A short bonus podcast today, in which we play another round of 'Guess the Doctor Who story'

A profile of genre director John Carpenter, with particular emphasis on reviews of Halloween and Escape from New York

Examining the role of the opening and closing stories in a season; in the first part of this feature we look at the curtain raisers and finales in Doctor Who between 1963 and 1974

J.R. and Matt head back to the 1980s to remember the TV series that came to define how we watch TV detectives

It's time to turn our microphones to 1975, and the first year of Doctor Who with Tom Baker in the role

The final instalment of our returning characters conversation turns to (mostly) the Steven Moffat era

Charlie Kaufman's new film goes under the Film Club microphone, in this short bonus review episode

It's time to turn our attentions to the subject of returning characters in modern Doctor Who, and in this first of two episodes, generally more specifically during the Russell T Davies era

3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) ago, Mark Cockram, Lee Rawlings and J.R. Southall published their first Blue Box Podcast. Today, 3,067 days (or eight years, four months and 23 days, or 499 podcast episodes) later, and with the help of new regular podcasters Simon Brett and Matt Barber in place of the waylaid Mr Cockram, it's time to publish our 500th. With a very special guest, and ostensibly in order to talk about our listeners' Top Ten TV (Other) Sci-Fi shows (that aren't Doctor Who).

Normal service will resume shortly. (Theme music by Unilever.)

The TV writer of Kill the Moon, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion and The Pyramid at the End of the World stops by for a chat about surviving the pandemic, the intersection between whimsy and seriousness, writing movies, deleting Kenneth Branagh's jokes and of course, his Doctor Who stories