In a new mini-strand attempting to find out what Doctor Who writers get up to when they're not writing Doctor Who, we take a look at some of Terry Nation's other work, including episodes of Hancock, Blakes 7 and The Avengers Presented by Dylan Rees, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall
The middle story in Series 7A (like, don't get excited man) is Toby Whithouse's Western, A Town Called Mercy: but will we find it OK Corral, or Last Chance Saloon? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Apple TV+ seems to have made itself a home for sophisticated sci-fi of late, but how does this story of what happens to the people who've stepped out of Earth's atmosphere compare? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber Constellation on Wiki
With Season One now fairly imminent and series previews appearing the press, we thought we'd round up some recent news with rumours, summaries and - spoilers! - some spoilers too Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We asked Chat GPT to tell us why Terrance Dicks was the worst writer in the history of Doctor Who, in the hope it would at least provide illuminating evidence for the contrary... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Citizen Kane meets Amadeus, but is Gary Oldman going to be enough to get us through Bernard Rose's period biopic? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
A conversation about characters and creatures who could or should make a return to Doctor Who, in this episode focussing on the villains and monster species Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Mike Bartlett switches from Doctor Foster to Doctor Who, but can David Suchet lift a story with an ending that takes an unexpected left turn towards pleasantville Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
A remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze film from the director of The Bourne Identity sounds like exactly the kind of thing we needed to report back on - so duly here are our views on Amazon Prime's Road House Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
A conversation about characters and actors who could or should make a return to Doctor Who, in this episode focussing on Doctors, companions and fellow Time Lords Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
A listener question about the value of multi-Doctor stories begins a conversation over the next few weeks about returning characters and whether they are worth it Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Dylan Rees
Sean Connery as a middle ages monk with Christian Slater as his sexually awakened sidekick in this medieval mystery, for which Matt's friend Will re-joins the team as we embark upon an epic conversation - with a few sound issues, which hopefully won't mar the experience Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Will Travis
Now that they've released the episode titles, we take a deep dive into the expectations and speculations we have for RTD's first full series back at the helm of Doctor Who; but be warned, we will be talking spoilers here (although be aware, we'll probably be getting most of this wrong anyway) Hosted by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We thought it would be interesting to find out what happens when you ask Chat GPT to behave like a Doctor Who fan, and this is the result... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Iain Martin
Our Apocalypse UK occasional season begins with some thoughts on Cornell Wilde's 1970 adaptation of the John Christopher novel The Death of Grass, a film which prefigures Survivors in the afterglow of Easy Rider Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Jim Cameron and Dylan Rees
The first substantial trailer for BBC & D+ RTD-2 S1 has dropped, and so we start the conversation with some more thoughts about Steven Moffat's involvement Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
One thousand episodes ago, we produced our first podcast on the Blue Box Podcast feed. In order to mark the passing of another 999 episodes since then, a double-header of nostalgic significance presented by a roll-call of hosts: The Dominators, and first Death to the Daleks Introduced by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Simon Brett, Jim Cameron, Mark Cockram, Dylan Rees and Iain Martin - and the spirit of Uncle Kev
A quarter of a century on, Twin Peaks fans were rewarded with another 18 episodes to round out the mystery and explain what the hell was going on. But was Twin Peaks The Return akin to Midi-chlorian madness, or did it leave us scratching our heads all the more? Presented by Matt Barber, with Jon Arnold, Iain Martin and J.R. Southall
You might have thought a simple announcement of the date that the new series of Doctor Who would launch on would elicit little more reaction than "That's nice, wonder what I'm doing that day" but no, the future is here and the past is unforgiving Presented by J.R. Southall with Jon Arnold
The Celestial Toymaker is soon to be with us, meanwhile Ian Levine is publishing bits of his own animated reconstructions and the BBC have decided to use AI to promote Doctor Who... Or are things not actually quite as wild as they might seem. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Dylan Rees