Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Doom With a View (Orbiting “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit,” with guest Ellie Blackwood)
Season 5 Episode 51
Doctor Who meets God. No, that’s dumb, and besides — Star Trek already did it. But Doctor Who meets the Devil? That could be something, especially if…
2 years, 1 month ago
Wildly Brilliant (HOT TAKE on "Wild Blue Yonder")
Season 4 Episode 50
It's the one we don't know anything about — except now we do! Wild Blue Yonder is here, and it's so, so different from The Star Beast. After a 17th c…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dope Opera (Freebasing “Nightmare of Eden”)
Season 4 Episode 49
How could Doctor Who get out of the 1970s without doing a story about the perils of drug use? Nightmare of Eden may have its roots in gritty thriller…
2 years, 1 month ago
Meep Impact (HOT TAKE on "The Star Beast")
Season 4 Episode 48
Beep the Meep is back... for the first time! Yes, it's The Star Beast, the first of three specials for the 60th anniversary, and at long last Pull To…
2 years, 1 month ago
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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 months ago