500 Year Diary: A Doctor Who Podcast

500 Year Diary: A Doctor Who Podcast episodes:

• 05.19.2024

  Where Kelsey Went

  We bring our first season to a close with the new beginning of Doctor Who’s most successful spinoff, in which a beloved TV heroine from our childhood was given one last chance (or twenty-seven last chances) to save the world. Notes...

  
• 05.12.2024

  Paul Kasey in a Halloween Mask

  It’s 2006, which is just the time to launch a gritty and adult Doctor Who spinoff — Torchwood, a show with an immortal lead character which is basically about the finality of death. But has Torchwood learned anything from its...

  
• 05.05.2024

  Indie Revival

  Just nine months after Doctor Who’s twenty-first century iteration burst triumphantly onto our screens, we all get together with Steven B to watch as the BBC’s flagship drama introduces its exciting new lead to nearly 10 million viewers on Christmas...

  
• 04.28.2024

  Establishment Drag

  It feels like only a year ago that Doctor Who underwent a strange and cataclysmic soft reboot, and it looks like it’s happening again this week. Or is it? Notes and links Paul Cornell’s negative review of Terror of the Autons was...

  
• 04.21.2024

  The Pertwee I Have in My Head

  In the first week of the 1970s, Doctor Who is back, with a new Doctor, a new alien threat, new companions and a new earthbound premise. So what makes it the same show? Notes and links Jon Pertwee’s Doctor is well known...

  
• 04.14.2024

  Entering a New Phase

  A big week for beginnings this week, with a new Doctor, a new origin story for the Daleks, and a whole new approach to defeating the bad guys. Oh, and a new podcast to discuss them all on. So let’s...