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Listeners of The Doctor's Companion: Doctor Who the Long Way Round that love the show mention: scott and matt,We're back to discuss the eighth and final episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! Really? That’s it? It’s all been leading to… this? Were we satisfied by anything that happened in this episode? Are we excited by what … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the penultimate episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! Is this really the world the Conrad would wish for? Can RTD land this many spinning plates by the end of next week’s finale? Which of … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the sixth episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! Why does this episode feel so nostalgic? What do we think of the reveal (finally) of Mrs. Flood’s true identity? And what about that other character … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the fifth episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! Has this episode killed our Mrs. Flood theories? Where could all of these story themes be leading toward? Does Scott actually like this one?? Join us … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the fourth episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! What is this episode actually trying to say? How could it have been done better? Is Conrad an interesting character? Is UNIT good or bad? What … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the third episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! What did we think of this surprise sequel and what does James Cameron have to do with it? Which cast members were the episode’s standouts? Do … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the second episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! Is this a companion episode to last season’s “The Devil’s Chord”? What kind of cartoon is Mr. Ring-a-Ding exactly? Did this episode take the metatext too … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the first episode of Season 2 of New Doctor Who! What do we think of new companion Belinda Chandra? Is there a pattern forming that RTD hopes we don’t notice? How did this episode compare to … Continue reading →
One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another’s on the run. Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it. A Whitehall insider whispers about a mysterious … Continue reading →
The Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Lanyon Moor where demonic imps seem to be haunting the area with magic. Running into Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart who is there to investigate, the Doctor decides to get to the bottom of an ancient conflict … Continue reading →
The TARDIS arrives in 1215 England where King John and his champion, Sir Gilles Estram, have accused peasant of failure to provide adequate financial support to the throne. The Doctor is baffled — not just because King John is meant … Continue reading →
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, the Doctor and Sarah are caught in a quarrying explosion. Sarah is found clutching what appears to be a fossilized hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah … Continue reading →
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century. They are caught quickly in a power struggle between the cruel Marshal of Solos and the young Solonian Ky over the future … Continue reading →
The TARDIS crew find themselves on a refinery base in 1970s England where a parasitic form of seaweed has begun taking control of the workers, turning them into zombies under its control. As the seaweed spreads across the refinery, the … Continue reading →
The TARDIS crew take a much needed break in ancient Rome, but while the Doctor accompanies Vicki on her first adventure after a case of mistaken identity takes them to the court of Emperor Nero, Barbara and Ian are separated … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas Special! Who is the companion in this episode, Joy or Anita? What is the ultimate message we’re meant to take away from the ending? How do Moffat and RTD write Christmas … Continue reading →
Clara is worried about revealing the truth about her adventures in space and time to Danny when the Doctor is forced to take a job as Coal Hill School’s caretaker as he tracks a rogue Skovox Blitzer, a dangerous weapon … Continue reading →
After receiving a summons by the Doctor to meet him in the American west, Amy, Rory, and River are forced to watch the Doctor get killed by an Astronaut in a lake, only for another Doctor from 200 years earlier … Continue reading →
Medical student Martha Jones meets the Doctor when the hospital where she works is teleported to the moon by the Judoon, talking space rhino mercenaries for hire, who are searching for an alien fugitive loose in the building. Join the … Continue reading →
After traveling to the Divergent Universe, the Doctor and Charley find themselves in a white void with nothing to do but walk, confront their feelings, and attempt to comprehend the entity trying to communicate with them. Join the Dueling Genre … Continue reading →
The Doctor brings Ace back to her hometown of Perivale where she learns that her old friends are being kidnapped by a race of alien hunters called the Cheetah People. How did they find their way to Earth? They were shown the way by the … Continue reading →
Tracking a nexus point in time, the Doctor meets Dr Evelyn Smythe, a history professor who is fading away as her timeline begins to unravel behind her. To stabilize the nexus and save Evelyn’s life, the Doctor must travel back to the time just before the rein … Continue reading →
As the Black Guardian pressures Turlough to finally kill the Doctor, the TARDIS crew materialize on an Edwardian sailing yacht in space as they find themselves caught up in a mysterious race between godlike beings for the prize of “enlightenment.” Tegan … Continue reading →
After the Doctor and Sarah Jane have a strange encounter with a living energy structure known as the Mandragora Helix in another dimension, a rogue fragment hitches a ride on the TARDIS and leads the pair to 15th century Italy, landing … Continue reading →
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island where the Doctor discovers the Master to make contact with the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles related to the Silurians who have been recently awoken … Continue reading →
The TARDIS crew find themselves in the London Underground where the run into Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas some thirty years earlier, working with a military operation, lead by COLONEL Lethbridge-Stewart, that is investigating the tunnels of … Continue reading →
Having left Susan behind in London, the Doctor, Ian, and Barbara arrive on the planet Dido where they find a crashed spaceship and a survivor named Vicki being terrorized by a monster called Koquillion who has killed everyone she’s ever … Continue reading →
After waking up without any memory of how they go there, the Doctor and Clara are joined by a hacker and shapeshifter as they’re instructed by a mysterious stranger to break into a vault in the most secure bank in … Continue reading →
While on their honeymoon, Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, but a lonely old miser who controls the skies of his planet won’t let them land. To save them and the other souls on board, the … Continue reading →
When a bride is transported into the TARDIS in the middle of her own wedding on Christmas Eve, the Doctor attempts to figure out how this could have ever happened and what exactly could be so special about an office … Continue reading →
The Time Lord authorities finally catch up with the Doctor over the damage to the Web of Time he caused by saving Charley’s life from the fatal crash of the R101 airship in 1930. In order to save the universe … Continue reading →
The Doctor and Ace arrive in a coastal village during WWII where a team of military personnel are attempting to translate ancient runes found in a nearby crypt. However, if they succeed, they will release an evil entity from the … Continue reading →
When the Doctor’s companion Frobisher, a shapeshifting penguin, uses dimensional stabilizers to create a living fish he can hunt in the bathtub, the TARDIS goes on strike and sends the pair to a medieval throne room where the God Emperor … Continue reading →
Still manipulated by the demands of the Black Guardian, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS, causing it to anchor itself to the nearest spaceship. Once on board, they quickly join forces with a pair of fashion-forward space pirates and discover that the … Continue reading →
The Doctor and Sarah Jane are called in to investigate mysterious alien seed pods found at a science base in Antarctica, but when a scientist is infected and turned into a plant monster, he realizes the seed is a sentient, … Continue reading →
The newly rebuilt TARDIS lands on the planet Peladon on its first test flight where the Doctor and Jo are mistaken for dignitaries in the midst of determining the result of the planet’s application to join the Galactic Federation. But … Continue reading →
The TARDIS lands on a beach in 2018 where the Doctor is mistaken him for a political scientist named Salamander whom he uncannily resembles. While Salamander claims that his intentions are to save the world from a famine and a … Continue reading →
In an attempted return to Earth, the TARDIS crew find themselves in the year 2167, where a rebellion has formed against the tyrannical rule of the Daleks, thousands of years before their last encounter on Skaro. Turning humans into “robomen” … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the eighth and final episode of Doctor Who Series 14! Did this episode feel like enough? Was there a better way to structure this two part story? What was this season missing? Is Ruby’s mother really … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the seventh episode of Doctor Who Series 14! Are we satisfied with the One Who Waits’ big reveal? Would this have hit harder if the series had aired as intended? How are we feeling about that … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the sixth episode of Doctor Who Series 14! How does this episode utilize the increased budget in exciting ways? Are there other Doctor/companion dynamics we’d rather be seeing? Could RTD already be setting up an end … Continue reading →
We're back to discuss the fifth episode of Doctor Who Series 14! How long has Russell T. Davies been developing this story for Doctor Who? Is the ultimate lesson here to hate Lindy or should we be seeing her story … Continue reading →