Doctor Who Literature

Welcome to the beginning of the end of Doctor Who Literature . It's May 1988, and the paperback release of the first of the 12 Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who novelizations by Target Books. The Target run had a finite lifespan, and from here on out, with the last Classic Series Doctor finally joining the Target stable, the end is in sight. We will have two guests for each of the Sylvester McCoy boo...

This week Jim bids a sad farewell to the legendary David Graham, contributor of voices (and two live-action roles) to Doctor Who, and who did voice work for almost every other British series that mattered, up to and including "Peppa Pig". Stacey Smith? rejoins Jason for a look at the first Trial of a Time Lord story, The Mysterious Planet . It's Robert Holmes' final completed Doc...

The Time Meddler is a seminal moment in Doctor Who history. No Doctor Who podcast can be complete without acknowledging it, and no podcast about Doctor Who Literature can be complete without discussing its novelization. Frazer Gregory, one of my most frequent and popular guests, rejoins me for the first time since Episode 100. We have a lot to say about this story, including a discussion of its ge...

Welcome to Part One of our intermittent ongoing look at The Trial of a Time Lord , a single 14-part Doctor Who serial that comprised the whole of Season 23, televised between September and December 1986, but broken up into four separate novelizations. Confusingly released out of order and non-consecutively. Jim Sangster, Doctor Who Literature 's multi-talented co-producer, logo designer, and i...

Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Jeff from Gallifrey's Most Wanted . The Rescue is one of Jeff's favorite Doctor Who episodes and it's great to hear him discuss. Sampled is an audio encore of Jason's favorite Harvey Keitel interview . You might also recognize some dialogue from The Big Lebowski . If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!...

Welcome to an extra long episode of Doctor Who Literature , but one of the deepest and most rewarding ones we've ever produced. The subject is the February 1966 Doctor Who episode The Massacre , a troubled production where the original author tried to disclaim credit, the video is lost and only a few publicity photos survived, and the surviving audio is hard to untangle as William Hartnell onl...

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A warm Doctor Who Literature welcome-back to Kate and Jon, last heard together on this show discussing The Talons of Weng-Chiang in July 2022. Two years and many books later, we are gonna get deep into The Ambassadors of Death . You can find several new works by Kate and Jon, as discussed during the episode: -- Saltier , a short story by Kate. -- United Nations and Intelligence Taskforce , two rec...

Long-time listeners of Doctor Who Literature know that this podcast is a K-9 house. We are all about K-9 here. This week, his first TV spinoff, the Christmas 1981 special gets its own novelization, the final book of the short-lived Companions of Doctor Who line. Joining Jason this week are two great friends making their first appearance on the show: Drew and Brent, from Who & Company . And yes...

As Doctor Who Literature nears the end of a very packed season discussing each of the novelizations and other Doctor Who spinoff books of 1986 and 1987, Jason and Callie were also watching the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- 144 episodes in about 144 days. Now we sit down in our dining room to discuss the series. This episode will cover "Welcome to the Hellmouth" through "Th...

Welcome to the final week of our four-episode William Hartnell mini-season. The Romans is released in paperback in September 1987 and is the fourth straight Doctor Who novelization to come out of the First Doctor era. Here on Doctor Who Literature , Jason Davis is back for the week to talk us through The Romans in both its print and TV incarnation. We also discuss lots of classic film and TV conte...

Denise Sutton rejoins Doctor Who Literature during Week 3 of a 4-week stretch of four consecutive William Hartnell novelizations. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us! Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels. "Doctor Who – The Reign of Terror" features cover art by Tony Masero. Doctor Who Literature is...

Much has been said about the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Sensorites . Not all of it positive. We at Doctor Who Literature are here to reverse that trend. The Sensorites is awesome. Except when it isn't, but when it lands, it really lands. This week's guest is Black Archives writer Jon Arnold. Here is one of Jon's many recent appearances on Strangers in Space . Cover artist of The Sensor...

We open at the BFI in London where Conrad Westmaas from Big Finish appears live on the show to interview Jason! David Barsky then joins Jason by Skype from Los Angeles to rap about The Space Museum , and to vigorously debate the most recent Disney+-streamed season of Doctor Who . In the audio essay, Jason compares all four extant versions of Space Museum : TV, novelization, and both surviving scri...

It's our second straight Patrick Troughton novelization on Doctor Who Literature -- before we jump into four straight William Hartnell books -- and this week it is time for The Faceless Ones . Joining Jason this week is Shannon Sullivan of A Brief History of Time (Travel) , the indispensable online resource for the production history of Doctor Who . Jason and Shannon have known each other for...

The Mind Robber is one of Jason's Top 60 Doctor Who episodes, and the 1987 novelization by Peter Ling more than does it justice. This week Jason is joined on Doctor Who Literature by Adam Clegg from The Real McCoy podcast to discuss the TV story, the novelization, the two New Adventures sequel novels involving the Land of Fiction... and brief discussions of the new Celestial Toymaker animation...

In lieu of a regularly scheduled Doctor Who Literature this week, Jason takes a moment to bid adieu to William Russell, who passed away this week at age 99, and explore the legacy of Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who . If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us! Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels Doctor Who Literature...

...700 years later, we return to The Ark , an instant sequel to last week's episode. Jim Sangster rejoins Doctor Who Literature to break down the story's accents and Beatles wigs. And Jason reviews the newest Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who episode at the time of writing: Dot and Bubble . If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us! Watch this episode and all previous episode...

Program needs over the next two weeks has turned this look at The Ark , a 1966 episode from Doctor Who 's third season, into a two-part episode of Doctor Who Literature . This week, a conversation with Lelon Stoldt from the InDOCtrination podcast. Lelon and his daughters are not quite up to The Ark yet, but perhaps this conversation will reveal what at least one of them will think about the st...

For this week we are going back to the Jazz Age, with Doctor Who -specific musical accompaniment by Jim Sangster. Our Doctor Who Literature guest this week is Steven B., who you can find at the New To Who podcast , The Three-Handed Game: An Avengers Podcast , and Reimagining Doctor Who . Among several other Doctor Who podcast episodes cited in this week's episode, you can find: --Steven B.&#39...

Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Keith Say, a first-time guest here but a long-time guest on Trap One. One of the two of us really enjoyed the novelization of Slipback , the first radio-only episode of Doctor Who . The other one of us hated this book. Hated, hated, hated this book. Calling to mind one particular review by the great Roger Ebert . If you enjoyed this episode, plea...

Doctor Who Literature presents: This week, as we are in between the 1986 and 1987 slates of Doctor Who novelizations, please enjoy this following bonus content, all recorded live: --Jason and Callie explore the Doctor Who -branded subway car in New York City. --Gary Russell sat down with Jason at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles in February to discuss his novelization of The Star Beast . --Jason speak...

It's late April 2024, but Doctor Who Literature takes us back to mid-February, and to the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, where Mark from the Trap One Podcast joined me over dinner for a My Dinner With Andre-style conversation about the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Death , and its 1986 novelization by Terrance Dicks. You can view My Dinner With Andre in full here . The Proclaim...

This week Doctor Who Literature is NOT covering a Target book. 1986 was a bumper year for Doctor Who fiction, and, in the States, Ballantine Books got in on the action with both the man in the blue box, AND the still going-strong Choose Your Own Adventure craze, with a series of six books in the Find Your Fate series. Joining me to read through -- and play -- this book is my old friend Tony Whitt...

Welcome to the first of two planned episodes about the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Celestial Toymaker . The episode eventually spawned a TV sequel ... in 2023, The Giggle . The novelizations of both stories were released in 1986 and 2024 respectively. Joining me this week is James Goss , author of the Giggle novelization, and we spend about 90 joyous minutes talking about both books. Links to other...