The Doctor's Companion: Doctor Who the Long Way Round

The Doctor is going to Disneyland and Scott and Matt have a great time with the Sylvester McCoy 3-part serial “Delta and the Bannermen”.

The Doctor and Mel join a time/space tour group headed to 1950’s Disneyland until the shuttle-bus is thrown off course and into the middle of a deadly cat and mouse game between the murderous Bannermen and the Chimeron princess Delta. Can the Doctor stop the Bannermen, save the princess, and help the tour group fix their bus before it’s too late? What is the princess carrying in her egg? Why is Oscar Madison in Wales? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Christopher Eccleston and “The Long Game”!!

The Doctor is headed to the big screen and Scott and Matt have a lot to say on the subject. Director David Yates (Harry Potter 5-8) has been hired by the BBC to direct a complete reboot of the Doctor Who franchise as a film series. Can a “regenerated” version of Doctor Who work? How do we feel about the news? What are some of the actors we DON’T want to see as the big screen Doctor and who do we agree would make a great big screen Master? Find out in this Special Edition of The Doctor’s Companion!

The Doctor believes he’s meeting himself while Scott and Matt are having fun returning to the Davies era fun with the David Tennant 2008 Christmas special “The Next Doctor”.

It’s Christmas Eve 1851 and the Doctor has arrived to investigate a Cyberman infiltration of Victorian London, just to find another Doctor already on the case. Is this man really one of the Doctor’s future regenerations? Are they enough to stop the rise of the CyberKing? What do the Cybermen want with all of these kids? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Sylvester McCoy and “Delta and the Bannermen”!!

The Doctor’s in the wild west but Scott and Matt disagree about the William Hartnell 4-part serial “The Gunfighters”.

The Doctor, along with his companions Steven and Dodo, go to the town of Tombstone in the old west for a holiday. After a band of gunmen mistake the Doctor for Doc Holliday, they hold Steven and Dodo hostage until the Doctor will come to meet his death. Can the Doctor save his companions and himself before it’s too late? What song is continuously played throughout this story? Just how many shots can an old west lawman have on the job? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: David Tennant and “The Next Doctor”!!

The trial comes to an end and Scott and Matt have a lot to say about the Colin Baker serial “The Ultimate Foe”, the final segment in The Trial of a Time Lord.

In the trial’s eleventh hour, The Master reveals that the Valeyard has tampored w/ the evidence in an attempt to steal the Doctor’s remaining regeneration. With his sinister intentions unveiled, the Valeyard escapes into the Matrix with the Doctor in pursuit. What is the Valeyard’s connection to the Doctor’s future? How is the Master involved? What was going on behind the scenes? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: William Hartnell and “The Gunfighters”!!

The Doctor is presenting his defense while Scott and Matt are unable to exonerate the Colin Baker serial “Terror of the Vervoids”, the third part of The Trial of a Time Lord.

The Doctor has chosen a story from his future to help defend himself against the Valeyard’s charges, in which he and his companion Mel investigate a murder on the spaceship Hyperion III, thwart a mutiny, and stop a hostile race of alien plants called the Vervoids. What do all of these things have to do with each other? Who is Mel and how did she begin traveling with the Doctor? How can the Doctor use an adventure from his future in his defense without breaking the first rule of time? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Colin Baker and “The Ultimate Foe”!!

The Valeyard is presenting more evidence while Scott and Matt are confused about the Colin Baker serial “Mindwarp”, the second part of The Trial of a Time Lord.

In the Valeyard’s second segment of evidence, the Doctor and Peri encounter their old adversary Sil as well as the leader of his race, Kiv, who is in need of a new body for an emergency brain transplant. The Doctor betrays Peri and joins forces with Sil and Kiv after his personality is changed by the lead scientist named Crozier. Can the Doctor save Peri from becoming Kiv’s new body? Why is he torturing her? Is Sil still as annoying and disgusting as he was last time? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion. And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Colin Baker and “Terror of the Vervoids”!!

The Doctor is on trial while Scott and Matt may have found a solution to the Colin Baker serial “The Mysterious Planet”, the first part of The Trial of a Time Lord.

The Doctor is abducted onto a space station and put on trial for his life by a Time Lord known as The Valeyard, who uses footage from one of the Doctor’s past adventures to prove that he is meddling with time and breaking the first rule of Time Lord law. In the footage, the Doctor and Peri wind up on the planet Ravolox where they get mixed up with an evil robot named Drathro and two mercenaries named Glitz and Dibber. Can the Doctor save the planet from being destroyed by Drathro in an attempt to harness black light energy? Could this all have been solved with a few rounds of cosmic bowling? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Colin Baker and “Mindwarp”!!

The Doctor is facing death while Scott and Matt have a lot to say about the final episode of series 6, “The Wedding of River Song”.

The Doctor is heading to his death on Lake Silencio, but he’s going to do whatever it takes to find out why he has to die before he gets there. Do we get all the answers to all of the questions we’ve had all season? Are we satisfied with the answers? What is the oldest question that has been hidden in plain site? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Colin Baker and “The Mysterious Planet”!!

Craig is back and Scott and Matt had a lot of fun with the twelfth episode of series 6,”Closing Time”.

In the last few days of his life the Doctor visits his old friend Craig Owens, but when he stumbles a mystery involving a silver rat and Cybermen invading a department store he must decide if he wants to get involved one last time. What is a Cybermat and where does it come from? How long has passed for the Doctor since the end of “The God Complex”? What did we think of the big reveal in the last five minutes? Find out in the newest episode of The Doctor’s Companion! And remember, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!

Next: Matt Smith and “The Wedding of River Song”!!