Radio Free Skaro #815 – Billie Piper and The Hobbits
As we careen into the autumn (and while other franchises like Star Wars and The Matrix announce their plans and trailers for the future), Jodie Whittaker is talking about Life after Who, Christopher Eccleston is out of Calgary Expo, Big Finish unleashes another tsunami of content, and we take an epic dive in another busy week in Doctor who history in The Timelash! Bask in the banterful badinage, won’t you?
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- The Timelash
- Evil of the Daleks BFI screening today
- Jodie Whittaker talks post-Who
- Eccleston withdraws from Calgary Expo, still slated for Dallas next weekend
- Big Finish Jenny – Still Running due November
- Big Finish Torchwood – The Grey Mare due December
- Big Finish The Lost Resort and Other Stories now available
- Doctor Who Chronicles Issue 3: 1983 due September 30
- Doctor Who Atlas now available
- Tony Selby died
- Vera Fusek died
Radio Free Skaro #813 – Tuberculocusts
As we wait for both a new series of Doctor Who (and, indeed, a new showrunner and new Doctor), let us instead keep you occupied with talk of conventions during the Time of COVID, a deep dive into the Timelash looking back at many season premieres, and Part Three of our “State of Decay” Classic Series Commentary!
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- The Timelash
- Chicago TARDIS will require COVID vaccinations
- Extract from the Terrance Dicks Target volumes
- Big Finish Lost Stories: Mind of the Hodiac due March 2022
- Big Finish Torchwood Empire of Shadows available
- Big Finish Torchwood The Red List, featuring Ace, due November
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Radio Free Skaro #812 – Consonantal Driftwood
This week we’ve got more mystery clues for you to peruse, Big Finish art and releases to amuse and a clikbait article about possible future showrunners that will at best bemuse. There’s also talk of current showrunner Chris Chibnall’s message in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, the impaled Cyberman figure you never knew you needed from Hero Collector, and Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “State of Decay”!
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- The Timelash
- BBC America Series 13 Press Release
- Doctor Who /mystery clues so far
- Doctor Who Loot Crate
- Screenrant Show Runner list
- Doctor Who Magazine 568
- Big Finish Lost Warriors, next for the Ninth Doctor
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures volume 8, due October
- Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones welcomes Marina Sirtis
- Big Finish The Early Adventures After the Daleks available
- Big Finish The Early Adventures The Secrets of Det-Sen available
- Big Finish The God of Phantoms by Philip Hinchcliffe available
- Titan Comics brings around the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors
- Who & Me by Barry Letts expanded edition due this month
- Vworp Vworp issue 4 due September
- Upcoming Hero Collector figurines including an impaled Cyberman
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Radio Free Skaro #811 – The Birthday Cake Scene
It was on this very day in history, August 15, in 2006, that this one humble podcast was cast forth into the world, back when the universe was less than half its present size. And now, in celebration of our 15th anniversary, we feature news of directors for Series 13 of Doctor Who, and a special edition of Fluid Links! Thank you all for listening over the past decade and a half, no matter when you jumped on for the journey!
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- The Timelash
- Series 13 director news
- Doctor Who Mystery site clue
- Radio Times poll names Michael Sheen the fan favourite to replace Whittaker
- Two Fourth Doctor “missing” stories to be mounted by Big Finish
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor “Respond to all Calls” released
- Around the World with Big Finish
- Richard Bignell playing with Smugglers home video footage
- Cutaway Comics Eldrad Must Live
- Andrew Skilleter 2022 calendar, featuring VHS covers
- Free RPG module from Cubicle 7
- The Lonely Assassins now on consoles
- Taproot Edmonton names RFS podcast of the week
Radio Free Skaro #810 – The Tiffany Network
In the wake of Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall’s mutual decision to leave the good ship Doctor Who we have precisely the sort of pointless speculation, cogitation and puffery you’d expect from three fans with nothing but wisps of info to grasp to, along with some serious digression into the current nature of television, why CBS is still a tedious money machine, action dolly and Big Finish news, and more! All this and part the first of our Classic Series Commentary for the original Three Who Rule in “State of Decay”!
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- The Timelash
- Upcoming action figure sets: The Sensorites, The Keys of Marinus, Power of the Daleks, Day of the Daleks
- Al Dewar video on the new action figures
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 58 – Directors
- Capaldi may not want to do a multi-Doctor story
- Suicide Squad Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion video
- Big Finish War Master: Self-Defence
- Big Finish Twelfth Doctor Chronicles
- Ralph Watson died
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Radio Free Skaro #809 – Travel Hopefully
It’s a monumental week of news as Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker and current showrunner Chris Chibnall announced they will be leaving the show in 2022 after the next (truncated) series and a triplet of specials. What does this portend? Well, endless fannish debate, worry, and fevered hand-wringing to which we will contribute our small portion starting now. Heading back to the present we have a “Mystery” ARG website baffling fans via cryptic conundrums, a tsunami of Big Finish conundrums, convention news, and an interview with Jess Jurkovic, who transcribes and performs Dudley Simpson scores via piano! Plinkity plonk!
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- The Timelash
- Whittaker, Chibnall to leave Doctor Who in 2022
- Babylon 5 creator offers to run Doctor Who
- Doctor Who “mystery” site
- Evil of the Daleks BFI screening Sep 12
- Big Chief 1/6 scale Day of the Daleks collection
- Eccleston at Fan Expo Canada in October
- Ottawa Comic-Con postpones due to COVID concerns
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 3 due in December
- River Song: New Recruit sees River meeting the Third Doctor
- Big Finish Torchwood: The Great Sontaran War due October
- Big Finish Torchwood Soho: Ashenden due October
- “Based on the Popular BBC Televsion Serial” fourth edition available for a donation
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Radio Free Skaro #808 – Rhythm Composer
It’s San Diego Comic-Con at Home time again, which means all of two panels concerning Doctor Who, one about the quite delightful Missy Comic from write Jody Houser and artist Roberta Ingranata and the other featuring Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop and Chris Chibnall! The panel revealed about as much as you’d guess, as did a teaser trailer. In fact the only real information was new cast member Jacob Anderson recently of the Game of Thrones parish is in Series 13. We also discuss the Guardian clickbait article currently making the rounds, dollies, Big Finish, games and, to Warren’s dread, a history of viewing figures! Listen if you dare!
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- Doctor Who SDCC@Home panel
- Jacob Anderson joins Series 13 as Vinder
- Series 13 Team TARDIS group shot
- Titan Comics SDCC@Home panel
- Doctor Who Magazine 567
- Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston at Fan Expo Dallas
- Why it’s time for Doctor Who to die
- Second Doctor and TARDIS Abominable Snowmen set announced
- Figurine Collection 13th Doctor TARDIS console
- Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones
- Orcini comic available to order separately, comes with bonus materials
- Louis Moorhouse interviews Tom Baker
- The Edge of Reality game hits PC and consoles in September
- New licensing deals for Doctor Who announced
- Adam Martyn’s #doctorwhoratings YouTube series
- Missing episode of Morcambe and Wise found
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Radio Free Skaro #807 – Letts Make Magic
In about a week we’ll either learn absolutely nothing or possibly slightly more than that as Doctor Who holds a panel at SDCC@Home featuring Jodie Whittaker, Chris Chibnall, Mandip Gill, new companion John Bishop and a “special guest” (possibly the ghost of Richard Hurndall?) and RFS will be there, at home, in a slightly delayed fashion to cover it. But here in the present there’s audiobooks, a new version of the Doctor Who Role Playing Game, and more catching our attention, along with the final part of our Barry Letts directorial Miniscope, covering “Carnival of Monsters”, “Planet of the Spiders”, and “The Android Invasion”! What are you waiting for, Lett’s CSGo!
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- The Timelash
- SDCC@Home Doctor Who panel July 25, 10am
- SDCC@Home Titan Comics panel July 23, 1pm
- Neve McIntosh at Chicago TARDIS
- Billie Piper at MegaCon Orlando
- Time Fracture has flooding issues, cancellations
- Brian Hodgson’s memoir
- Big Finish Dalek Universe 2 released
- Time and the Rani audio CD
- Timelash audio CD
- Face of Evil audio CD
- Reign of Terror audio CD
- Android Invasion audio CD
- Keys of Marinus audio CD
- Nightmare of Eden audio CD
- Sarah Jane Adventures added to UK BritBox
- Upcoming Abominable Snowmen action dollie set?
- TARDIS console lava lamp
- Cubicle7 Doctor Who RPG second edition coming soon
- Pip Madelay’s YouTube channel
Miniscope:
Radio Free Skaro #806 – Salamander Six Zero
It’s the return of the Miniscope! Barry Letts has both written and directed for Doctor Who (on top of his tenure as producer from 1970-74) but he finally has his day in our segment analyzing the work of behind-the-scenes notables here for his directing on “The Enemy of the World” and “Terror of the Autons”. We also talk about the upcoming Comic-Con at Home Doctor Who panel on July 25, a bevy of Big Finish releases, and look back at some notable, non-broadcast related dates in history in The Timelash!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
- The Timelash
- Doctor Who Comic-Con at Home panel happening July 25
- BBC Studios earnings down 17% due to COVID shutdowns
- John Barrowman a guest at Calgary Expo 2021
- Big Finish’s The Diary of River Song: New Recruit in October 2021
- Missy and the Monk coming from Big Finish in September 2021
- Doctor Who: The War Doctor Begins – Warbringer coming to Big Finish December 2021
- Big Finish dedicates an upcoming Early Adventures release to Jackie Lane
- Missy #4 from Titan Comics out July 14
- Doctor Who TVM Producer Philip Segal’s model building
- Toby Hadoke begins a guest stint on Coronation Street
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Radio Free Skaro #814 – Kill Me On A Monday
Posted on September 5, 2021 by Chris
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This week on the show, put your Sherlock (and definitely not #superwholock) hats on because there are new clues in the decreasingly cryptic Doctor Who ARG for you to peruse, and a possible leak about what the next Classic Collection Blu-ray release will be? Also, news from Whooverville 12, Big Finish excitement by way of Torchwood, The Eleven, and Dark Season, and the fourth and final Classic Series Commentary by the Three Who Rule about the Three Who Rule in “State of Decay”!
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