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You Only Live Thrice (Amalgamating “The Three Doctors”)
Season 4 Episode 47
Anniversary episodes are tricky things. You want to make a big, enjoyable show of things to attract an even larger audience than normal, but they’re …
2 years, 4 months ago
Beast Mode (Retracing “The Star Beast” Comic Strip)
Season 4 Episode 46
If cats have nine lives, Beep the Meep must be part cat. The titular character of The Star Beast comic strip and 60th anniversary special has already…
2 years, 4 months ago
Identity Theft (Bifurcating “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood,” with guest Steven Schapansky)
Season 4 Episode 45
In Doctor Who’s early years, there were many episodes where the Doctor was noticeably absent, usually because William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton n…
2 years, 4 months ago
Futures Trading (Contradicting “Day of the Daleks”)
Season 4 Episode 44
Perhaps no classic episode has benefited more from a “special edition” than Day of the Daleks. Although it tells a solid timey-wimey paradox story, t…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Pull To Open Hot 100 (Ranking Our First 100 Random Stories)
Season 4 Episode 43
OK, you've got us — not all 100 stories were randomly picked. That's because when we were but a wee newborn Doctor Who podcast, we weren't random. Se…
2 years, 5 months ago
Pods and Monsters (Germinating “The Seeds of Death”)
Season 4 Episode 42
Instantaneous teleportation between any two points on Earth? Sounds pretty convenient — so convenient that it might lead to a stagnant society ripe f…
2 years, 5 months ago
The 10 Best Cold Opens in Doctor Who
Season 4 Episode 41
Plenty of casual viewers of Doctor Who have been hooked into becoming fans because of the cold opens. Well, we don’t have stats or anything, but that…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Horse Awakens (Venerating “The Myth Makers”)
Season 4 Episode 40
What exactly is the Doctor’s attitude towards changing history? With all the pure historicals of the era, William Hartnell’s Doctor actually has a lo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Red Con (Recovering “The Ambassadors of Death”)
Season 4 Episode 39
If you want hard evidence that the UNIT era — when Jon Pertwee’s Doctor was exiled to Earth after being put on trial by the Time Lords — was set in t…
2 years, 5 months ago
In It to Twin It (Imitating “Meglos,” with guest Mark Cockram)
Season 4 Episode 38
An intelligent cactus? A society that worships a giant 12-sided shape? Barbara, but not Barbara? You don’t have to get very far into Meglos to begin …
2 years, 6 months ago