Radio Free Skaro #918 – Once Upon A Time in the Metz
The news remains fallow in these Times of No Who Yet, but we do have missives from the further adventures of Doom’s Day, colourization of old episodes on many fronts, an action dolly magazine spectacular, Tom Baker’s son’s Who-themed Nottingham pub and part one of our Miniscope examination of director Saul Metzstein’s work, featuring “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” and “A Town Called Mercy”!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 64 – Action Figures – The Essential Guide 2005-2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Doom’s Day: Dying Hours (hours 2000-2300) due September 2023
- Doctor Who classic The Smugglers gets colour revamp
- Doctor Who colourizations by jamesknox817
- Missing episodes in collectors hands?
- Doctor Who-themed pub in Nottingham run by Tom Baker’s son
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #917 – F for Fake
Unlike last week’s veritable tsunami of info, this week we have a quieter news offering, including a staggeringly expensive 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver replica, more bon mots from Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa via Rolling Stone, Gav Rymill noodling with AI to recreate missing episodes (sort of), Doom working through her Day in game form, and the highlight of this week’s episode: an interview with skilled Photoshopist and bon vivant Andrew-Mark Thompson, author of “This Is A Fake – A Collection of Unreal Things”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who and the Sonic Screwdriver
- Rubbertoe Replica 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Rolling Stone UK cover shoot video
- New instalment of Doom’s Day called AI am the Doctor coming soon
- BFI to show colourized early DW as part of Missing Believed Wiped
- Gav Rymill testing AI for recons
- Doctor Who The Sun Makers Original Music Soundtrack Orange Vinyl LP
- Doctor Who The Visitation Original Music Soundtrack Green Vinyl LP
- BF Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon – Trapped due Sep 2023
- BF Doctor Who – Once and Future: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 due Sep 2023
- Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection due Sep 1
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Radio Free Skaro #916 – Electro Quarterstaff
After subjecting you to an intense bout of trivia last week, we have a surfeit and indeed a tsunami of News Content for you, including a new sonic for the Fourteenth Doctor, promo pics, a pink TARDIS Barbie cross-promotion, Ncuti Gatwa being funny and fashionable in a Rolling Stone UK interview, new books, audios, missing episode musings, a gigantic Blu-Ray set off all the Doctors from Eccleston to Whittaker, another Blu-Ray set for Season 20, and much, much more!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- New promo pics
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver
- Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver sold out
- Series 14 wraps filming (Instagram link)
- Series 14 wraps filming (Wales Online link)
- Doctor Who/Barbie pink TARDIS crossover promotion
- Ncuti Gatwa interview in Rolling Stone UK
- Doctor Who Magazine 593
- Fourth Doctor comics Anthology, including The Star Beast, coming November 2
- Season 20 announced as the news classic Blu-Ray set
- Season 20 Blu-Ray set trailer “The Passenger”
- “The Passenger” behind the scenes
- The Five Doctors event at the BFI on September 16
- Richard Bignell’s Season 20 PDF archive
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (US)
- Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New Who Collectors Blu-Ray Set (Canada)
- 60th Anniversary specials Target novelizations
- Liberation of the Daleks paperback due Nov 2
- The Tom Baker Record Collection brings 4 Classic Stories to vinyl
- Doctor Who: Escape the Daleks!: 3rd Doctor Audio Original due Jan 4, 2024
- Doctor Who: The Cuckoo: 12th Doctor Audio Original due Dec 7
- Praxeus could have had Autons
- Andrew Skilleter 2024 Doctor Who art calendar
- Patrick Troughton Blue Plaque Unveiling
- Terry Burnett’s film collection reveals missing episode of Hugh and I
- Steven on the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast
- John Nettleton died
Radio Free Skaro #915 – The King’s Head
Several self-styled Doctor Who “experts” in the form of Warren, Chris, Kat and Erika square off against trivia master and Smug Poltroon Steven in our semi-annual trivia showdown aptly named “Trivia, Mr Fibuli”! Based on Jacqueline Rayner’s Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book from 2014. Who will emerge triumphant in this contest of intellect, skill and pointless fact-knowing? Tune in and find out!
Radio Free Skaro #914 – Rate Limit Exceeded
The news is sparse this week, as sparse as the Thursday/Friday schedule for San Diego Comic Con, reflecting the general malaise of the entertainment media complex in these times of IP dominance and labour strife. But that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from giving their half-baked opinions on costuming, editing video tape via razor blades and gumption, the non-legacy of VR, and Threads, the latest in a long line of social media hellsites. So go on, skeet that toot into your eardrums, tweeps! Not the nighttime crowd, obviously.
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- SDCC Hall H Schedule
- SDCC Panel: Titan Comics Doctor Who
- The 1960s Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part three
- Peter Davison reveals scrapped plans for Five(ish) Doctors Reboot follow-up
- How Jack the Ripper Shaped The Talons of Weng Chiang
- 2023 Hugo Awards nominees
- Doctor Who The Target Book Club happening July 16
- Sacha Dhawan coming to Long Island Who
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Intelligence for War due Oct 2023
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Missy: Bad Influence due Apr 2024
- Doctor Who Hidden Mysteries update adds difficulty level and new content
Radio Free Skaro #913 – Most People Depart With a Scream
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…by the Three Who Rule who are ringing in Canada Day weekend by wringing out the very last vestiges of the Timelash, our popular(?) time-filling exercise in Doctor Who reflection. We also have news of Doctor Who mostly absent from SDCC, MIA for Fortnite, and country cousin Star Trek all but vanishing from Crave, which continues to be Canada’s HBO by going from quite decent to very crappy in under a year. Next week…not the Timelash, that’s for sure!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Pride Month wrapup
- Doctor Who will be present in the Exhibit Hall at SDCC
- Titan Entertainment Unveils Doctor Who and My Hero Academia Merchandise for SDCC
- The Black Archive upcoming release schedule
- Doctor Who Am I available for free on Tubi
- Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unbound due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Two’s Company due Aug 2023
- Big Finish Box of Terrors audio novel due Nov 2023
- Doctor Who/Fortnite crossover delayed
Radio Free Skaro #912 – Halt H
It is a sad week for the media and for Steven as Disney and many Makers of Pretend aren’t going to San Diego Comic Con, which means Doctor Who likely won’t, which means Steven likely won’t. Curses! We do however have news of Doctor Who books, Big Finish and Paul McGann appearing at LI Who in costume as well as digressions into Canadian history and Pink Floyd (as you do) in the penultimate instalment of…the Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Magazine 592 released
- Marvel, Netflix, Sony, HBO and Universal to Skip SDCC
- Pull To Open – 1962-1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who coming July 24
- Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas due October 2023
- Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Diary of River Song: The Orphan Quartet due August 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023
- Paul McGann doing photo ops in costume at LI Who
Radio Free Skaro #911 – What Is Your Imurjinsee
While we wait for news regarding Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con (or not), The Three Who Rule managed to squeeze out more than an hour of top quality banter at Ncuti Gatwa’s nudity skills, Lenny Rush joining the Doctor Who cast, and the Timelash, which was stuffed to the gills with events of a chronological nature which were then commented upon! Want to hear derisive sneers about Strange New Worlds and Disney+ censorship of “The French Connection”, not to mention the Golden Age of McDonalds Ashtrays? This is the podcast for you!
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Radio Free Skaro #910 – One After 909
The Classic Companion Reunion Victory Tour as one Melanie Bush aka Bonnie Langford is set to join Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who for an adventure in space and/or time next year! Doom has also started experiencing their first of twenty-four hours of mayhem and of course we have the Timelash to entertain you with ad-hoc takes of time gone by. But more importantly, we have Gav Rymill of the Terry Nation Army in a return interview about his fantastic fan series of videos about Skaro’s crankiest denizens! Set aside a few rels and listen, won’t you?
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Bonnie Langford returns to Doctor Who
- Doom’s Day – Doom’s first hour
- Titan Comics Doom’s Day “A Doctor in the House? Part One” available for pre-order
- Doctor Who Chronicles 1963-64 now available
- BBC Books to Publish ‘Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse”, due Nov 16
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Radio Free Skaro #909 – I’ve Got A Feeling
It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Terry Burnett film archive handed over
- “Most of the reels are unlabelled”
- Network Distributing closes
- Waris Hussein diaries, part two
- Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America
- Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7
- Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023
- The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered
- Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon due July 2023
- Doctor Who The Target Book Club event July 16 at Bush Hall
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