Radio Free Skaro #1066 – A Space Helmet for a Cow
The worlds of Doctor Who collide once more as the BBC launches into new Fugitive Doctor adventures via Circuit Breaker, a multi-platform saga in the tradition of Time Lord Victorious and Doom’s Day,.The Three Who Rule are somewhat skeptical about the whole business, despite the welcome addition of a new and quite snazzy hat for Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor! There’s also an Entertainment Weekly list of the top 50 Doctor Who stories of the modern era which is just as non-controversial as you’d think, articles about missing episodes in general and the The Daleks’ Master Plan in particular, multicam from School Reunion and an extended hockey-Who metaphor like you’ve all been clamouring for! And speaking of long-awaiting things, we have the conclusion of our latest Classic Series Commentary with Part Four of The Mysterious Planet!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- EW: Ranking the 50 best Doctor Who episodes of the modern era
- Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker timeline of releases
- Doctor Who Magazine 629
- DWM: Russell T Davies reacts to the return of missing Doctor Who episodes
- Everything you need to know about Doctor Who’s missing episodes
- The Whoniverse Show: Celebrating Sarah Jane, Returning Companions + Circuit Breaker Preview
- Multicam: Sarah Jane Smith Meets the Tenth Doctor in School Reunion
- Dalek 63-88 video on hidden matte shot in Devil’s Planet
- Black Archive: An Adventure in Space and Time: An Archive Special coming May 2026
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – UNIT Eras: Hostile Universe available now
- Ncuti Gatwa hosting SNL UK on May 16
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Doctor/# of Episodes of each Doctor Era/% of total episodes of Modern Doctor Who/# of Episodes that should be proportionally chosen for the list/# of Episodes that appear on list versus # that should appear on list proportionally
Eccleston/13/6.6%/3.3 episodes/4 vs. 3
Tennant/50/25.5%/12.5 episodes/19 vs.12 (not including Day of the Doctor)
Smith/45/22.9%/11.45 episodes/11 vs. 12
Capaldi/40/20.4%/10.2 episodes/12 vs. 10
Whittaker/31/15.81%/7.95 episodes/3 vs. 8
Gatwa/19/9.69%/4.845 episodes/1 vs. 5
THOUGHTS:
Eccleston and Capaldi are very slightly over-represented on the list. Smith is slightly under-represented. But the real problem is that Tennent is way over-represented and has squeezed out the Whittaker and Gatwa eras (which are both significantly under-represented).
As for representation of women and people of colour among the writers and directors:
White Women Directors: Blink (Hettie MacDonald), Midnight (Alice Troughton), Amy’s Choice (Catherine Morshead), Dark Water (Rachel Talalay), Death in Heaven (Rachel Talalay), Heven Sent (Rachel Talalay), Hell Bent (Rachel Talalay), World Enough and Time (Rachel Talalay), The Doctor Falls (Rachel Talalay), Twice Upon a Time (Rachel Talalay), The Well (Amanda Brotchie).
Women of Colour Directors: Fugitive of the Judoon (Nida Manzoor).
Men of Colour Directors:
White Women Writers: Face the Raven (Sarah Dollard), Thin Ice (Sarah Dollard).
Women of Colour Writers: The Well (co-written Sharma Angel Walfall).
Men of Colour Writers: Demons of the Punjab (Vinay Patel), Fugitive of the Judoon (co-written Vinay Patel).
Part of the problem with minimizing the Whittaker and Gatwa eras is that not only do you marginalize the only women and people of colour to play the Doctor (Whittaker, Martin, Gatwa), but those eras were also the most diverse behind the scenes in terms of having writers and directors that are women and people of colour.