Wholistic. A Podcast about Doctor Who.

Gar and Vivien talk about the big Doctor Who news. Christmas special cancelled! Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf out! Doctor Who being put out to tender! They examine the nature and fallout of the BBC announcement, speculating about what brought us to this point. They analyse the strengths and shortcomings of the RTD2 era for the umpteenth time and imagine a future for the show liberated from what ca...

Gar and Enda do a Christmas episode to make up for no new Doctor Who Christmas episode. Zaynab is basically third mic.  Here's a link to Hadacol Christmas: https://vimeo.com/10398083 Here's a link to Gar's Christmas playlist:- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nRrmvDjVgvlBHhgtKO4Lb?si=aa7c7ec81e0d41ad

Gar and Enda discuss episodes 5 of the Doctor Who Disney spin-off "The War Between The Land and The Sea".

Gar and Enda are joined by Doctor Who expert and person James McCloskey to discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the Doctor Who spin-off "The War Between The Land and The Sea". 

Gar and Enda are joined by comedian and podcast Thomas Lawrance to discuss the first two episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off "The War Between The Land and The Sea". Also a remastered version of the 1972 Doctor Who serial The Sea Devils which was made to accompany the new show. Check out Thomas' podcast Wet Cold Irish Summer wherever you get your podcasts. 

Gar and Enda talk about the state of play with Doctor Who, the future of the show and the begrudging obligation to watch The War Between the Land and the Sea. Consider this like the analysis after a  horrible plane crash but for Doctor Who.  Then sadly in the middle of recording they discover that political, cultural commentator Leslie Lee III died. As well as being a Co-vid advocate and educator...

Gar and Enda watch and discuss the final episode of Season 2 / Series 15 / Season 42  "The Reality War".  That was.... really something... Goodbye to the Disney money and good riddance! 

Gar and Enda watch and discuss the penultimate episode of Season 2 / Series 15 / Season 42  "Wish World".  First part of the series finale where some things happen that don't really make any sense. 

Gar and Enda talk about a lovely little episode of Doctor Who called "The Story and the Engine" by Inua Ellams. Check it out. 

Due to timey wimey reasons there was some sorta bigeneration in the neutron flow and Gar and Enda are talking about the currently most recent episode of Doctor Who "The Interstellar Song Contest" written by Juno Dawson. Is it the most insidious episode of the show?? Listen and find out! 

Gar and Enda watch and discuss "Lucky Day". Episode 4 from Season 2 / Series 15 of Disney Plus Doctor Who.

Gar and Enda watch and discuss "Lux" and "The Well". Episodes 2 and 3 from Season 2 / Series 15.

Gar and Enda watch and discuss the season 2 / series 15 opener, "The Robot Revolution" They also talk about the future of the show following some worrying comments by Russell T Davies and also debate the upcoming Eurovision episode given Israel's participation in the contest. 

Gar and Enda watch and discuss the 2018 episode "Kerblam!" which is about Amazon... but in Space!  Written by potential new showrunner Peter McTighe, the hosts use "Kerblam!" and its 2023 Target novelisation to speculate on the future of the series....and....ehhhh.... Theme Music is by Dr Keyz (https://www.youtube.com/@DrKEYZ)

Gar and Enda discuss the 2025 Doctor Who Christmas special "Joy to the World" about a mysterious and evil briefcase in a time travelling hotel which gets handcuffed to IRISH person Nicola Coughlan! This will be the fourth time Steven Moffat has written his last episode. Theme Music is by Dr Keyz (https://www.youtube.com/@DrKEYZ)

For the Doctor’s birthday, Enda and Gar break out onto a separate feed and endeavour to make their Doctor Who podcast even more self indulgent. On this episode they talk about a Deadline article concerning the poor ratings, Ncuti Gatwa’s future as The Doctor, the upcoming spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, potential new showrunners once RTD departs, Big Finish audio dramas rehabilitati...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from June 30th 2024: Gar and Enda watch and discuss "Empire of Death", the finale of the first Disney Plus era Doctor Who series. They do some tidying up of bits they forgot to say through out the series including some depictions of the Irish in Doctor Who, the St...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from June 20th 2024: Gar and Enda discuss the latest episode of Disney Plus era Doctor Who, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday". The first of a two part series finale where... not that much happens.  The Doctor and Ruby go to UNIT HQ and faff around for a bit before some...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from June 12th 2024: Gar and Enda discuss the latest episode of Disney Plus era Doctor Who, "Rogue" which is Bridgerton with shapeshifting bird people and The Doctor comes out as not just suggestively queer. Then we hear the takes from a cavalcade of reactionary d...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from June 4th 2024: The Ligers (incl. Enda) talk about the latest Disney Plus Doctor Who episode, "Dot and Bubble" about the kids not looking up from their bloody phones and getting eaten by slug things but after the twist ending you won't feel bad about it at all...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from May 27th 2024: Gar and Enda discuss "73 Yards". A classic from the Russell T Davies genre of "what if some weird spooky shit happened?". They begin by talking about the state of the series at the half way point, the squiggly ratings and haters coming to all s...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from May 20th 2024: The Ligers (inc. Enda) discuss Steven Moffat's triumphant return to Doctor Who with his latest episode "Boom".  After a brief talk about the space EU and The Fugitive Doctor, we break down the quirks and particularities of Moffat's writing whic...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description from May 15th 2024 After some chat about Stewart Lee, Douglas Adams and the Doctor's robot dog K-9, The Ligers (inc. Enda) get into their thoughts on the first two episodes of the new Disney plus Doctor Who.  There's the first episode "Space Babies" which is exact...

This episode was originally released on the Celtic Ligers Patreon Feed (www.patreon.com/celticligers). Here is the original description: May 7th 2024 Wholistic is a Celtic Ligers mini-series about Doctor Who. Each week, The Ligers watch the latest episode of the new series and talk about it.  Get an idea of what to expect in this episode ZERO where The Ligers and guest host Enda do a potted histor...

Hello and welcome to Wholistic. A Doctor Who podcast. Starting life as a mini-series on Celtic Ligers (an irish politics and comedy podcast available on all good platforms and patreon.com/celticligers ) now Enda and Gar are breaking out on a separate feed. We liked talking about Doctor Who too much and to a degree that wasn’t really fitting the remit of our Daddy show so here it all is out from be...