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Malcolm Hulke is someone who fandom has been talking about once again after the release of the Season 7 blu-ray. Looking for Mac put him in focus, and now, a biography of the writer and co-creator of the Time Lords has been release. Michael Herbert has put finger to keyboard to craft The Writing and Politics of Malcolm Hulke, and we speak to him about it.
Straight Outta Gallifrey is back to talk about the adventures of Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters! Malcolm Hulke writes a strong story with characters with different motivations, a subterranean foe/friend, an overqualified Doctor Liz Shaw and a driving plot. Let us know your thoughts about Doctor Who & The Silurians. Encourage www.Saracentury.com to continue season 7 and talking to us about Ambassadors of Death! prydonian.post@gmail.com Bluesky: huestone44@gmail.com www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork
Has it really taken us this long to review the first two releases from Big Finish? Oh yes it has!Would Big Finish have acquired the Doctor Who license from the BBC without these recordings? Oh no they wouldn't! Oh No It Isn't by Paul Cornell and adapted by Jacqueline Raynor, and Beyond the Sun, written and adapted by Matt Jones, were released way back in 1998... and the rest is history!Gary Russell joins us to talk about those very early days and specifically, the production of these original Big Finish classics.To get your copy of Michael Herbert's biography of Malcolm Hulke, visit https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-herbert/things-are-not-always-what-they-seem/paperback/product-w4rng67.html?srsltid=AfmBOopKKabeyH7977oZyBpfEmG4nMkteJjJGTiLR8weT5Cv7FqyFl1o&page=1&pageSize=4For those in Australia, grab your tickets to our forthcoming events with Matthew Waterhouse from https://www.sirensofaudio.com/p/live-events.htmlTheme music by Joe Kraemer.Website - https://www.sirensofaudio.com/Follow us on Instagram - https://instagram.com/audiosirensFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/audiosirensFollow us on X - https://x.com/audiosirensFollow us on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/audiosirens.bsky.social
It's official, Doctor Who is returning April 12 on BBC One, iPlayer, and Disney+, and will include Doctor Who alum Alan Cumming as an animated ne'er-do-well along with “Eurovision in Space” according to Who scribe Juno Dawson and much more, including children creating comic book creatures, much Big Finish news including friends of the show Riley Silverman and Paul Booth writing Short Trips. and our feature interview with Peter Cocker and Toby Hadoke about the Season 7 Collection Blu-Ray! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who season 2 arrives on BBC and Disney+ on April 12 with Alan Cumming to guest star Disney Season 2 press release Doctor Who “was a top 5 series on Disney+ globally every week it aired” said Disney The Mirror states Juno Dawson's will be “Eurovision in Space”, go out May 17 before the Eurovision final Peter Purves spoke of his time on Doctor Who at the BFI event for The Savages animation Doctor Who Propstore auction raises £245,243 for BBC Children in Need Blake's 7 The Collection Season 2 available for preorder (UK) Doctor Who Magazine #614 Creating Monsters: The Story behind the new Doctor Who comic strip, “Dance ‘Til You Drop” Former Doctor Who VFX provider The Mill shuts down as parent company Technicolor collapses Big Finish – Call Me Master: Inner Demons released Doctor Who's Sacha Dhawan wants Michelle Gomez team-up for Big Finish Big Finish – Doctor Who: The Ruins of Kaerula due June Big Finish Doctor Who Short Trips: Tales from the Vortex due April featuring new writers Film is Fabulous takes hold of giant film collection from a private collector Target Book Club – Celebrating Doctor Who Books with a day of talks and guests – happening July 19 Doctor Who: The Art of Time Travel Hardcover due Nov 20 Michael Herbert's “Things are not always what they seem” The Writing and Politics of Malcolm Hulke available Interview: Toby Hadoke Peter Crocker
THE WAR GAMES in BLACK AND WHITEFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 2nd 2025.Shortly before Christmas, prior to it being shown in a very different version, Michael Herbert roped in his pal BRENDAN NOBLE from THE SENSE SPHERE PODCAST to talk all about the epic ten-part 1969 DOCTOR WHO story THE WAR GAMES which was written by TERRANCE DICKS and the subject of the biography he's written, MALCOLM HULKE.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
This week Radio Free Skaro gets POLITICAL (not really) as we interview three-time mayor of Calgary and current Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi as he relates his massive love for one Doctor Who! Join us as we wax nostalgic about KSPS, his fondness for a certain scarf-wearing Doctor, and his take on amongst other things the latest Doctor Who Xmas special! Plus a Gallifrey One update, stats and media analysis, praise of Tubi, classic Canadian TV chatter, and more! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One Update, including 2026 and 2027 date changes RFS Gallifrey One Live Show Announcement Doctor Who finished 6th for Christmas Week with 5.911M viewers Classic Doctor Who removed from BritBox UK and ITVX Premium First weekly Dalek 1:2 scale kit is out now The Chimes of Midnight hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9 Jubliee hardcover adaptation by Robert Shearman due Oct 9 Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Writings and Politics of Malcolm Hulke by Michael Herbert due later in 2025 from Telos Publishing Barbara Clegg died Jan 7 Interview: Naheed Nenshi
Michael Herbert is a historian and the writer of the forthcoming biography, "Don't Believe Everything You See" - The Life and Writings of Malcolm Hulke. The book is due to be published by Telos Publishing some time in 2025. Michael joins us to speak about "Mac's" career including his early television and colaborations, and the importance of his work in Doctor Who on television and in books. We also take a closer look at Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters audiobook read by Caroline John, during our discussion. Theme music by Joe Kraemer. Website - https://www.sirensofaudio.com/ Follow us on Instagram - https://instagram.com/audiosirens Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/audiosirens Follow us on X - https://x.com/audiosirens
Ian and Nathan travel to a deserted London to tackle conspiracy, traitors and feeble monsters. Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974). Written by Malcolm Hulke. Directed by Paddy Russell. Starring Jon Peetwee. Elizabeth Sladen and Noel Johnson
MICHAEL HERBERT on DOOMWATCH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 16th 2024. This week's returning guest from our ever growing group of returning regulars is MICHAEL HERBERT who, you might remember from some earlier editions of VISION ON SOUND, has spent a lot of the last few years researching the life of MALCOLM HULKE, which, of course, because everything in the world of television is all interconnected somehow, means that he comes across other things that interest him, and he got in touch to see if I fancied having a natter about DOOMWATCH. Now, despite rumours to the contrary, I absolutely adore DOOMWATCH. Perhaps it's because it simply appeals to my own inflated sense of pessimism, but there's just something very entertaining about a television series built around the potential disasters that humanity is capable of causing through its own hubris if we allow ourselves to go ahead with our experimentations unchecked and without a certain amount of accountability, and there is an enduring appeal to the stories it told more than half a century ago, many of which still feel very relevant today, when some of the actions of governments and individuals really do feel as if they still need reining in. Created by DR KIT PEDLER and GERRY DAVIS following their successful collaborations on DOCTOR WHO, and broadcast on the BBC across three series between 1970 and 1972, DOOMWATCH explored new and unusual threats to humanity which were appearing in many ways, as the human race was busily developing the white heat of technology in the post-nuclear age, in a series of stories involving subjects as diverse as plastic-eating viruses, artificial hearts, toxic waste, and rats with a genetically enhanced taste for human flesh. The series involved the dramatic experiences of the fictional DEPARTMENT FOR THE OBSERVATION AND MEASUREMENT OF SCIENTIFIC WORK – You can see why they preferred to use DOOMWATCH as a title – as they attempted to protect the world from the dangers of unprincipled scientific research, as they were set up “to investigate any scientific research, public or private, that could possibly be harmful to man” which basically meant that DOCTOR SPENCER QUIST and his team were often irritants to those who were heavily invested in the steady march of progress. No change there then. Starring JOHN PAUL, JOBY BLANCHARD and SIMON OATES, amongst others, the series made a star of ROBERT POWELL, whose character TOBY WREN's untimely demise at the end of the first series sent shockwaves through the pages of the RADIO TIMES in a way that the serious concerns being talked about in the storylines seldom did. It may surprise you just how many of the stories told in this series seem to be about things humanity has only recently begun to have concerns about, when the writers involved were trying to warn us about it decades ago, but, well, that's human beings for you, isn't it? PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
A big week for beginnings this week, with a new Doctor, a new origin story for the Daleks, and a whole new approach to defeating the bad guys. Oh, and a new podcast to discuss them all on. So let's welcome Patrick Troughton to the studio floor, as we discuss The Power of the Daleks. Notes and links The most recent Blu-ray release of The Power of the Daleks was the Special Edition in 2020, which includes a compilation of all the surviving footage, including material shot on an 8mm film camera pointing at a TV screen. This material was also included on the Lost in Time DVD release way back in 2004. Simon also mentions a site which chronicles the upsetting history of Doctor Who's missing episodes. It's called The Destruction of Time, and it's well worth reading, if a bit dispiriting at times. The Omnirumour was a series of rumours arising during 2013 that as many as 90 missing Doctor Who episodes had been found and were ready for return to the BBC Archives, possibly as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. This didn't happen, obviously, but we did at least get nine episodes: five episodes of The Enemy of the World and four of The Web of Fear. Let's continue the tradition: here is Elizabeth Sandifer's essay on this story, which (inevitably) discusses the importance of mercury to the new Doctor's character. Nathan and Brendan refer to Kieran Hodgson's Bad Doctor Who Impressions version of The Daleks, which is something you should go and watch immediately. James very thoughtfully plugs Brendan and Richard's new podcast about The Avengers, called The Three-Handed Game, in which they are joined by old friend of the podcast Steven B to discuss episodes from different eras in the history of the show. At the end of the episode, Simon recounts the story of the gradual revelation of The Power of the Daleks throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. Among the things he mentions are Peter Haining's Doctor Who: A Celebration (1983), the Radio Times Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special (also 1983), The Making of Doctor Who by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks (2nd edition, 1976), an edition of DreamWatch Bulletin (possibly issue 121 in December 1993) announcing the upcoming publication of the telesnaps in Doctor Who Magazine, and the discovery by Damian Shanahan of some clips from this story in an Australian TV Show called Perspective: C for Computer. Flight Through Entirety discussed The Power of the Daleks in Episode 11: Bum Wetting. Follow us Nathan is on X as @nathanbottomley, Brendan is @brandybongos, James is @ohjamessellwood, and Simon is @simonmoore72. The 500 Year Diary theme was composed by Cameron Lam. For now at least, 500 Year Diary shares a social media presence with Flight Through Entirety. So you can follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at 500yeardiary.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll write next week's shownotes in a completely incomprehensible acrostic code. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. Flight Through Entirety will be back at Christmas in July to discuss The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and we'll be covering Peter Capaldi's final year on the show after that, concluding with Twice Upon a Time at Christmas. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire will be back a couple of days after the screening of the first two episodes of Season 1 of the Ncuti Gatwa Era on 11 May. In the meantime, you can hear our hot takes on the four episodes we've seen of Doctor Who's second RTD era. There's also Startling Barbara Bain, our Space: 1999 commentary podcast. We've covered the first four episodes of Series 1; Episode 5 should be out in the next couple of weeks. Maximum Power will be back later in the year to talk about the final series of Blakes 7. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we said farewell to Star Trek: Enterprise by watching that universally acknowledged Star Trek war crime, These Are the Voyages….
Sara Century of www.saracentury.com and A.J. talk about War Games part 7 by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. Let us know your thoughts at prydonian.post@gmail.com
Sara Century of www.saracentury.com returned to Critical Gallifreyan Theory to discuss part 6 of the War Games by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. Share your thoughts with us on X @sogallifrey prydonian.post@gmail.com www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork.com
Malcolm Hulke's final Doctor Who serial returns to some of the themes of his first solo story, but in this post-Brexit populist age of isolationism, does Invasion of the Dinosaurs start to look frighteningly prescient? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Jim Cameron
It's 2024! But there are no new episodes of Doctor Who yet this, at least until May 2024. When in May? The Three Who Rule have thoughts and opinions on this scheduling conundrum, as well as updates on the upcoming Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, semi-confirmation of the upcoming Sea Devil spinoff The War Between The Land and the Sea, some stats of little to no consequence, and more! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One 2024 Early January Update Doctor Who Magazine 599 Amanda Brotchie (Gentleman Jack) is directing for Season 2 of Doctor Who Amanda Brotchie IMDB profile (does not yet mention Doctor Who) Report: The War Between the Land and the Sea starts production March 4 Doctor Who was streamed 10 million times on iPlayer over Christmas Big Finish: Doctor Who Buried Threats with Christopher Eccleston and Lisa Bowerman due Feb 2024 Big Finish: Torchwood – Poppet due Jan 2024 Big Finish 2023 Paul Spragg Memorial winning story available for free Michael Herbert online seminar on Malcolm Hulke on January 22 Toby Hadoke's In Memoriam 2023 Toby Hadoke's Richard Franklin obituary
Sara Century and A.J. talk about the 4th installment of War Games by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. The discussion turns to the dichotomy of the Science Fiction and Historical aspect of the episode, stellar performances and knarly takes. Please join the discussion at www.thehuntresspodcast.com @sogallifrey on Twitter prydonian.post@gmail.com Bluesky or Threads @Huestone44 www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork
A.J. talks to author of A Small Light & Other Stories, Sara Century, about War Games episode 3 by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks. Let us know your thoughts about episode 3 and our discussion at prydonian.post@gmail.com, www.thehuntresspodcast.com Blue Sky, Threads or Instagram @Huestone44 www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork.com
A FOR ANDROMEDA & THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 1st 2023 This week, our resident researcher of some of the earliest examples of television science-fiction, MICHAEL HERBERT returns, this time to talk all about the seven-part 1961 BBC television serial A FOR ANDROMEDA, and its six-part sequel from the following year, THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH. Mostly remembered as being a breakthrough role for JULIE CHRISTIE, and possibly as one of the stepping stones towards the creation of DOCTOR WHO in 1963, all but one episode of A FOR ANDROMEDA is lost, presumably forever, although the surviving episode, alongside episode reconstructions based upon surviving film clips and the telesnap archive mean that you can sort of get to watch the serial, albeit in a somewhat fragmented form. THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHOUGH, however, survives in its entirety - although sadly for home viewers, in a long-deleted DVD set. Such are the quirks of the television industry of that time, however, it now featured SUSAN HAMPSHIRE in the role of Andromeda. Written by FRED HOYLE and JOHN ELLIOT, both serials feature a rare leading role for PETER HALLIDAY playing the hero JOHN FLEMING. HALLIDAY is an actor who listeners might know better for his roles in several DOCTOR WHO stories such as THE INVASION and CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS, but, as we discuss, that's not the only DOCTOR WHO connection that A FOR ANDROMEDA has. Incidentally, as well as all of his insights into A FOR ANDROMEDA, MICHAEL also has a brief update to share about his continuing work on his biography of MALCOLM HULKE that he shared in a previous edition of the show, so you've also got that to look forward to as we head back to the radio astronomic new frontiers of the early 1960s… PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
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This week Joe is joined by Jason Thompson, Ian Winterton & James Lark for a deep dive discussion about The Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke. What influences do we detect? Is this the most cynical view of the future? Who's book is this? And what do these fine gentlemen recommend?
First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 14th 2023 It's long been known, at least in archive television circles anyway, that the charismatic Canadian television pioneering producer SYDNEY CECIL NEWMAN was enticed into working for ABC television in Britain in the late 1950s, and was responsible for such high profile dramas such as ARMCHAIR THRILLER, as well as creating the sixties phenomenon known as THE AVENGERS, before his successes led to him joining the BBC in 1962, which eventually led to the creation of the long-running, and much loved, TV cornerstone that is DOCTOR WHO, although that's a long and oft-told story which we aren't going to go into today. However, before deciding to bring teatime science fiction stories to children on the BBC, SYDNEY NEWMAN did actually have a bit of a track record of trying some quite similar ideas over at ABC, at least when it came to bringing Science-Fiction stories to children. In April 1960 he was the Producer on TARGET LUNA, a six-part science fiction adventure serial now sadly lost to time and, perhaps, videotape wiping policies, which involved those exciting possibilities offered up by the dawn of the space age in which children and hamsters could occasionally replace trained astronauts when British Rocket Groups were trying to send rockets to the moon. The success of this serial led to the swift commissioning of three further serials which we now refer to as the PATHFINDERS IN SPACE trilogy to differentiate it from the later 1972 series about World War Two bombers. PATHFINDERS IN SPACE, a six-part serial, largely recast and now including the chiseled good looks of GERALD FLOOD as Journalist CONWAY HENDERSON, was broadcast in September of that same year, with PATHFINDERS TO MARS following in December, and PATHFINDERS TO VENUS following in MARCH 1961, and proved to SYDNEY NEWMAN at least that Science-Fiction as an exciting storytelling device for family audiences was, on the whole, a pretty neat idea. TV Historian MICHAEL HERBERT, who recently shared his insights into the life of MALCOLM HULKE on the show, got in touch with VISION ON SOUND and asked if I might like to discuss these series, along with a later set of adventure serials also featuring GERALD FLOOD CITY and SECRET BENEATH THE SEA, on the show, and, of course I was not going to say no to an offer like that now, was I? PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 5th 2023 A few weeks ago on VISION ON SOUND we celebrated the life of the television writer TERRANCE DICKS and, in passing, we mentioned his writing colleague and mentor MALCOLM HULKE, who co-wrote several television scripts alongside TERRANCE, including contributions to THE AVENGERS and DOCTOR WHO, as well as writing a quarter of the stories (on television) which featured JON PERTWEE as the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, some of which are arguably amongst the most iconic from that era, when TERRANCE DICKS was working as the Script Editor on the series. As well as his work on DOCTOR WHO, MALCOLM also wrote scripts for the PATHFINDERS series, CROSSROADS, DANGER MAN, GIDEONS WAY, UNITED!, SPYDER'S WEB and many others, in a prolific twenty year career sadly cut short when MALCOLM HULKE died at the age of 54 years old way back in 1979. Perhaps because of this, his story, and his contribution to television writing as a whole, sometimes gets rather overlooked when people talk about the great television writers of the 1960s and 1970s. Nowadays MALCOLM HULKE is often cited as a huge influence on the careers of the writers that followed in his footsteps, not least because of his efforts as a member of the Writers Guild, and his book WRITING FOR TELEVISION which became a must-read volume for aspiring writers in that era. Recently, the freelance historian MICHAEL HERBERT, our guest in today's edition of VISION ON SOUND contributed an essay on the life and works of MALCOLM HULKE to the rather excellent book SURVIVAL TV: 1970s BRITAIN AND THE TELEVISION SERIES which was published and edited by RODNEY MARSHALL. MICHAEL is also working on a new biography of MALCOLM that he is hoping to complete this year, and he joined me to talk about the intriguingly complex life and work of this often complicated and iconic television writer. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.
In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast.... Malcolm Hulke This episode, Phil is joined by Michael Herbert who has contributed a chapter on Malcolm Hulke to the book Survival TV which is dedicated to science fiction TV of the 1970's. They discuss the various contributions that Malcom Hulke made to not just Doctor Who but TV in general and how long Michael has been a fan of Doctor Who. You can purchase Survival TV from Amazon UK by clicking on the link below: Survival TV Link You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many other podcatchers and don't forget to subsribe to our Youtube Channel. #doctorwho #malcomhulke
The original FTE team has already spent an hour discussing The Day of the Doctor, but it wouldn't be a fiftieth anniversary celebration without James, Peter and Simon on the couch toasting everyone's health. There will be cocktails, as we convene just one more time to discuss The Day of the Doctor. Notes and links You've already had your fair share of notes and links today, so we're just doing one this episode — the 1976 edition of Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke's book The Making of Doctor Who, which was the source for Terrance's famous description of the Doctor, a description that is quoted in this episode — “He is impulsive, idealistic, ready to risk his life for a worthy cause. He hates tyranny and oppression and anything that is anti-life. He never gives in and he never gives up, however overwhelming the odds against him. The Doctor believes in good and fights evil. Though often caught up in violent situations, he is a man of peace. He is never cruel or cowardly. In fact, to put it simply, the Doctor is a hero.” Happy birthday, Doctor! Follow us Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood, and Simon is @simonmoore72. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll fail to mention you in our Very Special 250th Episode Celebration this Sunday. And more You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. We'll be back with a new flashcast on the second Russell T Davies era in November 2023. Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. We can also be heard on the Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power, which a few weeks ago started its coverage of Series B of the show. This week's episode: Chris Boucher's Weapon. And finally, there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. We've been having a short break to give us the chance to rest on our laurels after our first year of podcasting. Today, we're recommending our coverage of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
50 episodes of Doctor Who Literature, and this episode releases of the first anniversary of my original trailer for the then-forthcoming podcast, November 6. It's been a fun and rewarding year, we've read some great books and interviewed some great guests. Thanks to all of you who have been along for all or part of this journey. "The War Games" is surely one of Doctor Who's best -- and most groundbreaking -- TV serials. The novelization by Malcolm Hulke has not quite received perhaps quite so much love, but we try to remedy that over the course of this episode. Joining Jason this week is Ross from Gallifrey's Most Wanted Podcast as well as Stop! Let's Team Up. We discuss War Games, Jack Kirby, and Eli Wallach; and reflect on some of the badly-dated language used in the 1970s to denote race in the Target novelizations. Many other special guests stop by this week to remember "The War Games" (TV and book) and to wish the podcast a happy 50th episode. Read more about Rudolph Walker, who had a too-small part in Episodes Four and Five of "The War Games". Pete Seeger's rousing rendition of "John Brown's Body", a fight song for the Union Army in the American Civil War, as referenced in the novelization. Eli Wallach's excellent autobiography was published in 2005. The actor passed away a few years later at age 99. "Doctor Who and the War Games" features cover art by John Geary. Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network. Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com. You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.
In this episode Dylan is joined by John Isles of the Tripodscast to discuss more Doctor Who extended universe adventures. First up they look at Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of 'The Sea Devils', then it's NJN's making of Silver Nemesis documentary and finally they review BBV Sontaran audio 'Old Soldiers'. And they answer the questions:What made John hand in his Doctor Who fan card?How did Mike Tucker change Dylan's life?How did Jo Grant lose an IQ point?
This week in September 2022 saw the announcement of the title of the next Doctor Who episode ("The Power of the Doctor"), although not the release date. This week also saw "Cobra Kai" Season 5 drop on Netflix, though that's of slightly less importance to fandom. My guest this week is Paul Simpson (@scifibulletin), who has several terrific stories to tell about the early years of the Target Books publishing office and some amazing details about the early writers (Malcolm Hulke and his graph paper!). Paul is currently managing editor of Sci-Fi Bulletin. Release information and a link to "Doctor Who and the Daleks: The Illustrated Edition" can be found here. Stick around for the second half of the program, when Jason discusses the "Death to the Daleks" novelization -- a perfect example of how Terrance adds value and insight and depth to the TV serial even in a very short book. There's lots to break down today. Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com. You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.
It's been a long wait, but it's finally time for us to rewatch Malcolm Hulke's Season 10 story Frontier in Space, and decide whether it's a scintillating political thriller or just two-and-a-half hours' worth of going around in not very interesting circles
In many ways, it's all been building to this. The 12th series of On the Time Lash opens with Mark finally coming face to fist with Eric Saward and Ben getting to call people SPIES.In a packed show, Ben and Mark discuss Ben's stag, the DWAS Capitol event, Spyfall, and Frontier in Space. Not to mention bollock monsters, holding a pillow over an elderly screenwriter, and they struggle to remember what the aliens from Spyfall are actually called.ALSO: An appreciation of Sacha Dhawan and Roger Delgado's Masters, comparing Malcolm Hulke and Gene Roddenberry's respective visions of the future, and some clunky references to the current geopolitical situation.Support the show
BREAKING NEWS! Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor Who!! ... but this episode was recorded and edited before the announcement, so join me on Trap One later in the week for a deeper analysis. Welcome to the 25th episode of Doctor Who Literature -- this week is the 49th anniversary of Target's first Doctor Who book releases, and now we're reading their 25th published novelization, "Doctor Who and the Space War", published in September 1976. My guest this week is Daniel Knight, and we discuss the history of TV production in the US, Star Trek, what makes the definitive Malcolm Hulke novelization, and what other Doctor Who podcasts might also be tackling "Frontier in Space" this week. Daniel joins us for a game of "Guess That Cliffhanger". Can anything in the world stop him now? In the second half, Jason does a close reading of the text. Is this an improvement on the TV story, or perhaps a slight diminution? The episode features a brief musical cue from The Beastie Boys for Mothers' Day. No copyright infringement is intended.
This week Jason is joined by Lewis Baston, author of a forthcoming Obverse Books' Black Archive book on the Doctor Who serial "The Sun Makers", to talk about Malcolm Hulke's February 1976 novelization of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"... but, fear not, we get plenty of talk in about "The Sun Makers", too. Later on, Jason breaks down all the ways, plot-wise and dialogue-wise, and tone-wise, how the novelization differs so greatly from the TV serial. Along the way, we also discuss Von Daniken, play a game of 20 Questions, and give a look at the new trailer for Doctor Who: "Legend of the Sea Devils".
Welcome to a special recorded-at-Gallifrey-One-in-Los-Angeles edition of Doctor Who Literature. While Jason the Brooklyn boy is somewhat out of his element in this big big city, he's joined long-distance by a fellow Brooklynite to discuss Malcolm Hulke's glorious August 1975 paean to the common man and laborer. The first half of the book features Jason's breakdown of the text of the book, adapted from a three-part blog post originally published in February 2017. The second half sees Hannah Long, a freelance writer and commentator, discuss "Doctor Who and the Green Death" from a different perspective to Jason's own, but they do find a lot of common ground to like about the book. You can find Hannah's writings about Doctor Who here and please look her up on Twitter as well. This episode features musical selections from the legendary Woody Guthrie and the incomparable Mandy Patinkin.
On this episode we are reviewing The Sea Devils starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning and Roger Delgado. "The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ships have been disappearing mysteriously at sea. The Doctor discovers that Trenchard and the Master are in league to contact the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles in hibernation in a base beneath the sea, who have been awoken by recent work on a nearby sea fort. The Master intends to use his new allies to help him conquer the world" The Sea Devils is the third serial of the ninth season of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 26 February to 1 April 1972. It was written by Malcolm Hulke and directed by Michael E. Briant. The serial is notable as the first appearance of the Sea Devils and features extensive location filming in cooperation with the Royal Navy, as well as an experimental electronic score by Malcolm Clarke. https://twitter.com/atheconsole https://www.facebook.com/Around-the-console-103450838818887 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPpa1cf63YOT8DlUllsjXsw
It's October 1974, and Malcolm Hulke's third novelization of the year. He'll never have another year this prolific, but what a trilogy of books he's left us. Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils is the shortest of the bunch, but don't let the length fool you; there's some terrific material here in terms of character insights and observational humor. Even if there aren't too many actual Sea-Devils. In the first half of the episode, I break down Hulke's writing style in the book, and catalogue the many changes from screen to book. In the second half, I'm joined by one of my favorite podcast guests, Frazer Gregory, who shares his memories of this novelization, and does some of the best dramatic readings from the book that you'll find, outside of the Target novelization audiobook range. This may be the end of Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils, but the Sea Devils will return.
The Mental Suppository will return with brand new episodes on February 4th. Until then we wish to share a few favorite “leftovers” from our inaugural 2021 season. We were fortunate enough to do three live shows during that season. Two of which were hosted over Zoom with the third one presented live at Northeast Comic Con and Collectibles Winter Show on Thanksgiving Weekend. The first of these live events was a presentation of the lost BBC radio drama DR. WHO: A JOURNEY INTO TIME which was hosted on Zoom on May 1st 2021. It starred Devon Kurtz as Dr. Who, Lola Barbare as Susan, Ramona Puchalski-Piretti as Susan's teacher Miss Jennings with the rest of the cast played by the crew of the Mental Suppository. The original radio drama starred Peter Cushing reprising the role of Dr. Who, from the two Dalek films he starred in and it was written by longtime Doctor Who television writer Malcolm Hulke. It was a clever retelling of the first William Hartnell television episode with some slight changes to the characters. We present the live event for the first time with added sound effects and incidental music for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax and ring in the brand new year with an old friend.
March 1974 saw two Target novelization releases; Episode 6 covered one of those, Malcolm Hulke's Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon. This week we jump back in time from the 30th century to the 22nd and take a long look at Terrance Dicks' Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks. A remarkable book, one of Terrance's longest, this expands greatly on the troubled TV production, adding a prologue and epilogue not seen on TV, and giving us Terrance with some of his most evocative prose ever. The first half of the episode features Jason's trademark deep dive into the book's prose. For the second half, we're joined this week by Tony Whitt of the Doctor Who Target Book Club podcast (@DWTARGETBC). Tony's excellent Target podcast previously covered this book -- and paid tribute to Terrance Dicks in general -- in 2019, and you can find that episode here: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbc/ep-59-day-of-the-daleksdicks-tribute-wlarry-vanmersbergen
It's March 1974, and the third and fourth Target novelizations of Doctor Who episodes are released in the same month. Once again, the double release features one Malcolm Hulke book and one Terrance Dicks book. This week we're discussing the Hulke entry, the novelization of 1971's "Colony in Space". In the first half of the episode, we'll break down this long and remarkable book. In the second half, we're joined by Mark (@QuarkMcMalus) from the Trap One Podcast (@trapone_), for a wide-ranging discussion about the book, and a few related topics. Living on a hostile alien planet and being threatened by a capitalist world-state, has never been this entertaining or illuminating!
For the first time, Jason is joined by a guest, prolific Doctor Who non-fiction writer, longtime fan, epidemiologist, and a former profile subject on Morgan Freeman's "Through The Wormhole", the inimitable Stacey Smith? (the questionmark is part of her name). In the first part of the episode, Jason goes in-depth on the text, prose, and themes of The Cave Monsters. Then, as Stacey joins in, together, we discuss and debate Malcolm Hulke's first novelization, "Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters". Stacey previous wrote about the parent TV story for the Black Archive series, which she and I previous discussed on Trap One, which you can listen to below. This week we also pay tribute to Chris Achilleos, one of the great Doctor Who illustrators, who painted the cover and drew the internal illustrations for The Cave Monsters. Chris Achilleos passed away on Wednesday, December 9, 2021. https://trapone.podbean.com/e/stacey-smith-on-the-black-archive-the-silurians/
The 70s crew want to do their own massive epic in the style of The Daleks' Master Plan to flex their skills. Can they pull it off? Who are the Draconians and why are they at ends with humanity? Is war inevitable? Malcolm Hulke will tell us! Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FriendWatchPod Patreon where you can find commentary tracks, notes, early access to next week's Doctor Who episode! https://www.patreon.com/gamblord
Hope you like 70s stories about racism with allegories to South African apartheid and US segregation! Surprisingly this ISN'T written by Malcolm Hulke! The Mutants. Jo and the Doctor are tasked by the timelords to be UPS delivery drivers. Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FriendWatchPod Patreon where you can find commentary tracks, notes, early access to next week's Doctor Who episode! https://www.patreon.com/gamblord
Our final Malcolm Hulke story is an oft-maligned but undeservedly so. "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" has intrigue, politics, weird sci-fi ideals, Sarah Jane being absolutely awesome, a dramatic turn for Mike Yates, and the Doctor's best jacket. Yes, and some cruddy looking dinosaur puppets too. What're you gonna do?
At the beginning of the space age, a plucky band of scientists and children launch into adventures on the Moon, Mars and Venus. They are - Pathfinders in Space! UK television has created some of most influential, imaginative and scary science fiction in the medium's short history. Take a journey into some of the lesser known regions with Very British Futures. We begin with the ABC 1961-62 teatime drama series created by Sydney Newman, the television pioneer who would later devise Doctor Who for the BBC. What is the secret of Gerald Flood's acting? How much research did writers Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice do? Why did they deliberately put microphone booms into the frame? Where does the Lost Planet fit in? Host Gareth Preston is joined by Nigel J Anderson and Brian Clarke to celebrate this overlooked science fiction programme. Music by Chatri Art (chatriart.bandcamp.com) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gareth-preston/message
This Locklisted special on children's books was recorded in August 2020 and was previously available exclusively to supporters of our Patreon at patreon.com/backlisted. Join us on a journey through time and space as John, Andy and Nicky discuss the books they loved as children (so actually no pubs were involved or even mentioned on this occasion). The discussion covers the importance of libraries, the Proustian aroma of parquet flooring, the challenges of the display spinner, the significance of the Puffin Club, the utility of book tokens and the joys of early audio books. The books mentioned make for an eclectic mix and include Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner, The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars, the Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams, I-Spy books, the epic sweep of Sweet Valley High, Great Northern by Arthur Ransome, The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, the audiobook of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (as read by Glenda Jackson), the audiobook of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, comics such as Mandy and Look-in, the sublime Peanuts collections by Charles M. Schulz and last but definitely not least, Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters by Malcolm Hulke. We so enjoyed making this episode that we recorded a sequel on our favourite teenage reading, which will be shared here soon. Backlisted is entirely funded by the contributions of our Patreons - many thanks to them! If you would like to hear all past episodes of Locklisted and support Backlisted in the process, please sign up as a Locklistener or Master Storyteller at patreon.com/backlisted.
Hotelmageddon! Yes, even in this time of the Swarm, the love for Doctor Who and celebration of said televisual program continues unabated as we all hope to see each other at Gallifrey One in February 2021 at the LAX Marriott, the room block for which is now sold out. In the meantime, there’s a great panel with three Doctors Who and friend of the show Riley Silverman, plus the usual Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine and whatnot, plus a new discussion about noted communist agitator Malcolm Hulke! And if that isn’t enough proletariat agitprop, we have the second half of our “The Leisure Hive” commentary! Tachyoneriffic! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block sold out Whittaker, Smith and Tennant interviewed together for HBO Max promo Riley Silverman also interviewed Whittaker, Smith and Tennant for Nerdist Doctor Who Magazine contributions to Time Lord Victorious begin in issue 556 Doctor Who Magazine 553 released Worlds Collide remote Doctor Who escape room experience Big Finish brings Alex Kingston and David Tennant together again in The Tenth Doctor and River Song Big Finish Gallifrey Time War 4 wraps up the series, due February 2021 Big Finish Torchwood Soho spinoff debuts in August Doctor Who and the Communist article about Malcolm Hulke expanded Hulke author Michael Herbert gave a talk about Hulke, with guest Katy Manning Kyle Anderson to moderate Red Dwarf panel for Comic Con @ Home Commentary: The Leisure Hive, episodes 3-4
EPISODE 71: THE DINOSAUR INVASION Warning: Political Content Ahead! In other words, no different from our other episodes - except in addition to our usual gang of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, we are joined by Trey Korte to discuss one of the most overtly political novels in the Target range, Malcolm Hulke’s THE DINOSAUR INVASION. If we don’t offend at least one person on BOTH sides of the political divide with this one, we haven’t been doing our jobs properly. And speaking of which, though it shouldn’t even have to be said: BLACK LIVES MATTER. (If you don’t think the Doctor wouldn’t be saying that right now, you’re really not getting what our favorite series is actually about. There. I said it.) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! You can also email us at emperordalek@gmail.com with the phrase “Target Book Club” in the subject line! The blog post by Elizabeth Sandifer about this book referenced in our show this week is available here: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/books-the-best-weapons-in-the-world-invasion-of-the-dinosaurs Thanks to Ron Schiding for our podcast logo and artwork! Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
Journey into Time was the first episode of a Doctor Who Radio series written by Malcolm Hulke from Stanmark Productions that was actually recorded in 1966 but then the tapes have been sadly lost. The Doctor was played by the late Peter Cushing but nobody knows who played the other actors and it's anyone's guess as to what it originally sounded like…. So, Bandril Productions have recreated this lost half hour radio classic. Voiceover announcer played by Jim Moon Dr. Who played by Jim Moon Susan played by Tegan Harris Teacher (Miss Jennings) played by Laura King George played by Lee Orchard Mike played by Marty Perrett Mr Logan played by Danny Davies Inspector played by J.R Southall Launder played by Sean Homrig Edited by Westley James Smith Produced by Beermat Productions
The environment is in peril, there’s a food crisis, and a megalomaniac emerges from a corporation to try to take over the world? The only difference between this story and the world of 2020 is we don’t have giant maggots – yet! But we do have our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes to discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the tenth season finale! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! You can also email us at emperordalek@gmail.com with the phrase “Target Book Club” in the subject line! Special thanks to Mike Gohm for editing help on this episode! Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
What’s worse than a sitting President not listening to the truth about a pandemic? A sitting President not listening to the truth about an impending interstellar conflict. (That, and a whole lot of running around. I mean, SO much running around. ENDLESS running around.) All that, and tons of background hum, is what you’ll get from our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the story FRONTIER IN SPACE, THE SPACE WAR, brought to you by your socially distant friends on Zoom, Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes! If you like what you hear, please check our Patreon page, at https://patreon.com/DWTargetBC. Depending on the amount you give per month, you will receive, among other possible goodies, a randomly chosen BBC Book just to say thank you for being willing to help us stay on the virtual air! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! In the meantime, if you’ve liked what you’ve heard here, like us on Facebook at DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast, all one word with no spaces. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice, including Spotify. If all else fails you, email ME directly at emperordalek@gmail.com with TARGET BOOK CLUB in the subject line so I don’t ignore it. Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
Ben, Luke and Nick attempt to explain how good Malcolm Hulke's characterisation and Carey Blyton's music is in this episode of Doctor Who by critiquing the characters and becoming the music itself.
We join The Doctor to help solve the mystery of his disappearing friends. Traveling to Trenzalore to learn the biggest secret of The Doctor and who Clara really is!
We join The Doctor to help solve the mystery of his disappearing friends. Traveling to Trenzalore to learn the biggest secret of The Doctor and who Clara really is!
This month, Joy and Kyle get spacey. For the Third Doctor's first foray into the stars (though not in the TARDIS), we've got "The Ambassadors of Death," a pretty stellar (ha) story that has Malcolm Hulke's funk all over it. Plus Liz Shaw looking pretty dark Daphne-from-Scooby-Doo-ish. If you'd like to help out #WhoForSchools, please visit the website here!
Pizza, cocaine, sushi, and petty theft – one of these things doesn’t belong, right? And yet somehow they ALL come up, as Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of his own script for THE SEA-DEVILS (hyphen optional). If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
Dystopiana, robber barons, pet coke, and Tinder – what do they all have in common? Somehow this week, our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jason A. Miller) manages to link them all together and more, during our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of THE DOOMSDAY WEAPON. Consider it the perfect way to lift your spirits now that your IMC-chosen wife has left you! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. Tony’s live Twitch stream to read THE CLAWS OF AXOS on Saturday, August 18 at 11am CST will appear here: https://www.twitch.tv/therealemperordalek Tony recently appeared on an episode of THE DOCTOR WHO TARGET FILES to discuss THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA! You can hear it here: https://www.mixcloud.com/TargetFiles/episode-96-the-masque-of-mandragora-review/ Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Jason’s blog: https://drwhonovels.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
Dinosaurs! Yes, the CSO sock puppets are back in part two of our Classic Series Commentary of the 1974 story “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”, so join us for Malcolm Hulke’s cutting social commentary, UNIT shooting at things that aren’t there, time being scooped, and more! Plus news from Big Finish, Target-adjacent shenanigans, and the return to theatres of…”The End of Time”?! You do you, Doctor Who. Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still on sale – Doctor Who Magazine 539 released – More “lost” Classic Who stories produced by Big Finish – Peter Howell-era Jodie Whittaker opening titles – Dominic Glynn-era Jodie Whittaker opening titles – Target Trawl book due in July – The End of Time 10th Anniversary cinema screening – Steven Thorne died – Royce Mills died Classic Series Commentary: – Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Parts 4-6
Episode 94 Doctor Who & The Cave Monsters Review Lee & Mike discuss a novelisation by Malcolm Hulke for the first time on the Doctor Who Target Files podcast. It's the 1974 adaptation of the Doctor's first encounter with the Silurians, with the title of Cave Monsters for his novelisation of the 1970 tv story. Our duo also give their thoughts on the Audiobook release, performed by the late actress who played Liz Shaw, Caroline John. We also give our thoughts on other media we have consumed, including the penultimate ever episode of Game Of Thrones and Lucifer Season 4 Contact Us Twitter @dwtargetfiles Instagram @doctorwhothetarget
Last time we asked the experts what they thought of Malcolm Hulke’s THE CAVE MONSTERS, and this time our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes are joined (and hosted) by special guest panelist Jenny Ingersoll to give us their semi-novice opinion…and wow, are they ever different! Also, Jenny tells us what potholing really is – which is worth the entire episode, in our opinion. Hint: NSFW. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras, including one for this very episode! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
Some writers are so good that they have other writers as fans, which is why Target novelist John Peel specifically requested to come on the show to talk about Malcolm Hulke and THE CAVE MONSTERS. (Y’know, those creatures the continuity geeks call “Silurians”?) We’re also joined by fellow podcaster Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, host of DOCTOR OF THE DEAD, as we try to reproduce the energy we would have had if we’d done the episode live at (Re)Generation WHO 5 as planned. (And I think we succeed!) The novice panel gets their say on the book next time! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras, including one for this very episode! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, and now Spotify, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OEzSJi4xJP1MApYmR9t8J SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast Arnold’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctoroftheDead - also at @ATBPublishing ATB Publishing: https://www.atbpublishing.com/ DOCTOR OF THE DEAD Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-of-the-dead/id847759735?mt=2
NOTE: A corrected version of this episode was uploaded at 1:30am CST on Monday, March 11. If you didn't like it the first time because of all those echoes, try it again, won't you? Thank you! It’s the end of the Troughton era, and the moment has been prepared for, with a special extra large panel to deal with the novelization of the extra long story THE WAR GAMES! (You were expecting a Dicks joke? Too bad, because it’s a Malcolm Hulke novelization. We’ll get one for you next time.) Come join our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes as they are joined by special guest panelist and our favorite expert on Caledonian affairs, J.G. McQuarrie of the TALKING WHO TO YOU podcast! Also, stay tuned to the end to hear our music regenerate into our brand-new (but somehow quite familiar) closing theme! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras, including one for this very episode! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. TALKING WHO TO YOU homepage: https://soundcloud.com/user-550680739 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/
Happy Christmas. The War is over if you want it. Straight Outta Gallifrey is revisiting The War Games by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks. Joe Dredd and Ashford discuss the epic ten part story with an assist from Robin Hood enthusiast, Allen over at www.Boldoutlaw.com
Free tickets for On the Time Lash LIVE are available from tinyurl.com/OTTLLIVE Ben and Mark discuss evil doubles as they reach The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People and pair it up with Enemy of the World. Along the way they discuss pregnancy horror, David Cronenberg, Malcolm Hulke, Donald Trump, Brexit, fictional Mexicans and rapey Captain Kirk. ALSO: Ben sings, Mark rounds up some of the most insane responses to the lack of a S11 trailer, Ben admits to a criminal act and nobody mentions Miami Twice.
Welcome to April! Which means we’re now only about six months until Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the new Doctor Who! Until then, we’ve got #Whoagainstguns final tallies, some sneaky hints from Philip Morris about “The Web of Fear” Part 3, Hugo nominations for Verity! and Doctor Who “Twice Upon a Time”, and a deep dive into Malcolm Hulke’s left wing leanings with “Doctor Who and the Communist” author Michael Herbert in part three of our Malcolm Hulke Miniscope! Ypa, comrades! Links: – Gallifrey One 2019 tickets go on sale April 14, 12:00pm PDT – #WhoAgainstGuns campaign ends – #WhoAgainstGuns broke $20,000 with the help of Rachel Talalay – Phillip Morris says Web of Fear 3 may soon be found – Twice Upon A Time, Verity! nominated for Hugo Awards – Series 9 Soundtrack, including limited Stuart Manning art – Christopher Eccleston makes his first convention appearance at London Film & Comic-Con 2018 Miniscope: – Malcolm Hulke – Michael Herbert
Straight Outta Gallifrey: A State of Temporal Grace episode 3 features Doctor Who and the Silurians, which is a Malcolm Hulke story. Diane of the Helena Wayne Blog and Jordan the Librarian join Ashford to discuss this Doctor Who story featuring Doctor Liz Shaw played by Caroline John! Special tribute to the late Peter Miles who passed away as we were producing this episode. A song called Can't We Be Friends performed by him and Dusty Springfield are played at the beginning of this podcast. What a great lost. We will miss him. We also have U.N.I.T. with one of the members, Hawkins, played by Paul Darrow. Yea! Allen Wright of the Boldoutlaw.com has a segment where he explains the careers of some of the actors in this serial. If you would like to be a Patreon of the show, please visit www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork
**Hark! It's an 87th Precinct Bonus Episode!** And what a bonus episode it is! After discussing our copies of the 87th Precinct book, with Paul demonstrating his inability to grasp the relative costs of pre-decimal currency, we get down to some important business. Imagine a world where Roger Moore appears as himself in a children's crime-fighting story-book written by Doctor Who writer Malcolm Hulke, all set in or around an African Embassy and the BBC in 1977... now, STOP IMAGINING and listen to our reactions as we discuss "The Siege" - the first entry in the Roger Moore and The Crimefighters series! A book that almost defies description! Listen out in the background for mysterious Mic-stand-spring noises (sorry) and contemplate why George Lazenby never organised children into an impromptu militia. See you in the New Year for probably more discussion back on the topic of Ed McBain and "The Heckler". Merry Christmas!
Our first Malcolm Hulke review - and it's the Jon Pertwee classic Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters. Join us as we enter a subterranean world of political intrigue, betrayal and personal vendettas - all topped off with a monstrous Tyrannosaurs Rex! Classic Doctor Who indeed - and a real feast for David and Greg to get their teeth into! And don't forget to download or order a copy of Greg's new science fiction novel set in a dystopian future - The Faith Seekers.
Ashford and Josh are back to discuss a Malcolm Hulke story, Frontier in Space. The boys are kind of sad, for this is the last Roger Delgado story on their list of Doctor Who sagas featuring Time Lords other than the Doctor. Yes, the Master is up to no good once again. Ashford will also discuss the second Big Finish Gallifrey story, Square One. Please contact us on Twitter @SOGallifrey.
Josh and Ashford discuss the exiting of Steven Moffat, the temptation of the Doctor, and how it would really work out if humans colonized other worlds. Join us as the duo discuss Malcolm Hulke's story, Colony in Space.
After a whopping 8 months(!) of talking about the Doctor Who stories of Malcolm Hulke and the Dalek stories written by Terry Nation, Erik and Kyle are wrapping up both writers in one episode, talking about both of their final stories, and both of them seem to be good encapsulations of what their whole career on the show was like. For Hulke, we have "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" and for Nation we have "Destiny of the Daleks." Is it necessarily fair to pair these two stories up in one episode? NOPE! But we did it anyway. Next month, we'll be back to business as usual with a writer who can be entirely covered in one episode.
And then it’s making life not exist anymore! This week Kiyan and Dylan dive into Malcolm Hulke’s final serial, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. To their pleasant surprise, this weeks serial featured quite a fair bit of character development for the UNIT crew, with Benton, Yates, and The Brig all getting some time in the spotlight.Continue reading →
After a pretty lackluster Terry Nation month, we return with a pretty impressive Malcolm Hulke month, discussing the "... in Space" Duology of Season 8's "Colony in Space" and Season 10's "Frontier in Space." One depicts the struggle of settlers against a mining corporation, the other depicts the Cold War between two great empires, and they both have the Master showing up a few episodes into it and proving what an opportunist he is. One of these stories ranks as one of Hulke's best; can you guess which?!
Wait. Did you hear that? It’s telling us that the government knows. This week Kiyan and Dylan stumbled their way through this weeks serial. Did Kiyan mention that he couldn’t think? Well, you know now. The serial covered this week was Frontier in Space, written by Malcolm Hulke and aired in February and March ofContinue reading →
This month, Erik and Kyle are still in the midst of their alternating looks at two of the most prolific and influential writers in all of Doctor Who - Malcolm Hulke and Terry Nation. For this episode, it's a discussion of Nation's two stories fom the Jon Pertwee era, "Planet of the Daleks" and "Death to the Daleks." The first is almost always cited as "Terry Nation's Greatest Hits," which the second is often said to be Nation doing something slightly (but not entirely) different. Do the fellas agree with this summation? Next month: Malcolm Hulke's "Colony in Space" and "Frontier in Space."
We've brought you a lot of features recently about one-time communist Malcolm Hulke, the classic #DoctorWho scriptwriter whose career was the subject of a pamphlet, 'Doctor Who and the Communist', and an event, "An Afternoon with Terrance Dicks". Well, this is the last portion. The podKast team takes a break this week so that you can listen to Gareth Kavanagh (occasional podKast guest, spiritual co-host and 'Vworp Vworp!' editor) interview the great Uncle Terrance about his friend and colleague Malcolm Hulke. Without Hulke, Terrance would never have been Doctor Who scriptwriter, then editor, then novelist. He has a lot to say about the man, as you might expect. The full podKast team will be back next week (we expect!) but until then, make yourself a drink, click play and close your eyes and feel the full atmosphere of Terrance Dicks' chat about his friend and colleague Malcolm Hulke.
Seriously, this show has no hard work ever, making it a good idea! This week Kiyan and Dylan finally succeed in integrating all their discussions into the summary of the serial, rather than just shoving it to the end, as usual. Thank goodness for Malcolm Hulke, his amazing penmanship skills, and his serial, The Sea Devils,Continue reading →
This month we return to looking at the work of Malcolm Hulke with his two Homo reptilia stories, "Doctor Who and the Silurians" from Season 7 and "The Sea Devils" from Season 9. Both involve a hyper-advanced reptile race that ruled the globe long before humanity, but as Kyle and Erik determine, were Hulke coming at the concept from completely different angles. They discuss military might, government bureaucracy, the Doctor's disdain for all authority even at the cost of hindering progress, and why neither Liz nor Jo had anything to do. Thanks for listening to our Bracket Special at the beginning of the month. Winners announced herein.
Recorded LIVE (and quietly) at the LAX Marriott following Gallifrey One 2015, Erik and Kyle are joined by writer, author, scholar, and Doctor Who expert to talk about the beginnings of Malcolm Hulke's time on the series, writing "The Faceless Ones" in 1967 with David Ellis, and ghost-rewriting David Whitaker's "The Ambassadors of Death" for Terrance Dicks. These be fun conversations, and we're pleased Paul was here to help.
Plot twist: The First Doctor returns! (Just kidding!) This week Kiyan and Dylan investigate The Ambassadors of Death, which featured hilariously overpowered villains. Also, they take a dive into the themes of Malcolm Hulke, including xenophobia and socialism! And they discuss the Doctor’s characterizations and the start of the reboot! The Ambassadors of Death wasContinue reading →
Divergence is actually a pretty fun word to say. This week Kiyan and Dylan encounter what is probably the darkest ending so far in Doctor Who and the Silurians. It was written by Malcolm Hulke (co-writer of The War Games) and it aired in January through March of 1970. Doctor Who © The BBC Any otherContinue reading →
By my calculations, it happened tomorrow. Kiyan and Dylan this week explored the first 5 episodes of Troughton’s swan song, The War Games. It was written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. The first 5 episodes aired between April and May of 1969. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respectiveContinue reading →
A little bit of a different thing this month, Erik and Kyle focus on one specific story, 1969's truly epic Troughton and black & white finale, "The War Games," written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke. We only scratch the surface on this really phenomenal story, looking at the political and social implications of war, the accordian-nature of the storytelling, the quiter moments that show the implications of the events, and the Time Lords ex machina nature of the finale. Let us know what you think! Follow us on Twitter @DWTWR and email us at erikandkyle@gmail.com
Two hundred! Two hundred episodes of THE Doctor Who podcast! One hundred and ninety-nine episodes since that review of The Eleventh Hour all the way back in 2010! Woo-hoo! How then, should we celebrate such...
The Three Who Rule were joined this week by the incomparable John Williams, Tachyon TV alumnus and author of an upcoming tome about Who legend Malcolm Hulke. Mr. Williams was on hand not to plug his scribbling but to add his mellifluous verbiage to commentary of "The Angels Take Manhattan," the final adventure of Mr. and Mrs. Pond. Add a pinch of praise for sarcastic Sontarans, a dash of derision for evil Snowmen, and a completely arbitrary show title like "Splink," and…well, just take a listen. Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Surprised by the discovery of a long-lost Doctor Who audio script recorded by Peter Cushing and written by Malcolm Hulke? We certainly were, and when contacted by the Nothing at the End of the Lane chaps last week we had to double-take. If like us reading about the new material in the Times wasn't quite enough for you, the latest edition of the most thorough of fan publications is probably where you should be heading right now (http://www.endofthelane.co.uk/magazine.html). No doubt like us you also felt that this has all come as something as a complete surprise. James McLean, Brian Terranova and Christian Cawley decided to tackle this particular topic in their latest podKast, dovetailing off occasionally to discuss the 1960s Dalek movies starring Peter Cushing. Not listened to our podKast yet? You can "entertain" yourself with our unique brand of anarchic Whovian whimsy for around 30 minutes by subscribing on iTunes, where you'll find a review. (We didn't write it.)
reprinted from wikipedia with respect and thanks Synopsis The Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s to find that it has been evacuated, due to the mysterious appearance of . It turns out that the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a in order to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level. [] Plot The Doctor and arrive in a deserted London plagued by looters and lawlessness where is assisting with maintaining martial law. The regular army, headed by General Finch, has evacuated the entire city and issues a command that any looters in London will be shot on sight. The Doctor and Sarah are soon arrested on suspicion of being looters themselves but are identified from the photographs by , who is heading up the UNIT operation, and arranges that the pair are freed to help combat the monsters that have necessitated the evacuation of London. have started appearing all over the city – but that is not all, as the Doctor comes across a medieval peasant from the days of , who disappears in a time eddy. It seems the dinosaurs have been present for several months, but nobody can account for their sudden appearance or the havoc they are causing. The British Government has been relocated to during the crisis, and the army has taken charge to ensure an orderly evacuation and to try and maintain some sort of control in the city. The dinosaur appearances are various – , , – but the creatures seem to vanish as mysteriously as they appear. The Doctor ventures out around the city with a UNIT escort, hoping to learn more of the curious phenomenon, and they encounter a Stegosaurus moments before it disappears. He starts to suspect someone is deliberately bringing the dinosaurs to London – and in a hidden laboratory a pair of scientists, Butler and Professor Whitaker, are shown operating the Timescoop technology that is making the situation possible. They are being aided by Captain from UNIT, who is revealed to be recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by the events depicted in . Mike feels the Doctor could help them achieve Operation Golden Age, but Whitaker is unconvinced, and tells Mike to sabotage the stun gun, which the Doctor is building for use on the dinosaurs. He does this, imperilling the Doctor when he encounters a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but the situation is saved and the creature is stunned and captured. Hours later, however, General Finch sets it free, evidently part of the conspiracy too. Sarah Jane has meanwhile set off to gather her own evidence and meets with Sir Charles Grover, an ecologist MP who is acting as Minister with Special Responsibilities in London. She is drugged by him and when she wakes up is astounded to find herself on a vast spaceship. The crew include Mark, Adam and Ruth, all famed British minor celebrities who have adopted new aliases and lives. They tell her they en route for a New Earth where mankind can begin again, closer to nature. They left Earth three months earlier and the ship is one of a fleet that is carrying over two hundred people to a new life. Sarah is committed to the re-education programme to enable her to think like them. The Doctor now focuses on more searches of London using his new vehicle, the Whomobile, as transport. Under he finds the base used by Whitaker and Butler, but is scared away when they use a pterodactyl to defend their lair. When he returns with the Brigadier, the signs of occupation have been removed. Operation Golden Age is revealed to be a broad conspiracy containing Whitaker, Butler, Yates, Grover and Finch as its core co-ordinators. They have emptied London to enable it to revert to a more natural state, after which the people on the spaceships (in reality they are in vast bunkers and not in space at all) will be allowed out and enabled to repopulate a clean and free planet. Whitaker also works out how to reverse time, so that soon none of humanity apart from their own chosen specimens will ever have existed. Finch tries to frame and discredit the Doctor, whom he knows will not support their plans, and the Doctor soon twigs that an over-zealous Yates is the UNIT mole. lets the Doctor escape, for which Finch threatens a court martial. The Doctor uses his freedom to track down more monsters, but when he is recaptured the Brigadier asserts his authority and takes the Doctor into UNIT custody rather than the regular army's. Sarah has meanwhile escaped from the fake spaceship having learnt its true nature, but is apprehended by Finch, who tracks her down and returns her to Whitaker's custody. While she is away Mark works out that the ship is a fake too and exposes this to the other passengers, but he is not believed. When Sarah is returned to the ship she and Mark use the fake airlock to convince Ruth and the others of the depth of the deception Shortly afterward Finch and Yates reveal their hands to the Doctor, Benton and the Brigadier, and reveal the nature of their plans. The Doctor and the Brigadier get away once more and head back to the base, evading dinosaurs en route, where they confront Grover and Whitaker. The duped environmentalists from the fake spaceship also appear, along with Sarah, and demand an explanation. In the ensuing fight Whitaker and Grover are transported back through the Timescoop to the Golden Age they sought to bring to modern Britain. Back at UNIT HQ, the Brigadier confirms to the Doctor that the crisis is over, but there are still some human casualties to deal with. Finch will face a court martial while Yates is being offered the chance to resign and given extended sick leave. The Doctor reflects that people like Grover may have had good motivations in wanting to fight pollution and environmental degradation, but they took their schemes too far and endangered all mankind and its civilisation. He decides it is time for a holiday and offers to take Sarah Jane to the holiday planet of Florana. [] Continuity This section does not any . Please help improve this section by adding citations to . Unsourced material may be and . (April 2011) Sarah Jane Smith refers to her encounter with real dinosaurs in a conversation with during the episode "". The also mentions the events of this story to in . A clip on the website of refers to the events of this story as having been explained as mass hallucinations caused by a contaminated water supply. An alternative version of the events of this serial is mentioned in the Doctor Who Unbound audio play . [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Part One" 12 January 1974 25:29 11.0 16mm black and white engineering print "Part Two" 19 January 1974 24:43 10.1 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Three" 26 January 1974 23:26 11.0 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Four" 2 February 1974 23:33 9.0 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Five" 9 February 1974 24:30 9.0 PAL 2" colour videotape "Part Six" 16 February 1974 25:34 7.5 PAL 2" colour videotape Working titles for this story included Bridgehead from Space and Timescoop. The first episode has the story title contracted to Invasion in an attempt to conceal the central plot device. However this was undermined by the BBC listings magazine who gave the full story title. In the original novelisation, no reference is made to the "Whomobile" and the Doctor uses a military motor bike with electronic scanning equipment attached to it. Malcolm Hulke protested against the use of the title Invasion of the Dinosaurs, preferring the original working title of Timescoop, and felt the contraction for the first episode was silly, especially because the Radio Times listing used the full title. In a response letter after transmission script editor pointed out that all the titles used for the project had originated in the Doctor Who production office. He agreed that the contraction to Invasion was a decision he now regretted but noted that "Radio Times are a law unto themselves". Locations used in London included: , , , , , and [] Missing Episodes & Archive All episodes of this story bar episode 1 exist on their original colour master tapes, with the first episode only existing as a monochrome 16mm film print. There is a longstanding fan myth that the tape of episode 1 was erased by mistake, having been confused with an episode of the Patrick Troughton serial . In reality, BBC Enterprises issued instructions to wipe all six episodes of Invasion of the Dinosaurs in August 1974, just six months after the story's transmission; for reasons unknown, however, only episode 1 was actually junked. As far as the BBC was concerned, the story had been wiped in its entirety; researchers for the 1976 documentary Whose Doctor Who found that none of the episodes was listed as existing in the BBC library. The surviving film recording of Episode 1 is the only telerecording of a Season 11 episode known to exist. A black-and-white film print exists of the film sequences from part one. This includes one scene of a scared scavenger stealing money from a dead milkman's satchel omitted from the transmitted version, this would have been part of the deserted London montage. The black-and-white prints were used as practice for the film editor to make cuts before they cut the colour negatives. Colour 35mm film sequences from Episode five also exist. Episode 3's first edit (also known in the BBC as a 71 edit) also exists, without sound effects or music on the soundtrack. [] Cast notes John Bennett would later return to Doctor Who as Li H'sen Chang in . Peter Miles has also appeared in Doctor Who in other roles in and . Martin Jarvis had earlier appeared as Hilio in and would later appear as the Governor of Varos in . Carmen Silvera had previously appeared in . [] Reception After the episodes were broadcast, many children viewers of the show complained that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was actually an . Doctor Who: The Television Companion (by Howe and Walker, , 1998) quotes a contemporary review (from a ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: "After escaping they [the Doctor and Sarah] came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of ! A nervously skiing about London streets didn't exactly fill me with fright..." [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in February 1976 as Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion. In 1993 it was reprinted with the title Doctor Who - Invasion of the Dinosaurs. The novelisation features a prologue about the dinosaurs and ends with the Doctor consulting the to determine the final fate of the Golden Age time travellers. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor was released on CD in November 2007 by BBC Audiobooks. book Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion Series Release number 22 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 19 February 1976 Preceded by ' Followed by ' [] VHS and DVD release This was the final complete story to be released by on , in 2003. The story is to be released on DVD in the UK on 9 January 2012 alongside the 1975 Tom Baker story , together forming the U.N.I.T Files box set. The DVD will feature a restored black-and-white version of Episode 1 as the default and also a 'best-endeavours' attempt at colour recovery of this episode as a branched-extra feature. In contrast to other wiped colour episodes from the Pertwee era where the missing colour information had been inadvertently recorded on the surviving black and white film copies as a sequence of visual artifacts/dots or , in the case of Episode 1 of this story this information was found to be incomplete, and only the red and green colour signal information was recoverable, requiring the missing blue signal information to be obtained via other means. The new colour version of Episode 1 featured on the DVD thus employs approximated blue colour information, and although the outcome is not up to normal DVD quality, it gives an impression of what the episode would have looked like when originally broadcast. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Retrieved 2008-08-30.[] . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Molesworth, Richard Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes, Telos Publishing Ltd, Sept 2010 "Doctor Who in the BBC" . Retrieved 29 December 2011. [] External links at at at the Fan reviews reviews at reviews at Target novelisation reviews at
From Wikipedia with thanks Colony in Space is a in the series , which was first broadcast in 6 weekly parts from April 10 to May 15, 1971. Contents [] [] Synopsis Three meet at an observatory and discuss the theft of confidential files relating to "the Doomsday Weapon." They begrudgingly realise that only one man can help them — and the Doctor, accompanied by , is temporarily released from his exile and sent in the to the desert planet of Uxarieus in the year 2472. There he finds an outpost of human colonists living as farmers. The colony is not a success — the land seems unusually poor and recently they are being besieged by representatives of rapacious mining corporations, and more recently, ferocious reptiles. The colony's governor, Robert Ashe, makes them welcome, and explains the colonists fled a year ago to the planet to escape the overcrowding and pollution on Earth. Two colonists die in a reptile attack that night, and the next morning a man named Norton arrives at the settlement, claiming that he is from another colony that was wiped out by the reptiles. While the Doctor is investigating the dome of the dead colonists he is surprised by a controlled by Caldwell, a mineralogist for the IMC. Caldwell invites the Doctor to talk to his bosses and hear their side of the story. His superior, Dent, is a ruthless mining engineer, who has been using the mining robot to scare and now kill the colonists - something which Caldwell finds repellent. Dent knows the planet is rich in rare minerals and wants it for IMC and his greedy troops agree that this should be done at any cost. The original inhabitants of the planet, known to the colonists as primitives, have a truce with the colonists - but this is tested when Norton kills the colony's scientist and blames it on a primitive, whom he insists are hostile. Later, Norton is seen communicating with Captain Dent, implying that he is in fact a spy sent from IMC to further disrupt the colonists and not the sole survivor of a similar colony as he claimed. The Doctor meanwhile returns to the central dome of the colonists, having evaded an IMC attempt to kill him, and explains to Ashe that the miners are behind the deaths. An Adjudicator from Earth is sent for to deal with the complex claims over the planet - and when he arrives it turns out to be . In this alias he determines that the mining company's claim to the planet is stronger. The Doctor and Jo have meanwhile ventured to the primitive city. From images on cave walls they interpret it was once home to an advanced civilisation that degraded over time. In the heart of the city, in a room filled with massive machines and a glowing hatch, they encounter a diminutive alien known as the Guardian. It warns them that intruding into the city is punishable by death, and lets them go, but warns them not to return. The Master's adjudication is heard by a returning Doctor and Jo. Still in the Adjudicator's guise he tells Ashe that an appeal will fail unless there are special circumstances, such as historical interest and is intrigued when Ashe tells him about the primitive city. By this ploy he finds out more about the planet and the primitive city while Ashe is drawn away from the Doctor, who begins to lose his credibility with the colonists. The Master then manipulates the Doctor into accompanying him to the primitive city. The situation between colonists and miners has meanwhile reached flashpoint with a pitched battle between them. Dent and his forces triumph and he stages a false trial of Ashe and Winton, the most rebellious of the colonists, sentencing them to death but commuting the sentence if all the colonists agree to leave the planet in their damaged old colony ship which first brought them to Uxarieus. Inside the city, the Master tells the Doctor that the primitives were once an advanced civilisation. Before their civilisation fell apart, they built a super-weapon that was never used - and he wants to claim this weapon for himself. The room with the machinery in the city is the heart of a weapon; so powerful that the was created during a test firing. The Doctor rejects the Master's overture to help him rule the galaxy using the weapon, stating that absolute power is evil and corrupting. The Guardian appears, demanding an explanation for the intrusion. The Master explains that he's come to restore their civilisation to its former glory. The Doctor argues against him, and the Guardian recalls that the weapon led his race to decay, and its radiation is ruining the planet. It instructs the Doctor to activate the self-destruct, which he does. The city begins to crumble, and the Guardian tells them they must leave before it is too late. While the Doctor and the Master flee the decaying city, they find Caldwell and Jo, and the four get out before the city explodes. The colonists' ship has meanwhile exploded on take-off as Ashe predicted it would. However, the colony leader was the only one to die. He piloted the ship alone to save his people. Winton and the colonists now emerge from hiding and kill or overpower the IMC men, with Caldwell having switched sides to support the colonists. Amid the confusion, the Master manages to make his escape. With the battle over, the Doctor explains that the radiation from the weapon was what was killing their crops but this limiting factor has now been removed. Earth has agreed to send a real Adjudicator to Uxarieus, and Caldwell has decided to join the colonists. He tells them that he can help them with their power supply. The Doctor and Jo return to the TARDIS, which returns to Headquarters mere seconds after it left. Having accomplished what the Time Lords intended, the Doctor is once again trapped on Earth. [] Continuity This is the first time since season six that the Doctor travels to another planet in the TARDIS. Excepting a brief shot of one wall in , this is also the first time that the inside of the Master's TARDIS (a redress of the Doctor's TARDIS set) is shown. [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Episode One" 10 April 1971 24:19 7.6 PAL colour conversion "Episode Two" 17 April 1971 22:43 8.5 PAL colour conversion "Episode Three" 24 April 1971 23:47 9.5 PAL colour conversion "Episode Four" 1 May 1971 24:20 8.1 PAL colour conversion "Episode Five" 8 May 1971 25:22 8.8 PAL colour conversion "Episode Six" 15 May 1971 25:22 8.7 PAL colour conversion Working titles for this story included Colony. Script editor has frequently stated that he disliked the original premise of the Doctor being trapped on Earth, and had meant to subvert this plan as soon as he felt he could get away with it. He recalls in a DVD documentary interview (on the release) having had it pointed out to him by Malcolm Hulke that the format limited the stories to merely two types: alien invasion and mad scientist, and says he'd immediately responded, "Fuck Me! You're right!" (on the release). The story is one of the first to use the show for social commentary - in this instance, the dangers of colonialism. [] Cast notes See also . Bernard Kay appears as Caldwell. This is his fourth and final appearance on the series. Director Michael Briant spoke the commentary accompanying a propaganda film watched by the Doctor on the IMC spaceship in Episode Two. This was a late cast change, and was originally intended for Pat Gorman – who was subsequently still credited on Episodes One and Two as 'Primitive and Voice'. [] Broadcast and reception 16mm colour film trims of location sequences for the story still exist and short clips from this material was used in the BBC TV special "30 years in the Tardis" (1993). [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in April 1974 as Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon. This was the first serial of the 1971 series to be so adapted; as a result, Hulke breaks continuity by having Jo Grant introduced to the Doctor for the first time, even though on television her introduction was in (and this would be reflected in the later novelisation of that serial). There is another extensive Malcolm Hulke prologue as an elderly Time Lord describes the Doctor-Master rivalry to his assistant and learns of the theft of the Doomsday Weapon files. There have been , , and editions. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by actor was released on CD in September 2007 by BBC Audiobooks. book Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon Series Release number 23 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date April 1974 [] VHS and DVD releases Although the mastertapes had been wiped copies were returned to the BBC in 1983 from TV Ontario in Canada. In November 2001, this story was released together with , in a tin box set, entitled The Master. A new transfer was made from the converted NTSC to PAL videotapes but no restoration work was carried out for this release. The story has been scheduled for release on DVD in the UK on 3 October 2011. The single disc release will contain four seconds which were missing from VHS & US masters of the story and which restores two lines of dialogue. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2008-08-31. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-31. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-07-05). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-31. Butler, David (2007). Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who. Manchester University Press. . Marcus (21 July 2011). . The Doctor Who News Page. Retrieved 22 July 2011. [] External links at at at the [] Reviews reviews at reviews at [] Target novelisation reviews at
The War Games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , This article is about the Doctor Who serial. For the 1965 television film on nuclear war, see . For the war games in the anime/manga MÄR, see . For the 1983 US movie, see . 050 – The War Games serial The Doctor and his friends are caught in the middle of World War I... or are they? Cast () () () Guest stars — Lt Carstairs — Lady Jennifer Buckingham — — Commandant Gorton — Major Barrington — Captain Ransom — Lieutenant Crane — Sgt Major Burns — Sergeant Willis — Military Policeman — Military Chauffeur — — Lieutenant Lucke, — German Soldiers — — — — — Alien Guard — Alien Technician — Sgt Thompson — Corporal Riley — Leroy — Harper — Spencer — Russell — Moor — Du Pont — Arturo Villar — Petrov — Redcoat — First Time Lord — Second Time Lord — Third Time Lord — Tanya Lernov Production Writer Director Script editor Terrance Dicks (uncredited) Producer Executive producer(s) None Production code ZZ Series Length 10 episodes, 25 minutes each Originally broadcast –, Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → The War Games is a in the series , which originally aired in ten weekly parts from to , . It was the last regular appearance of as the , and of and as and . It is the 50th story of the series, and the last Doctor Who serial to be recorded in black and white. Contents [] // if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } // [] Plot [] Synopsis On an alien planet the Doctor uncovers a diabolic plot to conquer the universe, with brainwashed soldiers abducted from Earth forced to fight in simulated environments, reflecting the periods in history from whence they were taken. The alien's aim is to produce a super army from the survivors, to this end they have been aided by a renegade from the Doctor's own race the 'Time Lords'. Joining forces with rebel soldiers, who have broken their conditioning, the Doctor and his companions foil the plan and stop the fighting. But the Doctor admits he needs the help of the Time Lords to return the soldiers to their own times, but in asking risks capture for his own past crimes including the theft of the TARDIS. After sending the message he and his companions attempt to evade capture, but are caught. Having returned the soldiers to Earth, the Time Lords erase Zoe and Jamie's memories of travelling with the Doctor, and return them to the point in time just before they entered the TARDIS. They then place the Doctor on trial for stealing the TARDIS and breaking the rule of non-interference. The Doctor presents a spirited defence citing his many battles against the evils of the universe. Accepting this defence the Time Lords announce his punishment is exile to Earth. In addition the operation of the TARDIS is wiped from his memory and his next is imposed. [] Continuity Patrick Troughton later reprised the role of the Second Doctor in , and . In the second of these, he expresses knowledge of events of the final episode of this serial, on the face of it a chronological impossibility, and in the last he is on an assignment for the Time Lords, which is incompatible with the events seen here. These facts gave rise to the theory, enabled by the aforementioned lack of on-screen depiction of the regeneration.The again faces trial in , the beginning of which refers to this previous trial.The time machines designed by the War Chief and used by the War Lords are called SIDRATs, an inversion of the name TARDIS. Though this name is used only once, and then merely in passing, on-screen during the serial (and pronounced "side-rat"), the expanded acronym is revealed to stand for "Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transporter" in the 1979 novelisation by . It is repeated in the novel by Terrance Dicks, which forms a sequel to The War Games.The Second Doctor's appearance in Terrance Dicks' BBC Books novel, , occurs during this story. [] Firsts For the first time, this serial names the Doctor's race as the "Time Lords". Although his home planet () is seen, it would not be referenced by name until (1973). His reasons for leaving Gallifrey, and the fact that he stole the TARDIS, are also revealed.Aside from the Doctor and , the War Chief is the second person of the Doctor's race (after the ) to appear in the television series.Again the concept of is presented but not named in this serial, following /. The process was eventually named in , then retrospectively attributed to the earlier two changes of actors — first by series fans, then later by the early-'80s production team in . Until that point, there was some fan controversy over whether the Second Doctor had actually regenerated or merely had his appearance changed.While Troughton's Doctor is sentenced to a forced regeneration at the end of this serial, we do not actually see him regenerate into the (who first appears — briefly wearing the Troughton costume — in the next serial, ). The only other Doctor not to receive an on-screen regeneration is the , who has already regenerated into the at the start of the 2005 series.In the first Episode, the Second Doctor kisses Zoe. This display of platonic affection is the first time that the Doctor kisses one of his companions, though as the series went on it would be far from the last. [] Lasts In the final episode, the Time Lords wipe Zoe's mind and return her to the Wheel, where she encounters Tanya Lernov, a character from . A set from The Wheel in Space was rebuilt and actress (Tanya) rehired for this one scene. The audio drama shows an older Zoe having detailed dreams of her adventures with the Doctor, suspecting that something is blocking her memory, and seeing a psychiatric counsellor in an effort to understand the "dreams".This marks the last appearance of the TARDIS Control Room until in 1971, though the removed TARDIS console would be seen in the Doctor's headquarters laboratory in , and in a hut on the grounds of the titular project in .Episode 10 is the last episode of the original series to be produced in black and white. [] Production Serial details by episode: Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) Archive "Episode 1" 19 April 1969 25:00 5.5 16mm t/r "Episode 2" 26 April 1969 25:00 6.3 16mm t/r "Episode 3" 3 May 1969 24:30 5.1 16mm t/r "Episode 4" 10 May 1969 23:40 5.7 16mm t/r "Episode 5" 17 May 1969 24:30 5.1 16mm t/r "Episode 6" 24 May 1969 22:53 4.2 16mm t/r "Episode 7" 31 May 1969 22:28 4.9 16mm t/r "Episode 8" 7 June 1969 24:37 3.5 16mm t/r "Episode 9" 14 June 1969 24:34 4.1 16mm t/r "Episode 10" 21 June 1969 24:23 5.0 16mm t/r book Doctor Who and the War Games Series Release number 70 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 25 September 1979 Preceded by Followed by [] Commercial releases This serial was released in the UK February 1990 in a two-tape set in episodic form. It was re-released in remastered format in September 2002. Since this VHS re-release, better quality film prints of the story have been located at the BFI, and were used for the DVD release. The DVD will be released on July 6th 2009 and is a 3 disc set, with a commentry provided by Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Philip Madoc, Graham Weston, Jane Sherwin, Terrance Dicks and Derrick Sherwin. [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by in September 1979, entitled Doctor Who and The War Games. Despite the length of the serial, Hulke was allotted only 143 pages in which to adapt the 10-episode script, the third longest Doctor Who serial. By comparison, the later novelisation of the second longest serial, the 12-episode , was published in two volumes, each of which were much longer than Hulke's book, while four books were used to novelise the longest serial, the 14-episode . [] References , , & , , , 1995, p. 104 ; and (2006). About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who: 1966–1969, Seasons 4 to 6. : Mad Norwegian Press. . Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. . Retrieved on 2008-08-31. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. . Retrieved on 2008-08-31. Sullivan, Shannon (2005-05-12). . A Brief History of Time Travel. . Retrieved on 2008-08-31. [] External links at at at the - The War Games - The War Games [] Reviews reviews at reviews at [] Target novelisation reviews at
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