Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast

The Doc helps Winston Churchill defeat Power Ranger Daleks with a Jammie Dodger

We tease some of the upcoming Who Back When extravaganzas and follow up with the tipsiest bloopers in our podcast’s history.

The Eleventh Doctor and new companion Amy Pond go up against two-faced civil servants and the ultimate Brexit

A Master and Commander, an Officer and a Gentleman, and Tonnes of Seamen. Behold the aquatic cousins of the Silurians!

A brand new Doctor and his companions-to-be have 20 minutes to save the world from an inter-dimensional fish-snake and the crystalline eyeballs pursuing it

Primitive aliens with no concept of technology or judicial proceedings want to join a galactic federation in this allegory of Britain's entry into the EEC

Having watched and discussed all of the Tenth Doctor episodes, we hereby contemplate the highs and lows of not only the David Tennant era, but of an epoch defined by Russell T Davies

Temporal paradoxes, vintage wines and the coolest tricycle chase ever!

Far too many farewells pepper The Tenth Doctor's long-awaited yet sadly poor departure.

The Master returns with a ridiculous plot to end life on Earth as we know it, and even Barack Obama shakes his head at this one.

The Master summons homicidal Morris Dancers, a Daemon and a gargoyle with a spring in his step to grant him godlike powers, and obviously everything goes wrong.

Who Back When just turned Four Standard-Earth-Years Young!

Grown men wet themselves as the Doctor summons the Time Lord Victorious and introduces the concept of fixed points in time * * * The Doctor arrives on Mars just as a convenient solar flare has cut off comms between Earth and its first ever off-world colonists. A ragtag bunch of botanists from a mix of nations Captain Planet would be proud of, the crew of Bowie Base One has suffered a broken water...

It's Space Pocahontas, but with lubed-up wrists, tear-away paper calendars and mud wrestling! * * * Doc is temporarily un-exiled by the Time Lords, and travels with Jo to the unremarkable planet of Uxarieus in the year 2472, where a band of ineffectual human colonists, after fleeing an overpopulated and dying Earth, fail to make things work yet again. The space colonists, and by proxy Doc and Jo,...

Marie recently joined Who Back When, and we herewith finally sit down to introduce her to you, Podcastland! * * * Marie joined the Who Back When podcasting team many episodes ago, so this introduction-cast has been a long time coming! We recorded this immediately after our Journey's End review, so the tipsiness levels aren't low, and the tangents are fantastic! Tune in to hear Marie talk about her...

Kleptomaniacs, coprophages and a scientist fanboy battle a civilisation-devouring sharknado from outer space * * * We open on Lady Christina de Souza stealing from Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones and The International Gallery, all at once. Escaping the scene of the crime, she boards a number 200 bus and is promptly joined by our Converse-clad hero, The Doctor. Shazam! Wormhole alert. The bus tak...

Golden-haired, miracle-bearing cherubs descend from the heavens and no one suspects that they might have a hidden agenda. * * * An Axon spaceship lands on Earth, murders a hobo and thus UNIT, The Doctor and West Country Elvis are summoned to investigate. The Axons, it turns out, are running low on gas and, in exchange for an unspecified energy, offer the human race the miracle substance and narcis...

A steampunk cyber giant, a TARDIS balloon and a terrible ending * * * Doc rocks up in Scrooge’s London, only to hear himself be summoned by a would-be companion and subsequently to see The Next Doctor answer the call. The Next Doctor, however, is somewhat unorthodox in his methods, low-tech in his gadgetry and old-fashioned in his gender-politics, and Doc decides to act as his companion. A string...

Psychiatric treatment of criminals using an alien in a bucket. It's got to be The Master! * * * Plot A: An experimental procedure devised by Professor Emil Keller is being tested at the Stangmore Prison. The Keller Machine is meant to extract all evil tendencies from a criminal’s mind and render them harmless. But the Doctor disapproves of the barbaric nature of the device. Plot B: The world’s fir...

The Doctor abandons Rose with a genocidal Donna in Tennant-form and there's no sign of The Shadow Proclamation anywhere! * * * Everyone survives last week’s cliffhanger, as the Doctor takes his uncontrollable profusion of regenerative energy and directs it precisely at his glove compartment. Martha teleports to an ominous-looking castle in Germany, whence to destroy the world. Meanwhile, everyone...

Companions and spin-offs collide when Davros and his new race of Daleks transport the Earth far across the universe * * * The Daleks, commanded by The Supreme Dalek and Davros himself, and guided by the precog ramblings of Dalek Caan, have nabbed The Earth from under The Doctor's nose and transported it far across the universe, along with myriad other planets and the lost moon of Poosh. But fret n...

We were in attendance at the second ever Oxford Comic Con, which alongside myriad cosplayers, gamers, comic book artists and nerds galore hosted The Sixth Doctor himself, Colin Baker! * * * Shazam! The city of dreaming spires exploded into an orgy of cosplay and geekdom as OxCon returned to the scene. Have a listen to this bonus episode, in which we bask in the afterglow of chatting with The Sixth...

Killer daffodils, a carnivorous armchair and the debut of The Master. * * * Remember the Nestene pod thingy that Pertwee’d Doctor left in UNIT’s care at the end of the epochal Spearhead from Space? Enter The Master, who promptly steals it. His ultimate goal is the subjugation of the human race by the Nestene Consciousness. Before he summons an alien invasion force, however, he wants to incite chao...

A Beetle Backpack, the Death of the Doctor and the Return of Rose. Could this be any more epic?! * * * The Doctor has taken Donna on a trip to see Space China, sampling the wares and talking to the locals, when Donna goes and gets herself a Time Beetle and unknowingly ruins the world, nay, the universe. Rewind to the Christmas of The Runaway Bride. The Doctor doesn’t survive the Racnoss spider lad...

Disco Werewolves, Venusian Karate and yet another Drill-to-The-Centre-of-the-Earth spiel. * * * Okay, so these chaps are drilling to the centre of the earth to reveal a potent, energy-producing gas. Alas, in drilling down, the scientists inadvertently release an inexplicably devolving ooze that turns ordinary people into murderous cuddle monsters. In his attempts to prevent Krakatoa squared, the D...