Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Sad news this week as legendary production designer Michael Pickwoad passed away at age 73, leaving behind a legion of fans and a body of work that included iconic Doctor Who sets over 71 episodes but spanned a decades-long career in film and television. He will be missed. We also speculate about a likely Sunday start date in October for Series 11, we have news of a Doctor Who fan experience coming to Johannesburg, Matt Smith being cast in Star Wars: Episode IX, and most excitingly, part two of our Miniscope featuring 1970s writing duo Bob Baker and Dave Martin!

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Michael Pickwoad died
– Radio Free Skaro interview with Michael Pickwoad
– Behind the scenes pics from “The Abominable Snowmen”
– African Doctor Who Experience
– Sheridan Smith returns to Big Finish
– Preview of Thirteenth Doctor Issue #2
– Matt Smith cast in Star Wars Episode IX

Miniscope:

– Bob Baker
– Dave Martin
– The Invisible Enemy
– Underworld
– The Armageddon Factor
– The Nightmare of Eden

Radio Free Skaro #650 – The Fabulous Bristol Boys

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Chris

A rather staggering pile of Doctor Who news this week, including the announcement of all the new writers and directors for Series 11, a Bill action dolly becomes a little more real, Doctor #5’s first season gets the Blu-ray treatment, and more Doctor Who convention news than you can shake a stick at! And just for you, dear listeners, the first of a two-part Miniscope featuring the dynamic duo of writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, AKA the Bristol Boys! A Miniscope? Now this is outrageous!

Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Series 11 writers and directors
– Profile on Jennifer Perrott; Australia to get Series 11 Premiere cinema screening
– Profile on Malorie Blackman
– Bill action figure preorder
– Season 19 Blu-Ray due Nov 19 in the UK
– Season 19 Blu-Ray due Dec 4 in the US
– Season 19 trailer
– Season 12 Blu-Ray replacement disc update
– Big Finish 20th anniversary box set, The Legacy of Time
– Doctor Who & Torchwood audios Humble Bundle
– Dalek Audio Annual due in December 2018
– Doctor Who Magazine “World of Doctor Who” special edition
– Black Archive #23, The Curse of Fenric by Una McCormack due Sep 3
– 2019 Art of Andrew Skilleter calendar
– Final Patrick Troughton convention appearance, recorded the day before his death
– Whooverville X begins Sep 1
– Graeme Harper, Frazer Hines and Nicholas Briggs announced for Chicago TARDIS
– 2018 Hugo voting stats

Miniscope:

– Bob Baker
– Dave Martin
– The Claws of Axos
– The Mutants
– The Three Doctors
– The Sontaran Experiment
– The Hand of Fear

Radio Free Skaro #649 – The Power of The Power of Kroll

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Steven

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Cast your minds back to the early days of Radio Free Skaro when there just hosts, Steven and Warren, and they would press record and then plan what they were going to talk about? Well, this episode is a throwback to those pre-smartphone days of the podcast, with Steven and Warren convening in a hotel room in San Jose, CA (home of WorldCon 76), along with guests Jason Snell, Helene Wecker, and Erika Ensign, to talk about how Doctor Who became a part of our lives, and where the show is going from here. What better way to celebrate our twelfth anniversary!

Guests:

– Helene Wecker
– Jason Snell
– Erika Ensign

Radio Free Skaro #648 – Dwellings of Simplicity

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Steven

– David Tennant announced as guest at Edmonton Expo
– The Fourth Doctor returns to E-Space in Big Finish in 2020
– Synopsis for “Destination: Bandril” by Jonathon Morris and Lance Parkin
– Big Chief Thirteenth Doctor figure coming soon
– “Doctor Who: Battle in Time” collectible card game
– Classic Series Commentary: “Castrovalva”

It’s a lazy August weekend as Radio Free Skaro approaches its twelfth(!) aniversary, but soon one Mr. David Tennant will grace the home planet of the Three Who Rule as he will be joining fellow Doctor Matt Smith at Edmonton Expo in September! Plus we have news of new E-Space adventures with the Season 18 time team (in Big Finish form), big-scale Thirteenth Doctor action dolly fun (in Big Chief form), and the main event, a Classic Series commentary for Peter Davison’s debut story, “Castrovalva”!

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Radio Free Skaro #647 – To Infinity and Beyond

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Chris

This week on Radio Free Skaro, we’re looking to the future as the first wave of Gallifrey One guests get announced for 2019, Series 11 of Doctor Who wraps up filming, a new Thirteenth Doctor publicity photo emerges, and many a soundtrack (well, two) for Classic Who drops from the sky into your ears. And if that isn’t enough sensory overload, we have an interview with notable game merchants Susan and Lee Cummings as they discuss their upcoming Steam and mobile game, Doctor Who Infinity!

Links:

– Gallifrey One 2019 first guest block announced
– Series 11 wraps filming
– Thirteenth Doctor Titan Comics Issue 1 variant covers
– Thirteenth Doctor promo image, “On Top of the World”
– Doctor Who Fan Show Steven Moffat interview part 3
– William Hartnell blue plaque at Ealing Studios
– The Invasion soundtrack
– The Five Doctors soundtrack
– Eccleston & Tennant DVD collection
– Smith DVD collection
– Capaldi DVD collection
– Silver Nemesis 30th anniversary DVD announced then unannounced
– Alan Bennion died

Interview:

– Doctor Who Infinity
– Susan Cummings
– Lee Cummings

Radio Free Skaro #646 – Flipping Cat Fights All Hours of the Day

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Chris

Insanity levels are slightly lower in this, the week after San Diego Comic-Con, but there’s still plenty to discuss including Jodie Whittaker being a proper cinephile (at a now sold out appearance at Somerset House), a new book about the women of Doctor Who, upcoming Doctor Who merchandise discovered live on Amazon during the podcast, John Levene chronicling the saga of his life and times, Doctor Who: Infinity and Big Finish news, and the main event – the return of Fluid Links, where you ask the tough questions and we meander with half-baked responses!

Links:

– Doctor Who on Twitch
– Jodie Whittaker: Films of my Life
– Entertainment Tonight Comic-Con Doctor Who interview
– The Women Who Lived: Amazing Tales for Future Time Lords
– John Levene autobiography due in the fall
– Doctor Who 2019 Calendar
– Amazon US lists preorder for Wheel in Space DVD
– The War Master returns in Big Finish
– Doctor Who Infinity launches on Steam in August
– Doctor Who escape room
– Thirteenth Doctor wax figure
– Class soundtrack on the horizon
– London Film and Comic Con
– Doctor Who Meets Scratchman novelization
– William Hughes died

Radio Free Skaro #645 – New Best Friends

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Chris

It’s San Diego Comic-Con! There is an absurd amount of news from the world’s largest media convention this week, including a new and mysterious Doctor Who trailer, a panel featuring Jodie Whittaker, Mandop Gill, Tosin Cole, showrunner Chris Chibnall and executive producer Matt Strevens, new Series 11 artwork, Jodie wowing everyone with a surprise appearance at the Her Universe fashion show, a press conference or two and (takes breath) reports from on the ground at SDCC with the Nerdis’s Kyle Anderson and Doctor Who on the Couch’s Heather Berberet! Sit down and get yourself a snack because this is the annual SDCC edition of Radio Free Skaro and it’s going to be a whopper!

Links:

– Doctor Who on Twitch
– San Diego Comic-Con International
– Doctor Who SDCC Panel
– Jodie Whittaker arrival video, new Pull To Open typeface
– Jodie Whittaker announcement/reaction video
– Series 11 SDCC Trailer
– BBC America confirmed to be simulcasting Series 11 premiere
– Series 11 won’t have two-parters, writer’s room style confirmed
– Series 11 Christmas Special confirmed
– Series 11 to have 50/50 gender split for directors and first People of Colour writers
– New Sonic Screwdriver
– Series 11 promo pics
– Series 11 promo artwork
– Series 11 character portraits
– Jodie Whittaker at Her Universe fashion show
– Doctor Who SDCC press conference
– Entertainment Weekly Doctor Who facebook live interview
– TVLine SDCC Doctor Who interview
– Series 11 to have new monsters
– Jodie Whittaker hopes Doctor Who will inspire young girls
– Macra Terror and Wheel in Space animated?
– TVNZ will broadcast Doctor Who in New Zealand, taking over from Prime
– Jodie Whittaker on the Radio Times cover
– Doctor Who Magazine will have subscriber-only collectible covers
– John Barrowman and Mark Shepherd announced for Edmonton Expo

Correspondents:

– Kyle Anderson
– Heather Berberet

Radio Free Skaro #644 – The Universe is Calling

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Chris

Trailer! Teaser? Either way, a rather brief look at Series 11 of Doctor Who that shows the new friends Ryan, Yasmin, and Graham, a brief shot of Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who #13, and several unhealthy food options was released to the world just before this podcast recording! Yes, the PR onslaught has begun, with Jodie on the cover of EW, dolly news, San Diego Comic-Con news, Amazon listings, and and AND a miniscope featuring Daniel Nettheim, director of “The Zygon Invasion” and “The Zygon Inversion”, “Extremis”, and “The Pyramid at the End of the World”!

Links:

– Doctor Who on Twitch
– Series 11 trailer
– Jodie Whittaker on the cover of Entertainment Weekly; BBC America to simulcast Series 11 Premiere
– Thirteenth Doctor figurine range
– Titan Comics San Diego Comic-Con panel
– David Tennant and The Muppets
– More of David Tennant and the Muppets
– Peter Davison and The Muppets
– 2019 Doctor Who mini calendar features Thirteenth Doctor era exclusively
– BBC America showing Shada
– Torchwood on Twitch
– Twice Upon A Time in 4K
– Eccleston/Tennant DVD box set
– Matt Smith DVD box set
– Peter Capaldi DVD box set
– Carole Ann Ford joins David Bradley on Big Finish
– Season 12 Blu-Ray replacement discs

Miniscope:

– Daniel Nettheim
– The Zygon Invasion
– The Zygon Inversion
– Extremis
– The Pyramid at the End of the World

Radio Free Skaro #643 – Serendipity

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Chris