The Doctor Who Show

Rob and Dave discuss that Russell T Davies will make a return to Doctor Who in time to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who in 2023, and at least one series beyond that. This is an unplanned (unsurprisingly!) episode we've knocked out ahead of tomorrow's flagship episode of the show, where we tackle the Virgin New Adventure novel, Lungbarrow. "I’m beyond excited to be back on my favourite...

Welcome to the twelfth episode of a short podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. In today’s podcast, Rob sits down with his Doctor Who Show co-host, Dave, who actually remembers issue 186 of Doctor Who Magazine from May 1992 - which is the source material for today's batch of letters. This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go...

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode! This time, our top cliffhangers. And because there are so many across Classic and Modern Doctor Who, we do 10 picks each... and still manage to steer the episode to under 20 minutes, total, in spite of discussing 20 cliffhangers! If you've never heard a List Makers episode before, these are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who to...

As two guys who were out there in fandom - the first time - in the 1980s and 1990s, we both have really fond memories of buying Doctor Who Magazine and reading the comic strip in it. Then, quite independently of one another (we didn't know each other!), in different Australian cities, we stopped reading the comic, long before we stopped with the magazine itself. In this episode we discuss when we...

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. In today’s podcast, Rob sits down with Mark John from the Diddly Dum podcast to discuss the letters from a vintage issue of DWM from Doctor Who's 25th anniversary year. This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go anywhere the guest wants them to go. Th...

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode! This time, our top Earth-based stories. A topic that can be taken in a number of ways, as we go on to prove. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for futur...

On July 29, the BBC announced that Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker would be leaving Doctor Who after a six-part series later in 2021 and three specials in 2022, ending around November with the centenary celebrations of the BBC. In the spirit of our '21 Replacements For 12' episode on February 1, 2017 (where we came up with 21 potential new Doctors to replace Peter Capaldi), here we discuss 14 p...

Early in July we ran a Twitter poll with two Modern Who series picks from Dave and two from Rob. We asked which one you'd like us to discuss in the July episode and the results, after 268 votes were... Series 7a - 9.3% Series 6  - 14.6% Series 9  - 35.4% Series 2  - 40.7% So tonight we honour the vote by discussing David Tennant's debut series as The Doctor. What did we make of it at the time? Wha...

Welcome to the tenth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. Normally Rob sits down with his co-host Dave, or a guest, to talk about letters from classic issues of Doctor Who Magazine. In today’s podcast, however, Dave is presenting letters to Rob from a classic issue of Sonic Screwdriver – the fanzine of the Victorian Doctor Who Fan Club...

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode! This time, our top stories of the 1980s. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are also welcome; get i...

Regular listeners will know we don't talk a lot of Big Finish on the show. We occasionally mention it in news stories and Rob recently reviewed the new Eccleston box set, "Ravagers", but on the whole we aren't a Big Finish podcast and often point our listeners towards the excellent, Sirens of Time podcast by fellow Aussies Dwayne Bunney and Philip Edney. Tonight, however, we talk about our backgro...

Welcome to the ninth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on our podcast feed every month in addition to The List Makers and our flagship Doctor Who Show episodes. These are short podcasts where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t know an...

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode!  This time, our top worst special effects in Doctor Who. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are als...

What started as an off-hand comment in an episode last season has grown into its own topic on today's show - Cool Spaceships in Doctor Who! Which are the ships we think are cool between 1963 and 2021... and why? Before then, we do our usual news and short topics which, this month, includes some commentary on both the Noel Clarke and John Barrowman situations. Topics we aren't happy to be talking a...

Welcome to the eighth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in addition to The List Makers and our flagship Doctor Who Show episodes. These are short (20 minute-ish) shows where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t k...

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures - Ravagers is the mouthful of a title that is an umbrella for three audio adventures released May 13 featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, written by Nicholas Briggs. Story details below. In this quick episode of The Doctor Who Show Presents, Rob flies solo to talk about listening to all three stories on the day of release. This is quite spoil...

Well, the download figures are in and it seems you really enjoyed last month's LIST MAKERS, so let's do it again!  These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you're enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Ras...

On July 29, 2018, Rob and Dave released the popular, 'Classic Doctors in Nu Who Episodes' episode. Quite why they didn't follow this up with a sequel covering the reverse scenario question eludes them to this day. Enter listener Owen Prince (@kellogs24 on Twitter if you want to say hello), who recently suggested, ever so nicely, that making the sequel - the podcast you'll hear today - would be a r...

Following the popularity of our PRIMARY SOURCES episodes since they started dropping late in 2020 - particularly their 20 minute run-time - the Doctor Who Show is unveiling a new monthly show with a similar short format. Doctor Who fans love lists. Are we right? The List Makers will see the guys take a topic each month that involves creating a Top 5 list. They will then run through their lists, wi...

Welcome to the seventh episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. These are short (20 minute-ish) shows where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t know anything about the content of t...

In early March Rob and Dave ran a Twitter poll to tell them what season of Doctor Who they should talk about in the episode at the end of that month; the very episode you are about to listen to now. The choices were Season Six (1968/69); Season 11 (1973/74); Season 14 (1976/77); and the David Tennant era specials (2009/10). 140 votes were cast, with Season 6 winning on 37.9% of the vote. After a b...

Welcome to the sixth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. These are short (20 minute-ish) shows where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t know anything about the letters until...

If you heard our November 2020 episode, you may recall a letter from listener 'JT' that expressed interest in us doing a 'Stories for Doctor Who Virgins' episode, whereby we'd recommend a story from each Doctor's era - classic and modern - that you could show someone who has never seen Doctor Who before and, hopefully, get a good reaction! We love taking on listener suggestions so here, a mere thr...

Welcome to the fifth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. These are short (20 minute-ish) shows where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t know anything about the letters until...

For some Doctor Who fans, paying a large fee to go to a convention, to only then stand in queues to pay even more money for autographs and/or photographs is the norm, and they're more than happy to do it. But things never used to be this way. While Producer Rob holidays in the South of France, join regular host Dave, irregular co-host Richard (The Goodies Pirate Podcast, Space Fall: A Blakes 7 Pod...