Wanderers in the 4th Dimension: A Journey Through Doctor Who

This week we begin our coverage of the modern era of Doctor Who with Rose!  A new Doctor, a new companion, and a brand new show! QotW: According to the writings of William Shakespeare, "A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet." If you were to propose another name Rose, what would it be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News Discussion of "Rose" (David 7.75, Trevor 8, Charlie 8,...

This week we conclude our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Real Time and Scream of the Shalka! QotW: If you could choose one Doctor, companion and foe to have a new adventure in animated form which Doctor, companion and foe would it be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Real Time" (Trevor 6.5, David 6.5, Charlie 6.5) Discussion of "Scream of the Shalka" (Trevor 8.75, D...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Death Comes To Time and Lungbarrow! QotW: Which companion, classic or modern, would you nominate to be granted an epic destiny on a one-shot special? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News Discussion of "Death Comes To Time" (Charlie 8.5, Trevor 8, David 7.5) Discussion of "Lungbarrow" (Charlie 7, Trevor 7, David 8.75) Ho...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Mindgame, Mindgame Trilogy, and The Curse of Fatal Death! QotW: How would you finish this #DoctorWho bar joke? "A Draconian, a Sontaran, and a Human walk into a bar..." #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Mindgame" (David 6.5, Charlie 6, Trevor 7) Discussion of "Mindgame Trilogy: Battlefield" (David 9, Char...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the Auton trilogy! QotW: Steven Moffat has done his last episode of #DoctorWho as show-runner and Chris Chibnall will be at the helm next season. What's the biggest change you're hoping to see under the new show-runner? #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Auton" (Trevor 7, David 7.25, Charlie 7) Discussion...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the third and fourth P.R.O.B.E films, Unnatural Selection and Ghosts of Winterborne! Last week's QotW: What cancelled TV series would you like to see brought back as a movie? QotW: What was your favorite twelfth Doctor story? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "P.R.O.B.E.: Unnatural Selection" (Charlie 6.5, Trevo...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the 8th Doctor's first, last, and only full-length television story, Doctor Who: The Movie! Discussion of "Doctor Who: The Movie" (Connor 9, David 7.5, Charlie 7.5, Trevor 6) Big Finish: Storm Warning (David 6.9, Charlie 7.5, Trevor 7) Hosts: Trevor    @WhovianTrev       Trevsplace Charlie    @insanityinchaos       The Infinite Longbo...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the first two P.R.O.B.E films, The Zero Imperative and The Devil of Winterborne! QotW: The acronym P.R.O.B.E. stands for "Preternatural Research Bureau", but leaves the letters "O" and "E" unused. Let's fix the acronym -- what should P.R.O.B.E. stand for, using all the letters? (You can change the "P", "R", and/or "B" if you like.) So...

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time! QotW: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans takes place during the novel Shakedown. What novel (#DoctorWho related or otherwise) would you like to see adapted into a movie? #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Shakedown: Return of the Sontar...

This week we begin our look at the Wilderness years with three Reeltime Productions films: Wartime, Downtime, and Daemos Rising! So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Wartime" (David 6, Charlie 3, Trevor 3.5) Discussion of "Downtime" (David 7.75, Charlie 8, Trevor 8.75) Discussion of "Daemos Rising" (David 7, Charlie 5, Trevor 6) Big Finish: The Sirens of Time (David 6.9, Charl...

This week we cover story # #276, Peter Capaldi's swan song, the brief introduction of Jodie Whittaker, and the 2017 Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time!  The Doctor, refusing to regenerate, finds himself at the South Pole where he meets his first incarnation, also refusing to regenerate.  When time freezes and a WWI soldier mysteriously appears, the Doctors must discover why -- and come to terms...

This week conclude our look back over our past few years of podcasting about all of classic Doctor Who. So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Retrospective: Part 2 Hosts: Trevor    @WhovianTrev       Trevsplace Charlie    @insanityinchaos       The Infinite Longbox       The Comic Conspiracy David  http://www.davidsafar.com/       @gwythinn       MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as we begin...

This week we look back over our past  So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Retrospective: Part 1 Sylvester McCoy Era Number Crunching Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT Assembled 4.4: United (Charlie 7/ 8 , David 8/ 7.75 , Trevor 7.75/ 8 ) Hosts: Trevor    @WhovianTrev       Trevsplace Charlie    @insanityinchaos       The Infinite Longbox       The Comic Conspiracy David  http://www.davidsafa...

This week we cover story #155, Survival!  The Doctor and Ace return to Ace's childhood home of Perivale to check on her old friends, only to find they've been vanishing -- and the town has been troubled by a mysterious plague of cats.  The mystery leads them to another world, where a deadly foe lies in wait! QotW: If you could get revenge on the person who canceled classic Doctor Who, what would y...

This week we cover story #154, The Curse of Fenric!  The Doctor and Ace travel to World War II where they encounter and English base under threat from Russian troops.  But the place is haunted by a prophecy and a curse, and an ancient evil lies in wait here for the Doctor! QotW: What classic #DoctorWho protagonist do you think should have been tied into a modern era story but wasn't? So Here are t...

This week we cover story #153, Ghost Light!  The Doctor takes Ace to revisit a place from her past 100 years earlier as an "initiative test".  The old haunted house plays host to strange happenings which will force Ace to face the choices she made there a century later! QotW: If the Doctor were to unexpectedly take you back somewhere you were unprepared to return to, where would he take you? So He...

This week we cover story #152, Battlefield!  The Doctor and Ace receive a distress call and follow it to Earth's near future, where Arthurian villains from another dimension threaten to conquer the Earth.  UNIT recalls the Brigadier to active duty and he joins forces with the Doctor and Ace to oppose the Arthurian onslaught! QotW: What fictional character from myth or legend would you like to have...

This week we cover story #151, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!  The Doctor and Ace receive an ad for the Psychic Circus and decide to check it out, but soon find themselves drawn into the circus's web of intrigue when they learn that circus fans and performers alike have been disappearing.  Who is behind the mystery of the Psychic Circus? QotW: If you could populate a circus with aliens from #Doc...

This week we cover story #150, Silver Nemesis!  When a pair of travelers come to present-day England from hundreds of years in the past in anticipation of the arrival of the destructive comet Nemesis, the Doctor and Ace must get involved -- but the Cybermen have arrived as well, and a group of neo-Nazis styling themselves as the fourth Reich.  What could the comet's secret be, and what does it hav...

  This week we cover story #149, The Happiness Patrol!  The Doctor and Ace explore the colony of Terra Alpha, where unhappiness has been outlawed.  This displeases them, much to their own peril! QotW: If you were to be executed by lethal candy, what kind of candy would you want it to be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "The Happiness Patrol" (Trevor 6, Charlie 7.75, David...

  This week we cover story #148, Remembrance of the Daleks!  The Doctor and Ace return to London, where two factions of Daleks are vying to capture the Hand of Omega.  The Doctor wants them to have it -- but which faction is the right faction, and how can he make sure the device serves its purpose? QotW: If you were to to name a new Dalek story in the format "R________ of the Daleks", what would y...

  This week we cover story #147, Dragonfire! Rumor has it Iceworld is home to a dragon guarding a mysterious treasure, and the Doctor is keen to find out the truth.  But there's more to Iceworld than meets the eye, as the Doctor, Mel, and new companion Ace soon find out! QotW: If you were to model a new Doctor Who creature after one from an existing sci-fi property, what creature would you adapt?...

  This week we cover story #146, Delta and the Bannermen!  The mysterious Chimeron woman, Delta, was fleeing the deadly Bannermen with precious cargo when she crossed the Doctor's path and got stranded on Earth in 1959.  What is her secret, and how can she be saved from her relentless foe? QotW: The Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen is an homage to Echo and the Bunnymen. What band would yo...

  This week we cover story #145, Paradise Towers.  The Doctor and Mel visit the famed Paradise Towers luxury resort community for some much-needed R&R -- but something is terribly wrong here.  The people are divided between the tribal Kangs, the suburban Rezzies, and the militaristic Caretakers, and mysterious disappearances are commonplace.  What dark secret lurks beneath these accursed towers? Q...

  This week we cover story #144, Time and the Rani.  When the evil Rani begins kidnapping geniuses from throughout history and imprisoning them on the planet Lakertya, it's up to the newly-regenerated Doctor and Mel to figure out what she needs all that brain power for!  But the Doctor's not himself and the Rani is after him, too! QotW: In Time and the Rani, the Rani impersonated Mel. What other c...