Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 3


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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.

Radio Free Skaro #664 – Off the Reyals


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The Time Team go to Backwards Land this week in the latest episode of Doctor Who, “It Takes You Away”, but is it an emotional roller coaster, a tribute to Norwegian amphibians, a confusing mess, or all of the above? Join the Three Who Rule as they leap through a portal into a world of bon mots, badinage and bafflegab! Plus stats (in Norwegian) and the return of the RFS Advent calendar, now with bonus Youtube and LEGO!
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar on YouTube
– Episode 9 review, “It Takes You Away”
– Promo images, synopsis released for New Year’s Day special
– “The Witchfinders” overnight viewing figures
– “Kerblam!” final viewing figures
– BBC America Series 11 ratings
– BBC iPlayer had its highest ever usage in October
– Jodie Whittaker to read a story for CBeebies
– Series 18 Blu-ray announced; February 25 in UK, March 19 in North America
– Series 18 Blu-ray release trailer
– Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon due from BF & BBC Studios due September 2019

Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 2


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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.

Radio Free Skaro – 2018 Advent Calendar, Day 1


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This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.

Radio Free Skaro #663 – Witchfinder Pursuivant


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It’s time to find some witches with the Three Who Rule as Doctor Who and the gang/team/fam navigate superstition, 17th century sexual politics and an extremely flirtatious King James in “The Witchfinders”! Plus stats, which sounds uncomfortably close to “Satan,” actual Satan with Tom Baker adapting his barking mad idea “Scratchman” into a novel, Big Finish scheduling their releases well into the End Times, and surely the greatest harbinger of the Apocalypse, a new 13th Doctor Funko Pop without a coat. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!?! NO COAT!!
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 8 review, “The Witchfinders”
– Chicago TARDIS
– Kerblam! BBC One overnight viewing figures
– “Demons of the Punjab” BBC One final viewing figures
– BBC America Series 11 ratings
– Tom Baker novelizing Scratchman, book and audiobook due out January 24, 2019
– Special edition Warriors’ Gate audio release
– Big Finish announces three more Time War box sets
– Seventh Doctor and Mags team up in Big Finish trilogy due out April 2019
– Doctor Who opening titles supercut
– BBC posts 10 hour loop of new Doctor Who opening theme
– Video of William Hartnell blue plaque unveiling
– Thirteenth Doctor without coat Funko Pop

Radio Free Skaro #662 – Amazon Robots on the Moon


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The Doctor and her Time Pals sign up as temporary wage scoundrels at the titular “Kerblam!” (aka Space Amazon) and the Three Who Rule are here to tell you what they thought of this treatise on modern work, robots and bubble wrap along with news, stats, a special shift from Christmas to New Year’s Day and more! So fire up this podcast and get in line for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and whatever other arbitrary celebration of consumerism keeps annoying “teammates” from pestering you about productivity!
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 7 review, Kerblam!
– Episode 9 & 10 titles
– Episode 11 to go out New Year’s Day
– BBC America will also show episode 11 on New Year’s Day
– Series 12 to air in 2019
– Children in Need 2018 Doctor Who piece
– Demons of the Punjab BBC One overnights
– The Tsuranga Conundrum BBC One final viewing figures
– BBC America Series 11 ratings
– Jodie Whittaker turns on the Regent Street Christmas lights
– New Cardiff Doctor Who experience coming?
– Doctor Who Magazine 532 released
– Christopher Eccleston speaks out about his “blacklisting”
– Big Finish pairs The Fifth Doctor with Jenny
– Doctor Who “Choose Your Future” journal due in December
– Gallifrey One 2019 Discussion Panels

Radio Free Skaro #661 – The Undeadly Assassins


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On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice being signed, it seemed fitting on the day of Remembrance that the tone of this week’s Doctor Who struck a more sombre tone, and that’s exactly what we got in “Demons of the Punjab”, written by Vinay Patel. The Three Who Rule give their thoughts on the episode, as well as all the news of the week that was, including an expanded stats section!
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 6 review, Demons of the Punjab
– The Tsuranga Conundrum BBC One overnight viewing figures
– Arachnids in the UK final BBC One viewing figures
– BBC America Series 11 Ratings
– Series 12 in preproduction
– Gallifrey One 2019 guest update
– Chicago TARDIS
– Doctor Who supports Children in Need
– Wheel in Space animation sample at Missing Believed Wiped
– Big Finish brings back the Paternoster Gang
– Bandai Namco canceling Doctor Who Battle of Time
– Thirteenth Doctor 5.5″ action dollie
– Doctor Who Christmas apparel

Radio Free Skaro #660 – Doctor of Hope and Lego


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We’re at the halfway point of Doctor Who’s new Time Team’s first series, and “The Tsuranga Conundrum” is the final of the initial Chibnall quartet of stories. Confused yet? Well, luckily the above unpronounceable quandary is a straight ahead adventure that the Three Who Rule are here to decipher for you, along with a summary of all the news, previews, and yes….stats. Staaaaaaatsss…
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 5 review, The Tsuranga Conundrum
– Episode 7 titled Kerblam!, episode 8 titled The Witchfinders
– Arachnids in the UK BBC One overnight viewing figures
– Rosa BBC One final viewing figures
– New Big Finish Fourth Doctor companion
– Big Finish The Eighth of March celebrates female Doctor Who characters
– Big Finish Torchwood vs Doctor Who Monsters
– Class soundtrack due December 7
– Doctor Puppet merchandise
– TV Years Volume 2

Radio Free Skaro #659 – The Web of Fear


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The Doctor and her fam…errr, TARDIS Team land back in Sheffield and smack dab into spiders, ethically dubious American businessmen and RTD-level family drama in “Arachnids in the UK”, the latest instalment of the eleventh series of Doctor Who. Will the quintessentially Whovian juxtaposition of the domestic with the deeply weird engage the Three Who Rule, or will arachnophobia turn to eight-legged tedium? You won’t know until you listen! Also, stats. Harrumph.
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 4 review, Arachnids in the UK
– The Ghost Monument BBC One ratings
– Rosa BBC One overnight viewing figures
– MusicTech interview of Segun Akinola
– New Yorker interview of Segun Akinola
– BritBox adds new Dalek stories on Halloween
– Big Finish Third Doctor series 5
– River Song Big Finish Series 6 to feature Yeti and the Great Intelligence
– Big Finish River Song Series 6 to feature Sontarans, Drashigs and Ogrons
– Doctor Who Pez dispensers
– Doctor Who escape game to be called Worlds Collide
– Red Dwarf Series I-VIII Bluray due in January
– The Radiophonic Workshop do the soundtrack to Possum
– Derrick Sherwin died
– Radio Free Skaro #420, featuring a Derrick Sherwin interview
– Moffat says current Who risks looking cheap

Radio Free Skaro #658 – The Spirit of Rosa


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For a show about time travel, Doctor Who doesn’t really go deep on matters historical, preferring a quick tour and a laugh to really getting into events as they unfold. But that changed this week with “Rosa,” a look at how civil rights hero Rosa Parks herself changed the world, and how the Doctor and the Time Team deal with both alien threats and a very different (but also somewhat familiar) world to 2018. What did Steven, Warren, and Chris think of the episode? And will a very special addition to the stats report cause Warren to finally lose what’s left of his mind?
Links:

– Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon!
– Episode 3, “Rosa”
– Episode 5 titled The Tsuranga Conundrum, episode 6 called Demons of the Punjab
– Arachnids in the UK goes out on BBC One Oct 28 @ 7:00pm
– The Ghost Monument overnight BBC viewing figures
– The Woman Who Fell to Earth final BBC ratings and Appreciation Index
– Segun Akinola Q&A
– Kamelion returns via Big Finish
– Big Finish Zygon Hunt released on vinyl
– New Zealand Doctor Who silver coin