Our own Hayden gate crashes our Christmas podcast (literally) and joins us for the usual traditional quizzes and games as we jeopardise our fire safety certificate by lighting our Advent Crown in the vicinity of so much booze.

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SHOW NOTES

(00:16:43) The Diddly Dum Podcast has joined Bluesky so please do join us there.

(00:42:17) Our “The Price is Wrong” quiz features custom made action figures, all of which can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

Uxarian warrior from “Colony in Space”.

Fifth Doctor companion, Vislor Turlough.

Vogan Councillor Tyrum from “Revenge of the Cybermen”.

Silurian from “Joy to the World”.

First Doctor companion, Ian Chesterton from “The Crusade”.

The Whomobile.

Tobias Vaughn’s henchman, Packer from “The Invasion”.

Giant Vampire’s hand from “State of Decay”.

Tennant Doctor era sonic screwdriver accessory from friends of the podcast, Tom’s Refurbishments.

Fifteenth Doctor (at a pinch).  

(01:03:20) Our “Fluid Links” quiz features a number of screens displaying clues which can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:23:15) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found at the top of this blog entry.

(01:39:40) All the references to Advent Crowns and Blue Peter and the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band are inspired of course by the traditional “Blue Peter” show nearest to Christmas of which examples can be seen here.

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