Kara Dennison and Derek Kompare join us as our Fandom Perspectives series takes a look at aca-fans—those fans for whom deep dives of exploration into themes and cultural criticism make the Doctor Who experience all the richer…

Fandom Perspectives: Academic Fandom

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Kara Dennison and Derek Kompare

Your two fried cohosts take a quick tour through the news of the week and bring you an in-depth conversation about what “canon” in Doctor Who really means with rabid fan and New Testament scholar Mark Goodacre, in an archive recording from Chip’s Two-minute Time Lord Podcast, episode 316.

What "Canon" Really Means in Doctor Who

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Mark Goodacre

For every character, for every dramatic plotline, for every ship: there’s a fanvid. Kim and Sage of Head Over Feels return to This Week in Time Travel to talk about their expertly curated collections of fan-edited videos guaranteed to make you swoon or swear. Plus: Erika and Liz from Verity! stop by with a report from Twitch’s first week of streaming classic Doctor Who episodes, and Chip and Alyssa have strong feelings about Radio Free Skaro’s scoop that some missing episodes may be in the hands of private collectors.

Fan videos from Head Over Feels; Twitch's first week; missing episodes in limbo

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Kim Rogers, Sage Young, Erika Ensign and Lizbeth Myles

It’s a short, live-and-in-person walk through the news of the week including a new venue for classic Doctor Who, a new book series about Doctor Who book series, your chance to welcome Jodie Whittaker, and another fan convention setting the wrong example.

News roundup: Twitch, Bookwyrm, video greetings for 13, FanX

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke

Some fans are content to consume stories. Others want to expand on them, or even transform them. Part two of our Fandom Perspectives series is about fanfiction, a creative outlet that may even have contributed to the return of Doctor Who. Paul Cornell joins us to talk about fanfic’s role in the wilderness years, and Shannon Sudderth and Alyssa compare notes on fanfic in the RTD years and today.

Fandom Perspectives Part 2: Fanfiction

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Paul Cornell and Shannon Sudderth

A Doctor Who Fan Fiction Archive

Doctor Who works

Doctor Who works

At its best, fandom culture is all about participation! We begin our Fandom Perspective series by looking at cosplay with friend and East Coast costumer Amanda-Rae Prescott.

The World of Doctor Who Cosplay

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Amanda-Rae Prescott

It’s a snack-size edition of This Week in Time Travel looking at Free Comic Book Day, the new Time Team, and the eternal question: can the Eric Roberts Master drezzzz for the occasion in audio?

Free Comic Book Day; Time Team; Big Finish Masters vs. River Song

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke

Our Doctor retrospective series concludes with, of course, the Twelfth Doctor. It’s a giant-size, Series 10-hair-size, celebration of everything he brought to the role courtesy of the Hugo-finalist Verity! podcast’s moderator, Deb Stanish!

The Twelfth Doctor Retrospective

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Deborah Stanish

Alyssa promised that she would make Chip watch his very first reconstruction of a missing classic Doctor Who episode, as chosen by a random #WhoAgainstGuns donor. Thanks to David H. Adler, it’s time for “The Macra Terror” in living color…well, not color, but in living motion…well, not motion.

Reconstructions of missing episodes; The Macra Terror

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke

Let’s go back to 2010 and welcome the worldwide goodwill ambassador from the BBC, the Eleventh Doctor, who ushered Doctor Who into even greater global popularity. Radio Free Skaro and Lazy Doctor Who’s Steven Schapansky joins us!

The Eleventh Doctor's Hour

Chip Sudderth and Alyssa Franke with Steven Schapansky