Something Who

Here's a second compilation of some of the highlights of Something Who in 2020.

Featuring Richard, Paul, Giles and Simon, plus Toby Hadoke on The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited, our views on Fugitive of the Judoon, Richard and Steven Schapansky on Doctor Who's original series producers, Tim, Paul and Richard from our first Live Show, Jeremy Bentham on his book Doctor Who: The Early Years, our take on classic series historicals, and Chris Chapman on his documentary film Showman about the life and work of JN-T.

Here's a first compilation of some of the highlights of Something Who in 2020.

Featuring Richard, Paul, Giles and Simon, plus Huw Turbervill on cricket in Doctor Who, our take on the strange fate of Gallifrey in the new series, Jeremy Bentham on Patrick Troughton, our views on The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Toby Hadoke on Living with Levene, Steven Schapansky on the Omnirumour, Chris Chapman on Keeping Up With the Joneses, and Rich Tipple & Kieran Highman on colourising Day of Armageddon.

After Richard manages to extricate Something Who from a podcast collision, he welcomes back Paul and Giles to look at a pair of stories with a Nightmare theme: 4th Doctor story Nightmare of Eden and 12th Doctor adventure Sleep No More.

Welcome to our second Something Who Live Show, with host Richard, Big Finish writer and Missing Episodes podcast star, Paul, and noted astrophysics author and our own Dr Science, Giles. We reprise a more spontaneous format that riffs on our remit of comparing stories from the old and new series, with a bit of a Christmas spin. The actual live show on YouTube had its technical problems, but here's the audio, recorded at source.

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Even on the live show, the opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 (with jingle bells) and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

Steven Schapansky is back  for a second stint on Something Who, and we've got a new conceit for the occasion. Steven and Richard both choose a pair of Dream Teams from behind the camera, one for the original series and one from the new. And then, armed with our Dream Teams, we think about stories that we'd like to remake using their talents.

Our original series dream team will consist of a Producer / Script Editor / Director / Writer / Designer and Incidental Music Composer, while our new series dream team will be a Showrunner / Exec / Producer / Writer / Director / Designer and Composer.

And it wouldn't  be Something Who if  we didn't use that concept as a framework for other discussions.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

After it turns out that Richard isn't an android after all (who knew?), he welcomes back Paul and Giles to look at a pair of stories that we might describe as historical romps: 4th Doctor story The Androids of Tara, followed by 12th Doctor adventure Robot of Sherwood. Except, of course, that Tara is set in the future.

Despite the original conversation lasting over two hours, we've got the edited version down to 90 minutes or so and you can be sure that you've missed absolutely nothing.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

Here's the audio from our live show, in convenient podcast format.

I'm joined by Tim and Paul from The Missing Episodes Podcast to play a quick fire version of our usual Something Who format, with a randomly selected pair of stories from old and new series for a rapid discussion and a link between plucked from the air.

This show was originally broadcast on our Something Who YouTube feed on 21st October, and despite the technical difficulties we encountered, we think it was fun and hope you enjoy it.

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Even on the live show, the opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

After his experiment with a podcast labour saving device proves problematic, Richard welcomes back the now famous Paul and Giles to look at a couple of Dalek stories: with the 2nd Doctor's debut in Power of the Daleks, followed by the 11th Doctor's first encounter with them in Victory of the Daleks. This gives us a chance to have a look at the recently re-animated Power and compare it with the story it inspired, Victory. From a story where people will stop at nothing to achieve their goals to another where love saves the day.

I know what you're saying. What happened to Episode 30? Rest easy, Something Who fans, it's coming. Rather like Seasons 10, 15, 17 and 19 among others, our episodes are coming out in a different order from how we recorded them. And here's a treat for you.

Earlier in the year, Jeremy Bentham joined us on Something Who to chat about his long association with fandom, including his association with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society and his work on Doctor Who Magazine (or Weekly and Monthly as it was known then).

Jeremy returns to talk with me about 4 figures who made the programme that he met in the early years of fandom, plus another who he wishes he had met. Along with his personal memories, we talk about the impact that Patrick Troughton, Douglas Camfield, Ian Scoones, Dennis Spooner and David Whitaker had on Doctor Who and its fandom.

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The opening music is Three Guitars Mood 2 and, yes, that is Richard playing the ukulele and kazoo on possibly the worst ever version of the Doctor Who theme tune at the end.

Autumn has arrived, the nights are drawing in and naturally our thoughts return once more to Doctor Who. At the same time, it's the end of the cricket season and the start of football and this time we're looking at Doctor Who's two great sporting encounters, starting with 5th Doctor's cricketing exploits in Black Orchid, followed by the 11th Doctor's footballing feats in The Lodger. And who better to help us with that than Huw Turbervill.