Doctor Who: Gallifrey Public Radio: Recent Episodes
Keir Hansen, Jay Witten, Haley Malle, Julie Hansen
A weekly ‘Doctor Who’ podcast devoted to an open and positive discussion of anything and everything in the Whoniverse, spanning its nearly 60-year history.
Julie and Keir discuss the anticipated guests for the upcoming NY convention, and the panels (and games!) that the two of them have across the weekend's programming.
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Looking back across the landscape of the Fifteenth Doctor's first season, we consider what we planned for, what we wished for, what we actually received, and what that leaves us feeling after nine episodes.
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With the Universe succumbing to Sutekh's horrific wrath, the Doctor must find a way to fight back while still grappling with Ruby's mysterious parentage.
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The many and varied mysteries of the Fifteeth Doctor's first series are drawing together with an expected -- yet unpredicted -- classic twist.
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The Doctor and Ruby cross paths with a brusque, brooding bounty hunter while contending with nefarious shapeshifters in Regency England.
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The monsters are most definitely within the walls of Finetime as the Doctor and Ruby try to help from the other side of a display screen.
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With the Doctor gone, Ruby is left alone with an unidentifiable stalker and a world seemingly turned against her.
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Tensions are sky-high in a deep crater as Ruby tries to help the Doctor contend with a landmine, an overly 'helpful' medic robot, and the war-profiteering Villengard Corporation.
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The delightfully insane Maestro intercepts the Doctor and Ruby's visit to the Beatles' first recording session, and alters history by stealing the world's music.
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Ruby's new adventures with the Fifteenth Doctor begin with a monstrous bedtime story made manifest on board a space station full of infant refugees.
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We're joined by friends Ly and Nathan of Pixel Who to ponder what historical encounters the incoming Fifteenth Doctor might have that would be the most astounding, entertaining, or even explosive.
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Composer and musician Jess Jurkovic joins us to discuss what that anachronistic music player in the console room might mean for the 15th Doctor's upcoming series.
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Will Doctor Who as a science fiction program shift firmly into science fantasy in the coming series? Drew Meyer of "Who and Company" joins us to discuss the implications.
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The Slitheen have "relatives" in town, and the Bannerman Road crew quickly learns they're just as awful as the rest of the family.
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We look back at the 34th installment of Gallifrey One and share our thoughts on the convention offerings, the energy, and the experience.
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When you have genetically enhanced predators troubling two generations of a Time Lord simultaneously in a Spanish hacienda, why not add...Sontarans?
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With four hours of Davies-penned content aired in 2023, we look at what the three-and-one specials showed us, what they told us, and what they challenged us to solve.
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Mysteries abound as the Doctor meets two foundlings born in the Yuletide season, and soon learns he isn't the only one drawn to them.
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The Toymaker emerges in this Universe to settle an old score with the Doctor...or rather, Doctors.
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Stranded at the farthest edge of the Universe, the Doctor and Donna contend with horrors from beyond...and struggles from within.
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The returning Doctor risks interaction with Donna, her wiped memories, and her family...just as a malevolent alien threatens to tear London apart.
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With the first of the 2023 specials about to air, we familiarize ourselves with this enigmatic and possibly eternal villain returning to Doctor Who after 57 years off the screen.
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Sarah Jane gets sidelined by a famous artwork imbued by sentient paint, leaving the kids to have a quite literal three-dimensional harrowing adventure.
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Six and Peri are struggling as the Luddites are rioting, the Master is plotting, and there's a new exiled Gallifreyan to further complicate things.
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Given a maximum of four clues, can our cast identify which Doctor Who antagonist is being described?
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It's a ghost story for those who don't believe in ghosts, but to be honest, the ghosts in question really aren't happy with your lack of belief.
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Six and Peri are separated on the prison planet Varos, where some have their tortures televised, while others face a more feathery fate.
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We've returned, rested, and recovered (somewhat) from the NY-area Whovian convention, with a few stories and a lovely conversation with Michael Troughton.
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Celebrating both a banner year for Doctor Who and a milestone for our podcast, we talk with friends about what makes this program more than just a 'show'.
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We're narrowing to the finalists in our competitive brackets for both the (televised) iterations of the Master, and the (non-companion) Friends of the Doctor.
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The Trickster is back with his most devious scheme yet, but the Bannerman Road crew have quite an ally in the confrontation.
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Mondas is back in mind, and ne'er-do-well Lytton is back in the mix, as Six and Peri try to protect Earth from the Cyber Controller's plan.
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If we returned to the days of TV characters appearing in commercial adverts to shill products, who would we see endorsing what items?
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Rani sets off on her own investigation just long enough to threaten the existence of the entire Bannerman Road team.
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Teen math geniuses are abducted to help carry out an evil plot, but the newly-regenerated Sixth Doctor is in poor shape to help effectively.
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This week, we go around the table and share moments from Doctor Who that hurt the most; ones that had particularly strong emotional pull and made us love the show more for the pain it caused.
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Elisabeth Sladen tries on her "evil goatee" in a story where Sarah Jane is overtaken by a nihilistic alien fugitive.
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The Doctor and Peri are quite literally caught in the crossfire of a drug-fueled power struggle that they had absolutely nothing to do with, and yet pay the ultimate price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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After narrowing the field to four, we advance in the competition of who would be the Doctor's (and our) most valued non-companion ally.
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When two villains once thwarted by Sarah Jane and the kids team up to take revenge, you know who to call for backup: The Brigadier.
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With the experiences of the 2023 convention behind us, each member of the GPR team (along with one bonus perspective) take a few minutes to share their personal highlights.
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We're a week from travel to Los Angeles, where we have so, so, so many options to entertain and inform us at North America's largest Doctor Who convention.
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When one companion washes in, another saunters out, and a third one explodes, it can only mean the Master is back...at least in in some tiny way.
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The holiday season brings us the first official trailer for the 2023 specials, and it's a lot to unpack. But unpack we will!
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If Russell T Davies does create his theorized Disney-funded and distributed, Bad Wolf- and BBC-produced "Whoniverse", what new shows might result?
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Forces collide, factions splinter, and Tegan has had enough in this particularly violent encounter with Davros and his creations.
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The Trickster is back, once again playing upon Sarah Jane's traumatic childhood to further his chaotic intent.
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We keep our excitement for the upcoming 60th celebrations high by rewatching the 2013 biopic about the Hartnell era that was part of the 50th anniversary broadcast range.
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After five years and three seasons at the helm of Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall gives Thirteen and the entire cast and crew a most enjoyable sendoff.
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Parental issues are center stage in this story, as an alien artifact that gives the bearer the power of suggestion falls into the hands of Clyde's estranged father.
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With only weeks remaining in the Thirteenth Doctor's era and Chris Chibnall's tenure, we're left with some parting thoughts.
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When a meteor shower takes out the TARDIS on a colony planet, the Doctor and company have to face the "gravity" of the situation.
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Astrology rears its pseudo-scientific-meets-cult head once again the Doctor Who Universe, and this time it's coming for Sarah Jane and the kids.
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Given random pairings of eight screened portrayals, we decide which Masters are more important to the full Doctor Who story, and who we'd most love to see again.
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In a village where the 1640s and 1980s begin to meld, the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough have to deal with an alien weapon that feeds on fury.
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Bradley Walsh stars as a one-man grease-painted creep show in this alien adaptation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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On the great teeter-totter between confirmed fact and wild speculation about what Doctor Who will air in 2023, we're stuck at the fulcrum.
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It feels fitting that as we ready ourselves for the 60th anniversary special in 2023, we have the opportunity to enjoy this gem of a 20th anniversary story from 1983.
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Maria and her dad are leaving, but not before dealing with one last alien invasion, just for old times' sake.
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Caught sidelong by a single BBC press release on a Sunday morning, our fandom world flips on its axis with the announcement of our Fourteenth Doctor's casting.
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It feels fitting that as we ready ourselves for the 60th anniversary special in 2023, we have the opportunity to enjoy this gem of a 20th anniversary story from 1983.
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With a keystone, a sword, and an elephant in the console room, Thirteen and friends head to 19th century China to thwart a catastrophic plan from a classic foe.
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We close the first season of the SJA with a story that deftly incorporates the preceding challenges, ups the ante, and even provides for a supercomputer showdown.
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A familiar foe puts an unexpected tool to use in a plan to subvert the signing of the Magna Carta, and the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough are quickly swept into the sword fight. Literally.
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Left untended, and with inspiration from one of our favorite (and most playfully argumentative) convention panel "games", we establish a single-elimination competition among those who are not 'categorical' companions of the Doctor.
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With a trickster entity messing with a pivotal event in 1964, we see how horrible the world would be without our beloved Sarah Jane Smith.
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With a hearty cry of "YARR!" and a blast of radiant crystal, we dash to the finish line of the Fifth Doctor-era's "Black Guardian Trilogy".
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After four days of con activity (and as many days recovery rest), we evaluate the challenges and successes of the 32nd installment of North America's largest Whovian convention.
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A simple game of laser tag turns out to be a recruitment program for a misled alien general. (Ain't that always the way?)
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As we take another grimacing look into the Black Guardian's manipulation of Turlough, it's Nyssa who leaves us concerned by the story's end.
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This week, we have a brief chat about what could -- or should -- get resolved or at the very least addressed before the reins are handed from CC's hands to RTD's.
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It's the tale of Medusa brought to 21st-century England, but with an alien twist and a phalanx of creepy nuns to boot.
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Joined by friend Don Klees of Acorn Media, we revel in the time-manipulations and character performances of this Season 20 gem.
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The first of Chris Chibnall's finale trio of specials traps the Doctor, Yaz, and Dan in a self-storage center, all wrapped in a diminishing deadly time loop.
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The zipper gets pulled back on an alien invasion that feels right at home in a youth sci-fi story that doesn't try to take itself too seriously.
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With a rattle and a hiss, and a pair of sweet crystal pendants, we return to Tegan's 'little problem' with the Mara.
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Joined by guest Kevin Burnard, we dutifully examine the must-stay, could-go, should-change aspects of the divisive final Chris Chibnall series.
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The Doctor Who: Flux series draws to a close, and with it comes a lot of loose threads we feel compelled to tie off. But should viewers be expected to do that lifting?
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We're five out of six installments into Doctor Who: Flux, and we have answers to some things! But they come with twice as many new questions.
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In this fourth chapter of the Doctor Who: Flux series, we ask: is a creepy story with intense scenes, great performances and a cliffhanger ending enough to forgive the fact that we still have no answers?
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Sucked out of quiet contemplation about the Flux conflict, we're bounced around the collective timestreams and memories of Dan, Yaz, Vinder, and the Doctor herself...but what can we trust of what we see?
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The mysterious Flux has scattered our trio just at the moment when Sontarans seem to have reappeared in Earth's past and present timelines. The time for potato humor...is over.
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With more pieces in play than a D&D tournament arena, Series 13 crashes in with a frenetic first episode that brings new adversaries, new friends, new conflicts, and new locations.
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A proper (and we use that term with precision) teaser trailer for Doctor Who's rapidly approaching Series 13 is here, and there's a lot to unpack from a pallet of tiny 1.5-second boxes.
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So it looks as though we're getting Series 13 in the Fall of 2021 as promised after all (and just barely), as we're told that Halloween 2021 will mark the first episode of eight.
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There are secrets in the Bubble Shock production warehouse, but we soon learn they're nothing compared to the secrets within 13 Bannerman Road.
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In a surprise announcement, the BBC informs us that the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special in 2023 (and the 14th modern series to follow) will be under the skilled and marketable command of one Russell T Davies. Yes, THAT Davies.
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Season 20 drops us into the middle of a right mess: identity theft on Gallifrey, terror in the Netherlands, and a certain renegade Time Lord.
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Across 58 minutes of near-constant emotional trauma, we complete the final installment of RTD's devastating third season of Torchwood.
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This week, we look at the methods by which past companions have taken their leave, and the impact those departures have had on us as devoted viewers.
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Season 19 closes with a story that has too much of some things, not enough of others, and a thing or two that never should have been.
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With all the horrific dominoes now in place, it's time for things to begin crashing down on our Torchwood team...and everyone in their immediate area.
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