Doctor Who: The Pharos Project Podcast

A mere two months late, we have a look at the 15th Doctor's debut in the 2023 Christmas special, "The Church on Ruby Road".

Fresh from an extended stay in the Balkans at His Majesty's pleasure, the Projecteers are back to look at the 60th anniversary Doctor Who gubbins. Brace for collision with a heady mix of unfiltered Who chat, middle aged people being confused by technology and good old fashioned vulgarity.

In a change of plans, we delve into the 1977 Doctor Who story "Image of the Fendahl". This episode is dedicated to Jasper, who was the best dog ever and who passed shortly before this recording. He is fucking missed.

Ahoy, mateys! In this episode, Michael Caine has a shocker when he decides to take his horrendous child with him to investigate disappearances on the ocean waves. They run afoul of pirate David Warner, pirate Don Henderson off that bit in Star Wars and Pirate Tinker out of Lovejoy. It's 1980's "The Island".

Nothing says 80's movie like a huge fella nipping about and shooting people willy-nilly. Here, we talk about the daddy of them all, 1985's Commando. *This episode was recorded before the big Doctor Who casting news this week, which we all knew about anyway, but were sworn to secrecy.

Bonjour et bienvenue to a very French episode of the podcast. Join us as we watch "Brotherhood of the Wolf", a film about a French, horny, old time David Attenborough type fella chasing a monster around in the rain.

We are back again and as its still quite near the new year, we decided to talk about all the stuff we watched in 2021, including the Flux season of Doctor Who and other assorted guff.

It's the long awaited return of Hammer to the podcast as we look at Frankenstein Created Woman starring the always brilliant Peter Cushing. No news this week so we dive straight into the movie.

This week Mr. Chris decided to unfairly punish Mr. Paul and Little Pete for no reason and make them watch Zardoz from 1974. The git. Movie review starts at 21 minutes.

Somehow, the powers that be have allowed Pete to survive another year of his tortured existence. To celebrate this we gave him a free choice of movie to watch for this episode (yes we did, don't argue) and he chose 1999's Ravenous. The weirdo. Movie review begins at 17 minutes.

After having to watch a right dog last episode, when we looked at a Stephen Sommers directed monster movie, we decided to do something entirely different. This time we are watching a monster movie that has been directed by Stephen Sommers, 1998's "Deep Rising". Movie review begins at 24 mins.

This was meant to be an episode where we chatted about a bland Jason Statham movie, but (mentioning no names) It was Pete ultimately decided that we should and Chris watch a Huge Action crap-fest from 2004. It's Van Helsing.

Yes, it is very late. From way back in January 2021 we present our review of the New Year's special episode of Doctor Who,  Revolution of the Daleks. Also included at no extra charge, a carefully curated "vintage news" segment.

Die Hard 2 is so blatantly a Christmas movie because its a sequel to another Christmas movie. You wouldn't make Sister Act 2 and leave out the nuns. Suck it.

Doctors 2, 7 and 11 continue their quest to locate all the pieces of the lock of time and save the multiverse, OR three idiots nob about at a role playing game in an attempt to frustrate another idiot. Again.

Happy Halloween!! This year we celebrated by letting Chris do lots of news and watching 2018's Overlord. We enjoyed one of those things.

Yes, life got in the bloody way again for a bit, but now we are back. It's almost like we were frozen for a while, only to be thawed out later to fight a terrible evil. Time Lord Victorious tat! Oh, and we watched Demolition Man.

This bat-week on this bat-episode, we watch an absolute bat-turd of a film. It's Batman and Robin from 1997.  

This week, thanks to Mr Chris' brain, we end up staring into the incomprehensible charm void that is the awful 1998 film "The Avengers". 

This time we are joined by special guest, RPG expert Ryan Blake, as we embark on an epic multi-doctor adventure "The Lock of Time". 

Could an industrial prehuman civilization have existed on Earth? Is it possible that aliens are already here and living among us? Can a director's cut really save a bad film? No. Here's the renegade cut of Highlander 2.

In a chaotic episode, Pete makes room for poultry and goes missing, Chris purchases 6 fine onions and Paul offers an apology 10 years too late. They also talk about 1985's "Silver Bullet", but not often.

We didn't think we would still be doing this either, but somehow we forgot that we usually bugger off after a few episodes. Blame Little Pete, and his instance on talking about the movie "PaperHouse", from 1988.

In a desperate, last ditch effort to avoid acknowledging the end of lockdown, the Projecteers bravely agree to watch and talk about a movie... ...1983's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

This week, we are joined by 4th Projecteer Miss Natalie, as we take a long overdue look at the 13th Doctor. Also, has Chris Chibnall saved or fu**ed the show by tinkering with mythology.