The Polis Box

It's the inglorious return of The Polis Box, the podcast that puts Doctor Who in the dock! In this month's episode, we put The TV Movie on trial...the Doctor has gone on holiday to San Francisco by accident and all hell has broken loose, thanks to the Master. Don't worry, dear listener...while there's CLOCKS, there's hope...

Ring the bells! Take to the streets! Tell your neighbours and friends! There’s no cause for celebration…warn them, it’s the return of The Polis Box!

Fresh from our arduous five-month battle with Jonathan Powell and Michael Grade, we’re back from hiatus with the same old toss you came to expect in the last series! Join Lee and Dave as they cosplay as Colin Baker and The Valeyard (not really) to put another entry in the Doctor Who canon on trial.

This time : will Horror Of Fang Rock be offered up a shining beacon of hope or will it be cast out into the fog forever? You decide…

It’s The Polis Box #011! Normal service has been resumed as we get back to our mission to put all of Doctor Who on trial. In this episode, will Let’s Kill Hitler be found guilty or not guilty of (war) crimes against Doctor Who? You decide…

This podcast is brought to you in association with Vimto, seeing as Penderyn Whisky clearly never took the hint.

It’s The Polis Box Episode 10!

Now, never let it be said that the Polis Box isn’t a bastion of taste and decency…well, ok, you can let it be said, on the strength of the first twenty seconds of this episode. Basically, it’s Dave. Because…well, he’s Dave. Maybe he was channelling the spirit of Jim Davidson (aka Jim Robinson off Neighbours), we just don’t know.

This week, we put the Tom Baker era in the dock once again with The Invisible Enemy on trial! We reveal the results of Episode 9’s poll and there’s the usual cavalcade of nonsense…with apologies to Germans, Austr

It’s The Polis Box…Episode 9! In this episode…John Simm in a plastic bag! Dave rewrites the Doctor’s family line! And we launch our Kickstarter appeal to raise enough funds for a people-carrier trip down to Manchester to raid a lock-up full of Doctor Who figures.

Oh yeah, and there’s the small matter of the results of Episode 8’s vote on Planet Of The Spiders and we put The Doctor’s Daughter on trial. Not that anybody tunes in to hear us gassing on about such things. That’s because nobody tunes in to hear us gassing on…

It’s The Polis Box Episode 8! On this week’s episode…technical failures! Interruptions from household appliances! Benton and the Brigadier roughing up some East End criminal types in a shed up by Heathrow! And our profuse apologies to the family of Georgia Moffett…

But asides from all that, we reveal the results from Episode 7b’s case and we’re putting Jon Pertwee’s final story as the Doctor in the dock, with Planet Of The Spiders on trial. A tear, dear listener? No, don’t cry…while there’s other Doctor Who podcasts, there’s…hope…

It’s The Polis Box Episode 7b! In which Lee and Dave round up their end-of-series-3 spectacular by endurin…sorry, enjoying The Sound Of Drums and Last Of The Timelords. It’s got it all…megalomaniac Masters! Dobby Doctors! Blue Peter competition winners ruthlessly slaughtered and forced to live out existence in a spherical cage (that’s the best bit…)

We’ll also be revealing the results from Episode 7a’s poll on Utopia, alongside some giddy excitement about the return(ish) of Power Of The Daleks and, as is customary, an entirely unplanned and somewhat questionable Jimmy Savile joke. And then we’re off for a lie-down, never wanting to see these episodes for a long, long time…classic era episode next time, though. After this, even Timeflight will feel like a sweet release…

It’s The Polis Box Episode 7! Or 7a, if you prefer, as it’s the first part of our end of Series 3 “spectacular”. This time around, we’re covering Utopia – so if you like your Master with a mop of grey hair, your sentences bookended with a Chan and a Tho and like your extras with more ham than a butcher’s shop window, then this is the episode for you!

Dave puts forwards the case for why this is an exemplary example of Doctor Who, while Lee battles in vain to put together a case for the prosecution, which essentially boils down to some 10th Doctor bashing. There’ll be a lot of that when we draw Series 2 and 3 in the future…

It’s The Polis Box Episode 6! The podcast that puts Doctor Who in the dock (true), has been proven to make you sexually attractive to the opposite sex by association alone (kind of true) and on the brink of that lucrative Maynard’s/Bassetts/Bell’s Pies sponsorship (alas, not true).

In this episode, it’s the turn of television’s Peter Davison to take to the dock, as we put the penultimate Fifth Doctor story, Planet Of Fire, on trial. Does it provide the flame that lights up your life, or is it just a massive roaster? You decide…

Also in this episode : Kidnapping attempts! The Curse Of The Phallic Prop Mould!

It’s Episode 5 of The Polis Box! In which Lee and Dave shamelessly chase yet more sponsorship deals (while showing a level of heightened sophistication), examine the many accents of John Barrowman, provide yet more hot takes on quinoa and wonder just what their listeners are playing at when they reveal the results of Episode 4’s vote on The Androids Of Tara.

On trial this time round is The Unquiet Dead from Christopher Eccleston’s all too short tenure in the Tardis. Will it be ranked as one of the show’s all-time great works, or will it be exposed as a trickster, a charlatan and a fraud?