Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast

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. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other referencesContinue reading →

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. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intendedContinue reading →

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. DoctorContinue reading →

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 1988Continue reading →

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. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. Continue reading &#8594...

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. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belongContinue reading →

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. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →

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. Doctor Who © The BBCContinue reading →

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 byContinue reading →

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 (TheContinue reading →

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 theContinue reading →

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 TimeContinue reading →

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? IContinue reading →

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 writtenContinue reading →

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. Doctor Who © TheContinue reading →

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 offContinue reading →

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. Doctor WhoContinue reading →

You know eventually they’ll make Bible of the Daleks because there’s only so many words you can use for ___ of the Daleks. Here come the Daleks again. Is there some sort of unwritten pact that they have to appear for every doctor? Because they have so far. At least for us, I’m not countingContinue reading →

More psuedo than science to be honest. Sherlock Holmes became a beekeeper after he retired from detective work. Did you know that? Well you do now. It’s Timelash, written by Pennant Roberts and aired in March of 1985. I make a note that it was written by Pennant Roberts, because we constantly complain about McCoyContinue reading →

*Whomobile does not actually appear. This week, the slog through season 22 continues. Luckily our distress call was heard by The Second Doctor and Jamie, so they’re shown up to spice up the serial a bit. It’s the Two Doctors, written by Robert Holmes and aired in February and March of 1985. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →

I question whether the choreographers even knew how to read a choreograph. So, the universe is populated by more rogue time lords than we thought. Seriously, every week it feels like they add another one. This time it’s The Mark of the Rani, written by Pip and Jane Baker and aired in February of 1985. DoctorContinue reading →

Hey, great idea, let’s use smart cars for mining. Moving swiftly through season 22 we come to another divisive serial. If you don’t mind me spoiling for a second, quite a few of the serials this season lead to a divide between Kiyan and Dylan, so brace yourself please. The divide this week: Vengeance onContinue reading →

Cyber. Cyber. Cyber. Cyber. Yes this week we begin season 22. Season 22 is quite the experience.  It’s very violent. And to think it all begins with some cybermen. It’s Attack of the Cybermen, written by Paula Moore and aired in January of 1985. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to theirContinue reading →

Can you imagine techno renaissance music? This week we finally not only finish season 21, but also start the 6th Doctor. Remember last week when we said we predicted the 6th Doctor era to be the most divisive? Well buckle up, it’s the Twin Dilemma, written by Anthony Steven and aired in March of 1984.Continue reading →

In hindsight maybe not doing this with Krynoid was why this episode was all over the place. Remember how the Fourth Doctor Retrospective was fun? This is… sort of fun? We take a look back at good old Peter Davison, and try to discuss his brief but fun era of Doctor Who. Doctor Who ©Continue reading →