Through the Vortex: Classic Doctor Who

Vicki is the first companion to choose a trip on the TARDIS! The first "pea in the pod" with the Doctor, she departs to prove her loyalty to her lover Troilus and re-write a myth. We didn't have her along for as long as we would have liked, and the fandom has somewhat forgotten her, but Vicki is a fantastic companion who sets the stage for later characters who link with the Doctor because they share his sense of adventure and fun. 

Let's take a moment to celebrate Vicki, later renamed Cressida: the great adventurer, the rebel, the girl who could make the Doctor giggle, the woman who goes on to found Rome.


FYI: Sorry this is coming out a couple days late! I was closing out the semester and could not record this weekend. I also accidentally recorded the first part of this on my computer mic:-( I didn't have time to re-record and this is already late, so uploading as is. I will keep an eye on this for the future, however.
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NEXT TIME:
The Timeless Child Rant (You knew it was coming)
Monday, May 16th

For Classic Who, we are moving on to The Dalek's Master Plan!


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

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Odysseus and company are trying to invade Troy. Guess who thinks up the horse scenario? Oh, and Vicki might be Cressida....yeah, The Cressida. Hold your horses for Doctor Who's The Myth-Makers!

So, in all honesty, I recorded this one several times and also cut it down considerably. I may come back to the Myth-Makers in the future. Still not sure I did it justice. I also think that how I feel about this ending has changed with every viewing...so there's that!

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STEVEN: Well, the Doctor said they were Greeks. We're probably in Greece.
VICKI: Oh, but that would be wonderful, wouldn't it? We might meet the Heroes!
STEVEN: Those men who carried off the Doctor wouldn't be heroes, or anything like them.
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DOCTOR: Yes, yes. I'm afraid we must face up to it, Odysseus, man was never meant to fly.
ODYSSEUS: Wasn't he now? Well, that seems to me a great shame. Now if your machine won't work, Doctor, I propose to fly you without it.
DOCTOR: Oh? What do you mean?
ODYSSEUS: Simply this. That my catapult is ready and it seems a great pity to waste it. Now you have failed me, therefore you are expendable. I propose to fire you over the walls of Troy.
DOCTOR: Ah, but I have another idea. And a much better one.
ODYSSEUS: It had better be. Well?
DOCTOR: Have you ever thought of a horse?


Upcoming:

Celebrating Companions: Vicki
We need to take a moment to say goodbye to our revolutionary, our Cressida, the Doctor's first pea in the pod companion, dear Vicki!
Monday, May 9th

Serial #21: The Dalek's Master Plan ("The Nightmare Begins,"** "The Day of Armageddon," "Devil's Planet," "The Traitors," "Counter Plot," "Coronas of the Sun," "The Feast of Steven," "Volcano," "Golden Death," "Escape Switch," "The Abandoned Planet," "Destruction of Time")
All missing EXCEPT: "Day of Armageddon," "Counter Plot," & "Escape Switch"
Buckle in...this is a long one.
Probably will be broken into multiple parts.
Monday, March 14th

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Pirates and sea devils and dates....oh my!
Well....it tried? There are good ideas here...really good ideas. Shame it didn't really follow through. 
 
Upcoming:
The Timeless Child Rant
You knew it was coming....
Monday, May 2nd

Serial #20: The Myth-Makers
(Episodes: "Temple of Secrets," "Small Prophet, Quick Return," "Death of a Spy," "Horse of Destruction")
NOTE: All of these episodes are missing.  
Monday, February 28th



Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Vicki wondered what was happening over on that planet on the scanner....well, it isn't good. Welcome to Mission to the Unknown!

A group of humans have crash landed on a planet and one appears contaminated by the varga root which turns him into a killer fluffy thorny cactus. And the varga are not the most dangerous thing in the jungle.....

CORY: All right. I suppose you've heard of the Daleks?
LOWERY: The Daleks invaded Earth a thousand years ago.
CORY: That's right. Well, they haven't been active in our galaxy for some time now, but that doesn't mean they've exactly been sitting around. In the last five hundred years, they've gained control of over seventy planets in Ninth Galactic System and forty more in the Constellation of Miros.
LOWERY: Don't see why that should concern us. I mean, they're both millions of light years away from our galaxy.
CORY: Hmm, that's what we all thought. But about a week ago we had a report from the captain of a space freighter. His navigator spotted a space ship of a type never before used in our system. He saw it only for a second but he gave us a good description.
LOWERY: So?
CORY: What he described was a Dalek spaceship.


Upcoming:

Serial #20: The Myth-Makers (Episodes: "Temple of Secrets," "Small Prophet, Quick Return," "Death of a Spy," "Horse of Destruction")
NOTE: All of these episodes are missing.  
Monday, February 28th


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

A planet has two dawns before exploding and Team TARDIS landed on it, of course. Welcome to commentary and analysis of Galaxy 4!

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki land on a planet due to explode and must navigate a conflict between the beautiful Amazonian Drahvans led by Maaga and the monstrous Rills. But appearances can be deceiving....

MAAGA: This is a fight to the death for existence itself.
DOCTOR: I see.
MAAGA: in which one of us will be obliterated.
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RILL: But if there is a choice, the Doctor must go. He travels further than we can. And everything he has shown he stands for is what we believe in. So it is better that he goes.
STEVEN: I'm sorry. You can't blame me, though, for being suspicious. In that case, there's something you ought know. Whilst I was in the Drahvin ship, they said they intended to leave this planet in yours.
RILL: We are prepared to take them with us.
STEVEN: Well, that's not what they mean. They take your ship, you stay here.
RILL: We must hope they do not succeed.
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RILL: To the Drahvins we are ugly, so they become frightened.
DOCTOR: You are different from us, of course, but at least you are intelligent.
STEVEN: Yes, what difference does it make what your form is?
DOCTOR: Importance lies in the character and to what use you put this intelligence. We respect you as we respect all life.


Upcoming:

Serial #19: Mission to the Unknown
 The one-episode prequel to "The Dalek's Master Plan"
Monday, February 21st


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

We've made it through the second season of Classic Who!

This special episode looks at the second series overall. It's a weird one, right? We change out the entire cast, start getting comedic episodes, the Doctor is suddenly gradually becoming the star....so much to talk about!


NEXT TIME:
Serial #18 Galaxy 4 (Episodes: "Four Hundred Dawns," "Trap of Steel," "Air Lock," "The Exploding Planet")
All episodes missing except Air Lock. BBC has animated this one though!


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

The Vikings are invading! And there is a Meddling Monk....who has a TARDIS? Introducing one of the great episodes of the First Doctor....The Time Meddler!

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki land in 1066 in a Saxon village and quickly discover that someone appears to be trying to rewrite history.

DOCTOR: So that's it! You're a time meddler! No wonder you wanted to get rid of me. And what are you trying to get up to this time?
MONK: I'm sure you'll approve, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Are you quite mad? You know as well as I do the golden rule about space and time travelling. Never, never interfere with the course of history.



Upcoming:

Doctor Who's Second Season
A retrospective on the very eventful second season of Doctor Who wherein 3/4ths of our original cast departed and the show gained a sense of humor. 
Monday, February 7th

Serial #18: Galaxy 4 (Episodes: "Four Hundred Dawns,"** "Trap of Steel,"** "Airlock," "The Exploding Planet"**)
**NOTE: Episodes 1, 2, and 4 are missing
Team TARDIS arrives on a planet "two dawns" away from exploding and must navigate the complicated relationships between the two native races desperate to escape destruction...
Monday, February 14th


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Ian & Barbara are our first companions, our original audience surrogates, and such a large part of Doctor Who that it would have been difficult to see the production continuing without them. Their loss ushers in a new era and signals the end of Part I of Hartnell's time as the Doctor. The Doctor, and the show, is never quite the same. In a very real way, these two companions are never "replaced" in function--rather the Doctor absorbs their roles.

Let's take a moment to celebrate these two companions who perhaps taught the Doctor more than any of the others--compassion and courage that comes from empathy towards others and the moral wherewithal to feel obligated to help.  The Doctor as we know him would not be the Doctor without his first two human friends.

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NEXT TIME:
For Classic Who: The Time Meddler (Episodes: "The Watcher," "The Meddling Monk," "A Battle of Wits," "Checkmate")--Monday, January 31st


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

This special edition of the podcast has my dear friend Hannah and I discussing "The Flux"....among other things!

We're basically L.I.N.D.A. Though hopefully we shall not be absorbed by monsters. 

We discuss The Flux as a season as well as the Thirteenth Doctor's  Era more generally.

I was having problems with my microphone during this recording which we didn't realize until afterwards--so apologies for the sound quality. I thought the conversation was still worth preserving even if the audio is not as good as I would like it to be. 

Enjoy!
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UPCOMING:

Celebrating Companions: Ian & Barbara
We are going to do a special episode on our two departing companions Ian & Barbara!
Monday, January 24th

The Time Meddler
(Episodes: "The Watcher," "The Meddling Monk," "A Battle of Wits," "Checkmate")
Monday, January 31st


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Bring on the bonkers' insanity of Doctor Who's  "The Chase!" A serial that can only be fully appreciated if you just go with it. But seriously--how can you not love this one? Mostly commentary (because this one doesn't want me to analyze). 

The Daleks have built a time machine that can lock on to the TARDIS. Now, the Doctor and companions are being chased through space and time, ending up on futuristic worlds, atop the Empire State Building, meeting Dracula, and encountering all sorts of monsters along the way.



DALEK: The Dalek Supreme has ordered they are to be pursued through all Eternity. Pursued and exterminated!
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DOCTOR: I have the directional instincts of a honing pigeon!
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BARBARA: You're from Earth?
MAN: No ma'am, I'm from Alabama!
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DOCTOR: I must see what's on that table.
IAN: Must you?
DOCTOR: Where's your spirit of adventure?
IAN: It died a long and painful death when those bats came out of the rafters.
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BARBARA: All we've been through will remain with us always--and it will probably be the most exciting part of my life.
IAN: It was fun, Doctor. Thanks for the ride.
DOCTOR: I shall miss them. Yes, I shall miss them.


Upcoming:

Hannah & Brianna Talk Doctor Who: The Flux
Monday, January 17th
Hannah and I are going to talk through our thoughts on the last season of New Who--which Hannah is in the process of finishing and I've had some time to think about. Should be a ton of fun!

Celebrating Companions: Ian & Barbara
We need to take a moment to cry and laugh, and create a montage of adorable photos in our brains celebrating two of The Greats: The School Teachers We All Wanted to Have
Monday, January 24th


Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]

Special thanks to Cathlyn "Happigal" Driscoll for providing the beautiful artwork for this podcast. You can view her work at https://www.happigal.com/ 

Do feel free to get in touch to share the love of all things Doctor Who: [email protected]