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In Episode 85: Baskets of Wrong, Ariel is away, starring in her own spinoff adventure, but Kelvin and Pat are joined by special guest Melissa Kaercher to enthusiastically discuss the epic conclusion to the Second Doctor’s run, The War Games! Join us for facial hair and another phantom Master! Regeneration and glasses-fashion! A digression about […]

In Episode 84: Shrinkage!, the team discuss a trio of tiny-person episodes: the First Doctor adventure Planet of Giants, the Third Doctor adventure Carnival of Monsters, and the Fourth Doctor adventure The Invisible Enemy. Plus, Pat races through a library’s worth of Doctor Who book recommendations, Kelvin shares an impromptu lecture on Polari, and Ariel […]

In Episode 83: Unicorns and Phantom Masters, the gang and special guest Tony Karna visit the Land of Fiction to uncover Doctor Who‘s relationship with other forms of fictionality. Listen as we discuss The Mind Robber, Black Orchid and The Unicorn and the Wasp, touching on a lot of strange pain points along the way: […]

In this particularly sexy-voiced Episode 82: Time and the Scrimshaw, Kelvin, Ariel and the entity known as “Pat” discuss some previously underexplored corners of Doctor Who: First up, one of the very earliest First Doctor adventures, Marco Polo; and next, the cactus-heavy and thankfully non-yellowfaced Fourth Doctor episode Meglos. And there’s more! Mysterious audio engineer [&#8...

In Episode 81: Skritches for the Garm, the gang are joined by a very special guest, the embodiment of galactic badness Himself, The Black Guardian, as we discuss the Fifth Doctor trilogy Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment. We encounter our past selves from 2016, learn how the time-traveling Terminus is retroactively influential, keep obsessively discussing […]

Hey! You got your cosmic horror in my heroic adventure! Hey! You got your heroic adventure in my cosmic horror! Is Doctor Who compatible with Lovecraftian horror? Let’s discuss! In Episode 80: The Shadow over Lovecraft, the team run through a zippy survey of Image of the Fendahl, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, the […]

In this appropriately plus-sized Episode 79, Everyone was Screaming and Nobody was Happy, we cover all fourteen parts of The Trial of a Time Lord, and everything becomes very discursive, unclear, inconclusive, incoherent and incomprehensible, until it all sort of comes apart by the end. By which we mean that this Doctor Who story does […]

In one of the more relaxed installments of Get Off My World!, Episode 78: Inscrutable Who, the gang discuss some of the weirder corners of the classic series: Warrior’s Gate and Ghost Light! Plus, Pat plays the role of trivia-Torquemada as he inflicts impossible and interminable Doctor Who trivia questions on Kelvin, Joshua and Ariel […]

In our super-sized Episode 77: Irregular Acts, the team tries to kick the rust off during our first all-in-person recording since January 2020. Listen to us take a deep dive into UNIT family fun time, babble exuberantly and get lots of little details terribly wrong. (Who is Solomon Glitz?) Hear us discuss the naughty interior […]

Never let it be said that the GOMW crew neglect to address the burning questions of our age! In Episode 76, Ariel and the other clowns zoom in close on the Season 2 William Hartnell serials The Web Planet and The Chase to investigate whether they deserve their Bad Reputation. Will we go deep into […]

Get Off My World is back—and it seems, not a moment too soon! Rested — regenerated — vaxxed and boosted — with new rounds — a new co-host — relaxed swear-word protocols — and a new theme song from The Sevateem! In Episode 75: Anti-Buddhist Evangelist, Josh, Kelvin and Pat are joined by new full-time […]

After a long absence, Get Off My World returns with a special double-length Episode 74: Running Around Getting Killed and Not Getting Killed, wrapping up our survey of Jodie Whittaker’s second season! Join Ariel, Pat, Kelvin and Joshua as we discuss Tesla versus Edison, the English Romantics, Birdemic, the history of mental illness, the Ruth […]

In Episode 73: Beethoven Playing Brahms, the guys talk about fans and showrunners, Charles Dickens, Columbo, Polka-Dot Man and various famous musicians, but mostly about the beginning of Jodie Whittaker’s second season: Spyfall parts 1 and 2, and Orphan 55. As if that wasn’t enough, this episode was recorded live in January 2020 at CONsole […]

In Episode 72: Goofy Overlords, your socially-distanced hosts Zoom their way through a discussion of the First Doctor adventure The Ark; conclude their coverage of the Fifth Doctor’s Doctor Who Magazine comic strips with “Lunar Lagoon,” “4-Dimensional Vistas” and “The Moderator”; and wind up Big Finish’s Stockbridge trilogy with a discussion of the a...

We at Get Off My World are longtime experts at social distancing, and we recognize that in challenging times like this it’s important to give guidance and distraction to all our listeners. And so we are proud to present Episode 71: Ignore All Humans, in which we discuss the 1980s Fifth Doctor comic strip stories […]

Episode 70: Not a Lot of Legit Neuroscience is the start of an ambitious three-episode double-arc, as the guys begin discussions about Doctor Who Monthly’s 1980s Stockbridge comics and Big Finish’s “Stockbridge trilogy of audios from the 2000s! This episode we discuss “The Neutron Knights,” “The Tides of Time” and “Castle of Fear,” and if […]

We’re back! After a long absence, Get Off My World! is back with Episode 69: It’s Okay for It to Just Happen Like That. Pat and Kelvin are joined by Ariel Leaf and Joseph Scrimshaw in front of a live audience at Convergence 2019. We discuss the state of Doctor Who (real and imaginary), a […]

In Episode 68: Hippie Sh*t!, the boys and Ariel Leaf really chew the mammoth, if you know what we mean. We discuss Doctor Who and theatre, the War Master, and the classic Sixth Doctor episode Attack of the Cybermen, and Kelvin shares a new Doctor Who-ish short story. There’s a lot going on in this […]

In Episode 67: Kids Love Murder, the guys and Ariel Leaf cover a whole crazy amount of Doctor Who territory. Listener David D. poses a terrific question about child-friendly Doctor Who that our hosts could have discussed for hours, but instead somehow leads into an earnest discussion of Time and the Rani, after which Ariel […]

In Episode 66: What Did You Do, Josh?, the second of two episodes recorded live at CONsole Room 2019, the guys are joined by Scrimshaw-spawn Aaron English Scrimshaw to discuss body function jokes, Napoleon, the Doctor’s elasticity, and play some particularly chaotic rounds of the Death Zone, in front of an audience that would make […]

Get Off My World! returns with Episode 65: The Substitute Teacher, the first of two episodes recorded live at CONsole Room 2019. In this episode, Joshua, Kelvin and Ariel Leaf are joined by monster expert and intellectual fraud Matt Kessen to discuss the 2019 New Year’s special Resolution, Adric’s bad rap, characters who make Kelvin […]

In the surprisingly emotionally fraught Episode 64: You’re Gonna Get Dunked, Ariel Leaf and the guys discuss the final five episodes of Jodie Whittaker’s first season: “Onslaught of Opinionated Outsiders,” “Unusually Pro-Robot,” “It’s Going to Be Suddenly Aliens,” “Surprisingly Authentic Norwegian-ness,” and “Tim Shaw is a Dic...

Your hosts cover a lot of emotional ground in Episode 63: I Tolerate This Century But I Don’t Enjoy It. The guys and Ariel Leaf discuss what they’re enjoying about series 11, the family dynamics of large TARDIS crews, the evolution of the show since 1963, and a whole lot of man-thigh! Plus Pat shares […]

In Episode 62: Get the Cloister Bell Ready, the guys and Ariel Leaf dive into the first half of Jodie Whittaker’s first season. Topics of discussion include writing and politics, companion overcrowding, fictionalizing real history, Pting spinoffs and space-racists! What’s the verdict on the season so far? Take a listen and then drop us an […]

In Episode 61: I’m Making Air Quotes, People, in honor of Jodie Whittaker’s debut, guest host Ariel Leaf is joined by guests Melissa Kaercher, Gabriela Santiago, Zhac Rahkonen and Alison Anderson for a special all-women installment of Get Off My World! Ariel and crew discuss Whittaker’s first episode The Woman Who Fell to Earth; which […]