, only one person had something nice to say about it, and you'll never guess who! The episode may have left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, but the return of a full stats report, and a return of our new, impromptu game called "Guess the Stats!", proved to be a splash of minty, mouthwashy goodness! That, and talk of the 50th Anniversary special, Christopher Eccleston, DVD news, and an endless list of Doctor Who t-shirt ideas, makes clear that it's not where you start, but where you finish. Next week: Ice Warriorssss...
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Radio Free Skaro #360 - Quadracyclephenia
New Doctor Who! And given such an auspicious occasion, it was no surprise that the Three Who Rule yammered on length about "The Bells of Saint John," and then further prognosticated on the news that David Tennant and Billie Piper will in fact return for the 50th anniversary special. Debate on the proper levels of fanwankiness for the special, speculation on the many hints and tidbits Moffat has seeded throughout his tenure leading up to November 23rd, 2013 and other wishes and dreams for the upcoming season were all grist for the fevered (and possibly insane) minds of the RFS crew. All this and various other tidbits of news, and more importantly, no stats. (Don't worry, stats will be back in full force next week).
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Radio Free Skaro #359 - Whether You Like It Or Not
The upcoming book "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner" is quite possibly the most controversial account of the behind-the-scenes world of Doctor Who ever published, delving into the, at times, seedy side of the life of the long time producer of Doctor Who. It also covers, with astonishing detail, the trials and tribulations that occurred during the making of the programme in the 1980s when the BBC were increasingly trying to kill it. We present an interview with the book's author, Richard Marson, who explains the amount of work that went into researching the biography, as well as discuss his own experiences and opinions on the man who was responsible for Doctor Who for an entire decade. But before that, Chris and Steven yammer about the news of the week, and look forward to new Doctor Who in less than a week's time!
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Radio Free Skaro #358 - A Breath of Fresh Air Lock
A wide variety of news leads off the latest episode of Radio Free Skaro, as the Three Who Rule pontificate about the fate of Caroline Skinner, the discovery of early Doctor Who scripts and even a little about the upcoming Series 7B... but wait, there's more! This week saw the release of the Special Edition of The Aztecs, which includes the recently-found third episode of Galaxy 4, and what more fitting way to celebrate its release on home video than for the RFS lads to talk all over it in the form of a commentary. Talk of Lego, the upcoming Calgary Expo, the realization we're on the cusp of the longest unbroken streak of Doctor Who episodes since 2010 - and of course the other news of the week - round out this week's podcast. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #357 - Wiped Clean By The Wrath of Pamela Nash
Just as Doctor Who is missing episodes from its archive, the Three Who Rule are missing Chris this week. But instead of providing you with a telesnap reconstruction of Pedantor, we bring to you instead an interview with Richard Molesworth, author of Wiped!, the second edition of which is hitting bookshelves soon. Steven and Richard discuss all there is to talk about regarding missing episodes, including recent discoveries, mystery in Sierra Leone, and what's being done to hopefully find more episodes in the future. Warren and Steven also plough through a news list featuring discussion of conventions, Series 7b news, and outrage at the continued absence of a Bill Filer action figure.
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Radio Free Skaro #356 - Strax to the Max
After the craziness of last week's Calgary Expo announcement (which crashed the servers at Radio Free Skaro headquarters, aka a rusty shack in Surrey, BC), and two weeks after the wild times of Gallifrey One, the Three Who Rule were finally able to sit back, relax, and take in an episode of Doctor Who. And then talk over it. The episode of choice is "The Snowmen", the 2012 Christmas special that caused much merriment amongst most of the masses. Minus Warren, Chris and Steven find time before hand to discuss the news of the week, including the passing of designer Ray Cusick, responsible for one of the most iconic science fiction designs of all time. He also designed the Daleks.
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Radio Free Skaro #355 - All the News That's Fit To Miss
It's only a week after Gallifrey One, but there's no rest for the wicked as we bring you a very special announcement regarding Radio Free Skaro and the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, taking place - surprise, surprise - in Calgary, Alberta from April 26-28! Event coordinator Shane Turgeon from Calgary Expo drops by with all the details including some exciting Doctor Who-related announcements. But wait, there's more! As you may have noticed, the Three Who Rule let the news pass by the wayside during Gallifrey One, but there were so many interesting developments to discuss that a bumper list of news new and old is presented here for you to bring some sense of completion to your lives (but mostly to those of the Three Who Rule). Hooray!
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Radio Free Skaro #354 - The Best Things In Life Are Freema
Another Gallifrey One has come and gone! On this, the fifth and final Radio Free Skaro podcast from Gally, we present to you interviews with Freema Agyeman, director Saul Metzstein (with a cameo from Ben Browder!), Charlie Ross, and the Valeyard himself, Michael Jayston! We also catch up with our friend Ken Deep, eavesdrop on a 24-year "Survival" reunion between Sylvester McCoy and Julian Holloway, and unveil some podcast plans for the months to come. 2013 is shaping up to be an exciting year, and Gallifrey One was a perfect way to kick it off in style!
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Radio Free Skaro #353 - A Sound of Ice and Fire
Still more Gallifrey! Your august crew scoured the LAX Marriott for Who personages of note, and by golly we found them, in the personages of director Douglas Mackinnon, ex-companion and documentarian Mark Strickson, BBC Radiophonic Workshop guru Dick Mills, writer and all around gent Andrew Smith, and podcast supremos The Oodcast all collide cheek by jowl in this, our penultimate episode from Gallifrey One. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #352 - Press Play Now
The Doctor Who classic series DVD range is approaching the end of its run, but not before a few momentous releases hit the shelves around the world in celebration of the programme's 50th anniversary. Who better to discuss what's to come than the very folks who have restored and enhanced Doctor Who in DVD form for the past several years? We present to you the Enlightenment DVD panel from Gallifrey One, with commissioning editor Dan Hall, Restoration Team founder Steve Roberts, documentary producer Ed Stradling, and writer/documentarian Nicholas Pegg. With The Tenth Planet, The Ice Warriors, and many other hotly anticipated releases discussed, this is not a panel to be missed! Also, our friend Luke from TMDWP drops by to tell the Three Who Rule about his experiences at his first ever Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #351 - Radio Free Skaro and The Ambassadors of Death
RFS Live from Gallifrey One in Los Angeles! Yes, it's time once again for Radio Free Skaro's annual live show at Gallifrey One, the biggest and best Doctor Who convention to grace the shores of Los Angeles and the world entire. Steven, Warren and Chris were delighted and honoured to play host to Sylvester McCoy, Philip Hinchcliffe, Stephen Thorne, Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh, and Richard Hope. Chip, the Two Minute Time Lord, both acted as audio engineer and delivered a wonderful sermon on the importance and sheer wonder of being a fan in a community of diverse but like-minded friends.
Can we just say it one more time? PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE.
Thanks to one and all who came to the show in person, and we're delighted to offer this year's live show to our listeners who couldn't make it to L.A.
Radio Free Skaro #350 - The Lyon in Winter
Gallifrey One is here! THE event on the Doctor Who calendar has finally arrived, and it seems to start earlier every year, as can be heard during this very episode of Radio Free Skaro! Recorded during Lobbycon on the Thursday night, the Three Who Rule are joined by Gallifrey One program director Shaun Lyon, who talks about this year's enormously popular edition of the long running convention, the pitfalls that have occurred during the year that led up to this year's con, and the wonderful triumphs this year and every year that makes Gallifrey One such an amazing experience for Doctor Who fan young and old. Just a taste of the wild weekend to come at Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #349 - Is That In Ireland?
Has it really been a year? Yes, Gallifrey One is imminent, which means it's time for the annual Radio Free Skaro Gally preview show! The Three Who Rule run down what panels they'd like to see (if they weren't so busy bringing you the best coverage of the convention that money would never actually buy), as well as give you a primer of what to expect at the world's greatest Doctor Who convention. But before they get into full con mode, a bumper crop of news happened this past week, including some very interesting DVD releases coming down the pipe, and the beginning of filming for the hotly anticipated "An Adventure In Space and Time". Next stop: Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #348 - The Rain of Errors
Because of a complicated situation involving Mandrels, Bandrils, the Borad and the Swarm, the Three Who Rule kept it (somewhat) brief this week, focusing on conserving their energies for the onslaught of Gallifrey coverage coming your way in a mere week and change. News included the casting of "An Adventure in Space and Time," the increasingly intruiging dramatization of the early days of Doctor Who, DVD news, analysis of the upcoming insanely detailed (and expensive) David Tennant figure, and a tribute to Bernard Horsfall, a veteran Classic Who actor who left us all too soon this week.
But since this is Radio Free Skaro, there was also pointless debate about the Mask of Omega, the overall quality of the Three Doctors, the Two Doctors and other classic stories, and speculation about just what the BBC is holding back (if anything) regarding their celebratory plans for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Enjoy this short(er) but sweet(er) episode, which will lighten the weight of your portable listening device! Don't question that last statement, it is SCIENCE.
Radio Free Skaro #347 - Toyfairgate
A shocking amount of news made its way from the wilds of the Internet to the fevered brains and out of the fetid mouths of the Three Who Rule this week, including the infamous "ToyFairGate," where canny spies noted BBC posters announcing….somewhat sparse plans for the anniversary year of Doctor Who. The din of fan outrage was such that it almost drowned out announcements of new action figures, soundtracks, special edition DVDs and other delicious morsels.
But controversy and action figure portfolios aside, this week also marks an interview with Paul Scoones, Doctor Who historian and author of "The Comic Strip Companion: 1964-1979" which chronicles decades of Doctor Who comic strips. Scoones is also well known for his deep production knowledge, expressed through the medium of subtitles on Doctor WHo DVDs. Steven spent the better part of an hour delving deep into Scoones work with him, and now we bring that interview to you.
And remember, in less than three weeks Radio Free Skaro will open Gallifrey One with our live show, "The Ambassadors of Death!" With a guest lineup of Sylvester McCoy, Philip Hinchcliffe, Bernard Horsfall, Neve McIntosh, Richard Hope and Dan Starkey, it's sure to be ninety minutes of fun, facts and…a return guest appearance from Chip, the Two Minute TIme Lord!
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Radio Free Skaro #346 - Contact Has Been Made
With Chris and Steven each recuperating from an infection from the Swarm, it was Warren's turn to suffer the effects of an infestation of the Nucleus. While Warren wasn't running on full steam for the news segment, in which news on Gallifrey One was the dominant feature, he does feature in a previously recorded interview with Mike Tucker, the visual effects expert whose work has appeared on both classic and new series Doctor Who. Mike is also a Doctor Who fan and an all around nice guy, which makes this episode of Radio Free Skaro a must listen! Just stay back at least 50 feet from the Three Who Rule when listening...
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Radio Free Skaro #345 - Celebrations And Swan Songs
All good things come to an end, and so it must be with the series of interviews Steven conducted at Chicago TARDIS. But we end with none other than Gary Russell, someone who has done so much not only in the world of Doctor Who but also in a myriad of other creative pursuits. From his start as a child actor on the Famous Five to his work as editor of Doctor Who magazine and his years as script editor of the show itself, Russell has seen and done it all.
And of course it wouldn't be an episode of RFS without a lot of meandering discussion, news, and a palpable excitement for Gallifrey, which is merely a month away. Hooray!
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Radio Free Skaro #344 - More Than 100 Minutes In The TARDIS
Happy New Year! After battling illness and ennui over the past week and a half, the Three Who Rule are back with a bumper episode to launch 2013, the centrepiece of which is an epic interview with Kevin Jon Davies. Davies was the director and producer of "More Than 30 Years In The TARDIS", the BBC's official 30th anniversary celebration for Doctor Who, but his connection to the worlds of Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and Blake's 7, made for a fascinating chat. Also, your three hosts run down the Christmas time viewing figures, discuss their importance, and also talk about puppies. Six weeks until Gallifrey One!
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Radio Free Skaro #343 - Hilarity, Polarity, and Clara-ty
NEW WHO! The Three Who Rule were delighted to find a sparkling new Doctor Who story under their Christmas tree in the form of "The Snowmen," a somewhat deceptive name as actual snowmen figure nowhere near as much as disembodied manifestations, the plummy tones of Sir Ian McKellen, the iconic Richard E. Grant, and a puzzle of an enigma known as Clara the barmaid/governess. Throw in a sassy Sontaran, a sensual Silurian and her good lady wife, and a broody, moody, and altogether froody Matt Smith and you've got yourself a Christmas special! And a podcast about said special! Christmas!
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Radio Free Skaro #342 - Cinephiles And Audio Files
The impending arrival of Christmas Day means two things: excitement for "The Snowmen" is rising to fever pitch, and…Chris is super busy and couldn't be part of this week's proceedings. Steven and Warren made up for his absence by immediately taking the whole business off the rails and discussing the Hobbit's use of 48fps. After much debate and incorrect references to VidFIRE, the duo got back to business and discussed the week's news before seguing into Steven's interviews with both composer and production sound expert Mark Ayres and the voices behind Verity!, a new all-female podcast coming soon to your local internet.
Stay tuned on December 26th (known as Boxing Day here in the frozen wilds of Canada and as Wednesday in the US of A) for our review of "The Snowmen"!
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Radio Free Skaro #341 - Stepsons And Screwdrivers
Trailers! Trailers! So many trailers for the Snowmen, the upcoming Doctor Who Xmas special! Well, alright…there were two new trailers. But they are amping up the enthusiasm of the Three Who Rule for this year's Yuletide offering, which is surely a good thing after the slim pickings of 2011's The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. Another good thing is the interview from Chicago TARDIS with Toby Hadoke, a friend of the show, gentleman actor and all around great fella. Bask in his wisdom and delight in his wit! Immediately!
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Radio Free Skaro #340 - Masterplans And Script Doctors
A simply colossal list of news items dominated the proceedings on this week's Radio Free Skaro, with much discussion on the snippets of non-spoilery info emerging about "The Snowmen," this year's Doctor Who Xmas Day spectacular. The Three Who Rule also announced not only what their live show at Gallifrey One is called, but also their first guest to open the show and the convention itself! But news was but grist for the main event, an interview from Chicago TARDIS with former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel. All this AND a pointless discussion about the Hobbit at 48fps? You bet!
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Radio Free Skaro #339 - Light Work And Dark Eyes
The Three Who Rule were reunited (and it felt so good) with Steven's return from Chicago TARDIS…bearing the gift of an interview with Nick Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery, and Paul Spragg, whose sterling work in the dramatic audio arts can be appreciated by all and sundry at www.bigfinish.com. News was sparse this week as we enter the calm before the Christmas Special storm, but numerous puzzling references to Ke$ha, a quite sweary Warren and 15 minutes of nonsensical pre-game banter padded out the proceedings nicely.
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Radio Free Skaro #338 - Burnt Toast And Bus Stations
Chicago TARDIS is the setting for this week's Radio Free Skaro as many hundreds of Doctor Who fans materialized in the Windy City for the Midwest's most popular Doctor Who convention. Steven represented the Three Who Rule at the con, and is joined in this episode by Chip from the Two-Minute Time Lord and Erik from the Doctor Who Book Club Podcast to discuss the convention, as well as the plethora of news that occurred in the world of Doctor Who over the past week - including stats! And to top it all off, Chip and Steven sit down with the TARDIS team of the late 1980s - Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. Stay tuned to RFS in the coming weeks for even more interviews from Chicago TARDIS!
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Radio Free Skaro #337 - Splink
The Three Who Rule were joined this week by the incomparable John Williams, Tachyon TV alumnus and author of an upcoming tome about Who legend Malcolm Hulke. Mr. Williams was on hand not to plug his scribbling but to add his mellifluous verbiage to commentary of "The Angels Take Manhattan," the final adventure of Mr. and Mrs. Pond. Add a pinch of praise for sarcastic Sontarans, a dash of derision for evil Snowmen, and a completely arbitrary show title like "Splink," and…well, just take a listen.
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Radio Free Skaro #336 - The Power of Squee
The Three Who Rule were reduced to Two this week, but Steven and Warren were joined by the inestimable Simon Harries of Tachyon TV fame for a commentary on "The Power of Three," the penultimate story of this half-season. Simon's dry wit counterbalanced Steven's idiot savantism (emphasis on the "idiot") and Warren's outright stupidity to produce a most delicious bit of commentary that we're sure you'll enjoy! But that's not all! Though it nearly is, as the news was sparse this week, with only intrigues and tales of lost (and then found) Neil Gaiman scripts to report to you, our dear, dear listeners.
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Radio Free Skaro #335 - Browder Chowder
It was a bit of a light week in the world of Doctor Who as the production team secluded themselves in a Cardiff conference room to read through Neil Gaiman's eagerly anticipated second Doctor Who script, so the Three Who Rule devote some of their attention to the nerdplosion that was Disney buying up Lucasfilm. When Neil Perryman of The Adventures With the Wife in Space drops in for the commentary of "A Town Called Mercy", the off topic meanderings continue with praise and scorn heaped upon Farscape, Babylon 5, and some other series not named Doctor Who. Worry not, though, dear listener. There's still plenty of Who talk to validate the name of this podcast, from the astounding news that Gallifrey One is sold out for 2013 to fine performance of one Ben Browder. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #334 - Nefertiti Graffiti
Dinosaurs! On a Spaceship! Matt Smith's enthusiasm aside, does the fluffy lizardfest hold up to the laser-like scrutiny of Steven, Warren, and Luke from The Minute Doctor Who Podcast in this, the second of the "Pond Farewell Tour" commentaries? Were Mitchell and Webb any good as surly robots? Does the Doctor's team of historical oddities (and Rory's dad) make for high adventure and rollicking space-based shenanigans? Are any of these questions even close to addressed in the commentary? Tune in to find out, as well as hear tiny morsels of what could charitably called "news!"
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Radio Free Skaro #333 - Avid Femmy Robomen
With the New! Doctor! Who! countdown clock having more than two months on it, a mandate was declared by the Three Who Rule that now is the time for Season 7A commentaries. NOW. Over the coming weeks their trademark brand of pedantism, whimsy and love for classic rock will undoubtedly distract from the adventures of the Doctor, Amy and Rory playing out before them onscreen, starting this week with Asylum of the Daleks. But wait! Chip, the Two-minute Time Lord, joins our august trio for this episode, allegedly to voice his opinions on Asylum but mostly the keep Steven, Warren and Chris in line. Does he succeed? Tune in to find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #332 - Harry and the Giant Clam
The bulk of this week's episode is devoted to "Chicks Unravel Time," edited by Deb Stanish and L.M. Myles, a follow-up by Mad Norwegian Press to the widely praised "Chicks Dig Time Lords." In this book, each writer tackled a different season of Classic Who, with sometimes surprising results! The editors of this weighty tome told Warren and Steven about the creation of the book, the wide range of voices in the book (from pros to first-time writers) and the big difference that a female perspective can have on interpretation of our favorite television program.
Oh yes, and some stats were mulled over at some point in the news segment. Last stats until Christmas, thank Omega!
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Radio Free Skaro #331 - Fond Ponds Long Gone
This week sees the Three Who Rule in rest mode after five weeks of exhilarating new Doctor Who episodes, and before they begin inviting a few of their friends, old and new, to join them for the next few weeks of podcasting whimsy. As such, much waffling occurs as topics veer from Doctor Who (thankfully) to Red Dwarf to Robocop to 1988 (or is it 1987?) and the contemporary career trajectory of a young Alan Rickman. After your three hosts settle down, though, a thorough and indepth discussion takes place regarding the recently departed Ponds and their place in Who history. We do hope you enjoy listening.
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Radio Free Skaro #330 - Then They Take Berlin
The Angels Take Manhattan….and, to various degrees, the hearts of Warren, Steven, and Chip the Two Minute Time Lord, who sat in Chris's stead to review the mid-season finale and the departure of Matt Smith's near and dear companions, the Ponds. Weeping Statues of Liberty, questions of style vs. substance and what comes next for the series all reared their silent, menacing stone visages before coming to the really terrifying stuff…stats. Add a rant about thigh-less maxi-busts, high praise for Chicks Unravel Time, Chicago TARDIS, and Gel Guard action dolls and you've got yourselves three nerds talking about Doctor Who for an hour and change! And now another long wait until new Doctor Who stories grace our screens again...
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Radio Free Skaro #329 - The Curse of the Black Cube
The Three Who Rule took almost as long to talk about "The Power of Three" this week as the (admittedly truncated) episode itself took to play out on UK television screens. So what did Steven, Warren and Chris think of the slow invasion of the world by an Ikea fever dream? Did they enjoy the emergence of a new generation of UNIT leadership or the strengthening of emotional bonds between the Doctor, the Ponds, and Pond Sr? Or did they think it was all a load of stapled-on Gallifreyan fairy tales sealed by a bit of wand-waving? You'll just have to listen to find out! Also, don't miss stats, more stats, arguments about the canonical nature of Bill Baggs videos, pedanting, prequeldanting, and more!
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Radio Free Skaro #328 - A Fistful of Kahlers
Steven returns this week to the Radio Free Skaro fold after spending the previous week in a Doctor Who-less desolation in the form of the lakes area of Northern Wisconsin. A completely different desolate location (namely, Almeria, Spain) served as the backdrop of Episode Three of Series 7a of Doctor Who, A Town Called Mercy, a sharp-looking homage to the many spaghetti Westerns that were filmed in its environs. The Three Who Rule were surprisingly all on the same page when it comes to how well writer Toby Whithouse, director Saul Metzstein, and the rest of the team brought this episode to being... Also, an unexpected deluge of viewing figures dominates the news list, but is punctuated by the unqualified ratings success of Doctor Who on SPACE in Canada and the gradual realization that what has always been a niche show north of the 49th parallel is becoming part of the mainstream. And, no, we don't know how to deal with that, either.
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Radio Free Skaro #327 - Ankyl Socks
With Steven quite literally in a Cabin In The Woods, cut off from much of humanity and completely ignorant of "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship," it was up to Warren, Chris and special guest star Chip, the Two-Minute Time Lord, to hash out their feelings about thunder lizards, Egyptian queens and guest stars from the Potterverse. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs and fluffy clouds and unicorns and... wait, where were we again? Oh yeah, Warren was forced to confront that which he hated most, the dreaded stats, and we throw in some discussion about the Welsh BAFTAS, games, Cafe Press and the Hugo Awards and more. Put it all together and you've got yourself an audio program on the internet about a niche topic!
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Radio Free Skaro #326 - Because We Need The Eggs
New Doctor Who! Yes, Asylum of the Daleks marked the return of the good Doctor and his erstwhile companions for the first time since last Christmas, and in high style with quite literally EVERY DALEK EVER making an appearance. What did the Three Who Rule think of Asylum? You'll just have to tune in and find out, but suffice it to say their opinions were less than uniform. All this and Pond Life, an entirely too long rant about the BBC America specials, the universally beloved viewing figure recitation, and much more on this episode of RADIO! FREE! SKARO!
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Radio Free Skaro #325 - Turn Me On, Deadman
We're officially into the home stretch toward the return of Doctor Who. After leaving the launch date until late in the game, as the BBC likes to do, it was formalized this past week that Asylum of the Daleks will grace our screens on September 1 (unless you live in Australia). Jubilation and excitement abound, despite the short run of Series 7A, and The Three Who Rule look forward to sinking their teeth into Moffat's first proper Dalek story... next week. In the mean time, we still have the rest of our Invasion of Time commentary to deliver, as well as the rest of the past week's news, which for a change is sorta Arthur Darvill-centric. Sit tight as we deliver a Rory-ing good time!
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Radio Free Skaro #324 - Tinfoil Terrors
With less than two weeks to go until new Doctor Who (maybe, possibly, nothing confirmed...) this week's news unsurprisingly revolved around both actual Series 7 news, like the screening of Asylum of the Daleks at the British Film Institute, and the spoilery spoler-free reviews of said screening by some of the UK's leading printed fishwrap merchants. Ticket sales for the upcoming NY screening of Asylum didn't go off quite so smoothly, leading the charges of heresy, treason, and bad sportsmanship on the part of BBC America. But this was all mere preamble to the main event, a scintillating commentary of parts 1 to 4 of the Invasion of Time, the seminal adventure on Gallifrey involving foil villains, arbitrary romance, and Rodan, the slinkiest air traffic controller Time Lady ever. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #323 - The Mark of The Gatiss
The summer time-wasting series winds down a bit with what's likely to be the final miniscope for a time. With New! Doctor! Who! on the horizon, The Three Who Rule look at the NuWho writing efforts of stalwart scribe Mark Gatiss, whose contributions to Doctor Who date back a couple decades. Gatiss has authored New Adventures, starred in fan videos, written for Big Finish, done Confidential voiceover work and so much more - not to mention penning a 50th anniversary special about the origins of our favourite show; it's no hyperbole to say he was a natural to write for modern Who. Then again, it unfortunately means we talk about Victory of the Daleks. News of the week, including ICONIC casting banter, rounds out another of these things we call Radio Free Skaro. And stay tuned for our plans for the podcast's sixth anniversary! Oh, wait. We have none. Carry on.
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Radio Free Skaro #322 - The Horse Eaters of Traken
A bumper length episode of Radio Free Skaro awaits you this week! The lengthy news list contains a discussion on the new trailer for Series 7 that came out this past week, as well as speculation on what big name actor will be announced as a guest star! (Of course, by the time you all hear this, this information will be already out there, and we'll look like right idiots. Again.) After we cover some DVD news, we move on to our commentary for Tom Baker's penultimate story The Keeper of Traken, possibly Doctor Who's most valid stab at stagey Shakespeare productions that happen to take place on different planets. But on the bright side - less than a month until new Doctor Who!
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Radio Free Skaro #321 - Wareing Thin
Whenever anything from the Sylvester McCoy era is the focus of an episode of Radio Free Skaro, there is bound to be disagreement. Chris and Steven are usually staunch defenders of the Seventh Doctor; Warren, to be polite, not so much. But the stories that director Alan Wareing claimed stewardship of, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", "Ghost Light", and "Survival" cause all three of those who Rule to convey pretty firm opinions about not only the direction of said stories, but the overall successes and faults of each one. But before Wareing's judgement in the Miniscope, we remember the eloquent and beautiful Mary Tamm who sadly passed away this past week, as well as speculate on what's to come in Doctor Who and when we will see it. Have a listen!
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Radio Free Skaro #320 - Floriani Requiem
The latter part of our commentary of the Tom Baker classic "The Seeds of Doom" dominates this week's episode of Radio Free Skaro as, once again, our friend Josh Zimon from The Memory Cheats joins us to talk over the dastardly exploits of the vile Harrison Chase. Before that, though, the Three Who Rule hash over last week's Comic-Con, serial dramas, bleeding sheep (possibly?), and the possible ennui that's setting in regarding the buildup to Series 7 of Doctor Who. It's a longer episode this week, but we promise a shorter, more rage filled episode next week as Warren will be forced to watch three stories from the Sylvester McCoy era...
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Radio Free Skaro #319 - Where In Time Is Comic-Con San Diego?
San Diego Comic-Con has become a huge event for the team behind Doctor Who, and this year is no different, with the cast and crew descending upon San Diego to promote the upcoming Series 7, believed to be premiering on BBC America (and most likely BBC One and SPACE) on Saturday, August 25! Stephen Prescott from the Mad Man With A Box podcast drops by to give us his report from the trenches at SDCC. Later, our old friend Josh Zimon (of The Memory Cheats fame) joins the Three Who Rule for the first part of our commentary on The Seeds of Doom. All this and more on another jam packed edition of Radio Free Skaro!
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Radio Free Skaro #318 - King's Landing
With Chris away this week as he completes his move westward to Edmonton, the Three Who Rule welcomes occasional Fourth Ruler Neil Perryman of Adventures With The Wife in Space and Tachyon TV fame to talk about the works of Paddy Kingsland in the Miniscope. Kingsland provided many a memorable motif in a multitude of stories from Seasons 18-21, ranging stylistically from the morose melodies of "Logopolis" to the rock and roll riffs that backed up "Mawdryn Undead". Also discussed were the imminent appearances of mother-daughter team Diana Rigg and Rachel Stirling in Doctor Who, and can Paul McGann's new costume (it's canon now, folks!) be the stepping stone to a future appearance in the TV series in 2013? Stay tuned!
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Radio Free Skaro #317 - Enter The WOTAN (36 Chambers)
A bumper crop of news highlights this week's episode of RFS as the ramp-up to the new series of Doctor Who continues. San Diego Comic-Con talk, BFI premieres, and several new toys that will be filling the toy boxes and bookcases of child and middle-aged nerd alike. And to top it off, we present our commentary of The War Machines, the 1966 serial that introduced us to the character of "Doctor Who" and a rather far fetched notion of computers connecting to each other across the world into some sort of an international network. There's nothing quite so dated as our vision of the future, is there?
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Radio Free Skaro #316 - SCIENCE!
Christopher Hamilton Bidmead is a polarizing figure in Doctor Who fandom, with some hating his tenure as script editor and writer whilst others loved the shift he oversaw from clownish antics to more science-based storytelling. Where do the Three Who Rule stand on this vitally important matter? Why does Steven love Castrovalva? What is the Watcher, really? Why does Bidmead hate the TARDIS so much (or does he)? The answer, dear friends, is SCIENCE!
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Radio Free Skaro #315 - High On Your Own Supply
The Radio Free Skaro time-wasting series continues with our commentary on a story that features baddies some might call borderline pornographic (goodness knows JNT did). Yes, it's the third part of The Trial of a Timelord, Terror of the Vervoids! Much time was spent discussing the directorial choices made in this less than stellar series of Doctor Who episodes, despite the Three Who Rule having previously done a Miniscope segment about director Chris Clough nearly three years ago (see episode #164, kiddies). Still, the lads soldier on through a story featuring those infamous creatures, the bald agenda and none other than Pussy Galore herself. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
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Radio Free Skaro #314 - The Keys of Martinus
Derek Martinus directed six Doctor Who stories over the course of his career, the last one being 1970's Spearhead From Space. Much of his output from the 1960s, sadly, no longer exists in the BBC archives, so when it came time to discuss Martinus in the Miniscope this week, the Three Who Rule were presented with a problem: how do you talk about the visual aspect of Doctor Who episodes that exist today in audio form only? Well, no fear, as Luke from TMDWP is here, casting his expert eye upon some pretty impressive work done by Martinus, a director who first realized the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors, and the Autons, to say nothing of the very first regeneration seen in the series. A more thorough investigation of one of Doctor Who's lesser known directors you will not hear!
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Radio Free Skaro #313 - Wirrn Trouble Now
This week's episode of Radio Free Skaro has unwittingly turned into a celebration of one-time Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe. Not only do the Three Who Rule provide commentary on the first Hinchcliffe story to air, 1975's iconic The Ark in Space, but it was also announced this past week that Hinchcliffe will be appearing at his first ever Gallifrey One convention in February of next year. So sit back and listen as we celebrate one of the finest eras in Doctor Who history that made the show an international success story.
Also, listen as we make fun of actors' hairstyles. Ah, it's Radio Free Skaro. What do you expect?
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Radio Free Skaro #312 - Eurosvision
With the furore and fascination of Eurovision now over with (oh, the excitement! The whimsy!), the Three Who Rule turn their gaze towards one of the most prolific directors in the new series, Euros Lyn, in this week's Miniscope. Lyn was credited with directing an astonishing eleven episodes across nine stories, including some stunning work on Tooth and Claw, and some questionable decisions on the David Tennant/RTD finale The End of Time. Also discussed in this week's podcast is Radio Free Skaro's upcoming appearance at Westercon 66 in July 2013, and some exciting news on the DVD front in the months to come. All in all, this week's episode is worth more Euros than money can buy!
Radio Free Skaro #311 - Lenny Bruce Is Not Afraid
The RFS team is scattered hither and yon this week with Steven in Madison, Wisconsin, and Warren scooping up cross-border deals in Seattle, but they still manage to crank out another episode of Radio Free Skaro for your listening delight. This week, Steven and Chris postulate on the news that was, including a discussion on the wonderful Tales of Television Centre documentary that aired on BBC Four this past week, but all of the Three Who Rule are there to commentate over the final three episodes of Inferno, the 1970 Jon Pertwee classic. It's the end of the world as we know it...
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Radio Free Skaro #310 - Lesbian Spank Inferno
It's a time of endings on this week's episode of Radio Free Skaro. Not only did the past week see the end of Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in their roles as the Ponds, at least as far as filming goes, it also saw the end of the Upper Boat studio being the home of Doctor Who. To cap it all off, the Three Who Rule talk all over the first four episodes of Inferno, the last story to (prominently) feature the frankly awesome Liz Shaw. But it's also a time for new beginnings as the announcement of the Series 7 premiere is discussed. Every week that passes is one week closer to NEW! DOCTOR! WHO!
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Radio Free Skaro #309 - Silver Spoonerisms
It might sound like an overstatement, but writer/script editor Dennis Spooner was one of the most important figures in the history of Doctor Who. He essentially created what is now referred to the "pseudo-historical", introduced comedy into Doctor Who as a more prominent feature, and basically created the many mannerisms of the Second Doctor, the characterization that would go on to influence all subsequent versions of The Doctor. In order to fully pay homage to Spooner, the Three Who Rule are joined by writer Graeme Burk, whose encyclopedic knowledge of Doctor Who and deep insight into Spooner's work makes this an enjoyable listen. Also discussed are some DVD releases to come in the next few months. Four Canadians blathering about Doctor Who in one podcast: how can you go wrong?
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Radio Free Skaro #308 - Next Stop: Aberdeen
As a result of one of the lightest news weeks in recent memory in the worlds of Doctor Who, the Three Who Rule were allowed to devote their full attention to a commentary on Elisabeth Sladen's (first) finale in the classic series, namely 1976's "The Hand of Fear". Quarries, nuclear plants, Judith Paris in a sexy, skin tight rock costume, Rex Robinson's eyebrows - surely this story was a can't miss, epic conclusion to Sarah Jane Smith's tenure in the TARDIS, right? Well...at least there's that goodbye scene to look forward to, right? Also in this episode: a review of Michael E. Briant's upcoming memoir "Who is Michael E. Briant?", the classic Who director's collected memories of his time on Who and other TV shows of the day. Eldrad must live!
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Radio Free Skaro #307 - Here's to The Future
One of the more maligned contributors to worlds of Doctor Who over the years has been musician Keff McCulloch. Responsible for the final variation of the Doctor Who theme for the classic series, "Deaf Keff" (as some have dubbed him) also provided incidental music for half of the stories of the Sylvester McCoy era. Did McCulloch's rampant use of sampling keyboards and predilection for digital handclaps invite a torrent of scorn from The Three Who Rule? McCulloch is the subject in this episode's Miniscope segment, and, with a bit of help from Luke from TMDWP, the Three try and delve into why they think Keff's music is so unpopular, while trying to decipher if they themselves agree with popular opinion.
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Radio Free Skaro #306 - XYP-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
With only slightly more news than the most unnewsiest Radio Free Skaro ever, the Three Who Rule pretty much get right to this week's commentary, blathering all over the (somewhat) unfairly maligned Nightmare of Eden. In a story that tackles some pretty dark and adult subjects like drug abuse, and featuring outlandish faux-German accents at the same time, Shaun Lyon, Program Director for the Gallifrey One convention, joined in the festivities, as it is his hands-down favorite Who story, and a story he defended with great aplomb. But what did the rest of your hosts think? Sit back, turn on some Pink Floyd, break open a pack of Vraxoin, and find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #305 - Richard Clark's New New York's Rockin' Eve
On the same weekend that The Doctor's Wife, along with The Girl Who Waited and A Good Man Goes To War, was nominated for a Hugo Award, it was fitting that we discuss the assorted works of that episode's director, Richard Clark, in the Miniscope. The Three Who Rule also give a good going over to the other three episodes that Clark helmed, namely Gridlock, The Lazarus Experiment, and Night Terrors, all the while comparing Clark to such diverse geniuses as Stanley Kubrick and George Martin. Also, a slow news week does at least contain some juicy tidbits about Series 7, which is currently going before the cameras in Cardiff. And just you wait to find out who we randomly draw for the next Miniscope...
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Radio Free Skaro #304 - Flay Otters
The Three Who Rule enjoy another slow news week with excess meanderings, needlessly extending the length of this week's instalment... however a slow news week coupled with a Classic Series commentary is a good thing. The lads turn their gaze to talking over the *cough* David Agnew *cough* masterpiece City of Death, heralded by Doctor Who fans as one of the best stories of our beloved show. Or at least as the highlight of Season 17. Ribald jokes and insightful analyses are paired like a meal with a fine French wine as we wander the streets of Paris.
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Radio Free Skaro #303 - The Writer's Tales
After a couple of quiet weeks on the news front, we were treated to a bumper crop of topics worthy of discussion on this episode of Radio Free Skaro. Not only were we introduced to the next companion in the form of Jenna-Louise Coleman, but the official Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff gave us a new trailer for Series 7 and so much more, as told to us by our new friend Phil Cannon from the Who's He Podcast who attended the convention and had a grand time. And as if that wasn't enough, we present an interview with Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? about their new book Who Is The Doctor?, and top off the episode with a look at the works of Terrance Dicks in the Miniscope. The excitement for Series 7 is building. We hope we help you pass the time until then in an entertaining fashion!
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Radio Free Skaro #302 - Eat Your Soup
The Three Who Rule are slightly in tatters this week with Warren away in the Deep South and Chris fighting a cold that would easily fell the entire population of a space ark that left Earth in the 57th Segment of Time, Monoids included! Fortunately, all is quiet on the news front again this week as the world of Doctor Who is focused internally on actually making new episodes for broadcast in the fall. As a result, we turn to the past again as Steven, Warren, and Chris commentate over the final three episodes of the 1971 serial The Mind of Evil, featuring The Master, rockets, epic gun battles, and some delectable soup.
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Radio Free Skaro #301 - Some More of Benton's Greatest Mistakes
A slow news week happily coincides with an otherwise jam-packed episode of Radio Free Skaro; this week the lads bring not one but two features to you dear listener! We've got an interview with "Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock" producer Simon Harris as well as the first foray back into the Classic Commentary Series with The Three Who Rule babbling overtop the first half of the Jon Pertwee story "The Mind Of Evil". Not all is rosy in the Whoniverse, however, as we also mourn the passing of Philip Madoc, an actor who brought many memorable roles to our beloved show. Now let's get the Keller outta here!
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Radio Free Skaro #300 - Build High For Happiness
After five and a half years of middling Doctor Who talk and wildly inaccurate discussion about the programme and those who create it, The Three Who Rule reach the amazing milestone of their 300th episode of Radio Free Skaro. It's been an epic ride from virtual obscurity for our first two years of existence to where we are today, and what better way to celebrate this event than the return of the Miniscope! In this instalment, we discuss the work of minor director Nicholas Mallett, whose Doctor Who output ranged from the very worst ("Paradise Towers") to the very best ("The Curse of Fenric"), and everything in between ("The Mysterious Planet"). Given Warren's rampant distaste for the Sylvester McCoy era, surely this will be a painful experience for him...or will it? This is the type of intrigue that has kept this show going for 300 episodes, and will push it into the future for at least a couple more.
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Radio Free Skaro #299 - Star Trek XII: So Very Tired
Gally is over for another year. While the Three Who Rule briefly reminisce about the glory that was Gallifrey One's Network 23 in this episode of Radio Free Skaro, it's back to normal for podcaster and listener alike for the next few months - at least until next year's The 24 Hours of Gallifrey One, or y'know, until the new series of Doctor Who starts in the autumn. To help us get back into the swing of things, we present to you a commentary on the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special, The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe, as well as a smattering of news and views of what was missed while we were all living it up at Gally.
Sigh...we miss Gally.
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Radio Free Skaro #298 - Knights of Jaffa
Our Gallifrey One coverage concludes for another year as we chat with some gentlemen who played integral roles in launching Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1990s. First up, Ian Chesterton, Sir Ian, Knight of Jaffa himself, the amazing William Russell joins Steven and Ken Deep in reminiscing about what Doctor Who and TV production in general was like in the early days of the programme. Following that, An Unearthly Child and Marco Polo director Waris Hussein outlines his role in helping to create the longest running science fiction show ever. Fast forward three decades to the 1996 Fox TV Movie, the brainchild of Philip Segal, who discusses the many pitfalls that he encountered to get the 8th Doctor's only televised adventure brought to our screens. And finally, we catch up with friend of the show Phil Ford about aliens, wizards, and tequila. And stay tuned at the end to hear Radio Free Skaro's plans for the next few months while we wait for new Doctor Who!
Thanks to everyone who we met and those who we met again at Gally this year, and thanks to you, dear listener, for tuning in to our coverage. An utterly unforgettable weekend, and we're already looking forward to coming back next year!
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Radio Free Skaro #297 - No More Janus Thorns
Radio Free Skaro dives into history with Gallifrey 2012 guests starting with Louise Jameson, otherwise known as the beautiful savage Leela, Louise was an absolute delight to talk to about her tenure on the program and her many other roles, ranging from Shakespeare to soaps and everything in between. We went further back in time with Michael Troughton, the author of a new biography about his father, Patrick Troughton and then lurched forward again to speak with Richard Franklin, who played the redoubtable Captain Mike Yates. Ringing out the program was Charlie Ross, the comedian and preeminent nerd who kept all of Gallifrey laughing with his take on our favorite TV show. Finally, RFS closed out the proceedings with David and Marty Hooie of the "Hoo on Who" podcast, friends of the show and all-around fine chaps. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #296 - Cleaning Up The Corn Field
Day Two of Gally! And what a day of behind the scenes luminaries it was, with Doctor Who director Richard Senior ("Let's Kill Hitler"), writer Simon Guerrier and the inestimable Steve Roberts of the Doctor Who Restoration Team rounding out the behind the scenes chatter. Plus the delightful mendicants from the Pharos Project stopped by to drink, swear and occasionally form a sentence. Drunktastic!
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Radio Free Skaro #295 - Radio Free Skaro and The World of Tomorrow
Gallifrey Live Show! For only the second time (and the first in the main ballroom), the Three Who Rule entertained the huddled Earth masses in attendance at the Gallifrey One convention on Los Angeles with ribaldry, shenanigans and interviews with Who luminaries such as Camille Coduri, Simon Fisher-Becker, Dalek operator Barnaby Edwards, director Toby Haynes and ingenue Gary Russell, who we predict will go onto great things. Also, Chip gives a sterling and much lauded onstage presentation of his Two-Minute Time Lord podcast that is sure to thrill and inspire.
So with no further ado, please do enjoy our second live show and second of our podcasts from Gallifrey, and remember: DESTROY ALL PODCASTORS.
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Radio Free Skaro #294 - The Dog Days Are Over
The annual meet up of Doctor Who podcasters at Gallifrey One forms the backbone of this, the first of Radio Free Skaro's episodes covering the convention. Among our friends joining us is Simon Harries, late of Tachyon TV and attending his first Gally since 2010, and Josh Zimon, long time listener and now first time guest representing, along with Eric Escamilla, the Mostly Harmless Cutaway podcast. Topics discussed were the differences in popularity of Doctor Who in North America and in the UK, how Gallifrey One stands out among the many other Doctor Who conventions in the USA and in the United Kingdom, and the usual tales of ribaldry that occurs at such events and pushes the PG-13 boundaries that this podcast tries desperately to somewhat casually enforce. Enjoy, and stay tuned throughout the rest of the weekend for more episodes to come!
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Radio Free Skaro #293 - Occupy Gallifrey
GALLY! It's the most wonderful time of the year once again, a glorious three-days-to-a-week where thousands of Doctor Who fans descend on the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles and bathe in glorious nerdery (and also sip a snifter of port on occasion.)
Our annual tradition is to run through the convention schedule before we arrive, glossing over panels that we know nothing about (cosplay, crafts, Buffy fandom and Gay Agendas) and lionizing panels we think are cool (Steve Roberts, stuff we're moderating, podcasting chinwags, and Steve Roberts.) While we strive to inform and entertain, Gally guests are well advised to check out both the website at www.gallifreyone.com and read their program guide upon arrival, which will soon become your Holy Text as you navigate past Tiki Daleks and Femmy Sixes.
As always, the Three Who Rule will be releasing daily podcasts and interviewing many of the luminaries of new and Classic Who, but we'll also be opening the convention with our live show, "Radio Free Skaro and the World of Tomorrow" on Friday, February 17th. at 12:00 p.m. If you're going to be at #gally, we'd love for you to attend our live show for 90 minutes of fun and frivolity with Camille Coduri, Toby Haynes, Barnaby Edwards, Gary Russell and Simon Fisher-Becker.
Gallifrey is one of the highlights of the year for the Three Who Rule and 2012 promises to be the best Gally yet. See you there!
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Radio Free Skaro #292 - Amok Time
At long last, Radio Free Skaro's time-filling series of Series 6 commentaries comes to an end with the Three Who Rule talking over "The Wedding of River Song". They manage to keep vaguely on topic, perhaps a tough task given their general ennui towards the Series 6 finale which contained so many twists and turns that everything pretty much wrapped up where it was expected to. Still, a good time was had by all, and with the commentaries now done, the countdown officially begins toward the greatest show on earth - Gallifrey One.
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Radio Free Skaro #291 - That Which Survives
A simple commentary about "Closing Time," which gave the Three Who Rule ample time to discuss the great chemistry between Matt Smith and guest star James Corden, instead devolved into a simply rancid discussion on babies and their propensity to poop on this episode of Radio Free Skaro. Our choice of topic says more about us than it does about the episode at hand, which was a delightful romp penned by Gareth Roberts and not at all a treatise on infants and their digestive habits. But leaving the puerile giggling aside for the moment, weighty matters as fictitious awards, possibly crappy video games and the life and quick death of Doctor Who Insider were also covered. All this and backhanded compliments aimed at Eric Roberts, and you've got yourself approximately an hour of a podcast of some sort!
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Radio Free Skaro #290 - Whom Gods Destroy
Ah, that's the January we remember. The Christmas Special aired weeks ago, it's a long time until new Doctor Who (even longer than usual) and there's really not too much going on in the Who world. But there's always Gallifrey! A bit of Gally news and banter helps, well, fill more time in our time-filling series of commentaries. The Three Who Rule lads get the privilege of being able to announce another guest for our live show, Radio Free Skaro and the World of Tomorrow and rehash Toby Whithouse's The God Complex, a mindbleep episode that split opinions when it went out. Join us for the ride!
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Radio Free Skaro #289 - Errand of Mercy
Gallifrey One, the massive and amazing annual fan-run Doctor Who convention, is rapidly approaching and we take some time to talk to Program Director Shaun Lyon about the recently-released convention schedule and to formally announce details of our live show - Radio Free Skaro And The World Of Tomorrow! As Gallifrey One's official podcast, we'll open the convention and will be joined on stage by actress Camille Coduri, director Toby Haynes, jack-of-all-trades Barnaby Edwards and jack-of-even-more-trades Gary Russell. The Three Who Rule also cast their gaze, commentary-wise, upon Tom MacRae's amazing The Girl Who Waited to see if it stands the test of time. And of course there's the news gnashing. One month to Gally!
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Radio Free Skaro #288 - Friday's Child
Despite January usually being a lean time for news of things Who, this week was chock full of factoids and quasi-related marginalia for the Three Who Rule to ponder and prognosticate upon. Of course all seriousness went out the window with a commentary on "Night Terrors," which such weighty matters discussed as watching Battlestar Galactica (the old one) and Star Wars (the old, good one) on French television, lack of consistency in doll house detailing, and of course the...nutritional habits of a young man/alien named George. Truly riveting listening.
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Radio Free Skaro #287 - The Man Trap
As 2011 draws to a close and the Three Who Rule look forward to 2012 and the next series of Doctor Who - whenever the heck it ends up being transmitted - and also deliver their commentary for the Series 6.2 opener, Let's Kill Hitler. We'll see if it stands the test of time or not, mad ride that it is. And in real-life news, hearty congratulations go out to former Doctor David Tennant and former Doctor's "daughter" Georgia Moffett on their nuptials! Now calm down, fangirls. Just. Calm. Down.
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Radio Free Skaro #286 - The Knaves of Androzani
Christmas has come and gone for another year, and Santa Claus has delivered another Doctor Who special for us all to devour like so much poorly digested turkey. Steven Moffat's The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe certainly wasn't the centrepiece of a holiday feast for the Three Who Rule, but more of a side dish of undercooked mashed potatoes that failed to elicit any strong reaction from any of the Three. Even multiple references to that most treasured of classic Who stories, The Caves of Androzani, couldn't prevent this year's special from being eclipsed by last year's momentous A Christmas Carol, mentioned here only to provide this write-up a high note to end on. Here's another depressing note, though: no more new Doctor Who for about nine months...
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Radio Free Skaro #285 - The Menagerie
With just a week to go until the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special, the Three Who Rule cast their eyes back to a simpler time, before River Song was related to the Ponds and when a baby could turn into a puddle of goo and still be broadcast pre-watershed. Yes, "A Good Man Goes to War" was our commentary this week, with all the usual off-topic and off-color discussion you've come to know and somewhat tolerate. Add chatter of our live show at Gallifrey 2012 (two months from now!), news of departing companions, Season 7's structure, and Fendahl action figures, and you've got yourself a podcast!
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Radio Free Skaro #284 - The Enemy Within
What started out as just another day with just another Radio Free Skaro episode rapidly ballooned into a furor of hype and rumour and finally confirmation as the BBC announced that two Classic Doctor Who episodes had been returned to their archives. There were other things happening in the world of Who, like some DVD news, a rather cool prequel to the upcoming Christmas Special, and even the Global iPlayer going beyond the confines of the iPad, but really, what could hold a candle to the news of New! Classic! Doctor! Who! 2 down, 106 to go…
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Radio Free Skaro #283 - Deep Dish
A bumper crop of fantastic interviews highlights this week’s episode of Radio Free Skaro! Steven, our man in…er…Chicago managed to talk to Mark Sheppard about his lifelong passion for Doctor Who and his desire to return to the show, Benjamin Cook talks about his experiences writing The Writer’s Tale with Russell T Davies, Nick Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery discuss Tom Baker’s long awaited return to the role of The Doctor (in audio form), as well as say all that they can about the upcoming project to animate the missing episodes of The Reign of Terror, and Robert Shearman mentions Volume 2 of Running Through Corridors in between mouthfuls of pizza and beer. We hope you enjoy these interviews as much as we enjoy bringing them to you!
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Radio Free Skaro #282 - My Kind Of Town
With Steven special corresponding from Chicago TARDIS, and with The Doctor Who Book Club's Erik joining the Three Who Rule to offer his trenchant insights on fannish Who goings-on, this episode is chock full of things in the American Mid-West that involve a Doctor Who convention. Such things include an interview with Peter Davison, an RFS first, even if he's Doctor the Fifth. Of course it wouldn't be an episode of Radio Free Skaro without the usual news, sardonic analysis and nerdery. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #281 - Mirror, Mirror
It’s Doctor Who Day! Well, if you’re reading this on November 23rd, 2011, at any rate. But even if you aren’t, the Three Who Rule have a jam-packed show for you with not only a surprisingly packed news list but also an interview with Bill Stanley. Who is this Bill Stanley, you ask? Well, for a sizable number of older North American Whovians, PBS was the only place one could see the good Doctor’s adventures during their formative years, and Bill Stanley was the program director for Spokane PBS affiliate KSPS in the 80s and 90s. His recall of those days has not dimmed one jot, and we were delighted to talk to the man who more than anyone else is responsible for the love of Doctor Who we hold to this day. But that’s not all! We also have….a commentary for the Rebel Flesh. Yup. The Rebel…Flesh. Happy Doctor Who Day, everyone!
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Radio Free Skaro #280 - The Devil In The Dark
The dark cloud from last week's pirate adventure has lifted and The Three Who Rule are able to take solace in blathering over one of the best-received episodes of Doctor Who from this past series. The Doctor's Wife gets the commentary treatment, and - short story even shorter - it's just as well-loved this time around as when we first saw it half a year ago. Also, as we start to gear our brains toward conventions such as Chicago TARDIS and Gallifrey One, we sink our teeth into some details about the recently-announced official convention. Does it sound worthwhile?
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Radio Free Skaro #279 - Shore Leave
Well, it had to come to this eventually - a slow news week and a duff episode of Doctor Who to be commented on both occurring on the same episode of Radio Free Skaro. With little in the way of actual news to discuss, the Three Who Rule instead bandied about their mostly positive experiences while playing the new Doctor Who Adventure game, The Gunpowder Plot. And with equally little in the way of actual good Doctor Who, the Three meandered into discussions about Justin Bieber and the films of director Peter Weir. You have been warned.
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Radio Free Skaro #278 - Assignment: Earth
Doctor Who commentaries continue here on Radio Free Skaro, with The Three Who Rule taking a look at the conclusion to the Series 6 opener, Day of the Moon. What glorious insights are offered into this spooky episode? (Answer: probably none.) What heinous tangential ramblings occur during this episode? (Answer: probably many.) The news of the week has bits on Children in Need, DVDs, fictitious awards, games, books and more! Halloween or not, join us in your favourite fairy princess outfit and have a listen!
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Radio Free Skaro #277 - Let That be Your Last Battlefield
The time has finally arrived for The Three Who Rule to cast their eyes back on Series 6 of Doctor Who via their annual commentary series. Things kick off with, of course, The Impossible Astronaut, as the lads talk over what they felt to be one of the best opening episodes for any series of NuWho... and as ever, rarely staying on topic. But for every beginning there's an ending as the last ever episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures graced the small screen this past week, and things just won't be the same without Lis Sladen. The news of the week rounds out the show with a look at DVDs, books, and the latest from the rumour mill.
Radio Free Skaro #276 - The Gathering
As the Doctor Who dead time continues, The Three Who Rule brought together some of our esteemed podcasting colleagues to talk about the series that were for Doctor Who and Torchwood: Miracle Day. We welcome the Sigmas from The Ood Cast, Luke from TMDWP and Kyle from Nerdist.com and hash over what did and didn’t work for us and, of course, tackle the week’s news – or lack thereof – and talk about the penultimate installment of The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Curse of Clyde Langer. Join us, won’t you?
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Radio Free Skaro #275 - Until We Meet Again, Sarah
The world of Doctor Who has entered the dark times. With no new episodes of our beloved show until Christmas, The Three Who Rule are forced to delve into their bag of tricks this week. And what do they find in the bag? Why, it’s a new interview with The Sarah Jane Adventures head writer, Phil Ford! Join us as we talk with Phil about the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures along with the next Doctor Who Adventure Game, The Gunfighter… er, Gunpowder Plot, and of course talk about some memories of Sarah Jane herself, Lis Sladen.
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Radio Free Skaro #274 - And When I Turned Around, They Were All Wearing Eyepatches
Silence! (Silents?) Timey-wimey! River Song getting hitched! “The Wedding of River Song” had it all, including a moving tribute to the Brig. But did the various parts mesh together into a satisfying whole, or did the Three Who Rule think otherwise? The sudden demise of Doctor Who Confidential was also hashed over in great detail, with some division on the reasons and consequences of losing a window into the behind the scenes goings-on of our favorite television program. Stats, toys, t-shirts, expensive scale models of Matt Smith….and baseless Cybermat Roomba speculation round out this, the last Radio Free Skaro dealing with new Who until December 25th.
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Radio Free Skaro #273 - The Oncoming Stormageddon
The penultimate episode of Series 6 featured the return of one of the great Doctor-companion teams that never happened. Matt Smith and James Corden, so perfectly matched in 2010's "The Lodger", reunited to amuse and delight in Gareth Roberts's wonderful follow-up "Closing Time", a story about which the Three Who Rule were unanimous in their opinion. The Cybermen also returned and were promptly dispensed with, but who cares about them, really? Also discussed in this podcast: the inevitable rapid-fire stats, new toys, favourite Doctors, rampant pluggery and more. Radio Free Skaro, here to help!Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #272 - Nimon Sci-Fi Con
A minotaur, a question of fear and faith, and a turning point for the Doctor and his companions...not to mention a surreal hotel from Hell! The God Complex went under the RFS microscope this week, with a smattering of opinion both favourable and somewhat less so. Add a giant brick wall o' stats, a Sarah Jane launch date, some new guests for Gallifrey 2012, and an interview with "The Girl Who Waited" scribe Tom MacRae, and you've got yourself an audio file of approximately an hour in length!Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #271 - Heeeeey Macarena!
The Girl Who Waited was, to varying degrees, praised by the Three Who Rule as one of the best episodes (if not THE best, according to Warren) of this season, with acclaim for the direction, the visuals, the timey-wimey-ness, and most of all for Karen Gillan's double performance as herself and...herself. But wait! Torchwood: Miracle Day also wrapped up its 10 episode run with rockginas, immortals, f-bombs, and Oswald Danes doing what he does best: making the blood of civilized folk curdle. Add a dollop of stats, DVD news and Matt Smith being a stylin' mofo, and you've got yourself, well, a podcast!Next week.....Night Terrors! Or, more accurately, The God Complex!Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #270 - Dolls Polyphony
Fear Her, one of the lesser appreciated stories in the Doctor Who oeuvre, isn’t a story that the Three Who Rule reasoned (or hoped) would ever be brought up again in Doctor Who, but all three of your intrepid hosts got a distinct Chloe Webber/scribble monster/suburban England vibe from Mark Gatiss’s Night Terrors. That isn’t to say that they didn’t enjoy it, though. Also up for discussion was Episode 9 of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Gathering, as that series hurdles, or stumbles, to its conclusion next week. All this and the usual dash and sprinkle of news, including the talk of the upcoming UNIT Box Set and some bona fide monumental viewing figures for SPACE in Canada.
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Radio Free Skaro #269 - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?
Doctor Who is back! After what seemed equally both a long summer and a short summer, Doctor Who has returned to our screens with Let's Kill Hitler -- and of course the Three Who Rule were all over the episode to deliver their review. But wait, there's more! Torchwood is still making its way toward the end of Miracle Day, so of course the lads throw in their two cents about End of the Road. What do they think about these new offerings from the Whoniverse? Lastly, along with the usual news and stats, we also speak with Doctor Who Brand Manager Edward Russell about his upcoming Walk for Lis!
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Radio Free Skaro #268 - Half Way To Gallifrey
It was quite a week in the many worlds of Doctor Who, headlined by a phenomenal Torchwood episode, the press screening for the return of Doctor Who in Let’s Kill Hitler, and a monumental Hugo Award win for the editors and publishers of one of our favourite books, Chicks Dig Time Lords. And on top of all that, it is precisely six months until Gallifrey One’s Network 23, so we have a feature chat with Gallifrey One Program Director Shaun Lyon. Full speed ahead!
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Radio Free Skaro #267 - The UNIT Dating Controversy
Torchwood continues its Miracle Day run with episode 6 and the lads sink their teeth into... well, there's not much to sink their teeth into this week, is there? Nevertheless, rampant mastication of the worthy bits kills some time as we wait for more Doctor Who and for Torchwood to do something... anything. Also, lamentably, the Summer Classic Commentary Series comes to the end as the Three Who Rule tackle The Invasion's latter episodes with their usual flare and panache and with the able assistance of their seagull frenemies.
Radio Free Skaro #266 - Absence of the Cybermen
Can summer be winding down already? It seems so, and along with Torchwood: Miracle Day hitting the halfway mark in its run with another bang up episode (according to the Three Who Rule, who seem to be one of the few Who podcasts out there who are actually enjoying the series), the Summer Classic Commentary Series begins to wind down, as well. This week, Radio Free Skaro’s take on Episodes 1-4 of the 1968-69 epic The Invasion, which may or may not feature the Cybermen. Oh, and the return of new Doctor Who is now less than three weeks away…
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Radio Free Skaro #265 - Snakes and Ladders
More Torchwood (it's still good!) and more stats (they're still numbers!) and more news and a whole lot of blathering about Christopher Bailey's Snakedance populate this episode of Radio Free Skaro as the Summer Classic Commentary series continues! The lads take a turn at fashion advice as the return of The Mara is talked over and as ever walk the line of decency as the notion of men in dresses gets a thorough investigation. Allons-y!
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Radio Free Skaro #264 - Days Of Holy Moses
Torchwood talk continues to lead the way this summer as The Three Who Rule take a look at the third episode of Miracle Day, Dead of Night… and what do the lads think of it? In the news this week there’s talk of the new Doctor Who boots filler, the goings-on of the Doctor Who panel at San Diego Comic-Con, action figure and DVD updates and of course the requisite stats. Blobby!
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Radio Free Skaro #263 - The Theremin Therein
Torchwood continued to charm its way into the boudoir of the Three Who Rule this week as the second episode of Miracle Day hit American and Canadian shores. Then our heroes tackled those loveable rapscallions of the deep, the Sea Devils, with the conclusion of the commentary on said story. All this and stats, news, musings and a Gally announcement concerning the good ship RFS!
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Radio Free Skaro #262 - News Of The New World
Two years since Torchwood was last seen on the TV and computer screens in the brilliant “Children of Earth”, the series returned this past weekend on Starz and SPACE (and, soon, BBC One) with the first installment of the ten-part epic “Miracle Day”. And what an assured debut it was, too, with plenty of action and intrigue to go around with some whimsical japes thrown in for good measure. In addition to this, we have the first of our Summer Classic Commentary series (an event so noteworthy that we’ve chosen to capitalize the name) as we watch and talk over the first three parts of the 1972 serial “The Sea Devils”. Radio Free Skaro: as much fun as one could have in a string vest.
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Radio Free Skaro #261 - The Torch-Ood Institute
It’s Miracle Day! No, not that Torchwood series due to begin soon… the miracle is the fact The Three Who Rule are actually excited to watch Torchwood! To celebrate what we derisively once dubbed Torchwood: USA, the Radio Free Skaro lads invite Chris Sigma from The Ood Cast, who was fortunate enough to attend the London premiere of Miracle Day, to join the fun and present a spoiler-free look at what to expect from this new series. And the best part of all is you, dear listener, are not subjected to songs or sketches from the likes of Warren, Steven or Chris.
*No Oods were harmed in the making of this podcast.
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Radio Free Skaro #260 - Transmission Of Matter Through Unincorporated Time
We’ve got a nice treat this week: a chat with Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?, editors of Time Unincorporated 3, a collection of fan writings about the new series of Doctor Who. And on top of that, there’s a Torchwood-heavy news list as the premiere of Torchwood: Miracle Day is now less than two weeks away…depending on which continent you live on, that is. And could it be? Blue Doctor Who?
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Radio Free Skaro #259 - Blood Upon The Sawdust
So fill up your glasses
With the Three Who Rule
As they try to convince you
That The Gunfighters is cool
With their friends Ed and Toby
Good times will be soon
Till there's blood upon the sawdust
in "The Last Chance" Saloon.
Along with news and discussion
(Is Doctor Who really doomed?)
When there's blood on the sawdust
in "The Last Chance" Saloon.
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With the end of Series 6.1 comes a time for reflection… and what better way to genuflect than with two of the members of Tachyon TV, Neil Perryman and John Williams? Fresh off “A Good Man Goes to War,” the houses of Tachyon and Skaro offered their (somewhat surprisingly) sunny and pleasant feelings towards the last batch of Who stories we’ll see until the fall, as well as digressing about Neil’s ongoing Adventures With the Wife in Space blog (read by none other than Doctor Who production team head Steven Moffat, amongst others) and other matters of import. A small note; the Tachyon TV segment was recorded before fan controversy erupted for the umpteenth time over next year’s schedule of shows, so that issue was (thankfully) never raised amongst the good feelings and bonhomie.
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Radio Free Skaro #257 - Springtime for Hitler
The first half of Series 6 of Doctor Who concluded with a surprisingly straightforward episode, yet populated with many varied and different revelations and cliffhangers that will, we're told, change the game as we know it. Such was "A Good Man Goes To War", an episode that was liked by each of the Radio Free Skaro triumvirate, although some liked it more than others... The Three Who Rule also discussed the news of the week and outlined their exciting plans for June before Torchwood: Miracle Day invades our screens in July. Watch your back come September, Hitler!Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #256 - State of Play-Doh
The Almost People, part 2 of the sentient play-doh saga initiated last week with The Rebel Flesh, proved to be only quasi-compelling to the RFS lads. Indifference shifted to both gasps of astonishment and grumblings of unhappiness at the "game-changing" cliffhanger to this week's festivities...and we still have A Good Man Goes to War to look forward to next week (or the week after that, SPACE and BBC America viewers.) In the meantime, stats were examined, asteroid-eating goats invented, and Journey's End was maligned with a naughty word. Just another normal day here at Radio Free Skaro.
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Radio Free Skaro #255 - Lots Of Planets Have A North
Fear Her is a story not well beloved by most Who fans (one RFS host being the notable exception), but Life on Mars is near universally praised. Since both were written by Matthew Graham, the writer of this week’s “The Rebel Flesh,” the Three Who Rule didn’t know what to expect as they sat down to view this latest adventure of the Doctor and his companions. What did the Three Who Rule think of Graham’s apology for Fear Her? You’ll just have to listen to find out!
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Radio Free Skaro #254 - Trouble and Strife
In one of most keenly anticipated Doctor Who episode in some time, legendary fantasy writer Neil Gaiman finally got the keys to the TARDIS and presented us with gloriously affectionate love letter to Doctor Who, the series that he has adored since before time itself. The Doctor’s Wife was one of the more unique stories ever presented, yet its heart (or hearts) was in the right place. What did The Three Who Rule think, you may well ask? Listen in to find out…
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Radio Free Skaro #253 - Yarrr's Revenge
It's a pirate party, and yarrr all invited as The Three Who Rule take a look at the latest Doctor Who offering, The Curse of the Black Spot. The boys hash through the highs, lows and plethora of middles of this breath of fresh air between the Series 6 two-part opener and Neil Gaiman's sure-to-be-awesome-but-dark episode 4, always keeping the goals of stats and public safety in sight.
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Radio Free Skaro #252 - Don't You (Forget About Me)
The opening two-parter of Series 6 has now concluded, but what did The Three Who Rule think of Day of the Moon? Did it hold up after the corker we had in the shape of episode 1? Did it answer the questions we had? Did it ask more questions? Most importantly, what were the viewing figures like, and at what point would they drive Warren to commit unspeakable acts? One thing is for sure – this series of Doctor Who is shaping up to be like no other that came before it.
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Radio Free Skaro #251 - Have You Met Miss Smith?
It was a week of wildly mixed emotions in the world of Doctor Who. Anticipation for the (staggeringly good) Series 6 premiere, The Impossible Astronaut, was stopped dead in its tracks by the tragic passing of Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith herself and companion extraordinaire to us all. The Three Who Rule heap praise on both The Impossible Astronaut and Sladen during this episode; hopefully we do justice in celebrating their many respective merits.
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Radio Free Skaro #250 - Sowing The Seeds of Death
With less than a week to go until New! Doctor! Who! The Three Who Rule delved into the distant past via the works of Brian Hayles, creator of the Ice Warriors, Luddite, and gentleman scholar, in what will likely be the last Miniscope for quite some time. Of course it wouldn’t be RFS without the latest news, analysis, and off-color banter about Rory in a Roman outfit, all of which were copiously present.
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Radio Free Skaro #249 - Cary on Tristram
For the first time in what seems like a very long while, the Three Who Rule tackle a Miniscope segment all on their own without the aid of a special (and probably much better informed) guest. The subject? Musician Tristram Cary, whose moody melodies and bouncy ballads helped underscore many a 1960s Doctor Who serial. Even the most taciturn of individuals could find something to say about Cary's iconic work. And if that wasn't enough to fill an episode, there's a bundle of press launch news from both sides of the Atlantic to help form another jam packed, spoiler-free episode of Radio Free Skaro.
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Radio Free Skaro #248 - Special Kay
A week after Radio Free Skaro’s thorough examination of Doctor Who’s long and storied history in Canada, the Three Who Rule take a hard left turn into the realm of Norman Kay, composer of three stories from Doctor Who’s embryonic years, as his work was the subject of talk in this week’s Miniscope. To help in the discussion (or basically lead), Radio Free Skaro’s own GetGlue guru Emily Kausilik, a noted music expert in her own right, was brought in to offer her expertise on not only Kay’s music, but how music in general was composed and used in 1960s Doctor Who. And, hey, it’s not often that you get to hear a discussion on 1960s Doctor Who music, is it?
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Radio Free Skaro #247 - The Who North Strong And Free
The Three Who Rule donned their toques, broke out the stubbies and poured maple syrup all over their first ever, long-past-due episode examining and celebrating Doctor Who in their home and native land, Canada (aka America Jr.). All in a very polite way, of course. With Canuck Who luminaries such as SPACE Channel’s Mark Askwith, Graeme Burk and Mike Doran on hand to lead us through the past, present and future of the Doctor on Canadian TV (and off), it’s fair to say we were as enthused as bunch of drunken curlers crashing a lacrosse tournament.
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Radio Free Skaro #246 - Phantom of the Optera
After an almost three month wait, there was some new Doctor Who content to discuss in the form of two short scenes written for the BBC's Red Nose Day coverage. As well, news hit the wire we'll be getting a little extra Who in the form of prequel mini-episodes for a few Series 6 stories. Such an occasion always attracts guests, so Luke from TMDWP drops in to share his two cents, while also ably aiding the Three Who Rule in slicing, dicing and dissecting the Doctor Who career of director Richard Martin. Martin directed several early Hartnell stories, but whether he directed them well or not was the main point of the discussion...
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Radio Free Skaro #245 - The Howell Around Effect
The Miniscope returns to Radio Free Skaro this week, but with a twist. Instead of the subject being chosen randomly, musician Peter Howell’s work was specifically chosen for discussion, and instead of a discussion, why not interview the man himself? So, in tandem with Dr. Phillip Serna of Adventures in Time, Space, and Music, Steven got to talk to one of his early musical heroes about his many varied scores for Doctor Who from 1980-1985. Also, news and many fact corrections from the week before. What fun!
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Radio Free Skaro #244 - Beth Willis' Boots
A week later than intended, the Three Who Rule dive into a commentary this episode with a re-watch of the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special "A Christmas Carol". Does it still hold up? Is it Christmassy enough? Too Christmassy? Has the shark won any more fans over? So many questions. Also, news of the week is hashed about, with particular attention paid to some forthcoming DVD releases. Also, boots are mentioning in passing, along with Beth Willis.
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Radio Free Skaro #243 - Five Rounds Rapid
The world of Doctor Who lost one of its icons this past week, and all fans are mourning the passing of our beloved Brigadier, Nicholas Courtney. The highs from Gallifrey came crashing down as the news of Courtney’s death hit earlier in the week, and it was only fitting that a Courtney tribute episode be recorded. We welcomed Doctor Who script editor, New Adventures author and Doctor Who Magazine editor, Big Finish producer and life-long Doctor Who fan Gary Russell on the show to reminisce about his experiences with the wonderful Mr. Courtney. Please join us as we remember Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, the man who portrayed him as well as cover the news of the week.
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Radio Free Skaro #242 - This Is Gallifrey
Radio Free Skaro’s coverage of Gallifrey One: Catch 22 wraps up with a tasty triumvirate of interviews with Doctor Who production manager and producer Tracie Simpson, Adric himself, Matthew Waterhouse, and Mad Norwegian Press head publisher Lars Pearson. Thanks to everyone who we talked to over the course of the weekend, and thanks to all of you for listening. We hope you enjoyed the shows!
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Radio Free Skaro #241 - Torch Songs
With the 2011 edition of Gallifrey One over half over, the Three Who Rule were still hard at work bringing you interviews with tremendously interesting people at the convention. Torchwood: Miracle Day is keenly discussed with writers Jane Espenson and Doris Egan, and the music of Doctor Who, specifically Murray Gold, was discussed with music scholars Emily Kausilik and Mikaela Schubert. Also joining us for the fun are our good friends Eric from Mostly Harmless Cutaway and Sean from Tardis Tavern. Enjoy, everyone! Only one more day to go…
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Radio Free Skaro #240 - Revenge of the Nerdist
Day three of the annual Gallifrey One coverage continues with a kick-ass treat. The Nerdist himself, Chris Hardwick, stopped by for a chat with the Three Who Rule. The fun doesn't stop there though as we also talk to Kyle Anderson, lead Doctor Who blogger on The Nerdist website. Enjoy your burrito!
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Radio Free Skaro #239 – Radio Free Skaro in 3-D
Behold Radio Free Skaro’s first ever live show at Gallifrey: Radio Free Skaro in 3-D! Along with special guests Gareth Roberts, Clayton Hickman, Joss Agnew, James Moran, and (Friend of the Show) Phil Ford, the Three Who Rule fought off stage fright to delight and entertain a room full of their new best friends, and hopefully a good few of you who weren’t able to make it to Gallifrey. Thanks to all for a fab time!
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Radio Free Skaro #238 - The Lobby Was The Time
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Radio Free Skaro #237 - Road to Gallifrey
The Three Who Rule have set aside the Richard Martin miniscope for now so the focus of this week's episode can be the upcoming Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. Gally mania ramps up to fever level as the lads talk panels, podcasts and poltroonery. News of the week rounds things out, even delving into the mostly foreign world of Big Finish! Regularly scheduled programming gets accelerated in a few days time as daily podcasts from Gallifrey One begin, so remember to check your feed more often!Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #236 - Brave Heart, Teague
As the countdown to Gallifrey One continues (less than two weeks away!), the Three Who Rule tumble in to the collected works of director Colin Teague in this week's instalment of the Miniscope. Despite Teague's opprobrious epithet, the Three were pleasantly surprised at his directorial skill which constantly shone over some of the written inspiration he had to work with. Also dealt with was the news of the week, featuring all three hosts blanking on the duties of a recently added Gallifrey One guest (it's prosthetics - duh).
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Radio Free Skaro #235 - The More, The Guerriers
A very busy week in the world of Doctor Who — including big DVD news and disappointing results at a certain fictitious awards show — is capped off in this latest installment of Radio Free Skaro by not only our look at director Keith Boak in the miniscope but also a visit with Simon & Thomas Guerrier. The Guerriers are responsible for some recent and upcoming bonus material on Classic Doctor Who DVD releases and we talk with the brothers about some of them, especially their award-nominated Race Against Time coming out very soon on the DVD of The Mutants. Join us, won’t you?
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Radio Free Skaro #234 - Grimwade's Syndrome
Gally news, casting details, and not-LEGO Doctor Who figures....all of which prefigured the cogent analysis and detailed examination of the (Doctor Who) career of one Peter Grimwade, one of the few polymaths to both write and direct for Doctor Who. With highlights such as Earthshock and lowlights like Time-Flight, Grimwade's output was grist for the mill of the Three Who Rule.
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Radio Free Skaro #233 - Wayward Saward
DVDs and Series 6 news were the order of the day as the 2011 DVD release schedule was unveiled this past week in Doctor Who Magazine, and boy howdy are there some puzzling combinations of stories into box sets. The upcoming series of Doctor Who gets a bit of a different look with a newly-announced writer and a shuffling in the order of episodes, and there's even a bit of a natter about Doctor Who Magazine's list of who to follow on Twitter (hint: we're on that list, nudge nudge). A look at controversial writer/script editor Eric Saward rounds out the show with some great discussion of his influence and reach, along with the selection of next week's miniscope subject... and just who will that be?
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Radio Free Skaro #232 - Hooked on Radiophonics
Setting the wayback machine all the way… um, back… to Radio Free Skaro #230 you’ll remember the lads had the Randomizer throw them a curve ball in the shape of Dick Mills as a miniscope subject. As those familiar with the sound design of Doctor Who are aware, Mills is the most-credited person on the show thanks to his long tenure with the Radiophonic Workshop. Where to begin? What to discuss? The only answer was to bring in a ringer in the form of Radiophonic Workshop archivist and Doctor Who composer in his own right, Mark Ayres. Settle in with your Doctor Who sound effects LP, a nice hot beverage, and join not one but two special guests in this episode of Radio Free Skaro as we also have Chip from the Two-minute Time Lord sit in Warren’s seat for some tantalizing nerdery.
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Radio Free Skaro #231 - Son of Masters
The first Radio Free Skaro episode of 2011 features the return of the popular Miniscope segments (well, some of you liked them in the past, anyhow) wherein the Three Who Rule discuss the works of a particular writer, director, or some other behind the scenes person in their careers on Doctor Who. Dick Mills, the initial subject for this episode, was bumped to next week (about more later), so Series 3 director Charles Palmer became a last minute subject. How did his efforts rate with your intrepid hosts? Listen on!
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Radio Free Skaro #230 - Shark Bless Us, Everyone
2010 was a great year for Doctor Who, and it was capped off by what all three hosts of Radio Free Skaro (and many, many others on the internet) consider to be the finest Doctor Who Christmas Special to date. A Christmas Carol had it all - strong story, superb writing, great performances, and was never in danger of jumping the very rickshaw pulling shark that featured several times in the episode. The Three Who Rule discuss all of this and more with great gusto, and give a few hints of their podcast plans for the year to come...
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Radio Free Skaro #229 - With A Little Help From My Friends
The stream of commentaries that the Three Who Rule have been unleashing upon the world for the past several months finally concludes with their real-time review of the Series 5 finale The Big Bang. And what an episode to go out on, all three were as admiring of the story as they were when it first went out in June and nothing has changed in the mean time. Also of note, this is Warren's last episode from China, a nation whose internet connection is almost as dodgy as its human rights record. Next week: new Doctor Who in the form of A Christmas Carol. And we can't wait, either.
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Radio Free Skaro #228 - Helter Skelter
The Pandorica Opens was the focus of most of this episode of Radio Free Skaro, thanks to a light news week. Good thing, too, as Pandorica was another triumph from Series 5, featuring many power mad conspirators - Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen - gathering together to fight their greatest enemy, The Doctor. Such a visual feast put the Three Who Rule in danger of becoming transfixed on what they were watching, but they managed to mostly steer clear of the silence for the time being. Ah, yes. The Silence. More on that next week...
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Radio Free Skaro #227 - A Day In The Life
For the first time in many months, the Three Who Rule were delighted to welcome Tachyon TV's Neil Perryman back into the fold to not only discuss the week that was in Doctor Who, but to be present for Neil's first commentary since watching The Stolen Earth 27 times in one weekend to prepare the last ever Tachyon TV commentary podcast. The episode in question is Gareth Roberts' The Lodger, episode 11 of Series 5. As usual with Neil, the boundaries of decency for Radio Free Skaro were pushed ever further, as was the level of integrity and humour. A good time was had by all!
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Radio Free Skaro #226 - I Feel Fine
The time has finally come for The Three Who Rule to sink their teeth into Vincent and the Doctor as the Series 5 commentary series continues. Vincent has been a polarizing episode both amongst the Radio Free Skaro gang as well as much of fandom in general with opinions firmly seated on both sides of the fence. Will opinions change with another viewing and an open debate? Will assertions of greatness or dreadfulness fall on deaf ears? The news of the week rounds out this episode along with a teaser of what’s to come next week…
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Radio Free Skaro #225 - We Can Work It Out
It was a banner week for Doctor Who leading up the programme's 47th anniversary celebrations on November 23, with massive news on both sides of the Atlantic in the forms of a new trailer for A Christmas Carol, a same-day broadcast date in the US, and Matt Smith's landmark appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. All of these events and more were discussed at great length by the Three Who Rule, amongst other notable topics (including Ian Levine's Shada), capped off by a rollicking commentary on the Series 5 episode "Cold Blood". Enjoy, and Happy Birthday, Doctor Who!
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Radio Free Skaro #224 - A Hard Day's Night
The Series 5 commentary series resumes again after an intermittent past few weeks (but you surely didn’t mind all the interviews, did you?) with the Three Who Rule’s take on The Hungry Earth, the first part of the retro-themed Silurian story from this past year. Also, news of Christmas episode titles and another impressive Sarah Jane Adventures story help pass the time before the Children in Need preview later this week and Doctor Who’s impending 47th anniversary. Good fun!
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Radio Free Skaro #223 - Murray, The Planet of Gold
The Three Who Rule were thrilled beyond measure to interview Murray Gold, the esteemed composer of all of the music in the new series, along with the themes to Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures. In a wide ranging discussion, Gold held forth on all manner of musical matters and charmed the crew with his wit, verve, and bohemian charm. Oh yes, and some news and the latest Sarah Jane Adventures were discussed. Gold! Listen! Now!
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Radio Free Skaro #222 - Golden Slumbers
The Series 5 Commentary series rears its head once again as the Three Who Rule tackle fan favourite Amy's Choice with much glee and delectation. More fan enjoyment came this past week in the form of Death of the Doctor, featuring Matt Smith's return as the Doctor in the latest installment of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Fans awaiting the Christmas special got not one but two pieces of good news this week as it was announced that the BFI will be holding an advance screening for the episode while the rest of us have to suffer with a Children In Need clip next month. Join the fandom fun with the whole gang in this episode of Radio Free Skaro before it's gone gone gone!
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Radio Free Skaro #221 - 2 Entertain or Not 2 Entertain
A special treat this week: an interview with Dan Hall, Commissioning Editor of the Doctor Who DVD range at 2 Entertain. Dan expounds on many a hot topic in the world of Doctor Who shiny discs, including animated reconstructions, the Revisitations box sets, and much, much more, including a look ahead to what will be a very busy 2011 for Doctor Who DVD fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Also, the Three Who Rule give their thoughts on the most recent Sarah Jane Adventures outing, “The Vault of Secrets”, as well as deal with a few other sundry matters. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #220 - Your Mother Should Know
The internet exploded in Doctor Who land this past week with fans beside themselves about Regenergate and Gallifrey One hotel rooms, which caused the Three Who Rule to take time out of this episode to allay those fears. Long stories short: Don't Panic. Everything's fine. After those fires were ably extinguished, it was on to the commentary for The Vampires of Venice, a mid-series tome that inspired overwhelming indifference from two members of the Radio Free Skaro team. Did that opinion change...?
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Radio Free Skaro #219 - Fixing A Hole
The Series 5 commentary series resumes this week with a look at the latter half of the stellar return of the Weeping Angels, “Flesh and Stone”. Instead of stunned silence, though, which one might expect to occur when watching something as entrancing as this, the Three Who Rule instead descended into heated arguments about Battlestar Galactica and the debatable merits of rock operas. One thing that they could all agree on, though, is that The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone are fine examples of some of the best television ever made.
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Radio Free Skaro #218 - Robots, Vultures and Dying Doctors
The Series 5 Commentary Series gets a bit of a rest as we focus on the news of the week and feature another extended interview with friend of the show, Phil Ford. Phil, along with Russell T Davies, recently won the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo Award for The Waters of Mars, the first such honour for Doctor Who not bestowed upon Steven Moffat, and our own Steven sat down with him to discuss the Hugo, the upcoming Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures for which he serves as head writer, and a lot more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some time with Phil and his effervescence on this installment of Radio Free Skaro!
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Phil Ford Talks Sarah Jane Adventures - Preview
A sneak peak at our interview with Phil Ford, head writer of The Sarah Jane Adventures, coming soon in Radio Free Skaro #218.
Radio Free Skaro #217 - You Won't See Me
After taking the better part of September off to either move to, visit, or stay away from other continents, the Three Who Rule reconvened for their first regularly recorded episode of Radio Free Skaro since the hazy days of summer. And, lo! What a news list to come back to! Some old, most older, but all entirely relevant, otherwise it would have never been mentioned in the first place. And to top it off, there's a commentary on perhaps the best New Series episode made to date, "The Time of Angels". If you're going to listen to one episode of Radio Free Skaro, make it this one! (And all the others, too.)
Radio Free Skaro #216 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
In a not-so-unprecedented move, Steven and Chris welcome back the Two-minute Time Lord himself, Chip, to take a look at what is thought by many to be the weak point of Series 5 — Victory of the Daleks. The Series 5 commentary series examines where the episode went right and where it went wrong, and of course there can never be enough discussion about the Power Rangers-esque Daleks. Will opinions change for the better? Will they change for the worse? Will Churchill ever put out that blasted cigar when in the bunker? Only some of those questions will be answered in this week’s Radio Free Skaro!
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Radio Free Skaro #215 - I Am The Walrus
A Warren-less look at The Beast Below is the focal point of this week's Radio Free Skaro tomfoolery. The remaining Two Who Rule are joined by Chip from the Two-minute Time Lord podcast, as the Series 5 commentary series keeps on truckin'. Grab a glass of non-vibrating water and join the podcest fun as the lads talk all over Star Whales, future monarchs, voting machines and the Smilers and Winders!
Radio Free Skaro #214 - She's Leaving Home
The Classic Series Commentary series has ended... only to be replaced by the Series 5 Commentary series. (Any more attempts to use the word "series" will likely cause another crack in time, so we'd best stop there.) We've given the news segment a bit of time off... something that breaks our fictitious award-loving hearts, but on the upside it means no stats! So sit back, relax and have a listen to The Three Who Rule talk about the glorious opener to Matt Smith's tenure!
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Radio Free Skaro #213 - Chimeron You Crazy Diamond
So it’s come to this… the final installment of the summer Classic Series Commentary series has arrived, and oh what an arrival it was. Delta and the Bannermen gets put through one end of the RFS grinder and goodness only knows what will come out the other end. Warren’s notorious hatred of Sylvester McCoy’s tenure underlies the episode, but what did he think of the story when all was said and done? Add to that the collective pants-wetting over the upcoming release of The Seeds of Doom on DVD and pretty much the entire gamut of human emotion comes through in this episode of Radio Free Skaro!
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Radio Free Skaro #212 - Let's Do The Mindwarp Again
In this, the penultimate Radio Free Skaro Classic Series Commentary for the summer, the Three Who Rule lucked out with the second segment of the four-part trilogy known as The Trial of the Time Lord. Lucked out, you may well ask? Well, yes, for all three hosts were fairly unanimous in their praise of Mindwarp, and the Trial season as a whole, firm in their belief that Colin Baker’s tenure as The Doctor has been unfairly maligned over the years. Disagree? Listen to the commentary to see if you will be swayed…
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Radio Free Skaro #211 - The Indifferent Case of the Vanishing Eprim
The Three Who Rule celebrated the fourth anniversary of Radio Free Skaro by enduring one of the slowest news weeks in recent memory as next to nothing happened in the last seven days in the world of Doctor Who. Fortunately (?), the gang had the latter half of The Keys of Marinus to help them through it all. And if that wasn’t enough to sate them, well, there’s always finding out what story they’ll be commenting on next week. Go, Randomizer!
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Radio Free Skaro #210 - Voord To Tears
Warren returns to the fold this week, having thought he had escaped the worst that Doctor Who could offer by missing the commentary for Time-Flight last week. Instead, Hartnell-phobe Warren was given both barrels of black and white mediocrity in the form of The Keys of Marinus, one of the lesser lights of the debut season of Doctor Who from 1964. Actually, the Three Who Rule managed to keep themselves reasonably entertained throughout the first three episodes of Terry Nation’s best non-Dalek script that he ever wrote for Doctor Who…until the thought of having to watch three more episodes next week brought everyone back down to Earth.
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Radio Free Skaro #209 - Eevanerab! Tumal Tumal! Verram Verram! Xarak Namaan!
Warren ran for cover when he learned Time-Flight was the next up to bat in the Classic Series Commentaries series, so Paul from The Pharos Project podcast was strongarmed into filling his shoes. The crew did their level best to not talk about the story at hand thanks to its less than stellar production values and execution, but from time to time nevertheless felt compelled to address what was on their screens. In a cruel twist of fate, the Randomizer decided next week's commentary was going to be for another story that one of the crew, as with Time-Flight, greatly dislikes...
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Radio Free Skaro #208 - You May Keep The Pencil
A rare busy news week disrupts the Three Who Rule and their summer slacking off. Series 6 ramblings, fictitious awards, DVD news and talk of the SPACE premiere of The Big Bang at least help to kill some of the time until the Christmas special. The guys soldier on with the Classic Series Commentaries by looking at the first full story recorded with Peter Davison, Four to Doomsday. Which actor will Steven fall in love with this week?, Just how saucy will the lads be in this installment? And what will the randomizer force upon them next week? There's only one way to know - have a listen!
Radio Free Skaro #207 - Please Do Not Throw Hands At Me
The Radio Free Skaro Classic Series Commentaries kept trucking along this week with a look at another Tom Baker story. The Robots of Death, a wonderful murder mystery, goes under examination in the form of the Three Who Rule jib-jabbering their way through four episodes of Chris Boucher goodness. Oh, and there's some like casting news... or something... about the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special. And Torchwood news. And DVD news. But that's all peanuts compared to robots! ROBOTS!
Radio Free Skaro #206 - Pedantangle
With the news light in the wake of Series 5 ending, the Three Who Rule were glad of a commentary to tide them over. Image of the Fendahl was the focal point thanks to the powers of the randomizer, a story that stands out for one of our hosts while merely exists for the other two. Come join the fun of the west country accents, slash writers going crazy, lost plots, a golden Wanda Ventham and just about the darkest Doctor Who story ever! And what could possibly be in store for the next installment of the summer commentary series?
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Radio Free Skaro #205 - The Chronic Hysterectomy
With Series Five done and packed away, and with everyone staring down the barrel of a six month wait for new Who, the Three Who Rule decided to embark upon a summer of commentary episodes on classic, randomly selected stories from Doctor Who's past. Commentarygeddon began with Meglos, the (unfairly) maligned Tom Baker cactusfest. Dodecahedrons, vocoders and Jacqueline Hill, not to mention a young (and fake) Annie Lennox await!
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Radio Free Skaro #204 - The Big Bang on the Edge of Forever
Radio Free Skaro #203 - The Pipes of Pandorica
Well, what about that, then? The Pandorica Opens exploded onto TV and computer screens the world over in dazzling and impressive fashion, seemingly including visual references to every monster in the entire history of Doctor Who, presenting us a trio of equally impossible cliffhangers, and throwing in at least three kitchen sinks into the bargain. And yet, it still made for staggeringly compelling viewing, and only whets our appetite for The Big Bang, the final episode of Matt Smith's and Steven Moffat's sterling first series of Doctor Who. The only question now...how can The Big Bang possibly top this?
Radio Free Skaro #202 - Nothing At The Top Of The Stairs
Radio Free Skaro #201 - Amy and Amiability
An unconventional artist anchored an unusual episode as "Vincent and the Doctor", written by Richard Curtis, graced our screens this week. Reaction on the internet made it seem like everyone either loved or hated the episode, but the Three Who Rule were...well, you'll just have to listen to the episode to find out. However, Vincent and the Doctor was but one episode released this week thanks to City of the Daleks hitting computer screens... Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #200 - The Mighty 200
Radio Free Skaro #199 - Doctor Who and the Homo Reptilia
It shaped up to be a good week for the Three Who Rule on account of the return of some of their favourite classic series monsters, the Silurians (aka Eocenes, aka Homo Reptilia). "The Hungry Earth", the episode in which they made their first successful appearance in 40 years (see what we did there?), also had a distinctly classic feel to it, making one almost feel like we were watching Jon Pertwee's Doctor and UNIT battling with cave monsters in the 1970s (aka the 1980s). Onwards! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #198 - Omnipotent Space Bastard
Radio Free Skaro #197 - Mock Turtle Soup
Vampires! Venice! Fish people! Disagreement! While two of the Three Who Rule were less than blown away by this latest historical romp, with little else to discuss during this slow news week it was that or stats. Which were also discussed. Harrumph. Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #196 - Eyes Wide Shut
Radio Free Skaro #195 - Graham Crackers
Radio Free Skaro #194 - New Car Smell
The Daleks are back! And that's.....well, middling. The Three Who Rule chewed over "Victory of the Daleks," including the new, sleek models that have all of fandom agog with either love or hate, the WW2 models that instantly warmed our coal-black hearts, and the jowly presence of one Winston Churchill, saviour of Britain. Still, it's thankfully no "Daleks in Manhattan". Geronim-ate! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Radio Free Skaro #193 - Cetacean Emancipation
Radio Free Skaro #192 - Operation Golden Age
Radio Free Skaro #191 - The Completionists ...IN COLOR!
Radio Free Skaro #190 - Ludwig Speed Kings
Radio Free Skaro #189 - Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?
Radio Free Skaro #188 - They Can't All Be Winners
A post-Gally funk has set in for the Three Who Rule, but they soldiered on regardless, bringing you the news of the week and the irreverence you know and tolerate. Not that there was much news of course, but this week is only a precursor to the inevitable flood of pre-Fnarg promotion and pimpery sure to come, not to mention the premiere of an entirely new era of Doctor Who in mere weeks. Soon, my pretties, soon.
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Radio Free Skaro #187 - Loads of Pace and Energy!
The Three Who Rule bury the hatchet regarding The Incident in time to talk to iconic Doctor Who director Graeme Harper in this, the last Radio Free Skaro episode from Gallifrey 21. Harper's work, which indirectly inspired Radio Free Skaro to be created, is discussed at great length, including the controversial Warriors' Gate, the legendary The Caves of Androzani, and how Harper just missed out on directing for Series Fnarg - twice.
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Radio Free Skaro #186 - The Yalta Conference
On this special Gallifrey edition of Radio Free Skaro, we delve deep into the dark underbelly of Doctor Who, first in a discussion with writer Tony Lee and artist Matthew Dow Smith about the new Tenth and Eleventh Doctor comics coming soon from IDW Publishing, and second, (and far more sinister) the 2010 Podcast Summit, where the evil practitioners of the dark art held forth on their methods and madness. The terror!
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Radio Free Skaro #185 - Bo! Sco! Fo! Do! No! Kro! Blo! Co! Sho! Ro!
After the “incident” with Chris on Friday that resulted in no podcast being released for the first official day of Gallifrey 21, Radio Free Skaro returned today in full force with interviews with Nick Briggs, Phil Ford, and Rob Shearman. Listen to these three fine gentlemen regale you with tales of woe, whimsy, and water – not necessarily in that order. NOTE: Chris’s appearance on this podcast is purely due to contractual obligation. We cannot comment on any rumours that have been circulating about Chris’s future on Radio Free Skaro.
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Radio Free Skaro #184 - Feasts of Stevens
In the second of our daily Gallifrey podcasts, the Three Who Rule delved into the shiny, circular world of Who on DVD with special guests Steve Roberts of the Restoration Team and Steve Manfred of the Doctor Who DVD FAQ. Behind the scenes documentaries, animated Who, and the dicey state of the TV Movie ever appearing in North America were only a few of the topics covered by these fine gentlemen. All that and news, special appearances by fellow podcasters, and the usual whimsy you’ve come to expect from us. Enjoy!
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Radio Free Skaro #183 - The Elephant in the Room
Day One of Gallifrey for Radio Free Skaro was a wild, crazy time, consisting mostly of a vast podcast summit between several renowned Doctor Who podcasters, as well as ourselves. Some of this podcest made its way up to The Lobby at the LAX Marriott, where eight podcasters, including a rare appearance from all four members of Tachyon TV, succeeded in firmly planting their feet in their mouths. Be warned…
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Radio Free Skaro #182 - The Oncoming Storm
With mere days to go before Gallifrey 2010 in Los Angeles, the Three Who Rule took it upon themselves to conduct their now-annual rundown of the panels, guests, goings-on and shenanigans sure to occur, all in the name of informing our dear listeners how often we'll be hung over (answer: often.) Stay tuned all this week for daily podcasts, special guests and the most fun you can legally have involving Doctor Who and cast of thousands (well, a thousand and change.) Not all was silent from The Beeb this week, however, as the start date for Series Fnarg has been announced for April 3 on BBC One, hot on the heels of the new trailer for Matt Smith's debut run.
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Radio Free Skaro #181 - Purple Monkey Dishwasher
The Three Who Rule created their own news this week by dropping a small bombshell into the world of Doctor Who fandom by being the first to reveal official BBC details of the upcoming Series Fnarg. Once that was coyly dealt with, and after a dark, sinister, and negative experience watching The End of Time Part One last week, the Three Who Rule were in finer spirits for their second outing in Finale-Stan, the catchily-titled “The End of Time Part Two”. Between Chris’s endless (no really, they just wouldn’t end) gags about slash writers and the occasionally engaging spectacle onscreen, your erstwhile hosts proved to be much more affable on this leg of the excursion, and bile was replaced by hope and optimism as Matt Smith crashed onto our screens and into our coal-black, ginger-hating hearts. Geronimo.
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Radio Free Skaro #180 - Potions? Seriously?! Potions?
It had to happen sooner or later, so the Three Who Rule ripped the bandage off by recording a commentary for The End of Time Part One, that neo-classic from Christmas 2009 containing such classic Who elements as magic potions, laser hands, randy senior citizens and Smell-O-Vision. Did the episode fare better this time round after the scolding it received in Radio Free Skaro 174? You decide. Also discussed was news of Gaiman, gay men, and gained men, er, companions. Onwards!
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Radio Free Skaro #179 - No Scutage in Eternity
The news of a Doctor Who movie sent The Three Who Rule so far past the point of bile they circled back around to apathy, but not without taking a few hostages along the way. In a slow news week to end all slow news weeks, digression and hatred were employed like plow horses in an effort to simply fill time. Steven points the gun of spite squarely in a new direction, Warren wastes no time in slagging off other Sci Fi TV shows and Chris even sings a few bars… it’s just that kind of episode.
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Radio Free Skaro #178 - Fnargengruven
Radio Free Skaro #177 - Dr. Who or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Russell T Davies
Radio Free Skaro #176 - Neil Before Zod!
Radio Free Skaro #175 - The End of The End of Time
Radio Free Skaro #174 - The Beginning of The End of Time
Radio Free Skaro #173 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Waters of Mars
Radio Free Skaro #172 - Hats Off To (Graeme) Harper
Radio Free Skaro #171 - You'll Never Work In This Town Again
Radio Free Skaro #170 - Back To Reality
Radio Free Skaro #169 - Peking Homunculus
Radio Free Skaro #168 - Squee House of Horror
Radio Free Skaro #167 - Philling Time Before The Waters of Mars
Radio Free Skaro Interviews Phil Ford - Promo
Radio Free Skaro #166 - All Roads lead To Ay-dric
Radio Free Skaro #165 - Radio Free Skaro in an Exciting Adventure With The Minute Doctor Who Podcast
Radio Free Skaro #164 - Clough Luck
Radio Free Skaro #163 - Remembering Barry Letts
Radio Free Skaro #162 - Maloney Sandwich
Radio Free Skaro #161 - Second Hand News
Radio Free Skaro #160 - Ferme La Boucher
Radio Free Skaro #159 - Throw Down The Quantlet
Radio Free Skaro #158 - Amsterdamned
Radio Free Skaro Presents Podcest: The Whooverville Podcast Panel
The Whooverville Doctor Who convention that took place in September at Derby featured a notable podcasting panel featuring representatives from no less than eight (8) different Doctor Who podcasts. Eager to elbow their way into a party to which they were never invited, Radio Free Skaro is proud to present this panel to you for your listening enjoyment. Very big thanks to Adam Purcell of Staggering Stories for providing the audio.
Oh, and happy 100th episode, Tin Dog.
Appearing at the Whooverville Podcast Panel were:
- Tony Gallichan from The Flashing Blade Podcast - Michael Gilroy from Doctor Who: Tin Dog Podcast - Karen Dunn and Adam Purcell from Staggering Stories Podcast - Marty Perrett from DWO Whocast - Dave Cooper from The Cultdom Chronicles - James Naughton from Doctor Who: Podshock - Nat Titman from Bridging The Rift - Luke Harrison from The Minute Doctor Who Podcast
Radio Free Skaro #157 - Byrne, Baby, Byrne
Radio Free Skaro #156 - Polyphase Avatron
Radio Free Skaro #155 - Holmesian Triple Act
Radio Free Skaro #154 - Condo Says LOL XD
Radio Free Skaro #153 - A Tweet Too Far
Radio Free Skaro #152 - Fax the Betamax
Radio Free Skaro #151 - Killing Time Before The Waters of Mars
Radio Free Skaro #150 - Sasquatchicentennial
Radio Free Skaro Wednesday Cutaway - The Ballad of Jack and Ianto
Radio Free Skaro #149 - Torchwood - Children of Worth
Radio Free Skaro #148 - Boom Town Rats
Radio Free Skaro #147 - Dancing Doctors and Empty Children
Radio Free Skaro #147 - Empty Children and Dancing Doctors
Radio Free Skaro #146 - Better Aim Than Graham
Radio Free Skaro #145 - The Lament of Steven
Radio Free Skaro #144 - Square Peggs
Radio Free Skaro #143 - Never Trust a Man With a Soul Patch
Radio Free Skaro #142 - Four To Doomsday
Radio Free Skaro #141 - The Curse of Keith Boak
Radio Free Skaro #140 - The Gay(seous) Agenda
HiSciFi Interviews Radio Free Skaro's Warren Frey
Radio Free Skaro #139 - An Absence of Pedantry
Radio Free Skaro #138 - The Radio Free Skaro 138th Episode Spectacular
Radio Free Skaro #137 - A Rose By Any Other Name...
Radio Free Skaro #136 - The Wrath (and Hay Fever) of Ian Levine
Radio Free Skaro #135 - Mission to the Unknown
Radio Free Skaro #134 - The Planet of Michelle Ryan
Radio Free Skaro - Promo
Radio Free Skaro #133 - The Anticipointment of Entercation
Radio Free Skaro #132 - The Bigger They Are
Radio Free Skaro #131 - The Sweet Serenade of Sarcastor
Radio Free Skaro interviews VFX genius Dennis Muren
Radio Free Skaro #130 - Invasion of the XX Chromosome
Radio Free Skaro #129 - Digressionary Tactics
Radio Free Skaro Interviews Simon Guerrier
Radio Free Skaro #128 - In the Shadow of the Cyber-King
Radio Free Skaro interviews Steve Roberts
Radio Free Skaro #127 - The Rise of Rubbishor
Radio Free Skaro - Gallifrey '09 Podcast Panel
Radio Free Skaro #126 - The End of Our Tether
Radio Free Skaro interviews David J. Howe
Radio Free Skaro #125 - Toclafantastic
Radio Free Skaro #124 - Two Scoops of Hooray
Radio Free Skaro #123 - Shearman After Dark
Radio Free Skaro interviews Toby Hadoke
Radio Free Skaro interviews Phil Collinson
Radio Free Skaro #122 - Live from Gallifrey
Radio Free Skaro #121 - Vardans at the Gate
Radio Free Skaro #120 - The Return of Pedantor
Radio Free Skaro #119 - Fall Guys
Radio Free Skaro #118 - By Hook or By Crook...
Radio Free Skaro #117 - Fool's Reunion
Radio Free Skaro #116 - Ghostly Matt-ers
Radio Free Skaro #115 - No Warren, No Cry
Radio Free Skaro #114 - Jet-Lagged Yet Jaunty
Radio Free Skaro #113 - Vectors of Digression
For the first time in a long time, the Three Who Rule went sans commentary and digressed, postulated, and even went off topic (twice!) in the middle of a sentence. The hygiene of certain Sex in the City characters, Steve Coogan, Big Finish audios, and oh yes, the latest Doctor Who news headlines were hashed over, giggled at, and finally shunted aside as your gallant crew went completely off the rails. Hoo-ray!
Radio Free Skaro #112 - Anticipointment
And so it's come to this. At long last the RFS crew reaches "Journey's End," the final episode of Series Four, and a story that nicely sums up Who scribe Gareth Roberts term of "anticipointment." So much potential, frittered away in a fruitless wasting of the Rose story arc and Benny Hill-esque dispatchment of the Daleks. Still, Julian Bleach's Davros and the sad fate of Donna Noble rescued the episode from the Trash-Bin of Utter Contempt (next door neighbour to the Gun of Spite) and gave our three heroes much gristle to chew over, spit out, and look at askance.
Radio Free Skaro #111 - Swollen Mirth
Radio Free Skaro #110 - As the World Turns Left (and gets stolen at the end)
Radio Free Skaro #109 - Musings at Midnight
Radio Free Skaro #108 - Hey, Who Turned Down the Lights?
Radio Free Skaro #107 - Absentee Tennant
Radio Free Skaro #106 - The Unicorn and the zzzzzz...
Radio Free Skaro #105 - A Lump of Gold in a Sea of Poop
Radio Free Skaro #104 - Obam-ha!
Radio Free Skaro #103 - The Sontaran Soliloquy
Radio Free Skaro #102 - How very Ood
Radio Free Skaro #101 - Pompeii up the Volume
Radio Free Skaro #100 - So it's come to this..
Radio Free Skaro #99 - Alas, Poor Ruprecht
Radio Free Skaro #98 - The Curse of Pela-slog
Radio Free Skaro #97 - Sir Reginald's Dirty Little Secret
Radio Free Skaro #96 - Filer!!
Radio Free Skaro #95 - Not the Mind Probe!
Radio Free Skaro #94 - Madoc! I mean, Robot!
Radio Free Skaro #93 - Mr. Sin's Lament the Second
Radio Free Skaro #92 - Mr. Sin's Lament the First
Radio Free Skaro #91: Slack Orchid
Radio Free Skaro #90 - Journey's Meh
Radio Free Skaro #89 - The Stolen Mirth
Radio Free Skaro #88 - Third (Guy) Left
Radio Free Skaro #87 - Midnight Express
For once, the Three Who Rule were in total agreement that "Midnight," the psychological thriller/Donna-lite episode of this season's Doctor Who, was a fine bit of viewing. That left us with little else to do besides mock Who overseer Phil Collinson and engage in many a ridiculous digression, as per usual. Next week, Rose, dead Doctors, and atomic weaponry. Allons-y!
Radio Free Skaro #86 - Forest of the Dud?
Radio Free Skaro #85 - Triumph of the Library
Radio Free Skaro #84 - The Brain of Moffatius
Radio Free Skaro #83 - The Unicorn and the Meh
Radio Free Skaro #82 - The Doctor's Disaster
Radio Free Skaro #81 - The Poison Podcast
Radio Free Skaro #80 - Sontarans and Sarcasm
Radio Free Skaro # 79 - Ooooooooooood!
Radio Free Skaro #78 - No News from Pompeii
Radio Free Skaro #77 - Full Frontal Skaro
Radio Free Skaro #76 - Backwards towards the Future
Radio Free Skaro #75 - In Search of the Third Guy
Radio Free Skaro #74: Attack of the Lack (of News)
Radio Free Skaro #73 - The Curmudgeon Factor
Radio Free Skaro #72 - Invasion of the Third Guy
Radio Free Skaro #71 - now airing on BBC 3 last week
Radio Free Skaro # 70 - Curse of the Kernel Panic
Radio Free Skaro #69 - The Wrath of Steven
Radio Free Skaro #68 - Keeping Fans at arm's length since 2006
Radio Free Skaro #67 - Kiss Kiss We're Back
Radio Free Skaro #66 - Random Ruminations
Radio Free Skarp #65 - The Commentary of the Damned
Radio FreeSkaro #64 - Podcast of the Damned
Radio Free Skaro #63 - Countdown to Kylie
Radio Free Skaro #62 - Brushes with Greatness
Radio Free Skaro #61 - Billie's back?!?
Radio Free Skaro #60 - Milestones and Memorials
Radio Free Skaro #59 - Barrowmania!
Radio Free Skaro #58 - Live from Edmonton (well, sorta)!
Radio Free Skaro #57 - Meanderings and Miscellany
Radio Free Skaro #56 - The Knife of Jealousy
Radio Free Skaro #55 - Last of the Time Snores
Radio Free Skaro #54 - the drums, the drums!
Radio Free Skaro #53 - Truly, this is Utopia
Radio Free Skaro # 52 - The Art of Blinksmanship
Radio Free Skaro #51 - the Podcast of Blood
Radio Free Skaro #50 - Human, Naturally
Radio Free Skaro #49 - is about 42
Radio Free Skaro #48: The Lazurus Meandering
Radio Free Skaro #47 -Mehvolution of the Daleks
Radio Free Skaro #46 - Daleks in Meh-hattan
Radio Free Skaro #45 - Gridlock commentary and other sundry bits
Radio Free Skaro #44 - the Shakespeare commentary
Radio Free Skaro #43 - Smith and Jones jaunty commentary
Radio Free Skaro #42 - Life, the Universe, and Everything
Radio Free Skaro #41 - Last of the Meh
Radio Free Skaro #40 - the Drums! The Drums!
Radio Free Skaro #39 - Utopia!
Radio Free Skaro #38: Blink!
Radio Free Skaro #37 - Bloody Family
Slight delay for Radio Free Skaro #37
Due to both of the hosts feeling under the weather, we postponed recording the show by a day. But if all goes according to plan, we'll convene via Skype tonight and discuss matters pertaining to the Family of Blood.
Radio Free Skaro #36 - Human Nature
Radio Free Skaro #35 - Forty-two
Radio Free Skaro #34: Fanwank Ahoy!
Radio Free Skaro # 33 - That's one big spider
Radio Free Skaro #32 - Daleks, Manhattan..ehh
Radio Free Skaro episode 31 - Gridlicious
Radio Free Skaro #30 - Defeat of the Echo People
Radio Free Skaro #29 - Smith and Jones
Radio Free Skaro #28 - Eccleston part the second
Radio Free Skaro #27 - Eccleston's Era, part the first
Radio Free Skaro #26 - the dark time
Radio Free Skaro #25 - the downward spiral
Radio Free Skaro #24 - damn that's an ugly coat
Radio Free Skaro #23 - cricket and celery
Radio Free Skaro #22 - pathetic crustaceans
Radio Free Skaro #21 - Teeth and Curls
Radio Free Skaro #20 - Pertwee ponderings
Radio Free Skaro #19 - Troughton time!
Radio Free Skaro #18 - as retro as it gets
Radio Free Skaro #17
Radio Free Skaro #16
Radio Free Skaro #15
Radio Free Skaro episode 14
Radio Free Skaro #13
Radio Free Skaro #12!
Radio Free Skaro #11
Radio Free Skaro episode 10
Radio Free Skaro episode 9
Radio Free Skaro #8 Part 2
Radio Free Skaro episode 8a
Radio Free skaro #7!
Radio Free Skaro #6
Radio Free Skaro #5
The oft delayed Radio Free Skaro #4!
Radio Free Skaro episode 3
Radio Free Skaro episode 2
Radio Free Skaro episode 1
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