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This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t. 

Welcome to Episode 95 covering Series 7, Episode 3: A Town Called Mercy. 

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, save a town called Mercy by kinda convincing a killer cyborg not to kill while a doctor, not THE Doctor, kills himself instead… in the Old West… in a Stetson.

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 228* Originally aired September 15, 2012 to 8.97 million global viewers * Written by: Toby Whithouse – seems to like monsters* School Reunion* The Vampires of Venice* The God Complex* Directed by: Saul Metzstein 

Cast

* Isaac – Ben Browder* Played a recurring role in the Stargate series* Most notably, he was the main role of John Crichton in Farscape

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?*  maybe* Creature of the week* Kahler Jex* The Kahler could build a spaceship out of tupperware and moss* The Gunslinger* Doctor Who Logo* This week it was wooden slats with gunshots* Hats* He’s back in a stetson!* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* Override a security password* Needless sacrificial death* Was Isaac’s sacrificial death needless, or was it the right thing for once?

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Other stuff we noticed

* Was the undertaker gag a Back to the Future reference? Or just a trope?* Everyone who’s not an American, drop their guns!* The gunslingers HUD said the Doctor was bi-cardial

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Rory?* He left his phone charger in Henry VIII’s suite* He got toast crumbs on the console* Who is Amy?* There’s kindness, sadness, and ferocity in her eyes* Our friends are gonna start noticing that we’re aging faster than them* Who is The Doctor?* He sees Keep Out signs as suggestions more than orders, like “dry-clean only”* His Christmas list gets mentioned again: anachronistic electricity, keep out signs, aggressive stares* He ordered a tea, but the strong stuff… leave the bag in* Why would he want to kill you? Unless he’s met you!* He’s matured, he’s over 1200 years old now* In The Impossible Astronaut, he was 1103 & 908* This means that Series 6 took 195 years of the Doctor’s time (most of which was between The God Complex and The Wedding of River Song)* It also means that another 97 years have passed between The Wedding of River Song and A Town Called Mercy. * So the time between visits with the Ponds has been getting longer in their subjective time, but the Doctor’s time between visits has been staggering!* He speaks horse!* Hm? What? Yes, whatever Amy said.* Jex said that looking at the Doctor is like looking into a mirror, almost. There’s rage there, guilt, and solitude like me. Everything but the nerve it takes to get things done.

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Welcome to Episode 94 covering Series 7, Episode 2: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. 

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, and Rory’s dad team up with John Ridell and Queen Nefertiti to save some dinosaurs on a spaceship!

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 227* Originally aired September 8, 2012 to 9.4 million global viewers throughout September* Written by: Chris Chibnall, Chibs to his friends, and current showrunner* Directed by: Saul Metzstein who did Pond Life, as well as several other upcoming episodes, particularly The Name of the Doctor, the episode right before the 50th anniversary.

Misc Trivia

* This episode features the series’ second time the Doctor has kissed a male companion, the first being between Captain Jack and Nine.* However, unlike that charming little moment, this one was completely improvised by Matt Smith!

Cast

* Brian Williams – Mark Williams* Ron Weasley’s dad* Currently playing Father Brown* Solomon – David Bradley* Argus Filch in Harry Potter* Walder Frey in Game of Thrones* We just might see him again around the Whoniverse…* Bleytal – Richard Hope* He played the Silurian doctor, Malohkeh, so while it wasn’t actually the same Silurian, it was the same actor. * This is similar to the two Silurians in Hungry Earth.* John Ridell – Rupert Graves* Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock, a BBC creation of Mofatt and Mark Gatiss.* Robots – Mitchell and Webb

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Yyyyyuuup! * Creature of the week* Dinosaurs* Robots* CGI* The CGI velociraptors were created for another BBC show called Primeval.* Geronimo* As he jumped on the triceratops!* Running count – 9+1* Stuff the Doctor loves* I’m going to look at rocks, love a rock!* Jiggery Pokery* Psychic paper* It makes notification sounds, apparently like a clown horn* He had it set to Temporal News. * Like Google News alerts?

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Who’s Who? 

* Who is Brian?* He took to everything fairly well I’d say.* He carries a foldable trowel. What kind of man doesn’t carry a trowel?* Brian Pond, you are delicious. I’m not a Pond.* He got to go travel some with the Doctor.* Who is Rory?* Because of the shenanigans with his dad getting sucked into an adventure (super lucky that he did, as it turns out…), Rory is the first, and so far only person to have traveled in the TARDIS with both his parent and his child.* Remember after the wedding when Amy and I went traveling… to Thailand… more like all of time and space.* He’s 31 and doesn’t have a Christmas list anym...

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Welcome to Episode 93 covering Series 7, Episode 1: Asylum of the Daleks. 

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where the Doctor fixes Amy & Rory’s relationship like it’s his bowtie and kills the greatest companion he’s never had.

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 226* Originally aired September 1, 2012 to 8.33 million viewers.* To my point in the last episode. It was actually viewed by 6.4 million live viewers, making it the lowest of all the NuWho premiere episodes. However, this is when online/asynchronous viewing started really going up. It was 8.33 million by the next day, with another 2.2 million views on BBC iPlayer.* All these numbers are UK only. Internationally, it was watched or streamed roughly 2.42 million times.* Written by: Steven Moffat

Directed by: Nick Hurran – did The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex and will be back for the mid-season finale and the 50th Anniversary special.

Can we talk about Pond Life?

* Throughout, the Doctor calls them the Ponds.* Amy calls Rory, Mr. Pond* Ood on the loo!* The Doctor accidentally invented pasta* He used the sonic to erase a voicemail through his phone

Cast

* Oswin Oswald – Jenna-Louise Coleman* She did a bunch of British stuff, including Victoria* She also played a girl named Connie in Captain America* Not much else to say about her really

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Almost – What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?* Creature of the week* Daleks* Apparently they have a Parliament and a Prime Minister.* I love how we copy and paste our patterns onto aliens. If Doctor Who was an American show, you can guarantee it would be Congress and President.* They have a sense of beauty. They think hatred is beautiful and divine.* They have standing orders to destroy the Predator, even if it means self-destructing.* Without the gun, you’re a tricycle with a roof.* This is the first return to Skaro since the Doctor Who movie* It’s also the first Dalek episode to take place somewhere other than Earth since 1985’s Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks.* CGI* The rockets that blew up the planet were pretty lame.* Bow ties are cool* You can’t fix us like you fix your bowtie. Sure he can!* Hats* Geronimo* One from Amy* Running count – 8+1* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS * Psychic paper* Random* Needless sacrificial death* Jibberty Jabberty* Silence will fall* The Question/Doctor Who?* No new information about it but…* We got it from the Daleks!* Then from the Doctor himself!* Termy-wermy* We’ve had wibbly-wobbly & timey-wimey for a while now. Last season we got spacey-wacey and humany-wumany (in the Christmas special).* This episode we got explodey-wodey.

092 - The Doctor, The Widow, & The Wardrobe by Noobs and the Whovian

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Welcome to episode 91, our Timey Wimey #11 covering Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where two idiots get help on their homework from 700 years in the future that they helped create!

The end.

Cast

* Missy – Amy Stoch* She was in lots of shows before and after this* She was 30 during the filming of this movie* Socrates – Tony Steedman* Played in all kinds of stuff, including Coronation Street in the 70s.* I know him as the waiter in Scrooged.* Genghis Khan – Al Leong* This guy played a thug in like every 80’s action movie* I particularly remember him in Die Hard and Big Trouble in Little China (which he’s barely even in)* Joan of Arc – Jane Wiedlin* She was one of The Go Go’s* She was also the singing telegram girl in Clue!* Bill – Alex Winter* He had done The Lost Boys, which is his other main claim to fame* Ted – Keanu Reeves* He was also the narrator for Anyone Can Quantum, directed by Alex Winter. (Paul Rudd faces off against Stephen Hawking in a highly advanced game of Quantum Chess.) As well as the sequel Quantum is Calling (Zoe Saldana enlists the help of Stephen Hawking to solve a quantum riddle in order to get Simon Pegg’s cat back.)* He did Keanu, a movie about a kitten named Keanu, voiced by… Keanu Reeves* He appeared in Always Be My Maybe as… Keanu Reeves

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Random stuff we noticed

* Was that the opening of Frozen 2?!* The phone booth is more like the TARDIS than I remembered. It has a chameleon circuit!

Time travel details:

Method:

* A totally-not-ripped-off time-traveling phone booth traveling through the circuits of history

Rules

* The clock in San Dimas is always running.* Can you change the past?

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Did they follow their own rules?

Things they got Wrong

* I’m not even sure what they mean by “the clock in San Dimas is always running.” It makes it seem like they can’t cross their own timeline. But they definitely do!* It seems like from the point that you leave at time is still running

Things they got Right

* We can’t forget to drop the keys here otherwise we won’t find them. But wait, we already did.

Paradoxes

*

Was it good?

Was it a good story?

* Tripp – YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS* Corbin – yes* Austin – Of course!

Was it a good time travel story?

* Tripp – yes* Corbin – yes* Austin – yes,

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Welcome to Episode 90 covering series 6 episode 13: The Wedding of River Song.

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, & River go to a wedding! For River… and the Doctor… and time is broken. 

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 224* Originally aired October 1, 2011 to 7.67 million viewers* Written by: Steven Moffat* Directed by: Jeremy Webb – also did The Curse of the Black Spot

Misc Trivia

* We mentioned last time that this is the first NuWho finale to not be a two-parter. In fact, this is the first Doctor Who finale EVER to be a stand-alone episode, because of the serial nature of Classic Who.* It’s also the first NuWho finale that doesn’t center on a Classic Who villain. We SEE a Dalek, but it’s not the main villain.* It’s also ALSO the first NuWho finale where the final scene isn’t in the TARDIS.* We again have an actor portraying the Doctor AND a different character in the same episode. Smith did this previously in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People.

Cast

* Doctor Malohkeh (Silurian) – Richard Hope* Emperor Winston Churchill – Ian McNiece* Old Canton Delaware – William Morgan Sheppard gets a nod for his appearance in the background at Lake Silencio* Charles Dickens – Simon Callow* He played Dickens 6 years earlier in The Unquiet Dead

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* Daleks* Teselecta* CGI* Bow ties are cool* He used the bow tie in the wedding ceremony* Hats* The Stetson – when we first saw the Stetson (“I wear a Stetson now, Stetson’s are cool.”), that was a fake! It was created by the Tessalecta.* Which brings up a side point – When we see the Doctor in The Impossible Astronaut, it’s a fake Doctor all the way up till the younger Doctor walks out of the bathroom in the diner!* Doctor Who?* We’ll get to this later, but we definitely got a Doctor Who? In this one!* Geronimo* Calmly as he gets his suit* Running count – 8* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It doesn’t work on wood, but it does do stone, apparently* TARDIS * Psychic paper* Random* Needless sacrificial death* Jibberty Jabberty* We’re opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again.* Silence will fall* A religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history as they like to call themselves. * All the times I heard those words, I never realized it was my silence, my death. The Doctor will fall.* Lake Silencio – it’s a still point in time, easier to create a fixed point.* Eye-drive – communicates directly with the brain, allows you to remember them* The Question* on the fields of

Austin mislabeled Jared’s audio file, so Corbin ended up putting the God Complex segment into the Closing Time episode. Here, then, are the Classic Who Connections for Closing Time!

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Welcome to Episode 89 covering series 6 episode 12: Closing Time.

Super-short Recap 

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, I mean just the doctor, go back to see his old buddy Craig, but something strange is happening. Turns out, there are cybermen right below a shop. Also, the Doctor’s time is running out. 

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 222* Originally aired September 24, 2011 to 6.93 million viewers* Written by: Gareth Roberts* Directed by: Steve Hughes

Misc Trivia

* Gareth Roberts confirmed in an interview that the 200-year gap between the two Elevens in The Impossible Astronaut happens between The God Complex and this episode.* This is the first season of NuWho to not have a two-part series finale* It’s also the first episode to feature River Song that was not written by Moffat.

Cast

* Craig – James Corden * I wanted to note that he was in the news recently for the stupidest reason ever!* He’s famous for his Carpool Karaoke, which we mentioned last time Craig was on Doctor Who.* Apparently, fans were shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find out that he’s not actually driving but being towed during filming.

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* Cybermen* Cybermat* CGI* Bow ties are cool* Hats* Craig gave him the Stetson* Doctor Who?* Geronimo* Running count – 7* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* Turned a lamp into a dang planetarium* It shot a beam at the cybermat, twice!* It’s shielded from metastatic energy, of course! Don’t worry, I have an app for that.* TARDIS * Psychic paper* Random* Needless sacrificial death* Jibberty Jabberty* Silence will fall* I didn’t realize that the silence that would fall would be my own death.* The Question* I didn’t know I would die still not knowing what the question is.* Eye-patch Lady* She wiped River’s memory of her* The eye-patch is just a picture of the Silence. That’s why she can remember them* The Doctor’s Rules* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 3* Existential Horror

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Other stuff we noticed

* You’ve got so much to look forward to: mortgage repayments, 9 to 5, a persistent nagging sense of spiritual emptiness. Save the tears for later.

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Amy?* She’s become a famous model* Her perfume brand is Petrichor – the smell after the rain. This was part of the password to get into the old TARDIS control room in The Doctor’s Wife.* Who is Rory?* He’s married to a famous model* Who is River?* She became a doctor today.* Who is The Doctor?* Social call.

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Welcome to Episode 88 covering series 6 episode 11: The God Complex.

Super-short Recap

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, and the other people get slowly picked off one by one by a Minotaur in the creepiest way possible. Also, there’s a sad clown.

Production notes

* Story # 222* Originally aired September 17, 2011 to 6.77 million viewers* Written by: Toby Whithouse* He also wrote Vampires of Venice and School Reunion, which also touched on the theme of losing companions* Directed by: Nick Hurran

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Why’s it up to you to save us? That’s quite a God complex you’ve got there.* Creature of the week* Minotaur* Mi-nah-tar or Mee-no-tor* Stuff the Doctor loves* Things, hello! I love things, ask anyone.* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* He used it to make a very loud noise* TV remote* Acted as a suped-up microphone* Jibberty Jabberty* This is bad. We’re three buses, a long walk, _______, and a taxi from good.

Other stuff we noticed

* In The Eleventh Hour, the Doctor told Amy that he most definitely was a madman with a box and that remembering that might one day save her life. It finally did.

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Rory?* It’s ok, we’re nice* We forgot not all victories are about saving the universe* Who is Amy?* She has great faith in the Doctor* Who is The Doctor?* I’ve never been threatened with a chair leg. Oh wait, I tell a lie.* He has a medical degree as well as a degree in cheese making* He casually solved the Rubik off-screen* But he couldn’t solve it in Night Terrors* He took away Amy’s childhood and then lead her by her hand to her death. And he knew this would happen, this always happens.* He took Amy because he was vain and wanted to be adored.* I’m not a hero, I really just am a madman in a box.* An ancient creature drenched in the blood of the innocent. Drifting through space in an endless shifting maze. To such a creature, death would be a gift.* Bad penny is my middle name. Seriously, you should see the looks I get when I fill in a form.* What’s the alternative? Standing over your grave?* Who is Rita?* She’s a companion who never was, like Lady Christina de Souza, Madame du Pompadour, Astrid Peth, and Lynda Moss* She thought they were in hell* She’s pretty clever* She’s pretty heroic

Classic who connection

* Could not find any time The Doctor was previously threatened with a chair leg (or any other chair part for that matter) * While there are no other references to The Doctor having a doctorate in cheese making, the Third Doctor seemed to love cheese (one time he ate an entire plate of cheese sandwiches meant for Jo Grant ...

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Welcome to Episode 87 covering series 6 episode 10: The Girl Who Waited.

Super-short Recap

This is the one where the Doctor, Amy, Rory, and… Amy? face off against robuts whose kindness can kill you. Amy gets stuck in a faster time stream, things get wibbly wobbly, and Rory has to choose between two wives.

Remember that one?

Production notes

* Story # 221* Originally aired September 10, 2011 to 7.6 million viewers* Written by: Tom Macrae* Directed by: Nick Hurran

Cast

* Voice of Interface – Imelda Staunton* Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* I mean, not in THIS episode, but lots of other times in the last two seasons* Creature of the week* Handbots – start out as somewhat innocent-looking, though Rory is immediately skeptical* CGI* Bow ties are cool* Glasses are cool* Hats* Doctor Who?* Geronimo* Running count – 7* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* Amy just straight up built one* TARDIS * What’s the nasty Amy done to you?* Psychic paper* Random* Needless sacrificial death* Jibberty Jabberty* Maybe if we shunted the reality compensators on the TARDIS, recalibrated the Doomsday Bumpers and jettison the karaoke bar, yes, maybe, yes. The TARDIS could sustain the paradox.* Silence will fall* The Question* Eye-patch Lady* The Doctor’s Rules* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 3* Existential Horror

Other stuff we noticed

* The check-in girl referenced a death-coaster that was an exact replica of the one at Disneyland Clom.* Clom was the home of the Abzorbaloff and was also one of the 27 planets stolen by the Daleks.* Time is always a bit wibbly wobbly but in Two Streams, it’s extra wubbly.

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Victor?* Tell us a little about yourself: how old are you? Where are ya from? * How long have you been watching Doctor Who and how did you find it?* How much Classic Who have you seen?* How much NuWho have you seen?* Lightning round!* Favorite Doctor* Fav companion* Fav villain* Lamest villain* You’re the Doctor’s companion, future or past? * Bad Wolf or Impossible Girl?* Who is Rory?* Are they happy? Oh, Rory, leave it to you to think of that.* I don’t care that you got old. I care that we didn’t get old together.* Amy named the robot Rory.* He had to choose which wife he wanted. This isn’t fair, you’re turning me into you.* Who is Amy?* Rory, I love you. Now save me. Go on then.* Rory’s the most beautiful man she’s ever met.* The Macarena?!