Drunktor Who: A Doctor Who Podcast

We watch "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" (Series 11, Episode 10) where the Fam answer a distress call on said planet but (probably due to budget constraints) miss out on said action. Whilst puttering about waiting for something to happen, Ryan goes on a rescue mission, Graham goes on a revenge mission, Yaz goes on mission of discovery, and the Doctor discovers her old friend Tim Shaw... er... Tz...

We watch "It Takes You Away" (Series 11, Episode 10) where the Doctor and entourage materialize at a remote scary cabin in present day Norway. Whilst at said cabin they discover Hanne, a young blind girl who’s father has disappeared... presumably taken by horrific creatures she hears outside. A mystery? Oh, it’s on! Ryan discovers the scary monsters outside are a hoax and the Doctor finds Hanne’s...

We watch "The Witchfinders" (Series 11, Episode 8) where the Doctor and the Whoby Crew land in 17th century England and find some fun loving Wiccans! Whilst it didn't go down in that exact way, they did encounter some smart unmarried women... who were unfortunately thought to be be consorting with the devil since they were... smart unmarried women? Sigh. So come for the period misogyny, King James...

We watch "Kerblam!" (Series 11, Episode 7) where the Doctor and her companions find jobs to help pay for the Doctor’s fez addiction. Whilst manual laboring at the Kerblam! distribution center, the Doctor investigates some spooky goings on, Ryan has order fulfillment PTSD, Yaz bonds with her mentor Dan (umm... not so fast there Yaz), and Graham plays matchmaker for coworkers Kira (ouch!) and Charli...

We watch "Demons of the Punjab" (Series 11, Episode 6) where the Doctor takes the Fam to witness the (first?!?) wedding of Yaz's Grandmother. Whilst in India circa 1947, Yaz learns that her Grandma Umbreen unsuccessfully married for love, Graham and Ryan learn racism isn’t just about the color of your skin, and the Doctor realizes (again?) that humanity's worst enemy is humanity (we're really sorr...

We Watch "The Tsuranga Conundrum" (Series 11, Episode 5) where the Who Crew wakes up on the titular medical ship after a metal detecting mission goes horribly wrong. Whilst recuperating on the Tsuranga, the Doctor battles latest-enemy-of-the-week-Pting (definitely not Stitch... OK Disney lawyers?) to keep them from eating the ship, Graham and Ryan play mid-husband assisting Yoss in the birth of hi...

We watch "Arachnids in the UK" (Series 11, Episode 4) where the Doctor finally gets her unwitting crew back to Sheffield safe and soundish. Whilst there, Yaz has the Doctor around for a poorly home-cooked meal, Ryan deflects advances from both Yaz's sister and multiple eight-legged freaks, plus Graham has a lovely chat with his dead wife... until a giant spider shows up. As they do. This episode h...

We watch "Rosa" (Series 11, Episode 3) where the Doctor and the Who Crew travel to 1950s Alabama, USA. Whilst there, our non-white appearing time travelers encounter good old southern "hospitality" from the "period-accurate-properly-white" natives, then our white appearing time travelers enjoy genuine good old southern hospitality, and finally our non-white genuine hero Rosa Parks encounters galac...

We watch "The Ghost Monument" (Series 11, Episode 2) where the Doctor and her new friends put out their thumbs hoping for a lift whilst in the vacuum of space. Their hitchhiking attempt successful, they get caught up in the latest series of The Amazing Race: Galactic Edition and are tasked to finding the titular Ghost Monument. Will their next clue take them to the desolate planet of Desolation? D...

We watch "The Woman Who Fell To Earth" (Series 11, Episode 1) where the newly regenerated Doctor attempts to do what David Bowie's alien perfected 42 years prior to her, then current, introduction. (Seriously... 42 years? The answer to the ultimate question? Douglas Adams's estate is totally rolling around the graveyard.) Whilst said introduction was occurring, the Doctor meets her latest nemesis:...

We again dive into the vaults to watch a story from Doctor Who TOS (Those Old Serials): 1982’s "Earthshock." For this 6th relapse episode, we watched a 5th Doctor serial, making this our 4th official classic era Doctor PCE (Pre Christopher Eccleston). Whilst we marvel at the story's comparatively slow pacing, Peter Davidson's Doctor with his three companions travel to 26th century Earth and encoun...

Steve? John? Friend-of-the-show Tim? Discussing our just completed (re-and/or-first) watch of the 10th Series of 'Doctor Who'? Girl, you know it’s true! Steve attempts to get a Big Finish out of John but will settle for a Little Fake. Friend-of-the-show Tim asks us to recast Who companions and villains with comic/movie characters. All whilst John lazily microwaves the leftovers of past their prime...

We watch "Twice Upon a Time" (Series 10, Episode 13) where the Doctor has doubts about continuing with his existence after battling the Cybermen... but reconsiders after encountering himself post battling the Cybermen. Whilst said Cyber-jerking is occurring, "Bill" returns to show the Doctors what wonderful lives they had, “Nardole” shows up because... who cares... it’s "Nardy!", and then "Clara"...

We watch "The Doctor Falls" (Series 10, Episode 12) where the Doctor discovers that Bill has undergone an extreme makeover. Whilst said unveiling was occurring, Nardole gets all Little House on the Prairie, Missy (re?) grows some balls and takes out the Master... who then returns the favor (try to unwrap that time conundrum in your brain hole), the Doctor gets a visit from the Ghost of Doctors', p...

We watch "World Enough and Time" (Season 10, Episode 11) where Doctor Who, Thing One, and the other one maintain at least three feet of distance so that they don’t accidentally remove an innocent's major arteries. Whilst said life protectoring is occurring, Doctor Who (aka Missy) gets in touch with her masculine side, Thing One (aka Nardole) mostly kills time 'til episode next, and the other one (...

On this episode of the Drunken Red Dwarf Cast, we watch "Camille" (Series 4, Episode 1) where the crew rescue said titular female android who is the sole survivor of a crashed passenger ship. Or is she? Well... she is the only survivor. But is she what she appears to be? Hmm? Whilst the crew wrestles with that conundrum, Kryten falls for Camille, Rimmer falls for an apparent female Rimmer, and Apr...

We watch "Eaters of Light" (Series 10, Episode 10) where the Doctor takes the Who-by Crew to second century Scotland just to prove Bill's theory wrong about an historical event. Whilst the Doctor was eating crow after he was proved wrong, Nardole discovered he would rather converse with than eat said crows. Lastly, Bill ended up eating her own proverbial crow after learning she was way less sexual...

We watch "Empress of Mars" (Season 10, Episode 9) where much of the Who Crew travels to Mars during the Victorian Era to witness firsthand what happens to subjugated natives encountering a "superior race." Sigh. Whilst said cultural exchange was occurring, the Doctor wrongly entrusts his human friends with keeping the peace, Bill spends some quality girl time with said Ice Warrior Empress, and Nar...

We watch "The Lie of the Land" (Season 10, Episode 8) where the Doctor taunts Bill into murdering himself knowing she’ll watch him regenerate. Wait... did he instruct regeneration in one of his prior well loved college lectures? Move along... nothing to see here people. Whilst we ignore the improbability of said lecture occurring, the Doctor does a bit of cruising, Nardole takes a six month breath...

We watch "The Pyramid at the End of the World" (Series 10, Episode 7) where the Monks show up on our doorstep with that titular pyramid. And you thought the Jehovah’s Witnesses were annoying? (Ba dum bum) Whilst said parenthesized rimshot was occurring, Nardole settles in as the Doctor's seeing eye companion, the Doctor visits the World's Deadliest Indoor Garden (premiering Wednesday’s on FOX), an...

We watch "Extremis" (Series 10, Episode 6) where the Who Crew tries to find out why everyone resorts to voluntarily 'checking out' of existence after reading an ancient Vatican text. Whilst said investigating is occurring, Bill gets Doc-blocked by the Pope, Nardole acts all butch by threatening to kick everyone’s ass (as if...), and the Doctor discovers most events in this episode actually happene...

We watch "Oxygen" (Series 10, Episode 5) where the Doctor, Bill and Nardole take a field trip to a space station and find out that the answer to ‘Who’s there?’ is, zombies! Whilst waiting for the inevitable punchline, Nardole regrets playing hooky from vault guard duty, Bill nearly becomes one of the walking dead (can’t sue unless The Walking Dead is capitalized... oh damn it...), and the Doctor b...

We watch "Knock Knock" (Series 10, Episode 4) where Bill asks the Doctor the absolute worst thing one friend can ask of another: Can you help me move? Oh the horror... Whilst said free labour was being acquired, the Doctor was messing about in the dated kitchen, Bill was being called out for her questionable taste in music by her new roommates (who are in turn taken out by a wood lice infestation)...

We watch "Thin Ice" (Series 10, Episode 3) where the Tardis takes the Doctor and Bill to early 19th century London in order to experience racism first hand in the era of not-yet-banned slavery. Good times... good times... Whilst Bill was rightfully questioning if her appearance would draw attention, the Doctor was wrongfully assuming this episode’s big bad was not of this world. Alas... our baddie...

We watch "Smile" (Series 10, Episode 2) where the Doctor takes new companion Bill on her first fully fledged companion-y adventure! Does he take her to the distant past? Does he take her to the distant future? Let’s spin the wheel to find out! No whammies! No whammies! Doot... dooot... doooot... distant future it is! So whilst at an apparently uncolonized off-earth colony, newly sentient robots th...