Traveling the Vortex

In this week’s episode, we travel back to the early ’70s where we catch up with The Brigadier, Jo Grant, and Dr. Who as they take on The Master in the Doctor Who Annual 1974.

We review the two short stories, Listen – the Stars and Out of the Green Mist. We also look at the comic story, The Time Thief.

And, we flash forward with a review of the recently released issue #1 of the Missy limited series from Titan Comics.

Enjoy!

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Our resident Star Trek Guru, Shaun begins to wrap up his discussion of Star Trek TNG. This time it’s the penultimate season, Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6.

Stay tuned as Shaun gears up for another series, this time with a focus on DS9.

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The Base Under Siege story, It’s a classic trope for many Doctor Who stories. But is it a good way to craft a story?

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In this week’s episode, we jump back into Big Finish’s Eighth Doctor Adventures for 4.2, Situation Vacant, Hear what we thought of this story as the Doctor ACTUALLY auditions new companions, Who knew?

Plus we get back to Titian’s Thirteenth Doctor comics with the Thirteenth Doctor Vol. 2: Hidden Human History which collects issues #5 through #8 of the ongoing series from a few years back. Find out what we thought of this story arc.

Enjoy!

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In this week’s show, we finally get around to the long-promised review of Big Finish’s War Doctor series of audios.

In this episode, we review the first box set, Only the Monstrous, which is comprised of the stories, The Innocent, The Thousand Worlds, and The Heart of the Battle. Hear what we thought of these three stories featuring the further adventures of John Hurt’s War Doctor.

And, remember we’ve opened up the feedback line to hear your thoughts on the upcoming discussion on “Base Under Seige” stories in Doctor Who.

Enjoy!

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We have more MUCHO MASTER for the 50th anniversary year of the Master’s debut in Doctor Who. And this week we review the anthology book I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord. Hear what we thought of this collection of short stories, all featuring the Master in many of his incarnations,

Also, a bit of Big Finish news,

Enjoy!

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This week we round out our reviews of Big Finish’s Doctor Who Unbound series. First, we look at A Storm of Angels, written by Marc Platt and starring Geoffrey Bayldon and Carole Ann Ford returning to their roles as the Doctor and Susan.

Then we review Masters of War, written by Eddie Robson and starring David Warner and Nicholas Courtney returning as the Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Hear what we have to say about these two stories.

Plus the news of the week.

Enjoy!

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Our journey through the Doctor Who Unbound universe continues this week, First up its Deadline, written by Robert Shearman and starring Derek Jacobi. Hear what we thought,

Next, is Exile is written by Nicholas Briggs and starring Arabella Weir as The Doctor.

Plus, more news this week from Big Finish and Alex Kingston takes a turn at writing.

Enjoy!

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This week we return to the Unbound Universe for two more offerings from Big Finish’s Doctor Who – Unbound series.

First, we review Full Fathom Five, written by David Bishop and starring David Collings as The Doctor.

Then we take a look at He Jests at Scars… written by Gary Russell and starting Michael Jayston returning to the role of The Valeyard.

Hear what we thought about these two stories,

Plus, more Big Finish news and new books coming out from our friends at Candy Jar Books.

Enjoy!

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In this week’s podcast, we start to look back on a series of audios that Big Finish produced that tell Doctor Who stories a little differently. Doctor Who Unbound audios are ‘What if…?” stories that feature alternative universe versions of the Doctor and Companions,

First is Auld Mortality, written by Marc Platt and features Geoffrey Bayldon as the Doctor and Carole Ann Ford as Susan,

Then we review Sympathy for the Devil by Jonathan Clements and starring David Warner as a third incarnation of the Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart played by Nicholas Courtney, and Sam Kisgart (shhh,,, it’s really Mark Gattis) as The Master. A pre-Doctor Who David Tennant is also in this story as Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood.

We also talk about the news of the week.

Enjoy!

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