Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast

Three Classic Doctors execute an elaborate plan to infiltrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who * * * We continue our nostalgic celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who with a chat about this absolutely wonderful Who(ish) Special. When Doctor Who turned half a century old, we were teased by The Night of the Doctor and thrilled to tears by The Day of the Doctor, and you’ll probably alread...

The Tenth, Eleventh and War Doctor battle Daleks, smooch a Zygon and seemingly prove that the gun is mightier than the pen in this glorious Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special * * * Clara Oswald is a teacher riding motorbikes at high speed into stationary police boxes. Her friend The Doctor is a noted traveller with a part-time job at a secretive military agency. Her friend The Doctor also is cour...

The Eighth Doctor drinks a venti of warrior juice and canonises the Big Finish adventures * * * This 7-minute prequel to The Day of the Doctor on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who saw the surprise return of Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor to the screen. This is more than just your average prequel, though. It sets up The War Doctor, shows us McGann's thitherto missing regeneration, can...

The Great Intelligence employs those chaps from Buffy and a Back-To-The-Future letter to lure The Doctor to Trenzalore * * * We begin upon Gallifrey, a very long time ago, where some kind of idiot is trying to steal a faulty TARDIS from the Time Lords’ repair shop. Meanwhile, Clara’s all broken up about something and falling down on the job. Elsewhere, Madame Vastra is combing London’s prisons for...

Robot Ood and a plethora of silly hats — this legendary serial ticks all the boxes! * * * The Fourth Doctor and new companion Leela materialise aboard a spice miner from Dune, inhabited by a handful of spoiled humanoids sporting elaborate headgear, and a veritable army of allegedly harmless robots doing all the heavy lifting. Then suddenly, when someone in this confined space is bludgeoned (and/or...

Doc investigates trouble at mill and gets marinated by a prehistoric leech in a Yorkshire red light district * * * In this, the 100th episode of New Who since the Doctor Who revival in 2005, the Doctor is at first nowhere to be seen. In Victorian Yorkshire, people are turning up red and dead in what at least one charismatic coroner is calling “The Crimson Horror”.  When an optogram taken of one of...

Gallifreyan CIA Agents force The Doctor to enter The Matrix where Skeletor is ready to ambush him in a quarry * * * Inexplicably intercepting a telepathic vision of the assassination of the Gallifreyan president, The Doctor arrives at the panopticon, impersonates a parliamentary dignitary and rushes to the scene of the crime to be. Alas, he is on time and too late, and just as he handles a conveni...

Time Zombies, a not-quite-paranoid-enough android and a big friendly button * * * Big bruv, kid bruv and robo bruv are wielding an illegal magno-grab to salvage the not-exactly-derelict spacecraft that is the TARDIS. Coincidentally, in an effort to make peace between his companion and his timeship, The Doctor has just deactivated the shield oscillators and given Clara the reins, which gets them su...

Thing T. Thing sports mind-bending bling, leading to the dramatic exit of companion Sarah Jane Smith

It's Italian Hamlet with sprinkles of The Daemons and a strange, hay-bearing lake * * * While showing Sarah Jane Smith around his brand new Newbery-Box TARDIS, fully equipped with winding corridors, boot cupboard and wood-panelled second control room, The Fourth Doctor pulls up the view screen and, lo and behold, right there is the Mandragora Helix. A mysterious spacial energy swirl, the Helix suc...

A seemingly haunted house, a Metabilis-3 crystal and creepy Cronenbergs all add to the ambiance * * * Scotland, 1974, and the wind blows high and the wind blows low. Professor Alec Palmer is trying to rebuild himself as a gentleman after being harrowed for king and country, maintaining a respectful distance from his willing assistant Emma Grayling as they investigate paranormal goings-on at his re...

To commemorate the sixth anniversary of Who Back When, here are some of our tipsiest bloopers to date! * * * What-ho, dearest Podcastland! A few days ago, Who Back When turned six years old. Six years! We continue to have an absolute blast travelling down the temporal road, chatting about all things Whovian, clinking glasses and making new friends along the way. To commemorate the anniversary, her...

It's "The Thing" meets "Day of the Triffids" with elements of 007, and perhaps the greatest Doctor Who serial ever. * * * Some antarctic scientists have just discovered a pair of seed pods in the ice and naturally make the fatal mistake of thawing one of them. What they don’t know, is that these are Krynoid pods and mankind just went to the bottom of the food chain. Smooth move, science! While one...

A submarine's under siege in this reimagining of Brendan Fraser’s “Encino Man”

Despotic Time Lord Morbius is resurrected as a Fishbowl-Claw-Monster to... take over the universe?

A space girl fails to hit the apocalyptic snooze button and only Clara’s backstory can save the day

Doc and Sarah match wits with finger-blasting androids and two walnuts from space planning to invade Earth

Definitely-not-a-monk invites newish companion Clara Oswald into his snog box

A legendary serial featuring a poacher sandwiched twixt buxom mummies.

Enjoy These Holly Jolly Bloopers and Behind-the-Scenes clips!

Mary Poppins moonlights as Eliza Doolittle and The Great Intelligence feeds countless labourers to his carnivorous snowmen

Just A Quick Pre-Christmas-Special-Christmas-Prequels-May-Christmas Chat

Lucie Miller pays yet another visit to the not-quite-afterlife in her sort-of-but-also-not-quite-farewell audiobook

Predator Admiral Ackbar, another disco werewolf, and a ménage-à-granddad

A giant demon statue that no one notices, a paradox hotel and an easily avoidable companion farewell.