Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro
Happy Doctor Who Day Weekend! And we celebrate with a bumper length episode! “The War Games” in Colour, coming December 23! (With a tiny bit of help from us…) Steven Moffat returning to Gallifrey One! Plus, a surfeit of Doctor Who tat to celebrate the show’s 61st anniversary, new and exciting action dollies, Jo Martin’s Big Finish debut, and the return of the increasingly irritating (for Warren) Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, with guest contestants Erika and Kat! Links: Trivia Mr Fibuli:
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It’s an exciting week for Doctor Who content as a new “Joy to the World” clip surfaced on Children in Need featuring snark, dinosaurs, and a Silurian in a briefcase along with a teaser from the episode’s writer, one Steven Moffat! Plus a “Coming in 2025” trailer for Disney+ that does not feature Doctor Who at all? Controversial? Not really. Plus Ncuti Gatwa in Vanity Fair being handsome as usual, a sneak peek at updated Blake’s 7 effects, and an exciting adventure in space and time as we present a special anniversary-themed Classic Series Commentary of the raw pilot recording of...
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Things have taken a turn for the truly awful in the world this week, but Radio Free Skaro is here to assuage your worries (Steven) or at least acknowledge them (Warren). If you’re looking to distract yourself from the latest grim fandango, we have news of deleted scenes coming November 23, unaired footage of David Tennant running around the TARDIS set in “The Star Beast”, props on the auction block, Big Finish art critiques, and an interview with Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-Ray contributors Jonathan Helm, Chris Chapman, and Chris Thompson! Links: Interview:
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It’s a Current Producer-Palooza at Gallifrey One this coming February with Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins announced as guests for Gallifrey One, and that’s not all on the news list including a “world exclusive preview” of “Joy to the World” coming to Children In Need on November 15, some Robert Banks Stewart iPlayer controversy, Sylveste(r) McCoy missing episodes discovered, an action dolly report and more, including the concluding Terry Nation Miniscope segment, covering “Genesis of the Daleks”, “The Android Invasion”, and “Destiny of the Daleks”!...
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It’s time for some overanalyzing, pondering and intellectual cogitating as the Three Who Rule examine the second anniversary of the Disney+ and Doctor Who agreement, as well as a fascinating survey from the UCLA (partially funded by Disney) of what teens are both watching and want to see! Plus, a detailed hashing-over of where to start watching Doctor Who if you’re a novice, some random tat, and Part Three of our Terry Nation Miniscope covering Planet of, and Death to, the Daleks! Links: Miniscope:
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Controversy stalks the BBC as the question is asked: did they censor Ncuti Gatwa’s comments on The Graham Norton Show about a possible third season of New New Doctor Who? And the answer is…likely not. What is much more probable is the Three Who Rule excoriating the current state of television while referring to a recent Deadline story on that same topic, but enough of these dour matters! There’s a new Gallifreyan translator that can turn your words into circles, an Adventures in Type and Space book on the way featuring the work of Sid Sutton, and part two of our Terry Nation Miniscope,...
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It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to...
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It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing! Links: Interview:
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It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally! Links: Interview:
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On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense! Links:
info_outlineDoctor Who returns! Two new episodes dropped this weekend as we enter both the wacky madcap hijinks of “Space Babies” and the outright lunacy of “The Devil’s Chord”! What did the Three Who Rule think of CG baby mouths, Jinkx Monsoon vamping all over the place, Beatles instrument accuracy and more? Listen to our multi-hour discourse but know this: the twist at the end is that song isn’t very good. Plus the media onslaught continues with Ncuti Gatwa on Canadian radio, RTD dropping secret controversies in Men’s Journal, Big Finish fun and golden sonic screwdriver tat, and more! Next week, we see how it all goes…Boom!
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- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Review: Doctor Who S1E01 “Space Babies”
- Review: Doctor Who S1E02 “The Devil’s Chord”
- Doctor Who Unleashed is available for purchase on iTunes in North America
- Men’s Journal: Russell T Davies Interview: Giving “New Energy” to a “Classic Show”
- Russell T Davies confirms more diverse writers for Season 2
- Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson & Russell T Davies Talks New Series with Kyle Anderson
- Ncuti Gatwa on CBC Q Radio
- Special Doctor Who BBC One ident aired May 6
- Doctor Who: The Fourteenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver (Exclusive Gold Metallised Edition) coming July 5
- The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years now available
- Doctor Who – Death in the Stars by Bonnie Langford with Jacqualine Rayner due Aug 22
- Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip opportunity now open until the end of June
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Dominant Species due September 2024
- New Titan Comics DW Humble Bundle
- Long Island Who: August 23-25, 2024
- Gallifrey One: February 14-16, 2025
- “Boom” airs Saturday, May 18 at 6:50pm on BBC One