Synopsis
The Top Rated Doctor Who Podcast. One fan, One mic and an opinion. What more does anyone need? Daleks, TARDIS, Cybermen, Sontarans, Ood, Classic Series. Home of Whostrology and the Big Finish Retrospective.
Episodes
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TDP 1270: #Torchwood 83. Torchwood: Disco PODCAST REVIEW
01/08/2024 Duration: 09minThis title was released in May 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 July 2024, and on general sale after this date. It's 1987 and "Disco" Jones is still dancing. Life and soul, bab, life and soul. Wednesdays is darts at The Merry Miller, Thursdays - shove ha'penny at The Boilermakers, Fridays played by ear, and Saturdays it’s the Disco at Cinderella's. So who is Tom and why does he want to build a fence with him? Gareth David Lloyd said: “It all started last summer, when I said to James that I had an idea for a script and he said he had another couple of thoughts, so would I mind having a look at those as well. “James gave me a few starting points for other ideas, and I chose a pair of them, adapted them, and added my own one, which became Disco.” “Disco has been a long time coming. Ianto's dad has been this nameless entity so far who seems to have been quite a negative force in Ianto’s life. So, I thought it was about time that we made him a three-dimension
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TDP 1288: THOUGHTS ON... THE WAR BETWEEN LAND AND SEA
29/07/2024 Duration: 04minEMAIL ME tin-dog@hotmail.co.uk
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TDP 1276: 4.6. Star Cops: Blood Moon: Devis #PODCAST #REVIEW
26/07/2024 Duration: 07minThis title was released in June 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31st July 2024, and on general sale after this date. The Star Cops are engaged in a desperate battle against time as the consequences of Devis’s search for Sophie play out to a tragic conclusion. **Please note: the Collectors' Edition CDs are strictly limited to a pressing of just 1,000 copies**
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TDP 1275: London Zone Star Cops 4.5 Review
24/07/2024 Duration: 06minDevis is on a hunt that takes him back to London and the streets that were his beat before he became a Star Cop. He works his way through the city's underworld seeking information that will lead him to the person he's after. But others have their own plans, and the outcome may not be what he expects. **Please note: the Collectors' Edition CDs are strictly limited to a pressing of just 1,000 copies**
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TDP 1278: 5. Torchwood: Torchwood One: I Hate Mondays REVIEW
22/07/2024 Duration: 11minThis title was released in May 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 July 2024, and on general sale after this date. Torchwood One faces three of the worst Mondays ever... Dinner for Yvonne by James Goss, from a story by James Goss and Joseph Lidster A cloud of psychic plasma is sweeping over Salisbury Plain towards London. Unfortunately, it’s Yvonne’s night off and she’s throwing a dinner party. Will London perish before she can serve the artisanal cheese board? By Royal Appointment by James Goss Poppy Greenleaf finds herself appointed the Crown’s royal liaison for Torchwood. What is Torchwood? Who is Yvonne Hartman? Why is the world ending? Poppy finds herself lost in a world of alien invasions, international espionage and intergalactic diplomacy. Nerves by Joseph Lidster Another Monday morning, another mission for Torchwood. Ianto and Tommy have to transport a canister of deadly Euphorian nerve agent to an underground bunker in the South Downs. It should be an
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TDP 1274: 2.2. The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers 2: The Casebook of Paternoster Row review
19/07/2024 Duration: 10minreview In Victorian England, the Great Detective, Madame Vastra, her resourceful spouse, Jenny Flint, and their loyal valet, Strax, solve conundrums, fight injustice and capture criminals - but an enemy has taken up residence undetected. Vastra believes trespassers are close at hand, and seeks out clues in some of the Gang's previous cases... 2.4 Anne of a Thousand Light Years by James Kettle The course of true love never does run smooth - especially when it involves a high-born young lady, a humble farmhand and extra-terrestrial chameleons on the lookout for breeding stock. Will Lady Anne Warminster marry the man of her dreams? Will the amorphous Glossophants secure their chosen spawn bride? Will Jenny ever finish reading a novel by Anthony Trollope? In the heart of the English countryside, the Gang tackle an assignment involving romance, skulduggery and horse manure. 2.5 Pater Noster by Gary Russell Something is hiding in the sewers of London, picking off the poor and lost souls who live down there... Mad
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TDP 1258: #DoctorWho: The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Dream Team
15/07/2024 Duration: 09minreview This title was released in April 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 May 2024, and on general sale after this date. Mysteries come in all shapes and forms. From a small-scale murder to an alien conspiracy. But when they arise the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric are the perfect team to deal with them. The Merfolk Murders by Tim Foley (4 parts) St Andrews, Scotland, 1940. The Merfolk are a university society meeting through the summer to discuss murder mystery stories. Innocent escapism during wartime, they say. Their latest book is The Casebook of Orion Hood - whose hero is all-too-familiar to the Doctor... When a real-life murder occurs soon after their gathering, the Doctor’s friends encourage him to investigate. Is one of the Merfolk responsible? Was this crime the result of espionage or envy? The Doctor must embrace his deerstalker once more and solve this wartime mystery - before the killer can strike again! Dream Team by Lizzie Hopley (2 parts) “Welcom
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TDP 1257: 1.1. Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 1
11/07/2024 Duration: 08minreview This title was released in April 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 May 2024, and on general sale after this date. When things turn dark, and you're all alone, there is one traveller of time and space... a wanderer in the fourth dimension... a renegade Time Lord... who will always be there to bring back the light. But the thing about Time Lords... is they can't all be heroes. The time has come for the last Time Lord battleship, the Proteus, to leave the planet Karn and return to Gallifrey victorious. But her voyage home will not be easy. The Captain is sick, the crew is restless, and there are dark forces lurking in the hold below...
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TDP 1269: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 7: Dirk Gently BBC4 version
08/07/2024 Duration: 01h27mint’s time to talk Douglas Adams as Luke picks the BBC 4 adaptation of Dirk Gently. For the Minute Physics video on Time Travel head here – T-shirts can be found here – Follow us on twitter Like us on Review us on Email the show –
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TDP 1256: 4.4. Star Cops: Blood Moon: A Cage of Sky
04/07/2024 Duration: 06minreview This title was released in April 2024. It will be exclusively available to buy from the Big Finish website until 31 May 2024, and on general sale after this date. Devis makes a dubious deal with a notorious hacker, which leads him on to dangerous ground… Meanwhile, Nathan and his team uncover troubling goings-on at a remote lunar prison facility, where inmates are dying under mysterious circumstances. **Please note: the Collectors' Edition CDs are strictly limited to a pressing of just 1,000 copies**
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TDP: 1268: For Your Consideration 6 - Star Cops - Little Green Men
13/06/2024 Duration: 58minMichael’s pick this month is Chris Boucher’s 1987 sci-fi cop show Star Cops. T-shirts can be found here – Follow us on twitter Like us on Review us on Email the show –
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TDP 1262: Disney Who Boom #Doctorwho
18/05/2024 Duration: 10minBoom is the third episode of of . It was released on May 17 2024 on Disney+ and is set to be released on May 18 2024 on BBC One. Contents Synopsis Caught in the middle of a devastating war on Kastarion 3, the Doctor is trapped when he steps on a landmine. Can he save himself, Ruby, and the entire planet - without moving? Plot The Doctor and Ruby land upon a planet engulfed by warfare. As the doctor pokes his head out of the tardis whilst Ruby is getting ready, he hears trouble, grabs his coat, and runs out to save the day... except maybe not. As the doctor is dashing his way through the battlefield, he accidently stands upon a landmine. Ruby hears the Doctor singing 'The skye boat song' (A nod to the second doctor), and runs to find him stood with one leg on the landmine and one leg in the air. The doctor instructs Ruby to go find a rock, or something else heavy, so that he can counterbalance his weight when he moves, and try and put his foot down. Ruby finds a strange heavy object tha
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TDP 1259: For Your Consideration 5 -Red Dwarf - Part 2
14/05/2024 Duration: 01h08sTDP 1259: For Your Consideration 5 -Red Dwarf - Part 2 Michael gets to pick his favourite Red Dwarf episodes this month in the second part of our look at the sci-fi comedy series. T-shirts can be found here – Follow us on twitter Like us on Review us on Email the show –
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TDP 1261: The Devils Chord Review Disney Who #DoctorWho
13/05/2024 Duration: 10min306 2 "The Devil's Chord" Ben Chessell Russell T Davies 11 May 2024 TBD TBA In 1925, a music teacher shows his student the "", which summons a being called Maestro, who consumes the teacher's soul. At Ruby's request, the Doctor takes her to 1963 to see record their first song at . They discover from and that the band, as well as the rest of the world, has lost its taste for music, which the Doctor fears will alter humanity's future. He has Ruby play a song, gaining the attention of Maestro, who is consuming music from every human. After escaping from Maestro, the Doctor takes Ruby to her present, discovering the world in a . Maestro appears, revealing themself as a child of the Toymaker, with similar powers around music. They take control of the TARDIS, forcing the Doctor to return to the studios in 1963. There, he and Ruby try to find the chord that will banish Maestro, but the two are powerless. John and Paul arrive to play the chord that traps Maestro, who portends the coming of the "One Who Waits" t
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TDP 1260: Disney Who Review Space Babies #Doctorwho
11/05/2024 Duration: 14minREVIEW 305 1 "Space Babies" Russell T Davies 11 May 2024 TBD TBA The Doctor takes Ruby to a space station in the future orbiting another planet. After discovering a monster in the station's lower decks, the pair discover a crew of talking babies operating the ship in the upper levels. After mistaking the Doctor and Ruby as their parents, the crew explain that they have been alone for six years, under the care of NAN-E, who is discovered to be Jocelyn, the last member of the station's original crew who stayed when the crew were ordered to abandon the station. The Doctor and Ruby investigate the creature, nicknamed the Bogeyman, and learn that it was genetically grown from leftover baby snot, just as the babies were grown by the ship. Jocelyn tries to eject the creature from an airlock but Ruby and the Doctor stop her. Afterwards, the Doctor repairs the station and allows Jocelyn, the babies and the Bogeyman to make their way towards their new home. He invites Ruby to officially accompany him but war