Trust Your Doctor

But I did not shoot the vortisaur. This is the start of our crazy little romp through Big Finish/Virgin Missing Adventures/questionable quality. It’s Storm Warning, written by Alan Barnes and released in January of 2001. Storm Warning can be purchased for $3 (or your local equivalent) on Big Finish’s website. Show-notes: 10:56 Room 217 in the book and 237 in the movie. 22:55 Ok, if you...

Hey look, kaboom and vroom rhyme. This week we start a new era, and then immediately end it. It’s a single episode long, albeit a much longer than usual episode. It’s a bit weird, you may not have heard of it. It’s called The TV Movie, written by Matthew Jacobs and aired in May of 1996. Show-notes: 22:55 He should have worn it cause he’s not a crook. 39:53 They mentioned it...

And with that, it ends. Trust Your Doctor would like to announce that we’re going on a 7 year hiatus. We’ll return with the TV Movie in April of 2024. Until then, we hope you enjoy this look back at the Seventh Doctor as well as the classic show as a whole. Show-notes: 14:18 Mostly Made Up Doctor Who Episode Guide is one of the best Doctor Who podcasts out there. 22:21 “Dinner to...

Do you even know what pyrotechnics are? This month you can tell we were kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel. The problem is not that there’s no X-Men stuff to cover, it’s that theres too much. And too much of it is too complex for us to put together an episode in a month. So we decided to cover Night of the Sentinels, the first two episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series. It was w...

No offense intended, of course. We did it. We’ve reached the end of the classic Doctor Who. The show is dead. We’re dead. Everything is dead. Which is kind of weird, because the story is called Survival. It was written by Rona Munro and aired in November and December of 1989. Show-notes: 6:30 Wow, it’s real. But apparently black cat appreciation day also exists and is on August 1...

In a world where everyone sucks at their job… We’re so close I can taste it. Maybe that’s the chocolate bar I just had though. I don’t know. Well, whatever. It’s The Curse of Fenric, written by Ian Briggs and aired in October and November of 1989. Show-notes: 7:22 Wonder where he was touring . 19:48 Which you can hear Dylan read here . 26:14 This dog might be the hero...

Stupefy! Halfway through the final season wow. This week we’re back with possibly the most confusing story ever broadcast in the history of television. I promise. It’s Ghost Light, written by Marc Platt, aired October of 1989. Show-notes: 5:07 Yeah, apparently they used a real house just for the exterior and apparently the observatory was added in post production. 13:37 Well searching...

This week’s episode is brought to you by death. It’s the final season. (To the tune of final countdown). Can you believe it? Well we’re almost at our crazy dark years plan and it’s going to be great, I promise. Until then, it’s Battlefield, written by Ben Aaronovitch and aired in September of 1989. Show-notes: 6:41 Apparently the silver bullets killing werewolves idea...

As opposed to a benevolent psychic eye. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is not, as you might expect from our comments, Doctor Who. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is actually Trust Your Doctor. What a twist! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was written by Stephen Wyatt and aired in December of 1988 and January of 1989. Show-notes: 11:25 He was a British guy who traveled to Hawaii, New Zealand, and...

We don’t eat while recording. Surprise. This month we return to watch another trilogy that we actually watched in December (I think. I can’t even remember anymore.) It’s X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse. Logan is currently sitting at what 95% on Rotten Tomatoes? Which is a pretty far cry from Apocalypse, but we sat through that movie for you anyway. Show-no...

Ow. This week it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination! No, that’s not right. What else happened around that time? It’s Silver Nemesis, written by Kevin Clarke and aired November and December of 1988. Show-notes: 5:18 Because of this crap . Thanks people of the past. Thanks for doing this. Calculating dates is really something your descendants wanted to...

In this story Davros acts as some insane Willy Wonka knockoff. Are you happy? We’re happy. Definitely happy. No insane dictator holding a gun to our backs making sure we’re happy. Nope. Definitely happy. The Happiness Patrol, written by Graeme Curry and aired in November of 1988. Show-notes: 1:32 The Thatcher “regime” lasted from 1979 to 1990. Apparently there’s no te...

Just like that John Travolta movie. This week we move into season 25. Can you believe we’ve almost finished 25 years of Doctor Who? Time wise that’s almost half of all the time it’s existed. It’s Remembrance of the Daleks, written by Ben Aaronvitch and aired in October of 1988. Show-notes: 7:09 Quite possibly the most simple money system the world has ever known . Just look...

And the inevitable disappointment that comes after it. And we close out the first season of Sylvester McCoy. It’s the real McCoy. Two seasons left, and spoiler, The Seventh Doctor has a snap character change next week. It’s Dragonfire, written by Ian Briggs, aired in November and December of 1987. Show-notes: 1:04 Hopefully our other podcast, Triple Play , isn’t alien to you. But...

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a human should be able to fly. This month we venture into the amazing world of 2D-3D fusion animation. I don’t think we’ve even watched something in 2D for this show yet? Well whether or not we have before, we have now, it’s Secrets of the Furious Five. It was released on November 9, 2008. Show-notes: 1:03 Find another...

You shouldn’t mess with the power of Malcolm, it might kill you. This week we’re on the downslope for season 24 already. We’re already 3/4 of the way through the season, although if they had done a 6 part serial we’d be done already. Wouldn’t that be great? It’s Delta and the Bannerman, written by Malcolm Kohll, and aired in November of 1987. Show-notes: 04:36 N...

We have anniversaries. Podcasts are built on anniversaries. Yes three years in, and we’re still sitting in front of a microphone every single week just to talk about some nonsense inconsequential television show from fifty years ago. Here’s a look forward for you, we won’t catch up to where the show is right now (The Return of Doctor Mysterio) until 9/22/19. Yes, 2019. We’r...

Mine is lightly salted. I like to keep it simple. Moving swiftly through the Seventh Doctor. He only has 12 serials, so every serial we cover moves us 1/12 of the way closer to the end. That’s pretty much the quickest we’d move through any Doctor except maybe the 6th. Too lazy to do the math now. It’s Paradise Towers written by Stephen Wyatt and aired in October of 1987. Show-not...

I’ll take cable ties thanks. This week we return to your regularly scheduled programming. Which means Pip and Jane Baker are back writing for the show, stumbling through the darkness because no one knows how the hell to characterize the 7th Doctor yet. Thanks Eric Saward/JNT/Andrew Cartmel/Whoever you want to blame for this. It’s Time and the Rani, aired in September of 1987. Show-note...

It feels like we just started this era yesterday. The end of an era, truly. The Sixth Doctor was here for nearly 10 seasons. Wait, you’re telling me that in this universe he only had two seasons? How did you guys cope? So you didn’t get The  March of the Valeyard ?   Devastation of the Daleks ?   The Damnation ? I can’t believe it, this really is the darkest timeline. Well, here&...

Anyone notice that kaboom rhymes with doom? This month we return with not only the newest movies we’ve watch so far (for two months anyway) but also our first animated trilogy! And it was pretty good apparently. It’s Kung Fu Panda 1,2 and 3. Will there be a fourth? The world may never know. Show-notes: 2:52 Little Panda Fighter is another animated movie about those lovable black and wh...

Oh no. It appears I’ve become trapped in Doctor Who. We finally made it to the end of The Trial of a Time Lord. For us, only 4 weeks of TV. For anyone back in 1986, it was a solid 14 weeks. 14! I’m so sorry. It’s the Ultimate Foe, where Part 1 was written by Robert Holmes and Part 2 by Pip and Jane Baker. It was aired in November and December of 1986. Show-notes: 2:30 And The Two...

Imagine how implausible it was that this would go out on Christmas. Actually it’s like a 1/7 in chance that it’d land on Christmas. Although I’m not a statistician so who actually knows right? It’s Terror of the Vervoids, written by Pip and Jane Baker and aired in November of 1986. Show-notes: 16:03 Here’s the list. Other ones that stood out: a flamboyance of flamingo...

Peri’s supposedly dead and we don’t care. Kind of like Crozier when Yiv started dying. The greatest Doctor Who writer ever returns. Philip Martin. Why is he the greatest? Well he created Sil, the best villain we’ve ever had. The Ferengi slash Slug hybrid is the most conniving and genius person who’s ever faced off against the Doctor. It’s Mindwarp, aired in October of...

The Doctor is a marsupial now. Deal with it. Robert “Basically created Doctor Who” Holmes returns to pen his final complete serial. Obviously he starts the Ultimate Foe, but he never finishes that so, it’s just this final serial of his, The Mysterious Planet to watch. It was aired in September of 1986. Show-notes: 2:28 This masterpiece . Ok, honestly I actually like this arrangem...