The Untempered Schism Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Once more the Fifth Doctor finds his past selves getting involved with his present, being plucked out of time and dropped into the Death Zone along with a few companions. Now the various doctors have to work together to reach the center of the zone, to the Tomb of Rassilon himself, to claim the final […]
The Doctor once again somehow finds himself trapped during Christmas, but this time it’s in a town called Christmas. Well, not so much trapped as refusing to leave, even if the town is located on Trenzalore, the one place he never wants to be. It’s worth the cost though, to protect the one small town […]
As we get closer to the end, we take a look back at the most recent regeneration story, with the Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts and the First Doctor dealing with creatures made of glass, a temporally displaced World War One Captain and a visit to an old ‘friend’. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 24:53
The Master is up to his old tricks again, playing around with time, summoning monsters, and coming up with suggestive sounding acronyms. Luckily the Third Doctor and Jo Grant are there to put a stop to it, even if it does require a quick side trip to the Atlantis. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 21:17
The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria have once again arrived on Earth, right in the centre of the London Underground. Naturally there is something horrible going on, with Yeti robots marching around and fungus filling the tunnels. Luckily the military has the situation well in hand, and we get to meet a very familiar face […]
There is just something indescribable about Paris, as the Fourth Doctor and Romana have quickly discovered. Along with weird time anomalies, aliens from millions of years ago, a rather heavy fisted private detective and at least five extra duplicates of the Mona Lisa hidden inside of a wall. All in all it adds up to […]
The holidays are here again, along with the cold and the snow. The Eleventh Doctor, on his own for the moment, doesn’t seem to care, even when the snow turns out to harbor ill intent. There is the also the frozen woman in the pond and one Clara Oswald, but she’s not the Clara we […]
Perivale, a place where nothing ever happens, or at least that’s what Ace thinks when she and the Seventh Doctor pay a visit. Of course that’s far from the truth. Almost all of Ace’s old friends having been taken to another world to be hunted by Cheetah People, but it’s not just Ace’s friends on […]
With the departure of Susan still fresh in their minds, the First Doctor, Barbara and Ian discover the crashed spaceship UK-201, along with the two survivors. Lucky the TARDIS crew is here to help them, unfortunately someone doesn’t want anyone leaving. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 19:39
Every now and then the Doctor just wants to kick back and play a game of Cricket, with Tegan, Nyssa and Adric tagging along. Of course being in a palatial manor house in 1925 doesn’t keep them from running into trouble, and force once it has nothing to do with monsters or aliens. Twitter: @schismpodcast […]
What is a word really? It’s a collection of sounds and meaning, but as the Sixth Doctor and Peri are about to find out, that can be very powerful. Even more so when the word itself is self aware and self replicating, infecting mind after mind. That just leaves one question, how do you stop […]
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the distance future and under the every watchful eye of Big Sister. While the Doctor and Jamie find themselves sentenced to life in the titular Space Prison, where arts and crafts rule the day, Zoe is stuck back on Earth and being brain washed by the […]
They always say that television will rot your brain, or at least cause you to ruin your eye site. When it comes the Scorchies the situation is much more dire, as Jo is quickly finding out. Surrounded by homicidal puppets who are using TV to destroy the world (and break into song), she has to […]
We continue are visit to the Victorian era, this time meeting up with some old friends we haven’t seen in a very long time. Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot, though they are currently on the run and hiding under assumed names, but even that won’t keep them from being pulled into the hunt […]
We catch back up with Queen Victoria in 1899 as she checks in on Torchwood’s London branch just in time for a time sucking alien to escape and causing havok all across town. She’s not alone though, as Captain Jack Harkness is already on the job and he and Queen are going to have to […]
There is very little amusement to be had by anyone but the Tenth Doctor and Rose as they find themselves in Scotland around 1879 and in the presence of Queen Victoria herself. As she’s diverted to a little placed called ‘Torchwood House’. Naturally they are not alone as the house is staffed by kung-fu monks […]
This week we take one more spin with the Zygons, looking back at their most recent story, along with the Twelfth Doctor, Clara and Osgood (well the surviving Osgood, just don’t ask if she’s human or Zygon). The treaty is starting to fall apart and it’s up to the Doctor to try and pull it […]
To the Scottish Highlands we go, with the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry teaming up with UNIT and the brigadier himself to tackle a monster for the deep, the Loch Ness Monster herself. Of course the beast isn’t working alone, but is being control by the Zygons… assuming we actually remember to talk about it […]
Music is in the air, along with remixes and lake monsters as The Eight Doctor and Lucie pay a visit to the lake district and Lucie’s Auntie Pat. Who’s married to a Zygon who’s been disguised as a human for a couple decades. Not that Auntie Pat is in the dark, if anything she knows […]
Things can come at you fast when you live on Bannerman Road. Some days you could be just hanging out with your friends, and some days your deadbeat father turns up, steals an alien artifact and lets the power go to his head. Even for Clyde this isn’t exactly a normal day saving the world. […]
The Third Doctor is about to meet some old familiar faces (for us) for the first time as Jo Grant, Captain Yates and the Master all arrive on the scene. The Master isn’t alone though, bringing the Autons back with him to try and take over the world via plastic daffodils and fake cops. Twitter: […]
It’s the second time (at least in a TV story) that the Doctor has encountered the Weeping Angels, as well as the second time (also at least on TV) that he’s met his wife (though he doesn’t know that yet). It’s the first time that Amy’s met her daughter (though she doesn’t know that yet), […]
We return to the familiar stomping grounds of Bannerman Road with old friends and new. This time finds Sarah Jane and her friends dealing with aliens kidnapping kids from a laser tag game all to fight a distant war. Pretty much a typical day in Ealing. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 22:04
The Untempered Schism Podcast has officially returned, and we bring with us a fun little Big Finish audio that takes the Timey-Wimey ball and runs with it. A story with two time-lines that are overlapping each other, ending at the wrong beginning before starting again, and in general pointing and laughing in causality’s general direction. […]
If you spend any time with the Doctor you end up familiar with death, but not the sort of ‘every day’ death that just happens. For Clara the tragic death of Danny is something she had no framework to deal with. Trying to cope with this leads both her and the Twelfth Doctor right into […]
The Daleks are back at it again, rescuing Davros for reasons, messing about with time, trying to kill the Doctor, betraying Davros. All the usual things they like to do, they just aren’t doing it that well this time around. Still, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are there to put a stop to it […]
The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn quickly go from finding themselves at the wrong end of Thomas Brewster’s gun, to returning to a time-loop the Doctor created fifty years ago to imprison the energy vampire creature known as Axos, which has cried out for help. There’s two factions from Earth that have their sights set on […]
When it comes to Doctor Who, nothing is creepier than a normal village that is strangely empty and quiet, as The Doctor and Sarah discover. Of course an empty village doesn’t stay empty for long, but having the people show up just makes the situation all the stranger. Links of note: New costume photos released […]
The First Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Vicki have found themselves in a museum, or rather they have found a future version of themselves on display in a museum. This presents a real problem when they finally catch up with themselves. Luckily there are a convenient group of rebels just waiting around for someone to take […]
After having the Earth stolen right out from under the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor and Donna are going to need a lot more help to save the day. Luckily they have pretty much have everyone from all three (at the time) shows to call on, and a few others lurking in the wings. And, of […]
We close out the Sixth Doctor’s televised run with his last televised story – The Ultimate Foe; the last part of the Trial of a Time Lord arc that was Series 23. The mystery behind who is Valeyard finally gets revealed, surprisingly by a long time enemy of the Doctor. The Master seems up for […]
There is no such thing like a simple uneventful trip with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, which is even more true when it’s on a train as famous as the Orient Express (even if it’s a spaceship that just happens to look like a train). With an anonymous mastermind pulling the strings and an evil […]
Victoria, Jamie and the Second Doctor are high above it all on the top floor of a space elevator. They aren’t alone, of course, as an alien force has taken over the crew and the weather control systems for the planet below with very little time to save the day. All in all a fairly […]
The Eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz have landed in what looks like every day suburbia, with houses that look all the same, slightly put upon grandmothers and ice-cream trucks. Unfortunately every house is exactly the same, both inside and out, with the same people doing the same things over and over. Turns out this suburbia […]
How many times can one human die? Well unless your name is Jack Harkness, the answer is usually one, but former Torchwood agent Suzie Costello is going to try. The fact that she is currently dead is actually a key part of her plan, now she just needs to stop being dead. Though, that part […]
Continuing in the same vein as last episode’s The Power of the Daleks, we look at Victory of the Daleks, which has many similar elements. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy return Winston Churchill’s call to them (made at the end of The Beast Below) and are introduced to Professor Bracewell’s Ironsides, which bear a striking resemblance […]
We return to the adventures of the Second Doctor, this time going right back to his very first story. A story that itself has regenerated into an animated production. With Daleks running around pretending to be friendly and submissive, the Doctor acting quite different then his past incarnation, and a pair of very confused companions, […]
The Third Doctor, currently still exiled to Earth, has to play ‘messenger’ for the Time Lords and deliver a ‘box’ containing something to someone on or around the planet of Solos – on the day they are just about to achieve independence from the Overlords of the Earth Empire in the 30th Century. Of course […]
Back on Earth and in the (at the time) present day, the Seventh Doctor and Ace are finding themselves in the usual sort of mess dealing with Cybermen, Nazis, time travel witches, living metal and someone who looks a bit like the Queen if you squint a bit. It all adds up to not very […]
The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Adric go off to explore a strange alien planet and immediately leave Tegan alone to have her mind infested by a mental monster. It’s not all fun and games though as the Doctor is being a bit silly and Adric gets to play solider for a little bit. As for […]
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara are in deep trouble as they land on a sinking Soviet submarine. Stuck on the bottom of the ocean they have to cope with water, self important officers and a defrosted Martian who is not at all happy to have woken up just in time to get tased. Twitter: @schismpodcast […]
Time is far from the essence for the original TARDIS crew as they find themselves stranded on the planet Marinus. With the TARDIS locked away and only having teleport watches to get around, the crew has to cover the length and breadth of the planet to find the titular keys, eventually. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ […]
The clock is ticking for the Tenth Doctor and Martha, trapped on a space ship falling into a sun with a literal timer hanging over their heads. They will have to save the ship, help an alien and try not to let everyone (and themselves) die – all in 42(ish) minutes. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ […]
We return to the Key of Time, this time going to the very beginning with The Ribos Operation. Featuring Intergalactic con men, guards that sometimes are smart, a medieval world, and a lump of extremely valuable rock. All in a day’s work for the Fourth Doctor, K9 and Romana. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 26:40
Back in London with Sarah Jane Smith and company investigating the strange going-ons at the local old folks home. Turns out they have a minor Nun infestation thanks to the local Abby, which is also the home of an alien Gorgon who really wants an old lady’s jewelry…. and she doesn’t care who gets turned into […]
After seven months of radio silence, the most recent Mars mission has returned to Earth and, of course, nothing is simple with the recovery and rescue of the crew. Radiation, kidnappings, running around and lots of other distractions keep the Doctor from saving the day. Luckily things turn out better than most of the other […]
Davros is up to his old tricks again, trying to make another bit of hybrid Dalek (something that surely won’t end horribly for everyone involved). Fortunate that the Sixth Doctor and Peri are on the scene, and will get there eventually to take part in the plot… though it’s taking quite a while. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: […]
After finally escaping from the Divergent Universe with C’rizz, the Eighth Doctor and Charlie have made it back into ‘our’ universe. Their first stop is an unexpected visit to Earth, where an old enemy of the Doctor’s has apparently been waiting. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 22:30
With the holidays upon us, we put in a visit with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, dealing with alien head crabs, shared dreams and Santa Claus. Yes that Santa Claus. There are a lot more things going on then it seems at first glance, but the most important thing is… nobody likes the tangerines. Twitter: […]
Gabriel Chase is a nice enough mansion during the day, but when night falls things get a bit weird. Crazy hunters, a Neanderthal butler, and a couple of weird aliens in the basement all come out at night. Into this walks the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and he’s telling her far less than usual about […]
After having a building dropped on top of them, the Torchwood team has found that time is not on their side. While they are rescued one by one, we get a glimpse back to what brought them to Torchwood in the first place (even if they didn’t want to be there). Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ […]
Surprise and explosions are in store for the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric as they take a turn and spelunking before taking a trip into space (and Adric gets to visit Chicxulub). Naturally there are monsters and Cybermen lurking around every corner, but when are they not? Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 28:59
The Doctor, Susan, Barbra and Ian have found themselves in deep trouble again; the TARDIS is lost and the alien invaders has already been successful. Now they have to run and hide along with the rest of the survives. Of course that won’t stop the Doctor from getting involved in saving the day… especially after […]
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah have landed in the present (or a time close enough to it to make no odds) but have still found themselves dealing with a dangerous alien form 150 million years ago. Luckily Eldrad isn’t interested in taking over the Earth, she just wants to go home… not that they want […]
How do you raise the lost continent of Atlantis? Well if your Professor Zaroff you do it by destroying the Earth… Yeah, not even the Second Doctor is buying this derailed train of thought, but it’s up to him, Jamie, Ben and Polly to stop it before the madman’s plan to frak the world comes […]
The Eleventh Doctor finds himself dealing with another ‘deepest hole in the world’ – this time in 2020 Wales. At the bottom isn’t any sort of green slime, or even magma, but a whole forgotten city filled with sleeping Silurians, locked in suspended animation for millions of years, and they are not happy about the new […]
How do you deal with the Doctor being stuck on Earth and unable to travel anywhere? Let him travel to an alternate Earth, of course! An Earth with eyepatches, people without facial hair that did have it elsewhere… oh, and the end of the world, too. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 28:14
Who could be better to talk about a Doctor Who episode kind of centred about a wedding than a couple of newlyweds? Our very own Richard is joined by his new wife of just a few days, Lindsey, as she comes along for the ride, talking about Donna Noble’s first ride in the TARDIS. Here […]
Once again, the TARDIS returns to 76 Totter’s Lane, but in 1985 contemporary London. While similar to the next time the Doctor will be back, the old foe he meets now are the Cybermen, and they have a most diabolical plan that could change the course of history – both in the Doctor’s past, and […]
Once more we return to Coal Hill School, but this time in 1963 and with the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Turns out the Doctor left something behind when he ran off and after all this time he’s come back to claim it. Or rather arrange for the Daleks to claim it. Of course just because […]
We have a lot going on this time, from talking about cats, dental work, and even other British shows (sci-fi and otherwise). We even manage to find some time to talk about the story we’re supposed to be reviewing, at least until we bounce off in another direction. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 18:28
There is very little good (in more ways than one) hiding out in the basement of Torchwood, in this case it happens to be in the form of a half converted cyberwoman… who’s way to sexed up for an emotionless alien monster. That leaves the staff of Torchwood (and us at the podcast) to deal […]
It’s time to go back to school as the Twelve Doctor goes deep under cover–by changing his jacket–at Clara’s school. Not that his cover is very good, or very believable, or does anything but attract attention. Though with an alien war machine running around (as well as Clara’s boyfriend) running around a little attention goes […]
A visit back to The Sarah Jane Adventures this week and a reuniting of Sarah with the Doctor (the Eleventh, this time), UNIT, and the first face-to-face meeting she’s ever had with a previous companion of the Doctor; Jo Jones, née Grant. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 33:17
Time for a trip to Rome in both the past and future as Quadrigger Stoyn returns, though he’s more than a little bit crazy after so long out on his own. This time he’s up against the Fourth Doctor, Romana and… Romana. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 25:17
“Double trouble” time as we take a moment to catch up with Jo Grant/Jones who’s finding her past might not be what she remembers, or at least that’s what the strange narrating alien is trying to convince her of. But with the help of one Iris Wildthyme, they are going back to the past to […]
Things are getting uncanny as the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves on a strange planet with oceans made of sand and floating cities. As usual they aren’t alone as Quadrigger Stoyn is with them, and he has been waiting for a very long time for his revenge… Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 21:20
When the Eleventh Doctor gets a message in the middle of deep space, he, Amy and Rory and up dropping the TARDIS into a small bubble universe. Of course on a small living planet nothing is every quite what it should be, including the bitey mad lady that is claiming to be the TARDIS. Twitter: […]
Strange things are afoot in the TARDIS, with things popping in and out of existence, decimal points moving around, people that shouldn’t be there or even exist and paintings all around. It’s nothing that Lela and the Fourth Doctor can’t deal with, assuming they can find out what is going on deep inside the ship. […]
Both the 5th Doctor’s and Nyssa’s pasts catch up with them. Nyssa’s from when she left Helheim to travel again in the TARDIS, and the Doctor’s from before he even left Gallifrey. Paradoxes and timey-wimeyness ensue. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 22:16
The Untempered Schism goes all the way back to the beginning this week. No, not to The Unearthly Child, but back to The Beginning, where Susan recounts her and her grandfather’s flight from Gallifrey. Except they didn’t flee entirely alone, didn’t make it all the way to Earth the first time, and by the time […]
Temporal confusion abounds as the Fourth Doctor and Sara Jane Smith end up in 1911 instead of the present day. Of course it’s more than just bad luck for them as there are robot mummies wondering around, as well as an alien god and a number of traps hiding around the corner. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: […]
The Third Doctor and Jo find themselves in the middle of a small problem, having landed on a famous lost ship, which isn’t lost it’s just trapped inside of a Miniscope. The down side is Jo and the Doctor are trapped as well, along with a few other monsters. Not to mention the carny folk […]
The Black Guardian still has his sights set on the Fifth Doctor, luckily he’s still trying to use Turlough to do the job and he’s not very good at it. Though he does get the TARDIS crew stranded on a space liner carrying a number of sick people, taking them all to Terminus, which holds […]
Looking back at a Second Doctor story that’s been reconstructed using animation for half of it. This is The Moonbase, where the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie encounter the Cybermen that are trying to use a gravity weather device stationed on the Moon to destroy the Earth. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 25:30
The Trial of a Timelord continues as now even the plant life is getting in on the act as the Sixth Doctor looks to the future and an adventure with a brand new companion, Mel. Of course just because it’s an interstellar cruise doesn’t mean that there isn’t going to be a workout for the […]
Through a series of events not easily explained The Seventh Doctor and Mel have found themselves in 1959 Wales. Luckily they have found a Holiday camp to stay at, unluckily they have to deal with alien princesses, mercenaries, bees, stalkerish mechanics and a bus full of alien tourists. But to make things more interesting, there […]
Halloween has arrived in the Untempered Schism, so to celebrate we’ve decided to look at something very scary. Love & Monsters, the first of the Doctor “lite” stories featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose, as well as some normal humans who get caught up in the Doctor’s wake. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 28:46
When you’re traveling in the TARDIS time is never quite where you left it. Of course that usually happens because of the time machine, not because you ended up getting stuck a multi-time stream clinic that kills you with kindness. Still, space time is flexible and a few paradoxes won’t break everything in the universe… […]
The time has finally arrived for us to meet the newest incarnation of the Doctor as he arrives via T-Rex to Victorian England. Not that the Doctor will get a chance to relax post regeneration as there is always something weird going on. Weird, but oddly familiar… Abbey Road recreation photo Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ […]
While searching for something to help Ramsay, the Vortisaur the Doctor and Charley ‘rescued’ from the R-101, our two time travellers shortly find themselves on board a salvage craft heading out to a derelict star destroyer. The crew are suspicious of the Doctor and Charley (especially since they’re – again – found over the body […]
Following on from the events on The Ark in Space, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry transmat down to Earth to find it not only habitable, but with people there. Not just people either, but someone that Sarah mistakes for someone she met before, and they’re conducting some nasty experiments. Then, once they find their way […]
The Fourth Doctor’s attempt to show Harry Sullivan the moon backfires thanks to the latter’s messing with the helmic regulator, bringing them and Sarah many thousands of years into the future to Nerva Beacon. Yet they are not the only ones to have found this orbiting ‘ark’ of humanity in cryogenic sleep. The spacefaring Wirrn […]
Most of the time, the Doctor can never really know the outcome of his actions. But when he, Steven and Dodo run into an ark carrying the last of humanity to a new world, he finally gets to see the results first hand. After a simple cure for a plague and a 700 year jump […]
The 10th Doctor and Martha drop by 1930’s New York City to find the city in the midst of the Great Depression and the Empire State building 6 months away from completion… only to find out that the Cult of Skaro have taken over the project. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 29:16
Nothing is quite what it seems like when The Master is involved. Just because he’s in prison doesn’t mean he’s not up to his old tricks as Jo and the Third Doctor soon find out. Of course he’s not the only threat this time, but there’s also the arrival of a different breed of Silurians, […]
There’s the old well warn saying “I may not know art, but I know what I like”. Well it turns out that when it comes to the Mona Lisa, art doesn’t much like you either. Of course she’s not just a painting but some sort of alien creature trapped in the paint that has come […]
A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS onto what appears to be a stranded starliner. Nyssa and Tegan become separated from the Doctor; not in space, but 6 years into the past, while the Doctor has to deal with a curious schoolboy named Turlough, who has got himself mixed up with an old enemy. The Doctor’s […]
Things are getting a pit prickly as the Doctor and Romana II have an encounter with Meglos, a super intelligent cactus with aims for world domination. Of course he’s going to need to borrow a body, which he can also make look like the Doctor (while keeping the real thing tucked away in a time […]
The old west beckons again, but this isn’t the wild west; just the town of Mercy. With 81 inhabitants, electronic lights, an alien doctor and a cyborg gunslinger lurking out in the desert. Naturally the Doctor is excited about the whole thing, though Amy and Rory less so. Of course the color of hats have […]
We return to the days of black and white as we join the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves right in the middle of it again as they stumbling upon the Gonds. A group of almost humans are the servers of the enigmatic Krotons. Of course now that they TARDIS has arrived they are […]
Ah, the great outdoors! A place where the Torchwood team is completely out of place. Of course they have to go out into the fresh air and unsullied land to investigate the very real possibility that a bunch of aliens are going around and killing people. Of course just because they are expecting aliens doesn’t […]
Milkshakes all around (and maybe over a person or two) as we pay a visit to the dark side of the planet Svartos. Home to random rouges like Sabalom Glitz, a time storm displaced teen from the 1980 in one Dorothy McShane, though everyone calls her Ace, a frozen alien mad men called Kane, and […]
With everyone back in good health, we return to talk about the Sixth Doctor and The Mysterious Planet… which may or may not be Earth (Spoiler, it’s Earth) blown out of place by some strangeness. Of course the real question is what that has to do with the fact the Doctor is on trail and […]
The Eighth Doctor recently picked up Mary Shelley from a lake house in Geneva, and has brought her to Vienna. However, he was not to meet up with Samson and Gemma Griffin as he intended, but instead meets an old foe from a twin world of Earth that is being used to demonstrate it’s chess playing […]
Your Mother always told you that television will rot your brain, well for once it turns out she was right. Though it’s not the TV that’s doing the melting, but an alien living in the air waves, stealing faces and feeding on 1950’s London. Luckily the Tenth Doctor and Rose are there to save the […]
Strange things are happen in the old coal mines of Wales as toxic waste, giant maggots and evil computers are all coming together to challenge Jo, the Doctor and the crew of UNIT . Luckily the local commune is also the home of a number of scientists with an ecological bent who can help The […]
The First Doctor takes a visit to (what was then) present day London, to visit the new Post Office Tower only to find it home to a mad AI with delusions of world conquest. Though the machine isn’t going it alone, it has a bevy of mind controlled servants to build robots to take over […]
We return to the crowded TARDIS with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan as they back to Heathrow in time for her flight. Of course things never quite go as planned as they land in an alien space ship heading towards Earth. A ship has visited the planet a number of times in the past, but this […]
We start our second century with a look at one of the… less well remembered stories of the Fourth Doctor’s era. Though it’s not without reason that it’s usually considered one of the weaker stories of the time, it does have some highlights, few and far between as they are. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: […]
The moment has come for the 100th episode of the Untempered Schism, we take a look at the last adventure of the Ninth Doctor. With Rose and Caption Jack by this side, he will brave reality TV, killer robots, Daleks and the consequences of his own actions. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 27:19
The Eleventh Doctor is off on his own (even if Amy and Rory are still in the opening credits) and found himself getting mixed up in an adventure with Shops, Cybermen, babies and Craig Owens. Not that it makes all that much sense (Really, the Doctor working in a shop?) but we’ll just go with […]
They say that words have power, that’s no more true than when the Word Lord Nobody No-One is around. When he’s around nobody is safe, words becoming reality with just the slip of the tongue, so don’t say anything about no-one or else it will become the truth. To stop him, the Seventh Doctor needs […]
Reality and Fiction (or maybe Fiction and Fiction) collide as the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves stepping outside of the universe and into the Land of Fiction. A world populated with a number of fictional characters and one real writer, the TARDIS crew has to find a way out before they end up […]
Varos is hardly the most hospitable place to visit, let alone when the Sixth Doctor and Peri need some Zeiton-7 ore to fix the TARDIS. Of course it’s not quite easy to get, more so as the whole place is a former prison planet and run in about the most insane way possible. For the […]
Though various machinations and complicated plotting the Eight Doctor and Charley have found themselves stuck in another universe and trying to find the TARDIS. This isn’t like our universe with no time, giant bug monsters and disembodied voices. Luckily C’rizz is there to help them, and join the crew. Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: 18:15
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic and that includes the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. Of course they aren’t there by choice, more because of a carjacking (which seem to work the other way around five billion years in the future). Not that a huge motorway filled with enough pollution to block out the sun […]
Even as reality is contriving against us, the Untempered Schism presses on! Maybe a little battered and warn, but still quite good at what we do. In this case we are review The Happiness Patrol, a strange little story featuring way to much killer candy, less then subtitle political subtext and a number of bad […]
The Untempered Schism are returning to the sadly short run of the Ninth Doctor as he, Rose and Jack take a side trip to Cardiff (along with Mickey). And while they do get a bit of a vacation, things turn hot when it turns out the Mayor is wearing a familiar face (easy to do […]
Change is coming to the TARDIS as Romana has been called back to Gallifrey, of course no trip home can be easy and this time is no different as they end up trapped in E-Space (guess the Doctor shouldn’t have let K-9 drive). Once there they run into Marshmen, mind-controlling spiders and Adric… you can […]
We take time out from rebuilding our server (and by ‘we’ that really mean Jay) to look back at the second Third Doctor adventure. This one really has all the pieces you’ve come to expect, lots of shooting, things blowing up, Bessie and rubbery costumes. All in all a rather fun romp with the Doctor […]
The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa have returned, taking the change to do some much needed repairs on the TARDIS at least until they are pulled into another round of messes on Gallifrey. This time the Time Lords are worried about someone stealing the Doctor’s body… so the logical choice is to kill him. At the […]
The Ides of March are upon us, so to celebrate we’ll be joining The First Doctor, Vicki, Ian and Barbara as they take a vacation near Rome around 64 A.D. For once the vacation goes off without much of a hitch and a month on there is no signs of any sort of adventures. Of […]
Pirates, the High Seas, Swashbuckling and Walking the Plank, The Curse of the Black Spot has it all yet doesn’t quite come through with a great story to go along with it. Instead we have The Doctor being wrong most of the time, an alien EMH, Rory dying (yet again) and Amy seeing faces in […]
This week The Untempered Schism is taking a look at The Enemy of the World, this recently recovered story features no monsters, crazy under group bases, doppelgangers, twisted motives and the most pessimistic man in the history of the series. It’s all in good fun though and well worth taking the time to watch. Feedback […]
Delving back into the deep end of the series we look at one of the other lowest ranked episodes, Timelash. Is it really as bad as they say it is and does it deserve all the hate? Well there’s more than one opinion in this case but rest assured it’s nothing that a bad second […]
The Eight Doctor and Charley have found themselves in New York City, just in time for Halloween 1938 and the infamous broadcast of Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds. Of course with the Doctor’s luck they run into a dead body the moment they arrive and naturally there is a real invasion going on. […]
For the final episode of 2013 we look back on the 2008 at the start of the last year of the Tenth Doctors run. He’s in Victorian London dealing with Cybermen, giant steam punk robots and a Doctor who is not The Doctor (but does a fair job none the less). So as we wait […]
After quite a long time The Untempered Schism goes back to finish the Master Trilogy by joining the Fourth Doctor and Adric in The Keeper of Traken. Not only do we get to meet Nyssa before she got to be an official companion, we also have the rare moment of Adric being very useful and […]
With the 50th Anniversary a week past (sorry we missed it, travel and sickness can take its toll) the Untempered Schism is looking at a past anniversary special. Now we aren’t going to say which one it is, but there isn’t many to pick from but you’ll have to listen to find out. It should […]
The original TARDIS crew has returned, landing just outside of Paris in the summer of 1794. Right at the end of The Reign of Terror. Naturally Susan, Ian and Barbra end up captured and sent to the guillotine, all why the Doctor plays at being Regional Officer of the Provinces. Of course it’s not as […]
We’re doing a double review this time as we meet up with time displaced Nazi Elizabeth Klein. We discover her in 1950s Kenya, searching for a plague she failed to cure in her own timeline only to find a farm house under siege and a flock of tiny yet deadly aliens. After that we find […]
The Seventh Doctor and Ace have landed in 1944, unfortunately it’s at the doors of the POW camp at Colditz Castle. This time it’s not just the guards at the camp they have to deal with, but another time travel for an alternate future. Who knew that a CD player could so easily change the […]
This week we join the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Adam in the year 200,000 on Satellite 5, the broadcast site for 600 channels and all the news media in the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Naturally something is going wrong and the Doctor is going to find out what it is. While that’s going […]
Bannerman Road has seen many interesting things, alien poets, robot dogs and even one Sarah Jane Smith (but no Chimeron Princesses). Of course there is another alien invasion lurking around the corner, this time using soda. Luckily even evil aliens have to follow truth in labeling laws, so we know this is the Invasion of […]
The quest for the Key to Time finds the Fourth Doctor and Romana One taking a trip to Earth, in fact to a set of standing stones in Cornwall. Of course the stones aren’t exactly what they seem, nor are some of the locals. Of course nothing is ever easy when finding the Key, even […]
The Master is back (though he never really left in Series 8) to play at being the vicar in the English village of Devil’s End. Why such a ruse? Because a nearby burial mound is being excavated (live on BBC 3), of course it’s not holding anything of this Earth, instead it contains a Dæmon. […]
With a series as long and complex as Doctor Who, some problems just keep coming up. You think you might be able to solve them but one revival later it’s back and worse than ever. Today we are looking at an example of this problem in The Visitation, where the death of an ‘old friend’ […]
With the always exciting talk of recovering lost episodes, it’s worth taking the time to look at one of the most famous of the found lost adventures, The Tomb of the Cybermen. Considered a classic while it was lost, does it hold up now that it’s found? Feedback to: show@untemperedschism.org Twitter: @schismpodcast Web: http://www.untemperedschism.org/ Duration: […]
Sometimes you just need to take a break and relax, more so after the heavy topics in our last show. So to unwind a bit we’re taking a moment to look at The Lodger, where the Eleventh Doctor has to try and pretend to be normal while sharing a flat with an unsuspecting human. Not […]