The Entirety of Flight Through Entirety: A Doctor Who Podcast Collection

This week, a number of affluent white people in pastel clothes get eaten by giant slugs, in a way that it’s hard to object to too strenuously. But does this episode have things to say about us as well?

This week, Brendan, Todd and Nathan found ourselves completely unable to connect and terrified of being abandoned by everyone we’ve ever cared about. Fortunately there was an excellent episode of Doctor Who to cheer us up.

This week, we’re all trying to stand very still and to remain completely calm, distracting ourselves from our predicament by reminiscing about that episode of Press Gang with the Zectron 2000 high security briefcases. And waiting for it all to go boom.

Monday 1 January 2007. The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane. We bring our first season to a close with the new beginning of Doctor Who’s most successful spinoff, in which a beloved TV heroine from our childhood was given one last chance (or twenty-seven last chances) to save the world.

Five episodes in and it’s the start (again) of a new season and a new era of Doctor Who. So how will these five grizzled veterans of the Time Wars cope with a space station full of babies and the concept of music itself in a lavish new non-binary form?

Sunday 22 October 2006. Torchwood: Everything Changes. It’s 2006, which is just the time to launch a gritty and adult Doctor Who spinoff — Torchwood, a show with an immortal lead character which is basically about the finality of death. But has Torchwood learned anything from its parent show’s many, many launches and re-launches?

Sunday 25 December 2005. The Christmas Invasion. Just nine months after Doctor Who’s twenty-first century iteration burst triumphantly onto our screens, we all get together with Steven B to watch as the BBC’s flagship drama introduces its exciting new lead to nearly 10 million viewers on Christmas Day on BBC One. It ends up going pretty well.

Saturday 2 January 1971. Terror of the Autons. It feels like only a year ago that Doctor Who underwent a strange and cataclysmic soft reboot, and it looks like it’s happening again this week. Or is it?

Saturday 3 January 1970. Spearhead from Space. In the first week of the 1970s, Doctor Who is back, with a new Doctor, a new alien threat, new companions and a new earthbound premise. So what makes it the same show?

Saturday 5 November 1966. The Power of the Daleks. A big week for beginnings this week, with a new Doctor, a new origin story for the Daleks, and a whole new approach to defeating the bad guys. Oh, and a new podcast to discuss them all on. So let’s welcome Patrick Troughton to the studio floor, as we discuss The Power of the Daleks.

A big week for beginnings this week, with a new Doctor, a new origin story for the Daleks, and a whole new approach to defeating the bad guys. Oh, and a new podcast to discuss them all on. So let’s welcome Patrick Troughton to the studio floor, as we discuss The Power of the Daleks.

It’s Christmas, and it’s time for a simple swashbuckling adventure in which the new Doctor and his new friend Ruby rescue a baby from being eaten by goblins through the power of song. Also featuring appropriate festive serving suggestions. Ncuti Gatwa introduces us to his BBC press-on moustache in this official Doctor Who video released a couple of days before Christmas.

This week, the Doctor and River live happily ever after, and Jack Shanahan joins us to discuss The Husbands of River Song.

In the last of the Sixtieth Anniversary specials, an old Doctor and a new UNIT are no match for an old villain, and it’s up to a new Doctor to save the day and to join forces with Donna to save the old Doctor as well. Next stop: everywhere.

From Skaro to Gallifrey, twelve episodes of one of the strangest seasons in Doctor Who’s history. What did we think, what did we learn, and what are we most looking forward to? And, as always, who would we snog, marry or avoid?

This week, we’re all wandering around a spaceship trying to have meaningful conversations about our friendships while simultaneously being horrified by how big and old we all are. Here’s the behind-the-scenes Xwitter thread about the making of this episode by the director of Wild Blue Yonder, Tom Kingsley.

This week, the Doctor learns that mere relentless persistence is no match for the inevitability of loss, and a Doctor Who spinoff is created which we will never get to see. It’s Hell Bent.

This week, Nathan, Richard, Todd, James, Peter and Simon get on the phone just hours after watching The Star Beast, to talk about how great Sylvia Noble is, basically. And somehow, they fail to mention Nerys even once. And here’s a link to Simon’s recent interview with Katy Manning.

This week, Rob Valentine drops by to spend four-and-a-half billion years admiring how clever Steven Moffat, Peter Capaldi, Rachel Talalay and Murray Gold are. It’s Heaven Sent.

This week, we’re hanging out in a mystical London street full of Sontarans, Judoon and Cybermen, investigating a murder with Johnny Spandrell — only to find, to our horror, that the murder hasn’t happened yet. And, of course, that it’s time for Clara Oswald to Face the Raven.

This week, in orbit of the planet Neptune, a Doctor Who story is created which kills literally everyone who watches it. Which is why we should probably have thought twice before inviting the lovely Jeremy Radick to discuss it with us.

This week, we’re all enjoying bombing and threatening one another, until the Doctor comes along and delivers a long speech about New Cruel People, which starts making us feel bad about ourselves. And fair enough. It’s The Zygon Inversion.

This week, we’ve invited twenty million Zygons over for cocktails, and now we’re starting to feel self-conscious about cooking up all that salt-and-pepper squid. And so soon we’re involved in an international political thriller that takes us from Fake New Mexico all the way to Madeupistan. It’s The Zygon Invasion.

It’s been a mere 900 years since last week’s episode, and it’s time to check in with Ashildr to see if she’s still the naive and loving young girl she was back in her Viking village days. Or — like the rest of us — has she simply turned into Peter Capaldi’s Doctor? It’s The Woman Who Lived.

This week, we remind ourselves of what the Doctor stands for, as we watch him train up some very silly Vikings to be sweet and funny enough to see off an invasion by big stupid monsters with mouths full of teeth. Stacey Smith? joins us to discuss the story of The Girl Who Died.