Radio Free Skaro #751 – The Dog’s Name Was Indiana
Truncated Doctor Who? Normally nerds would scream bloody murder at such impertinence, but not when it’s the official Doctor Who YouTube page with half hour versions of “The Masque of Mandragora” and “The Hand of Fear”! Other bibs and bobs this week included photos of Matt Smith trying on test outfits before he went full tweed, Big Finish news and Target book delays, but let’s be frank, you’re here for the second part of our look at look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on “Listen”, “Time Heist”, “Flatline” and “The Husbands of River Song” in…the Miniscope!
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- Masque of Mandragora 30-minute edit
- The Hand of Fear 30-minute edit
- Matt Smith test outfits
- Time Lord Victorious: Minds of Magnox due December 3
- The Fifth Doctor fights The Daleks in 8 Big Finish stories
- Big Finish Torchwood late 2020 monthly releases
- Target books delayed to March 2021
- Time Scope charity anthology
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Radio Free Skaro #750 – Soon Be Middle Aged
Both America and Canada celebrated their birthdays this week, and Radio Free Skaro was there on July 1st via Twitter to highlight the Doctor Who accomplishments of some notable Canucks working in the Doctor Who trenches over the show’s 50-year history. In other news, we’re all addicted to varying degrees to the simplistic Thirteen tile game, and there’s a Series 6 Blu-Ray steelbook headed to UK fans in early August. Whoop! But let’s cut to the chase here, it’s our 750th episode, and to celebrate, we have the first part of a look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on Doctor Who…in the Miniscope!
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- Radio Free Skaro celebrates Canadians involved with Doctor Who
- Thirteen game
- Series 6 Blu-Ray Steelbook UK release
- Louis Mahoney died
- Earl Cameron died
- Doctor Who’s Line Is It Anyway charity special
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Radio Free Skaro #748 – Three Minutes of Brighton Beach
The news is thinner than David Tennant’s waistline this week, despite the appearance of good ol’ Number 10 along with current TARDIS occupant 13 herself on James Corden’s late night talk show. Gallifrey One hotel rooms are opening up this week, a peek at Time Lord Victorious and…that’s the extent of it. Perhaps it’s the fault of the advanced science of tachyonics as seen in Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for…”The Leisure Hive”!
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- Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block opens June 26
- Doctor Who can’t be made to the same standard with distancing rules
- Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant were on the Late Late Show with James Corden
- Whittaker and Tennant judged a cosplay contest on the Late Late Show
- Time Lord Victorious comics announced
- First look at Time Lord Victorious #1
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Radio Free Skaro #747 – Fun Space Time Box
Now that the Doctor Who tweetalongs are winding down, we’re back to the Time of (Almost) No News, which seems apt given the Cavalcade of Things occurring in the real world at the moment, but there’s some Steven Moffat bonus content in the form of “The Best of Days”, a bonus bit of Nardole/Bill content, along with the script for “Blink,” one of his most lauded works, being available for download. Plus there’s some hot Rory content coming from Big Finish, learnin’ stuff from Twinkl and the BBC, and the antithesis of education in the form of…Fluid Links!
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- The Best of Days by Steven Moffat
- The Best of Days will be Moffat’s last Who work
- Script for Blink released
- Season 14 UK Blu-Ray re-release
- Big Finish’s The Lone Centurion brings back Rory
- Educational DW resources released by Twinkl and BBC Studios
- Twinkl Doctor Who Educational resources
Radio Free Skaro #746 – The Man Who Wasn’t There
Sometimes the world outside our Doctor Who fandom has to be accounted for and engaged with. We hope we can bring some levity to your week nonetheless, but we implore you to do your own reading, research and thinking. We also have a miniscope with Steve Thompson, the (possibly fictional?) writer of “The Curse of the Black Spot”, “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”, and “Time Heist”, and we will once and for all determine if he exists! Or will we?
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- Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26
- Final tweetalong for World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls canceled
- World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls scripts made available
- Black Girls Create tweetalongs
- The Secret of Novice Hame extra for New Earth/Gridlock
- The Guardian profiled Who fandom during lockdown
- TARDIS Touchdown Techniques extra for The TARDIS Chronicles
- The Faceless Ones DVD delayed in Canada
- Conundrum from the Doctor Who Audio Annual released for free
- Big Finish Time Lord Victorious announcement
- Big Finish Time Apart features a solo Fifth Doctor
- Doctor Who Pub Quiz Night in support of the Lily Foundation
- Black Girls Create
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Radio Free Skaro #745 – Ice Road Truckers
The Doctor Who tweetalongs organized by Emily Cook will continue until morale improves, which it has, due to tweetalongs! Specifically “New Earth”, “Gridlock”, and “The Rings of Akhaten” along with some Long Song bonus content. Want more? Noel Clarke interviews RTD and if you’re American, HBO Max has all of “new Who” (minus Series 12, out on Blu-ray next month) for you! Plus more Big Finish, DVD news, and Doctor Who on Turkish television along with the grand finale of our “Planet of the Daleks” commentary featuring..the Three Who Rule!
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- New Earth/Gridlock tweetalong
- Rings of Akhaten tweetalong
- The Long Song fan choir
- Noel Clarke interviews Russell T Davies
- HBO Max launched in the US
- Big Finish in Lockdown video
- The Faceless Ones North America DVD release
- Lost TV episodes collection 4 CD release
- Big Finish brings together Tom Baker and David Tennant
- DWAS releases Doctor Who Audio Guide volume 2
- Doctor Who Magazine 552 released
- Doctor Who comes to Turkish TV
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Radio Free Skaro #744 – CSO Miami
The pandemic podcasts continue with this week’s guest Danica Leblanc, co-owner of Edmonton-based comic shop Variant Edition, who updates us on the trials of retail and general survival in the Time Of COVID. But we’re not alone, as there is a breaking Gallifrey One update, more tweetalongs, Big Finish announcements, new dollies coming to North America, assorted nonsense, and the continued excitement of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with special guest Paul Cornell!
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- Gallifrey One planning to go ahead for 2021
- An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong happened May 23
- Doctors Assemble! extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- David Bradley message extra from An Adventure in Space and Time tweetalong
- The Fires of Pompeii tweetalong bonus content, The Descendants of Pompeii
- Listen tweetalong happened May 20
- A Poem by Steven Moffat for the Listen tweetalong
- Fear is a Superpower extra for the Listen tweetalong
- The Unsung Heroes of Doctor Who series from Fantom kicked off
- Six new Character Options action dollies sets due in June
- Peter Davison revamped his home recording studio
- Big Finish War Master volumes 5 and 6 announced
- Big Finish announces Master!
- Big Finish Masterful artwork released
- Big Finish The Doomsday Contract by John Lloyd announced
- Big Finish The Lovecraft Invasion announced
- 2021 Doctor Who annual available in September
- The TARDIS Chronicles Volume 1 by Paul Smith available
- Doctor Who The Monster Vault book due in October
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Radio Free Skaro #743 – Resting Prentis Face
The lockdown continues across the world, and this week we welcome one Erik Stadnik from the Czech Republic and Doctor Who: The Writer’s Room fame to regale us with tales of eastern European quarantine along with good natured badinage about this week’s news, which includes further tweetalongs, “Time Lord: Victorious” news, new Doctor Who video games, and a boatload of Who scripts from Series 12 for your enjoyment! And speaking of fun, we have the first two episodes of our “Planet of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary with comedian, Who-storian, writer Toby Hadoke!
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- All Series 12 scripts available from the BBC Writer’s Room
- Segun Akinola took part in a Hollywood Reporter roundtable
- The Zygon Isolation bonus content from the Zygon Invasion/Inversion tweetalong
- The next tweetalong will be for The Fires of Pompeii
- The Radio Times is organizing a tweetalong for An Adventure in Space and Time
- Initial Time Lord Victorious books announced
- Maze Theory developing two new Doctor Who video games
- WhoLanta doing a virtual convention May 30
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Radio Free Skaro #742 – The Ogron Implosion
The Swarm continues, and with it comes fine Doctor Who-related content such as the tweetalong for “The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion” with one Peter Harness, who is also this week’s featured guest! (Stay tuned for the short discussion about Eurovision!) We also wrap up the first half of our epic Classic Series Commentary of “Frontier in Space” and “Planet of the Daleks” with Big Finish writer, Verity! co-host, and “The Time Monster” advocate Liz Myles!
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- Next Tweetalong is for The Zygon Invasion/Inversion with Peter Harness and Ingrid Oliver
- “Pompadour” bonus content for The Girl in the Fireplace
- Radio Times behind the scenes in 1970
- 2020 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity from Big Finish
- New Who Talk releases for The Robots of Death and The Pirate Planet
- BBC releases Sci-fi-themed video conferencing backdrops
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Radio Free Skaro #749 – A Flock of Pangols
Posted on June 28, 2020 by Chris
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Hotelmageddon! Yes, even in this time of the Swarm, the love for Doctor Who and celebration of said televisual program continues unabated as we all hope to see each other at Gallifrey One in February 2021 at the LAX Marriott, the room block for which is now sold out. In the meantime, there’s a great panel with three Doctors Who and friend of the show Riley Silverman, plus the usual Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine and whatnot, plus a new discussion about noted communist agitator Malcolm Hulke! And if that isn’t enough proletariat agitprop, we have the second half of our “The Leisure Hive” commentary! Tachyoneriffic!
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