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My. Gosh! What can we even say here that will prepare you for this episode? You have seen FUGITIVE OF THE JUDOON already, right? Go watch it first, silly, then come back and listen to us break it down into relatively manageable chunks and theorize the crap out of things! Because, hoo boy, do we have some theories! Also!! If you're headed to Gallifrey One next month, please join us Saturday morning...

NIKOLA TESLA'S NIGHT OF TERROR! Yes, Doctor Who is in fine form this week with likely one of their best historical guest stars in recent memory! Are there small flaws in the episode? Yes, but we get them out of the way quickly and dive into a rich story that has some great action and lots of excellent character moments! Join us for the ride...we promise to keep the electricity jokes to a minimum!

This week John & Taylor review the 3rd story of Season 12: ORPHAN 55! It's a classic base-under-siege story with some decent twists and a timely message for a world currently burning! This story also has to carry the momentum from the season opener and, honestly, stumbles a little. However, we find the good, try and reconcile the less good, and Taylor takes a moment to get up on his soapbox for al...

The rollercoaster is rolling! After a powerful season opener on New Year's Day, Spyfall Part 2 continues a very masterful run as the Doctor and Team TARDIS work to contain the Master and thwart Daniel Barton's plan with the Kasaavin! John & Taylor break down the episode, dive into the great aspects, ponder the elements that didn't quite fit, and sit gobsmacked at the impact this story has on the g...

Happy New Year, and happy new season of Doctor Who! Join John, Taylor, and Lauren Bancroft (@Bancroffed)as they rundown the Season 12 debut episode! Hear all their thoughts and general excitement about the new season right here! THEY'VE GOT THEORIES! Just who are the Kavaavin? Are they a new race of aliens The Doctor hasn't come across, or an old foe? Is O who he says he is, or is he just saying t...

2019 is nearly at a close. Christmas is on the horizon, so John and Taylor settle in by the fire to review the animated recreation of The Macra Terror! Incidentally, BBC America is showing this story on the evening of December 26th if you've never seen it! There's lots of discussion in this episode along with news of Season 12, Gallifrey One, and yes we do talk about Hellier now that John has seen...

Well, we thought we'd hit bottom all those years ago with Sleep No More and The Twin Dilemma and probably some others. But if there's one thing we tend to be good at, it's finding the good (or at least the decent) in a story that is otherwise lacking. And we do our best with that for TIMELASH, a 6th Doctor two-parter that has been called the worst story of Doctor Who. Thankfully, we also have a to...

This week it's war!! John & Taylor review the 7th Doctor story BATTLEFIELD! It's been described as a moody neo-Arthurian tale and we pack all our thoughts (and they are many) into 80 minutes of Doctor Who goodness. Turns out Arthur all his lot are all from a parallel dimension where magic is as real as science. Ace gets tossed from a lake complete with sword (we welcome our new explosives expert o...

It was a dark and stormy night when The Doctor and Sarah Jane land on Karn...and fall right into quite the homage to Frankenstein. Heralded by some, maligned by others, you can't deny the place that THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS holds in Doctor Who history! The adventure is surprisingly tight, the performances just over the top enough to be peak Doctor Who, and really without this story there are more than...

Every now and then Doctor Who tries something new, something a little different. At times it works and at times it doesn't. Black Orchid was Doctor Who's attempt at a classic British murder mystery. It was a notable effort, but the execute may have left a little to be desired. John & Taylor come at the story from different points of view and ultimately make as much sense as they can of it. Grab yo...

John and Taylor start off this spooky season with the Matt Smith/Jenna Coleman story "Hide!" What exactly lurks in the hall of Caliburn Hall? And does it imply that the spirits we see are ghosts or are they echos contained within the walls of a location? Or are they people trapped in a pocket universe! We geek out over this and some of our favorite paranormal theories! Join us! Share us with frien...

John and Taylor (sadly, minus Lauren) are back to collect their final piece in their own Key to Time saga! They revisit and recapture their review of The Caves of Androzani! Peter Davison's final story and what many call the best Doctor Who story ever. We discuss many of the Shakespearean and Phantom of the Opera nods, the troubles with giant bats, and how none of this would have happened if they...

If there's one thing we're good at doing on Podcastica, it's taking a story we don't really love and either finding the best parts of it or just have a good time taking apart its worst bits. For everything the Doctor Who TV Movie eventually gave us, it really wasn't all that great! So John & Taylor endured it again to reclaim this lost episode, but they brought Lauren along for the ride (and she's...

This episode replaces our original Episode 14, which was lost to time when the Weeping Angels got hold of it! This time, John & Taylor are joined by Lauren Bancroft to review one of the most solid, well-written, and best executed episodes in Doctor Who history! We try to find fault. We try to reason in some plot holes, but at best we get one. Blink's praise is well-deserved and we revel in it. We...

John and Taylor are joined by Lauren Bancroft as they set off on an adventure to recreate their missing episodes! First up, Episode 15: Last Christmas! The Doctor and Clara find themselves in a dream...which is a dream...inside a dreamworld of dreams...which is not so much adjacent to, but rather inside a dream. And this dream is run by facehugging dream crabs that themselves have rather gingerly...

We've made it, friends! We've reached the end of The Key to Time series with a six-part whopper THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR! The Doctor and Romana land on Atrios in the midst of a seemingly fierce war with Zeos. But Zeos kind of...isn’t there. Is the Marshal of Atrios wagging the dog or are darker, much darker, forces at work? Say, a crystal jelly skull behind a wonky mirror? We dive into this story and...

We are nearly through The Key to Time series! This time, John & Taylor review The Power of Kroll and find themselves an absolute banger! Not the story, though it's rather enjoyable, but that Kroll chant! They desperately want to find a fan who is comfortable creating beats and who is will to help us craft a dancefloor jam to honor Kroll! We have lots more to say, so grab your green paint, settle i...

We're into the back half of the Key to Time series and this time John & Taylor find that, on the whole, the series stumbles a little with The Androids of Tara. There are some good parts, certainly, but there is also much that our duo wonder "Why'd they do it that way?" Either way, they find the best bits and suggest changes to improve the rest! Come check it out, please subscribe & rate the show,...

Aggrocrags return! John & Taylor continue their review of the entire Key to Time series with The Stones of Blood! We already loved the two stories before this and Stones only builds on what could be considered peak Classic Who! The hunt for the Key to Time takes the Doctor and Romana to Earth where everybody must get stooooned! And by stoned we mean, devoured by living stone from an alien planet t...

John and Taylor dig into the beginning of The Key to Time series with The Ribos Operation! And, frankly, they love it! A wholly underrated story, they dive into its virtues and get ready to follow the adventure until all the pieces are collected! Ignore the fact that we already did The Pirate Planet...find the link to that ep in the show notes!

We've nearly finished watching the final stories of all the Doctors (only the epic The War Games remains), but this time we witness the debut of the Cybermen and departure of the First Doctor with The Tenth Planet! It's something of a Doctor-lite episode, so does that ultimately help or hurt the story? We discuss that and all the wild accents (again) in this great story!

This time John & Taylor take it back to the Wild Wild West. Nope, no Will Smith to speak of, but we find Doctor Caligari, Dodo DuPont, and Steven Regret possibly regretting their choice to visit Tombstone, AZ in 1881 as the get themselves mixed up in the bad blood between the Earps and Clantons. Will they make it out alive or will the Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon drive them mad?

London 1941! There’s a war on, there’s a con on, and someone’s looking for his mum. With these stories, the Moff arrives in signature Moff style with commonplace items turned scary, a deeply emotional family story, and an answer telegraphed well ahead of time. Plus, we get the introduction of Captain Jack! John & Taylor start to add to their collection of 9th Doctor reviews by adding the quite enj...

While investigating a series of mysterious sinkings, The Doctor discovers that the Master is planning to align himself with a long-dormant race of sea people (why they developed legs underwater, we have no idea) simply to hurt the humans the Doctor loves so much! Can the Doctor defeat the Master and the bureaucracy of the Royal Navy?! All while the soundtrack is provided by a broken Speak & Spell?...

The Mara, done chillin’ in the recesses of Tegan’s mind, sets our team on an adventure to Manussa where he’s/it’s (I double checked its gender) determined to return to full strength in a move worthy of Voldemort. However, all it’s armed with (pun...snakes have no arms) is a ritual and a crystal stolen from the hood of an 84 Chrysler LeBaron convertible. John and Taylor are back to review the 5th D...