"Who ordered the soup?"

Bridget joins Daniel, Colin, and Steven as they run through the streets and 
galleries of Paris in 1979, actually (more of a table wine, shall we 
say?) for CITY OF DEATH! Doctor Who's largest ever watching audience of 16 
million people tuned in to watch this at the time, and none of them were 
wrong to do so. 

Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS, at a time just before he became famous for his 
HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series, this story is widely seen as one 
the greatest Classic Who stories of all time, consistently rating in the 
Top 10.  Filled with moments of comedic genius, a frisson of fun, and a lot 
of love in a blend of crime caper and sci-fi genres, this is also the story 
that saw TOM BAKER and LALLA WARD fall in love and eventually get married 
(but, sadly, not for long). Cité de l'amour/la mort, indeed!

Special thanks to ANDY WALKER for his kind permission for the use of his 
painting for CITY OF DEATH, the Doctor Who Target novelisation that never 
was, and that was eventually novelised by JEREMY GOSS.

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Episode 5 - City of Death

Ever wanted to start watching Classic Who but just don't know where to begin? Join Colin, Daniel, and Steven on an introcast through the best of Doctor Who!

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A NEW TO WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL:  HO HO HUM! (OUR CRAP FAVOURITES)New to Who bring you gifts you probably didn’t really want this Christmas, and that you will only end up throwing out along with the wrapping on Boxing Day.  Merry Crapmas - it’s our Ho Ho Hum special! Because it’s been that kind of year, Col, Dan, and Steven have taken to looking for the good in the Doctor Who stories that perhaps aren’t as loved by many as they are loved by them. Is there even one McCoy story that Dan can’t watch in rapt attention? (Clearly not!)  Hear Steven ‘fess up to loving a Hinchcliffe and Holmes clunker that will have you shaking your head.  And which piece of failed ‘60s avant garde surrealism is Col’s dirty little secret?It’s probably not the Christmas you were hoping for, but we’ve all got to band together and try to find something worth smiling about.  We hope you like at least some of our rubbish faves.  Merry Crapmas, Sweet Dorks!Theme by Our Colin (2019).  Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training. You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN

Episode 27 - A New To Who Christmas Special: Ho Ho Hum! (Our Crap Favourites)

NEW TO WHO and the THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTHNew to Who lands in a London of the future - a city of fear, devastation and holocaust . . . a city now ruled by DALEKS.Col, Dan, and Steven meet a team of underground resistance workers, among the few survivors, but after an unsuccessful attack on the Dalek spaceship, they are all forced to flee the capital.A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the secret centre of DALEK operations . . . and the mysterious reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth!Find our Dalekmania-Beatlemania timeline here.Theme by Our Colin (2017). Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN

Episode 26 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth

NEW TO WHO and the HORROR OF FANG ROCKOff a remote rocky island a few miles off the Channel coast stands the New To Who lighthouses. There have always been tales of the three beasts of New To Who, but when the Tardis lands here with Leela and the Doctor, the force they must deal with is more sinister and deadly than the mythical beasts of the past.It is 2020, the threat of coronavirus is common, and the formless, gelatinous mass from the future must use the New To Who lighthouses’ generators to recharge its system. Nothing can stop this Rutan scout in its search and experimentation on humans…Theme by Our Colin (2017). Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN

Episode 25 - Horror of Fang Rock

A NEW TO WHO TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL:  BAH HUMBUG!  WORST.EPISODE.EVER.New to Who materialises on Twelfth Night in a Parallel Whoniverse where the natural order of things has been turned upside down.It is in this shadow dimension that Parallel Dan, Parallel Col, and Parallel Steven have gathered to glare menacingly at each other through one eye while wearing eye patches over the other as they proclaim their picks for the stinkiest stories of Classic Who for our Worst.Episodes.Ever.Which redeemed ‘60s story does Parallel Col nonetheless believe is the worst of that decade? Which iconoclastic classic from 1976 can’t Parallel Dan stand? And which clanger does Parallel Steven think is not just the worst of the ‘80s - but the most heinous development in the entire 50+ years of Doctor Who, Classic and New?Tune in to tidings from oʜW ot wǝИ to find out! BAH HUMBUG, SOUR NERDS!Theme by Our Colin (2019). Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN

Episode 24 - A New To Who Twelfth Day of Christmas Special: Bah Humbug!  Worst.Episode.Ever.

This episode of New To Who is dedicated to dedicated to Sir Terrance DicksNEW TO WHO and THE SPEARHEAD FROM SPACEIn this, their twenty-third incarnation, NEW TO WHO and Returning Friend of the Podcast, Pete, grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the AUTONS - living giant-sized plastic-modelled ‘humans’ with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork replicas and tailors’ dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the NESTENE CONSCIOUSNESS - a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic proportions and indescribably hideous appearance.‘This NEW TO WHO adventure (televised as “Spearhead from Space”) wins my vote as the best in the lifetime of the series so far.”
Matthew Coady, The Daily Mirror.

‘NEW TO WHO, the children’s own podcast which adults adore…’
Gerard Garrett, The Daily SketchA TARGET ADVENTURETheme by Our Colin (2019). Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN

Episode 5 - City of Death

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