Trial of a Timelord: Doctor Who on trial

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Is Doctor Who the greatest story ever told, or a pile of old shite? Or is it both at the same time? We put the series on Trial, one story at a time. Each episode a different guest defends or prosecutes a story of their choice.

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    Episode 49b: The Two Doctors Part II

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 49:42


    Cabbages. Seeping trousers. Homer Simpson. Ripe pussy and gargantuan penis.    We finish the feast that is the Two Doctors. 

    Episode 49: The Two Doctors Part One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2020 54:49


    Wanking sheds. French etchings. Tinto brass erotic films. Passo doble potatoes. Confessions of whoredom.    Stephen Graham joins us to prosecute THE TWO DOCTORS. 

    Episode 48: Resurrection of the Daleks

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 72:07


    SPUNKAGGEDON! Hannah Cooper - @MrsSimonTemplar on twitter - joins us to defend Resurrection of the Daleks.  With sepcial thanks to Jonathon Carley. 

    Episode 47: The Brexit Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 70:02


    Ginger caterpillars of doom. Roomba with anal probe attachement. A shaggy dog story.  In this time of division and strife, Paul Kirkley joins to help us come together. LET THE NATIONAL HEALING BEGIN. 

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    Episode 46: Timelash

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2019 78:51


    Cockmonsters. Eric Saward's flabby arse. 30 years well spent. Boss level on Gary Downie's Grindr. The Maylin Mane of Magnificence.  YES - prepare yourselves for the most thorough of Darrowings as Pete Lambert joins us to defend TIMELASH.   

    Episode 45: We Love Dicks

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2019 48:44


    What starts out as a heartfelt tribute to Terrance Dicks, giant of Doctor Who, goes tragically and predictably wrong because three grown men can't help themselves when it comes to knob gags. 

    Episode 44: The Woman Who Fell To Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2019 67:19


    Bird porn. Crack pipes in heaven. Concerns about my bollocks. Naked Boris. THE WRATH OF GOD. The sudden onset of a second puberty.    Yes! Pip Blackledge joins us to prosecute 2018's The Woman Who Fell To Earth. 

    Episode 43: Is Blakes 7 Better Than Doctor Who?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2019 66:27


    On the 3rd of June 2019, Avon left the building. Paul Darrow, star of Blakes 7, died. In this special episode we are joined by Robin Brown of Probic Vent to discuss exactly what made Avon and Blakes 7 so special. Spoilers ahoy, pretty much from the get go, so if you've never watched B7, be warned.    Not much in the way of dogging gags or the usual filth in this episode, for which we can only apologise. Normal service will be resumed in the next episode. 

    Episode 42: The Creature from the Pit

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 79:13


    GIMPS! BEAR BANDITS! A LESBIAN DOMINATRIX AND HER REALLY GOOD WEED! And, of course, the Mother of all Bollock Monsters.    Join us for Bollockalypse Now as Dr Mark Jones joins us to defend The Creature From The Pit.

    Episode 41: Warriors of the Deep

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 75:36


    Prog rock bands with Ingrid Pitt. Post-mortem libel. The celery game. Sweaty gingers. Champion the wonder lizard.    John  Rivers joins us to defend 1984's Warriors of the Deep.   

    Episode 40: INVASION!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2019 68:14


    Glove puppet hentai. General Brexit. Brains Faggots. Pampas grass.    Oh, and... YATES. Yes, we put Invasion of the Dinsaurs on trial.   Please note: the audio on one half of this recording is not the best due to the presence of Global Chemicals or something.   

    Episode 39: The Three Doctors

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2018 60:38


    SQUEEZE THE BAG. Existential ring tones. Superluminescent emmisions. Jeeps. Flesh recorders. Bessie does Dallas.    Yes, it's the THREE DOCTORS. Stephen Graham joins us to prosecute and John Rain joins us as Inquisitor.    Merry Christmas!

    Episode 38: Guilty Pleasures II

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2018 75:36


    Knife wanking. His animatronic clunge. Planet of the gimps. Unfortunate marketing decisions of our time.   YES - join us for the last of our Guilty Pleasures as Alan Graham joins us to prosecute David Lynch's SF epic DUNE. 

    Episode 37: Guilty Pleasures

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2018 74:40


    +1 **** of Impregnation. Liam Neeson. Brand New Combine Harvester. Shit judge of character. In this non-who episode, Alan Graham joins us to defend his guilty pleasure: John Boorman's 1981 Excalibur. 

    Episode 36: Fear Her

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2018 64:34


    Echoes. CGI anal beads. Yates cupboard vibration. Lack of lesbians. Love. Love. Love. Love. It's all about love.  Yes, ChinnyVision joins us to prosecute 2006's Fear Her. 

    Episode 35: Mark of the Rani

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2018 69:47


    Interchangable Foxes. Worzel Gummidge's Sexy Head. Peri's Ping Pong Trick. The Yewtree Will Not Hurt You. Fuck my Childhood self. Appan Ah Divvan Noooooo.   John Rain joins us defend Mark of the Rani. 

    Episode 34: City of Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 69:41


    A dearth of bollock monsters. Ray Harryhausen pubes. Yewtree. Crossing the road - the DRAMA.    Jon Arnold joins us to defend City of Death. 

    Episode 33: Time-Flight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2018 79:32


    Ham fisted bun-vendors. Mike Yates's magnificent bush. Shiny rocks. Going the full spod. Uniform fetishes. Incorrect behaviour at the used car showroom. Harry Sullivan's Disco Bollock.   Yes, WhoTrial goes international as Lucy Toman joins us from Germany to defend Time-Flight. 

    Episode 32: Deep Breath

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2018 56:28


    The Iconic Danny Pink. Your Amy Pond Noise. Pour yourself a drink, settle down and enjoy it. Enormous dinosaur clunge. Lesbians. Lesbians. Lesbians.  Yes, Stephen Graham joins us to prosecute Deep Breath. 

    Episode 31: Death to the Daleks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2018 79:04


    Colonies being ravaged. Jill Tarrant. Unholy offpsing. Skittles. And the Ballad of Fat Barry.   Yes, Pip Blackledge joins us to defend Death To the Daleks.     

    Episode 30: The Power of Three

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2018 67:04


    Fain glimmers of average. Imprinting on Peri's breasts. Dobby. Care in the community for psychopaths. UNIT calls in the Mitchell Brothers. Crywanking in the corner of the TARDIS.    Yes, it's the Power of Three. Cliff Chapman joins us to prosecute. Can he succeed against a well-prepared defence?

    Episode 29: Aliens of London and World War 3

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2018 72:35


    Ist Good Ja, Pet? Season 1 turds. Nutters on the internet. The wrong show. ITV4 Prime Suspect Spin offs. PIGSSS INNNN SPAAAAACE. Excuse me, do you mind not farting while Mike Blumenthal is trying to defend Aliens of London and World War Three? 

    Episode 28: The Death of the Doctor

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2018 61:58


    Strapped a chemical weapon to himself and tried to feed himself to the monsters. Inadvertant dead asians. Yewtree coming for Catweezle.   A live commentary on the Sarah Janes Adventures story The Death of the Doctor turns into a disturbing stream of consciousness ramble. 

    Episode 27: The Wedding of River Song

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2018 69:19


    Arson. Size of Three Churchills. Buying Wendy Padbury a drink. Schrodinger's Russ Abbott. Anti-gravity bollocks. Hulk Hogan and modern fiction.    Miles Hamer joins us to prosecute the Wedding of River Song. 

    Episode 26: Vengance on Varos

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2018 99:22


    He once touched himself to St Trinians. Space Richard Desmond. Gumby noises. Gary Downie's home movies. Wanky holes.  Robin Brown and Alan Graham come on to put Vengance on Varos on trial - is this the video nasty it's Ok to like?   =WARNING= contains sexual swearwords. 

    Episode 25: Paradise Towers

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2018 75:07


    Our silver anniversary. Robots ****ing. Cold blooded murder. The Doctor blowing off ogrons. The Rumpole defense. The magic moustache.   Yes, Paul Abbott joins us to defend Paradise Towers!

    Episode 24: Planet of the Daleks

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2018 63:36


    Spunkshrooms. Spunkanos. Zippy wanking in the bushes. Jo Grant gets all sticky while we play the Terry Nation drinking game. Bipedal and scrotal.  Lee Terry joins us to defend Terry Nation's epic  - or at least epically long - Planet of the Daleks! This episode includes the best description of Tom Baker ever coined. 

    Episode 23: The Space Museum

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2018 65:51


    A Tale of Two Billys. Taker and Caker. Malcolm X and Giant Haystacks. As long as it's a boy walrus. Scouse shop stewards. Maureen O'Brien's melons. Yes, it's the Space Museum. Can James Cooray Smith defend this... this? Find out. 

    Episode 22: Silver Nemesis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2018 77:15


    Well hard pigeons. Social workers. Gary Downie in a wig. Probing by cybermen. "Visiting Geneva with Mike Yates". Colin Cyberleader.   Yes, it's a John Rivers turn to join us as he defends the 'official' 25th anniversary story, Silver Nemesis. 

    Episode 21:The Android Invasion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2018 79:57


    The Il Duce of Filth takes my cherry. Fishy smelling eye-sockets. A high terry tolerance. Ignorance of fruit. A seething volcano of thespianic power.   Yes - Stephen Graham joins us to defend The Android Invasion. 

    Episode 20: The Five Doctors

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2017 80:54


    Freddie Mercury's parties. Homophobia and racism. Cyber glory holes. Rubbish companions. THE GENTLE SLOPE OF MILD PERIL. Yes, for our 20th anniversary we are joined by John Rain to defend the Five Doctors.  DISCLAIMER ONE: The funny sounding edits in this one were because we both had bad coughs.  DISCLAIMER TWO: Honestly, we love Patrick Troughton here. Really. 

    Christmas Special: The Box of Delights

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2017 66:24


    Purple pims. Season 6b. Towers of shit. Doctor Who bukake palaces. Something to cling on to.  This episode centres around a discussion that will in no way enrich your time on this earth and Alan Graham and Robin Bland try to figure out if Box of Delights is part of Doctor Who or not. Merry Christmas!  

    A Christmas Present

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2017 1:42


    Did you know that if you have a chest infection you can laugh so hard that your brain becomes starved of oxygen and you black out? Surely you'd be fine unless someone started talking filth about Doctor Who... and what are the chances of that around here?  

    Episode 18: Black Orchid

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2017 63:34


    New Adventures. Bareknuckle boxing. Big Finish Box Sets of Adric Alone. Sexy Hartnell. And yes... Cricket.    Steve O'Brien joins us to defend Black Orchid

    Episode 17: The Talons of Weng Chiang

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2017 80:14


    Exponential shatners. Bob Holmes and pigs. Space hopper testicles and rubber spiders. Seminal. Blended rodents - yes, Robin Bland joins us to prosecute the stone cold classic of racist imperialism Talons of Weng Chiang. 

    Episode 16: The Twin Dilemma

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2017 66:44


    GO BIG OR GO HOME. Lovecraftian nightmare. Jimmy Savile jazz hands. We need to talk about Colin. Perry Mason was good at this. Creepy little bastards.   Is this the motherlode of shite Doctor Who? Find out and join us in a journey into insanity, hysteria and catastrophically poor taste as Paul Kirkley attempts to defend THE TWIN DILEMMA. 

    Episode 15: Nightmare of Eden

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2017 64:52


    No bollock monsters. Oiled up barkers. Juggling Mandrels. JUST SAY NO. Yes, Russell Parker joins us to defend Nightmare of Eden. Can even Ken from Boon and a poundshop Gareth Thomas rescue this one?

    Episode 14: The Curse of Fenric Part II

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2017 53:34


    Bulbous and mishappen. "What the fuck was that? What did you make us just watch?" More of the same sick filth in the Curse of Fenric Part II. 

    Episode 13: The Curse of Fenric Part I

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2017 46:45


    Soggy Goths. Suspenders. Batman Labeled Poison Gas Bombs. Dogging. Lots of dogging. Yes, it's the Curse of Fenric.  This episode covers, more or less, episodes 1 and 2 of the story from 1989. Part II, next week, will cover the rest of it.    WARNING: You will not look at the Third Doctor in the same way again after this. 

    Episode 12: The Power of Kroll

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2017 53:03


    Teabagging a meccano set. Giant squid with irritable bowl syndrome. Swampie lovin' with Philp Madoc. Post-modern post-colonialism. Mary Tamm tied up. Did we mention the giant squid? It's ENORMOUS. THIS IS A SERIOUSLY BIG SQUID.    Yes, it's the Power of Kroll.     

    Episode 11: Time and the Rani

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2017 61:37


    Tetrap porn! Pure heroin! Erotic question marks! CSO-tastic sets! Yes, just in time for the 30th anniversary, Jon Arnold joins us to defend the indefensible - it's Time and the Rani!

    Episode 10: The Sound of Drums, Last of the Timelords

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2017 71:25


    Elegant bullshit! Dodgy racial politics! Sparkly crotches! S&M in the White House! A load of old balls! And DOBBY THE JESUS GOBLIN!   Yes, it's the season 3 end of year party The Sound of Drums and Last of the Timelords, with Cathy Barry defending. 

    Episode 9: Enlightenment

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2017 71:40


    Pirates! Eternals! BOSOMS. The dead, unblinking eyes of Him Off Duty Free. Demonic eyebrows! Robin Brown joins us to defend the season 20 story Enlightenment. Can YOU explain the pig joke?

    Love Letter: The Night of the Doctor

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2017 11:10


    We didn't want to put this on trial, because it's lovely. So we recorded a love letter to it instead. BONUS: Your host is rendered speechless by the most inappropriate Doctor Who Fandom similie ever uttered. 

    Episode 8: The TV Movie

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2017 61:04


    Rarely useful TARDISes! Inexplicable tramps! Shit kisses! Diamonds in shit! SCOUSE CHRIST!   Yes, ladies and gentlemen - Stephen Bush is here to defend the TV Movie starring Eric Roberts! And some bloke in a wig. 

    Episode 7: The Horns of Nimon

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2017 68:49


    Jodphurs! A shipful of Adric! Distended bollock monsters at saturday teatime! Yes, it's the Horns of Nimon on trial! Is it really as bad as people say? It can't be... can it?   Spoiler: yes. 

    Episode 6: The Beast Below

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2017 64:26


    Pond. Smith. Space whale. And the Space Whale reminds me of someone. Someone old. And kind. And wise. And old. But who? Find out in this episode which includes strong language, needless philosophy and BLANTANT EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION.  The Beast Below - on trial. Give your verdict on Twitter @WhoTrial

    Episode 5: Revenge of the Cybermen

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2017 66:02


    Cybermen. Vogans. TOM BAKER! Pedaloes. Crotch gold. Yes, Revenge of the Cybermen goes on Trial.  PLEA FOR HELP: If anyone can confirm the story about the hairbrush or identify the peruvian arse flute, please let us know on Twitter at @WhoTrial

    Episode 4: The God Complex

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2017 58:40


    Lots of people love Doctor Who - but just as many people hate it. So is Doctor Who great - or is it shite? We find out by putting a story on trial each episode. This time, we are joined by Jim Thompson who defends the God Complex from 2011.   Warning: You may never look at John Hurt the same way again. 

    Episode 3: Arc of Infinity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2017 55:47


    Lots of people love Doctor Who - but just as many people hate it. So is Doctor Who great - or is it shite? We find out by putting a story on trial each episode. This time, we are joined byMiles Ivan Hamer who defends Arc of Infinity from 1983.    Warning: contains mentions of Adric's sexual pecadillos. 

    Episode 2: The Happiness Patrol

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2017 57:37


    Lots of people love Doctor Who - but just as many people hate it. So is Doctor Who great - or is it shite? We find out by putting a story on trial each episode. This time, we are joined by man of the cloth Pip Blackledge who defends The Happiness Patrol from 1988.   Warning: this episode contains the most disturbing analogy ever created for late 80s Who, and once you've heard it, you can't unhear it. 

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