Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV

Send us Fan Mail In this Christm..... WINTER special Dylan and Jack look at Big Finish audio 'Death in Blackpool' with the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller, written by Alan Barnes and directed by Barnaby Edwards. Then it's over to BBC Audio for 'A Sting in the Tale' with the Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates and Mrs Wibsey. Written by Paul Magrs and directed by Kate Thomas.  There i...

Send us Fan Mail Doctor Who is bloody old now, and what better way to celebrate it than get a bunch of Doctors together and get them not to play the Doctor.  In this episode Dylan and Jack look at 30th anniversary "special" 'The Airzone Solution' staring Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Written by Nick Briggs and directed by Bill Baggs, this oddity h...

Send us Fan Mail Series 2 of Doctor Who Too Hot For TV launches with a look at Lance Parkin's novel 'Father Time' and the follow up comic series Miranda. We then take a rare dip into televised Doctor Who, with Stephen Greenhorn's episode 'The Doctor's Daughter'.  The playlist for 'Father Time - The Album' can be found here  https://open.spotify.com/play...

Send us Fan Mail With Jack still passed out in his delta wave augmenter,  Dylan is joined by Mark from 'On The Timelash' to look at an epic run of eighth Doctor, Fey and Izzy comic strips. First up is 'The Final Chapter'  by Alan Barnes, with art from Martin Geraghty and Robin Smith. Then Nick Briggs is temporarily the Doctor in 'Wormwood' by Scott Gray with art from...

Send us Fan Mail In a break from our advertised programming (aka a thing we said at the end of the last podcast), Dylan is joined by Rob from the Doctor Who Show to discuss the best and the worst of Doctor Who coffee table books. 

Send us Fan Mail In episode 18 Dylan and Jack return to do a commentary on 90's straight to video spin off 'Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans', written by Terrance Dicks and directed by Kevin Davies. With an all star cast including Jan Chappell,  Brian Croucher,  Carole Ann Ford, Sophie Aldred and Michael Wisher.

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of 'Too Hot For TV' Dylan and Jack encounter a time traveling voodoo cult and unconvincing fish people. First up it's Big Finish Companion Chronicle 'Peri and the Piscon Paradox' written by Nev Fountain, read by Nicola Bryant and staring Colin Baker. Then it's the only 2 issues of the Faction Paradox comic by Lawrence Miles from...

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode Dylan and Jack are looking at futures that never were, as they review Johnny Byrne's abandoned movie script and Marc Platt's Season 27 Audio 'Thin Ice'.  If you want to peep the film script : https://archive.org/details/DoctorWhoTheMovieByrneUndatedRev. Unprod. Scan/mode/2up

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Dylan and Jack look at two Doctors the podcast has yet to cover. First up it's the third Doctor, Sarah Jane and the Brigadier in BBC radio play 'The Paradise of Death' written by Barry Letts. Then it's the second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in the DWM comic strip 'Land of the Blind' by Scott Grey. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Dylan and Jack look at eighth Doctor epic 'Neverland', written by Alan Barnes and directed by Gary Russell. Then it's more comic strip action with the 5th Doctor in Steve Parkhouse's 'The Stockbridge Horror'.

Send us Fan Mail It's our one year anniversary! We celebrate by looking at two Sarah Jane Smith stories, with our very own Sarah Jane, our sister Maisie. First up is Sarah Jane Smith: Test Of Nerve an audio play from Big Finish written by David Bishop.  Then we revisit Enemy of the Bane from the TV show The Sarah Jane Adventures, written by Phil Ford and directed by Graeme Harper.

Send us Fan Mail Dylan and Jack are joined by Ben and Mark from On The Timelash for a pub crawl through a virtual Edinburgh. First up they look at the Big Finish play 'Medicinal Purposes' written by Robert Ross and featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe. Then it's BBV audio 'In 2 Minds' written by Iain Hepburn and featuring the Rutans. 

Send us Fan Mail Christmas has been cancelled for most of us, but not for the Too Hot For TV team. We present our first commentary for BBV's notorious drama 'Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough'

Send us Fan Mail In this festive episode, the Too Hot For TV team look at some tie in fiction from the early days of the show.  Doctor Who and his grandchildren meet Santa in the TV Comic strip 'A Christmas Story',  the Doctor then returns to Vortis in the annual story 'The Lost Ones' and finally a myriad of adventures in the Doctor Who Give A Show Projector.  Two of these stor...

Send us Fan Mail It's Doctor Who's 57th anniversary, which means it's time for multi Doctor stories galore.  To mark the occasion Dylan and Jack take a listen to 'Out of Time 1' by Matt Fitton.  Which sees the  fourth and tenth Doctors unite against the Daleks. They also take look at DWM comic 'Emperor of the Daleks!' written by Paul Cornell with art by Lee Sulli...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 8 Dylan and Jack look at two stories featuring the Master.  The eighth Doctor DWM comic strip 'The Glorious Dead' by Scott Gray and the seventh Doctor Big Finish play 'Master' by Joseph Lidster. 

Send us Fan Mail In another bonus episode of Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV, Dylan talks to Gareth Kavanagh of Cutaway Comics. They discuss Gareths personal history with the show, Vworp Vworp Magazine, the brand new Lytton comic and some exciting forthcoming projects from Cutaway Comics.  

Send us Fan Mail Dylan and Jack look at three short stories from the Doctor Who universe. Urrozdinee By Mark Gatiss, Save your Self By Terrance Dicks and The Prisoner Alan Stevens & Fiona Moore.

Send us Fan Mail Dylan talks to Quiz of Rassilon host Michael Williams. Michael has worked on Dr Who, appeared in the show and worked at the Doctor Who Experience. In this episode we introduce Michael to a previously unexplored part of the Doctor Who universe. 

Send us Fan Mail Dylan and Jack look at Graham Duff's audio Faith Stealer and the DWM comic strip 'The Flood' written by Scott Gray and drawn by Martin Geraghty. 

Send us Fan Mail In this Bonus episode Dylan is joined by blogger and author Sam Maleski, where they discuss Sam's top 5 underrated stories from the Big Finish range.  

Send us Fan Mail In episode 5 of Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV Dylan and Jack look at two adventures for the sixth doctor. The BBC radio play 'Slipback' written by Eric Saward and the comic strip 'Voyager' written by Steve Parkhouse and drawn by John Ridgeway. 

Send us Fan Mail A bonus episode, in which Dylan talks to writer Gareth Preston about his work for BBV and his love for the 1960's TV Century 21 Dalek comic strips. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Dylan and Jack look at the fifth Doctor comic strips 'Lunar Lagoon' and 'Four Dimensional Vistas' written by Steve Parkhouse and drawn by Mick Austin. As well as well as listening to Big Finish audio 'Psychodrome' by Jonathan Morris.  They also answer the burning questions of fandom. Who is Nanny Who?  When did the Doctor learn to swim...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 3 Dylan and Jack take a look at straight to video drama 'Auton' from BBV. This film from 1997 is written and directed by Nick Briggs and features the return of UNIT and (unsurprisingly) the Autons. They also listen to the Bernice Summerfield play 'The End of the World from Big Finish.