Doctor Who: Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels

Ben Cook and Doctor Who's last ever story : quite an illustrious pairing. something to help you survive the build up to the 60th Anniversary. Here we are folks, the time when Doctor Who was cancelled! It hasn't all been fun and games you know!   Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only podcast - Far Too Much Informati...

Big Finish writer Kat Armitage is a wonderful contributor and is terrifically enthusiastic about the first Doctor Who script of a certain Chris Chibnall (whatever happened to him?). Hos Toby Hadoke needs to do more New Series commentaries but he always worries that he will have less to say.  This is nearly two hours long.  He doesn't have less to say.  Whether that's a good thing or not, well, tha...

Well, this is the end of Happy Times and Places Dodechahedroning on about events of Tigella, (which by the way keeps autocorrecting to Nigella which would be a very different prospect). It's one of the shortest episodes of Doctor Who ever, but host Toby Hadoke still ends up saying enough to nearly fill the hour, but partially that's because he hugely misremembers another BBC series and then has to...

This instalment of Doctro Who contains some very memorable few scenes for hiost Toby hadoke who distinctly remember watching this episode going out. Some moments from it are seared into his brain. But will they remain his favourite moments? Or has time been unkind? Those childhood memories certainly won't be his guest Frazer Gregory's best bits unless he watched this, for the first time, in Toby's...

So, the Doctor and Romana finally get to the planet Tigella after deliberately fluffing their lines ... and we have just noticed that Tigella has autocorrected itself to Nigella which has made us giggle and certainly puts the Meglos luring Caris into his dark cupboard and suggestively showing her what is in his hands in a completely new light! Haha. Well, guest Frazer Gregory won't be choosing tha...

Friend of the show Frazer Gregory is on hand to advocate for an unloved entry into the late Tom Baker period. Let's hope things don't get too spiky. Will Frazer's favourite part of the episode be the same as host Toby Hadoke's - will they agree or will they just keep repeating the same argument over and over again? Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, excl...

Please note that this episode was recorded before anything was known about the illegal (and despicable) activities of BBC newsreader Huw Edwards. So if mention of him - in any context - offends you, then maybe skip this episode. If not, listen away, and bear in mind that if it were recorded today some of the things said within this episode would no longer be said (because time and context are impo...

James Goss has recently written something called Doomsday (well, Doom's Day)! Was he hinting? Was this all part of some kind of cunning clue? Or just a coincidence. Well, it's two hours of coincidence, repackaged for your omnibussing pleasure. Enjoy!  Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only podcast - Far Too Much Inf...

The penultimate episode of this epic historical journey. The lead actor is ill again, it's a tense record in the studio involving injuries and retakes, and two of the cast members go on to lead very interesting lives: and this podcast will take you every step of the way.    Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only pod...

That very silly Wheezer and Groaner Paul Litchfield chooses surely one of the most remarkable Doctor Who stories of all time. Plenty to choose from and much to talk about as he and your host Toby Hadoke go back to school and learn to love pears!   Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only podcast - Far Too Much Informa...

Well this one has been quite the love in. And hiost Toby Hadoke has taken the unusual step of reading out some of subscribers' correspondence in the post-credits meander. But are Charles and he going to agree or we will get involved in some rough-and-tumble that is controversially edited out? 

Oh, the Time Controller comes out of its drawer (and Noel Edmonds' props cupboard) and Ratcliffe's men put their back into it, but this episode is a bit of a milestone in your host's life so prepare for some memories of this episode's very first broadcast (which as you know was only a couple of years ago). Charles Norton is on hand to give some fine commentary - and this one's a close run thing so...

Racism! Blindness! Bronsonicide! This episode has a variety of talking points but it was a joy to record, especially when guest Charles Norton (he of Doctor Who animations) is such an erudite and thoughtful contributor. This is a great episode of the new science fiction adventure series : but will host Toby Hadoke agree? Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases...

Charles Norton, who has been the producer on a number of the acclaimed animations on the Doctor Who DVD and Blu-ray range, has chosen this milestone story from Doctor Who's 25th anniversary season. This has it all: explosions, cool exterminations, nostalgia, and misspelling. So why was young Toby hadoke so cross with it? And surely now they're all grown up Charles and Toby can put aside any differ...

There's a wonderful advocate for this latest episode under the cheery microscope in the form or the delightful artist Millie McKenzie. Whether your host rises to the challenge of shouting this episode's praises from the rooftops is open to debate though. It's trickier for an ageing fan - your host Toby Hadoke - who has seen classic Who millions of times, to remain relentlessly positive during less...

If you enjoyed the latest Happy Times and Places, on The Romans, then enjoy this interview with one of its cast members : Poppea herself, actress, writer and prolific TV director Kay Patrick who talks about working with William Hartnell and Christopher Barry, and about her fascinating and impressive career as a whole.    Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases...

Burn baby Burn, it's a Roman inferno. So will Josh Snares manage to shoot host Hadoke down in flames or will he be on fire as he storms to victory? You can probably guess but you never know - especially as Josh has kindly left clues as to the kind of choices they are making regarding this story. There's lots of love for the Hartnell era as this one guffaws to its end -  and its a timely release, w...

This starts to get farcical - deliberately so - and the series has a rare event : a comedy death. And the victim of this hilarious murder has another claim to fame involving a Doctor Who historical. But never mind the historical, let's get hysterical thanks to Dennis Spooner, Derek Francis and everyone else conspiring to make this one of Doctor Who's most amusing near half hours. But will You Tube...

All Roads Lead To... a curious mix of the farcical and the sadistic, as cruel Rome is also a place for hilarious hi-jinks. What will our guest, You Tuber Josh Snares, the doyen of Doctor Who online videos, choose as their favourite thing in an episode which spoils us for choice? Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-onl...

Well it's all getting a bit silly these days isn't it? Doctor Who's first attempt at an all out comedy finds us languishing in a Roman villa, Ian and Barbara getting rat-arsed (and a bit flirty), the Doctor indulging in wordplay and Vicki thirsting for adventure. Special guest - and You Tube sensation - Josh Snares has chosen a very particular way of doing this - but will that make it any easier f...

So goodbye Doctor Five - it's been fun. Though there's not a lot of actual fun to be had in this story, because it's pretty grim. And yet, of course, brilliant. One of the acknowledged classics of Doctor Who. So will your guest Erica Lear and your host Toby Hadoke choose the same things as their favourites from the episode and the story as a whole? Well, unless Erica has regenerated recently it's...

Oh it is an embarrassment of riches this one - but surely there is only one obvious choice as the best thing about this episode. It's one of the very best examples of its kind isn't it? You'd have to be as batty as a fruitcake not to choose... oh, did you meet this week's guest, Erica Lear, by the way? Anyway, as I was saying, you'd have to be as batty as a fruitcake...   Please support these podc...

Is there anything more to be said about this classic? Host Toby Hadoke  sometimes worries that with the more established stories he's just saying out loud what everyone else has thought forever - but hey-ho. There's much to love in this episode which is grim, funny, and extremely well made. But will Erica Lear choose the same thing as Toby, or is he looking for a very fancy needle in an absolutely...

Who at Hoylake convention organiser and DWAS hotshot Erica Lear has chosen a story that many, many people have waxed lyrical about over the years. Is there much that's new to say about this poll topper? Let's see eh: host Toby Hadoke and Erica will try to be original as they don't want to get into trouble and end up picking chacaws. Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get adva...

Supper ready? Not yet, there's just time to watch The Three Doctors reach its conclusion with a lost recorder, a lost identity and some lost footsteps : but will Siobhan Gallichan and host Toby Hadoke find the love for the same things in this anniversary story that isn't actually an anniversary story? This episode is dedicated to the memory of Patricia Prior 1929-2023. Please support these podcast...