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
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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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- 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
Radio Free Skaro #805 – Kids In America
It’s another exciting week in Doctor Who-age as the latest non-event in the “who is the next Doctor Who” saga reaches its inevitable limp conclusion, but to bring balance to the Force, “The Evil of the Daleks” is coming to DVD and Blu-ray in animated form! Plus Big Finish is bringing back not only the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny, for a second series, but also Sir Derek Jacobi for some audio chinwaggin’ about his legendary career, and of course we delve into Doctor Who history once again as we enter the…Timelash!
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- Olly Alexander’s agent dispels rumours
- The Evil of the Daleks gets animated
- The Evil of the Daleks teaser trailer
- Big Finish Jenny Series Two due November
- Derek Jacobi in conversation with Big Finish
- Ashes to Ashes joins BritBox
- Peter Capaldi to release music album
Radio Free Skaro #804 – The Most Banterful Time of the Year
You asked for news and banter? Well, here’s your news and banter! Our first “banterful” episode in a long while, Erika Ensign of Verity! joins Steven and Warren for a look at the week that was in Doctor Who news, the years that were in Doctor Who history in The Timelash, plus we debut a new monthly segment looking into the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine with DWM editorial assistant and writer, Emily Cook!
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- The Timelash
- Jackie Lane (1941-2021)
- Doctor Who Magazine 566 with Emily Cook
- Jo Martin announced as guest for Galllifrey One in 2022
- Christopher Eccleston coming to Calgary Expo in September
- Peter Capaldi, Jessica Raine star in new Steven Moffat series “The Devil’s Hour”
- Doctor Who: Age of Chaos graphic novel due July 1, written by Colin Baker
- Design For Doctor Who book from Piers D. Britton coming July 1 to US/UK/AUS/IND
- Simon Guerrier review of Design For Doctor Who
- Louis’ campaign to bring DW to blind children
Radio Free Skaro #802 – Captain Armin Tamzarian
Various parts of the world seem to be opening up, emerging from our long pandemic slumber, and the World of Who is no different, with Long Island Who and Chicago TARDIS selling passes to their November conventions, the BFI holding Doctor Who screening events, and BBC America canvassing questions from the Who-polloi to ask the cast of Series 13, currently nearing the end of production. Also, we have possibly the best episode of Torchwood Series One as we join the timey-wimey, Cardiffy-Wardiffy adventures of “Captain Jack Harkness” in our Torchwood Revisited commentaries!
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- BBC America seeking fan questions for Series 13 cast
- LI Who Time-Flight passes went on sale
- Chicago TARDIS single day passes on sale June 14
- Season 24 Blu-Ray delayed a week in the UK to June 28
- Class back on the iPlayer
- Missy meets the Meddling Monk in Big Finish, due September 2021
- More Doctor Who characters added to Funko Pop! Blitz
- Doctor Who Annual 2022 due September 2021
- Titan cancels Captain Jack comic which tied into Series 13
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Radio Free Skaro #801 – Dirk Swear Jar
On this episode of Radio Free Skaro, not only do we have our new regular feature of looking back at the week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash, we also have news of Doctor Who: Time Fracture, which is hosting actual human beings in adventures in space and time even as we speak! Plus Big Finish is bringing Doctors Five and Ten together to fight Cybermen, Rachel Talalay explains the secrets behind Mondasian Capaldi carries, and we start to wind down our Torchwood Revisited commentaries with episode 11, “Combat”!
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- Big Finish Out of Time 2 released
- Big Finish Peladon set with David Troughton due 2022
- Rachel Talalay talks the Cyberman carrying Capaldi (also bonus video)
- Rachel Talalay charity auction
- Time Fracture: Meet the cast and crew
- Radio Times podcast visits Time Fracture
- Doctor Who Hero Collector advent calendar due September
- Doctor Who News Page celebrates 25 years
- Damaris Hayman died
- Godfrey James died
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Radio Free Skaro #800 – 1-800-RADIO-FREE-SKARO
It’s another exciting week of Doctor Who missives, including Big Finish comings and goings for 2022, Time Fracture hints and how-do-you-dos, and of course our new weekly feature about looking back at this week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash! All mere introduction for our Torchwood Revisited commentary for the chronolicious episode “Out of Time”!
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- Doctor Who Magazine 565
- Legends of Camelot by Jac Rayner
- The Wonderful Doctor of Oz by Jac Rayner
- Season 24 Blu-Ray delayed in North America
- Season 10 & 18 UK Blu-Rays getting re-released
- Time Fracture to feature screen-used props
- Big Finish 2022 Doctor Who audios
- Season 6B implications of the 2022 Big Finish releases
- Big Finish supercut of the 275 monthly releases
- Rittenhouse Archives secures rights to Doctor Who trading cards
- Jo Martin videos on Time Fracture’s Instagram (1, 2, 3)
- Roy Scammell died
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Radio Free Skaro #799 – Specific Footwear
We’re almost at 800 episodes (or so) so why not formally introduce a new segment on this week’s episode of Radio Free Skaro? Join us in The Timelash, where we look back this week in Doctor Who history to find our what successes and/or failures were changing the lives of Doctor Who fans of yesteryear. If you enjoy more news and banter with your jazz odyssey known as Radio Free Skaro, then we hope you enjoy our new direction! And we also have our ninth instalment of Torchwood Revisited with everyone’s favourite episode “Random Shoes”!
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- BBC Copyright enforcement kerfuffle
- Season 24 Blu-Ray trailer
- Doctor Who Chronicles Issue 2: 1975
- Big Finish Paul Spragg Short Trips Competition
- Big Finish UNIT Nemesis
- BBV Jon Pertwee Uncut Interview
- Alex Kingston does a reading from The Ruby’s Curse
- First chapter of The Ruby’s Curse available for free
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Radio Free Skaro #798 – Smell The Glove
Normality may be crawling back into our disease-ridden lives as Whooverville 12 (in Derby) and Long Island Who (in the form of Time-Flight 2021) announce in-person events in September and November, and if you wanted every Doctor to appear in an interactive theatrical piece named Time Fracture, now you can! But if you’ve been pining for Captan Jack Harkness in the same, no such luck. Meanwhile Christopher Eccleston has returned for real in Ravagers and as if that wasn’t enough, we continue our Torchwood Revisited commentaries with “They Keep Killing Suzie”!
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- LI Who 2021 going ahead in-person
- Whooverville 12 going ahead in-person
- All the Doctors will be in Time Fracture
- John Barrowman removed from Time Fracture
- Big Finish removes Torchwood Absent Friends from release schedule
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures Ravagers out now
- Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures Respond to all Calls due August 2021
- Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures Volume 8 due October 2021
- K-9 Audio Annual due November 2021
- Rachel Talalay made a behind the scenes video about Heaven Sent
- Yee Jee Tso re-released his photo book as an ebook
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Radio Free Skaro #803 – King Kong Abbadon
Posted on June 20, 2021 by Chris
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It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for, as we wrap up our Torchwood Revisited commentary series with “End of Days” from Torchwood Series 1. But the news and banter that you know and love comes first with guest Heather Berberet subbing for Warren while he communes with nature to talk about rumours of Jodie Whittaker leaving Doctor Who in 2022, the return of conventions in the coming months, and what went on in this week in Doctor Who history in The Timelash!
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