Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago

By Ben Cowdell, Nicolas Wilson, Luke Williams

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The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.

Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago episodes:

May 19, 2023 Season 10: The Green Death
How much does this story get right about pollution? Surprisingly much. Ben, Luke and Nick pick apart this Pertwee classic.
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53min
April 07, 2023 Season 10: Planet of the Daleks
This edition of the Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago podcast covers Planet of the Daleks, comparing the theme of warfare and the use of emotions in this story, and in more recent Who stories.
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39min
February 24, 2023 Season 10: Frontier in Space
In this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, we look at what Frontier in Space can tell us about 1973, and dissect the "metaphor of the Master's plan" to spread fear and xenophobia.
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50min
January 27, 2023 Season 10: Carnival of Monsters
In this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, the podcast reviews Carnival of Monsters in the context of 1972, and Robert Holmes' view on history, bureaucracy, society and entertainment in his carny story.
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32min
December 30, 2022 Season 10: The Three Doctors
The podcast returns to start looking at Season 10's stories, with plenty to discuss on the differences on the show and in the world in 1972 and 2022. We begin with the first multi-Doctor story, so here's multiple people to review and analyse it!
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1h 3min
January 02, 2021 A Character Analysis Podcast on "The Master"
A special edition of the Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago podcast in which Ben, Luke and Nick commit an in-depth analysis into the long-term villain of the show, "The Master".
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June 20, 2020 Episode 25: Inferno Episode 7: Endings and Beginnings
A Doctor Who series and a government ends, and a new
government begins in the 1970s which brought in an element of internationalism.
In 2020, there might be an end of an age with isolationist nationalistic
agendas cropping up. We can but analyse what Doctor Who and the world was in
1970, compare it to what it is in 2020, and murmur disapprovingly.

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June 13, 2020 Episode 24: Inferno Episode 6: The Flame of Hope versus the Wind of Injustice
There’s a tiny glimmer of goodness in the face of inevitable destruction in this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago. There’s also a fight against this goodness which threatens the safety of everyone we like. I cannot shove my tongue further inside my cheek even if I wanted to. Something something apocalypse now.
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June 06, 2020 Episode 23: Inferno Episode 5: The Eruption Division
The morals are wobbly and grey, as is the concept of
soldiers, heroes and bureaucrats. We recognise when the rules can be broken,
deify those who do and vilify those who don't, a humanisation of soldiers. The
environment also gets a mention as it threatens to consume us all, very quickly
in the story, very slowly in reality.
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May 30, 2020 Episode 22: Inferno Episode 4: Violence and Interrogation
We interrogate an episode in which the Doctor is interrogated to tell anything except the truth and the concept of the parallel universe gets another turn. There's also deep discussion about how violent acts and regimes are portrayed, and a subverted view of bureaucracy.
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FAQs about Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago:

How many episodes does Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago have?

The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.