Diddly Dum Podcasts – diddlydumpodcast: Recent Episodes
None
We take a look at “Wish World” and “The Reality War”.
DDPC216 – Stars Fell on StepfordDownloadFind us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:03:00) The new photos on Tom Baker’s website can be seen here.
(00:19:48) “3-2-1” was a British game show that made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, from 29 July 1978 to 24 December 1988, with Ted Rogers as the host. The show was a huge success, consistently pulling in large ratings. The first series, though intended as a summer filler, attracted up to 16.5 million viewers and subsequent years never peaked below 12 million. The show occupied a Saturday early evening slot for most of its run. The overall objective of the game was to survive elimination through to part three of the show, and try to unravel a series of cryptic clues in order to win the star prize. However, one of the clues referred to “Dusty Bin,” the show’s booby prize; any contestants who wound up with Dusty at the end of the show received only a new dustbin. Each show had a theme, such as “Seacruise” or the “Swinging Sixties”. All of the variety acts, quiz questions, stage sets and clues to prizes subsequently followed this theme. The clues became notorious for being almost impossibly difficult and obscure, having only a remote connection to the prizes, which contestants sometimes did not appear to grasp even after Ted had revealed it to them. It has often been suggested that the clues had more than one possible explanation, allowing the producers to control which prize the contestants received.
(00:26:37) “The Simpsons – The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We take a look at “The Story and the Engine” and “The Interstellar Song Contest”.
DDPC215 – Anything for the WeekendDownloadFind us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:14:09) “Voyager” was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine. It introduced the character of Astrolabus and began the Voyager arc. The elephant waterfall frame appears in DWM #90 and can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:15:42) The Playdoh Fuzzy Pumper/Mop Top Barber Shop.
(00:38:20) The animation of “The Tale of the Three Brothers” appeared in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and can be seen here.
(00:54:29) John Wayne’s appearance in “The Greatest Story Ever Told” can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We take a look at “The Well” and “Lucky Day”.
DDPC214 – Calling Corporal BellDownloadFind us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:59:58) An article reporting claims that Elvis may have been of Welsh descent.
(01:04:23) This audio clip is of course from “The Tom Baker Years”, featuring Tom’s own memories of “Meglos”.
(01:06:14) At this year’s Capitol event, we got Peter Davison to autograph Mark’s copy of Doctor Who Monthly #55 and we’re offering it to someone who send us a Private Message on any of our social media platforms (linked above). We’ll draw a name out of a hat during the next podcast. The magazine can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We look back at “The Robot Revolution” and “Lux”. And we run a thrilling competition.
DDPC213 – Call Me AlanDownloadFind us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:04:08) At this year’s Capitol event, we got Peter Davison to autograph Mark’s copy of Doctor Who Monthly #55 and we’re offering it to someone who send us a Private Message on any of our social media platforms (linked above). We’ll draw a name out of a hat during the next podcast. The magazine can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:05:57) This audio clip is from Russell T Davies’ 2008 interview with Mark Lawson which can be seen here. The actual clip starts at 00:06:50.
(00:07:16) “The Robot Revolution” or “The Robot Wars” was the first extended Judge Dredd story that ran in early issues of 2000 AD from progs 10-17 in 1978.
(00:15:52) This audio clip is from “The Jet Propelled Guided NAAFI”, from “The Goon Show”.
(01:32:20) This audio clip is from S08E13 of “The Simpsons” and the clip can be seen here.
(01:36:50) At this year’s Capitol event, we got Peter Davison to autograph Mark’s copy of Doctor Who Monthly #55 and we’re offering it to someone who send us a Private Message on any of our social media platforms (linked above). We’ll draw a name out of a hat during the next podcast. The magazine can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Tony Jordan joins us to look back on the DWAS Capitol Cutaway event.
DDPC212 – Capitol ReviewDownloadFind us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) The Polish Social and Cultural Center (POSK for short) in London’s Hammersmith district was founded by the Polish community in the UK.
(00:18:57) A video of Peter Davison receiving his DWAS award can be seen on Facebook here.
(00:37:20) Regulars at the Capitol events are of course cosplayer supreme, Huw Dennis, and his “dresser” Lisa. This year Huw was cosplaying Noah from “Ark in Space” and Professor Scarman from “Pyramids of Mars). Photos can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:40:21) Capitol 9 in 2026 will be held at the Crowne Plaza hotel on 9th and 10th May. Details will be made public in early May 2025.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We’re joined by Tony Jordan of the DWAS to look forward to next weekend’s “Capitol Cutaway” convention on 6th April. Along the way, Mark hits his 150th podcast and the Rev overtakes Doc in far more important stakes.
DDPC211 – Capitol CutawayDownloadFind us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) The Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s “Capitol Cutaway” convention is on Sunday 6th April 2025.
(00:09:35) The Polish Social and Cultural Center (POSK for short) in London’s Hammersmith district was founded by the Polish community in the UK.
(00:18:57) “Swallows and Amazons” is a 1974 British film adaption of the 1930 novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome.
(00:19:57) This is a clip from “Val De Ree”, an episode of the “Victoria Wood Presents” BBC TV series from 1989. Here Victoria and her best friend Jackie go camping on the Yorkshire Dales.
(00:20:18) “Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won’t drown” is a telegram sent to the children in “Swallows and Amazons” from their Royal Navy father. There is deliberately no comma between “if” and “not”.
(00:30:45) Alternatively known as The Roman Baths, the open-air (filtered sea water) swimming pools at Lytham St Anne’s were opened in the early 1900s and closed down in the mid-1980s.
(00:36:23) Simon Groom was a presenter of BBC TV children’s programme “Blue Peter” from 1978 to 1986. Groom became known among the programme’s production team for his dry humour and ability to ad lib innuendo in his broadcasting (which would pass over the heads of the programme’s main audience of children). One such statement was at the end of a piece on a replacement door knocker at Durham Cathedral, declaring “what a beautiful pair of knockers”. Another remark followed a piece about hedge maintenance, in which he closed with the remark, “As long as you have a decent length to start with, well then you can manage a good lay”, much to the irritation of producer Biddy Baxter.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We take a look at Third Doctor story “Mind of Evil”. Along the way, we also look at neighbourhood hangmen, Christmas drinks and Mike Yates’s eating habits.
DDPC210 – Bates & YentonDownloadListen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:02:01) “The World of Tim Burton” is a major exhibition of his design aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show displays the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Drawn from Tim Burton’s personal archive and representing the artist’s creative output from childhood to the present day, this collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, moving-image works, sculptural installations, set and costume design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton’s art and films. This is the final stop in a decade-long world tour for this exhibition and will be its only ever showing in the UK.
(00:04:02) “ABBA Voyage” is a virtual concert residency by the Swedish pop group ABBA. The concerts feature virtual avatars (dubbed “ABBAtars”), depicting the group as they appeared in 1979, and use vocals re-recorded by the group in a Swedish studio specifically for this show, accompanied by a 10 piece live instrumental band on stage. The concerts are held in ABBA Arena, a purpose-built venue in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
(00:20:38) “Big Boys” is a British television sitcom created and written by Jack Rooke, first broadcast on Channel 4. It stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as first-year university students who live together, set from 2013, told from the point of view of Llewellyn’s character Jack—a semi-fictionalised version of Rooke, who narrates the series—as he recovers from his father’s death and explores his sexuality for the first time.
(01:03:39) “Mind Your Language” is a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977. It was produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stuart Allen. Three series were made by London Weekend Television between 1977 and 1979, and it was briefly revived in 1985 (or 1986 in most ITV regions) with six of the original cast members. The series shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learning English as a foreign language.
(01:11:20) “Porridge” is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials. A feature film of the same name based on the series was released in 1979. The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show’s title is a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence, derived from the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons.
(01:12:34) Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We discuss the First Doctor historical “The Aztecs”. Along the way, we look at Monster Munch packet colours, Cadbury’s attempt at making a Mars bar and the death of sit-com anti-authoritarianism.
DDPC209 – Aztec CamecaDownloadListen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:03:02) The Tony Slattery documentary mentioned can be found here.
(00:07:00) The relevant episode of BBC Radio Four’s “Last Word” can be found here. The Barbara Clegg obituary begins at (14:39).
(00:09:07) Julian Holloway.
(00:09:53) The dinner party scene from “Carry On Up the Khyber” can be found here.
(00:10:38) Brian Murphy.
(00:13:47) Monster Munch are a British baked corn snack created by Smiths in 1977 and manufactured by Walkers. They are aimed at children and widely consumed in the UK. Flavours include Roast Beef, Pickled Onion and Sweet and Spicy Flamin’ Hot. A selection of Monster Munch TV averts can be found here.
(00:19:09) This reference is to Doc’s “Namechecking” project of some years ago where he went through the entire Ian Chesterton era and recorded every was that the First Doctor addressed him. This was in the hope of identifying any thawing in their relationship. The project can be found under the “Name Dropping” category on Doc’s personal blog here.
(00:32:56) “Aztec” was a chocolate bar produced by Cadbury’s from 1967. It was made of nougat and caramel covered with milk chocolate and was sold in a deep purple wrapper. The Aztec was created by Cadbury’s to compete with the Mars Bar, but it was discontinued in 1978.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
On the podcast’s 11th birthday, we take a look at “Joy to the World”.
DDPC208 – You Are What You Can AffordDownloadListen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:03:25) “Short Haired police cadet” by Billy Connolly.
(00:05:30) “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” BY Billy Connolly.
(00:05:36) “Sausage Rolls for Everyone” is a 2021 song by British blogger couple LadBaby, featuring vocals from Ed Sheeran and Elton John. It is a comedy version of Sheeran and John’s single “Merry Christmas”. It has a sausage roll theme as a charity single with the proceeds going to The Trussell Trust. In December 2021, LadBaby announced their bid to become the first act in history to secure four consecutive Christmas number one singles. As with their previous three singles, “We Built This City”, “I Love Sausage Rolls” and “Don’t Stop Me Eatin'”, all proceeds from the single went to The Trussell Trust.
(00:16:13) These audio clips are from our podcast #073 which can be found here.
(00:22:29) “The Six Ages of Fan” is a series of six paintings by our own Rev to accompany our podcast #005 and can be seen on his website here.
(00:37:28) This audio clip is from “Chains”, Episode 6 of “Blackadder 2”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Our own Hayden gate crashes our Christmas podcast (literally) and joins us for the usual traditional quizzes and games as we jeopardise our fire safety certificate by lighting our Advent Crown in the vicinity of so much booze.
DDPC207 – Oh Come All Ye FaithlessDownloadListen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Bluesky
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:16:43) The Diddly Dum Podcast has joined Bluesky so please do join us there.
(00:42:17) Our “The Price is Wrong” quiz features custom made action figures, all of which can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
Uxarian warrior from “Colony in Space”.
Fifth Doctor companion, Vislor Turlough.
Vogan Councillor Tyrum from “Revenge of the Cybermen”.
Silurian from “Joy to the World”.
First Doctor companion, Ian Chesterton from “The Crusade”.
The Whomobile.
Tobias Vaughn’s henchman, Packer from “The Invasion”.
Giant Vampire’s hand from “State of Decay”.
Tennant Doctor era sonic screwdriver accessory from friends of the podcast, Tom’s Refurbishments.
Fifteenth Doctor (at a pinch).
(01:03:20) Our “Fluid Links” quiz features a number of screens displaying clues which can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:23:15) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.
(01:39:40) All the references to Advent Crowns and Blue Peter and the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band are inspired of course by the traditional “Blue Peter” show nearest to Christmas of which examples can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Our old chum Suky Khakh joins us to take a look at the Third Doctor debut story “Spearhead from Space”. Along the way, Mark reports on a visit to Leadworth and we examine the blatant flirting between the Brig and Liz.
DDPC206 – The Podcasting LarkDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.
(00:00:00) The intro here is of course a tribute to “The Navy Lark”, a BBC radio comedy sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate broadcast between 1959 and 1977. For most of its run, the show starred Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray.
(00:05:59) St Fagans National Museum of History commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. It consists of more than forty re-erected buildings from various locations in Wales, and is set in the grounds of St Fagans Castle, a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house. In 2011 Which? magazine named the museum the United Kingdom’s favourite visitor attraction. A six-year, £30-million revamp was completed in 2018 and the museum was named the Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2019.
(00:07:12) This is an except from Stewart Lee’s “Content Provider” comedy tour.
(00:12:55) This is the 1985 TV commerical for the 5-4-3-2-1 chocolate bar. As the name of the bar suggests, it consisted of five different parts; wafer, crispy rice, caramel, fondant, and milk chocolate. It was made by Crawford’s (who also made Bandit) at their Binns Road factory in Liverpool. The brand was sold to United Biscuits in 1960. Sadly, it was discontinued in 1989 due to poor sales.
(00:39:16) Rosa Lewis (1867–1952) was an English cook and owner of The Cavendish Hotel in London, located at the intersection of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, St. James. Known as the “Queen of Cooks”, her culinary skills were highly prized by Edward VII, with whom she was rumoured to have had an affair in the 1890s. She was also called “The Duchess of Jermyn Street.” She left school at 12 to go into domestic service, working her way up to cook. She claimed that the great chef Auguste Escoffier taught her about cooking. It was he who named her the “Queen of Cooks”. One of her employers was Lady Randolph Churchill. One day, Rosa chased Lady Randolph’s then ten-year-old, red-haired son Winston out of her kitchen, shouting “Hop it, copper knob.” The 1976-77 BBC television series, “The Duchess of Duke Street”, starring Gemma Jones, was loosely based on her life. It is said that some of the scenes in “Vile Bodies” by Evelyn Waugh, in which she appears as her fictional counterpart Lottie Crump, were also inspired by the Cavendish Hotel under Lewis’ management.
(00:53:36) “P.R.O.B.E.” is a series of direct-to-video science-fiction films mostly written by Mark Gatiss and produced by BBV Productions. It was the first live-action Doctor Who spin-off series. The series features Caroline John as Liz Shaw, working for the Preternatural Research Bureau. Many former Doctor Who actors, including former Doctors Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, appear in the series playing different roles. (Due to licensing restrictions, no overt reference to The Doctor is permitted.) Doctor Who alumna Louise Jameson co-stars with Caroline John in the original four films, as Patricia Haggard.
(01:05:21) This rallying call for the BBC bolshies comes from the end of the opening credits music of “Citizen Smith”, a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry “Wolfie” Smith, a young Marxist “urban guerrilla” in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym “Citizen Smith” in order to evade capture by the Dublin Castle administration. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are “Power to the People” and “Freedom for Tooting”.
(01:13:38) “Unman, Wittering and Zigo” is a 1958 radio play by the Anglo-Irish playwright Giles Cooper. A feature film version was released in 1971. The play is part of the curriculum for GCSE and Standard Grade English coursework in the United Kingdom and is frequently performed in public schools.
(01:17:38) The famous Hand of Sutekh makes its debut in episode 2 of “Spearhead from Space” as can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We mark Halloween with many horrific tales, a look at the role that shandies have played in our lives and a review of Eleventh Doctor story “Hide”.
DDPC205 – Hall-Who-EenDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:02:31) The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is proud to announce Capitol Cutaway, a one-day event which will take place on Sunday 6th April 2025 at POSK (Polish Social and Cultural Association), 238-246 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 0RF. Capitol Cutaway will offer a mix of guest panels, autographs, photo studio, merchandise and more besides.
(00:20:00) The action figures of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday (complete with Fray Bentos land mine) can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:27:37) The story of Babycham’s iconic mascot.
(00:28:35) This example of the “Kenny Everett New Year Show” can be seen here.
(00:30:26) Adrian Chiles’s Guinness Shandy themed article in The Guardian can be seen here.
(00:32:41) The 2007 Channel 4 documentary on The Enfield Poltergeist can be seen here.
(00:46:00) “The Village That Saw Aliens” covers The Broad Haven UFO sightings.
(00:51:39) The Matey TV commercial can be seen here.
(00:59:30) “Enys Men” (Cornish for ‘Stone Island’) is a 2022 British experimental psychological folk horror film shot, composed, written and directed by Mark Jenkin. Shot on 16 mm film, it stars Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine. The film was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown, and the crew prioritised creating a small carbon footprint during production. Enys Men premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
(01:10:30) This clip from Charlie Brooker’s “Screenwipe” can be seen here.
(01:28:40) The photo which Johnny Dab sent us which we found reminiscent of “The Invasion of Time” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
After half a century, Doc finally completes his full run of Doctor Who stories as we look back on Sixth Doctor debut story “The Twin Dilemma”.
DDPC204 – Another Case for Captain ZepDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:01:09) The songs which top and tail this podcast are from a “Lady Penelope Investigates” LP produced by Century 21 Records in 1966 and acquired by Doc at a school Bring & Buy sale in the early 1970s. The LP cover can be seen on our Tumblr page here and the songs themselves can be found here.
(00:03:22) Breakaway was a brand of chocolate-covered digestive biscuit from Nestlé, which started production in 1970 in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery. Nestlé acquired the brand in 1988. It was discontinued in February 2024 after 54 years due to falling sales.
(00:28:19) Of the several incarnations of “The Tomorrow People”, the one Mark is referring to here is the British children’s science fiction television series produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 1973 to 1979. All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution (Homo novis) known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called ‘breaking out’ and develop special paranormal abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological make-up prevents them from intentionally killing others. The theme music and opening credits were fabulous.
(00:43:30) “Captain Zep – Super Space Detective” s a British television children’s series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1984. Constructed as part drama and part quiz game, “Captain Zep” featured mysteries that would be solved by the child audience in the studio, along with a write-in competition for viewers. The child audience were dressed in futuristic clothes and had gelled hair. The series was also notable for its combination of live action and animation, where the cast would interact with drawn alien characters amidst drawn backgrounds.
(00:45:56) “The Comeuppance of Captain Katt” was written and directed by Peter Grimwade as part of ITV’s “Dramarama” series.
(00:47:50) “Whizzer and Chips” was a British comics magazine that ran from 1969 to 1990, when it merged with the comic “Buster”. The format of “Whizzer and Chips” presented the comic as being divided into two separate parts — a novel idea at the time. One part was called Whizzer and the other was called Chips, with Chips existing as a separate pull-out section in the middle. The slogan “Two comics in one, double the fun!” was used.
(00:49:07) This audio clip is from “Rough Justice”, episode 18 of “Porridge”, a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show’s title is a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence, derived from the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
After much thought, our old chum Suky Khakh chooses 4th Doctor story “Invasion of Time” for us to review.
DDPC203 – Don’t Tell Him VardanDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:01:09) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.
(00:04:52) The helpful Erika Ensign (a.k.a. @hollygodarkly) is a denizen of the famed Verity podcast.
(00:09:24) Pictures of Mark’s action figure of Grand Mofff Tarkin can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:15:17) Mark’s new-found friend on Twitter is @daemonsmatt.
(00:19:18) “Campion” is a British television mystery drama broadcast on the BBC in 1989 and 1990 and adapted from the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. The series starred Peter Davison as Albert Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg.
(00:20:12) “Butterflies”is a British sitcom written by Carla Lane that aired on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983.
(00:26:57) The Whoovers are a group of Doctor Who fans based in Derby UK, who meet twice monthly alternating between in-person gatherings and online meetings via Zoomville. They also organise the annual Whooverville convention and, since 2018, have hosted Big Finish Day.
(00:28:47) The “Vision On Sound” podcast takes a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and Martin Holmes and his guests investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.
(00:29:22) “Shelley” is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. It stars Hywel Bennett as Dr James Shelley, a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree.
(00:35:44) “Screen Test” is a children’s game show that aired on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd from 1970 to 1979, then by Brian Trueman from 1979 to 1983 and finally by Mark Curry in 1984. It involved its contestants seeing clips from films, and then being asked questions about the films to test their memories of them.
(00:36:25) “Chorlton and the Wheelies” is an animated children’s television series created by Cosgrove Hall Productions which ran from 1976 until 1978 on ITV. 40 episodes were produced. The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an anthropomorphic “happiness dragon”, in “Wheelie World” (where people moved on wheels instead of legs). The eponymous lead character gets his name from the suburb of Manchester in which the Cosgrove Hall studio was based.
(00:36:59) Brian Keith “Herbie” Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician. Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John, Camel, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Roy Harper, David Essex, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds”.
(00:39:05) “The Water Margin” is a Japanese television series based on the 14th-century book Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Made in two seasons of 13 episodes each by Nippon Television it was shown in Japan in 1973 and 1974 as “Suikoden”. For an English-language version, it was adapted by David Weir without translations, using only brief plot synopses. The dubbed version, narrated by Burt Kwouk, was shown by the BBC from 1976 to 1978.
(01:18:18) “Shardlake” is a series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, set in 16th century Tudor England. The series features barrister Matthew Shardlake, who, while navigating the religious reforms of Henry VIII, solves crime and tries to avoid getting caught up in political intrigue. The first six books are set during the reign of Henry VIII, while the seventh, Tombland, takes place two years after the king’s demise. Sansom said before his death that he planned to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We pay tribute to William Russell by looking back at First Doctor story “The Chase”.
DDPC202 – William RussellDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:02:01) “Sorry!” is a television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1981 to 1988 starring Ronnie Corbett and centres on Timothy Lumsden who, 41 years old, still lives at home with his domineering mother and henpecked father.
(00:17:10) This reference is from “Phoenix Nights” S01E04 (“Singles night”) and the clip can be seen here.
(00:27:43) The screen test for Ben Hur (1959) between William Russell and George Baker can be found here.
(00:39:14) “Robo-Hunter” is a recurring strip in the British Comic 2000 AD, initially written by John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson. The series stars Sam Slade, a laconic, ageing, cigar-smoking bounty hunter of robots that have gone renegade. In the first storyline, “Verdus” (also known as “The Robot Planet”), published between 1978 and 1979, Slade is dispatched to a distant colony planet to solve the mystery of its vanished colonists.
(00:48:25) This song is from “Lady Penelope Investigates”, a gramophone record released by Century 21 Records in November 1966. It is a compilation LP of their 1966 records F.A.B. and The Stately Homes Robberies.
(00:56:40) In 1928, the young architect Georgii Krutikov, in defending his diploma work at VKhUTEIN, presented a thesis project completely insane for the time, a “City of the Future,” which immediately became a sensation. The concept of a “flying city” was as follows: the architect proposed to leave work, leisure, and tourism on the ground, while living areas would be moved to communes floating in the clouds of the city. The upside-down-Dalek-like picture Doc remembered being on the Rev’s online profile can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:00:12) “Shelley” is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. It stars Hywel Bennett as Dr James Shelley, a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree.
(01:08:40) Doc’s reviews of the William Russell era, counting the Doctor’s changing modes of address for Ian can be found on his blog here.
(01:14:12) Bridlington Comic Con 2024 will take place on Sunday 15th September 2024 (11am – 4pm) at the Bridlington Spa and will include: Special guests, Cosplay contest with prizes to be won, Photo opportunities, Comic artists and authors, Prop Displays, Virtual reality gaming, Talks, panels, Q&As, quizzes, Drawing workshops with our artists, Creative zone for adults and kids, Movie cars.
And much more to be announced! Tickets for Bridlington Comic Con 2023 are now available and you can also buy in person from the Bridlington Spa box office. These tickets entitle you to early entry from 11am. Pay on the door beings at midday.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Here are our 3 interviews from the DWAS Capitol 7 event this year. Having interviewed James Goss and Rich Tipple, we thought we’d never meet anyone else as genuinely lovely. Then Graeme Harper entered the room and Mark and Doc swooned dramatically onto a Louis XV chaise longue.
DDPC201 – Capitol 7 InterviewsDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:03:25) James Goss is a writer and producer, known both for his work in cult TV spin-off media, including tie-in novels and audio stories for Doctor Who and Torchwood, and for his fictional works beyond established universes.
(00:21:06) Rich Tipple is a colourisation artist that specialises in content creation for online, print and broadcast television. He’s best known for his work colourising the 1960’s era of Doctor Who.
(00:42/:49;12:30) Graeme Harper is a television director. He is best known for his work on Doctor Who, for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run (1963–89) and revived run (2005–) of the programme. Doctor Who Magazine has described him as “the longest-serving crew member on Doctor Who.”
(00:58:03) Our tribute to Douglas Camfield can be found on our Youtube channel here. It was inspired by our own Mark’s eulogising of Dougie at about 01:11:00 into our review of “The Invasion” in podcast #178 which can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We mark our 200th podcast (because no-one else could be bothered to) by taking a look at “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” and “Empire of Death”.
DDPC200 – WalkiesDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:09:50) Dalek Two Zero and Roboman who will be at the Rev’s wedding next year can be found here.
(00:12:30) Our own Doc and Mark can he heard guesting on Mark Cockram and Iain Martin’s “All Of Time And Space” podcast reviewing “The Krotons”.
(00;12:30) The multiple podcast blimps helping us to steal The National Museum of Wales can be heard here on our podcast #194.
(00:35:52) “A butcher’s” is short for “Butcher’s Hook” which is Cockney rhyming slang for “a look”. So “I had a butcher’s at” means “I had a look at”.
(00:38:16) The ICON/CON picture Mark is referring to can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:39:11) Then Prime Minister Theresa May walked onto the stage at the 2018 Conservative Party conference for her keynote speech by boogieing to “Dancing Queen”.
(00:56:46) The site we use to find transcripts of all Doctor Whop episodes ASAP is chakoteya.net.
(01:13:35) “The Frame” was a 24-issue fanzine that ran from February 1987 to Spring 1993. It was different from most other fanzines in that its articles tended to focus on production personnel — especially designers — who had previously been ignored by the fan community. It was further significant because its writers went on to publish professional Doctor Who works, some of which re-used the content of The Frame. It was edited and published by David Howe, Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker. The cover which the Rev refers to here is that of issue 8 which can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:23:39) The “Television is bad for your eyes” sketch from S03E07 of “Monty Python”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
As our Mark recuperates in the Whoseum Zero Cabinet, we take a look at “Dot and Bubble” and “Rogue”.
ddpc199-chekovs-earringsDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:04:26) Terry Butcher suffered a deep cut to the forehead while playing for England in a crucial World Cup qualifier in Sweden in 1989. The resulting photo (shown on our Tumblr page here) gave hope to all who believe that bravely carrying bloody injuries is more important than winning matches.
(00:04:32) The accident prone “Mr Bump” is one of the “Mr. Men” series of British children’s books written and illustrated by author Roger Hargreaves which began publication in August 1971.
(00:20:35) Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.
(00:24:26) The Jonathan Groff interview in the “Radio Times” can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We review “Boom” and “73 Yards”.
ddpc198-ill-met-by-fleshlightDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:04:12) The introduction to the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch can be seen here.
(00:06:19) Riverside Studios are bringing back Doctor Who with a special presentation of the two part finale, The Legend Of Ruby Sunday and Empire Of Death on Friday 21 June. DWAS followers are entitled to a 15% ticket discount by using code DOCTORWHO15 at checkout.
(00:20:00) This audio clip is from “Casino Royale” and can be seen here.
(00:30:37) For any youngsters listening (i.e. anyone not expecting to start collecting their pension before the Sixteenth Doctor is cast), Mark’s glam joke here is of course a reference to “Tiger Feet” by Mud (1974).
(00:41:14) This BBC One Wales continuity announcement can be seen here.
(00:41:49) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s “One Leg Too Few” sketch can be seen here.
(00:43:02) Proof that Jon Pertwee owned a burger shop.
(01:01:45) The website for The UK Metric Association, the sinister brainwashing cult which has ensnared the Rev, can be found here.
(01:06:30) The video for “True Faith” by New Order can seen here.
(01:16:36) “Village of the Damned” is a 1960 British sci-fi horror film adapted from the novel “The Midwich Cuckoos” by John Wyndham.
(01:19:21) Aneurin “Nye” Bevan (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee’s government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Health Service. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miners’ union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history.
(01:29:00) The first episode of the “Guess Who” podcast is now available and links to it can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We review “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord” and youngsters Mark and the Rev explain TikTok to oldster Doc.
ddpc197-junes-tuneDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:20:49) Our discussion of “Robophobia and the Uncanny Valley” starts at around 00:44:20 on our podcast #88 (“Tell-Tale Trews”).
(00:40:20) The Bugs Bunny cartoon “People Are Bunny” can be found here.
(00:46:40) “Interceptor” was a British game show shown on the ITV network during the summer of 1989, with one last episode held back and shown on 1 January 1990 for a New Year special. The show was hosted by former tennis player and Treasure Hunt sky-runner Annabel Croft. The eponymous Interceptor was played by actor Sean O’Kane. Only eight episodes (one series) were made (after an un-aired test pilot). It was re-run on digital TV channel Challenge many times between 2001 and 2015. A public vote on UKGameshows in 2002 saw the series voted the UK’s 13th best game show.
(01:10:09) This audio clip is from “Over to Pam”, an episode of “Victoria Wood Presents” and can be seen here.
(01:19:48) “Subspace Rhapsody” is the ninth episode of the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In this episode, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) encounter a naturally occurring fold in subspace which, when interacted with, causes the entire crew to start singing their private thoughts and feelings. The episode is a musical, the first in the history of the Star Trek franchise.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Tony Jordan joins us to look back at the DWAS “Capitol Seven Wonders” convention in April.
ddpc196-up-the-junctionDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:11:00) The cartoon of “Up the Junction” by The Squeeze can be seen on Youtube here.
(00:19:45) The “Guess Who Podcast” will be findable here.
(00:23:10) Photos of the Daleks at the convention can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:29:15) Sophie presenting Sylvester with his DWAS Lifetime Achievement award can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:20) Photos of Huw Dennis cosplaying can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:41:22) A photo of Paul Cornell receiving his Terrance Dicks Writers Award can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:48:15) The video of Terrance Dicks appearing in the middle of the Jon Culshaw interview at The Capitol 2 convention in 2017 can be seen on the DWAS Youtube page here.
(00:57:35) The banner made by Connor Adkins can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Tony Jordan from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society joins us to look forward to the Capitol Seven Wonders convention on 27/28 April.
ddpc195-raising-capitolDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) The DWAS Capitol Seven Wonders convention is on the weekend of 27/28 April 2024 at the Holiday Inn, Birmingham, M6 Jct 7.
(00:21:04) Tony’s interview with Steven Berkoff at Capitol 4 in 2019 can be found on the DWAS Youtube channel here.
(00:36:34) Tom’s Refurbishments.
(00:39:24) Here is Dave Kitchen’s snapped photo of someone in the Jodie autograph queue at SupaNova Melbourne reading our own Hayden’s magnum opus “A Child Out of Time: Growing Up With Doctor Who in the Wilderness Years” can be seen here.
(00:41:29) Glass Crocodile – stained glass suncatchers.
(00:42:56) This year’s Capitol is supporting Blue Cross, a registered animal welfare charity in the UK, founded in 1897. The charity provides veterinary care, offers expert behavioural help, and finds homes for pets in need. Their pet bereavement service supports those who are struggling to cope with the loss of a much-loved pet.
(00:43:08) This year’s Capitol is supporting the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC) which operates and funds three air ambulances covering six Midlands counties including Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands.
(00:44:04) Cutaway Comics is a British imprint of comics and graphic novels, founded by the alumni of the editorial staff of Vworp Vworp! magaazine.
(00:44:28) Mooncrest Models are makers of limited edition, ready-made display models, model kits, prop parts and costume accessories.
(00:44:38) Fio Threthewey is a writer and artist known for their love of Doctor Who, Arthurian Legend and 80s cult classics. Alongside working for the Lancet as a Deputy Operations Manager he has written a variety of audio dramas and short stories for Big Finish Productions for their Doctor Who box sets, most recently writing for the Gallifrey War Room Series both ‘The Last Days of Phaidon” (2022), and “Transference” (2023).
(00:44:38) Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London, specialising in speculative fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the winner of the 2020 LISP Flash Fiction Award, has work published in Baffling Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, and Vastarien Lit, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She also writes for the Doctor Who range with Big Finish, and regularly writes and narrates for the horror anthology podcasts ‘Creepy’, ‘The Other Stories’, and ‘The Night’s End’.
(00:44:44) Gale Force Nine (GF9) is a game company focused on making thematic, engaging games and premium gaming accessories.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
The Diddly Dummers present 3 items for display at The Whoseum. Along the way, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of that cultural titan – Piccadilly Radio.
ddpc194-your-musing-and-your-friendDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:06:11) The “Putting on the Ritz” scene from “Young Frankenstein can be seen here.
(00:08:52) The Rev’s plastic yellow robot radio can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:10:08) The BBC Radio 2 comedy series “A Proper Charlie” can be found here.
(00:10:45) Photos of Piccadilly Radio can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:14:00) The relevant film still from “Back to the Future” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:22:30) The Rev’s song in tribute to Arthur C Clarke and featuring Dave Myers can be found here.
(00:29:20) Photos of The Rev’s birthday tour of the Coronation Street set can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:30) The prints which The Rev bought from The Lowry can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:36:19) The custom-made figures used in Mark’s game can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:03:55) Items knitted by The Rev’s mum and inspired by the “Doctor Who Pattern Book” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:19:23) A selection of pages from the “Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:21:13) Volume 4 of “Vworp Vworp” magazine can be bought here. It includes “The Pollen Street Irregulars”, an analysis of the “Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus” by long-time friend of the podcast Simon Brett. Simon drew our 1963 variation (above) of the original Piccadilly Radio logo.
(01:40:21) A photo of The National Museum of Wales and one of Mark’s mum giving Rodin’s “The Kiss” her “Kenneth Williams” look can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:43:05) The “Big Mong” gorilla in Caerphilly (a photo can be found on our Tumblr page here) was raised by Mark during his first podcast episode #60 (“Murray’s Mint”). The giant model gorilla apparently found abandoned more recently is reported here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton join us to take a look back at the recently published Volume 6 of “Vworp Vworp” magazine and forward to the imminent “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who” book. “Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton join us to take a look back at the recently published Volume 6 of Vworp Vworp magazine and forward to the imminent “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who” book.
ddpc193-shoo-pastryDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guests on this podcast are friends of the show, Gareth Kavanagh and Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics and Vworp Vworp fame.
(00:07:50) “A Meeting on the Common” is an 18 minute animation of the much loved alternative opening to Doctor Who, as told by David Whitaker in his classic 1964 novelisation “Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks”. The animation features on the free DVD accompanying the latest Vworp Vworp magazine (volume 6) and is directed and animated by Mel Meanley, adapted by Ian Winterton and stars Stephen Noonan (the Doctor), Adam Grayson (Ian), Helen Stirling-Lane (Barbara) and Kerry Ely (Susan)
(00:16:07) “An Exciting Adventure with David Whitaker” by Simon Guerrier celebrates the extraordinary, little-known life of one of its chief architects, David Whitaker. As the show’s first story editor, he helped to establish the compelling blend of adventure, imagination and quirky humour that made – and continues to make – the series a hit. David commissioned the first Dalek story, and fought for it to be made when his bosses didn’t like it. Regeneration, the TARDIS being alive, the idea of Doctor Who expanding to become a multimedia phenomenon in comics, books and films… David Whitaker was all over it. Yet very little was known about this key figure in Doctor Who history – until now. Why did he fall out with Irving Berlin? Was he really engaged to Yootha Joyce? And how did an assignment to Moscow badly affect his career? The book can be bought here.
(00:16:40) The penny which dropped midway through Doc’s surprisingly detailed telling of the blacklisting of David Whitaker following the Moscow conference turns out to have been perfectly correct. Doc’s wealth of information did indeed come entirely from Simon Guerrier‘s article “Mission to Moscow” which appeared in the BBC magazine “The Essential Doctor Who – Adventures in Space” (2017) and which Doc did indeed come upon while recently researching for our review of “Ambassadors of Death” for podcast 189. Simon’s article can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:25:16) Sylvester Sneakley (a.k.a.) The Hooded Claw was of course the dastardly villain of “The Perils of Penelope Pitstop”.
(00:33:35) “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who”. Get ready for the ultimate book on the Philip Hinchcliffe years of Doctor Who! A brand new title spearheading the launch of a new range of beautiful large format books! “It’ll be a different kind of book that’s been written, I think, about Doctor Who” (Philip Hinchcliffe). From Morbius to Krynoids, Eldrad to Wirrn, ROUNDEL PUBLISHING takes an in-depth look with unrivalled access to the architect of some of the most revered years of Doctor Who’s history! Available in softback, hardback or deluxe hardback options including the option to receive signed copies, exclusive art prints and even the chance to get a personal message from Philip himself! The first in a brand-new series of lavish books examining the key creatives behind Doctor Who – THE DNA OF DOCTOR WHO takes a look at the creatives involved in making Doctor Who through the lens of newly-commissioned essays examining key themes, critical responses and reflections on the era in question. The book is currently available for pre-order.
(00:37:35) Richard Lewis Hearne (1908 – 1979) was a British actor, comedian, producer and writer. He is best remembered for his stage and television character Mr Pastry. He was interviewed for the role of the Fourth Doctor after the departure of Jon Pertwee, but a disagreement over his interpretation of the role (he wanted to play the Doctor as Mr Pastry) led to no offer being made by the producer, Barry Letts. The role was subsequently offered to Tom Baker. In 1976, Richard Hearne appeared as Mr Pastry on the BBC’s old time music hall show, “The Good Old Days”.
(00:47:37) Arthur Atkinson was a fictional character from the BBC’s sketch comedy “The Fast Show”, played by Paul Whitehouse. He had a terrible singing voice and was made to mime to someone else’s material. Later, he would be cast in his own sitcom (Blame Arthur!) and would cameo in the 70’s sex comedy Confessions of a Door to Door Cucumber Salesman. He can be seen on Youtube here.
(01:04:00) The letterhead of Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:06:47) This audio clip is from “Fawlty Towers – The Hotel Inspectors” and of course features Bernard Cribbins.
(01:18:18) “The Philip Hinchcliffe Years – The DNA of Doctor Who”. Get ready for the ultimate book on the Philip Hinchcliffe years of Doctor Who! A brand new title spearheading the launch of a new range of beautiful large format books! “It’ll be a different kind of book that’s been written, I think, about Doctor Who” (Philip Hinchcliffe). From Morbius to Krynoids, Eldrad to Wirrn, ROUNDEL PUBLISHING takes an in-depth look with unrivalled access to the architect of some of the most revered years of Doctor Who’s history! Available in softback, hardback or deluxe hardback options including the option to receive signed copies, exclusive art prints and even the chance to get a personal message from Philip himself! The first in a brand-new series of lavish books examining the key creatives behind Doctor Who – THE DNA OF DOCTOR WHO takes a look at the creatives involved in making Doctor Who through the lens of newly-commissioned essays examining key themes, critical responses and reflections on the era in question. The book is currently available for pre-order.
(01:26:20) “Cutaway Bunker Podcast”.
(01:32:30) Gareth appeared on our podcast #32 which can be found here.
(01:34:48) This is of course based on the “J. R. Hartley” Yellow Pages commercial.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
On the podcast’s 10th anniversary, we are joined from the early history of Diddly Dum by the Rev to take a look at “The Church on Ruby Road”.
ddpc192-operation-stone-ageDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instagram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) One of the original three co-hosts of the Diddly Sum Podcast, the Rev (a.k.a the Reverend Captain Hullo Porro) was responsible for much of our early artwork and our logo.
(00:11:20) The signed photo of and by John Leeso (a.k.a. K-9 and the War Bungle) can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:15:49) The Rev interviewing Louise Jameson at Bridlington Comic Con 2021 can be seen on Youtube here.
(00:18:37) The bane of our Mark’s great-aunt’s bedding, “Tiger Feet” by Mud, released in January 1974, was the first of three number No. 1 singles for the band, in the UK.
(00:21:18) “Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry’s Song)” is a folk song by English duo Brian and Michael. It was released as their first single in late 1977. The song reached number one in the UK for 3 weeks in April 1978.
(00:28:58) A photo of a youthful Doc with his DIY Dalek kit can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:31:20) “The Theme from Abslom Daak – Dalek Killer”, composed by Dominic Glynn and Martin Smith, and performed by The Slaves of Kane, was released in 1990 as part of a promotional flexi disc in Doctor Who Magazine. This sampled “Peaches” by The Stranglers with the Doctor Who theme.
(00:33:45) Mick Herron’s “Slough House” series of spy novels can be found here and has been adapted for TV as “Slow Horses” on Apple here.
(00:57:38) David Bowie talking about his first sight of The Rolling Stones can be seen here.
(01:05:42) A history of Manchester Town Hall’s giant Father Christmases can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Join us for our traditional Christmas podcast in which we take a general overview of the 3 anniversary specials and then dive into our games: “Guess Who?”, “Whoseum – Whose Scene, Hmm?” and our annual Gold Run looking back on the last year of podcasting.
ddpc191-commando-clausDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:17:40) The Raleigh Chopper is a children’s / young adults bicycle, a wheelie bike, manufactured and marketed from the 1960s to 2005 by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham. Its unique design became a cultural icon and is fondly remembered by many who grew up in that period.
(00:49:26) This clip of Hilda Ogden singing comes from this episode of “Coronation Street”.
(01:03:39) As promised, all the Classic scene stills from our game of “Whoseum – Whose Scene, Hmmm?” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:19:14) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.
(01:36:35) All the references to Advent Crowns and Blue Peter and the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band are inspired of course by the traditional “Blue Peter” show nearest to Christmas of which examples can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
The Diddly Dummers are joined by long-term FOTS Suky Khakh to look back at 4th Doctor story “Genesis of the Daleks”.
ddpc190-hab-ich-das-rechtDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) The music starting this podcast is “Hab Ich Das Recht” is the German version of “Have I the Right”, the debut single and biggest hit of British band The Honeycombs.
(00:02:25) Our guest is Suky Khakh of the “Around the Console” podcast, the “Trek This Out” podcast and the “Take Your Seats” podcast.
(00:49:44) “Daleks! Genesis of Terror” is a full cast version of Terry Nation’s first draft of episode one of Genesis of the Daleks by Big Finish, with Nicholas Briggs providing the stage directions, plus readings by individual cast members of the storylines for the other episodes.
(00:49:44) “We Are the Daleks” is a story specially written by Terry Nation for the special edition of the Radio Times celebrating the 10th anniversary of Doctor Who in 1973. This can be found in the November 2023 section of our Tumblr page.
(01:10:45) The Secret Lemonade Drinker was a UK TV advert from the 1970s.
(01:21:08) “Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus“, edited by Terry Nation, was an omnibus published in 1976, especially for Marks & Spencer. It featured a collection of articles and photographs related to the Daleks, as well as abridged and illustrated reprints of the novelisations “Planet of the Daleks” and “Genesis of the Daleks”.
(01:23:59) This recording of Bertrand Russell can be found here.
(01:25:26) The T S Eliot in a taxi anecdote is related by Kenneth Williams and is an extract from “An Audience With Kenneth Williams”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Tim Burrows of the Missing Episodes Podcast joins us to look at Third Doctor story “The Ambassadors of Death”.
ddpc189-wink-wink-bang-bangDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast is FOTS Tim Burrows from the “Missing Episodes” podcast.
(00:03:24) “Film is Fabulous!” is an initiative by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. Its aim is to encourage collectors in the United Kingdom to create a list of their films and to add this with clear instructions to their Will.
(00:03:56) The episode of Tim’s podcast where he interviews Paul Vanezis is Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast – Special Edition – Film Collectors (dated 13/09/2023) and can be found here.
(00:15:10) Rather than write it ourselves, we thought it easier to lift this description from an online forum: “In 1992, a fan named Roger K. Barrett claimed to have a videotape of The Tenth Planet and offered to sell it to some Doctor Who fans and the BBC, including Ian Levine, a well-known fan and one time unofficial continuity adviser to the programme. However, Barrett turned out to be an alias and the existence of the episode a hoax. In a mini-documentary titled “Missing in Action” (aired during a 1993 BBC One repeat of Planet of the Daleks), Levine said that he experienced “the absolute utter depths of despair when we found out that it was just a blank tape and it was all a hoax”, expressing his desire to get hold of Barrett and “choke him until I found out why he misled everybody.” Unfortunately, hoaxes of this kind are not uncommon in Doctor Who fandom, with people like Barrett more than willing to exploit the hope that copies of the missing episodes may still exist somewhere waiting to be recovered.” The Missing in Action documentary can be seen here and the Roger K. Barrett stuff starts at about 00:04:25.
(00:34:07) The gorilla cage change scene from “Diamonds Are Forever” can be scene here.
(00:55:50) “Five Go Mad in Dorset” was the first of three Five Go Mad specials from the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents… television comedy films. It first aired on the launch night of Channel 4 (0/11/1982).
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We are joined by Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics fame to look at Fifth Doctor story “Castrovalva”.
ddpc188-ok-to-kid-aDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast episode is FOTS Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics fame. Cutaway Comics can be found here and here.
(00:13:42) Ian’s “Cutaway Bunker” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:17:49) The “Scarred for Life” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:20:16) The “Atomic Hobo” podcast can be found here and here.
(00:22:12) The teaser for Vworp Vworp’s “Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks” can be found here.
(00:27:12) The fabulous “Vworp Vworp” magazine can be found here and here.
(00:31:00) Cutaway Comics’ kickstarter for “Inferno – The World Dies Screaming” can be found here.”
(00:34:02) Stephen Gallagher’s Tharils-themed “Faustine – Gods and Monsters” is the second chapter in the GODS AND MONSTERS stories – a new seven-part prestige comic mini-series from Cutaway Comics.
(01:26:40) The cover of the “Blue Peter Tenth Book” can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Dave Kitchen joins the Diddly Dummers with tales of his recent trip to Europe and to look back on 4th Doctor story “Masque of Mandragora”.
ddpc187-whos-the-noseDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on our Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our opening sketch was of course inspired by the garden party scene in “Russian Roulette”, S02E02 of “Secret Army”, a clip of which can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
(00:03:53) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Dave Kitchen from such podcasts as “The Doctor Who Show“, “Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast“ and “The Goodies Pirate Podcast“.
(00:06:47) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to Portmeirion can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:10:55) Photos from Dave’s 2023 visit to to (a) the site of Le Restaurant Candide, La Grande Place, Brussels, (b) the site of the Dalek’s emergence from the Thames in “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” TV serial, (c) the site of the Eye of Orion, and (d) Coal Hill School can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:46:45) This clip is from “The Patron of the Arts” from Series 2 of “Yes Prime Minister”.
(00:47:31) This clip is from “Zeus, By Jove”, episode 9 of the BBC’s “I Claudius” drama series.
(01:10:40) A clip of the scene where the Doctor lifts Sarah off the floor and swings her behind the TARDIS can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:15:18) “Secret Love” is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for “Calamity Jane“, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role.
(01:27:06) A longer version of this clip from “The Generation Game” can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
(01:27:35) The brief parodies of “The Generation Game” by The Goodies can be seen about 20 mins into “The Goodies: Politics” (S08E01) and about 8 mins 30 secs into “The Goodies: Change of Life” (S09E05) 00:08:30 into the episode
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
The Diddly Dummers are joined by Mark from the “42 to Doomsday” podcast to take a look at 1984’s “Planet of Fire”.
ddpc186-great-balls-of-fire-1DownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on a Nascent Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Our guest on this podcast is none other than long-time FOTS Mark from the “42 to Doomsday” podcast.
(00:24:52) The artist’s representation of Peri on the front cover of Issue 75 of the “Doctor Who – In Vision” magazine can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:32:36) “Manic Miner“, “Jet Set Willy” and “Atic Atac” were computer games for the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s.
(00:39:40) Edward Highmore’s manspreading publicity photo can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(01:17:05) “The Comeuppance of Captain Katt” was written and directed by Peter Grimwade as part of ITV’s “Dramarama” series.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
With Hayden’s continuing sabbatical, the average age of the Diddly Dum hosts has skyrocketed. Doc and Mark find themselves stranded in Sydney and take the opportunity to review “The Two Doctors”.
ddpc185-meat-is-murderDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on a Nascent Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:05:15) “The Ascent of Man” is a 13-part BBC documentary television series first broadcast in 1973. It was written and presented by Polish-British mathematician and historian of science, Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of “personal view” documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series “Civilisation“, the series received acclaim for Bronowski’s highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long, elegant monologues, and its extensive location shoots. Dr Bronowski’s vile and offensive remarks about the Manchester weather is the final ssene of episode 4 (“The Hidden Structure”).
(00:07:25) Join the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers, directed by Alastair King, as they celebrate the glorious musical sounds of Doctor Who in this special 60th anniversary concert for Radio 2.
(00:57:33) “Brass” is a British television comedy drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. “Brass” is northern English slang for “money” as well as for “effrontery”. The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly “When the Boat Comes In“. Unusually for ITV comedies of the time.
(01:03:00) This clip is from the “Fawlty Towers” episode “The Psychiatrist”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Ian Winterton of Cutaway Comics joins us to look at “Love & Monsters”. Listen/download on iTunes Listen/download on Spotify Listen/download …Continue reading →
The Human Palindrome himself, friend (and even co-parent) of the podcast, Mark Cockram, joins us to look at the two-parter …Continue reading →
We present our interview from the “Capitol Six” convention with Rob Shearman.
ddpc182-rob-shearman-1DownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on a Nascent Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:16:03) Hayden was interviewed by the BBC for his thoughts on Matt Smith’s departure from the BBC.
(00:52:00) Rob Shearman’s article on “Caves of Androzani” from DWM413 when it won the Mighty 200 poll can be found on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We look back on the Capitol 6 convention via a vaguely Eurovision theme before presenting our interview with Gary Russell and Phil Ford.
ddpc181-giving-some-stickDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on Instgram
Find us on a Nascent Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:03:23) Here’s Hannah Waddingham being sublime at the Eurovision Song Contest final and explaining our segueing into la Francais.
(00:04:25) “Ted Lasso” is an American sports comedy drama television series following an American college football coach who is hired to coach an English soccer team with the secret intention that his inexperience will lead it to failure, but whose folksy, optimistic leadership proves unexpectedly successful.
(00:05:54) The trailer for the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials can be seen here.
(00:10:20) Catherine Tate reads out the UK jury results on the Eurovision Song Contest final.
(00:19:20) “Stop getting Bond wrong” comes from “I’m Alan Partridge”.
(00:23:47) “Brit Sci-Fi” will be a celebration of iconic science fiction films, TV programmes, books, comics, games and art.
(00:26:16) Hayden’s 2 year old son, William, sees Colin Baker’s 7th Doctor in Mr Tumble.
(00:32:45) On May 8 2006, BBC News 24 wanted to interview technology journalist Guy Kewney about the Apple Corps v Apple Computer legal dispute. By mistake, they interviewed Guy Goma, a Congolese-French business studies graduate from the Republic of the Congo, who came to the BBC for a job interview as a data cleanser. The incident became one of the most known bloopers at the BBC.
(00:32:57) Hayden was interviewed by the BBC for his thoughts on Matt Smith’s departure from the BBC.
(00:36:48) “Tom’s Refurbishments” can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We welcome back the eminence grise of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, Tony Jordan, to look back on April’s “Capitol Six Decades” convention with us. We include our interview with Dean Hollingsworth who played an android in “Timelash”, a bus conductor in “Greatest Show in the Galaxy” and a crucial role in Christopher Eccleston’s career.
ddpc180-dont-dump-william-emms-in-the-riverDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
Find us on a Nascent Instagram account here
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOW NOTES
(00:00:00) Photos of all the various panels and activities this year can be found on the DWAS Facebook page, their Twitter account and their Instagram account.
(00:07:45) The two photos ten years apart where only Wendy doesn’t change can be seen on Tony’s Facebook page here.
(00:11:16) A photo of Colin Baker receiving his Outstanding Contribution to Doctor Who award can be seen on the DWAS Facebook page here.
(00:13:40) A photo of Steven Moffat’s “Terrance Dicks Writers Award” trophy at the final night of his West End show can be seen on Steven’s Instagram page here.
(00:13:46) The thread of banter between Steven Moffat, Russell T Davies, Michelle Gomez and pals as the latter try to conceal their seething envy at his award can be seen on Steven’s Instagram page here.
(00:15:28) A video clip of Steven Moffat receiving his “Terrance Dicks Writers Award” can be seen on the DWAS Facebook page here.
(00:22:30) “Doctor Who: Prisoners of London”, the Big Finish audio novel written and narrated by Matthew Waterhouse can be pre-ordered on the Big Finish website here.
(00:38:18) Mark’s selfie with Annette Badland can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:42:45) A video clip of John Leeson receiving his Outstanding Contribution to Doctor Who award can be seen on the DWAS Facebook page here.
(00:48:50) The “Cutaway Bunker” podcast can be found here.
(00:49:50) “Tom’s Refurbishments” can be found here. Photos of our meeting with Dalek Draco can be found on our Tumblr page here and here.
(01:05:05) Dean Hollingsworth appeared in two Doctor Who television stories: as an android in “Timelash” and the bus conductor in “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”. He also provided the uncredited voices of a Psychic Circus advertisement and an advertising satellite in the latter. Dean will be appearing in the soon to be released “Last Flamingo of the Red Summer Sunset”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
The Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s representative on Earth, Tony Jordan, visits us for our last podcast before the DWAS “Capitol Six Decades” convention to look forward to what lies in store for us.
ddpc179-capitol-risingDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:02:14) The Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s “Capitol Six Decades” will be held on the weekend of 15th and 16th April 2023 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Gatwick. All tickets have been sold out but the details can be found here.
(00:08:40) Photos of Hayden modelling, not cosplaying (there is a difference) a Time Lord soldier’s uniform at Capitol in 2016 can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:30:15) At the “Sci-F By The Sea” at Herne’s Bay in 2018, our own Mark persuaded John Leeson to autograph a photo of himself as The War Bungle.
(00:35:10) Here we were discussing Callum Weston’s – @TheDinopuff – animation of Episode One of First Doctor story “The Celestial Toymaker” which can be found here.
(00:35:40) The animated lego version of “The Celestial Toymaker” which Mark is referring to here can be found here.
(00:36:30) Mark’s treasured gun props from “Paradise Towers” and “Time and the Rani” were discussed in our podcast episode #135 (“Run Like a Lakertyan”) and can be seen on our Tumblr page here and here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We take a look at the Second Doctor story “The Invasion”.
ddpc178-international-electro-peopleDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Listen/download on Spotify
Listen/download on Stitcher.com
Listen/download on Amazon Music
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:00:00) We open this podcast with “Electro People” which of course was the music played over the closing credits of “The Kenny Everett Television Show”.
(00:02:42) A photo of Hayden’s copy of “Battlefield” signed by Chris Achilleos can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:08:00) Scans of Gary Whipp’s synopses can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:11:20) The 2000AD books being published by Rebellion can be seen here.
(00:13:26) Mark’s “Children of the Stones” album and goodies can be seen here. The folk/horror Twitter account he refers to is @folk_horror. Mark’s “Happy Day” fridge magnet can be seen on our Tumble page here.
(00:17:30) The photo of Kit Pedler’s gravestone taken by Mark in 2017 can bee seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:58:50) “World of Sport” was a television sport programme which ran on ITV between 1965 and 1985 in competition with the BBC’s “Grandstand”. Like “Grandstand”, the programme ran for several hours every Saturday afternoon. Its Don Harper theme music can he found here.
(00:59:36) In 1974 Don Harper re-arranged Ron Grainer’s Doctor Who theme music as part of the “Homo Electronicus” album.
(01:11:94) We have put together a montage of video clips to accompany Mark’s panegyric to Douglas Camfield’s direction of this story and it can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.
ddpc177-pat-troughtonDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Stitcher.com
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.
(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.
(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).
(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.
(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.
(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.
(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that had featured in the UK Singles Chart at the time the clips were originally broadcast.
(00:14:02) “Some Mothers Do Ave Em” was a BBC sitcom, created and written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975. After a three-year absence, the programme returned for a third series in 1978 and again in 2016 for a one-off special. The series regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant wife Betty through Frank’s various attempts to maintain a job, which frequently end in disaster. The sitcom was noted for its stunt work, performed by Crawford himself, and it featured several well-known and much-lampooned catchphrases that have become part of British popular culture. The famous roller skating scene (featuring Hayden’s dad’s best friend) can be seen here. A judiciously edited version of this highlights where Hayden senior’s friend appears and can be seen on our Youtube channel here.
(00:16:08) Ncuti Gatwa’s latest costume compared with the one worn by Lenny Henry in his 1980s Doctor Who spoof can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:18:26) This audio clip from Eastenders can be seen here.
(00:54:32) Mike Smash and Dave Nice are two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. They were played by comedians Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield respectively. They are parodies of a certain style of ageing celebrity BBC Radio 1 disc jockey who started out with the station in the 1960s and stayed there until the mid-1990s. The characters incorporated the personalities, character traits and lifestyles of several different real-life DJs. The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile amongst others. Any resemblance to what Hayden comes out with is purely coincidental.
(01:23:22) The “Tom Baker: In Confidence” interview from 2010 can be found here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We pay tribute to Chris Boucher by reviewing the 4th Doctor story “Image of the Fendahl”.
ddpc176-the-stainless-viaductDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Stitcher.com
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@diddlydumpodcast
SHOWNOTES
(00:04:59) The “Herts and Essex Antiques Centre” in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
(00:06:10) A pic of William triumphantly brandishing his giant Thunderbird One on Christmas Day can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:08:35) Hayden’s Gran Torino car, 4th Doctor in Bessie and Han Solo models can be seen on our Tumblr page here.
(00:45:16) This audio clip is from “The Tom Baker Years”.
(00:53:15) This audio clip is from a scene between Leo McKern and John Hurt from “A Man For All Seasons” (1966) which can be seen here.
(01:04:02) This audio clip of Matt Berry is from a “What We Do In The Shadows” scene which can be seen here.
(01:06:01) The death of Don Brennan can be seen on this clip from “Coronation Street”.
(01:14:40) This audio clip is from “The Tom Baker Years”.
(01:23:22) The video of Marc Bolan rising on a pentagram/star while singing “Dreamy Lady” can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
The Diddly Dummers gather for their traditional Christmas podcast and, having looked at the latest news, they begin the fun and games.
ddpc175-jetblack-desiatoDownloadListen/download on iTunes
Stitcher.com
Find us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Find us on Mastodon
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@diddlydumpodcast
SHOWNOTES
(00:07:15) Paul Darrow’s most extreme overacting can be seen here.
(00:10:15) The appearance of The Stranglers on the Dutch Show “Top Pop” in 1977 can be seen here.
(00:32:21) Our Penny Mordaunt quiz question on Twitter can be found here.
(00:37:58) Our podcast’s new Mastodon account can be found here.
(01:10:15) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.
(01:24:10) All the references to Advent Crowns and Blue Peter and the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band are inspired of course by the traditional “Blue Peter” show nearest to Christmas of which examples can be seen here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
We review “Power of the Doctor” and, along the way, look at new Disney rumours and debate which companions have …Continue reading →
Tim Burrows from the “Missing Episodes” podcast joins us to present three items for permanent exhibition in the Whoseum – …Continue reading →
At the “Terrrance Dicks – A Celebration” event at Riverside Studios on 2nd October 2022, we managed to corner Rob …Continue reading →
We take a look back at the “Terrance Dicks – A Celebration” event at The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith on 02 …Continue reading →
Listen/download on iTunes Stitcher.com Find us on Facebook We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance Find …Continue reading →
We take a look at 4th Doctor story “The Nightmare of Eden”. Listen/download on iTunes Stitcher.com Find us on Facebook …Continue reading →
We take a look at the two Peter Cushing Dalek films released in the 1960s at the height of Dalekmania. …Continue reading →
We finally come to our long-delayed retrospective of the Tenth Doctor’s era and reveal the results of your votes on …Continue reading →
The Four Faces of Delusion chat about the latest casting announcements. Listen/download on iTunes Stitcher.com Find us on Facebook We …Continue reading →
At the DWAS “The Capitol V” convention in April, we recorded an interview with those panjandrums of the comics world, …Continue reading →
We take a look back at the Easter special “Legend of the Sea Devils”. Listen/download on iTunes Stitcher.com Find us …Continue reading →
We gave Tony Jordan a week to recover his voice and strength before inviting him to rejoin us to look …Continue reading →
Tony Jordan joins for our traditional podcast looking forward to the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s “The Capitol V” convention in …Continue reading →
We pay tribute to Stuart Bevan and to Lynda Baron and take a look at First Doctor story “The Gunfighters” …Continue reading →
We review the Fifth Doctor story “Warriors of the Deep” and, as the Sea Devils stalk around to the beat …Continue reading →
This podcast marks Diddly Dum’s 8th birthday and we take a look at “Eve of the Daleks” after paying tribute …Continue reading →
Our eighth Christmas podcast is full of the presents, memories and advent crowns. Mark has invented a brand new game. …Continue reading →
We take a look at “Survivors of the Flux” and “The Vanquishers”, the final two episodes of “The Flux season. …Continue reading →
A Weeping Angel attack on The Whoseum seems to catapult Mark back to the 1970s where he hears voices in …Continue reading →
We review the first two episodes of “Doctor Who: The Flux” – “The Halloween Apocalypse” and “War of the Sontarans”. …Continue reading →
The Diddly Dummers assemble to take a look at Second Doctor story “Evil of the Daleks”. Along the way, we …Continue reading →
Our series of retrospectives of each Doctor’s era reaches Paul McGann, the Eighth Doctor – which in practice ends up …Continue reading →
The Diddly Dummers re-assemble at short notice to record a special podcast with their reactions to the bombshell news of …Continue reading →
Listen/download on iTunes Stitcher.com Find us on Facebook We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance Find …Continue reading →
To mark the podcast’s 150th episode, the Four Faces of Delusion gather on 20th July to look at the 50th …Continue reading →
Our former co-host, Matt Charlton, joins us again for our long-awaited retrospective of the Third Doctor’s era, in which we …Continue reading →
Mark from the “42 to Doomsday” podcast joins us and chooses the Fifth Doctor story “Frontios” to discuss. He also …Continue reading →
During Hayden’s paternity leave, former Diddly Dum host, Matt Charlton, has rallied to the colours for this episode and has …Continue reading →
As our own Hayden begins his paternity leave, Aussie podcaster David Kitchen teleports in (transmats surely) for a look at …Continue reading →
We present the final results of our poll to find the Top 5 Fave stories of the Eleventh Doctor’s (Matt …Continue reading →
The Diddly Dummers celebrate the podcast’s seventh birthday with a review of the New Year’s Day special “Revolution of the …Continue reading →
The Three Who Drool assemble in The Whoseum for their annual Christmas gameshow podcast (which is Pertwee-themed this year), playing …Continue reading →
We reveal the results of the poll to find our listeners’ top five stories from the era of the Seventh …Continue reading →
The Three Who Drool travel to a local lighthouse to take a look at the Fourth Doctor story “The Horror …Continue reading →
The Four Faces of Delusion this week take a look at the recently released animation of the missing Second Doctor …Continue reading →
The Diddly Dumbers take a look at the Series 3 Tenth Doctor story “Gridlock”. MP3 Link = DDPC139 – …Continue reading →
The Four Faces of Delusion present their long-delayed Fifth Doctor retrospective in which they take a look at the results …Continue reading →
Simon Brett rejoins us for part two of our Comics and Strips special in which we continue looking at Doctor …Continue reading →
Simon (for it is he) Brett returns to The Whoseum to engage the Diddly Dummers in chat about comic strips …Continue reading →
Join the Three Who Drool as we take a look at the Seventh Doctor story “Time and the Rani”. Along …Continue reading →
Strap on your seatbelts and move all fragile ornaments to a position of safety as we take a look at …Continue reading →
We mark Hayden’s 100th episode of the Diddly Dum Podcast by looking at the Second Doctor story “The Web of …Continue reading →
The Diddly Dummers’ friendship is sorely tested as we take a good look at “The Horns of Nimon”. MP3 …Continue reading →
We’ve done podcasts about past and future conventions. We’ve done podcasts about organising conventions. We’ve done podcasts about attending conventions. …Continue reading →
Welcome to our long-promised retrospective look at the Ninth Doctor’s era, otherwise known as Series One of New Doctor Who …Continue reading →
We review the climactic two episodes of Series 12 of Doctor Who – “Ascension of the Cybermen” and “The Timeless …Continue reading →
Security is tight as Tony Jordan, eminence grise (and never was an eminence griser) of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, …Continue reading →
We review “Can You Hear Me?” and “The Haunting of Villa Diodati”. Along the way, gasp in disbelief as Mark …Continue reading →
This week, we review “Fugitive of the Judoon” and “Praxeus”. Along the way, we pay tribute to the late Nicholas …Continue reading →
Our guest this week is Brendan from the Flight Through Entirety podcast who joins us to mull over “Orphan55” and …Continue reading →
As ever at this time of year, we wish you a Happy New Year and ourselves a Happy Birthday as …Continue reading →
The game board above tells us that another year has turned around and we’ve reached our famous Christmas games podcast. …Continue reading →
Here’s the second half of our Scariest Moments in Doctor Who podcast. Hear us quickly discover an urgent need for …Continue reading →
For Hallowe’en, we and our listeners present our scariest moments from Doctor Who and from childhood in general. MP3 …Continue reading →
We present our retrospective of William Hartnell’s First Doctor era, where we reveal the results of our Top 5 Stories …Continue reading →
An minor Earth tremor shook Doctor Who fandom as we lost a pillar of our childhood in Uncle Terrance Dicks. …Continue reading →
At last, we’ve finished counting the many votes which came in and in this podcast we announce the results of …Continue reading →
Over two consecutive weekends in June, the Diddly Dumbers attended the “Planet of the Daleks” event at the BFI, the …Continue reading →
Hayden relates his experience of finally watching Blakes 7, Series A and then binge-watching I, Claudius. We also include our …Continue reading →
That drone you can hear filling the air is not the Diddly Dummers talking, it’s the sound of the Diddly …Continue reading →
A brief look back on what happened on Sunday at the Capitol IV convention plus an interview with artist Colin …Continue reading →
A look back on what happened on Saturday at the Capitol IV convention plus an interview with writer Una McCormack. …Continue reading →
In a shortish podcast this week, we look forward to the Season 10 Blu-ray box-set, we look at how watching …Continue reading →
We take a look at the new animated release of the Second Doctor story “The Macra Terror” and review the …Continue reading →
The Five Faces of Delusion (temporarily reduced to Three) welcome Tony Jordan, one of the DWAS head honchos, back to …Continue reading →
As a sign that the High Council of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society have short memories, they have once again …Continue reading →
This time, we apply the principles of Brexit negotiations to arrive at our top 5 Capaldi era stories…and end up …Continue reading →
This week marks the 5th birthday of the Diddly Dum Podcast and we look back at the New Year’s Day …Continue reading →
The traditions of our Christmas episode have been slightly derailed by the timing of Series 11. But, having looked at …Continue reading →
Hayden returns from his trip to Austria (and the obligatory Sound of Music tour) to join us for a review …Continue reading →
This week, we look at “The Tsuranga Conundrum” and “Demons of the Punjab”. Along the way, Mark visits Devil’s End …Continue reading →
This week, we are locked away in the Whoseum panic room, looking back at “Rosa” and “Arachnids in the …Continue reading →
We review “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” and “The Ghost Monument”. MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC102 – …Continue reading →
Sneaking through the “Aussie Podcasters” channel at Heathrow for their long-promised, long-delayed visit to the Whoseum this week are …Continue reading →
Here’s part two of our celebratory 100th podcast, looking back on clips from the past 99 episodes. MP3 Direct …Continue reading →
At long last, here’s our 100th podcast. Quite a landmark for us so we’ve chosen to make it a nostalgic …Continue reading →
Our 100th podcast will be going online today. As a taster, here’s our third trailer… MP3 Direct Download Link = …Continue reading →
Our 100th podcast will be going online within days. As a taster, here’s our second trailer… MP3 Direct Download Link …Continue reading →
Our 100th podcast will be going online within days. As a taster, here’s our first trailer… MP3 Direct Download Link …Continue reading →
In the penultimate podcast before our 100th celebrations, Mark tells all about the Who at Hoylake convention where he stalked …Continue reading →
In this podcast, the …Continue reading →
Hayden finally returns to the fold from his radio sabbatical as we take a final look back on the DWAS …Continue reading →
This podcast comes to you again from Capitol 3, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society convention for which Diddly Dum …Continue reading →
This podcast comes to you from our luxury hotel suite at Capitol 3, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society convention for …Continue reading →
This week’s podcast opens with the motorcade of Tony Jordan sweeping up to the Diddly Dum Whoseum as the DWAS head honcho visits us to look forward to the looming Capitol³ convention.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/ddpc094-jordans-alive.mp3
Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC094 – Jordan’s Alive
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:00:00) “Dum Dum” is a song written by Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley and performed by Brenda Lee. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 in Australia, and #22 in the UK in 1961. It was featured on her 1961 album, “All the Way”.
(00:04:00) Paul Winter, the then Co-ordinator of the DWAS, guested on our podcast #54 (Conventionality Belongs to Yesterday) which can be found here.
(00:09:15) Mark Barton Hill is a guest at Capitol³.
(00:11:40) Our own Allan appearing on Sky News to talk about the casting of Jodie Whittaker and appearing on BBC News to talk about Tom Baker’s cameo in the Shada animation.
(00:14:21) Mike Tucker is a guest at Capitol³.
(00:15:05) Our former co-host Andy (a.k.a. The Rev) related meeting Hayden at the Myth Makers event during our podcast #13 (Doctor Huw) which can be found here.
(00:49:49) Tony’s interview with Royce (Voice of the Daleks) Mills is on Youtube. Tony talks to Royce Bout his time on Doctor Who and his career on the stage and on TV. This is the first part of their stage panel and this is the second part.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Excitement abounds this week at The Whoseum as we reveal details of our partnership with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s CAPITOL³ convention as their official podcaster.
But eventually we get down to our tribute to the late Peter Miles by taking a look at the Season 7 (1970) story – The Silurians. Along the way, we look at Peter’s work with Dusty Springfield, Jim Davidson latter career as a Liberace impersonator and the most bad-ass recurring villain of the Pertwee era (it’s not what you may think).
Plus we make a singular phone call to Hayden.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ddpc093-peter-patter.mp3
Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC093 – Peter Patter
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:00:00) One of Peter Miles’s lesser-known activities was as a jazz singer and, 50+ years ago, he duetted with his friend Dusty Springfield on “Can’t We Be Friends”. This track has recently been released by a major record company. Peter can be seen at 10 mins into this video clip contributing to a South Bank Show looking at Dusty Springfield.
(00:01:11) The Diddly Dum Podcast has been asked by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society to be the official podcasting partner of their Capitol³ convention at the end of April 2018.
(00:06:45) Hayden’s interview with Tony Jordan from May 2015 can be found on episode 33 of the Diddly Dum Podcast (starts at 01:41:45) which can be found here.
(00:07:02) Hayden’s first Saturday morning breakfast show on Cambridge 105Radio goes out on 07 April 2018 between 7am and 8am.
(00:11:25) The XS Malarkey Comedy Club.
(00:14:42) This clip is from the beginning of the Series 5 episode of Frasier – “Desperately Seeking Closure” which can be seen here.
(00:21:50) The Who at the Hoylake convention.
(00:49:40) Cult BBC TV series from 1975 with music by electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who went on to score The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. The critically acclaimed BBC TV series, The Changes, was first broadcast by the BBC in in 1975, accompanied by music from electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who wrote and recorded the score while working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
(00:52:00) “Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast” has recently been launched by friends of the show, David Kitchen and Richard Nolan. Every fortnight these two fans (and their guests) have a look at each episode of Blake’s 7, in order, discussing what they love about it, but also going into more depth about the stories and characters. They’l also be looking at the guests stars, and including some fun segments such as “look, it was the 1970s”, “what cool lines did Chris Boucher write for Avon this week?”, and “player of the week”!
(00:54:56) “Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story” (released in the US as Color Me Kubrick) is a Franco-British comedy-drama film directed by Brian W. Cook, released in 2005. The film stars John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a man who had been impersonating director Stanley Kubrick since the early 1990s. One of the biggest scams is when Conway promises to help establish Lee Pratt (Jim Davidson) as a headliner act in Las Vegas. Pratt is a British entertainer who’s had limited success as a flamboyant dancer and stage singer. Pratt is described as a “low-rent Liberace with an Elvis gleam in his eye.” The singing clip can be found here.
(01:31:00) One of Peter Miles’s lesser-known activities was as a jazz singer and, 50+ years ago, he duetted with his friend Dusty Springfield on “Can’t We Be Friends”. This track has recently been released by a major record company. Peter can be seen at 10 mins into this video clip contributing to a South Bank Show looking at Dusty Springfield.
(01:31:58) This clip is from the sixth episode of Series 1 of Blake’s 7 – “Seek Locate Destroy”. It can be found at 00:18:40 here.
(01:39:19) This closing music is “The Manchester Rap” (1990) by The Bosnians. A slightly (but only slightly) exaggerated parody of the Manchester/Salford accent.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Four of the Five Four Faces of Delusion have been listening this week to the audiobook of “Who on Earth is Tom Baker”, the great man’s autobiography, and have gathered to find the maximum number of tangents to shoot off at while discussing the masterpiece.
Along the way, we take a well-earned cup of tea until rain forces us indoors,we look at boys’ comics of yesteryear, and we find out what Doc as a boy wanted to be when he grew up.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ddpc092-who-unearthed-tom-baker.mp3
MP3 Direct Download = DDPC092 – Who Unearthed Tom Baker
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:00:00) “Who on Earth is Tom Baker?” is the autobiography of the great man, published in 1997. Tom can be found reading the audiobook here (assuming you still have a cassette player.
(00:12:52) Recently, on his journey home from work on the London Underground, Doc was diverted by the light saber umbrella clutched between the knees of the man sitting next to him. A photo can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:15:25) The purportedly final episode of the “42 to Doomsday” podcast can be found here.
(00:17:07) “Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast” has recently been launched by friends of the show, David Kitchen and Richard Nolan. Every fortnight these two fans (and their guests) have a look at each episode of Blake’s 7, in order, discussing what they love about it, but also going into more depth about the stories and characters. They’l also be looking at the guests stars, and including some fun segments such as “look, it was the 1970s”, “what cool lines did Chris Boucher write for Avon this week?”, and “player of the week”!
(00:19:01) Kevin (Jon) Davies, was the mastermind of “More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS” and jammy meeter of Douglas Adams in his youth. The whole of podcast #40 was devoted to Hayden’s interview with Kevin in 2015 and can be found here.
(00:23:18) Rafaella Carra Raffaella Maria Pelloni, better known as Raffaella Carrà, born 18 June 1943, Bologna) is an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, and actress. In 1977, she had her only entry to the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 9, with “Do It, Do It Again”.
(00:34:24) The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45” by Nicholas Stargardt.
(00:38:12) Tom Baker: In Confidence (2010).
(00:39:39) Bernhard Carl “Bert” Trautmann OBE (22 October 1923 – 19 July 2013) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.
(00:41:18) “Boys’ Weeklies” is an essay by George Orwell in which he analyses those weekly story-paper publications for boys which were current around 1940. The essay deals primarily with the School Stories published in The Magnet and The Gem and also with the ‘Tuppenny Bloods’ published by D.C. Thomson.
(01:09:57) “Late Night Story was a TV series broadcast on BBC2. Over Christmas 1978, it starred Tom Baker reading to camera four macabre stories on the theme of childhood. These stories were “The Photograph” by Nigel Kneale, “The Emissary” by Ray Bradbury, “Nursery Tea” by Mary Danby, “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene. The fifth story, “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), was unscreened owing to a BBC strike. The full set can be found as extras on the “Key to Time” DVD box-set.
(01:14:43) Tom Baker appearance on “This is Your Life” (2000) can be found here.
(01:22:32) “The Guardians”, a dystopian political thriller, is a television drama series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971. The complete series DVD box-set can be bought online here or here.
(01:24:25) “An Hour With Jon Pertwee” was a BBC radio show.
(01:26:10) “Who’s Next?” is the memoir of Derrick Sherwin.
(01:29:34) As our Easter Egg closing trest, Rafaella Carra visits The Whoseum to sing “Do It, Do It Again”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
“Imagine a world created by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and the Marx brothers”. Yes, it’s the Diddly Dum Whoseum, put once more to its proper role as a repository for Doctor Who memorabilia. The themes of the items presented this week by the podcasters is food and board games, with a linking theme of Daleks.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/ddpc091-panem-et-circenses.mp3
MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC091 – Panem et Circenses
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
THE DIDDLY DUM WHOSEUM CAN BE VISITED HERE.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:05:21) Following the success of the “The Capitol II”, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is hosting “The Capitol 3“ – a full scale, two day event that will take place at the Arora Hotel Gatwick over the weekend of the 28th & 29th April 2018. “Capitol 3″ will offer a mix of guests panels, on screen presentations, autographs, photo studio, merchandise and more. Special events, as well as a plethora of guests, are planned for the weekend, with details being revealed over the coming months.
(00:02:01) The 2018 “Who at Hoylake” convention will be held at Hoylake Social Club at postcode CH47 2BR. Guests announced so far include Toby Hadoke, Michael Troughton, Philip Hinchcliffe, Marcus Gilbert and Sophie Aldred .
(00:05:03) “The Guardians”, a dystopian political thriller, is a television drama series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971. The complete series DVD box-set can be bought online here or here.
(00:08:34) “EBC1″ – a.k.a “Emu’s Broadcasting Company” (1975–1980) was a children’s television series featuring Rod Hull and Emu running their own television station, which parodied many BBC series of the time. Supporting Rod Hull and his emu puppet were Billy Dainty who played a James Bond pastiche called Captain Perceval and Barbara New who played the tea lady. For those of a certain generation, this show was memorable for its Doctor Who parody, “Doctor Emu”.
(00:17:49) “Robert Homes: A Life in Words” by Richard Molesworth.
(00:18:58) “Space Spinner 2000” is a podcast where two friends from the US try to make sense of the UK’s 2000AD, the Galaxy’s Greatest comic, one month of issues at a time!
(00:21:08) “Invasion” was a series created by Pat Mills and mostly written by Gerry Finley-Day that appeared in the first 51 editions of the weekly comic 2000 AD.
(00:21:50) The Heavy Metal Kids (in 2000ad comic) were gigantic construction robots used for heavy demolition.
(00:24:30) “Crackerjack!” was a British children’s television series that aired on the BBC 1955 until 1984 (except during 1971). “Double or Drop” was a quiz game in the show where each of three contestants was given a prize to hold for each question answered correctly, but given a cabbage if they were incorrect. They were out of the game if they dropped any of the items awarded or received a third cabbage. While the winner took his or her pick from a basket of toys, every runner-up won a much-envied marbled propelling pencil as a prize, which became so popular that in 1961 Queen Elizabeth was presented with Crackerjack! pencils for Anne and Charles. In March 1975, the show included a Doctor Who based sketch, “Hallo, My Dalek”.
(00:25:15) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.
(00:25:28) “Spirograph” is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
(00:28:10) “Frustration” board game and “Headache” board game were very similar.
(00:29:40) The free transfers which came with Issue One of Doctor Who Weekly in 1979.
(00:32:26) “Panzer Pranks” board game.
(00:33:21) “Call of Cthulu” is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft’s story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is currently in its seventh edition, with many different versions released. It makes use of Chaosium’s Basic Role-Playing (BRP) system, with special rules for Sanity.
(00:34:46) “Paranoia” is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games.
(00:36:22) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.
(00:48:41) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.
(00:56:26) In 1965, Louis Marx issued the “Dr Who the Mysterious Daleks” with “Amazing Robot Action” (later known as bump and go) daleks which came in black or silver/grey both with two gold bands. These very successful battery-operated daleks altered direction when they bumped into something and were re-released in several versions. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:59:21) A photo of the Click-and-Catch toy can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:03:00) The coin-operated Dalek ride was manufactured by Edwin Hall & Co between 1964 and 1967 and distributed by Edward Saville Amusements. A photo can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:04:34) In 1975, Wall’s launched the Dalek Death Ray ice lolly. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:13:40) Dr Who’s Space Adventure Book was a 1967 magazine published as a part of the Doctor Who/Dalek licensing agreement enjoyed by Wall’s Ice Cream. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here and here and here and here and here. The TV commercial can be seen here.
(01:16:30) Dr Who and the Daleks sweet cigarettes were 1964 tie-in food products manufactured by Cadet Sweets. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(01:21:00) Nestlé’s Doctor Who milk chocolate was a licensed product from the 1970s. At least two series of milk chocolate bars were produced by Nestlé. One was issued in 1971, coinciding with the broadcast of season 8. Photos can be found on our Tumble page here.
(01:25:35) Doctor Who baked beans were offered by Crosse & Blackwell in 1977. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
It’s the podcast’s 4th birthday and the Five Faces of Delusion are reviewing “Twice Upon a Time”. Along the way, we find a connection between “Box of Delights” and early breathalyser tests, we howl for The North, and we look at the pros and cons of having superfans as showrunners and writers.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ddpc090-what-becomes-of-the-broken-hartnells1.mp3
MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC090 – What Becomes of the Broken Hartnells
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
THE DIDDLY DUM WHOSEUM CAN BE VISITED HERE.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:05:21) ECANOTMA is short for “Everything’s Connected And None Of This Means Anything”, a book written by former Diddly Dum host Al No.
(00:06:07) A picture of the UNIT badge Mark gave Polly for Christmas can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:06:49) A picture of Hayden’s TARDIS cabinet can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:13:58) Tony Slattery is an English actor and comedian.
(00:18:36) “The Night Walkers” was a story published in TV Comic featuring the Second Doctor. It is considered to be the conclusion of Season 6B. Published in three parts from 8-22 November 1969, it is the last TV Comic story to feature the Second Doctor and the very last adventure of this incarnation, loosely serving as a direct prequel to Spearhead from Space. It is also the only story to feature and properly show the Second Doctor’s regeneration, given that his last regular TV appearance didn’t show him regenerating, and also uniquely the only time the Doctor has regenerated in a comic story as opposed to an onscreen episode.
(00:58:54) The larger British supermarket chains and department store chains have become famous in recent years for spending millions on arty TV commercials over Christmas. In 2014, Sainsbury’s supermarket gave us one based on the 1914 Christmas truce.
(01:00:25) This clip comes from the final episode of “Blackadder Goes Forth”.
(01:27:52) Hayden’s book “A Child Out Of Time” continues to do well.
(01:47:56) This clip of Jim Broadbent and Victoria Wood comes from her TV play “Staying In”.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.
Find out how being stuck in a snow drift without petrol in the Whoseum’s antique Rolls Royce still didn’t frustrate our marking Diddly Dum’s fourth Christmas with our traditional gameshow.
https://diddlydumpodcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/ddpc089-galens-alive.mp3
MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC089 – Galens Alive
Listen/download on iTunes
Audioboo
Stitcher.com
Find us on Facebook
We can also be found on the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance
Find Diddly Dum pics on Tumblr.
Visit our new Youtube page.
THE DIDDLY DUM WHOSEUM CAN BE VISITED HERE.
Email us at diddlydumpodcast@yahoo.co.uk
SHOWNOTES
(00:05:00) The 2018 “Who at Hoylake” convention will be held at Hoylake Social Club at postcode CH47 2BR. Guests announced so far include Toby Hadoke, Michael Troughton and Philip Hinchcliffe.
(00:08:34) On 9 Dec 2017 on BBC2, the BBC broadcast “John Noakes: TV Hero” as a tribute to the late icon of so many British childhoods.
(00:08:50) “Blue Peter at 50” narrated by Tom Baker and originally broadcast by the BBC on 11 Oct 2008.
(00:09:25) “Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes” is a film designed solely for live screenings and is made up almost entirely of never before seen footage edited together from hundreds of hours of unseen material from director Michael Cumming’s personal archive.
(00:11:07) English musician Neil Innes sued the band Oasis claiming their song “Whatever” borrowed portions of his song “How Sweet to Be an Idiot”. Innes and Oasis settled a plagiarism lawsuit and Innes received songwriting credit.
(00:13:10) Keith Chegwin (17 January 1957 – 11 December 2017) was an English television presenter and actor, appearing in several children’s entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including “Multi-Coloured Swap Shop” and “Cheggers Plays Pop”.
(00:17:24) Mark received a Fourth Doctor Funko Pop from his Secret Santa, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:17:59) Doc received from his Secret Santa the DVD box-set of the BBC’s late-1980s “Chronicles of Narnia” adaptation, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:19:54) Hayden received from his Secret Santa a mug displaying Sid Barrett’s Fender Esquire, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.
(00:21:45) Allan received from his Secret Santa the Podcaster Options boxed play set of the “Allan & Erica Return From Cardiff” story, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here. This refers to March 2017 when Allan and his missus Erica visited the Doctor Who set in Cardiff at Matt Lucas’s. As they prepared to return home, they spied a golden Ice Warrior prop (from “Empress of Mars”) in a skip. Only the lack of a roof-rack prevented them from taking it back to The Wirral with them. The whole story can be heard on our podcast #73 here (around 4 mins in).
(00:24:34) “The Box of Delights” is a BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield’s children’s fantasy novel starring Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens. It was broadcast on BBC One between 21 November and 24 December 1984.
(00:25:30) Judge for yourselves whether Doc is right in thinking that Glyn Baker (the actor who played Herne the Hunter in “The Box of Delights”) bears a resemblance to Doctor Who Visual Effects Designer Mat Irvine.
(00:30:20) Mark received as an extra pressie from his fellow podcasters a Galen Doll from the “Planet of the Apes” TV series. This was to replace the one he accidentally destroyed during over-enthusiastic boyhood play. A photo of it can be found here.
(00:37:00) “Play Your Kaleds Right” is, of course, based on “Play Your Cards Right”, a British TV game show broadcast on ITV from 1980 to 1987 and hosted by Bruce Forsyth.
(01:07:12) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found on our Tumblr page here. Also see below these Show Notes.
(01:13:30) Our tribute to The War Bungle can be found on our Youtube page here.
The Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from.