Doctor Who: Strangers in Space

As part of our journey through the Hammer back catalogue, we take another wander off the beaten path to look at two 1966 movies that were both made on the same sets (and include a number of shared actors too): The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

This year for Christmas we decided to watch a pair of British holiday romances, with a surprising connection to our very own podcast! Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Luke Molloy

During the original run of Doctor Who, there were nine stories whose broadcast spanned Christmas Day. But which of them is the most Christmassy? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

The Disney Doctor Who deal comes to a conclusion (in the UK at least) with the final chapter of the latest spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, but is it a fitting end to a troubled time? Presented by J.R. Southall and Ryan Blake, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

With an odd number of participants there's something a little different about the make-up of the teams in this year's Christmas quiz - but the quality of the questions hasn't changed Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher, and Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

We turn our attention to Hammer's iconic first attempts at their three staple horror characters, in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

Craig, Daniel is back as Benoit Blanc in the latest Knives Out Mystery from Rian Johnson Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

We check in on episodes 3 and 4 of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, to see how it's progressing Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber Links to our various new homes here: https://strangersinspace.weebly.com/links.html

After our episode about Nigel Kneale's famous TV scientist and his portrayal at the movies, we decided to go the full Hammer with a run-through of the highlights of the film series - starting with this duet of two Quatermass-adjacent early horrors Presented by Matt Barber, with Steve Hatcher and J.R. Southall

In which we watch Matt Smith's final episode and wonder if it's a fitting way for the eleventh Doctor to go, and then choose the first Blakes 7 episode we're going to talk about after having added the series to the randomiser Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Giving the creator of Coupling and Joking Apart the Doctor Who showrunner job was bound to bring problems - unless of course that's the man the BBC wanted in charge of the programme. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Our mixed reaction to the first two episodes of the latest Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher With highly inappropriate language right from the very start

It's exactly half a century since Stanley Kubrick followed A Clockwork Orange with his stately, painterly picture Barry Lyndon. But will we be impressed by its languid pace and artistic aspirations? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Luke Molloy

The last time Russell T Davies went five-part serial with a Doctor Who spin-off was Torchwood: Children of Earth, and at the time it was a great success. We went back and took another look. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

In which we turn our minds back twenty years to the moments when the first RTD era overstepped the mark, and wonder whether it was ever unacceptable as family viewing Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

The Stephen King adaptations continue to roll in, the latest being this adaptation of his cheery 1979 Richard Bachman novel The Long Walk. Did we go along for the stroll though, or would we grind to a halt? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

Paul Thomas Anderson has made what Wiki are describing as a "black comedy action thriller film", but would we find it as hard to describe how we felt about One Battle After Another as they struggled to say what it is? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Luke Molloy

The randomiser has chosen the Series 2 finale of Torchwood, Doctor Who's first major spin-off drama, for us to take a look at - but will it fare any better than the Series 1 finale as chosen by the very random randomiser just a few weeks ago? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher

You might think script editor Eric Saward's tenure on Doctor Who coincided with a period of calm rather than controversy, but we're here to pull back the covers and see if we can't find something to that doesn't smell quite right Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

Our thoughts on the photo of Billie Piper and Paul McGann on the TARDIS set that emerged at the weekend, leading onto a conversation about what we are expecting for the 2026 special Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Nearly half a century (and eight further films) on from Ridley Scott's original, the Alien franchise comes to television. But is it a natural fit, and is that where it belongs? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

A conversation about Reeltime Pictures' Myth Makers series of interviews, concentrating on two releases in particular, in honour of Dylan's recently published book Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees Doctor Who Myths and Legends: The Reeltime Pictures Story at Telos

Our review of Tell Me It's Not True, the debut album by indie band Silk Cuts Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett Vinyl edition at Rough Trade Download edition at Bandcamp YouTube channel Linktree

Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ought to be a match made in Heaven, but what would we make of it ahead of our patchwork Hammer watch-through starting next week? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

We're about as far on now from Tremors, as that was from 1954's Them! when it came out in 1990 - but are giant worms in the Sierra Nevada still such a fun concept in 2025? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

Our imaginary reboot of Doctor Who, created entirely from remakes of stories of the past, finds itself under the auspices of a new showrunner - and with a new Doctor in the form of Michelle Terry Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett

Two films with aliens masquerading as human beings from either side of 1990, one being Abel Ferrara's take on (Invasion of the) Body Snatchers, and the other from the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson and Dylan Rees

We mark the passing of founder member Dave Ball, by looking back at his time in Soft Cell alongside Marc Almond Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass Eric's Shardcore website

It's over half a century now since the Doctors' timelines first crossed in something resembling what we might know now as an "anniversary special", and certainly the lustre has come off The Three Doctors somewhat in those fifty-odd years - according to some reports at least. But how does it stand up five decades on? The randomiser has decided we take a look Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Austin Butler in a crime comedy from the director of Black Swan, Mother! and Requiem for a Dream? That couldn't possibly work... could it? (Warning: contains spoilers for major plot developments.) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

In which we divide into teams in order to choose the Doctor Who story that is the most appropriate for its Halloween broadcast slot Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Doctor Who is back, and this time it's just for Christmas - or is it? We try to get to the bottom of yesterday's announcement countering the premature death notices for RTD's Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett

An overview of the three films directed by the Monkeypaw Productions man: Get Out, Us and Nope Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

When we discovered that Zack Snyder and James Gunn, the two titans of DC, were both credited on the 2004 remake of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, we just had to investigate. And then when we noticed that the creator of the Final Destination franchise had also been partly responsible for the remake of follow-up Day of the Dead four years later, we decided to watch that one too. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Richie Morgan and Dylan Rees

Ron Howard's latest is set among German colonists on the Galapagos Islands between the wars of the last century, with Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby (not to mention Jude Law) falling out in the Equatorial sun. What could possibly go wrong? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

Philip Hinchcliffe might have suggested that Mary Whitehouse was "somewhat over-hysterical", but Barry Letts admitted that when she complained about Doctor Who, the viewing figures went up. So was the temptation in the mid-1970s to push the series too far in order to attract viewers? And how far is too far? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Ian Fleming's debut novel Casino Royale has been adapted for the screen three times, in wildly different versions. After having spoken about the other two, we decided it was time to take a look at the first, a live US TV play broadcast while the novel was barely off the press. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

The star of Four Weddings, the writer of Andor, Carrie from Sex and the City, the director of Seven Up! and Gene Hackman - not to mention produced by Elizabeth Hurley - is quite the line-up of talent. Can Extreme Measures live up to its promise? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

The randomiser brings us to Earth in 2164 (or so), exactly-ish two centuries in the future after a plague has wiped out the majority of the population of the planet and it's almost like WWII never stopped happening. But will the BBC manage to convey all this from the confines of a little TV studio? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

There's been a lot of love for the recent Tim Key comedy about a reclusive music fan who tries to get his favourite folk duo back together again. But what would we make of it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

You'd think Doctor Who news might be a bit thin on the ground with no production currently underway nor very much likely to be any time soon. But the rumours and gossip just keep on coming. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Steve Hatcher

How will our current mascot Danny Dyer take, to starring in a more bucolic version of Doctor Who? Our reimagined history of the series enters its seventh season. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When we realised that the director of The Sword and the Sorcerer had also made the 1990 Captain America, we couldn't resist going back for another look at both Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

We travel back to the 1990s, before even The Curse of Fatal Death was a twinkle in Steven Moffat's eye, to look at some of the writer-for-hire and one-off projects he completed before he became a household name Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

The randomiser takes us to yet another isolated workplace in the 1960s, but will Victoria's screaming save the day, or is Fury from the Deep just a load of old gas? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

After Amazon MGM Studios announced Denis Villeneuve as the director who would take the helm of their first Bond movie, we decided to have a look back at his non-franchise English language movies to see if we could see why. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

It's seventy years since Nigel Kneale's most famous creation made his way from the small screen to the big, but how successful was the transfer to Quatermass at Hammer? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

In tribute to Robert Redford we've taken another look at the movie he and Dustin Hoffman, plus director Alan J. Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman, made about the Watergate break-in Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When does pushing the boundaries become going too far? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

The only way we could talk about what the title means, is to get heavily into spoiler territory - so if you haven't seen Together yet, then set this review aside until you have Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

It's Ryan's turn at the wheel of our fictional Doctor Who recreation, and he's here to pick up the idea of a Danny Dyer Doctor and imagine where that might lead the series... much impressionations ensue Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake