Doctor Who: 42 To Doomsday

Episode 71 - The 42 to Doomsday Love In has begun! After the bile and bitterness of the last month, we at 42TDD reached out to our listeners, asking them to express their love for the show. So join Mark and Rob as we go through our listener's feedback about why they fell in love with Doctor Who and have maintained their commitment all these years!

Episode 70 – The ‘classic’ line up of Mark and Rob are back to discuss an obscure casting announcement that was made earlier in the week. Helping us bring some sanity to the conversation, friend of the podcast and star of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Rob Lloyd returns! Not only do we discuss our own reactions to the news of Jodie Whittaker's casting, but also the reaction in the wider Doctor Who...

Episode 69 - with Mark still on his Cook's Tour of the Northern Hemisphere, Rob and Richard repair to the Fortress of Solitude, pull out the dice, and go boardgaming! That's right, for your listening pleasure, we chart the course of Doctor Who games from the early 1960s, right up to today. Boardgames, show bags, miniatures, gamebooks, and RPGs all come under the microscope. Richard and Rob go deep...

Episode 68 - while Mark's away, the mice will play! Richard joins Rob to discuss the fallout of the May 27th Fantom event, where Phil Morris was, then wasn't, attending. We also drag out that dead horse named Omnirumour for one damned good flogging, for your entertainment!

Episode 67 - Mark and Rob are back with our latest episode looking at continuity! Joining us are Richard and Dave as we sit down for a good long chat about how production teams, and fans, (mis)handled continuity over the shows' history. Listen as we wrestle with continuity conundrums, gasp at the insanity that gripped the production team in the 1980s, scratch your heads along with us as we wonder...

Episode 66 - It's another Top 5 from the Doctor Who podcast that always brings you the best and biggest Top 5's! To help us navigate through this minefield we are delighted to welcome back friend of the podcast, Rob Lloyd! Marvel as we wax lyrical about some of the top underrated monsters from our favourite TV show. They may have been unloved at the time and relegated to a dreary backwater by an i...

Episode 65 – Mark and Richard go all retro and set the way back machine to the 80’s, 90’s and today to discuss how our favourite TV show has fared as a computer game or in one case a pinball machine! We start from the 8-bit era’s The First Adventure, Doctor Who and The Warlord and bring it bang up to date with Doctor Who Legacy and Lego Dimensions. We give our verdict on the hits, the misses and t...

Episode 64 - Rob and Mark are back! With new series discussion still a 'no fly zone' they again delve into the past with another full length Dragged from the Archives extravaganza! Marvel at the build-up and excitement leading into to Season 26. Gasp at the positive reaction to The Ultimate Adventure play and go weak at the knees at news of The Daleks are finally being released on DED (VHS)! All t...

Episode 63 - Mark and Rob return with podcasting companions, Richard and Dave! and broadcast to you (almost) live from Dave’s Fortress of Solitude. We discuss Dave’s trip to the Mother Country, natter about Peter Capaldi’s departure, dive deep into the Four Phases of Companions(hip) and open up our Target Reading Club with some classic era novelisations. Also, listen for the introduction of our ne...

Episode 62 - Rob and Mark are back, ready to launch into 2017 and eager to talk all things Doctor Who! Listen as we blow the cobwebs off our microphones and chat about the recent Christmas episode and then revisit our Opposites Attract segment where we have the face off YOU demanded - Bessie vs. the Whomobile! Then finally the Letter Louts return as we get through some of the correspondence from y...

Mark and Rob return (briefly) replete with pudding, custard, a whole roast pig and lashing of Christmas cheer to farewell 2016 in the manner it truly deserves with the return of our New Year Eve special! In keeping with the musical theme these episodes are renowned (cough) we go all 'non-canon' and give you a DVD commentary for the video clip of 'The Ballad of Doctor Who' - the song made famous by...

Episode 61 – Just like around a Xmas Day smorgasbord, Mark and Rob reconvene with special guests Richard and Dave to gorge ourselves on such tasty topics as American politics, Power of the Daleks' animation, our Top 3 Six Part stories that would be better as four parters, the ever changing television landscape and why are some of us a bit nonplussed about the series at the moment. All this plus ou...

Episode 60 - Interstate rivalries are (briefly) put on ‘hiatus’ when the curator of the Doctor Who Show Rob Irwin appears on this episode where we discuss the stories we would classify as ‘typical’ examples of particular eras of Doctor Who. Mark is also taken to task about his ‘non-canon’ position on the new incarnation of Peter Cushing’s Doctor Who; we subject Rob to Who Knows where he has to gue...

Episode 59 - Just like 80's pop duo BROS, Mark and Rob have also (tearfully) reunited and to help us take a look at what we consider to be Doctor Who's most overrated stories we welcome back special guest Rob Lloyd! Which stories do we blaspheme against and which sacred cows are slaughtered in the name of podcasting? The results will surprise you! All this plus what our listener's thoughts on thei...

Episode 58 - Rob, Richard and Dave (aka The Three Mouthketeers) assemble sans Mark. We ruminate on the Power animation (note this episode was recorded a few days before the official announcement of the animation of Power of the Daleks) and chew more cud about Phil Morris’s appearance at the Starburst Film Festival. We then move on to talk about our top 5 (plus 1 non-canon) appearances by Doctor Wh...

Episode 57 - Mark and Rob again set the way back machine to the late 80’s for a full length episode of Dragged from the Archives. We crack open the fanzine vault and look back at contemporary reaction to Season 25, the recovery of missing episodes, the Ultimate adventure play and the new producer destined to bring the programme into the 90’s!! All this plus we get all high-brow discussing Dr Who’s...

Episode 56 - Rob and Mark are back! As we impatiently wait for any sign of the show returning to our screens we pore over the scraps of information available. After that, we road kill, sorry, road test our new segment 'Opposites Attract' where we take an opposing view on a couple of topics. All this plus a really overdue letters mailbag and we wheel out our long-forgotten and neglected Internation...

Episode 55 - Some of fandom's sharpest minds (plus Mark and Rob) gather to raise a glass, or seven, to the memory of Gareth Thomas and Blake's 7. Joining us for a good old pub style ramble through Terry Nation's second most famous creation are fan favourites Tom, Richard and Dave were we spend a good chunk of time talking all things Blake's 7, it's genesis, it's impact and its legacy. We point out...

Episode 54 - David J Howe talks to us about the welcome and imminent re-release of his critically acclaimed ‘The Target Book’, the definitive reference guide to the much loved Doctor Who novelisation range. We also chat about David’s early involvement in Doctor Who fandom and fanzines, the Frame magazine, his work on the Virgin ‘Decades’ and Handbook series as well as the Jon Pertwee Autobiography...

Episode 53 - Doctor Who fan, political animal and friend of the podcast David Kitchen joins Rob for a lengthy discussion about how Doctor Who, in front of the camera and behind it, has dealt with the thorny issue of politics. What fan shibboleths does Dave demolish during our chat? What events in the Doctor Who universe could possibly have led to alleged (and cleared) murderer Jeremy Thorpe ever b...

Episode 52 - Doc Whom, one third of the Diddly Dum triumvirate, is our special guest in this episode and as the 11th (or is it 12th?) Doctor said before he carked it “It’s a whopper!” In a wide ranging chat we talk about the state of Doctor Who podcasting scene, television accents, comparisons of the televisual landscape in the UK and Oz, Pot Black and Doc’s undertaking of the ‘great journey’ wher...

Episode 51 - in this episode Rob and Mark ponder the question: is Doctor Who appropriate for children and was the educational remit of the early years a red herring so kids could fool their parents into letting them watch the programme? Plus our delayed reactions to the Grand Moff's departure as show runner, how the ABC celebrated the show's 25th Aniversary and what fate befell those tapes? To wra...

Episode 50 - We are fifty episodes old and to 'celebrate' we countdown our top 5 WTF moments in Doctor Who. Which moments during the shows long history has us either shouting out in triumph or had us curled in the foetal position screaming for our mother! All this plus our thoughts on 'The Husbands of River Song' and the long overdue return of our 'Dragged from the Archives' segment where we look...

Episode 49 – Ho Ho Ho and welcome to the 42 to Doomsday Staff Christmas Party. Crack open the eggnog and get a look at that Krampus as Mark, Rob, Dave and Richard celebrate in the finest Doctor Who tradition - we talk Doctor Who! We stick the boot in/sing the praises of Series 9 and argue the toss over whether this year's finale was better or worse than Death in Heaven*. We debut our new ‘Fanwank’...

Episode 48 - With Mark scouting future podcast recording locations in Wigan, Rob gets down and dirty with merchandise guru Richard to discuss Doctor Who reference books. What were the early beginnings of this fascinating field? What were some of the formative books? Which one's made the biggest impression on Rob and Richard? And what books should fans look for?