Radio Free Skaro #839 – The Bask of Mandragora
The second of three podcasts this weekend from Gallifrey One is all recorded outside in the balmy, sunny, COVID-safe surroundings of the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles! First up, guest host Paul Booth talks about both his experiences with the Doctor Who TARDIS Talks this year, as well as a similar 60th anniversary pilgrimage to what Steven is undergoing. Then, Rob Ritchie, ex(?) of the Doctor Who animated range talks about the future of the range and his work on it up until now. Sunglasses on!
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Radio Free Skaro #838 – Radio Free Skaro: In Flux
After a year away, Radio Free Skaro is happy and proud to be back at Gallifrey One in 2022! With two-thirds of the Three Who Rule unable to be here this year, it is up to Steven and trusty sidekick/tech producer Chip Sudderth to kick off the festivities with RADIO FREE SKARO: IN FLUX, the first live show of the weekend with guests Sylvester McCoy, Matt Strevens, Jon Davey, Jonathan Watson, and Stephen Gallagher!
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Radio Free Skaro #837 – The Mask of Mandragora
It’s that time of year again, as Galllifrey 2022 arrives next week and with it will come the live show “Radio Free Skaro: In Flux” and with THAT will come the Two-Minute Time Lord himself, Chip Sudderth, who will be in Los Angeles along with Steven and is in fact here now on this very program! As is tradition we highlight the many highlights of the Gally schedule and the added twists of this year’s convention as we navigate the Ongoing Weirdness. But that’s not all! We also have an interview with Big Finish’s Steve Berry who reveals both that fine organization’s plans and presence at Gallifrey One but also lets slip some details on this very audiogram!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One update, COVID testing on-site
- Gallifrey One preview
- Forces TV to show 12 classic Doctor Who stories
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators released
- Big Finish First Doctor Adventures: The Outlaws due April
- Big Finish Companion Chronicles: The Second Doctor Volume 3 due April
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Radio Free Skaro #835 – Diamonds are Forever
The rumours of The Return of Tennant strengthen and grow, driving at least two of the RFS-ians into states of pearl-clutching cold sweats and another into cautious optimism. Guess which ones! Plus we have news of Jodie Whittaker’s regeneration scene, the Gallifrey One schedule is released (including details of the Radio Free Skaro live show), a dip into history with The Timelash, and our Classic Series Commentary for Part Three of “Remembrance of the Daleks”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- The Tennant rumour persists and adds Catherine Tate
- Jamie Magnus Stone talks about Whittaker’s regeneration
- Gallifrey One 2022 programming on Sched
- Radio Free Skaro: In Flux
- Gally guest update: Bonnie Langford out, Eric Roberts and Sophia Myles in
- Doctor Who voted second best BBC show ever made
- Missing episodes held to ransom in the Middle East?
- The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 due May 1
- Series 13 scripts added to the BBC Writer’s Room
- New Doctor Who mobile game due in 2022 from ESGG
- Big Finish The Eighth of March: Protectors of Time due on International Women’s Day
- Spencer Chapman died
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Radio Free Skaro #834 – Hooray for Everything
This week the Three Who Rule has a grab bag of news including movement afoot on the upcoming RTD2 era, fan silliness as David Tennant is floated as the new Doctor for the umpteenth time to Warren’s monumental umbrage, Season 22 detective work by Chris and an interview between Steven, Joshua Bayer, and Peter Farrell of EVE Online as the massive strategy game crosses into the Whoniverse AND Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Remembrance of the Daleks”!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One January 19 Update
- RTD2 era “in production”
- Phil Collinson returns to produce Doctor Who
- Tom Baker Season 6 Blu-Ray due for release in North America Apr 19
- Season 22 will be the next Blu-Ray release
- Season 22 Blu-Ray trailer
- EVE Online/Doctor Who crossover
- The Zygon Invasion Target novelization
- Fires of Pompeii Target novelization
- Eaters of Light Target novelization
- Androids of Tara updated Target novelization
- Stones of Blood updated Target novelization
- Tales of Time and Space audio collection
- Big Finish UNIT: Nemesis – Angels of the Vulpreen features Quarks
- Big Finish Torchwood early 2022 titles announced
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Radio Free Skaro #833 – Working for the Weekend
It’s been a whiplash week of MRAHH BUSINESS news as BBC America is allegedly pulling out of Doctor Who missing episodes animation, Nadine Dorries threatens to end the license fee and thus doom the BBC, and Jo Martin gets her own Doctor Who comic for Free Comic Book Day! Plus we have Big Finish and book news, a new Weeping Angels board game, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for “Remembrance of the Daleks”! Cue the “little girl with a balloon” music!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Gallifrey One January 2022 update
- Gallifrey One 2022 charity is the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
- Jodie Whittaker at London Comic Con
- Mandip Gill at London Comic Con
- BBC America reportedly pulling funding from Classic Doctor Who animations
- BBC license fee to end
- Galaxy 4 due in Canada April 5
- Galaxy 4 due in the US April 5
- The Essential Terrance Dicks volume 1 paperback
- The Essential Terrane Dicks volume 2 paperback
- Jo Martin Doctor appears in the Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day issue
- Big Finish Out of Time 3: Wink features the Sixth and Tenth Doctors
- Season 14 Blu-Ray getting UK re-release in standard packaging
- Doctor Who: Don’t Blink board game
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Radio Free Skaro #832 – Super Super Fun
It’s a bumper crop of content this week as we dive into the works of Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell in the Miniscope including “Scream of the Shalka”, “Father’s Day”, and “Human Nature/The Family of Blood”! Plus we have our Doctor Who Magazine check-in with Emily Cook, a bunch of Big Finish news and Warren and Steven SQUARING OFF about nostalgia, streaming, and their own personal States of Decay, with Chris as the voice of reason! It’s all come Full Circle.
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Eve of the Daleks BBC One overnight viewing figures
- Eve of the Daleks BBC AI
- Eve of the Daleks BBC America overnights
- Big Finish Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty released
- Big Finish UNIT: Brave New World Volume 1 brings back Bambera
- Big Finish “interludes” to accompany Doctor ranges in 2022
- Doctor Who Magazine 573
- Doctor Who Magazine Chronicles 2007 due February
- DWAS Celestial Toyroom Annual 2022
- Doctor Who/EVE Online crossover
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Radio Free Skaro #831 – The Lines at Midnight
It’s 2022, and that means a new Doctor Who New Year’s Day special and some Dalek shenanigans as tradition dictates, this time in the form of “Eve of the Daleks!” Join the Three Who Rule as they ruminate upon a Mametesque character piece starring Yaz, Dan, the Doctor, and two time looped guest stars and the aforementioned Daleks in a self storage romp! Plus the return of a much pined-for monster this Easter and the usual news, tat and dips into the past via The Timelash…and the on-screen manifestation of Thasmin!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- The Timelash
- Eve of the Daleks review
- Legend of the Sea Devils, this spring
- 14th Doctor casting underway, some Series 14 episodes written
- Matt Strevens is done on Doctor Who
- Flux storyline to continue through the Whittaker specials
- Eve of the Daleks press pack
- Gallifrey One guest announcement: Bonnie Langford, Anjli Mohindra
- New/better negative of The Daleks ep 7 found
- Revamped Season 17 Blu-Ray trailer
- Abominable Snowmen Blu-Ray listed on Amazon.ca, no release date
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators due February
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures: Old Friends due February
- Doctor Who Magazine 573 due January 6
- Doctor Who Magazine 2022 Yearbook available
- Doctor Who Annual 2023 due September 1
- Throwback enamel pin TARDIS set 2
- Throwback enamel pin TARDIS set 3
- Toby Hadoke’s In Memoriam 2021 video
Radio Free Skaro #830 – The Clanging Chimes of Doom
A happy Christmas to all of you at home! It’s Christmas 2021, and thanks to the circumstances of the world, it may well be going off the rails for you! So let’s sit back, set the year-o-meter to 2005, and watch along with us as we provide for you a commentary for the first Doctor Who Christmas special – the original, you might say – Russell T Davies’ first foray into a Doctor Who Yuletide tradition, “The Christmas Invasion”!
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Radio Free Skaro #836 – Unlimited Rice Pudding
Posted on February 6, 2022 by Chris
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It’s the conclusion of our “Remembrance of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary where we blatantly ignore foundation-shattering lore and Gallifreyan artifacts and yander on about something irrelevant, probably. Plus we have Gallifrey One news, the ever-present dip back into history with The Timelash, BFI screenings, and new Big Finish initiatives, and an interview with DWM’s Emily Cook where she reveals her righteous disdain for…stats! Ahhh-ahhhhh! STATS!
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