Kasterborous Classic TV: Exploring Doctor Who & Classic Sci-Fi

Lots to talk about in this week's #Doctor Who podKast, in which Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh talk comics, Dream Lords, villains, #Marvel movies and Gareth's upcoming events, including A Morning with Louise Jameson on July 2nd, and the Starburst International Film Festival on 26th-28th of August.

Christian Cawley and James McLean bring you a collection of #DoctorWho news and link-inspired chats in this week's podKast, which focuses on Christian's frustration with the number of in-jokes in Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor #2. Do in-jokes work for you? Do you find meta references a bit over the top these days? Click play to find out what Christian and James have to say on the matt...

Brian Terranova, James McLean and Christian Cawley welcome you to another #DoctorWho podKast with a K, this week talking about Class, the BBC's scheduling concerns, and whether Doctor Who should move away from the format established in 2005 and embrace some of the changes in TV drama since. What do you think? Click play below to listen, and then let us know.

Pearl Mackie is the new #DoctorWho companion, in the year's second biggest Doctor Who news. Unveiled, strangely, during a football match, the actress had her first outing as Bill in a short two minute trailer of knowing meta Dalek-mocking nonsense. But what did we think of it? PLUS: We talk everything from Star Wars to Torchwood, via Monty Python.

We'll be honest, our thoughts on comic strip The World Shapers don't dominate this week's #DoctorWho podKast, which veers this way and that with topical chat (including the strange slowness in the media's reaction to Gareth Thomas' passing) and an interview with Gareth Kavanagh about the forthcoming Audience with Bob Baker at Manchester's Fab Cafe ( http://www.wegottickets.com/event/352929 ) Your...

Christian Cawley and Brian A Terranova lead you through the world of #DoctorWho spinoffs that never were in this week's podKast. Or rather, the ones we would have liked to see. So no mention, for example, of Rose Tyler: Earth Defender, but plenty of chat about UNIT and Ian Chesterton's post-TARDIS adventures. Hit Play to enjoy - it would be wrong not to...

Following up our recent special kommentary on Doctor Who fandom's most embarrassed secret (that would be Dimensions in Time, locked away on YouTube like a barmy aunt of the Queen's), we bring you a sequel: Steven Moffat's Rowan Atkinson-starring Curse of the Fatal Death!

We're bringing you a mammoth 2 hour Doctor Who commentary podKast this week as Christian Cawley, Brian A Terranova, James McLean, and Gareth Kavanagh look back at the serial that closed Season 18 and Tom Baker's seven year tenure in Doctor Who, Logopolis! Did the team enjoy it? Perhaps it's not the classic they thought it was? Cue up your DVD, and hit play at the same time as the podKast team to e...

No, we really did. Christian Cawley, Brian A. Terranova and James McLean sat down in three different locations and actually volunteered to watch #DoctorWho 30 anniversary charity special Dimensions in Time together! And as if that wasn't amazing enough, we had a really good time. I mean, that's really weird, right?

This week's podKast takes a look at the recent news from the Doctor Who world, specifically Peter Capaldi's reported offer to remain for Series 11 (Chris Chibnall's first) and the news that Torchwood's Eve Myles has decided to part company with the show, which has been revived by Big Finish. Your hosts on this shorter podKast are Christian Cawley and James McLean, and we've also got a special - re...

Have too many adverts crippled our erstwhile home, Kasterborous.com ? With the news that the once "Mighty K" is losing another pair of editors - and perhaps the entire writing team - Christian Cawley and James McLean mull over the recent events, complete with a Star Trek-style analogy. Thanks, Jim... PLUS! Gareth Kavanagh teases the third issue of seminal #DoctorWho fanzine Vworp Vworp!, which is...

We're back with a new podKast! Christian Cawley and Brian A Terranova this week guide you through the world of songs inspired by #DoctorWho from the era of the original series. In short, this is a TROCK-free zone (and rightly so, let's face it). But there's more! We also have a small "related news roundup" and spread the word about our former Kasterborous colleagues' new website, which we reckon l...

Episodes 3 and 4 of the four-part 1979 adventure The Horns of Nimon get the kommenatary treatment this week. James McLean, Brian Terranova and Gareth Kavanagh await your company, so cue your DVD, and hit play...

Christian Cawley and James McLean talk #DoctorWho storyboards from The Day of the Doctor, speculate on the 13th Doctor's identity, mull over the similarities between Capaldi and Colin Baker's Doctors, and tantilise you with the possibility of a Ripper Street Series 4 special podKast in the near future. (Expecting part 2 of our Horns of Nimon kommentary? Worry not, it will be along next week...)

Yes, dear listener, we finally did it. After literally months of planning and promises, as well as a few hints, we've produced a kommentary (with a k) for the Graham Williams-era classic/rightly maligned nonsense The Horns of Nimon, starring Tom Baker and Lalla Ward as the Doctor and Romana, with Graham Crowden as Soldeed. James McLean, Brian A Terranova and guest podKaster Gareth Kavanagh gathere...

So, the news has finally been released. Steven Moffat will move on from Doctor Who after Series 10, with Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall taking his place with Series 11 in 2018. To discuss a turn of events that seem so late, if they were a train the conductor wouldn't bother checking tickets, Christian Cawley and James McLean welcome fourth podKaster Gareth Kavanagh to the show this week. We lo...

Brief update to summarise the news of Steven Moffat's departure from #DoctorWho after Series 10, which we'll be dealing with in more detail in the next full podKast...

We had to hit the Fast Return button on this week's podKast following a last-minute personnel issue, so join Christian Cawley and James McLean as they pretty much wing it, covering everything from recent departures in the world of pop culture to DVD commentaries, #StarWars skits, and recent #DoctorWho news. We cover a lot of ground this week, there's so much to talk about! Also: ballpoint or fount...

We're back with our first podKast of 2016. And while it looks as though we won't have any #DoctorWho until the final quarter of the year at the earliest, there is a heck of a lot of stuff to talk about. So join Christian Cawley, Brian Terranova and James McLean as they weigh up everything that's piqueing their interest in the first half of 2016, such as The #X-Files, Ripper Street, #GameofThrones,...

In our second CultKast, Christian Cawley speaks to Tim Follin and John Guilor about the iPad interactive live-action video game Contradiction, which stars Paul Darrow, best known to readers as Kerr Avon from the much-missed BBC TV sci-fi series Blake’s 7.  Darrow plays Paul Rand while Guilor, who has twice lent his voice to new dialogue as the First Doctor (for the Planet of Giants DVD and for Doc...

Charming, heartfelt, full of character and warmth... not a description that you could use for The Husbands of River Song, the 2015 #DoctorWho #Christmas special. Rather, it describes the Jennifer Saunders-narrated, Martin Freeman-voiced Christmas day animation from the creator of The Gruffalo. Should Doctor Who, once the bastion of Christmas Day family viewing, be playing second fiddle to a 26 min...

We're back with #DoctorWho this week as we briefly preview #Christmas special The Husbands of #RiverSong, and have a look at a recent theory concerning the show's low audience figures in 2015 - namely, the idea that family viewing is a thing of the past. What do you mean, we've been here before? Have a listen to see what we think...

Couldn't #DoctorWho Series 9 have finished with a less contentious episode than the disappointing but not really all that bad #HellBent? Capaldi was wonderful once again, as was Coleman - but did the Doctor - and Moffat - really have to go that far with the storyline only to wind up not killing Clara after all? With Christian Cawley, James McLean - and through the wonder of timey wimey editing, Br...

#HeavenSent - the best episode of #DoctorWho Series 9? Has #StevenMoffat knocked it out of the park again? Christian Cawley, James McLean and Brian A Terranova look at the evidence. ..

Wow. Face the Raven, episode 10 of #DoctorWho Series 9, certainly made the podKast team sit up and take notice! This week, it's Brian A Terranova and James McLean on a pre-recorded show, looking at the implications of Face the Raven and Clara's apparent departure. Was she well written enough as a woman, or did writing fall into the trap of "sassiness as a character trait"? And what sort of compani...