Doctor Who - The Highlanders

An almost entirely fact free ramble through the eleventh episode of series three, Utopia.   The books Loll can't quite bring to mind are the Sister Fidelma mysteries by Peter Tremayne.  

It's our hundredth episode and in celebration we have been briefly removed from our own time-streams to go old school and dawdle ineffectually around Survival from the olden days of 1989.   On at least one occasion John says Rhona Cameron instead of Rona Munro, and he could not be more mortified. Sorry.   Please read all of John Wyndham's work with the possible exception of the posthumously published Plan For Chaos.   Peter Strickland's four films Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke Of Burgundy and In Fabric are all exquisite, but they aren't for everyone.   Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills is a morbidly brilliant book. Highly recommended.     This is the US Doctors thing we were nattering on about. You'll have seen it ages ago.   https://youtu.be/bCv5o7n_mtk   Lawrence would like to draw your attention to these Numberphile things:   https://youtu.be/l4bmZ1gRqCc   https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc   Stay strong. You're all wonderful.    

A commentary for the series 3 episode Blink, after the usual protracted preamble. The book John likes is Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, available from all good and wicked bookshops. We like the ones who pay their taxes best. https://www.waterstones.com/book/riddley-walker/russell-hoban/9781408832240   The brilliant book podcast that has recently covered Riddley Walker is the Backlisted Podcast: https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/9-russell-hoban-riddley-walker Una McCormack is in it, and she's one of us.   Lawrence's recommended time travel books are the Lightbringer Trilogy: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/samantha-lee/lightbringer-trilogy/   The film John chunters on about is Christopher Smith's excellent horror movie Triangle:  https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1212111_triangle  And the film in Smith's oeuvre that John can't quite bring to mind is the excellently silly horror comedy Severance.        

Join the Highlanders (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) as we gallivant around Paul Cornell's magnificent episodes Human Nature and The Family Of Blood.

Facting you till you're full!   This week John and Lawrence (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) address the political and moral complexities of not quite being able to keep your attention focused on the thing you're supposed to be talking about.   It's Chibnall time as we reach his first episode as writer: 42.  

The Lazarus Experiment as chaotically explained by @Feexby23 and @Loll73.   Contains more pants than any episode so far.    

A wheezy old stroll round the fifth episode of the third series of that new-fangled children's TV series Doctor Who.   Hit us up on Twitter where we are @Feexby23 and @Loll73  

Musings on, and a commentary for, the fourth episode of the third season of that Doctor Who everyone's talking about.   Featuring ALL the accents, and the shocking bedroom secrets of Lawrence.   Hit us up at @Feexby23 and @Loll73 on Twitter, y'all.   Peace out.

Our commentary and various musings on the third episode of the third series of new Doctor Who - Gridlock.   The wonderful Doc Savage covers John mentions are by Keith "Kez" Wilson, and can be found here:   http://docfantasycovers.com   We can be found on Twitter. John is @Feexby23 and Lawrence is @Loll73    

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... That makes Thursday.   Join John (@Feexby23) and Lawrence (@Loll73) as they creep in their petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.   It's The Shakespeare Code this time. The second episode in the third series of that children's television programme we quite like: Doctor Who.    

Join John and Lawrence (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) as they proceed in an orderly and learned way through the other 23 most common surnames in the UK according to some website.   Also there is an episode commentary for the first episode of Series 3 of new Doctor Who.   If you hear persistent rumbling interference throughout this episode it's probably your ears. You should get them checked. Certainly nothing to do with the dwindling faculties of your podcasters. And I'm sure it won't happen again.   We are just so excited to be back.    

The fourth and final episode of our Advent Travesty.   Merry Christmas everybody! x

Episode three of our four part Advent Travesty: Voyage of the Damned

Episode two of our four part Advent Travesty: The Runaway Bride

The first episode of our four part Advent Travesty: The Christmas Invasion

One last run around the place before we go...   You can find @Feexby23 and @Loll73 on Twitter.   xx

The first, utterly terrifying, part of the series 10 finale.   Join John and Lawrence (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) as we dawdle our way through this phenomenal episode of the children's TV programme we quite like: Doctor Who.    

Well now. It was bound to happen sooner or later. I forgot to press record so we lost our whole podcast for this one! What a nitwit.   This then is our second pass at Rona Munro's brilliant episode The Eaters Of The Light. Behold our undiminshed enthusiasm however. This is ace telly.

All caught up now! For a little while.   Join the Highlanders (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) as we despair at the state of the world whilst simultaneously enjoying this Mark Gatiss contribution to series 10 of the very good children's TV programme, Doctor Who.   Ayyyyeeeee.        

Hey, hey it's the Monks.   John and Lawrence (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) natter belatedly through the eighth episode of the tenth series of the TV programme we quite like: Doctor Who.

Episode seven of series 10, commentated through by @Feexby23 and @Loll73.   "It would be rude not to."

Loll and John (The Highlanders, ayeeeee) chat through episode six of series ten: Extremis.   If we were smart people we'd have remembered that another of Tom Lehrer's songs is The Vatican Rag, but this isn't that kind of podcast.   Also our celebrity-mention curse appears this week to have extended to Roger Moore, and we couldn't be more sorry.   Night night, Sir Roger. We will miss you.

Series ten, episode five. The episode called oxygen, to which we can only say "O!"   Join @Feexby23 and @Loll73 as we blah on endlessly about how bloody good Doctor Who is at the moment.

Episode four of series ten of the programme we quite like, Doctor Who.   Knock Knock.   Sorry about all the yawning...    

The nice Thin Ice.   We The Highlanders, @Feexby23 and @Loll73, chat through the third episode of Series 10 of the programme we quite like, Doctor Who.   Contains scenes of mild buffering from the outset.

An episode commentary for series ten, episode two: Smile.   We can be found at @Feexby23 and @Loll73 on Twitter, or just hanging around minding our own business in Inverness.

Doctor Who is back on the telly! Let John (@Feexby23) and Loll (@Loll73) lead you gently, and somewhat erratically, through the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who: The Pilot.   The macaroons were lovely.    

Helloooooo, nice lady and gentleman at home. What's that coming over the hill? New bloody Doctor Who, that's what. As a limbering up exercise John (@Feexby23) and Lawrence (@Loll73) have a good old go at Doctor Who Da Movie from the olden days of 1996. It's pretty awesome, it turns out.   Oh, and we're called The Highlanders now. Everybody got that? The Highlanders.

It's the end, but it may come as no surprise to learn that it has not been remotely prepared for. Join us (@Feexby and @Loll73) as we natter our way through the frankly sublime series 9 closing episode, Hell Bent.As for the cakes, they were stollen. Except we did pay for them...

Best. Episode. Ever. Was it? It's certainly a bit brilliant. Join us, John and Lawrence, as we have a ponder and a bit of a chat about Series 9, Episode 11 Heaven Sent. See whether or not you agree with our thoughts about the episode's antecedents, and participate in our general flummoxedness about what is going to happen next.

Traumatic, wasn't it? Let John and Loll take you by the hand and lead you through a street of London in this, the antepenultimate podcast of Doctor Who Series 9.

Is that a speck of dust in your ear? An episode commentary for Doctor Who Series 9, Episode 9 Sleep No More. This podcast was pieced together from footage found in what was left of Lawrence's house after the unanticipated interruption of The Oilman!

Distracted by Lego, and bumbazed by complex moral conundrums John and Lawrence (@Feexby and @Loll73) nevertheless still make it through a commentary for Doctor Who Series 09 Episode 08, The Zygon Inversion. Two thirds of the way through this series already, hmm? How the bloody heck did that happen? 

The Zygon Invasion! It's like that time there was an Invasion Of The Zygons! Remember that back in the 70s, 80s? Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With Nessie. That one. The mixed tense Die Hard 2 movie strap line that enraged John so much he forgot what it is is: "They say lightning never strikes twice. They were wrong."

Series 9, episode 6. The Woman Who Lived. We are the dandy highwaymen who you're too scared to mention. We spend our cash on Doctor Who dolls, books and Blu-rays mostly. There's a commentary in here somewhere.

More so even than any of our previous efforts, this podcast is a clear cry for help. Two elderly men mentally unravelling and succumbing to the physical rigours of the passage of time in front of a telly programme they love. Send help immediately. Send biscuits.As a postscript, Lawrence googled the Grange Hill/Give Us A Clue theme tune conundrum. He didn't find a conclusive answer, but he did find a 1981 GUAC episode on YouTube featuring Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Sandra Dickinson and Beryl Reid.You could watch that instead of listening to this. That's what I'm off to do. 

Some chuntering, then a commentary for Doctor Who Series 9, Episode 4 - Before The Flood. Behold John and Lawrence's little faces as they try and get their heads around whether or not the bootstrap stuff works. Look at them. With their furrowed brows and specious fictional precedents. They're a picture.

Series 9. Episode 3. Under The Lake.It's great. We loved it. However we were this week, to an extent, at home to Mr. Cockup. See if you can spot when iPlayer started buffering. See also if you can spot when the digital recorder batteries ran out.Ah.Never mind. We got there in the end. Thank you in advance for whatever degree of patience you can bring to bear.

OK.There are some inaccuracies in here, the worst of which is that Peter Capaldi is clearly only 5 feet 11.5 inches, no matter what John says.Also: somebody left somebody's phone on. Sorry.(It was John.)

A commentary for Doctor Who Series 9, Episode 1 by @Feexby and @Loll73.Honestly we got to it as quickly as we could.

Almost ten years after the start of Series 27 @Loll73 and @Feexby ponder the old question: What was all that about then, eh?If you think at some points early in the podcast that you can hear heavy vehicles with caterpillar tracks rumbling through your field of hearing, you can't. It's all in your head. Maybe you have a disorder. You should get that looked at.

Last Christmas we gave you a podcast, but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save us from tears we'll just do exactly the same thing. We don't learn.This here is an episode commentary for Last Christmas, the festive episode from December 2014. Of course it is.

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you... Our Season 8 podcast finale. An episode commentary for Death In Heaven. Thanks for the use of your ears. You can have them back now. 

It's season finale time. Part 1 of 2. And John's theory that Missy is some Kamelion/Dodo hybrid is starting to look a bit shaky. We are @Feexby and @Loll73 on Twitter if you'd like to mosey on over and say hello. 

It is Lawrence's 15,00th day on the planet! Celebrate by joining us for a commentary podcast kind of a thing for In the Forest Of The Night. He is @Loll73 and I am @Feexby on Twitter. You can say hello if you like.

An episode commentary for Flatline from @Feexby and @Loll73

Announcing the late arriving Mummy On The Orient Express, a podcast commentary with me @Feexby and him @Loll73.Followed mere minutes later by...

Fly us to the Moon, dooby dooby doo. You could listen to this episode commentary from @Feexby and @Loll73 or you could listen to the utterly brilliant album Marquee Moon by Television TWICE! That's what I'd do.

Join me @Feexby and the redoubtable @Loll73 (try redoubting him, go on, it's fun) as we chat in front of, on top of, and behind The Caretaker. It's a Doctor Who episode that is almost unrecognisable from the Harold Pinter original. Though how good would a Clive Donner episode starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates have been? Puh-retty god, I reckon.

You will hear the pod of John and Lawrence... Is it iambic pentameter? We don't really seem to know. Join us on our blunder through Time Heist. Remember, it's just our secret. Don't tell anyone.

Listen! Or don't. We are not the boss of you. You make your own decisions, just like we want you to.