Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In this stunning podcast, two average guys try to get through as much Doctor Who as possible without going insane. Currently they’re mainlining their way through Classic Doctor Who. 800 episodes or bust, they say. And on the side, well. Books, Audio Dramas, Comics?!? Anything is possible! So in summary: They’re trying to see how much Doctor Who they can take before dying. So join them, as they laugh their way through a legacy.
It’s The Church on Ruby Road, written by Russell T. Davies and originally aired on December 25, 2023.
Show-notes:1:23: To preempt me from a minute later in the episode, here’s the Independent article explaining what I’m talking about.
3:48: No, my memory is awful, I was born in 1996 and this makes me 13 not 10 in 2009. Silly me.
4:42: Here’s a wikipedia page about 1969 for you.
8:58: Idk here’s the very first link about oranges in Christmas stockings in the UK.
21:48: here’s the TARDIS Wiki page on the 15th Doctor’s Sonic
23:58: Not to worry, I have the video of Ncuti explaining his sonic for you.
26:13: I mean, technically kilts have purses.
32:13: Here’s that Moose wikipedia page for everyone too lazy to find it themselves.
40:27: The goblins were practical effects believe it or not.
1:04:56: Tell me I’m not crazy, please, you can hear the breathing in the theme right? Here, listen! You might actually wonder why we don’t have the breathing in the outro to THIS episode, that is, Trust Your Doctor. It’s because I ripped the audio for our intro and outro from the live orchestra performance premiere of the theme.
1:20:25: You can check out that episode of Delayed Replay where I appeared to talk about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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Oh… this money wasn’t for me?
Well this is the end of the 14th Doctor, honestly gone too soon. We only just barely got to know you but already you’re dead. Kind of. Sort of. I dunno man, this is too confusing for me. It’s The Giggle, written by Russell T. Davies and originally aired on December 10, 2023.
Show-notes:
11:52: The article is quite dense so here’s the Medium article about toll roads. 27:23: Longtime fans of Doctor Who will recognize that I’m here talking about Professor Zaroff.
41:19: No, turns out Luke really did say it in Last Jedi.
1:20:10: Here’s Russell T. Davies’ Doctor Who and the Time War.
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Alternate title: It All Comes Back to Grapes
This week the TARDIS ventures where it’s never been before, the wild blue yonder. Other yonders are available, however, including the newly released forest green yonder, in addition to the classics: fire red yonder and scorching yellow yonder. It’s Wild Blue Yonder, written by Russell T. Davies and originally aired on December 3, 2023.
Show-notes:
1:26: Honestly just googled “Kafka’s works” to find a source for his work being published posthumously and instead found this long article wondering if he really wanted it destroyed or not. 2:29: Yes Last Jedi was episode 8 14:12: Just in case you forgot, Jack and the 9th Doctor did actually kiss.17:47: Here’s the TARDIS wiki page for crouton. 21:37: Marvin the paranoid android is a character from Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 24:18: I’m linking wikipedia a lot this week but whatever, here’s the US Air Force (the song). 32:33: I dunno I got this information about the golden gate from wikipedia too. 48:41: Wow, they really did taser grapes to make the Quiet Place noise
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It’s really here. The beginning of the second era of Trust Your Doctor.
And you thought I’d never come back, oh ye of little faith. Trust Your Doctor in Distress and all that, I heard your cries. Back with a new cohost, it’s The Star Beast, written by Russell T. Davies and originally aired on November 25, 2023.
Show-notes:
3:08: In true TYD fashion I’m pretty sure I never actually say these notes on the episode.
5:57: It’s an old saying in Tennesee, you know?
8:25: The TARDIS wiki has a summary of the Power of the Doctor though.
31:15: Honestly, I actually didn’t even think The Marvels was that bad.
34:05: Once again the TARDIS wiki has a page that can explain everything, in this case about The Celestial Toymaker.
38:23: I’m only 50% sure that the song I was referring to was Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath the Tree.
43:30: Here’s what a furby is for all the uninformed listeners out there.
58:34: Oh I lied I totally did bring those notes back (but not for Donna)
1:02:52: Here’s that ad campaign, in all its 2011 comic-con glory.
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The rumors are true, Trust Your Doctor is coming back. Listen in for more details.
Show-notes: 0:16: Here’s the fan fiction episode, still extant in the feed.
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It’s really here. The end of the first era of Trust Your Doctor. Stay tuned to find out if the show regenerates just as the Doctor does.
To peel back the curtain just a touch, it’s normally me (Dylan) who writes these descriptions. I don’t know really what to say so instead I’ll quote Brian May at Wembley: “I don’t have very much to say, so thank you very much for coming […] you’re great. We love ya.”
As Dylan just wrote in the above paragraph, I (Kiyan) don’t typically contribute to these intros, so I’m not exactly sure what to say either. But as Fall Out Boy once said, “Thnks fr the mmrs.”
Show-notes:
2:55: For one final time, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
13:47: Here’s a good blog post on “the Kurosawa method.”
16:00: Check it our supremely unsuccessful movie trilogy podcast Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast. Or don’t. I can’t control what you do.
19:07: Funhaus is actually still really funny, and I’d recommend them if you’re looking for lets players. I just don’t watch them regularly anymore.
30:15: You can read my (Dylan’s) 2021 NanoWrimo Novel “Psychic” over at my website.
37:22: Here, I’ll link straight to our video episode for you. Amazingly it has almost 350 views. (I (Kiyan) am absolutely not going to click this. Don’t even want to see one second of it. lol.)
43:00: The old logo is actually not on the website, so here it is.
43:45: Check out Dylan’s write-ups about the original Prisoner video game, the first of which you can find here.
49:35: That fan fiction reading is still up on our feed, so be sure to check that out. (Will not be linked here. Lel. -Kiyan)
1:35:30: Around 2:25 in this clip. The scene keeps a number of actors and props lucid despite the camerawork.
1:27:30: Our segment on Blue Box Podcast was on Doctor in Distress. You can hear it on that episode at the timestamp ~ 3:27:17
2:05:30: I’ll just link to the Last of the Gadarene episode for you.
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This week we return to the podcast that kicked off everything. It’s the moment that started everything, Trust Your Doctor, coming back for its triumphant…. death. It’s the beginning of the end but the moment has been prepared for, but only as far as we usually prepare on Decorative Vegetable podcasts. It’s The Power ofContinue reading →
This week we return to the podcast that kicked off everything. It’s the moment that started everything, Trust Your Doctor, coming back for its triumphant…. death. It’s the beginning of the end but the moment has been prepared for, but only as far as we usually prepare on Decorative Vegetable podcasts. It’s The Power of the Doctor, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 23, 2022
Show-notes:
0:54 The Monoids appeared in The Ark.
1:58: We watched classic sci-horror series Children of the Stones on Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, a classic sci-fi podcast that you should check out if you’re looking for a classic sci-fi podcast, like classic sci-fi, and/or like podcasts.
2:05: Check out fellow Doctor Who podcasts Krynoid Podcast and Flight Through Entirety. You’ll be glad you did.
6:25: If this is your first time hearing that Doctor Who is going to be a coproduction with Disney+, then I’m so sorry.
29:17: The Cyberium was introduced in The Haunting of Villa Diotati. The bulk of our show-notes on this show are links to the TARDIS wiki lol.
37:00: The King’s Man didn’t feature Ra Ra Rasputin… I was very sad.
49:52: Tom Baker is 88 years old. You can see him looking quite frail in this interview from a year ago.
52:23: I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter.
1:10:40: We actually did go back and rewatch this 1 minute segment and The Master really did just control the Qurunx, somehow.
1:15:0: Check out this picture for yourself… at the TARDIS wiki.
1:48:36: His name was Tosin Cole, and we should be ashamed for forgetting. (editor’s note: I mean I looked it up like one minute after this…)
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We all now belong to the Church of Sil. Look, it’s a podcast about old doctor who characters coming back and appearing in the most random way possible. How can you not expect that Sil would make an appearance? He’s basically the greatest character that’s ever graced our television screens. And I mean that mostContinue reading →
I need a spinach detector to get all of my spinach organized. Coming soon from Big Finish Productions, for all your kitchen needs: Spinach Detectors. Joining their long and extensive line of kitchen equipment, like Potato Detectors, Beet Detectors, and angry Time Lord Detectors. Winter for the Adept written by Andrew Cartmel and released inContinue reading →
I think Kiyan spent a little too much time on knowyourmeme this week. So one time I was driving my car away from the shop after replacing my transmission fluid and Dom Toretto pulled up next to me. He rolled down his window, and I obliged the unspoken invitation to do the same. He hadContinue reading →
We call those MIMs in the business. I can’t even have any Earth Instinct Moments. You ever look at a bug and go “huh it’s 4 inches long and it’s bright red with black stripes, it’s probably harmless?” Well good news, you just had an Earth Instinct Moment. And you’re doing better than I am.Continue reading →
It’s kind of like the need for speed but more academic. So once upon a time I opened up a book. And I wanted to just go ahead and read it and be all chill. I sat down, I lit a candle. I fluffed up my couch cushion. And just as I started to readContinue reading →
Damn, now I want Hot Chocolate. Conspiracies. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without coming up with a new one every 4.6 seconds. Well, maybe that’s just me. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s just this week’s story, coming your way via our way courtesy once again of Big Finish. It’s all about conspiracies – actuallyContinue reading →
Ever stop and wonder what your biggest fears in life are? Probably, but what about whether you yourself are someone or something’s biggest fear? Whether you yourself are stirring a pot of of warm, bubbly fear without even knowing it? Whether you may be called a true fearmonger, which, coincidentally, is the name of the audio we’re covering this week. It’s, once again, The Fearmonger written by Jonathon Blum and released on February 4, 2000.
Show-notes:
0:47: Big Finish dot com back in the 90s. Not owned by whom we currently know as Big Finish. Probably.
3:20: Good news, the show-notes guy is here to give you a link to The Timescales for The Fearmonger.
11:45: In case you haven’t heard, or have and just forgot or something, Ace is returning in the third and final Whittaker special special, alongside who other than Tegan. I would say that this is a pretty ace move on behalf of Chris Chibnall, but only Ace says “ace” with that usage, so I’ll just say it’s kind of neat.
18:30: Here’s the cover of The Fearmonger for you to get into the mood while listening to the podcast.
24:30: Department C19 was a major player in the books, apparently.
27:47: If you for some inexplicable reason want to hear us talk more about Jacqueline Pearce, and Paul Darrow for that matter, check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
45:30: For all the masochists out there.
1:14:56: Soccer City is… a thing.
1:17:20: Here’s the post in text form too.
1:22:45 Something something Eccleston… something something explode…
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I wish I had the common courtesy to die
I wrote a Doctor Who fan fiction called “The Colony of the Dead” once. This is a true story, by the way. Anyway, I wrote it long before I knew this audio existed. It features the First Doctor in an icy wasteland where dead people are coming back to life. I’m pretty sure I still have it somewhere actually… It’s Land of the Dead written by Steven Cole and released in January, 2000.
Show-notes:
1:00: We all wish that Big Finish audios were released on Dual Disc, right?
2:35: Why do we need Young James Bond anyway?
8:40: The Koyukon are real indigenous people of Alaska.
21:40: Here’s the map of Brett’s house as uploaded to the TARDIS wiki.
35:24: Yep, Big Finish exists in universe.
45:57: The 6th Doctor became vegetarian in The Two Doctors, apparently.
57:04: Here’s what Big Finish dot com looked like on the seventh of October 1999.
1:03:00: It’s over 9000.
1:07:56: Check out more on Real Time on the most insane site on the public internet, the Tardis Wiki.
1:12:50: If you want to listen to us talk about Blake’s 7 for 50+ episodes for some reason, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
1:13:15: Call the police, my wife has been murdered! I actually did a pretty good Paul Darrow impression here, if I do say so myself.
1:17:00: Here’s a link to the actual news article, now that it actually works.
1:20:50: Listen to Zenith’s final episode for yourself over here.
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Just drop that seaweed in the blender and blend it right up. Yum.
Did you hear that? That noise. The one just behind you. The one that kind of sounded like a door opening. Nah, never mind, it probably wasn’t important. Probably just the wind. It’s Whispers of Terror, written by Justin Richards and released in November, 1999.
Show-notes:
0:37: Ironically, Kiyan’s specificity ended at not including the actual date of release, since it appears nobody really knows what it is.
3:45: According to the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance, the total sum of our audio output is actually 22 days.
6:18: Considering the rather blistering intro paragraph of this 2008 academic paper, it’s probably not true that indigenous Tasmanians forgot how to make fire. Unless this paper is wrong idk.
7:20: Brace yourself, I’m about to mispronounce Ncuti Gatwa‘s name.
9:00: Yeah, guess I just decided to immortalize my mistake for all eternity. Nice.
13:03: Some excerpts of the interview appear on DailyMail. Here’s the relevant part: “‘It was talent. He was the very last one, we thought we had someone and then in he came in and stole it,’ Davies said.”
35:32: Someone made a compilation of all the times Mel screamed, so you can enjoy that if you like.
36:27: Witness the atrocity known as laverbread. I’ve never tried it, so you know what, hey, it might be good.
1:05:42: It’s called Ghost in the Machine, and we’ve released an episode on it here.
52:27: Here’s what bigfinish.com looked like in 1999. Something tells me the Big Finish we know and love today weren’t the owners of the domain back then.
1:00:26: The dog in question. And on fire.
1:06:28: Here are our episodes on Ghost in the Machine and Sleep no More if you’re interested.We’ve also released an episode on Sleep No More.
1:06:32: I have no idea which story I’m talking about here. I couldn’t find it.
1:08:50: Here’s The Time Scales by the way.
1:12:20: Good news, you don’t need to navigate Twitter’s god awful interface because I’ve done it for you.
1:15:20: Listen to Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast on your favourite podcast catcher.
1:20:00: Behold the rabbit hole of WeatherNewFans.
1:23:39: I had no idea how right I truly was…
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Alternate title: Hell Yeah, Mark Strickson! We were less enthusiastic about old Mark after we learned he was maybe possibly theoretically hypothetically a redhead, but also not one at the same time. Got give it up to him though. He was pretty fantastic in this story. Or should I say phantastic, with a “ph?” Probably not because it’s not spelled with a “ph,” but what is spelled with a “ph” is Phantasmagoria, written by Mark Gatiss and released on October 4, 1999.
Show-notes:
1:00: I suppose the cover is kind of orangey.
1:20: I dunno here’s a picture of Mark Strickson, decide for yourself what color his hair is. (Editor’s note: It’s chartreuse.)
2:45: This was the optical illusion I was talking about, courtesy of the Washington Post. I guess they had nothing better to report on or something. Anyway, I if you put your finger between A and B in the image, you’ll see that they’re the same color. That’s what I meant to say on recording. Here’s a bunch of similar illusions from the Washington Post.
3:28: Here’s our first attempt at this episode from like 5 years ago if you’d like to listen to it. I’m not going to.
6:35: Behold: stories set in 1702.
9:23: Here’s the wikipedia page on Almanac that Kiyan couldn’t find in a reasonable time span.
15:08: The Visitation is set in 1666.
19:28: Apparently it was true.
23:37: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
55:30: It’s Day of the Doctor that Kiyan is referring to here.
1:02:02 The P.R.O.B.E. videos are actually about Liz Shaw, they don’t even pretend it’s not, because of how rights worked. Also, if you know how/why P.R.O.B.E. stands for “Preternatural Research Bureau,” let us know, cause we’re stumped.
1:06:38 Seven Keys to Doomsday is an audio adaptation of a stage play.
1:07:50 The name of JB’s current Doctor Who podcast, if you weren’t aware, is Doctor Who Gives a Fck.
1:09:13* The Timescales
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Nothing more grating than a cheese grater, especially when you’re using it to grate yourself. Going to town with it on your own body. Turning yourself into a bloody pulp if you know what I’m saying. Tearing your flesh to shreds if you catch my drift. Permanently maiming yourself in the most hideous and painful way possible if you get my meaning. The grating halt to which our enjoyment of this audio came in the story’s fourth part is pretty high up there on the gratingness scale too though, I guess. It’s The Sirens of Time, written by Nicholas Briggs and released on July 19, 1999
Show-notes:
2:03: When you remember that Tom Baker actually created Slender Man.
7:04: For the love of god, don’t listen to our episode on The Airzone Solution.
8:30: I’ll just link the page for this audio on the Big Finish site so you can see the cover of this audio.
15:30: Know Your Meme has details on the “reaction guys” meme. Here’s the 2014 reunion as a side-by-side comparison.
16:46: Sigh, something something TARDIS wiki something something artron energy.
24:35: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast.
42:15: Here’s a pretty decent page on whether or not viruses are alive (it’s up for debate) and how they differ from other lifeforms. I think when most people think “virus,” they’re thinking of bacteriophages, which look like microscopic robots. These things attack bacteria and are supposedly one of the deadliest beings on Earth. Luckily, they’re completely harmless to humans.
1:08:53: Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re covering next week, courtesy of the TARDIS wiki.
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Did you know that Sea Devils actually have major hops?
This week we return to the podcast that kicked off everything. It’s the moment that started everything, Trust Your Doctor, coming back for its triumphant return. Unfortunately, its to cover an episode that is… less than triumphant if we do say so. It’s Legend of the Sea Devils, written by Ella Road and Chris Chibnall and aired on April 17, 2022
Show-notes:
5:00: Lady Christina has her own spinoff and the cover looks pretty damn boring if I do say so myself.
8:03: Pretty sure I was thinking of 127 Hours here.
12:30: We’re both reading the Sea Devils page on the TARDIS wiki.
14:14: The fck?
30:26: It’s 2022. Are you still on a boat?
33:30: Here’s a video of the Doctor and Master’s sword fight from the original Sea Devils story. The video description calls it “one of the greatest moments in Doctor Who history.” I’m inclined to agree.
34:22: Clangers is indeed still around.
35:55: How can you not love how adorable the Skymoos are?
46:29: It was Mario 64 level called Dire Dire Docks.
52:50: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:092:30: Somehow I found the tweet.
1:09:00: Here’s the Blogtor Who profile on Marlowe Chan-Reeves.
1:09:50: Here’s a link to “Not that gripping, not that bad.”
1:11:06:* PEAK CHIBNALL
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I suppose there are worse things to have on the brain.
It’s Eve of the Daleks, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on January 1, 2022
Show-notes:
2:55: For some reason I will take this opportunity to link you to our Heaven Sent episode, over a year ago!
4:00: Not gonna link this.
8:01: Jar Jar Binks is canon to the Doctor Who universe.
20:02: Here’s the TARDIS wiki page on time loops.
22:00: Trust Your Doctor released its first episode on January 24, 2014. This episode is no longer in the podcast feed, because it’s pretty bad. It’s been since replaced by a re-recorded version that was backdated.
29:36: You are a sad, strange little man.
33:30: The official Doctor Who youtube account, in what may have been a bout of prescience, uploaded the clip of Dan literally running circles around the Dalek for all to enjoy. (It actually wasn’t a bout of prescience since they uploaded the clip on the 3rd, well after there was enough time to gauge whether it would be regarded as one of the best scenes in the episode, which I would assume it was and which I personally think it is, but whatever.)
36:02: Paying tax on illegal money is something about how you’re supposed to be taxed on total income, not just total legal income.
45:50: The character Dan worked with at the food bank was Wilma.
47:38: Troll 2, the greatest masterpiece of 20th-century film, is actually a movie we’ve watched on Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast, so check that episode out.
54:31: Here’s some more information on the gunpowder plot (and Guy Fawkes), courtesy of Wikipedia.
58:57: I didn’t even bother to try find this tweet. (Editor’s note: Same. Forget that, lol)
1:00:40: Here’s a link to the official BBC Sea Devil promo images. This article also includes an image from the Third Doctor serial, The Sea Devils, indicating that the sea devil itself does not seem to have been so massively redesigned as we thought.
1:19:14: EthelredBusybody’s review of Eve of the Daleks.
1:20:10: Flux and Beyond, by busclas.
1:26:11: Brigadier Bambera is BACK. LETS GO.
1:26:50: Frazer Hines isonly 77, actually.
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You heard it here first, from the podcast that the show is based on rather than the other way around ™.
The end of our first season that we podcasted along with the episodes as they aired. So that’s gotta be something important in our history right? And three episodes from now we’ll basically have finished up this whole era on the podcast, with our first podcast along regeneration episode. Anyway, it’s The Vanquishers, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on December 5, 2021.
Show-notes:
1:20: Spoiler Alert: How to Pronounce did not help.
1:46: The clip I found is the beginning of this interview with Azhur Saleem and Jamie Magnus Stone.
7:40: I tried to find out if “tapestratic” was a word, and it is not. (Editor’s note: But as always, you can find it being used online in, you guessed it, an academic(-ish) article: Becoming-Jaguar: Escaping Dialectical Negation Through Monistic Process Metaphysics)
9:22: Check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
24:17: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is cool as hell and you should all check it out. Tweet me if you have any questions about it, I love my work.
24:34: Just outing my github, I suppose, but here’s the code I wrote that gets run every night on any data we take.
24:55: Wikipedia cites an internal memo from Barry Letts where he names The Master explicitly because it’s another academic degree like a doctorate. This memo, however, 404’s so I’ll just link Wikipedia.
28:12: ToohotforTV
31:18: We’re (not (not (not))) going to make chocolate on Cooking with Trust Your Doctor.
32:12: For more on Gan and the failures of his limited, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
38:06: We watched the Prisoner (2009) over on our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:01:24: Good news, knowyourmeme is here to explain the “Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?” meme.
1:06:07: Here’s that Paul Cornell tweet that spurred on this discussion.
1:28:16: I will not be able to find this tweet again, it’s been almost a week since it was posted and things in the twitterspace just fall into the void.
1:29:02: Here’s the TARDIS wiki page for Shobogan (species).
1:33:30: Doctor Who Gives a F#! has a great website, you should go look at it.
1:34:27: Prof_Quiteamess on twitter.
1:36:15: WhoHats on twitter.
1:37:21: simonegans on twitter.
1:38:06: Urcool91 on twitter.
1:42:02:* To keep up with our Inevitable adventures, go and subscribe to Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast.
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Trust Your Doctor normally has insane ideas, but this time they’ve gone too far.
We’re rapidly closing in on the end of possibly the whirl windiest season of Doctor Who ever written. It’s bizarre, it’s amazing, it’s huge. It’s everything you ever wanted from a Doctor Who story. Or at least, that’s what the boys over at Trust Your Doctor think. I mean, really, what else could it be? It’s Survivors of the Flux, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 28, 2021.
Show-notes:
0:26: Didn’t look up how to pronounce Azhur Saleem’s name. Sorry.
1:35: Here’s your Spotify wrapped! How did I do that? Well. Magicians never reveal their secrets. (Editor’s note: he just linked directly to it.)
2:22: You can actually listen to our Revolution of the Daleks episode over here.
3:17: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, and help it do even better than any of our currently running podcasts.
4:00: It’s actually Justin underscore does underscore art: @justin_does_art.
6:21: Check out our other podcasts too: Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast and Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
5:02: You can actually see every episode of our podcasts we released in 2021 on our website, since I normally tag posts/episodes by their release year.
12:34: The word wizard has been ruined forever.
17:55: For those as interested in the behind the scenes as much as I am, here’s the BTS video from John Bishop’s twitter.
20:07: Check out the best episode of Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast: the Fred Trilogy episode.
21:40: I was shocked to discover that this tweet/instagram post was a damn month ago. Anyway, good news is I found the tweet where someone showed that Vin made himself bigger than The Rock.
27:02: Norse mythology in general is pretty fascinating, but Yggdrasil itself is one of the most interesting things in it. (Editor’s note: I have no idea why Dylan is so interested in Norse mythology all of a sudden.)
28:30: Don’t worry Fandango Movieclips is here to remind you of the fridge scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
36:39: I don’t remember what episode this was, probably the one we recorded the week I discovered it. Surprise, Dylan didn’t cut it out.
43:04: Worry not, we haven’t forgotten that this is an audio only medium. Here’s the shot we’re talking about.
45:58: The Killing Joke, a seminal comic classic.
53:37: I like when Kiyan says he’ll put things in the show-notes, because it means I don’t have to. (Editor’s note: was this just a random comment? I didn’t say anything to this effect around this timestamp, so whatever.)
57:33: Was this the thing the last show note was referring to? Chris Chibnall’s villain origin story? For some reason I can’t find a better quality upload of it in full anymore. There definitely used to be one on youtube.
1:03:25: I forgot where I read the US department of defense uses VHS tapes, but I can’t find any other information along this line, so it’s probably wrong.
1:05:30: We’re gonna talk about John Barrowman for a while, so I think it best to link an article that gives a good overview of the allegations against him for those who aren’t in the loop.
1:22:00 The four books in the Eragon series are as follows: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance.
1:23:52: There was, I kid you not, twenty seconds of stunned silence to this revelation that I cut out.
1:26:55: “The last thing I have to say…” looks at timestamp
1:34:53: I couldn’t find this.
1:35:58: As promised, here’s the article from Steven’s email.
1:37:31: The Invasion wasn’t split up by anything. The Daleks’ Master Plan was bisected by The Feast of Steven (the greatest Doctor Who Christmas special) though.
1:39:35: It must have been fun before we revealed this on the podcast to imagine that our show-notes person sometimes seemed to have multiple personalities. For a fun game, try guess who wrote this show-note.
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Well, I suppose it was worth a shot trying to get him to take it back. (Editor’s note: No.)
We somehow went this entire episode without making a “Children of the Stones” joke. Can you believe that? I can’t believe that. We made a dozen of those jokes while we were watching the episode, so the fact that we didn’t make a single one in the episode is a little shocking. It’s Village of the Angels, written by Chris Chibnall and Maxine Alderton and aired on November 21, 2021.
Show-notes:
3:05: I couldn’t find out exactly when they finished Flux specifically, but I read that Jodie and Mandip wrapped the final special in October. Here’s a handy dandy timeline of the entire season’s + specials production schedule.
4:33: Here’s the article explaining why Doctor Who is apparently banned in China. Apparently the ban has something to do with treating history seriously, which I guess the Chinese government says that shows like Doctor Who don’t. Weird but hey. The article also reminded me that Winnie the Pooh is also censored in China. Lmao.
6:40: Here’s the “bloody good story” and “absolutely brilliant” tweets for ya.
11:40: Devon is a county in the south west of the UK.
16:19: Kiyan and I are referencing Geraint Cooper, from Torchwood.
18:06: Here’s a clip in case you forgot what an Ood vomiting out its brain looked like.
18:48: COME QUIETLY OR THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
24:17: Kiyan probably could not find the phrase “There is no planet called Time” in the Halloween Apocalypse transcript, because the phrase was actually said in War of the Sontarans.
31:42: From Chakoteya: “JERICHO: Oh, I’ve seen many things beyond my comprehension, Doctor. I was one of the first British soldiers into Belsen at the end of the war. If you think a few stone statues will destroy my equilibrium you are mistaken. What do you need me to do?” Bergen-Belsen (or just Belsen) was a concentration camp.
32:20: I will never find this tweet but I don’t even care to defend this tweet.
33:15: Sorry for linking to Daily Mail, but they had the best picture of Jodie Whittaker looking miserable at the beach.
35:55: Here’s the tweet from the official BBC account of the angels and their scar, for all you fanatics to compare to.
48:47: Don’t worry, Know Your Meme comes through once again.
48:51: And here’s the link to the monkey puppet meme. I made this reference on our latest episode of Inevitable: A Classic Sci Fi Podcast, where we talked about the Firefly episode, Trash.
50:45: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
53:18: We covered assignment 3 of Sapphire and Steel like a year ago.
54:35: From Out of the Rain. Yeah, I’m linking Wikipedia for this and not tardis.fandom.com What are you gonna do about it?
59:29: We regretfully covered The Predator on our soon-to-be-defunct movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:01:07: Be sure to listen to listen to our episode on movie trilogies over on Triple Play: A Predator Podcast. This has to be the most useless show-note I’ve ever written.
1:29:55: We also have an episode on Pirates of the Caribbean over on Triple Play.
1:35:25: Check out Flight Through Entirety.
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1 step forward, 23597908945832974317590327591375932175 steps back.
Have you ever seen that Disney Christmas special, “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas?” I remember owning it on DVD as a kid, but I actually for some reason remember thinking that the sequel, “Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas” was better. I don’t know why I remember this. I’m not sure anybody else even agrees with me. It’s Once, Upon Time, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 14, 2021.
Show-notes:
1:07: Dylan (I) obviously meant “John perTWEE and Joffery Beevers.” Also, the guy whose name we mispronounced for the entirety of The Prisoner (on Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast) was George Markstein.
15:02: It is actually called the uvula, I was being serious!
34:32: Tamagotchis still exist, so if you want one for yourself you can easily go and get one now. (Editor’s note: so do the Digimon v-pets.)
35:16: I’ve tried to find a reference for Box before with no avail, so I’ll see if Kiyan wants to try. (Editor’s note: I don’t know what this means, but check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.)
36:13: The “The World If” meme.
36:34: The title of Episode 5 was even “Three End” because we made a pun off the future name of Triple Play.
45:05: Spoilers for two minutes from now, I’m talking about Brendan. (Editor’s note: why was this necessary? Also check out Flight Through Entirety.)
1:03:20: Don’t worry, Wikipedia will hook you up with information on Keyser Söze.
1:05:25: Not the same director, or even writer actually. Easy to get confused though.
1:17:17: Here’s that Keys of Marinus Revisited episode for you. Funny that “Three End” also covered Keys of Marinus. Is Flux a secret Keys of Marinus remake? (Editor’s note: no.)
1:25:30: Check out Firefly on Inevitable.
1:26:02: I’m reading from How Angles Really Look, so go and read about some more terrifying angels.
1:29:10: I put on my robe and wizard hat. You’re welcome.
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Come one, come all, come and see the magical flux repellent shields on the Luparian fleet.
Flux repellent sounds like some sort of AXE body spray knock off. Did the UK have the phase where every middle schooler ever wore AXE? Cuz we certainly had it over here in the US and some might argue that we never really even escaped that period even tho we like to think we did. That’s neither here nor there though. It’s War of the Sontarans, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 7, 2021.
Show-notes:
4:17: I’m not gonna link all the random Doctor Who stories that we reference here. You’re listening to a Doctor Who podcast, I’m pretty sure you know what we’re referencing.
7:54: DAMN DANIEL
9:53: In case you forgot what the HADS is, here’s the TARDIS wiki page on the HADS. I had(s) also forgotten about it until now
12:04: Here’s the Wikipedia page on The Crimean War if you’re curious and know as little about it as we did.
12:50: Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who also has an extensive wikipedia page.
22:28: The TARDIS wiki conveniently used an image of the exact scene Kiyan was referring to for the Armageddon Factor.
28:23: And including Alaska.
37:14: It’s just “Crimea” according to Wikipedia.
38:39: The etymology of Russia is actually pretty well documented on sites like etymonline and a bunch of others. I don’t remember seeing any of this info years ago. It comes from Rus, the name of ancient people who lived in/settled in the area. The etymology of “Rus” is a little more up for debate though according to wiki.
40:25: I was unclear in what my point was here. What I wanted to say was whether or not you considered the entire USSR as “Russia” or just the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic as “Russia”. It’s like, when you say “America” do you mean only the states, or do you include Puerto Rico?
49:15: Here’s the link to that post, on the official Doctor Who Facebook page.
51:53: SyFy actually claims directly that Doctor Who influenced The Matrix.
57:00: They look a lot like Eldrad, truly.
1:01:1: The Kuleshov Effect, enjoy. Also check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, where we talked about this in more detail at some point or another.
1:06:53: Keep an Eye on Dan, he can get a little out of hand.
1:11:15: God damn we referenced a lot of other Doctor Who episodes this week.
1:16:58: Remember that you will one day die, obviously, just like the rest of us. Memento Mori.
1:18:00: Ok I’ll link the 11th Doctor’s regeneration for you.
1:36:48: Wikipedia has an in-depth history of Halloween. The modern holiday has a number of origins, but yeah, it’s basically of European origin. One of the quotes on the page is from an old book published like 100 years ago: “All Halloween customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries.”
1:39:04: Yes, Icelandic is the closest you’ll get to Old Norse.
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Does every culture have a Steve Jobs analogue?
This episode, both the TV episode and our podcast episode, are a little bit chaotic. We drop a lot of theories on this episode, amazingly they’re all probably going to be wrong. At the same time, can yo believe that? I can. We’re known for it at this point. (Just kidding). Anyway, it’s The Halloween Apocalypse, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 31, 2021.
Show-notes:
0:40: I might as well link the Marco Polo episode for all you Trust Your Doctor historians.
1:30: Dylan originally had a note here telling himself to listen to our episode on The Chase to see if we watched it together. Well, I(Kiyan)’m too lazy for that, so “trust me bro.”
4:50: Yeah The Big Bang wiped out the Doctor Who universe and rebuilt it.
7:08: Pair bonding is not what I meant to say here.
8:47: “Slow burn.”
9:5: It took us 10 minutes before we referenced Christopher Eccleston blowing up canon. I thought this was a new record but in our Survival episode we took only 5 and a half minutes.
11:27: Jane Baker is not, in fact, alive and kicking. She died in 2014.
13:47: Fear not dear listener, the wikipedia page for cold opens is here to save the day.
16:37: The TARDIS wiki of all places has a page on the ARG. I forgot that the “prize” was just a picture of the Doctor. lol. (Editor’s note: wait really? Ahahahahahahaha lmao.)
19:48: List of British Monarchs. Best wikipedia page, 2021.
23:24: For all our American fans, here’s some info on Liverpool FC. Arsenal is from London.
26:43: I will not link this.
29:29: Tom Clancy died in 2013.
35:00: Googling “JFK jr resurrection” has probably ruined my search history but I did it for you.
45:50: This is so wizard, Ani.
54:23: This is not going to go the way you think.
57:46: Here’s the Cloister Bell page on the TARDIS wiki in case you wanted to look yourself.
1:16:38: Bernard’s statement is sourced from a tweet because it was said live on TV.
1:18:55: You all remember the War Chief? Good times.
1:32:50: Here, you can watch the opening scene to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets for yourself.
1:33:15: We talked about Taken a while ago over on Triple Play.
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We’re back, again!
It hasn’t been that long, just 4 months or so, but we’re finally back. Unlike the actual Doctor Who, we didn’t take a massive like 10 year hiatus. But we’re back to podcast along with Doctor Who: Series 13: Flux. Or whatever the heck they’ve decided to call it.
Show-notes:
You need show-notes for this?
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Ah, my favourite sensation.
So in the future, when we’re all wearing masks in order to stay alive, do you think we’ll look back on this movie as a warning? Probably not in al honestly, I think most people probably don’t even remember that it exists. I didn’t. And I wish to never again. See you all soon! It’s The Airzone Solution and released at some point in 1993.
Show-notes:
0:56: Here, for your very own viewing and enjoyment, the Warped Factor review that I read from.
5:44: Did you know that the ineffable Dough Liman directed Chaos Walking to the point of it being unreleasable?
11:58: Yep this takes place in 2091. Amazing.
14:47: Might as well just link to the wikipedia page for Bill and Ben Video.
25:27: Go and watch Soylent Green instead of The Airzone Solution, it’s way more interesting.
25:56: Watching The Airzone Solution feels like being held at gunpoint buy you’re bored.
31:51: How to stage faint, for all you budding actors out there.
51:30: “In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.” – Wikipedia User, 2???. The two components of a solution are a solute and solvent.
51:59: I went on AO3 and looked for “Airzone Solution” and actually found one fcking fan fiction about The Airzone Solution. And it was published in 2020! Creepily enough, Arnie gets slapped by Ellie in this… with a wet sock. Twilight Zone theme plays
1:13:06: Which Peter? Blue Peter.
1:18:44: Really, actually starting in 15 minutes from when you heard us say this.
1:20:50: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast. It’ll be running (at some point) while Trust Your Doctor’s on hiatus.
1:21:04: The 2038 problem needs some levity added to it. Please, people. Start joking about this just to take the edge off how much it’ll suck when we get there.
1:25:52: I’m not saying you can watch The Airzone Solution for yourself on Tubi, but I’m not not saying that either.
1:27:20: Blow up canon or whatever, thank god we don’t have to paste this article anymore. Pretty sure I have it memorized now.
1:31:23:* This is a reference to Battlefield.
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I can’t believe this, furries are canon.
Ah the end of two eras, almost if it weren’t for the last minute decision we made that makes this not the final episode before the hiatus. Instead we return with a shitty TV movie in a week. No not that TV movie. Not the one you’re thinking of. It’s a different one. One that’s actually shitty. Anyway before then, it’s Survival, written by Rona Munro and aired from November 22 to December 6, 1989.
Show-notes:
2:33 Here’s that episode on where Steven last appeared, From Out of the Rain.
5:44: Remember that time that canon said we should blow up Christopher Eccleston?
12:42: We turn here to the Tardis Wiki for information on Love and War.
15:10: Yes, The Curator really is in the next UNIT boxset.
21:15: This Ace Time Lord Arc would eventually be borne out in the audio Thin Ice, which was an adaptation of a script from the unmade Season 27.
23:55: The full title of the novel is “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”.
24:43: I am reading off the page for racism on the Tardis Wiki.
26:00: I highly recommend people check out The Art of Self-Defense, if only because it’s just hilarious.
29:12: The Goosebumps intro.
32:20: Wayne’s World Dot Gif
33:18: Here’s the link to the [redacted] wikipedia page where you can verify my facts.
33:59: And here’s Flings for all of our non-South African audience members.
35:37: I’m not gonna link any of this food because it’s all disgusting.
49:00: This is a subtle reference to the latest (as of right now) episode of Steven’s podcast Delayed Replay, which Dylan and I were on. We discussed The Matrix 4, a.k.a. M4TRIX, which is definitely out right now in May 2021 and not coming later.
48:55: Planet of the Apes is a semi autobiographical story about…
50:37: A Hath, a Hath, my kingdom for a Hath.
1:12:43: What the fck did you just say fcking say about me?
1:17:51: Jordan Peele dot gif. Also check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast.
1:20:08: McCallum was a British crime drama TV show that has no sci-fi elements.
1:27:29: Yes we still have a blog, and if you never looked at it you personally are the reason that we haven’t updated it recently.
1:29:30: Find Steven and his stuff at:
His site
Amazon (his novel)
Delayed Replay podcast
Star Trek Culture podcast
Intergalactic Peace Coalition Podcast
Doc Holocron’s Youtube channel
University of Sussex Doctor Who Society
Kiyan and Dylan were recently on his Delayed Replay episode. We discussed The Matrix 4, a.k.a. M4TRIX
1:31:52: The podcast is called Yesshit, and you should go and check it out when it releases.
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We’re beyond just regular unfair trials now.
Honestly in hindsight revisiting this was a mistake. This was a completely nonsense episode to revisit. And it wasn’t even good! Like it was just bad! And yet for some reason we say down like “yeah you know what episode I wanna revisit, Timelash.” Somebody get the TARDIS and slap past us. It’s Timelash, written by Glen McCoy and aired from March 2nd through 6th, 1985.
Show-notes:0:15: I left it in.
0:45: Find out if we liked Timelash the first time by listening to our original episode.
2:55: We revisited Mindwarp before we started Torchwood.
5:00: The Airzone Solution. Stay tuned in the episode for where I (Dylan) somehow get convinced into watching this in two weeks time.
5:40: Here are some links to JB’s podcasts, namely Who 37 and Bat 77.
10:17: I (Kiyan) (re)read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells in the time since we recorded this episode and (re)found out that the morlocks are a reference to the something in the book.
15:28: We covered Dance of the Dead on our other podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
22:14: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
32:31: Here’s our episode on Blake’s 7’s City at the Edge of the World. This was all the way back in 2018. Man. Time flies.
33:15: The TARDIS wiki summary really does call Tekker “sycophantic”.
53:24: Here are the blog posts as promised: Sexism in the Time Machine and Bibliophilia: HG Wells Doesn’t Play Nice. Feel free to make your own determination.
57:28: The Bandrils really did say “screw this” and just invaded everyone.
1:08:01: Can’t believe we’ve mentioned and linked this article reporting that Christopher Eccleston said Doctor Who needs to explode the canon for 5,000 weeks in a row now.
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PJ Hammond is underrated.
Kind of like how certain Doctor Who stories are underrated. Like The Sensorites. Or Carnival of Monsters. Both stories. Both typically rated under stories that they, for whatever reason, outshine. Actually, I just made that up. I have no idea whether The Sensorites and Carnival of Monsters are generally beloved or not. Anyway, it’s Enlightenment, written by Barbara Clegg and aired from March 1st through 9th, 1983
Show-notes:
9:25: Matt Smith was the youngest actor to play the Doctor at the time of his debut.
11:55: I actually found a picture of the chess match in the story, and as it turns out Turlough is playing White and Tegan is playing Black.
18:50: Thankfully Wikipedia has a page explaining what “edutainment” is, and it sounds as corporate as the term itself.
19:33: Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce is probably going to stay in the news cycle for a while as there are literally billions of dollars and an entire charitable foundation that all need to be sorted out.
20:02: The winner takes it all.
21:48: Poodlegate and that’s all I’ll say on it.
23:43: I couldn’t find any evidence that “doctor” meant “cook” on old ships.
29:51: As promised, our original episode on this was 131: Iron Chef Space.
39:47: I found a whole random little internet forum discussion about the pronunciation of wrath in different countries so that’s neat.
58:08: Time stands still. Thanks, Cambridge Dictionary.
57:54: We talked about Sapphire and Steel at length on our other podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:20:: Worry not dear listener, I have a link to the Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon right here.
1:27:27: Yeah we still have this blog thing. Hasn’t been updated in months but oh well.
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You don’t choose sarcasm on a daily basis?
You’re missing out. Kind of like how we’ve missed out for the last 2,100 days on releasing an episode covering Genesis of the Daleks. Why are there no Doctor Who podcasts that only cover Genesis of the Daleks? The world may never know. Anyway, this week it’s Genesis of the Daleks, written by Terry Nation and aired from March 8 to April 12, 1975.
Show-notes:
2:20: We did go out in blaze of glory on our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, which you should check out if you like podcasts, Blake’s 7, or podcasts on Blake’s 7.
2:35: it’s a good point.
15:15: Iron cross
16:15: Adolf Eichmann was one of the military organizers of the “Final Solution”, i.e. the genocide of Jewish people in Germany. Josef Mengele was one of the top scientists in the Nazi regime, performing untold countless atrocities “in the name of science” on prisoners in concentration camps.
48:09: The script for Genesis of the Daleks was released in The Scripts: Tom Baker 1974/5. Weirdly enough it’s on Amazon.
48:42: Here’s the Chakoteya transcript for this episode, I guess.
53:47: The image for Death to the Daleks on the TARDIS wiki actually kind of looks like a fan render and photoshop which is baffling because normally the wiki picks pretty good representative images.
56:56: Genesis of the Remembrance is pretty funny actually, I didn’t believe it at first.
1:20:23: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:21:20: The American Sherlock Holmes tv series was from 1954.
1:23:2: Leicester is just one of those British words that is pronounced nothing like how it’s spelled. Like Worcestershire.
1:26:00: The Airzone Solution
1:28:10: Don’t worry, turns out we actually know exactly why Peter Gabriel left Genesis.
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Better than going off, amirite?
Look one time the brig showed up at the bar I was at and asked for 5 rounds rapid. Now I thought he meant guns so I shot five glasses off the table. Bartender didn’t like that and made me pay for them. That’s all, that’s the whole story. Wasn’t really that exciting was it. It’s The Daemons, written by “Guy Leopold” and aired fro May 22 to June 19, 1971
Show-notes:
0:54: The Whomobile first appeared in Invasion of the Dinosaurs whereas Bessie debuted in Doctor Who and the Silurians, so far earlier.
5:47: Here is the plot summary that I’m reading in this segment, on the IMDB page for White Witch of Devil’s End. To no one’s surprise the TARDIS wiki has a page dedicated to White Witch of Devil’s End. Turns out it was a Reeltime production and was not made for the season rereleases.
11:02: Artificial hills are a thing in Britain. The Journal of Antiquities has detailed descriptions of a few of them. I always thought these were related to vikings or something, but apparently they were made for various (sometimes unknown) purposes.
13:57: The last witchcraft act was only repealed in the UK in 1951. I have a question though, since the act that repealed said witchcraft act was itself repealed in 2008, does that mean the original act is back on the books?
14:50: The Civil Rights movement went deep into the 60’s and was still going on as America landed on the moon.
36:40: The 7th Doctor Dalek story was Remembrance of the Daleks, so I wasn’t even close.
37:05: Christopher Eccleston says that awe should blow up canon.
42:05: It’s Doctor Who Locations dot net, and believe it or not, it’s still up. It would seem that there was not any interior location filming done for this story, so it was likely a set.
46:48: Pretty sure Kiyan is reading the TARDIS wiki page but if you actually want to know what Beltane is you should probably go to wikipedia.
56:04: You should watch the 2019 remake of Mission to the Unknown if you haven’t already. It’s pretty great.
1:00:14: If you don’t know the phrase “that activated my almonds,” here’s a neat little primer for you.
1:10:12 Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
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Future flannel > present flannel, prove me wrong.
So once upon a time I met this crazed archaeologist, his name was like Toberman or something. He took me to this tomb where he said there was a golden idol he wanted so he went in there and got it. There was this giant boulder and then I don’t really remember what happened next. It’s Tomb of the Cybermen, written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis and aired in September of 1967.
Show-notes:
1:47: Killer was not the one with IMIPAK it was the one with the plague. You know. Like the one we’re living through right now. Weapon was the one with IMIPAK.
3:42: Goodyear tire company, not to be confused with the Lightyear tire company.
5:08: I was thinking of Janley here.
8:03: I might’ve been thinking of Kemel here, but I barely remember what his role was in Evil of the Daleks.
14:50: Here, once again, is Christopher Eccleston saying that we should blow up canon.
15:25: Luckily there’s no such thing as canon.
17:12: Interestingly, the first time the TARDIS sound effect appears was actually An Unearthly Child, but curiously the TARDIS doesn’t make a noise in Keys of Marinus. The explanation for this is that takeoffs always had the sound effect and landings did not, at least until The Rescue, in Season 2.
18:29: Turns out when the UK says “we’ll get tariff free imports from the EU when we leave” they really meant “we only get tariff free imports from the EU when we’re in the EU lol pranked ya.”
27:35: Did ten seconds of research and found no information on when Doctor Who started to do more frequent retakes of scenes.
39:40: Behold, the Lytton Symphonic Suite.
43:45: According to TV Tropes, the password is always “Swordfish”.
57:45: Yes Patrick Troughton really did want to play the Doctor in blackface.
1:05:55: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
1:07:05: Supermarionation is a really fun word to say actually.
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Well we all knew this would happen.
The morphos are taking over the podcast, I’m (not) sorry to say. Honestly they’re probaly here to stay as well, they’ve been treating us pretty nicely so far, and haven’t done anything to hurt us. At least, not yet anyway. Well hear what they have to say on this exciting installment of Trust Your Doctor. It’s The Keys of Marinus, written by Terry Nation and aired in April and May of 1964.
Show-notes:
1:22: The name of the patient at the mental hospital was Don Packard, and he played the Shopkeeper in Troll 2.
2:41: Our original episode on Keys of Marinus went out on February 16, 2014. You can check it out if you like.
5:50: You can find out first episode on Lexx over here at Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
8:59: The moon landing was actually broadcast in color, but only for missions after Apollo 11. So to break down the statement that people bought color TVs to watch the moon landing and were probably disappointed it was in black and white is probably true.
9:48: NASA has a neat little page about false color in Hubble Telescope images.
36:06: Some of you are probably desperately curious, so here, here’s deduction and grapes for you.
51:52: I’m pretty sure that the frozen whale blubber Kiyan is referring to here is Muktuk.
1:04:10: Kiyan seems to have forgotten about Raxacoricofallapatorius.
1:05:05: Here’s some information on The Big Lewbowski. And here’s some more information on The Dude.
1:07:35: The Tardis wiki actually has a page (to no one’s surprise, even though it’s a talk page) talking about Terry Nation and using variant’s of “Terr. Nt.” in his stories.
1:15:15: Couldn’t find a video of the town burning in A Fistful of Dollars, but here’s a random screncap of it, and you can always read about it on the Fistful of Dollars wikipedia page.
1:30:46: Be sure to check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
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We’re not experienced M&Mologists, but we at least know that much.
I have a blood line, did you know that? It runs right through my arm. Look you can even see it sometimes, it’s blue and if you poke it this red liquid comes out. I only call it a blood line because that’s what everybody else calls it. I never really learned what it was in hindsight, so I’m glad Doctor Who and Torchwood are here to tell me. It’s The Blood Line, written by Russel T. Davies and Jane Espensen and aired on September 9, 2011.
Show-notes:
2:13: Here’s Rex Matheson: List of Appearances for everyone who actually cares.
4:49: Our first episode on Lexx will go out this coming week, over at Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
7:12: Wow I can’t believe I actually found the Doctor Who Fanon wiki again.
12:10: The only wiki you ever need is the TARDIS wiki. Like here’s what they have to say about Mandarin. And here’s what they have to say about Chinese Dialects.
18:00: Christopher Eccleston really did say that we should just “blow up canon” and I 100% agree with him.
35:00: Barbara really did kill 4 Morphos in cold blood in the Keys of Marinus
39:49: Believe it or not, the plot of Robocop 2 involves Omnicorp trying to bankrupt Detroit so that they can buy it and take over.
41:29: The M&M’s wiki has a page on the Green M&M. Today I learned there’s an M&M’s wiki.
46:28: Believe it or not I actually did find the book. It’s called “Torch, Wood & Peasants: Adventures in British Sci Fi“ and was written by Si Spencer under the pseudonym Webley Wildfoot.
58:52: Hell or High Water is an amazing movie and you should all go watch it even though I just spoiled it.
1:03:40: I think it’s just called a circle transition.
1:03:58: The dumbest controversies of 2021 was the one where people were upset that they redesigned Lola Bunny in Space Jam 2.
1:06:58: Yes, “king me” is from checkers.
1:16:22: Eminem was a celebrity on Earth. Chris de Burgh was a celebrity on Earth.
1:19:01: Yes they’re reviving iCarly, I know.
1:22:48: Here’s that list for you again: Keys of Marinus, Tomb of the Cybermen, The Daemons, Genesis of the Daleks, Enlightenment, Timelash, Survival
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We are gathered here today to do a podcast.
Yes you heard that, we’re out here doing a podcast did you know that? We do it every week, you should subscribe! You can find us all over the internet it’s pretty great actually. Even on this very website, did you know that? It’s The Gathering, written by John Fay and aired on September 2, 2011.
Show-notes:
1:57: Avengers: Endgame surprised audiences everywhere by having a 5 year time skip, implying that for 5 years Earth’s mightiest heroes just kind of lay there and took it.
6:25: I could really go for some Jubilee Pizza right about now. I haven’t had store bought pizza in ages.
12:42: I only found 49 fics with both Esther and Jack in them . It seems 14 of them pair them up romantically. I must commend this fic in particular for 1) the weirdly inspired Lois Habiba/Esther Drummond ship and 2) being 3 times the length of the longest thing I’ve ever written. In other news Esther/Rex seems to be a popular pairing, and also I hate how much time I spent on this.
13:58: Just go read Frankenstein so you can understand all of Kiyan’s references.
15:23: I was gonna make a joke about cosmology vs cosmetology, but people take this way too seriously apparently and write whole articles about the two.
27:55: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast if you want to listen to us do what we’re doing here but for other shows. Like The Prisoner. Or The Prisoner (2009).
36:38: Harry Bosco is not a real process, and yes the first result on google is the Tardis wiki page for Harry Bosco.
37:44: People get into arguments over which translation is the best, for some reason. This is actually a bigger problem for the Bible more than anything.
38:30: I couldn’t find the exact quote by Murakami, but I did find this fascinating New Yorker Article about his works and the difference between Japanese and English translations of Japanese works.
45:02: The real antipode of Shangai is Los Charrúas. You can see the top ten closest cities/towns to the exact antipode here. (Editor’s note: They talk about this in the next episode.)
46:00: Ф
51:33: Winnie the Pooh ranks among the most profitable media franchises ever.
51:20: Yes, the soviet Winnie the Pooh movies really do exist, this wasn’t a joke.
52:45: Here’s that article on how much money Winnie the Pooh generates.
53:34: Here’s a list of highest grossing franchises where Kiyan is getting his numbers from.
53:48: Pokemon Jet.
54:58: Industry standard for a physics PhD is only 6 figures though.
57:38: Ego the Living Planet is actually in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, if you can believe it.
59:50: M’tower tips hat
1:00:09: Yeah the Eiffel Tower was never meant to be permanent, sorry to disappoint folks.
1:00:50: Smithsonian has a brief history of the Ferris Wheel and its relation to the Eiffel Tower.
1:08:23: Tardis wiki to the rescue! Knibbs!
1:09:47: Check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, if you want to listen to us talk about timeless classic cinematic masterpieces like Beverly Hills Chihuahua (which the episode for isn’t out yet, but we also watch other timeless classics like Troll 2).
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You know, like a troll who lives under a bridge?
Doctor Who and Torchwood have had their share of trolls in our time, but this week just takes the cake. How can we sit here and listen to this absolute nonsense from someone so untrustworthy? And yet for some reason this is the job we decided to do, and this is the task we set before us. How disappointing. It’s The End of the Road, written by Ryan Scott and Jane Espensen and aired on August 26, 2011.
Show-notes:
4:06: It’s just a prank, bro.
7:05: Here’s a site that looks like it was made in the late 90’s that has a lot of detail on the burning of “Atlanta” for Gone With the Wind.
8:20: A birthmark in your eye has an official name, actually, it’s called a “nevus.”
8:46: The Latin name of the immortal jellyfish is Turritopsis Dorhnii (as you’ll find out in a minute in the episode) and the Wikipedia page contains basically everything we know about them (not much).
9:20: Polyps are one of the developmental stages of jellyfish and some other creatures. The other stage is the medusa stage. Some members of the cnidaria phylum have both polyp and medusa stages and others only have one.
14:23: Ben Shapiro is a racist.
18:05: Kiyan is reading the Wikipedia page for electrocardiography here but I’m going to link a more expert source in mayo clinic’s ekg page.
27:15: According to our own list(s) of Doctor Who deaths, Kal was the one who died in An Unearthly Child.
27:57: I looked for five seconds and all I found on a blood covered Tickle-Me-Elmo was this 45 minute video. (Editor’s note: this isn’t what I was referencing.)
32:48: The US government notably never gets anything done in a reasonable amount of time, taking 8-10 months to even recognize that COVID was a problem. It’s so bad that the New York Times was even commenting on it… in 1979.
36:10: Fine… I’ll do it myself. (It was Age of Ultron)
47:41: This quote is not only from Watchmen, it’s basically the first scene in the movie.
50:35: It is required to vote in Australia, but as noted they make it really really easy. Voter turnout in the US is historically really, really bad.
51:57: Yes, Georgia really did restrict voting rights after the Democrats won both two senate seats and the presidential race there in 2020.
52:45: Here’s that gerrymandering puzzle if you want to learn how busted the US voting system is. Try to get to level 6. Here’s an article from about a year and a half ago about the worst examples of gerrymandering in the U.S.
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Love. Compassion. Kindness. There are plenty of hidden 8th sins to choose from, and that’s why, now more than ever, you need to specify. Speaking of things that are happening now more than ever, we’re now more than ever talking about Torchwood Miracle Day episode 7. We haven’t talked about it before, and sadly we probably never will again. Until we really run out of content and have to rewatch Torchwood or something. It’s Immortal Sins, written by Jane Espensen and aired on August 19, 2011.
Show-notes:
1:49: Wikipedia lists only the episodes of The Walking Dead that have already aired (all 150 of them as of writing) whereas IMDB lists all episodes that have been commissioned and filmed.
5:32: This is the Telltale Walking Dead we were referring to here.
6:10: Polygon has an incredibly interesting deep dive into the problems Telltale Games faced that caused their downfall, including their long-standing refusal to update their engine. Also, the original Telltale is defunct now, but there’s a new Telltale in town.
8:37: For those interested in the history of the Italian mafia in New York, The Five Families is where you want to start.
9:14: Generally I wouldn’t link a Quora page, but Wikipedia has such a non-existent explanation for why “Mick” is a derogatory term for a person of Irish descent that in this case I will.
12:57: That Jordan Peele gif.
20:12: If you had told me when we started this podcast that I would be linking to the Wedding Crashers page on Wikipedia I would not believe you.
23:16: The Rams are LA and the Raiders are Vegas now, but they used to be located in Oakland California. The Bears are in Chicago. So are the Bulls, but they’re basketball.
41:08: Train A leaves a station in Chicago heading towards LA at 30 mph at Noon. Train B leaves LA at 3PM, heading towards Chicago traveling at 60 mph. The question is, at which point during this question did you realize that America’s rail system is pitiful compared to basically every other wealthy country in the world?
42:15: It’s a dot sight.
46:15: Two things, first off, who knew there was a sci-fi stack exchange? And secondly, why do they have an entire thread just on the question of “Who gave the shop-keeper Clara’s number?”
47:21: Here’s that Today I Found Out page about the phrase “to coin a phrase” that seems like it was clearly made just for this purpose.
48:01: You should rather check out phrases.uk for information on the phrase “to coin a phrase.”
1:01:56: It’s been 84 years.
1:03:00: NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is just a dumb thing people with too much or too little time on their hands do when they’d rather write than tend to their other responsibilities.
1:04:04: As promised here’s the link to that dialect quiz. Actually this one is really fancy and maps out all of your dialect influences across the United States.
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Is there a reason why after doing the podcast for so long we have literally no short term memory?
You ever heard that song? You know the one. “something something stuck in the middle with you.” The only official way to watch The Middle Men is to have that song playing just on constant repeat while watching. That’s it. That’s the official way to watch this episode, you heard it from us first. It’s The Middle Men, written by and aired on August 12, 2011.
Show-notes:
6:40: The Stargate Wiki mentions that Eric Steinberg is of Korean and “mixed European” descent with no source or citation.
11:20:Suicide is actually illegal in many countries around the world, but it does not seem like the punishment for attempting suicide is death. I cannot find concrete evidence that it ever was, actually.
12:54: I tried to find information on what jobs use a bell to end the work day and I couldn’t find anything! Have this part of the intro to The Flinstones about it instead.
17:18: This website has the most definitive guide to pronouncing Geraint, I’ve just decided right now.
21:21: The Pandemic has taken so much from us, not the least of which is what surely would have been the magnum opus of television history, the original fully filmed season 7 finale of The Blacklist.
24:58: The quote that I’m referring to was said by Aretha Franklin in reference to Taylor Swift. Can’t believe I mangled it that badly, but here’s the NPR review that quotes it.
26:05: You should check out our blog because we said so. Here is my concluding article on the Prisoner video game for the curious.
26:12: Be sure to check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast for all your obscure science-fiction television needs.
37:26: It’s called compassion fatigue and it’s actually a major problem in front-line workers right now due to COVID-19.
38:42: School shootings happen way too often to even cover adequately in the news anymore.
39:40: According to the CDC, the positive rate of Influenza testing decreased 100 fold due to mask wearing, social distancing, and other COVID prevention measures.
51:18: As always, “Ianto Jones (19 August 1983-2009) was an ex-member of the ill-fated Torchwood One and a member of Torchwood Three, initially serving as more of a “support man” or “tea boy”, but later taking a more active role in missions.”
52:06: Vera’s page on the TARDIS wiki is no better than Ianto’s in terms of outlining her achievements.
53:53: Our Back Pockets has a solid post on the history of Be gay Do Crimes.
1:02:17: Here is the exact same link I provided last week talking about the Great Leap Forward and its use and connotation with the Chinese Communist Party.
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Not to be confused with Religious Seniority.
It’s Categories of Life, written by Jane Espensen and aired on August 5, 2011.
Show-notes:
0:40: Seth MacFarlane created a lot of other stuff besides Family Guy. Most of it isn’t very good.
29:18: It was in Destiny of the Daleks. Thanks @Prof_Quiteamess and @lisacartman.
31:28: Shockingly, Hillary Duff is still acting in things, they’re just not good things.
32:48: Hillary Clinton also acts in things.
37:50: I guess this is a Hillary Clinton themed episode so here’s what Wikileaks gave us on that topic.
41:54: Who Killed Kennedy?
42:56: The novel Shell Shock indicates hat Peri’s stepfather Howard sexually abused her. But according to the TARDIS wiki, this has been contradicted by other material.
47:05: More on the coffee conundrum here.
52:35: We neglected to mention that the phrase “Great Leap Forward” is also associated with an entirely different totalitarian regime.
1:04:46: According to Wikipedia, Scorpion is ” [l]oosely based on the life of its executive producer and self-proclaimed computer expert Walter O’Brien.” Lol.
1:05:50: You ever check out Fargo, eh?
1:06:11: Rolling Stone reported (in 1988 lol) that in the author’s note to Libra, Don DeLillo wrote that the book was “a work of the imagination” and that “[w]hile drawing from the historical record, [he] made no attempt to furnish factual answers to any questions raised by the assassination” of Kennedy. He said the novel was instead “a way of thinking about the assassination without being constrained by half-facts or overwhelmed by possibilities, by the tide of speculation that widens with the years.”
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Damn we can never get any Doctor Who spinoffs can we?
This week on K9 and Company. Wait no wrong spinoff. This week on Class… Sarah Jane Adventures… The Prisoner… Hang on just bear with me I’m going to get there eventually. Oh Torchwood, that’s right Torchwood: Children of Earth. Dammit. It’s Escape to LA, written by Jim Gray and John Shiban and aired on July 29, 2011.
Show-notes:
46:39: More on car crushers I guess.
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Honestly this title alone was confusing.
We record these podcast in the dead of night now actually. Like way late at night. Like 7 PM. I know, so late right. In the UK the sun is probably still up at that time, being all a million miles from the equator and all that, but down here thanks to the end of DST we’re solidly two hours into darkness at that point. Yeah sun goes down at 5. Well 5:30 now but you get the point. It’s Dead of Night, written by Jane Espensen and aired on July 22, 2011.
Show-notes:
3:04: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-fi Podcast.
13:38: Speaking of blog posts, we have a blog now that you can and should definitely check out.
17:50: Inferno the movie, not Inferno the Doctor Who story.
24:12: Here’s our blog post on Torchwood Children of Earth and the “Steven Moffat Effect”
30:16: November 23 on the tardis wiki
50:00: Here’s “Embrace Lung Cancer,” our episode on the book Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
52:43: Skip Schoolink on imdb
53:01: His full name is Rostam Batmanglij.
1:07:00: Check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:11:10: Here’s our blog post on Revolution of the Daleks and Ryan and Graham’s departure.
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I usually prefer to keep my hairstyle the same and change up my fists, but maybe that’s just me.
This new rendition of Torchwood continues to amaze and astound. This week, we’re off to the land of the free and the home of the brave. But first, the Torchwood team (i.e. Gwen and Jack) have to deal with some snakes (noun; a treacherous or deceitful person) on a plane. It’s Rendition, written by Doris Egan and aired on July 15, 2011.
Show-notes:
0:55: Check out our other podcasts, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast and Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
4:13: Imagine being one of the people who got a car on Oprah. Imagine.
4:34: Bees!
13:05: Check out Delayed Replay, a podcast that reviews movies that definitely weren’t delayed by the pandemic and definitely came out.
40:00: Will I ever have to stop linking the Gonna Score Tonight song from Grease 2? The world may never know.
1:04:40: Yes, MI5 is domestic and MI6 is international.
1:04:40: I actually looked for like half an hour for this quote and couldn’t find it at all.
1:25:17: Here’s our first blog post on the Apple II Prisoner game from 1980.
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Sometimes, when the stars align, you get a fourth season of Torchwood. This is that season.
We enter the final season of Torchwood, and the podcast is coming to a close. Of an era. Close of an era. Haha almost had you going there for a second didn’t I? You were worried for a hot a second right? Ha ha. Ha. It’s The New World, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on July 8, 2011.
Show-notes:
2:12: Thank you TARDIS Wiki for prominently displaying this disembodied head on your page for Miracle Day.
15:47: It was The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfield.
46:24: If you want to listen to us discuss The Prisoner and other sci-fi shows that aren’t Doctor Who, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast. We also just published this blog post about the Prisoner Apple II game from 1980.
51:00: The Fourth Doctor’s era lasted from 1974 to 1981.
1:08:42: And if you want to listen to us talk about movie trilogies for some reason, check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
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Halloween can’t come soon enough.
So the children of earth are saved and the day is mine once more. We only had to sacrifice one kid rather than the 10% that the 456 requested, but the 456 are off gallivanting somewhere else. They have technology to do almost anything but replicate this weird chemical? I dunno. It’s Children of Earth: Day Five, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on July 10, 2009.
Show-notes:
1:01: It was Family Guy that did the Super Man 4 bit.
18:14: It’s not our latest post anymore, but here’s the post I was talking about: Children of Earth and the “First Contact” Archetype
1:11:17: It’s shallow focus.
1:19:40: It was Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison. I think the link is just an excerpt of it.
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I love slime!
Children of Earth is rapidly coming to a close. Which means we’re going to finally move on to the final season of Torchwood which means oh god we’re running out of content. What are we gonna do?! Maybe the 456 should take us instead, that way we can stop making podcasts. It’s Children of Earth: Day Four, written by John Fay and aired on July 9, 2009.
Show-notes:
1:50: Here’s the Ianto page on the TARDIS wiki.
8:06: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast. Here’s our first Sapphire and Steel episode.
25:52: Here’s a frickin weird ad about Nickelodeon slime as an example.
28:26: Here’s what the Aggro Crag looked like.
29:05: Check out our first Children of the Stones episode on Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
38:25: This guy
1:10:26: I didn’t look into it too much, but MySpace is kinda just dedicated to like media news and stuff nowadays it looks like.
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Really riding this bean trend a little late.
Are we all ready to hear the story about the beans? You know the beans that I bought the other day? Well I bought some beans, and I took them home. And then I put them in my pantry. And that’s it. That’s the whole story. It’s better than getting invaded by aliens anyway. Speaking of which, it’s Children of Earth: Day Three, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on July 8, 2009.
Show-notes:
7:42: The original “Bean Dad” threads have been deleted, but here’s a summary from the BBC.
25:37: Here’s the blog post we’re talking about.
27:00: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
1:05:36: For more INFORMATION on The Prisoner, check out our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, where we watched the entire series.
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Whoa, dude – Keanu Reeves
After our short interlude into Doctor Who territory we’re officially back with Torchwood. That’s right, we’re back with Torchwood. Jack is back. Well Jack never left even when we went over to Doctor Who, but now he’s back. So its Gwen, back from her little cameo mention last week. The gang’s all here: Jack and Gwen.It’s Children of Earth: Day Two, written by John Fay and aired on July 7, 2009.
Show-notes:
38:44: I’m reading the Tardis wiki page for film here.
48:07: Here are the fake Doctor Who stories in question for: Classic Who, Classic Who (part 2), New Who, and New Who (part 2)
58:52: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:11:59: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
1:13:57: Here’s the blog post about the First Doctor’s Christmases. Shoutout once again to Steven for contributing this!
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We’re back and tastier than ever.
Have you ever had meringue on your tea? I’m thinking now, it might not be so bad. The heat from the tea could cook the bottom of the meringue kind of like a hot pie crust would do, so that would be pretty cool. You could drink it then and bury your mustache in a meringue. That’d be pretty fun actually. It’s Revolution of the Daleks, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on January 1, 2021.
Show-notes:
31:10: Here’s the blog post we put out on our predictions for this episode.
36:18: I’m reading the TARDIS Wiki’s Prime Minister of the United Kingdom page here.
58:31: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
1:05:04: Meant Curse of Fenric here.
2:07:08: Check out One and Done, our April Fool’s joke podcast about reviewing other Doctor Who podcasts. (We reviewed our own first episode for the joke.)
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Kind of sounds like me, on the podcast.
Have we ever had a five episode serial in Doctor Who? We have, right? I’m pretty sure we did but I genuinely don’t remember any more. A lot of classic who has been completely wiped from my mind because I needed the space in my brain for other things. I can’t remember what those things were anymore. It’s Children of Earth: Day One, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on July 6, 2009.
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2:08: Check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
41:11: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
45:40: Apparently you’re considered an embryo until you’ve been in development for nine weeks. Then you become a fetus. The more you know.
1:00:55: Apparently Christopher Isherwood “only” wrote nine novels (if the Isherwood Foundation is to be believed).
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Ok so this exact title doesn’t appear in the episode, sue me.
Besides, we’re covering 50 Shades of Grey on Triple Play at some point soon and it’s better not to make confusing and conflicting post titles. Yes, I’m for real serious that we’re covering that trilogy at some point. If you don’t believe me I guess you’ll just have to wait and see. It’s Exit Wounds, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on April 4, 2008.
Show-notes:
1:03: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
2:20: We have a blog now, and our first (and so far only) post is on our predictions for Revolution of the Daleks.
3:30: I got the account name wrong. It’s actually teamtardiss.
9:07: Guess I’ll die.
21:28: There are two nuclear power stations in Wales and neither of them is in Cardiff.
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So once upon a time I had some fragments of memories. What was I saying?
This week Kiyan and Dylan approach ever nearer to the end of this nightmare. That’s right Torchwood Season 2 ends in just one week for us. Oh what you thought I meant something else? well that’s silly of you what could I possibly have meant instead? It’s Fragments, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on March 26, 2008.
Show-notes:
4:37: It was Louise Jameson.
7:47: The scene in question from The Other Guys.
10:09: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast for all your Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast needs. Our most recent episode is on the unrivaled cinematic masterpiece known as the Cars trilogy.
24:24: The sonic modulator only appears in this episode according to the Doctor Who wiki.
32:13: According to the script, Tosh is only told about UNIT by the voice in the cell telling her it’s a UNIT facility.
1:14:51: Also check out our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast and our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
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Ever get the feeling that you’re overly detached from commercialization? I do. So often in fact that I’ve come up with a name for it: ad rift. Despite what it may sound like, that has nothing to do with this week’s episode. It’s Adrift, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on March 19, 2008.
Show-notes:
2:11: The Mohorovičić discontinuity
50:29: It’s airing on New Year’s day ;_;
1:11:13: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast for all your Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast needs.
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Ew.
I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way including the entirety of the Torchwood team oh god why are they standing in the middle of the tracks someone please send help on my god I can’t stop the train. It’s From Out of the Rain, written by P.J. Hammond and aired on March 12, 2008.
Show-notes:
2:38: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast for all your Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast needs.
11:25: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast for all your Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast needs.
22:00: it was “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” said by Harry Warner, which Quote Investigator does a deep dive into.
56:07: Surprise, motherf*.
1:29:44**: it’s actually spelled “moho” and it’s short for this name that I have no idea how to pronounce. Find Steven and his stuff at:
His site
Amazon (his novel)
Delayed Replay podcast
Star Trek Culture podcast
Intergalactic Peace Coalition Podcast
Doc Holocron’s Youtube channel
University of Sussex Doctor Who Society
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A trapezoid has four sides, fun fact.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Our logo is blue, which means at your wedding you can bring Trust Your Doctor and that fulfills one of the four things you’re supposed to have. I don’t know about the rest, but you know if you need something old, well, the antique store is down the road.It’s Something Borrowed, written by Phil Ford and aired on March 5, 2008.
Show-notes:
15:05: The concept of the Immaculate Conception is pretty confusing, but yeah.
31:49: The mailbox is indeed sentient.
1:03:49: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
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I thought of food mold for a hot second while writing that title.
A day in the life of Dylan is quite boring, as is a day in the life of Kiyan (probably, I don’t know). So I wonder what a day in our death will be. Maybe something just as equally boring. I’m planning to have my body sent to space, after I donate it to science. They have to know how we could so consistently release podcasts. Must be something in our bones. It’s A Day in the Death, written by Joseph Lidster and aired on February 27, 2008.
Show-notes:
6:34: Even better(?): Here’s the Tardis wiki page on suicide.
11:25: Piofiore: Fated Memories
13:41:Bandee Desinées
22:27: Robert Zemeckis filmography
28:07: Guy Fieri gets absolutely destroyed by the New York Times.
35:32: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
43:11: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:01:36: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
1:10:12: Mrs. Blinster.
1:10:58: If you don’t already know, Flight Through Entirety is a Doctor Who podcast.
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Oh so that’s who Ian Chatterhouse was all this time.
I kind of feel like a Dead Man Walking. This episode was recorded in the pre-election era, and right now I’m sitting here feeling like the last week took 4 months. I almost didn’t recognize a single thing we were talking about, which is pretty wild if you think about it. But I did get the editing done, thank goodness, even when I really didn’t want to. It’s Dead Man Walking, written by Matt Jones and aired on February 20, 2008.
Show-notes:
4:45: If you want to listen to us talk about classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner, check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
17:24: Wait, Trust Your Doctor is held together by paperclips and string behind the scenes? Always has been.
23:04: I couldn’t find anything about how eating works when your esophagus doesn’t, but I did find this detailed PDF about eating after your esophagus has been removed. Enjoy.
35:10: In Search of Lost Time is 4,215 pages.
1:10:45: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
1:25:04: If you want to listen to one of the longest-running and best Doctor Who podcasts out there, check out Krynoid Podcast.
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I’m a barbie girl, in a TARDIS world.
I seem to remember recording this episode before. Does the mayfly reset your brain as well? Do you just forget everything that you’ve seen and learned since the beginning of your life? That would actaully be pretty great, I have a lot of things to forget. LOTS of things to forget. So if they could just hit me up that’d be great. It’s Reset, written by J. C. Wilsher and aired on February 13, 2008.
Show-notes:
3:10: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
3:33: Pretty sure everyone already knows the dog comic, but just in case.
4:30: Uh oh
18:50: It was Much Ado About Nothing.
40:45: Steve Wozniak and his amazing perforated $2 bills.
51:16: Legendary.
1:19:47: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
1:24:10: Image of a wet sloth. Click at your own risk.
1:25:27: It’s less than 5%.
1:29:55: 42…
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I don’t actually remember when we stopped doing quotes.
This week Dylan, Kiyan, and Adam take a nice deep dive into Torchwood. It’s been a little while since we watched an episode that so unnerved us that we were shaken to the very core. Our entire notion of reality itself was questioned by this episode, and Adam claimed it so disturbed him he might have to stop watching Torchwood. It’s Adam, written by Catherine Tregenna and aired on February 13, 2008.
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1:35: Our latest tweets, knock yourself out. Also check out Krynoid Podcast.
9:05: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
16:24: The only thing I think this song might be is Early in the Morning by The Gap Band.
31:38: According to Britannica, morals are personal and ethics are societal.
35:19: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
37:00: Actually, their name was the Space Rats.
59:26: Check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:04:50:
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This week on Amazon ™ podcasts.
I wonder when Amazon will own the world and bring us Amazon Meat ™. I don’t have anything else witty to say actually just figured that that would be a funny joke to make. Meat doesn’t even sound like a word any more but I’m sure if you think about something else for long enough it will be alright again. It’s Meat, written by Catherine Tregenna and aired on February 6, 2008.
Show-notes:
1:00: Apparently this is a reference to Hearthstone, the World of Warcraft card game.
18:23: Hey, you should check out Delayed Replay, a podcast that reviews movies that are definitely 100% out and not delayed whatsoever. We’ve been on it a couple times, both individually and together.
23:00: If you like Blake’s 7, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
38:22: If you like classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner and Sapphire and Steel, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
39:46: Never mind, some truck driving courses here can take just a few weeks too. Many are a couple months though.
59:35: Stargazy pie truly has to be seen to be believed.
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You heard it here first, English is dead.
Turns out Kiyan’s entire field of study is dead except for him. You might wonder if you’re stuck inside a strange YA novel, since that seems exactly the kind of thing that would be written into one of those plots. But let me assure you, this is a Shakespeare play, and it’s a tragedy. It’s To The Last Man, written by Helen Raynor and aired on January 30, 2008.
Show-notes:
1:30: The Scots Wikipedia is currently going through some difficulties.
3:42: Knott’s Berry Farm is an amusement park in Southern California. It’s called Knott’s Berry Farm because it started as a berry farm.
4:41: Daffy vs. Donald
16:09: It’s defibrillation. Defibulation is something COMPLETELY different.
20:52: If you want to listen to us talk about classic sci-fi shows, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast. Also the actor we were thinking of was Kenneth Griffith a.k.a. Kenneth Reginald Griffiths.
1:04:17: I hate myself for loving you music video
1:07:23: If you want to listen to us do what we’re doing here but for Blake’s 7, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
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It’s like five round rapid without the rapid.
I never did like rapids. People go on and on about how cute they are with their long ears and fluffy tails, but really they’re just rodents, right? Or maybe that was “rabbits.” Eh. Speaking of rodents, guess who “rode int”o town this week. It was the sleepers, their orders to take over finally having kicked in. It’s Sleeper, written by James Moran and aired on January 23, 2008.
Show-notes: 8:37: 0118999881999119725…….. 3
11:30: Hey, we watched and discussed Aliens and Alien 3. Not Alien though. Screw Alien.
14:51: According to Smithsonian Mag, “cops and donuts” is a stereotype because donuts places were traditionally open late.
42:20: I can’t believe you’ve done this.
50:03: If you want to listen to us doing what we’re doing here but with classic sci-fi shows, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
Some point in the episode: Check out Delayed Replay, a podcast that reviews movies that are definitely, 100% released and available to view and not delayed by the virus.
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I’ll be over here committing tax fraud during the purge, don’t mind me.
Once upon a time I wanted to be a secret agent. But then I realized they probably wouldn’t like some sort of weird RSA expat who lives in the US. They might not trust that I’d be working in the best interest of the agency I work for. Interesting to ponder. It’s Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on January 16, 2008.
Show-notes:
3:52: If you want to listen to us do what we’re doing hear but with classic sci-fi shows like Sapphire and Steel and The Prisoner, check out our podcast where we do what we’re doing here but with classic sci-fi shows like Sapphire and Steel and The Prisoner, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
5:45: I confused the name of Shirley Bassey’s rejected theme (“Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) with the song I was referring to (“The World is Not Enough” by Straw)
23:03: Now that I think about it, I don’t think Chris actually ever says “Get out” in Get Out.
43:17: “Universal law is for lackeys, context is for kings” – Captain Lorca, 2083 or something.
59:10: Etymonline explains that “dollar” comes from “taler,” short for “Joachimstaler” – “of Joachim” – which refers to coins minted from a silver mine in the town of Joachimstal, which is now known as Jáchymov.
1:05:23: Now Dylan knows.
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Tune in soon as Kiyan gets yeeted into an active volcano live.
Volcanoes. They’re hard to nail down. On the one hand, they can wreak destruction on an unimaginably immense scale. On the other hand, they’re sources of life. On the other other hand (the Tenth Doctor’s hand obviously), they have nothing to do with this episode of Torchwood, so who cares? It’s End of Days, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on December 31, 2006.
Show-notes:
4:45: If you want to hear more about “six of one, half a dozen of the other,” check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast on which we’re currently watching The Prisoner. And if you’re reading this long after this episode goes out, then we’ve already watched all of The Prisoner.
25:00: (<– this is a link)
27:50: BEHOLD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
28:43: Salai’s Mona Lisa looks better than the weird green-sepia in my opinion.
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A whole new level of useless!
I’d like to be a captain. I think it’d be pretty cool to be Captain Dylan or Captain Kiyan. Imagine if we were both captains, and then it would be Captain Dylan and Captain Kiyan discuss Torchwood. Now wouldn’t that be absolutely wild? And then someone could steal our name and… It’s Captain Jack Harkness, written by Catherine Tregenna and aired on December 31, 2006.
Show-notes:
5:27: Blink did win the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
39:22: If you want to listen to us discuss classic sci-fi shows like Sapphire and Steel and The Prisoner, check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast.
40:18: If you want to listen to us talk about Blake’s 7, check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
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Gotta watch out for those Weevil fanatics
Trial by combat takes on a new form when instead of combating each other they combat Weevils. Julius Caesar would be proud of the changes we’ve made to the format. At least I would hope so, since it really is an improvement. Now we only need to put one life at risk at a time. It’s Combat, written by Noel Clarke and aired on December 24, 2006.
Show-notes:
3:20: If you want to listen to us do what we’re doing here but with classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner and Sapphire and Steel instead of Doctor Who and Torchwood, check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast where do what we’re doing here but with classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner and Sapphire and Steel instead of Doctor Who and Torchwood.
9:41: This is how Wayne’s World did product placement.
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I met a mathematician once, but he didn’t want to talk about memes.
Sometimes I forget to edit everything, and then I realize that I too am out of time. Just like everyone in this episode. Can you imagine if one day I was editing, and I paused to go to the store and just teleported a million years into the future? What if I found out our podcast had suddenly become a smash cult hit in that time, that’d be super weird. It’s Out of Time, written by Catherine Tregenna and aired on December 17, 2006.
Show-notes:
1:45: Know Your Meme calls this Distracted Boyfriend.
28:00: If you want to listen to us doing what we’re doing here but for classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner and Sapphire and Steel, check out our classic sci-fi podcast where we do what we’re doing here but for classic sci-fi shows like The Prisoner and Sapphire and Steel, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
28:55: Apparently Amelia Earhart has never appeared in person on Doctor Who according to the Tardis Wiki.
59:03: They call it the Gimli Glider now.
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Zoom zoom look at my lawn mower.
There’s a notably small amount of discussion of Torchwood in this episode. I’m not really sure why. Maybe it’s because the episode was boring as hell. No really, it was really boring! And Eugene wasn’t really that sympathetic, he’s a stalker! Well anyway. It’s Random Shoes, written by Jacquetta May and aired on December 10, 2006.
Show-notes:
24:41: If you want to listen to us do whatever the hell it is we’re doing here but with classic sci-fi shows like Sapphire and Steel and The Prisoner, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
28:47: KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE
39:54: Eugene by Pink Martini
43:42: It was National Museum Cardiff
54:02: I can’t believe Grandpa Joe Hate exists. But at the same time, I can.
1:22:11: If you want to listen to us talk about movie trilogies or Blake’s 7, you;re in luck. Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast and/or Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
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The more podcasts we do the more I think we should just do The Avengers.
So one day I was just walking along right, and then this girl just pops out of nowhere and stabs me! And then she uses this glove and brings me back and I’m like, what the heck. Well then I was gone again, but while I was gone she stabbed me. Again! And brought me back and so on and so forth anyway long story short I can’t die anymore. It’s They Keep Killing Suzie, written by Paul Tomlin and Dave McCulloch and aired on December 3, 2006.
Show-notes:
2:11: Yeah, they’re still putting Tom Clancy’s name on the covers of “his” books. They do credit the actual writers too though.
17:32: If you want to listen to us talk about The Prisoner, Sapphire and Steel, and other classic sci-fi shows, check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, our classic sci-fi podcast
43:08: Here’s the article about the standing car idea. Pretty neat.
48:00: Headache by Julio Cortázar
56:52: Wow I found it. And Shia La Beouf is in it.
1:08:48: The 2006 Life on Mars is an original show. There was no previous version.
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We should’ve named our website that, what were we thinking?
Aw man I feel like I really missed out by never watching veggietales. I mean for real so many people seem to have considered it an integral part of their childhood. Everyone on the internet talks about it as if it was some sort of great revolution in childhood television and I’m over here having not watched it. Damn. It’s Greeks Bearing Gifts, written by and aired on November 26, 2006.
Show-notes:
3:15: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast, if you want to listen to a movie trilogy podcast. I guess.
6:16: If you want to listen to us talk about The Prisoner, check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
11:30: Some people just have way too much time on their hands.
17:09: Check out Steven’s podcast, Delayed Replay.
1:04:37: Wikipedia lists all the books K.A. Applegate has written, and it’s a lot.
1:31:57: VeggieTales, the visionary we needed but didn’t deserve.
1:33:53: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast for our take on movie trilogies and stuff, including The Godfather trilogy soon ™. Here’s where you can find Steven:
Steven’s website
Facebook
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Steven’s novel, Standalones and Stepping Stones: Lemons Loom Like Rain
Steven’s podcast, Delayed Replay
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I’m about to crack this conspiracy wide open.
A lovely stroll with the Village People. I look out across the village. We are happy here. We listen to Go West every day, on repeat. In the Navy is our national anthem. And when we’re feeling really risque, we’ll listen to YMCA. We’ve all heard it so many times we can recite the dance from memory. It is a good life. It’s Countrycide, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 19, 2006.
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7:29: If you want to listen to us talk about other shows like The Prisoner and Children of the Stones, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
28:00: John Barrowman in Star Wars pajamas. You can die happy now. You’re welcome.
31:34: The audio got kind of screwed here, but I said “mini axe,” as in like a hatchet.
1:27:17: If you want to listen to a podcast we started because like 2 people asked us to, check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
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The year is 2099. Big Finish prowls the street looking for non-Doctor Who fans.
I had never even made any association between this and the really annoyingly catchy Disney song until right this second. And now that I’ve made that association I’m not going to be able to unmake it. Plus now you’ve probably got that song stuck in your head, and you know what? You’re welcome. It’s Small Worlds, written by PJ Hammond and aired on November 12, 2006.
Show-notes:
1:05: If you want to listen to us talk about Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner, and other wonderful shows like Star Cops and Children of the Stones, check out our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
16:26: The Museum of Hoaxes has a write up and images of the Cottingley Fairies photos.
19:44: Wow for some reason dozens of people have adapted Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Apparently I was wrong about Hound of the Baskervilles being not a Sherlock story at first. 50% isn’t so bad.
35:00: Here’s the full Nightmare painting from 1781. According to etymonline, nightmare doesn’t come from the painting, but did enter the modern usage of “any bad dream” after the painting was made.
39:51: World War I was 1914 to 1918.
54:19: Here’s the full Stolen Child poem by W.B. Yeats.
1:09:54: If you want to listen to us talk about movie trilogies, check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast As promised here’s a Christian take on Torchwood. Spoiler: they didn’t like it. (Also spoiler warning for season 4.)
While we’re at it, here’s another Christian take on the show, this time from Be Thinking (warning: this one spoils the Children of Earth season).
Christian.org.uk also reported on how many Christians were offended by Torchwood and complained about it.
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I wish I was a UNIT soldier who could indiscriminately fail at his job like that.
Did you know I was partially cyberized once? It’s true, if you go back to some of our old episodes I’m sure you could hear when my voice would just go all cyber for some reason. Yeah that’s when I was cyberized. Luckily I was able to uncyberize myself but unfortunately I can’t really remember how I did that so that knowledge has been lost to the ages. Sorry. It’s Cyberwoman, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 5, 2006.
Show-notes:
14:40: If you want to listen to us talk about Neverending Story 3 for some reason, check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
27:55: If you want to listen to us talk about other random sci-fi shows like The Prisoner or Sapphire and Steel, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
33:47: “What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes?” is apparently from Robot, at least according to the BBC.
35:40: Not this shit again.
1:10:30: Yeah, I couldn’t find it.
1:26:40: Amazing quote
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Not to be confused with Ghost IN The Machine.
If I had a ghost machine, I’d open that puppy up when I got into my apartment to find out if someone died in here. I might not want to actually know that, actually. Can you imagine if Gwen took the machine home, fired it up, and then boom just a straight montage of 6 murders happening in her home? The trauma that would induce. It’s Ghost Machine, written by Helen Raynor and aired on October 29, 2006.
Show-notes:
3:45: Relive our golden years with Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast or our sad attempt to recapture the magic with Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
18:33: Here’s the link to our April Fool’s episode… I still can’t believe we did this.
28:25: Meant 90 degrees here.
55:36: Apparently you can bleed out in as little as 5 minutes.
1:26:38: I can’t believe I’ve never heard of Chocolate Rain sequel Cherry Chocolate Rain.
1:27:44: Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears for Eurovision 2020.
1:31:29: Hey, it’s Fred!
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And the secret 0th sin: existence.
The name of this story evokes strong memories of… something. Another story or tv show or movie and I just can’t really place what it is. I seriously feel like I watched something called Day One once upon a time and I genuinely cannot remember what the heck it was. That’s so weird. It’s Day One, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 22, 2006.
Show-notes: 4:27: You’re welcome for this masterpiece of movie musical history. My personal favourite part is 1:19, when a dancer launches a bowling ball sideways accidentally and the shot immediately cuts, presumably to avoid showing the carnage that caused.
8:40: Every time.
16:14: If you want to listen us talk about classic sci-fi shows like Sapphire & Steel or The Prisoner, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
27:01: FBI, OPEN UP
43:16: Yes, there really is a page for masturbation on the tardis wiki.
56:50: Here’s the trailer for Vampire Diary. Y’know, I kind of miss the edginess of the mid 00s.
58:00: Yeah, I was completely wrong here. Twilight was never a Harry Potter fanfic. Dylan was right. It was 50 Shades that started as a Twilight fanfic.
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I’m probably the worst person to do this kind of reading honestly.
The title of this weeks episode of Torchwood is surprisingly apt for the change in the show that we’re also going to experience. Which is why Kiyan was able to so expertly make that pun last week about it. Well not much else to say besides that. It’s Everything Changes, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on October 22, 2006.
Show-notes:
8:40: If you want to listen to us talk about Blake’s 7, check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
9:41: And if you want to listen to us talk about old shows that aren’t Doctor Who or Blake’s 7, check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
19:04: OR if you want to listen to us talk about movie trilogies, check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
42:50: All of this is wrong. Cardiff Bay technically is in a river, but if you look on a map, it’s basically right where the river opens up into the sea. So it’s basically the sea. My bad.
50:50: Apparently pterosaurs are the the biggest things ever to fly through the skies lol.
1:29:29: Here’s the cover of The Lives of Captain Jack. Pretty great.
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I only like bondage anthills personally.
So we’ve come to the end of our little journey, which means it’s time to jump back into the late 2000’s for some quality early 21st century television. But before that, we have to suffer through Pip and Jane Baker’s masterpiece. Some say it’s their greatest work, their magnum opus. It’s Time and the Rani, written by Pip and Jane Baker and aired between September 7th and 28th, 1987.
Show-notes:
6:47: Much as I hate to link to this AGAIN, here’s The Bikini Bottom Horror.
10:57: If you want to listen to us talk about Back to the Future (and Crispin Glover’s legal battle), you’re in luck I guess.
17:29: Here’s a quick (but kind of old-ish) video about Hong Kong’s cage housing.
21:07: Behold: the Area 51 Naruto runner
22:30: Here’s the stupid asteroid/meteor/meteorite overview thing AGAIN.
37:16: If you want to listen to us talk about classic sci-fi, check out our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast. Oh, and we also have a completed Blake’s 7 podcast called Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast. So if you wwant to hear a Blake’s 7 podcast from us, check that out.
43:37: Or maybe Gotye’s now regretting not monetizing his youtube videos. (Probably not but you never know.)
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It’s like a shitty version of the mystery mobile.
Alright gang buckle up because we’re coming to the end of this insane ride and we’re doing it right. And by doing it righ I mean we’re mindwarping ourselves, so I’ll putting my brain in Kiyan and he’s putting his brain in me and then absolutely nothing will change because as it turns out in the TYD canon we don’t really have defined characters. Or do we? Also we’ll be retconning that away in two weeks when we start Torchwood so. It’s Mindwarp, written by Philip Martin and aired between October 4th and 25th, 1986.
Show-notes: 2:09: Actual recorded audio of Philip Martin bailing.
6:56: The novel that features Sil is called Mission to Magnus. It came out in 1990… and also has the Ice Warriors in it?!
15:40: Actually according to the Tardis wiki, Perpugilliam means “she who lives in the hills.” So I don’t know what the hell I was talking about here.
19:33: The Rock actually streamed some of his “cheat day” meals recently. (Or maybe he always does this? I don’t know.) Here’s one of them.
24:16: Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast is a podcast where we talk about movie trilogies and that you should check out if you want to listen to us talk about movie trilogies in podcast format.
31:40: Dudley Simpson had already stopped composing for the show by this point.
36:09: Rare footage of Sil
55:17: Funny that we should mention Sapphire & Steel here considering we’re watching it for one of our other podcasts, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:05:40: Yeah, the 1970 Cromwell movie has Alec Guinness in it.
1:07:47: Funny we should mention Blake’s 7 here since we have a completed Blake’s 7 podcast called Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
1:08:35: Vargas was the name of Brian Blessed’s character in Blake’s 7.
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Can’t wait to see all of the Sea Devil photoshops we’ll get out of this.
I find it interesting that in reality the Silurians are the ones in charge of this story, completely and utterly. But while they may be the ones in control, they aren’t the ones who lend their name to the title of the story. The Sea Devils don’t really do anything except show up and cap a bunch of fools, and then they just kind of… die. And yet somehow the story is named after them? It’s Warriors of the Deep, written by Johnny Byrne and aired between January 5th and 13th , 1984.
Show-notes:
9:44: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
14:28: This is the Ulysses cover I was talking about.
18:27: Here’s an article from Cornell about how swim bladders and lungs are actually the same thing after all. And here’s an article from Live Science about how our ears are actually gills.
28:12: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
33:38: Actual recorded audio of Vislor Turlough in the year 2084.
44:30: If you for some reason want to listen to us talk about Predator or Alien (but not Alien vs. Predator), then check out our movie trilogy podcast, Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
57:35: Here’s the “I miss the internet” comic.
1:17: It’s at about 22:05 in episode 4.
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What if Anthony Read had actually written The Timeless Children?
Personally I find that my dreams have taken me to the real life underworld much more than this story ever did. It’s pretty hellish down there, so I’m gonna give you all a warning. I’ve become best buds with some of my demons though, which is cool. They bought be a soda last week, that was nice of them. It’s Underworld, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and aired between January 7th and 28th , 1978.
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1:17: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast, Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
9:59: If you want to listen to us talk about Despicable Me for some reason, here you go.
18:50: Have fun with this horror.
38:30: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, which is our Blake’s 7 podcast.
1:02:16: This is the scene from Neverending Story that I was talking about. I apologize in advance.
1:03:26: Here’s a bit from the University of California San Francisco about the whole smoking in Disney movies thing.
1:22:03: Ok, to set the record straight, this is what The Awakening is about.
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I only have vague memories of 6 years ago apparently.
In this episode Kiyan will espouse the belief that you should watch Monster of Peladon every single day, over and over and over again until you get it. Now I don’t necessarily disagree, but I have to wonder, is that what people want us to do with The Massacre? And if so, how is this not just some sort of twisted version of stockholm syndrome? It’s Monster of Peladon, written by Brian Hayles and aired between March 23 and April 27, 1974.
Show-notes:
8:13: The basic premise of 4 to Doomsday is that some aliens are on a spaceship headed to earth and are going to wipe out humanity with a virus.
12:05: According to the Doctor Who wiki the Fourth Doctor used a sonic lance on his sonic screwdriver in Robot.
21:30: I was talking about The Aims of Discourse by James Kinneavey. You can read it at that link for free with a jstor account.
38:43: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast. We’re currently (at the time of writing this) watching Sapphire and Steel.
1:04:36: Looks like Cold Warrior is just a random tv show from 1984. I could barely find any info about it other than this wiki page and an even more threadbare imdb page.
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It’s me, the newest superhero!
I’m not saying that we’ve engaged in time piracy, stealing Doctor Who from the present then talking about it in the past and then having the show recreate the show from our podcast, but I’m not saying that we didn’t either. Why didn’t Bo Holmes write a story about Time Pirates instead? That would have been way more interesting. We were right all along. It’s The Space Pirates. Written by Robert Holmes and aired between March 8 and April 12, 1969.
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23:24: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
28:57: Apparently it’s just a myth that the navy has more aircraft than the air force. At least according this Business Insider article from 2015 about debunking military myths.
33:30: Here’s Bob Saget’s take on the “The Aristocrats” joke.
1:17:15: Ben Steed’s first story on Blake’s 7 was Harvest of Kairos.
1:23:04: Pretty sure the movie I was thinking of here was The Box.
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This week the meme comes… Full Circle.
We have returned to the site of our greatest defeat to try once again. The serial where we have broken so far from common accepted fan criticism. And we stand here, upon the ruins of our empire, to say… We were right all along. It’s The Massacre… again. Written by John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh and aired between February 5th and 26th, 1966.
Show-notes:
0:55: I couldn’t find which one it was. If anyone knows, let us know. =
12:25: When I said “medieval times” here, I meant Medieval Times, the American dinner theater thingamajig. Still wonder why and how Medieval Times exists and is successful sometimes, but hey.
32:06: Yeaaaahhh, can’t find the comment from Peter Purves either. So don’t take my word for it.
1:01:40: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, a Blake’s 7 podcast.
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This is episode 300. 300!
This week we continue to avoid starting Tochwood, and then even come up with more ways to avoid Torchwood for the next coming weeks! Can you believe that? Because honestly I can’t. I’m amazed we’ve been able to do that somehow. It only comes at the expense of revisiting all of our most derided episodes… It’s Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD, directed by Gordon Flemying and released on August 5, 1966.
Show-notes: 2:24 David Whitaker was credited with “Additional Material.”
7:37 See for yourself: I.M. Foreman on the Tardis Wiki. He isn’t “technically” a time lord, but come on. He has regenerations and everything.
13:32 The future is now, old man.
17:18 I was wrong. The Dalek Invasion of Earth took place in 2164.
21:10 Check out Zenith, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
31:15 I’ll never not be amazed that this is how British money used to work.
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Somehow we found more content to cover.
This week we set the time scoop to “random” and are joined by surprise guests Brendan and Nathan of the fabulous Flight Through Entirety podcast (among other achievements). I think we always knew that somehow we’d cover this movie, somewhere, and so we figured why the hell not, lets do it now. Besides, it’s not like there’s anything else left for us to cover, I say, staring conspicuously at Torchwood sitting in the corner. It’s Dr. Who and the Daleks, directed by Gordon Flemying and released on August 23, 1965.
Show-notes: 18:50 Here’s Flight Through Entirety’s episode on The Doctor’s Daughter.
1:29:28 If you don’t know what Celestial Toyroom is (I didn’t), here’s what Celestial Toyroom is.
1:48:40 Brendan and Nathan’s other projects include: Flight Through Entirety (a Doctor Who podcast), Bondfinger (an MST3K-style James Bond podcast), and Brandy Bongos.
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We’ve officially caught up. It’s over.
It’s over. We’ve made it to the end of Doctor Who. there’s nowhere to go but down now. No more content, no more Doctor Who. No more Trust Your Doctor. We hoped you enjoyed your stay. You can now check out our other podcasts without fear of missing out on this one. Good bye. It’s Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timless Children. written by Chris Chibnall and aired on February 23 and March 1, 2020.
Show-notes: 10:52 Here are both of the videos that the BBC released with the 13th Doctor commenting on isolation.
12:00: Pete McTighe wrote Press Play. And here’s The Terror of the Umpty Ums by Steven Moffat.
57:21 Here’s the fanfiction I was talking about. It’s not pretty. You’ve been warned.
1:11:26 Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:49:37 The Last Man was indeed a full novel
2:17:45 Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
2:18:31 But more importantly, check out Lemons Loom Like Rain and Steven’s site and Facebook page/twitter/instagram.
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Our first brand new guest in like…. ages!
I honestly thought that the name of the group of people in this episode was the Villa Diodati, not the name of the house. So it came as quite a shock when doing research for this episode and I realized it was the name of the place. It should have been obvious in hindsight with the double l but alas. It’s The Haunting of Villa Diodati. written by Maxine Alderton and Chris Chibnall and aired on February 16, 2020.
Show-notes:
13:38: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
20:00: They did get married eventually.
28:34: Ok so apparently what happened was that it was mistakenly attributed to Byron but it looks like Byron never pretended it was his.
34:09: Behold the glory of thirteenshands.
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No for real, can you hear me?
I honestly thought going in that this was going to be an episode where nobody could hear anyone and a deaf character was going to be the hero. Like, straight up. This story went in a completely different direction to what I expected and I kind of appreciate and admire that. So good on you story for subverting the expectations you created in the title. It’s Can You Hear Me? written by Charlene James and Chris Chibnall and aired on February 9, 2020.
Show-notes:
2:10: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast and Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast
3:53: We’ll be joined by Keith and Steven in the coming weeks.
7:07: Yes, the crusades took place (partially) in what today is Syria.
10:43: Here’s the sequel to Rose if you somehow haven’t heard about it yet.
15:45: This is where the audio starts getting messed up and misaligned. This is a result of how we recorded this episode. We’ll (read: Dylan will) get better at this as time goes on.
16:51: The Monsters Inc. tea meme.
25:05: The official language of Syria is Arabic, but plenty of other languages are spoken there as well.
25:33: More on wendigos
40:10: And North American
50:41: The group in Love & Monsters was called LINDA (London Investigation ‘N’ Detective Agency)
1:02:14: Check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast
1:03:52: It was Extremis
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Today in Trust Your Doctor, our regular life.
This is truly the end of an era, this is the last TYD episode that will be recorded in the same room for… three months? Who knows how long we’ll be stuck in our homes. Did you know every episode up until this point was recorded in person? And now life is conspiring against us to shut down the podcast. God damn Praxeus… disease bacteria virus thing. It’s Praxeus written by Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall and aired on February 2, 2020.
Show-notes:
20:23: This. This is what Birdemic is about.
23:45: Meant to say “Love and Monsters” here.
36:10: Mr. Burns’ checkup.
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The crossover we’ve all been waiting for.
I was a fugitive once. The cops came to my house, told me I was wanted for stealing toilet paper during a time of crisis. I, of course, denied it and jumped out the window. Pretty sure I broke my ankle on the way down but I didn’t have time to verify. Some say I’m still running to this day, although I think the police have other toilet paper thieves on their hands now. It’s Fugitive of the Judoon written by Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall and aired on January 26, 2020.
Show-notes:
18:44: Pretty sure there was something wrong with the call here, which is why Argy couldn’t hear us I think. Happens once again later too.
35:39: 50dw50 on twitter
42:15: The greatest thing we’ve ever done
50:50: Here’s an article about Porsche and the nazis. Also Hitler was involved in the production of the Volkswagen Beetle.
1:20:01: The origins of “going ham”
1:27:55: Here’s the video of Chibnall telling Pip and Jane Baker what he thinks of Terror of the Vervoids.
1:40:15: Here’s an article about Wikipedia editors editing Bloomberg’s death into his wiki page. Wikipedia editors are some of the most dangerous and unhinged people out there.
1:48:00: More about the 2038 thing that’s gonna screw us all over… if corona doesn’t do that first…
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Bring back K9.
This week on Trust Your Doctor: every single person you ever thought was a hero is actually a terrible person. Who could have guessed that? Not me, not you, not anyone close to these people who have been warning us for years and only just now got heard because said person is all of a sudden famous. No certainly not them. It’s Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror written by Nina Métivier and aired on January 19, 2020.
Show-notes:
2:45: The “Why would ________ do this?” meme (mixed in this example with the all time classic “Bush did 9/11” meme).
4:09: The Current War. You know a movie’s good when its Wikipedia article starts with “[name of movie] is a 2017/2019 American historical drama”
15:14: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast.
17:30: Well here’s Dylan’s twitter. I don’t know whether he actually posted the “barcodes” as “planned,” but if he did that’s where they would be.
19:05: It would’ve been the Austro-Hungarian krone I guess. Or maybe the Austrian shilling? I dunno.
29:10: It was The Underwater Menace.
35:27: 5 seconds on google told me it was Margaret Hamilton.
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Multiple hams at once, just all over.
I wonder what the other 54 orphan planets look like. Do you think they look anything like bombed out earth in the future? Maybe the bombed out shell of Gallifrey was an orphan planet too, and then it become Gallifrey. And the Timelords took its orphan status away. They adopted it. What a good society! It’s Orphan 55 written by Ed Hime and aired on January 12, 2020.
Show-notes:
4:30: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
13:12: Meant to say Happiness Patrol here.
15:52: And here…
19:30: Here’s the “Disney’s Catacombs” creepypasta.
20:50: List of incidents at Disney parks. There are multiple lists to read, so this page collects all of them. Also the movie I was talking about was Escape from Tomorrow. I just read the plot summary on wikipedia and it sounds wild.
27:18: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast
27:47: Apparently the comic story The Glorious Dead does this, though I’m not 100% sure on that.
31:03: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast
33:35: Turtle comic thing
42:35: Leo Strauss on wikipedia. Just wanted to link this here since I was too lazy to look up anything else about him myself, so here’s the link if you want to read more yourself.
44:46: The Southern Strategy
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It’s like a science fair but worse.
Weirdly enough there’s actually a new James Bond movie coming out this year. As in like, for the first time in 5 years there’s a James Bond movie coming to theatres. How do I know it was 5 years? Well because I took my dad for his birthday to see it, and it was a monumental age (no, I won’t tell you what it was though). It’s Spyfall written by Chris Chibnall and aired on January 1 and 5, 2020.
Show-notes:
13:12: The Doctor Who wiki surprisingly doesn’t have a page on left handedness. So instead here’s the page on dates.
22:30: Outside of G.I. Joe, Cobra is like an Austrian military police unit, an Indian police force, and a Serbian military police force.
24:04: It’s not pinned anymore because @Prof_Quiteamess deleted it ;_;
30:38: It was actually steganography. Stenography is something else. According to the Doctor wiki, steganography was only ever mentioned in this episode.
32:11: Here’s Lenny Henry playing the Doctor in 1985. I’ve actually seen this before, but I completely forgot about it.
1:08:30: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, that podcast that we’re finally doing again.
1:14:36: Also check out our other podcasts Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast and Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
1:39:20: This is just copied straight from the Doctor Who wiki: “Editing for the DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team. The most prominent of these edits is to the serial’s final scenes, when the freighter crashes into prehistoric earth. The edit mainly revises the scene so that, instead of the TARDIS’s monitor showing a still image of the freighter, followed by several bright flashes (meant to represent the explosion of the impact), the screen actually shows the freighter slamming into the Earth, with the explosion being represented by a pulsating light over the impact site.” This obviously has to do with the DVD release, which came out in like 2003 (so not exactly recently). But I think this might’ve been what people were discussing when it came to the blu ray.
2:16:52: Here’s the discussion that JB mentioned.
2:19:39: And of course just check out WHO 37 in general, and also check out BAT 77 too.
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Should old Doctors be forgotten?
I only just processed that this was the only episode of Doctor Who that aired in 2019. The one and only single one. Which is a little weird because 2019 was so damn long, at least in my life. And throughout that long span of time there was only one single episode of Doctor Who to keep me sane. Pity. It’s Resolution written by Chris Chibnall and aired on January 1, 2019.
Show-notes:
9:16: More on old style and new style dates. Surprise surprise, we (I) got most of this wrong. Also I mentioned how the shift affected the dates that early U.S. presidents were inaugurated on, but the shift actually came way before that. What I meant to say was that it affects most of the early presidents’ birthdays.
15:05: The entire 2020 state of the union.
34:10: Aaaand of course I can’t find it. I actually looked for more than 30 seconds for once, but nope. I got nothing.
39:11: A Single Man is by Christopher Isherwood.
41:03: If you like Blake’s 7 and podcasts, check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, a Blake’s 7 podcast.
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We all saw this coming to be honest.
I’m pretty sure the next season of Clone Wars comes out after this episode of Trust Your Doctor. Or at least the first episode. Maybe we should make a Clone Wars podcast just so that one day we can have the inevitable (ha) title of “Doctor Who in my Star Wars?” For the poetry, of course. It’s The Battle of Ranskoor Av’Kolos written by Chris Chibnall and aired on December 8, 2018.
Show-notes:
6:34: Good
6:51: Can’t find the video
18:37: The Ux have only appeared in this episode. Also At Childhood’s End just came out like a little over a week ago.
36:23: The villain in Rosa was named Krasko.
37:48: This is the image we were referring to here.
39:39: Even after reading this Know Your Meme entry on “Ugandan Knuckles” I still don’t understand the meme.
40:50: “menschen” is just “people” I’m pretty sure.
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This is the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard.
I’ve always wanted to go to Norway. Never really had the opportunity to do so though. Which is a bummer because it always looked nice. I wonder why this episode is set in Norway and not Sweden. A good question for another time. It’s It Takes You Away, written by Ed Hime and aired on December 1, 2018.
Show-notes:
2:12: This is the first time we’ve seen Norway on the tv show, but it’s been in comics and audios before. Bad Wolf Bay was in Norway, but it was in the alternate world.
9:35: Here’s the trailer for The Silence. Cash-in on “A Quiet Place” or not, this was actually based on a book that came out in 2015.
21:43: Video of Gordon Ramsay and James May eating fermented shark
24:47: Unfortunately I couldn’t find any behind-the-scenes info on the antizone. I did find this somewhat-interesting video that kind of goes behind the scenes on this episode. It’s not too great, but yeah.
27:57: It was Spinoza, and the concept was called natura naturans.
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Ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit.
Something something the Crucible is actually about the Red Scare. Well not actually. It was really about the witch hunts, but it’s supposed to be heavily about the Red Scare. Drawing parallels between the two really. But as Kiyan says “intentionality doesn’t matter” so in many ways you could see it as whatever you want. Maybe to you it’s just a play about the witch hunts. It’s The Witchfinders, written by Joy Wilkinson and aired on November 25, 2018.
Show-notes:
6:26: Bring out yer dead
13:25: Abraham Lincoln actually was the 16th president. Trump is the 45th.
18:12: If you want to hear us discuss the Troll “trilogy,” check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast
53:21: The bible on tattoos
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The greatest “thing” that’s ever been in Doctor Who.
I sit here editing this episode on my Amazon laptop, with my Amazon Ergonomic Chair listening on my Amazon Buds. My Amazon branded air freshener releases a new scent to improve my workflow. I take a sip of Amazon approved water, delivered in an Amazon plastic bottle. I smile, for Amazon will look after me. It’s Kerblam, written by Pete McTighe and aired on November 18, 2018.
Show-notes:
13:31: Retrofuturism as described by Wikipedia
21:03: Sadly I can’t find this story anymore. According to this discussion, it might have been “A Short History of World War LXXVIII” by Roy L. Prosterman, but then ISFDB (and the comment thread on stackexchange) say that this story was never anthologized, and I’m pretty sure I read it in a sci-fi anthology. The worst part? I have no way of checking since I got rid of the anthology I think I read it in years ago, and “A Short History of World War LXXVIII” is nowhere to be found online as far as I can tell. Google gave me nothing at least.
23:43: The best gif of Tom Baker
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I feel really bad about not knowing anything about partition, but watching this episode for the second time has actually prompted me to look into it more. It seems to have served the Doctor Who purpose of introducing an audience to an entirely new topic that they had no idea about. Does that make it the most successful Doctor Who episode of all time? Stay tuned to find out. It’s Demons of the Punjab, written by Vinay Patel and aired on November 11, 2018.
Show-notes:
2:12: The Hugo awards are chosen by the World Science Fiction Society. The Nebulas on the other hand are chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Wikipedia’s joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Also the book I was talking about was The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, which won the World Fantasy Award for long fiction and was nominated by the Hugos, Nebulas, and Locus awards.
14:49: Behold the majesty of ThrustSSC.
24:44: It was probably the Battle of Singapore, part of World War 2.
28:52: Seeds of Death had Jamie and Zoe in it.
34:17: Check out Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast and Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast
56:20: Mountbatten
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We call it sky surfing here.
When I heard the name of this episode I kind of imagined it as an almost Kobayashi Maru situation. You know in Star Trek, it’s the no win situation that Kirk cheats at to win, and that cheating is the reason he gets given the captain’s chair because they really like his initiative in… cheating… I guess? But then it turned out to not be that at all. It’s The Tsuranga Conundrum, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on November 4, 2018.
Show-notes:
4:15: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast and Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
13:28: I did a little googling and I’m pretty sure this is wrong. I think you’d only die by eating and/or licking poison dart frogs, not just touching them. None of the sources I found mentioned that just touching them would kill you.
15:11: Side-by-side comparison of the unreleased cut of Lilo & Stitch featuring more realistic aircraft and cityscapes and the theatrical version.
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All of America is the twitspace.
I just realized how weird it is that the villain in a UK story is an American. There’s probably more to that now that I think about it, something about how America gained its independence and now the UK hates them or something. It’s Arachnids in the UK, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 28, 2018.
Show-notes:
2:12: Article about George Lucas’ original ideas for the sequel trilogy.
3:56: Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast
10:50: Obviously I was just joking here, but a quick skim of the Tardis wiki reminded me that the Master’s plan in Time-Flight was something along the lines of using the Tardis’ energy to break out of some alternate dimension. Also here’s (one version of) that meme with Gru from Despicable Me.
13:46: Yeah I still have no idea what this was supposed to be or what it is. According to the Doctor Who wiki, he said pakora, but that’s not what it sounded like at all.
24:05: Before the Law by Kafka
25:54: Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast
27:26: Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast
40:02: Pretty sure it was grime.
45:11: Axolotl by Cortázar
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Ozzie Osborne that is.
This week we’re joined by Argy yet again to travel back in time to Montgomery. To be fair absolutely none of us have been to Montgomery before, so it’s a bit of a new experience for all of us. I’ll be honest I think I can say with some mild certainty that most of our audience hasn’t been to Montgomery either. So it’s new for you too. It’s Rosa, written by Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall and aired on October 21, 2018.
Show-notes:
31:06: Here’s the wikipedia article on Emmett Till.
43:49: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
48:37: Here’s the clip again of the money Banksy printed. Also here’s the video of the Girl with Balloon painting being shredded. And finally, here’s the link to our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: a Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
43:09: Full text of Puddnhead Wilson
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Doctor Who must not go on.
When I saw the title for this episode the first time I was convinced it was some sort of monument to Casper the friendly ghost. Like it was going to be something super cool about this cartoon character. In hindsight I’m starting to think that would be the weirdest crossover in existence, but I kind of want to see if they could make it work. It’s The Ghost Monument, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 14, 2018.
Show-notes:
10:11: From Wikipedia: Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence to direct the viewer’s attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
23:53: Wikipedia (the source of all my knowledge) doesn’t seem to say anything about being able to overcome dyspraxic setbacks mentally.
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We all regenerate into women this week.
Just kidding, Trust Your Doctor is still a sausage fest. Sort of. It’s kind of sobering to realize just how many male Doctor Who podcasts there are, and then compare that to the number that have, say, at least one female host. It’s The Woman Who Fell to Earth, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on October 7, 2018.
Show-notes:
8:13: It’s Segun Akinola.
9:35: Population: 582,506 (according to wiki)
10:35: Brian Regan on spelling things
10:55: Pea tear griffin
24:35: Check out Krynoid Podcast
36:28: Check out our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast.
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This is the end of everything.
It’s kind of bittersweet saying goodbye to so many things that have kind of become staples so to speak of the show for us. Stephen Moffat, Murray Gold, Mark Gatiss, Peter Capaldi. All of them are leaving for us now. This almost feels like it might be one of the biggest changes in the show that we’ve ever experienced. This week we read Terrorformer and The Swords of Kali, published in October 2014 through February 2015.
Show-notes:
5:19: Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast.
15:35: The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Also check out our classic sci-fi podcast Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast. It desperately needs the listeners.
25:42: The Massacre only had 4 episodes thankfully.
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Personally, I make it a rule to cry on every day EXCEPT Christmas.
Did you ever watch that Disney movie? Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas? Well fun fact they actually made a sequel, called Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas. And every time I watch this episode I think of that movie because the names are so suspiciously similar. I mean, have you ever seen anything else in any media that uses the word “twice” at all? It’s Twice Upon a Time, written by Stephen Moffat and aired on December 25, 2017.
Show-notes:
1:10: More about Her (2013) if you care
7:32: I messed up the numbering here, but just pretend I got it right. The order is right though.
10:55: It was Wills.
13:12: Tenth Planet takes place in December 1986.
20:19: The 500 year diary was used by the Second Doctor in Power of the Daleks. Then the Seventh Doctor used the 900 year diary in the tv movie, the Eleventh Doctor used the 1200 year diary, and the Twelfth Doctor used the 2000 year diary.
25:38: Counterfeit money scene from Exit Through the Gift Shop
30:30: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, on which we discuss Star Cops and other classic sci-fi shows.
42:59: David Tennant on pears
51:40: Terraformer and The Swords of Kali
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Don’t knock it till you try it.
I read a pretty good poem recently, but it wasn’t in any way related to this episode. I just thought it was a good poem. It was called “Go to the Limits of Your Longing.” Rilke wrote it. I highly recommend it. It’s World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls, written by Stephen Moffat and aired on June 24 and July 1, 2017.
Show-notes:
10:59: If you don’t know what Xena: Warrior Princess is, this is what it is.
11:47: To His Coy Mistress
16:19: Here’s the actual 12th Doctor intro and here’s the fanmade intro (created by Billy Hanshaw) that it was based on. I like Hanshaw’s version better.
28:15: Here’s a pretty good article about the whole “Doctor Who” vs. “The Doctor” debate.
52:26: Metallica’s “One” music video
1:10:14: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast (in which we discuss Star Cops). And while you’re at it, check out Zenith: A Blake’s 7 podcast and Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast.
1:15:45: Here’s an example of Michelle Gomez’s stand up.
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Even closing my eyes is no escape from the horror that is the drashigs.
If I could subsist on light, I totally would if I’m being honest. I mean, now that I think about it, that’s kind of what plants do right? They eat light and then they turn it into food and survive. So does that mean the main enemy of this story is a plant? Food for thought. It’s The Eaters of Light written by Rona Munro and aired on June 17, 2017.
Show-notes:
2:31: This article from over 10 years ago explains how to dial straight to voicemail using something called “Slydial.” I obviously didn’t try it to see if it still works, but feel free to do so yourself.
4:34: Check out our other podcasts Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, Zenith: A Blake’s 7 Podcast, and Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast
22:40: Why a pterosaur is not a dinoasur
25:52: Here’s what the aftermath of the largest simultaneous dice roll looks like.
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Since Disney owns nearly everything I can’t imagine this crossover is far behind.
Given how many times Mars has appeared on the show it should be pretty easy to assemble some sort of timeline of the Martian Empire right? Also, wasn’t that killer water that killed everything it ever touched in the polar ice caps? The one we learned about in Waters of Mars? Shouldn’t the gang be violently ill and trying to consume each other during almost the entirety of this episode? It’s Empress of Mars, written by Mark Gatiss and aired on June 10, 2017.
Show-notes:
4:22: Scratchman was “co-written” by James Goss. And by co-written I mean it was probably mostly written by him.
4:36: “With exclusive commentary ‘He Did It’ by the Goldman Family”
21:30: Pretty sure it was Zulu Dawn. And here’s a short description of the Great Emu War from Australian Geographic.
25:03: Here’s a pretty good (but poorly formatted) list of periods in British history.
33:28: John Cena’s theme
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As opposed to Blink 2019 edition.
It’s surprising to me that an episode so clearly about propaganda actually didn’t cause much of a splash at all when it landed. Kind of seems like everyone shrugged and looked right past it, even though it explicitly mentions a few people that this episode is clearly sending up. Weird. It’s Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World and The Lie of the Land written by Steven Moffat, Peter Harness, and Toby Whithouse and aired on May 20 and 27 and June 3, 2017.
Show-notes:
3:32: The comic is called The World Shapers.
6:19: In case you don’t remember this prehistoric meme
39:45: Lol just looked it up, Nebraska doesn’t even border Texas.
45:21: This was the exact Gandhi quote according to Goodreads. Here’s more stuff Gandhi apparently wrote about fear and love too. And here are some articles that could potentially shed some light on the controversy surrounding Gandhi.
56:55: Lonely Island songs we reference here: I’m on a Boat, Threw it on the Ground, Like a Boss, Jack Sparrow. Also check out our other podcasts, Triple Play, Inevitable, and Zenith.
1:00:06: Official (?) site of the Church of Last Thursday
1:22:48: The Strenuous Life was a 1899 speech by Theodore Roosevelt
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This sounds like a shitty Rocky spinoff.
Sometimes, when I can’t breathe, I wonder what it would be like if I had to pay for my next breath. Like, if I was dying right now would I be willing to fork over the money required to keep on living? It’s a really interesting thing to think about, but also kind of horrifying. Is your life worth that much? It’s Oxygen, written by Jamie Mathieson and aired on May 13, 2017.
Show-notes:
0:30: The “Damn Daniel” meme came out about 3 and a half years ago, possible a little more. Because Internet is a new book from Gretchen McuCulloch, one of the hosts of the Lingthusiasm podcast.
3:30: It was The Pursuit of Happyness, but as usual I got what it was about wrong.
7:06: Check out Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast, a new podcast we started to discuss classic sci-fi.
9:32: It was Clive.
22:36: Check out Zenith, our Blake’s 7 podcast.
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Sorry entomologists, I really hate to break this to you.
I always thought it was going to be four knocks, you know? Like, knock knock knock knock. At least that’s what that weird fortune teller told us it was going to be. But I guess the Twelfth Doctor only requires half as many knocks. I wonder what that says about him. It’s Knock Knock, written by Mike Bartlett and aired on May 6, 2017.
Show-notes:
3:35 I think this is the album version of Song for Ten. This is the tv version for comparison. Also I can’t believe the Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon was also officially released.
4:33 Reach across the stars with our new science fiction podcast Inevitable. We’re watching Star Cops for season 1.
5:25 Palm Jumeirah is a series of artificial islands made to look like palm trees.
10:24 For our first watch of Troll 2, check out our Triple Play episode on the Troll “series”
16:59 It was way more than $600.
17:27 I guess Van Halen really didn’t like brown m&ms.
24:49 Yeah they eat wood.
31:58 It was Disturbia.
36:52 More on the Trump Nickelback meme fiasco
45:31 Here’s our Star Wars Holiday Special episode if you’re interested.
50:01 Children of the Stones intro
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This week we have something new for you.
This is Episode 0 of our new podcast, Inevitable. Because, as we all know, we’re basically suckers for attention and so as soon as someone mentioned we should watch even more sci-fi everyone has to have known that this would be inevitable. Inevitable will be available on your favourite podcasting platform on October 18, 2019!
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Might be from the radioactive cool whip factory.
Did you ever notice how it’s always “thin ice” but never “thick ice.” You can never have thick ice, I guess, which is weird since most ice like glaciers are pretty thick. But then again I guess it depends if you measure thick or thin vertically or horizontally. It’s Thin Ice, written by Sarah Dollard and aired on April 29, 2017.
Show-notes:
2:22 Here’s the shot of Turlough staring at enlightenment.
5:03 It was Julie Gardner.
7:35 Looks like slavery was abolished in the UK in the early 1800s. In the U.S. it was abolished on paper over the course of the 1860s.
21:37 Here’s the fanfic in question. Read at your own risk.
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I can think of worse ways to spend my time.
I just watched that Joker movie and now every time I see the word Smile I think of that song that tells you to Smile all the time. You know, Smile if you want to, Smile around the world, the B-52s one. I’m pretty sure that’s called Smile too. Wait no hang on that might be Roam. It’s Smile, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and aired on April 22, 2017.
Show-notes:
1:16 The wikipedia page for the City of Arts and Sciences has some pretty good pictures of the real thing.
23:31 Apparently soylent green is a cookie/wafer thing. Also the movie takes place in a dystopian future where it’s like the best or only food source for a bunch of people.
29:09 Here’s an example of speed reading words in the same place on the screen.
40:08 The 100 is a fairly new post-apocalyptic tv series.
41:54 Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
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Oh right, the Super La Brea Tar Cops. Of course, how could I miss that?
When I was a kid one of the professions I really wanted to be was a pilot. At first it was a doctor, but then I really wanted to be a pilot. Wait, a Doctor, a Pilot, my life growing up was basically wanting to be in Doctor Who. Chris, Chibnall, call me dude I have no agent and I work for exposure. It’s The Pilot, written by Steven Moffat and aired on April 15, 2017.
Show-notes:
14:57 Check out Triple Play, our movie trilogy podcast. 24:19 There’s only one M-rated Nardole story on fanfiction.net, and it doesn’t contain any BDSM content. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Murray Gold.
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Truly, the greatest Doctor Who story of all time.
There’s been a lot of Christmas on the mind recently. There’s even a Christmas scene in The Pilot, so that’s like three weeks worth of Christmas for us, which is quite overwhelming if we’re completely honest. But hey, at least no more for another three months. It’s The Return of Doctor Mysterio, written by Steven Moffat and aired on December 25, 2016.
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18:00 What happens when you swallow gum according to this helpful youtube video. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Murray Gold.
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Have you seen Johnny though? He looks like he’s always in Wonderland.
I’ll be honest, I probably won’t even have one husband in my life. So to hear that River has like, 3 at least, and really 15 if you count all 13 incarnations of the Doctor as different people is really impressive to me. I wonder if they all get along with each other. Pretty sure at least two incarnations of the Doctor don’t. It’s The Husbands of River Song, written by Steven Moffat and aired on December 25, 2015.
Show-notes:
0:50 Check out our movie trilogy podcast Triple Play. Or if you care even less for your sanity, check out these clips from the live action Grinch and Cat in the Hat movies. 7:09 Andy Serkis played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. 37:28 Here it is again, the greatest Doctor Who horror fanfic of all time, Boiling Point. 1:13:22 This is the millionth time I’ve linked to this River Song timeline and I have become exceedingly efficient at it. 1:14:19 It was Dave Duerson. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Murray Gold.
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shudders in Dalek And here we see the rare true to life story about how someone makes it into Heaven. Simply find the nearest 25 foot thick diamond wall and spend the rest of eternity punching your way through it. It’s that simple! It’s Heaven Sent and Hell Bent, written by Steven Moffat and airedContinue reading →
As opposed to a map show from literally any other country on Earth. Recently I’ve actually become a bit attached to the crows in my neighborhood. I’ll be moving soon and I’m actually a little sad you know? The crows here just have such friendly personalities I’m going to really miss them. On the flipContinue reading →
Coming soon to Trust Your Doctor? I purchased my Morpheus system from 3P Enterprises, and it was delivered in quick time. This is the only good thing I can say about the system. Within one month of purchase I’ve started to hear the Morpheus song, even when I’m in my personal sensory deprivation tank. TwoContinue reading →
Society needs to end. Ok let’s take a moment to consider how weird it would be to have a Zygon procreate with a human. Does that create some sort of Zygon-human hybrid? And if they are can they shape shift, do they still have that ability? Or maybe they can’t but if they can’t thenContinue reading →
I’m pretty sure we’ve had a really similar title to this before. I remember when this episode title was announced a lot of people were convinced that Amy was going to be in this. Because the title bore some superficial resemblance to the Girl Who Waited. Looking at it now that’s kind of a completelyContinue reading →
I need one of those pictures that shows the faces of people on different drugs with one for memes. I’m disconcerted by the pace at which we’re speeding through this season, if I’m being honest. It feels like my life is wizzing past my eyes as I die. It reminds me a lot of seasonContinue reading →
Everything is a throwback, nothing is original. What better time to completely revamp the format for the podcast than a moment in the show when absolutely nothing changed in the show? It makes total and complete sense to me, I’m actually not being facetious right now at all. Less things that the audience has toContinue reading →
Now for the Trust Your Doctor Code. Five words: The Rock is The Doctor. For once we can say we have a special “Christmas in July” episode of Trust Your Doctor. Because by some weird coincidence this goes out right near the end of July. Not quite on the 25th, or in the middle either,Continue reading →
Who interrogates soldiers? The Hague? Danny Pink you’re charged with war crimes, killing innocents, and committing genocide post mortum. We would dishonorably discharge you, but you seem so hell bent on being a soldier that we thought a more fitting punishment would be to just do nothing to you. You’ll forever be a soldier. How’sContinue reading →
I think cockroaches are susceptible to pretty much any other form of death though. Do cockroaches actually live in forests? I was just thinking now, since London is a forest now, does that mean all the cockroaches are dead? Or did they just decide “hey what the hell let’s throw a party, the world justContinue reading →
Have you ever met a kind hearted Ogron? I’m imagining this as a sort of kids story in the Doctor Who universe for Time Lord children. They sit down because the Ogrons are some sort of myth, and then there’s a very nice Ogron who breaks away from society to be better than everyone else.Continue reading →
Now hang on hear me out on this… Did you know the office where we record these episodes is right next to a train track? We usually luck out, it’s pretty rare that a train will pass while we record. It was more common when we recorded Zenith and TYD back to back, but it’sContinue reading →
I’m kind of surprised the US only sent up 100 nukes. That’s like 0.0001% of their arsenal. In the continuing saga of “What the hell even is British English” I’ve gone and found out that a caretaker actually is a janitor. In fact, the dictionary explicitly lists “janitor” as a synonym for “caretaker.” Although IContinue reading →
Honestly I still want to know why the Trade Federation cheaped out on making more. I actually just realized, right now, while typing this summary, that I don’t know what a caretaker is. Based on this episode I always assumed it was like, the UK version of a janitor, which is what we’ve got overContinue reading →
Reduce, reuse, recycle those braincells. If Trust Your Doctor was committing a heist, what would we be stealing? I would have to imagine it would be something incredibly pointless, just to say that we could. Something like a 2×4 piece of wood from the local lumber yard. Those places have major security! This is wouldContinue reading →
Well this is the worst disco I’ve ever been to! Have you ever been to an upmarket restaurant? I have, twice, to this very upscale very fancy Mexican place. Anyway that’s not related to the fact that I was going to ask, how much of a pain do you think it is to work there?Continue reading →
All gather around as Sir Robin shoots this Apple off my head. We use an Apple laptop to record this podcast, did you know that? Other podcast have fancy desktop systems, but what we lack in CPU power we gain in portability. We could literally record anywhere. In fact we’ve had semiserious discussions about recordingContinue reading →
It is. We need to look inside ourself this week. Like deep inside, to the parts ourselves that we never show to the light. Where the cobwebs are. Where my little spider friend Steve lives, killing any flies that make their way in. Hey Steve, hope you’ve been having a good time in there. NiceContinue reading →
The fourth sequel to the Step Up series. I was really hoping that this would be episode 250 but none of the numbering worked out for it to be so. I guess episode 250 is just awkwardly going to be the second episode of this season, which would probably bother some people but I’m prettyContinue reading →
Well bloody hell I have nothing witty to say about 11. I really genuinely thought that for a while Deep Breath would be Episode 250 of the podcast. Of course, I had forgotten at the time that we don’t number retrospectives, and hence this episode wasn’t going to be Episode 249. Which means that EpisodeContinue reading →
Doctor Who has an illness and Doctor Chibnall is here to solve it. And so the clock has run out. Like just totally. It’s not 11, it’s not 12, it’s just dead. Hands fell off. and nobody knows how to make clocks anymore since we all use digital clocks so I haven’t really been ableContinue reading →
We’re out of it now. This week Kiyan and Dylan finally put the first 50 years of the podcast to rest. I mean the first 50 years of Doctor Who. Same thing in the end, really, when you think about it. The podcast has existed as long as the show has, didn’t you know that?Continue reading →
I’m pretty sure electric peeps would suck even worse than normal peeps. You know, we kind of have experience with dealing with something we like to pretend doesn’t exist. It’s called Trust Your Doctor, Episode 1. We even rerecorded it like 5 years later, and then literally replaced it in the podcast feed so noContinue reading →
What ever happened to Quicksilver anyway? In about twenty years I’m hoping to buy Disneyland. Why, you might ask? Because I want to rebuild it in our image. I want to build an entire Trust Your Doctor themed theme park. We’ll have the Aztecs land, where we just have people walk around dressed as Tegana.Continue reading →
One day we’ll be able to prove that, but not today. When we recorded this there was a bout a 15 minute period where we just got paralyzed with fear. Turns out the Crimson Horror is the lobster we bought as a pet for the podcast. Of course, we’re only ever in the recording roomContinue reading →
How many things has Elon invented now? Trust Your Doctor is a complex beast. We record in an office so sparse and huge it’s comparable to the TARDIS itself. We even have a whole room just singularly dedicated to cotton candy. Like. It’s just walls and walls of cotton candy machines. That’s all that’s inContinue reading →
Nooo, not the floral print, please, not the floral print! The other day we were recording the podcast and then suddenly discovered that our recording studio is haunted. We’re currently being haunted by our great-great-great-great-grandchildren. Weirdly enough they’re still doing a podcast that far in the future. If you all wanted to know when DoctorContinue reading →
Only true Duran Duran fans listen to this podcast. You know, sometimes I wonder how hard it must have been if you were an American or British spy and you were sent into Russia. You have to spend months, if not years, learning Russian, and then you have to perfect it to the point whereContinue reading →
How many Rose Tyler jokes can we make before this gets old? If you believe the fan theory that Doctor Who is just based on someone going back in time and reconstructing what the episodes should look like based on our podcast then by that theory our podcast represents not only how Doctor Who is,Continue reading →
Who could have seen that coming? I’m actually pretty sure the first time I saw this episode I thought Moffat was really clever for the whole “bells of St. John” thing. And you know, I still do. On the other hand though, he’s aware enough to make a joke about it, but where did theContinue reading →
Mary Poppins? Now there’s a name I have not heard in a long time. Ding dong, turns out Christmas is here again, in February! Hasn’t Christmas just passed? Like, two months ago, or not even. A month a week, on this podcast anyway. That’s kind of weird, I’d say this is the shortest period betweenContinue reading →
On the prowl for dangerous criminals it’s Leadworth’s latest superhero…. Walmart Wilf! I typically don’t shop at Walmart. I’m honestly just too lazy to drive that far, like it’s definitely not the closest department store to me. I haven’t done the math, but I’m pretty sure the extra cost of gas spent in driving toContinue reading →
Can anyone find Cronus? Zeus needs to be put in a time out. You know, Doctor Who really likes to tell us how many people is the right number, and it turns out it’s three. Which means that our podcast is one man short, and that further means that only our crossovers are “correct” inContinue reading →
The showdown of the century! This town aint big enough for more than one podcast. And we all know which podcast that is. That’s right. It’s Triple Play. Not enough space around here for Triple Play as well as Trust Your Doctor, and since Triple Play is obviously the better podcast we’re shutting this oneContinue reading →
Oh boy I can already see the debate coming. Welcome… To Jurassic Spaceship! We’ve spared no expense. This spaceship is made of solid stone, through and through. Couldn’t really afford steel you know, so we went along with this pumice we found lying near that definitely inactive volcano. A few workers walked off the job,Continue reading →
Damn, guess I’m Davros now. Alright brace yourselves. Trying to wrap your head around the continuity behind the Daleks in this episode might just drive you mad. Why are there new paradigm Daleks mixed with old ones? Where did they even come from I thought they all died off before Victory? And why do theContinue reading →
Everyone knows how to make lemonade right? Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Well, sort of. This episode awkwardly gets plopped between the two but, close enough. And we’re even talking about a Christmas episode, can you believe that? Pretty sure this will never happen again until 2020 at least if they air oneContinue reading →
Look out Steven, we’re coming for you. You’ll never believe what happened to us while we were recording this episode. Dylan received a phone call from someone desperately trying to stop us recording. Turns out, our podcast recording last week was a fixed point in time, and the attempt to stop us recording caused theContinue reading →
Bring back yippie honestly. Best Character 2k11. The biggest disappointment in this episode is that the song “Closing Time” is nowhere to be seen anywhere in this story. It’d be perfect, you know? It’d be that exact thing that Kiyan hates, kind of like that time they used “Iron Man” in the movie, Iron Man.Continue reading →
At least we only have to do this for the rest of our lives. Look. I run this podcast. I edit it. I maintain the website. Basically what I’m saying is that it’s my podcast. No one else’s. Am I doing this God Complex thing right? I actually don’t think I am now that IContinue reading →
Good lord, I don’t think I’ve ever thought of that until now. This week we locked ourselves in a plain white room to record. It actually kind of sucked, because I usually zone out looking at my keyboard when we record these things. Kind of like entering a podcasting metastate, but that’s ok. We figuredContinue reading →
Everyone wants to be brunette now. This week Kiyan and Dylan confront their deepest darkest fears. And in order to do so they make a podcast! Gasp! This is such a huge twist of events, who could have ever predicted that this is what they would do? Certainly not us! It’s Night Terrors, written byContinue reading →
Very fast and furious when you really think about it. This week we try to stop one of the biggest tyrants in history and then promptly decide to dick around and not even do that. I mean, if you have the chance to change the entire course of human history, why would you? It’s Let’sContinue reading →
Everybody should know how to get to the hospital for abduction. This week Kiyan and Dylan make it to the mid season finale, finally! The next half of the season is going to run much slower than this half, mainly because it’s all one parters, so it’ll take us until Christmas to get through it.Continue reading →
Verbose – Adj. Using or expressed in more words than are needed. Kiyan and Dylan are now recording using remote bodies! This is the technology of the future, and we have it right now! Not gonna lie, this is a bit weird. I can’t feel my fingers anymore. Or my legs. Or my head. Its TheContinue reading →
I have more questions than answers right now. This week we’re joined for our first crossover of the reboot. I think. I’m pretty sure. I’d check but I’m sure enough that I’m not going to. Just trust me on this one, I’m really certain of it. It’s The Doctor’s Wife, written by Neil Gaiman andContinue reading →
That’s pretty smartly brah. Arrrrrr mateys. This week we’re here for a special pirate themed episode of Trust Your Doctor, where we do absolutely none of the following: Neglect to bathe for a month, talk like a pirate in broken english, use strange pirate slang that fell out of use years ago, neglect to shaveContinue reading →
America, heck yea! Censored for unsafe eyes. This week we finally officially properly start Series 6. Last week kind of counted because it was produced as part of the same thing, but this week is like, the actual thing you know? And! We get to go to America, that’s pretty cool right? It’s The ImpossibleContinue reading →
Ran into The Doctor yesterday. She told me not to expect any consistency in Chibnall’s era either. Ding dong here come the Christmas bells. The Christmas horses. Reindeer. Ok look Christmas is hard to try shove into this description so I’m just gonna give up. Unlike Kiyan I actually like Christmas though. It’s A ChristmasContinue reading →
Only on Doctor Who would you find someone with the middle name Danger. This week things go sideways. Like, really sideways. But also it goes upside down and in reverse and crooked. And all those non forward directions that Stephen Moffat loves so much. It’s The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang, written by StephenContinue reading →
Closets hold a lot of skeletons honestly. Or at least, mine do. James Corden is actually a pretty funny guy. I think because Gordon Ramsey is a chef I confused him with James Corden, somehow, even though their names are literally nothing alike. At all. I must be really dense honestly, because that’s completely bizarre.Continue reading →
E-space kind of sucked tho so I’ll give him a pass for trying to escape. I looked up how to paint once. But it was really difficult and kind of expensive and so I decided it would be better to look up how to digitally paint since I already had photoshop. But then I foundContinue reading →
Da da da da, da da da…. That was supposed to be the A-Team. Hey look we’re bringing back the Silurians. You all know the Silurians right? They appeared a whole two times! Which is actually less than Sabalom Glitz. And when you really think about that, you have to ask yourself, why are weContinue reading →
They weren’t important anyway. Weirdly enough, as I’m writing this, I just woke up from a dream about Blake’s 7. Which is weird because I’ve never dreamt about Doctor Who even though I’ve been watching it forever. Really disconcerting actually. Weird. It’s Amy’s Choice, written by Toby Whithouse and aired on May 15, 2010. DoctorContinue reading →
And so the age of brooms is over. I for one welcome our new mop overlords. Well, this week we sparkle. Not that you can really tell, because it’s an audio podcast and not a video podcast, but just trust me, we are. We have the blinds open and the sun is streaming in andContinue reading →
Really want to know how to play darts, honestly. The angels are back. River Song is back. Stephen Moffat is already doing the “Greatest Hits of Stephen Moffat” and it’s first season and like fourth story. Good start. It’s The Time of Angels & Flesh and Stone, written by Stephen Moffat and aired on AprilContinue reading →
Only on Doctor Who can kids participate in that age old game known as war. This week Dylan and Kiyan visit Winston Churchill. Turns out he’s as much of a hot head dick as everybody actually portrays him to be. Nobody here is actually surprised. Well maybe one person is surprised. I wasn’t surprised. It’sContinue reading →
That’s 2018 for you. We’re already deep in the Stephen Moffat era and frankly we’re done with this nonsense. Bring on Chibnall honestly, space whales, seriously? I’m done. It’s The Beast Below, written by Stephen Moffat and aired on April 10, 2010. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners,Continue reading →
Can you believe we finally got a Lion King/Doctor Who crossover? This week we do a total reboot of the podcast. Complete restart. Everything is going straight back to the beginning, we’re starting it all over. We’ve scrapped the format. We’ve started again. As the show is too! It’s The Eleventh Hour, written by StevenContinue reading →
Only the best parenting tips on this podcast. This week Kiyan and Dylan take a long introspective look at themselves as parents of a little baby podcast. Have we done it right? Have wee been raising this little boy right? Or girl, whatever it chooses. We also sort of talk about like, The Tenth DoctorContinue reading →
Don’t you even think about it Stephen. So it comes to this. The end of the Tenth Doctor, goes out with quite a bang, and about 10 minutes of plot stretched out over two hours with a twenty minute epilogue! Truly, the epitome of the Russell T. Story. It’s The End of Time, written byContinue reading →
Engage gadget uh regeneration… technique… Coming right up on the end of good old Mr. Tennant’s run here. And Russell T.’s run as well, but the more important thing is Mr. Tennant. He’s had a good run but you know, three seasons is about the max here in the reboot era. It’s The Waters ofContinue reading →
How about that for a title? Too bad none of us speak Tritovore. It’s Easter! Not really actually but like, it’s close enough. It’s a couple months late. Just pretend it’s Easter, I mean Easter doesn’t have a set date so we can just put it wherever we want. It’s Planet of the Dead, writtenContinue reading →
This is the uncrossable leech sea. This is it. We finally made it to the very first episode that Dylan watched of Doctor Who. Well before this podcast was even a glimmer in either of their eyes, there was The Next Doctor. It was written by Russell T. Davies and aired on December 25, 2008.Continue reading →
That’s all there is to it. Break glass and win. This is the end of the Russell T. era. Sort of. Almost. Kind of. Just kidding. There’s still like 4 more weeks for us to go, but it’s basically over. Russell T. has basically thrown in the towel, given us the best season finale ofContinue reading →
Anytime now. We’ll let Rose go. Any day. Just. Right there. We used to have a grasshopper in our recording studio but we’ve recorded so many different places now that I don’t think the grasshopper has shown up many times in the past year. I was going to make a joke about recording this podcastContinue reading →
So, Mr. Ant, what qualifies you for this position? This is one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time according to Dylan, and a very good one according to Kiyan, and basically all of fandom really. Most people like this, so if you don’t you’re obviously wrong. Just flat out wrong, that’s theContinue reading →
Unlike books, however, River is actually useful. Every once in a while we deserve to take a digression, I think. A nice little trip down the yellow brick road so to speak. Of course, it just so happens that this digression is all of the episode, but you know, whatever! It’s Silence in the LibraryContinue reading →
Look out! A Wasp! At the end of this recording session, around 1 in the morning, after recording Zenith, we both walked to our cars. We looked at each other, dead inside, dead on the outside. Just dead all around. “Never again.” It’s The Unicorn and the Wasp, written by Gareth Roberts and aired onContinue reading →
I was finally there, 200 episodes and still no one cares. Turns out both Kiyan and Dylan have daughters, I mean, who would have guessed that? They have their own podcast, it’s called “She’s Your Doctor” or something like that. You can tell I’m making this up as I go along really. It’s The Doctor’sContinue reading →
Ah! I am so surprised that the Sontarans are in this. This week we reveal that we’ve installed a super secret system into every car in the world. It’s the Trust Your Doctor Podcast GPS System. It comes with two equally annoying voice options: Dylan and Kiyan. It’s The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky,Continue reading →
More ood, more problems. This week we visit the Sense Sphere again. Well. Sort of. We kind of come close, like the same solar system so that’s pretty close in my mind. And the Ood come back, which I guess means the Sensorites and the Ood are related somehow? It’s Planet of the Ood, writtenContinue reading →
Everything we talk about happened 10 years ago. Donna Noble has been saved oh shit no wait that’s the wrong story. Spoilers, sweetie. No in this one Donna saves people, like 4 of them, she forces the Doctor to. Easy mistake to make, I just swapped it around. It’s Fires of Pompeii, written by JamesContinue reading →
Everyone needs a mop, much the same way everyone needs a thneed. It’s the beginning of the end. Russell T. is on his way out, he practically has one foot out of the door already, it’s his final season. He’s probably already given up actually, it’s just over now. It’s Partners in Crime, written byContinue reading →
So over here we have the latin– space gold. Almost got sued right there. This week one of us watches Time Crash, while the other doesn’t. That has to be a first for this show. I’m almost certain it is. After that we both actually watched the episode for the week, so that’s good atContinue reading →
And to think we’ve come far since the days of styrofoam avalanches … but not that far. This is the longest episode we’ve put out in a long time. It’s over an hour and a half long, and somehow it’s actually sort of interesting for the entire episode, which is really saying something. Remember ourContinue reading →
This is not a joke, we’re done with Doctor Who. Let the past die, kill it if you have to. And we did. Trust Your Doctor is dead. I’m sorry if you liked the show, but it’s done now. We’re going to replace it with a podcast that has much less overhead, it takes less timeContinue reading →
Everyone gets it wrong, look happy is sad, sad is happy, that’s how it works now. What’s the equivalent of blinking for your ears? Folding them over? Something like that. Well don’t do that, if you do that while you’re listening to this episode you’ll die. So don’t do that. It’s Blink, written by StephenContinue reading →
Let’s just file that under “never again.” This week we disguise ourselves as humans. You do remember we’re not actually humans right? We’re renegade podcast lords, we established that way back when we started the podcast. It’s Human Nature and The Family of Blood, written by Paul Cornell and aired on May 26th and JuneContinue reading →
Perhaps we need to rethink our goals for this podcast… This week we remind everyone that Nokia totally collapsed. That’s right, that really big phone manufacturer totally ruined themselves. It was no one’s fault but their own. It’s 42, written by Chris Chibnall and aired on May 19, 2007. Doctor Who © The BBC AnyContinue reading →
Only on Doctor Who will you hear “wet” bone cracking. Ew. You might say that the man who wrote this story is a greenhorn. You know, like a guy who is new or inexperienced at the task at hand. No? Never mind. It’s The Lazarus Experiment, written by Stephen Greenhorn, and aired on May 5,Continue reading →
So many hoovers, so little time. And now, Martha Jones in her first two parter. Featuring the Daleks, because bloody hell do the Daleks ever not appear? Can you imagine if they named an episode “Mystery of the Daleks” and then didn’t have the Daleks appear at all? The mystery is, where are they? It’sContinue reading →
Forget being angry, I’m all about being sad now. Gridlock is unfairly maligned. I’m putting that opinion here in writing, so you can never argue that I’ve said it, even if the audio for this episode gets garbled and never released. Or corrupted by the forces that be (looking at you Russell T.) It’s Gridlock,Continue reading →
Inn-keeping is a very old and difficult profession. This week Trust Your Doctor gets super spooky… in February. Why not, I guess, why not just release scary things in February? Nothing says you have to release them in October. It’s The Shakespeare Code, written by Gareth Roberts, and aired on April 7, 2007. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
Everybody knows that sci-fi rain is better than regular rain. This week we start another season of reboot Doctor Who. We’re really motoring on through these, we’re a third of the way through 10’s run already, can you believe it? It’s Smith and Jones, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on March 31st, 2007.Continue reading →
So far they should honestly be at the top of the kill count if we had them on there. Trust Your Doctor moves through the years pretty quickly, which means it’s already Christmas again. Yes, that’s right, it’s Christmas. Merry Christmas. It’s The Runaway Bride, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on December 25,Continue reading →
I only know one thing: the podcast must die. Well this year we put out our least enthusiastic and most unnecessary anniversary episode ever. Next year’s going to be a big celebration because it’s our 5-year, and then after that it’s kind of “eh who cares.” You feel me? Anyway, thank you all for listening,Continue reading →
Universe turns out to be kind of a jerk this week. Well, nothing even worth watching for anymore. Rose is “dead”, the Doctor is about to become a mopey teenage boy, and Russell T. has clearly run out of ideas already. It’s Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, written by Russell T. Davies and aired onContinue reading →
America has it now too. I think. This week we’re continuing the whole “Doctor Who sucks and we’re pretty sure we should just shut it all down right now” thing we started last week. Trust us, it’s bad. It’s Fear Her, written by Matthew Graham and aired on June 24, 2006. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →
Couldn’t make the episode any worse. Things are about to get pretty rocky on the show. Trust Your Doctor and Doctor Who. Both of them. Look it’s just bad, it’s that point in the year where we have to wonder if it’s really worth continuing the show anymore. Because Doctor Who is a bit ropeyContinue reading →
Every Christmas I think to my self “Move over Santa, it’s Satan’s time to shine now.” It never works. This week we’re not Kiyan and Dylan anymore, it’s edgy and dark Kiyan and Dylan. The goth versions of us if you will. We hail Satan and draw upside down crosses because we think it’s cool.Continue reading →
Best wishes to all of you at home. Or something. This year we decided to do a Christmas Special because apparently we just love recording so much we just had to do another episode. In fact, we love recording so much that we even decided that we’re starting a third podcast! I know! Blah: AContinue reading →
So I’d say we’re probably pretty annoying little twerps too. This week we watch a story that says TV is dangerous. But if we’re watching Doctor Who on TV, does that mean that Doctor Who is telling us that watching Doctor Who is bad? This is very confusing stuff this. It’s The Idiot’s Lantern, writtenContinue reading →
Guys I don’t know if this is going to sell…. This week we finally reach the new Cybermen. Because the Cybermen are what we’ve been really waiting for, all of that other nonsense? Doesn’t matter. Daleks? Nope. Autons? Nah. Cybermen. It’s Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, written by Tom MacRae andContinue reading →
Ninety-nine bushels of bananas on the wall… I have a girl in my fireplace so I don’t know what’s wrong with that really. Although actually now that I think about it my fireplace is gas burning, so maybe I’ve just been hallucinating her this entire time… It’s The Girl in the Fireplace, written by StephenContinue reading →
In the end, all we need are rats. Wait… School kind of sucks, but it’s kind of cool too. There’s a big variety in my school experiences, and probably most people’s. I don’t really know where I’m going with this, because honestly I’d prefer not to have to talk about school outside of school. It’sContinue reading →
Hot is a relative term though, maybe it’s actually cold. I’m going to need you to call a doctor as soon as possible. I don’t care which one, it’s just, I’ve been bitten by this werewolf, and I really don’t know what to do. I’m starting to feel a bit woozy, so if you couldContinue reading →
Too many mirrors, not enough time to lick them all. Looks like it’s time for Rose to actually travel with this mysterious, dashing new Doctor. In hindsight, it would be totally in character for the Tenth Doctor to lick the mirror when he looks at himself. Huh. It’s New Earth, written by Russell T. DaviesContinue reading →
Everybody loves Howard, the new show from the BBC. As it turns out, the best day to invade Earth is Christmas Day, 2006, when it just so happened the Doctor was totally out of commission. If the Sycorax had just showed up like 4 hours earlier they probably would have totally succeeded. It’s The ChristmasContinue reading →
So its come to this. Reading the Doctor Who Annual. Can you believe it? We’re just three doctors from catching up to the show. Well, it’ll be three again by this time next year, thanks to Jodie Whittaker. It feels like we’re on a never-ending treadmill of trying to catch up. It’s the Ninth Doctor RetrospectiveContinue reading →
Even I could get over that bar. Looks like we killed the 9th Doctor. Us. Directly. We called in the Daleks, told them that time was a bit weak around Satellite 5 and all that. We didn’t really expect them to show up to be honest, so imagine our surprise when we watched the DoctorContinue reading →
How many socks have I lost to the rain? We’ve engineered the perfect crisis. We’ll just blow this nuclear reactor here, followed by that one there, then launch a space station, then blow it up, then sink half of the eastern seaboard… I’m starting to think this whole making evil plans thing wasn’t as easyContinue reading →
This is how we do it…. It’s time for the biggest war known to mankind in the 20th century maybe. The most devastating maybe if you lived in London. Yes I’m talking about World War Z. Er. II. World War II. It’s The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, written by Stephen Moffat and airedContinue reading →
Did you know that weddings might as well be funerals? It’s our first seasonal special episode! Just kidding, we released a few episodes back in the day on Christmas/New Years, not that we marketed those as holiday specials. Also this isn’t really a holiday special, it’s just about an episode called Father’s Day. It wasContinue reading →
Anybody got some gold I can use? Back to the Future this week, we’re on a satellite that broadcasts all of the news. Might be a bad idea to give a single satellite an effective monopoly over the news that everybody consumes, but what do I know? It’s The Long Game, written by Russell T.Continue reading →
Every single prop is made of PVC. It only took 5 weeks, but this week we’re cashing in on the most popular Doctor Who villain ever created. We probably could have held out longer, but we need people to listen. It’s Dalek, written by Robert Shearman and aired on April 30, 2005. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
Really looking forward to when they bring that back. This week we return to contemporary London. Well, we did return to contemporary London which is now past London. I think. I don’t remember Big Ben getting taken out by an alien spaceship, but to be fair maybe American didn’t report on that. It’s Aliens ofContinue reading →
You shouldn’t be surprised, just because she’s dead doesn’t mean she can’t kill you. This week it turns out the world actually wasn’t blown up last week. So we had to drag ourselves to the off…garage to record a new episode of Trust Your Doctor. This week it’s The Unquiet Dead, written by Mark GatissContinue reading →
Last week (ish) there was a solar eclipse, at which point there briefly wasn’t a sun. We’re sorry to report that Trust Your Doctor is ending. Turns out the Earth has been destroyed, and we were on it. Bit unfortunate that was, maybe next time we’ll try be as far away as possible when theContinue reading →
Let me know if there’s a secret third option. That’d be good. We’re on the downhill slope now. I mean, granted, this is an extremely long downhill slope that’s probably longer than the uphill section. Look, I don’t really know what the heck to call this. It’s a sideways trip. We’re moving leftwards. This weekContinue reading →
All I want you to know is that this is #mythirteenthdoctor. This week Kiyan and Dylan watch the final little expanded universe thing they’re watching before they get to the reboot. In sticking with completely invented and made up traditions they watched Stephen Moffat’s first contribution to the show. It’s the Curse of Fatal Death,Continue reading →
Unfortunately you all know it’s true. This week we’ve made the biggest mistake we’ve ever made. But even our biggest mistake (watching this special) can’t compare to how big of a mistake it was for the show to make Dimensions in Time. It was written by John Nathan-Turner and David Roden, and it was airedContinue reading →
That’s how we all end I guess. Here we reach the end of our run through the Doctors from 8 down to 1 and back up again. Two weeks of random other TV things, then we finally reach Rose. Finally. Thank god. It’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen, written by Paul Magrs and released on JanuaryContinue reading →
Can you feel the change in the podcast? We’re going back to TV. This week Kiyan and Dylan are approaching the end of the Dark Years diversion. They’ve listened to their final audio for now, they’ve read their final book (you’ll have to wait until next week) and so it draws almost neatly to aContinue reading →
As it turns out, Penguins are the third largest flightless bird in the world after the Australian emu and the German mole rat. After last week’s rather depressing adventure, Kiyan and Dylan are back to talk about a much more uplifting and funny… oh nevermind. Well it started funny and uplifting. It… just didn’t endContinue reading →
Everybody is getting cyberized in Young and Cyber. Coming soon. This week Jim and Martin make a tepid return to Trust Your Doctor. Apparently they really like Cybermen because if you’ve been paying attention the first time they were on this glorious show was to talk about Revenge of the Cybermen. If you haven’t beenContinue reading →
No one even knows where this supposed British part even is. This week we actually hear Tom Baker for the first time in 20 years! Can you believe it? He sounds…. exactly the same. Honestly don’t know what I expected actually. It’s The Valley of Death, written by Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Jonathon Morris, andContinue reading →
Only “Senator” Palpatine knows how to do the secret jedicopter move. This week Kiyan and Dylan have created a new world order. Turns out that was our plan all along for this podcast, we were going to use it to start this new world order thing. Not sure what we’re going to do with itContinue reading →
You wouldn’t happen to know what really happened would you? My memory never cheats. My memory only wins. Every time. This week we’re talking The Memory Cheats, written by Simon Guerrier and released in September of 2011. The Memory Cheats can be purchased for $8 (or your local equivalent) on Big Finish’s website. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →
Not all trees bleed, but the ones that do… they’re pretty creepy. I’m pretty certain this is the newest audio drama that we’ve listened to, which is kind of interesting because it’s also about the oldest (and one of the best) TARDIS team on the books. Unless, I guess, if you count just The FirstContinue reading →
Apparently there are actually 5 Hatchet novels. This week Trust Your Doctor makes it to the halfway point of the audio drama side-step they did. Which means next week we listen to another first doctor story and then work our way back up again. But this week, it’s The Anachronauts, written by Simon Guerrier andContinue reading →
So this is what it has come to, the eaters of light have to die. This week we decided to walk across a nice little moor in Scotland. We watched as someone just out of view got struck by lightning. It was really weird, there weren’t even clouds in the sky. We ran over and toldContinue reading →
Everybody knows that the hyper ancient >>>> regular ancient. This week we’ve reached the companion chronicles section of the podcast. Which means we’re at the non full cast audio section of the 16 week adventure. Which also means our episodes might be slightly shorter for a few weeks. Never fear, we’ll return to full 2Continue reading →
Ogrons have a lot of hate stored in them. This week we drop off the audio train for a little while to do a little mental stimulation. This week we actually had to do work for this podcast and read a book, which is honestly too much brainpower for me. It’s The Romance of Crime,Continue reading →
Daleks are probably pretty bad card-players. This week Mark Gatiss returns to the podcast. Sort of. I mean, he’s not a guest or anything, he’s just written another story that we’re reviewing, which mean’s he’s the first writer to cross mediums for us. It’s Phantasmagoria, written by Mark Gatiss and released in October 1999. Phantasmagoria can beContinue reading →
Maybe we shouldn’t ride Pirates of the Caribbean ride then. This week it seems we’ve jumped a time-track. We’ll get it back on track shortly, I just need to recalibrate my time scanner… thing. Look, I’ve read the TARDIS manual and I still have absolutely no idea what this part is so I guess I’mContinue reading →
My cunning plan to win Eurovision is to bring a Wolf Catapult to my performance. This week we’re joined by Brendan and Nathan for what is quite possibly the most inefficient (but surely the most interesting) summary of a Doctor Who story in existence. The four hosts proceed to spend about 2 hours explaining the 2Continue reading →
But I did not shoot the vortisaur. This is the start of our crazy little romp through Big Finish/Virgin Missing Adventures/questionable quality. It’s Storm Warning, written by Alan Barnes and released in January of 2001. Storm Warning can be purchased for $3 (or your local equivalent) on Big Finish’s website. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →
Hey look, kaboom and vroom rhyme. This week we start a new era, and then immediately end it. It’s a single episode long, albeit a much longer than usual episode. It’s a bit weird, you may not have heard of it. It’s called The TV Movie, written by Matthew Jacobs and aired in May ofContinue reading →
And with that, it ends. Trust Your Doctor would like to announce that we’re going on a 7 year hiatus. We’ll return with the TV Movie in April of 2024. Until then, we hope you enjoy this look back at the Seventh Doctor as well as the classic show as a whole. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
No offense intended, of course. We did it. We’ve reached the end of the classic Doctor Who. The show is dead. We’re dead. Everything is dead. Which is kind of weird, because the story is called Survival. It was written by Rona Munro and aired in November and December of 1989. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →
In a world where everyone sucks at their job… We’re so close I can taste it. Maybe that’s the chocolate bar I just had though. I don’t know. Well, whatever. It’s The Curse of Fenric, written by Ian Briggs and aired in October and November of 1989. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
Stupefy! Halfway through the final season wow. This week we’re back with possibly the most confusing story ever broadcast in the history of television. I promise. It’s Ghost Light, written by Marc Platt, aired October of 1989. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intendedContinue reading →
This week’s episode is brought to you by death. It’s the final season. (To the tune of final countdown). Can you believe it? Well we’re almost at our crazy dark years plan and it’s going to be great, I promise. Until then, it’s Battlefield, written by Ben Aaronovitch and aired in September of 1989. DoctorContinue reading →
As opposed to a benevolent psychic eye. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is not, as you might expect from our comments, Doctor Who. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is actually Trust Your Doctor. What a twist! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was written by Stephen Wyatt and aired in December of 1988Continue reading →
Ow. This week it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination! No, that’s not right. What else happened around that time? It’s Silver Nemesis, written by Kevin Clarke and aired November and December of 1988. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.Continue reading →
In this story Davros acts as some insane Willy Wonka knockoff. Are you happy? We’re happy. Definitely happy. No insane dictator holding a gun to our backs making sure we’re happy. Nope. Definitely happy. The Happiness Patrol, written by Graeme Curry and aired in November of 1988. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belongContinue reading →
Just like that John Travolta movie. This week we move into season 25. Can you believe we’ve almost finished 25 years of Doctor Who? Time wise that’s almost half of all the time it’s existed. It’s Remembrance of the Daleks, written by Ben Aaronvitch and aired in October of 1988. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →
And the inevitable disappointment that comes after it. And we close out the first season of Sylvester McCoy. It’s the real McCoy. Two seasons left, and spoiler, The Seventh Doctor has a snap character change next week. It’s Dragonfire, written by Ian Briggs, aired in November and December of 1987. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →
You shouldn’t mess with the power of Malcolm, it might kill you. This week we’re on the downslope for season 24 already. We’re already 3/4 of the way through the season, although if they had done a 6 part serial we’d be done already. Wouldn’t that be great? It’s Delta and the Bannerman, written byContinue reading →
We have anniversaries. Podcasts are built on anniversaries. Yes three years in, and we’re still sitting in front of a microphone every single week just to talk about some nonsense inconsequential television show from fifty years ago. Here’s a look forward for you, we won’t catch up to where the show is right now (TheContinue reading →
Mine is lightly salted. I like to keep it simple. Moving swiftly through the Seventh Doctor. He only has 12 serials, so every serial we cover moves us 1/12 of the way closer to the end. That’s pretty much the quickest we’d move through any Doctor except maybe the 6th. Too lazy to do theContinue reading →
I’ll take cable ties thanks. This week we return to your regularly scheduled programming. Which means Pip and Jane Baker are back writing for the show, stumbling through the darkness because no one knows how the hell to characterize the 7th Doctor yet. Thanks Eric Saward/JNT/Andrew Cartmel/Whoever you want to blame for this. It’s TimeContinue reading →
It feels like we just started this era yesterday. The end of an era, truly. The Sixth Doctor was here for nearly 10 seasons. Wait, you’re telling me that in this universe he only had two seasons? How did you guys cope? So you didn’t get The March of the Valeyard? Devastation of the Daleks? The Damnation? IContinue reading →
Oh no. It appears I’ve become trapped in Doctor Who. We finally made it to the end of The Trial of a Time Lord. For us, only 4 weeks of TV. For anyone back in 1986, it was a solid 14 weeks. 14! I’m so sorry. It’s the Ultimate Foe, where Part 1 was writtenContinue reading →
Imagine how implausible it was that this would go out on Christmas. Actually it’s like a 1/7 in chance that it’d land on Christmas. Although I’m not a statistician so who actually knows right? It’s Terror of the Vervoids, written by Pip and Jane Baker and aired in November of 1986. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →
Peri’s supposedly dead and we don’t care. Kind of like Crozier when Yiv started dying. The greatest Doctor Who writer ever returns. Philip Martin. Why is he the greatest? Well he created Sil, the best villain we’ve ever had. The Ferengi slash Slug hybrid is the most conniving and genius person who’s ever faced offContinue reading →
The Doctor is a marsupial now. Deal with it. Robert “Basically created Doctor Who” Holmes returns to pen his final complete serial. Obviously he starts the Ultimate Foe, but he never finishes that so, it’s just this final serial of his, The Mysterious Planet to watch. It was aired in September of 1986. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
You know eventually they’ll make Bible of the Daleks because there’s only so many words you can use for ___ of the Daleks. Here come the Daleks again. Is there some sort of unwritten pact that they have to appear for every doctor? Because they have so far. At least for us, I’m not countingContinue reading →
More psuedo than science to be honest. Sherlock Holmes became a beekeeper after he retired from detective work. Did you know that? Well you do now. It’s Timelash, written by Pennant Roberts and aired in March of 1985. I make a note that it was written by Pennant Roberts, because we constantly complain about McCoyContinue reading →
*Whomobile does not actually appear. This week, the slog through season 22 continues. Luckily our distress call was heard by The Second Doctor and Jamie, so they’re shown up to spice up the serial a bit. It’s the Two Doctors, written by Robert Holmes and aired in February and March of 1985. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
I question whether the choreographers even knew how to read a choreograph. So, the universe is populated by more rogue time lords than we thought. Seriously, every week it feels like they add another one. This time it’s The Mark of the Rani, written by Pip and Jane Baker and aired in February of 1985. DoctorContinue reading →
Hey, great idea, let’s use smart cars for mining. Moving swiftly through season 22 we come to another divisive serial. If you don’t mind me spoiling for a second, quite a few of the serials this season lead to a divide between Kiyan and Dylan, so brace yourself please. The divide this week: Vengeance onContinue reading →
Cyber. Cyber. Cyber. Cyber. Yes this week we begin season 22. Season 22 is quite the experience. It’s very violent. And to think it all begins with some cybermen. It’s Attack of the Cybermen, written by Paula Moore and aired in January of 1985. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
Can you imagine techno renaissance music? This week we finally not only finish season 21, but also start the 6th Doctor. Remember last week when we said we predicted the 6th Doctor era to be the most divisive? Well buckle up, it’s the Twin Dilemma, written by Anthony Steven and aired in March of 1984.Continue reading →
In hindsight maybe not doing this with Krynoid was why this episode was all over the place. Remember how the Fourth Doctor Retrospective was fun? This is… sort of fun? We take a look back at good old Peter Davison, and try to discuss his brief but fun era of Doctor Who. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
And the sequel, Batnipples Forever. And here we see the return of one of the greats of Doctor Who writing. Mostly. The Krotons was a bit of a dud, but hey, it was his first serial. This week Robert Holmes returns to write The Caves of Androzani, aired in March of 1984. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
War is the future. War is our destiny. This week we get two companion write outs! Two! Although I don’t think Kamelion can really be considered a companion so much as a plot device really. Turlough, on the other hand, one of the most fleshed out characters that’s not The Doctor. It’s Planet of Fire,Continue reading →
When are we getting a serious bear themed episode of Doctor Who? Wow who would have guess that Davros would come back? And who would guess that this serial would basically display genocide? About 6 people made it out of this serial alive. Amazing. It’s Resurrection of the Daleks written by Eric Saward and airedContinue reading →
French fries are potatoes so potatoes have to be good right? A grey quarry. Bland spaceship sets. Poor concept execution. The question is, am I describing Underworld or Frontios? It’s Frontios. Sorry. Frontios was written by Christopher H. Bidmead and aired in January and February of 1984. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
Ribbit ribbit. Ribbit? Ribbit ribbit ribbit. This week we continue not talking about the serial by talking about Pringles. Did you know Pringles are pretty good? Probably one of the best potato chips. It’s The Awakening, written by Eric Pringle and aired in January of 1984. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belongContinue reading →
I’ve thrown out way more interesting garbage. I think, honestly, season 21 burned all of us. No one could have seen this coming. This week we begin the train wreck with Warriors of the Deep, written by Johnny Byrne and aired in January of 1984. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong toContinue reading →
Eating dinner with the napkin of doom makes your meal much more exciting. This week Kiyan and Dylan watch a special that appears between seasons and has already caused undue confusion as to how to place this into the episode index. At least it has to Dylan. Yes, it’s the Children in Need special TheContinue reading →
Only 66 more to go… Who thought that a serial with the Master of all characters could be so horribly boring? THE MASTER! And it didn’t help that Terence Dudley has been consistently declining in quality since his first outing. It’s The King’s Demons, written by Terence Dudley and aired in March of 1983. DoctorContinue reading →
Every planet sends one chef, we decided to send Gordon Ramsey. As we draw nearer to the end of the season, we decide to race some ships in outer space. Additionally, we say goodbye to… the Black Guardian, for now that is. It’s the conclusion of the Black Guardian trilogy with Enlightenment, written by BarbaraContinue reading →
My new carpet is purple and definitely not copyright infringing. This week we once again learn why Dylan went into Physics and not English. It’s garment. Kiyan was right, Dylan was wrong. Dylan regrets his mistake, and apologizes to all the linguists who we have offended with our podcast. In other news, they try andContinue reading →
Liz Shaw was truly the most memorable UNIT member. This week’s throwback to earlier serials comes in the form of The Brigadier Allistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. The one and only, taking over for Ian. Yes, apparently the Brig can teach math? It’s Mawdryn Undead written by Peter Grimwade and aired in February of 1983. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
Only the best snake props in Doctor Who. This week Kiyan and Dylan face a snake from the past. Indiana Jones would have been absolutely terrified. He probably would’t even listen to this episode. He’d just read that first line and leave before even finding out what serial it is. It’s Snakedance, written by ChristopherContinue reading →
Coming soon to a theatre near you! This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little vacation. Ha! Just kidding, they sit down at 9 AM on a Friday and record a podcast episode about taking a vacation. Which is sort of the same thing if you squint your eyes and plug your ears. It’sContinue reading →
What the hell is a spleen anyway? One season closer to the end of classic who. Only 7 more to go! Can you believe that we finished 19 seasons? It actually feels pretty weird. Maybe we can take a time trip back to season 1 and start again… It’s Time-Flight, written by Peter Grimwade andContinue reading →
Maybe one day Trust Your Doctor will be a meme. He finally kicked the bucket. He took a dive. Got offed. Put on ice. You feel me? Yes it’s Earthshock, written by Eric Saward and aired in March of 1982. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyrightContinue reading →
Apparently butterfly = blueberry with wings. This is some high level math. I think our episode where we talk about almost nothing is pretty representative of this week’s serial, where the characters to practically nothing. If you guessed Edge of Destruction, you’re completely wrong, it’s Black Orchid. Written by the ever illustrious Terence Dudley andContinue reading →
It’s all ogre the news. Terileptals take London. This week Kiyan and Dylan visit London. Or have they already done that? Or will they still do that? Is “The Visitation” past tense? Well. Anyway, it’s the Visitation, written by Eric Saward and aired in February of 1982. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
But there’s still never enough time. This week we kinda liked the serial. Just kinda though, not a lot or anything. Kinda was kinda written by Christopher Bailey and aired in February of 1982. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.Continue reading →
It’s like bringing down the house… but… not? This week we swiftly move into the most bizarre misinterpretation of a character on the show so far. And that’s in a show that gave us Edge of Destruction, so you know this has to be ridiculous. It’s Four to Doomsday, written by Terence Dudley and airedContinue reading →
I hope that when the wheelchairs take over they don’t find this. This week Kiyan and Dylan bravely soldier forth without their leading man Tom Baker. There’s this weird scruffy blonde dude now, can’t quite remember his name. Pete probably. It’s Castrovalva, written by Christopher H. Bidmead and aired in January of 1982. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
Jim’s been calling it Trust Your Baker. Unbeknownst to him, that’s our next podcast. We’ll be talking about baking. Yep we’re finally here. It’s been 6 or so weeks (probably, we lost track quite a while ago) since we first announced this, and it’s here. We’ve had a few stumbles along the way, but it’sContinue reading →
Not to be confused with Space Pirates. Hi there. Kiyan here for once (these things are usually written by Dylan). So, like you may already be aware of, the Fourth Doctor retrospective we had planned with Krynoid Podcast has been delayed. I’m almost never sick, so of course I’d come down with fever, cough, andContinue reading →
We’re now courting founds for our Baywatch remake in the vein of Gnomeo and Juliet. This week Kiyan and Dylan take a nice little stroll down into some random village in the middle of the nowhere. They were getting a bit tired of The Doctor’s antics and decided to follow Sarah Jane and K9 forContinue reading →
Mauve is defined as a pale purple. Which means purple is still correct. This week we come to the end of an era. Yes truly, Tom Baker has finally regenerated and Peter Davison has taken on the mantle of the Doctor. It’s Christopher Hamilton Bidmead’s Logopolis, aired in February and March of 1981. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
Just to clarify, we don’t condone murder. This week our greatest villain returns: difficult to pronounce names! Just kidding, it’s the Master. The serial at hand is The Keeper of Traken, written by Johnny Bryne and aired in January and February of 1981. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respectiveContinue reading →
We flipped a coin to decide this title. This week Kiyan and Dylan record in a white featureless room. It might be a padded room, we’re not really sure anymore. There’s a gate here somewhere. A Warrior’s Gate, written by Steve Gallagher and aired in January of 1981. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
“I’m a Time Lord bro. Back off. BACK OFF.” – Sassy Rassilon This week Kiyan and Dylan do not make it to Gallifrey yet, however much this title may imply that they did. Instead they fail to even leave E-Space. It’s the second story of the E-Space trilogy this week, State of Decay. It wasContinue reading →
ADDRIIIICCCCC. (This is a reference to Rocky.) This week we’ve come Full Circle. Yes, we’re right where we started. Where was this start? Well, hell if I know. But it’s right here. Right here, where we’ve come Full Circle, thanks to Andrew Smith. The serial aired in October and November of 1980. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
Just uh. Don’t mind me. Just a cactus. Nothing more. This week Kiyan and Dylan record a new episode, and specifically ensure that there are no cacti in the room. No guarantees about Eucalyptus though. It’s Meglos, written byJohn Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch. It aired in September and October of 1980. We dedicate this episode toContinue reading →
They say that she’s a myth around these parts. This week Kiyan and Dylan reach into the 1980s for real. By which I mean, everything takes a turn for the synth. Yes, the title theme is synth, the visuals look totally 80s, and everything is in a new decade. It’s The Leisure Hive, written by DavidContinue reading →
Wicked is a totally wizard musical. Wait a second… This week Kiyan and Dylan jump a time track and end up in a parallel universe where Shada was finished with some animation. Wait no, that’s this universe, sorry. Well listen in to Douglas Adams’ final script, which would have (presumably) aired in January through MarchContinue reading →
Running through the night… It’s the Nimon! Actual cannibal Nimon! Watch out, it’s the Space Minotaur! He’s chasing us down! Well, may as well take a quick break here and listen to Trust Your Doctor, I’m sure the minotaur will wait. I mean, Kiyan and Dylan are discussing The Horns of Nimon, written by AnthonyContinue reading →
Please fasten your seat belts and put on your radiation helmets. This week, the question at large is, does the serial make a political point? Well actually the question is, as usual, can Kiyan and Dylan summarize a serial without totally failing? Listen in and find out if Nightmare of Eden can answer both ofContinue reading →
I did a play once that ended in a long chain of people holding guns to peoples heads. This week Kiyan and Dylan secretly record in yet another undisclosed location. Luckily when they ventured out, the Lady of the realm didn’t chuck them into a pit filled with some generic creature of destruction. So insteadContinue reading →
Just gonna wipe this off. Don’t need this primordial soup. A, la cité de l’amour. Er… I mean, la cité de la mort. Only fitting that this episode features a lovely birdsong in the background, truly solidifying the love in the air. And what better way to write a serial set in the city ofContinue reading →
I’ve been told that having fun is pretty great. This is a very special episode of Trust Your Doctor. Before I get into that, can I mention how difficult titling this is? “Ft. Flight Through Entirety” is the most space saving way to credit the crossover, but it’s not entirely accurate. We only got twoContinue reading →
Does Davros count Daleks to fall asleep? This week’s episode is brought to you by the color pink. And by pink, I mean PINK, because that frock that Romana wears is straight up bright pink. It contrasts nicely with the cold grey of the Dalek casings. Yes, this week it’s Destiny of the Daleks, writtenContinue reading →
Apparently Lalla is derived from a Persian word that means “tulip”. This is it, ladies and gentleman, the end of the search for the Key to Time. And what better way to end it than with the most divisive serial since The Mutants? Is it good? Is it bad? Well. That’s for you to decide.Continue reading →
Is anything ever funny for the right reasons? This week Kiyan and Dylan face the roughly 4×21 minute ritual of Kroll. It’s really rather simple, you sit through the 4 episode The Power of Kroll serial, take a few notes, and then record a podcast about it. The serial was written by Robert Holmes and airedContinue reading →
Willy Wonka is a Time Lord right? This week Kiyan and Dylan got through David Fisher’s second serial for the show, an arguably much better piece of work. It’s called The Androids of Tara, and it aired in November and December of 1978. Dylan is not in the fabric business. Here’s some information on tweedContinue reading →
Judgement in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of one piece of the Key to Time. Dismissed. This week Kiyan and Dylan go hunting for the third piece of the Key to Time in The Stones of Blood. It was written by David Fisher and aired in October and November of 1978. In case ourContinue reading →
I’m not entirely certain what the title means either. This week Kiyan and Dylan become acquainted with one of the more well known Doctor Who writers. Or, to be more specific, one of the more well known Doctor Who writers, outside of the Doctor Who fan circle. Yes, it’s The Pirate Planet, written by DouglasContinue reading →
In the name of Find and Replace, Echoes of Grey, and Quinnis. Amen. Welcome to 2016, Trust Your Doctor fans! An entire new year for you to anticipate episodes! Coming up soon: our two year anniversary episode! But until then, listen in as Kiyan and Dylan explain the audio drama Quinnis, starring the First DoctorContinue reading →
Trust Your Doctor is now available only on K9 OS. Please update. This week Kiyan and Dylan begin an entirely new journey. No they didn’t start a new podcast, they’re just following the Doctor looking for the KEY TO TIME. I put that in all caps because it seemed pretty important. The quest begins withContinue reading →
Ah! What’s a lie and what isn’t? I don’t know! In this little special episode, also recorded for the planned, but eventually not needed, hiatus, we learn that Dylan can’t do math. Seriously, 40 minutes is not double 28 minutes. On another note, you can tell when this was recorded, because Kiyan mistakes Zoe forContinue reading →
Yay 100 episodes. That’s the extent of our celebration. Kiyan and Dylan break into the triple digits and finish off season 15 AND put in two character retrospectives. What an episode! Listen in to find out what they thought of The Invasion of Time, written by “David Agnew” and aired in February and March ofContinue reading →
Hey, hey man. You got a map? I can give you 5 talmars. No, they’re not fake. I swear. How far we’ve fallen. After struggling through 4 episodes of total non-content, Kiyan and Dylan meet to try and explain precisely what happened. Maybe they succeeded, maybe they didn’t. But if you want to check forContinue reading →
I woke up this morning and was like “hey, why hasn’t anyone else done this?” This week Kiyan and Dylan… Don’t really complain about taxes, but do talk about a serial that does complain about taxes. There’s a subtle difference here. The serial this week is The Sun Makers, written by Robert Holmes and airedContinue reading →
A priory is a monastery, so a house ON the priory is… interesting. This week Kiyan and Dylan explore Chris Boucher’s final serial for Doctor Who, Image of the Fendahl. It’s almost amazing, but the dialogue falls apart. Pity. It aired in October and November of 1977. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
Fun fact: Incursion is spelt with an I. This was originally recorded as part of a potential (but at the time unconfirmed) December/January hiatus. Since then it’s been confirmed that the hiatus will not be necessary. And now it’s being released as a “thanksgiving” special. If you needed something to be thankful for, you canContinue reading →
How does cloning even work? I don’t understand. Alternate title: Killing is the Most Perfect Form of Distraction. Such is life I suppose. This week Kian and Dylan talk about clone. No, not Orphan Black, it’s The Invisible Enemy, written by Bob Baker and David Martin and aired in October of 1977. Neither of usContinue reading →
I keep my mattress in my fortress but that’s personal preference. This week Kiyan and Dylan are now in 0 A.N.H. (After New Hope). In the coming weeks [it’s unlikely that] they’ll discuss the effects of Star Wars on Doctor who. The serial this week is the first of season 15, The Horror of FangContinue reading →
Weng-Chiang is in violation of the temporal employment act. This week Kiyan and Dylan investigate a mysterious magician in the back alleys of London as they discuss Robert Holmes’ finale to season 14, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. It originally aired in February through April of 1977. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belongContinue reading →
Sometimes even accepting isn’t enough. This week Kiyan and Dylan continue their Chris Boucher phase and explore his second serial in a row. That makes him just the second writer to write two consecutive serials, after Ian Stuart Black. The serial this week is The Robots of Death, aired in January and February of 1977.Continue reading →
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was not the best Star Trek film. This week Kiyan and Dylan boldly go where many people have gone before to discover the Doctor’s new companion, Leela! Not to be confused with other characters named Leela that are famous in other franchises. How confusing. The serial of introduction is The FaceContinue reading →
“You’re all just puppets in my political game” – Chancellor “Ultron” Goth. This week we learn that Dylan doesn’t know the difference between commissioned and decommissioned. To be fair, flammable and inflammable mean the same thing, so… honest mistake. Anyway, the serial at hand for Kiyan and Dylan this week is The Deadly Assassin, written byContinue reading →
Wow, a lot looks really weird in that title. This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss hands. Like all sorts of hands. Human hands, Kastrian Hands, Sarah Jane’s Hands. Why Sarah Jane’s in particular? Because it’s her final serial, The Hand of Fear, written by Bob Baker and David Martin and aired in October of 1976.Continue reading →
All hail the mighty Davros. I think. This week Kiyan and Dylan accidentally shoe-horn Davros into a non-Dalek serial. Actually, Dylan won’t lie, he chose this title for the sweet, sweet SEO. This week the non-Dalek serial that they covered was The Masque of Mandragora, written by Lewis Marks and aired in September of 1976. DoctorContinue reading →
Beeeeep boop boop beeeep. Disclaimer, what we said about John Leven is based only on stories we’ve seen or read on the internet. They can be faked. Do not necessarily believe everything you hear, it’s possible we (or they) were (and are) wrong. This week Kiyan and Dylan…. release late, and then silently swear atContinue reading →
They say Steven Moffat is a big contributor to Now That’s What I Call Doctor Who: Greatest Hits Revisted 3. This week Kiyan and Dylan explain their way through The Brain of Morbius, and successfully avoid accidentally joining a cult. The Brain of Morbius was written by Robert Bland (Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes), andContinue reading →
So I called up the Doctor. “Please bring me my time.” He said “I couldn’t get there since 1969.” And still Sarah is calling from far away. Wake you up in the middle of the fight, Just to hear her say… Help me fight this Android Invasion! By Terry Nation (By Terry Nation) The TerryContinue reading →
The colors! They burn! This week Kiyan and Dylan make up a new term (biobabble), sort of explore a serial from Doctor Who, and indicate that Kiyan is half asleep. It’s been quite a week. The serial sort of covered this week is Pyramids of Mars, which was written by Stephen Harris (in reality RobertContinue reading →
There were little scarf bits everywhere. It was a disaster to clean. This week Kiyan and Dylan put forward their life’s work in harnessing the power of podcasting. They successfully harness pure podcast ether to create this episode about Planet of Evil, which was written by Louis Marks and aired in September and October ofContinue reading →
And then like magic, it works! Guaranteed, every time. This week Kiyan and Dylan return to their regularly scheduled host set-up with just the two of them attempting to explain a serial once again. This week the serial at hand is Terror of the Zygons, which was written by Robert Banks Stewart and aired inContinue reading →
Yes, it’s another collaboration. You’ve heard Kiyan and Dylan, you’ve heard Jim and Martin (maybe), now hear them together in all of their glory! Listen in and find out if the crossover is as exciting as that previous sentence makes it out to be. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be that exciting. Together the fourContinue reading →
Son Screen’s sun screen is on screen sun screen. This week Kiyan and Dylan explore one of the juggernauts of classic Doctor Who (See what I did there? The Juggernauts is an audio drama featuring Davros, the Daleks, and the Mechonoids [from The Chase]). If the previous sentence didn’t give it away, this week theContinue reading →
See, there’s a very fine line between dead… and almost dead. In this episode, Kiyan and Dylan take about 30 minutes to cover about 50 minutes of serial content, giving them approximately a 3:5 time compression rate or something. Dylan has an honorary degree in technobabble and he approves this completely made up measurement. TheContinue reading →
The guards just hang out in space. This week Kiyan and Dylan venture into what is supposedly one of the best classic who stories and then create what is supposedly our most recent episode. I’m not actually sure if it is, I mean, it will be until Episode 80 comes out. Anyway this week theyContinue reading →
Interspaced into interpretive intermissions? This week Kiyan and Dylan… take a few jabs at Pertwee (who hasn’t quite left us yet apparently) and the move forward into Tom Baker’s era with Robot. Robot was written by the previous script editor, Terrance Dicks, and was aired in December of 1974 and January of 1975. Find theContinue reading →
This revelation changed Monster of Peladon for me. This week Kiyan and Dylan wrap up the Third Doctor’s era with the final serial of his era, Planet of the Spiders. This episode features the Trust Your Doctor exclusive Pertwee Retrospective, so stick around to the end to listen to Kiyan and Dylan discuss his eraContinue reading →
It’s like a free pass, but not really because it kind of doesn’t exist. This week Kiyan and Dylan approach the end of the Third Doctor’s era, and for some reason he decides (somewhat poorly) to revisit Peladon. It’s not a very good serial, as you will find out soon enough. On the bright side,Continue reading →
Syndrome was a pretty good villain. Oh wait we’re talking Daleks. This week Kiyan and Dylan begin the end of the beginning eras of Doctor Who. If that makes sense. Well basically they’re coming to the end of the Third Doctor’s era, and it’s pretty clearly running down. Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, and Jon PertweeContinue reading →
And then it’s making life not exist anymore! This week Kiyan and Dylan dive into Malcolm Hulke’s final serial, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. To their pleasant surprise, this weeks serial featured quite a fair bit of character development for the UNIT crew, with Benton, Yates, and The Brig all getting some time in the spotlight.Continue reading →
Still better than a low heptane fight. This week Kiyan and Dylan check in a new person to the Companion Hotel: Sarah Jane Smith. She’s booked a long stay, let’s see how it goes. The topic of discussion of this week was The Time Warrior, which was written by Robert Holmes and aired in DecemberContinue reading →
Don’t mind me, just gonna prop open the door so Jo can come back. This week Kiyan and Dylan say goodbye to Jo Grant in her final serial, The Green Death. And even in her final moments Dylan and Kiyan remain divided in their opinion of her. Thanks Jo, you were definitely not a scientist.Continue reading →
Goes great with the Hard Rock Cafe! The topic of discussion this week is Planet of the Daleks. Kiyan and Dylan were… not impressed with it as a resolution to Frontier In Space. But no matter, they still had a good time explaining it. Planet of the Daleks was written by Terry Nation and itContinue reading →
Wait. Did you hear that? It’s telling us that the government knows. This week Kiyan and Dylan stumbled their way through this weeks serial. Did Kiyan mention that he couldn’t think? Well, you know now. The serial covered this week was Frontier in Space, written by Malcolm Hulke and aired in February and March ofContinue reading →
Be.. our.. guest! Be our guest! Put our podcast to the test! In this very special episode of Trust Your Doctor where we read a book, Kiyan and Dylan are joined by Nathan and Brendan from Flight Through Entirety. So I guess the title is a misnomer since we didn’t get all of Flight ThroughContinue reading →
Will there ever be an opportune moment to use that phrase? This week Kiyan and Dylan describe the pretty mediocre serial Carnival of Monsters, which was written by Robert Holmes, a major player in classic who. It aired in January and February of 1973. Be sure to check out Flight Through Entirety at their websiteContinue reading →
No, Susan, I am your grandfather! NOOOOOOO! This week Kiyan and Dylan are visited by some very special people… And they’re late, to boot. It’s very weird, but at least it’s somehow related to The Three Doctors, which featured the return of Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell to the role of the Doctor. The serialContinue reading →
Interesting that dor and taur sound similar but are spelled differently. This week Kiyan and Dylan work towards a new more witty episode…. No totally kidding, they just watched a witty serial. Said witty serial happened to be The Time Monster, written by Robert Sloman (with uncredited additions by Barry Letts), which aired in May andContinue reading →
The Deus Ex Machina of this serial is that it’s not the Master Kiyan and Dylan, while agreeing the serial is good (although to a different degree), somehow like/dislike this serial in different measures. Find out why, as they explain The Mutants, written by Bob Baker and David Martin and aired in April and MayContinue reading →
Seriously, this show has no hard work ever, making it a good idea! This week Kiyan and Dylan finally succeed in integrating all their discussions into the summary of the serial, rather than just shoving it to the end, as usual. Thank goodness for Malcolm Hulke, his amazing penmanship skills, and his serial, The Sea Devils,Continue reading →
Ambiguity is one of the best/worst/neutral things. In this episode, for the first time in quite a long, long while, Kiyan and Dylan end an episode disagreeing on something. Well actually multiple things over the episode. This, of course, is a product of multiple heated debates over the course of the episode, which should beContinue reading →
Dope: adjective, informal: very good. This week Kiyan and Dylan explain the triumphant return and subsequent loss of the Daleks. They tried to exterminate any tangents before they got too big, but some of them were too powerful. Day of the Daleks aired in January of 1972 and was written by Louis Marks. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
It’s the Master’s second evolution: The Subliminal Pun Master. This week Kiyan and Dylan explored demons and witchcraft. Or so they thought until 5 minutes into episode 1, where the Doctor just slapped that thought out of their mind, because magic isn’t real. The topic at hand was The Dæmons, which was written Guy LeopoldContinue reading →
This title is actually in no way related to the serial at all. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched Colony in Space. As usual when presented with a mediocre serial, they end up taking a few tangents throughout the whole episode, seemingly with no regard for sticking to explaining the actual serial. Colony in SpaceContinue reading →
I still can’t accept that that pun was so good. This week Kiyan and Dylan investigate The Claws of Axos. It was written by Bob Baker and David Martin, who would later create the character of K-9. The Claws of Axos aired in March and April of 1971. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
EXTERMINATE THE BACTERIA. EXTERMINATE! This week Kiyan and Dylan discover what it means to have The Mind of Evil. The serial was written by Don Houghton and it was aired January through March of 1971. Episode 1 was recoloured entirely by one man, Stuart Humphreys, frame by frame. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
Like I said, Jo is definitely not a scientist. This week Kiyan and Dylan being season 8 with Terror of the Autons, featuring the first appearance of The Master! (The actual Master this time, not the Master of the Land of Fiction) Terror of the Autons was written by Robert Holmes and it aired inContinue reading →
Great Scott! That many paradoxes could destroy the universe! This week Kiyan and Dylan not only finish season 7, but also the tenure of Liz Shaw as de facto companion. They also wander into the alternate universe in Inferno, written by Don Houghton and aired in May and June of 1970. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →
Plot twist: The First Doctor returns! (Just kidding!) This week Kiyan and Dylan investigate The Ambassadors of Death, which featured hilariously overpowered villains. Also, they take a dive into the themes of Malcolm Hulke, including xenophobia and socialism! And they discuss the Doctor’s characterizations and the start of the reboot! The Ambassadors of Death wasContinue reading →
Divergence is actually a pretty fun word to say. This week Kiyan and Dylan encounter what is probably the darkest ending so far in Doctor Who and the Silurians. It was written by Malcolm Hulke (co-writer of The War Games) and it aired in January through March of 1970. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
I personally assure you that I’m probably certain its not a throwback. This week Kiyan and Dylan experience the genocidal tendencies of the Third Doctor in Spearhead from Space. It was written by Robert Holmes and it aired in January of 1970. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners,Continue reading →
We’ve been running for a whole gosh darn year! Can you believe it? [This is a Video Episode!] Kiyan and Dylan sit down for once to talk about something other than Classic Doctor Who. Well, sort of. They sit down to talk about Doctor Who in general, what developed over the past year, where theyContinue reading →
By my calculations, it happened tomorrow. Kiyan and Dylan this week explored the first 5 episodes of Troughton’s swan song, The War Games. It was written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. The first 5 episodes aired between April and May of 1969. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respectiveContinue reading →
I probably know someone who can sing opera. This week Kiyan and Dylan dive into the surprisingly underwhelming penultimate Second Doctor serial, The Space Pirates. It was written by Robert Holmes and it aired in March and April of 1969. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyrightContinue reading →
That way more exciting serial with a way less exciting podcast episode! Welcome to 2015, TYD fans! This week Kiyan and Dylan take a journey into The Seeds of Death, not the be confused with the later 4th doctor serial, The Seeds of Doom. The Seeds of Death was written by Brian Hayles and airedContinue reading →
The best plans are foolproof from all angles – Kiyan, 2014 This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Krotons, not to be confused with the salad topping, croutons. They believe this to pretty middle of the road quality wise. Could this be a sign of things to come? The Krotons was written by Robert HolmesContinue reading →
Revive Russia would be a good band name. Dibs! This week Kiyan and Dylan complete The Invasion episodes 5-8. These episodes aired in December of 1968. Like episodes 1-4, they were written by Peter Bryant and were based on an idea by Kit Pedler. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
I knew it! Microsoft is behind everything! This week Kiyan and Dylan watched only the first 4 episodes of The Invasion. They did this because that although they claim they have a TARDIS, they actually do not, and therefore have a limited amount of time during the week to watch episodes. The Invasion was writtenContinue reading →
Featuring The Doctor vs The Master! (No, not that Master.) This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Mind Robber, that serial that almost could have been the return of the Celestial Toymaker. The Mind Robber was written by Peter Ling and aired in September and October of 1968. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
The answer was yes, just gloss over that potential tangent. Season 6 begins with The Dominators. Kiyan and Dylan thus discuss this serial, as well as some exciting news for Trust Your Doctor! The Dominators was written by Marvyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln under the pseudonym Norman Ashby. It was aired in August and SeptemberContinue reading →
That’s no moon… This week Kiyan and Dylan wrap up season 5 with The Wheel in Space, featuring the return of the Cybermen, again! It was written by David Whitaker, based on an idea by Kit Pedler, and it aired in April-June of 1968. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
On the other hand, I hear they get pretty deep. Fury from the Deep was so bad that after Kiyan and Dylan talked about it for an hour the podcast episode refused to save properly and allow them to spread this knowledge to the world. And yet here’s the episode, rerecorded and reconstructed in all it’sContinue reading →
Alliteration is alarmingly annoying and also amazingly awesome! This week Kiyan and Dylan journey into the London underground and reencounter the Yeti and the Great Intelligence in The Web of Fear. It was written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and it aired in February and March of 1968. Doctor Who © The BBC AnyContinue reading →
What’s that? Disused confetti? This week Kiyan and Dylan discover what it truly means to be impersonated. And if you’re Dylan, what it truly means to watch classic who episodes twice. All of this and more, featuring The Enemy of the World, written by David Whitaker and aired in December of 1967 and January ofContinue reading →
I’m a sssssssssssssnake. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Ice Warriors, featuring their increasingly annoying voice. It was written by Brian Hayles and it aired in November and December of 1967. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The DoctorContinue reading →
The Monk definitely doesn’t come back in this serial. Sorry. This week Kiyan and Dylan visit Detsen Monastary in The Abominable Snowmen, featuring the first appearance of The Great Intelligence. It was written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln. It aired in September and November of 1967. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
Do you wanna build a Cyberman? This week Kiyan and Dylan leap into season 5 and discuss The Tomb of the Cybermen, written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis. It aired in September of 1967. Featuring a discussion of prospective Second Doctor character development. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
A Doctor/Dalek hybrid? Inconceivable! This week Kiyan and Dylan wrap up season 4 with The Evil of the Daleks, written by David Whitaker and aired in May and July of 1967. It was the final appearance of the Daleks in Doctor Who for 5 years. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong toContinue reading →
There is a lot of content and things in this episode. This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Faceless Ones, written by David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke. It aired in April and May of 1967. This episode also features our first email in 5 months, as well as a short mention of the new titleContinue reading →
Can someone actually write a Doctor Who musical, please? This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Macra Terror, where the TARDIS crew face off against a giant crab! It was written by Ian Stuart Black who wrote The Savages and The War Machines. It was aired in March and April of 1967. In this episodeContinue reading →
How do so few people have so much power? And what about that virus, and the coffee plate? The ending may have left a few questions, but nonetheless, Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Moonbase, featuring the return of the Cybermen! It was written by Kit Pedler, and it aired February and March of 1967. DoctorContinue reading →
Ever read The Most Dangerous Game? Kiyan and Dylan take a gander at Atlantis, and discuss The Underwater Menace, the first serial with recovered footage of The Second Doctor. It was written by Geoffrey Orme and it aired in January and February of 1967. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
Tegana is back, and he’s calling himself The Doctor. Capaldi has also stated a preference for Doctors 1, 2 and 4, in addition to 3, although he ‘likes them all’. In the second week of The Second Doctor, Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Highlanders, written by Elwyn Jones and Gerry Davis. It aired in DecemberContinue reading →
The insanity of this serial is somewhat interesting, supposedly. This week Kiyan and Dylan return with the first serial of the second doctor, The Power of the Daleks, also featuring the return of the Daleks. It was written by David Whitaker and it aired in November and December of 1966. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →
And so closes the era of the first. This week Kiyan and Dylan take a long, mildly emotional look back at the First Doctor’s run after watching The Tenth Planet, his final serial. It was written by Kit Pedler, with some assistance from Gerry Davis, and it aired in October of 1966. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
Season 4 starts with what can be better classified as a fizzle rather than a bang. Kiyan and Dylan experience the start of season 4 with The Smugglers, written by Brian Hayles and aired in September and October of 1966. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyrightContinue reading →
That’s a really long title. And so season 3 comes to a close with The War Machines, which was written by Ian Stuart Black and aired in June and July of 1966. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The DoctorContinue reading →
Some Matrix stuff went down. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Savages, the final appearance of Steven Taylor. It was written by Ian Stuart Black and it aired in May and June of 1966. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by thisContinue reading →
They have e-mail in the Old West. This week Kiyan and Dylan traveled to the old west with The Gunslingers, written by Donald Cotton. It was aired in April and May of 1966. It is notable for it’s multitude of Doctor Who ties within it’s actors, notably that Patrick Troughton was offered the role ofContinue reading →
Willy Wonka… is not in this serial. This week featured The Celestial Toymaker, a favorite of Steven Taylor’s actor, Peter Purves. It was aired in April 1966 and was written by Brian Hayles. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. TheContinue reading →
This week’s serial was far superior to last week’s. Kiyan and Dylan watch The Ark this week, a serial that renewed their hopes for the future of Doctor Who after The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve. It was aired in March of 1966 and was written by Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott. This episode alsoContinue reading →
Quite possibly the worst serial we’ve watched so far. This week Dylan and Kiyan suffered through The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve, which aired in January and February of 1966. It was written by John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringementContinue reading →
And then we concluded The Daleks’ Master Plan This week Kiyan and Dylan finished off The Daleks’ Master Plan, with the final 6 episodes, aired between 23 December, 1965 and 29 January, 1966. These episodes were also written by Dennis Spooner and Terry Nation. The Doctor also breaks the 4th wall in episode 7. Doctor WhoContinue reading →
The first 6 episodes of the Daleks’ Master Plan. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched the first 6 episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan, written by Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner. These episodes were aired between 13 November and 16 December of 1965. This serial also marks the first, and last adventure of Katarina. DoctorContinue reading →
Vicki leaves. Oh spoiler, whoops. This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Myth Makers, written by Donald Cotton, and aired in October and November of 1965. This is the final appearance of Vicki and the first appearance of replacement companion Katarina. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, noContinue reading →
Tangents are fun or something like that. Kiyan and Dylan watched the only serial not to star the Doctor or any of his companions. It was also the only one episode serial in the classic series. As a result, Kiyan and Dylan go on a large Dalek timeline tangent in the middle of explaining theContinue reading →
Yea the 80’s were pretty fun and stuff. This week Kiyan and Dylan reconstruct their episode from last week that was lost to the vortex of space-time. They watched Galaxy 4, written by William Emms and aired in September and October of 1965. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respectiveContinue reading →
And so ends season 2. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Time Meddler, where The Doctor meets and defeats his first nemesis The Monk. The serial was written by Dennis Spooner and it aired in July of 1965. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringementContinue reading →
Kiyan and Dylan have another in depth discussion. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Chase, written by Terry Nation and aired in May and June of 1965. The serial saw the departure of Ian and Barbara, leaving only The Doctor from the original cast of the show. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
Kiyan and Dylan summarize some Timey-Wimey stuff. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched The Space Museum, written by Glynn Jones and aired in April and May of 1965. Due to the confusing nature of time, they get very confused watching the serial and attempting to explain it. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →
Jaffa cakes are pretty tasty. This week, Kiyan and Dylan discuss and summarize The Crusade, written by David Whitaker and aired in March and April of 1965. They discuss, and investigate Vicki. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. The DoctorContinue reading →
Kiyan and Dylan had a hard time finishing a summary. This week Kiyan and Dylan separately watched The Web Planet, written by Bill Strutton and aired in February and March of 1965. They spend 45 minutes on the summary because they kept getting sidetracked by other things in the serial. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →
It’s not really a crossover, sorry. As Nero becomes increasingly confused with Neo, Dylan and Kiyan discuss The Romans, written by Dennis Spooner and aired in January and February of 1965. Also, massive River Song spoilers in this episode, specifically, most of reboot season 6. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong toContinue reading →
Look at Barbara being all useful and stuff. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched the pitifully short The Rescue, written by David Whitaker and aired in January of 1965. In this serial, Vicki, the replacement for Susan, was introduced. Other than that, not much happened. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong toContinue reading →
The Daleks invade Earth for the first time of many. Kiyan and Dylan experience the second Dalek serial and their first invasion of Earth (which went surprisingly well until The Doctor showed up). The Dalek Invasion of Earth was aired in November and December of 1964 and was written by Terry Nation. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
Kiyan and Dylan have entered Season 2. This week Kiyan and Dylan watched Planet of the Giants, the first serial of season 2. The serial aired in October and November of 1964 and was written by Louis Marks. Being only 3 episodes long, it did not make much room for talking. Next up is TheContinue reading →
Oooh, a special episode! This week, Kiyan and Dylan explore An Adventure in Space and Time, Mark Gatiss’ tribute to the William Hartnell Era. There is also a discussion on regeneration and fan theories. Next week we return with your regularly scheduled programming, Planet of the Giants. Subscribe on iTunes! Check us out on Facebook!Continue reading →
And so ends season 1. Kiyan and Dylan watch the final serial of season 1, The Reign of Terror, which was written by Dennis Spooner and aired in August and September of 1964. They then take a short look back upon season 1 and The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan. They then make an onContinue reading →
Yay good serials! Somehow, Kiyan and Dylan have made it to 7 weeks with their sanity intact. This week they watched The Sensorites, written by Peter R. Newman and aired in June and August of 1964. Many fun facts were said in this episode. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →
The Aztecs seem pretty chill. This week, Kiyan and Dylan watched the Aztecs, written by John Lucarotti and aired in May and June of 1964. In this episode, they can’t seem to find things to say, except that Barbara should listen to the Doctor for once. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belongContinue reading →
Yes, the final 2 episodes really were that good. Kiyan and Dylan return for their 5 week anniversary of this podcast after watching The Keys of Marinus, written by Terry Nation and aired in April and May of 1964. They then rave about the final 2 episodes and discuss some of the reboot in relationContinue reading →
*We won’t actually drink mercury. Ping-Cho’s future husband is actually the one to drink the mercury. Kiyan and Dylan explore Marco Polo, the 4th serial, aired in 1964 and written by John Lucarotti. This is the first serial with missing episodes and the first completely missing serial. Sorry for the strange pops during the show,Continue reading →
We didn’t have anything to say. Everything’s ok though, we somehow found 30 minutes of content about a 2 episode serial, The Edge of Destruction, written by David Whitaker and aired in February, 1964. We forgot to mention the name of the serial we are watching next week, which is Marco Polo. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →
Better watch out, the opinion police are coming! Continuing and then abruptly ending our reboot of season 1 of Doctor Who, is the second story of the seasons. We only ever intended to do these two, since we figured, who the bloody hell wants to listen to an episode about Edge of Destruction anyway? IfContinue reading →
This is the beginning of a beautiful partnership. This is a rerecord, remake, reboot, whatever of the very first episode of our podcast. If you’re reading this on Apple Podcasts or Google Play, or basically anywhere that isn’t our website, you can find the original version of this episode on our website here. Otherwise, thisContinue reading →
We’ve never really explained what we do, so we finally decided to sit down and do that! This is a short 6-minute intro episode to the show. We realize we’re recording this after establishing a fair amount of episodes, but hey, better late than never! Hopefully this gives you a feel for the show andContinue reading →