The Doctor Who Show

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. In today’s podcast, Rob sits down with Mark John from the Diddly Dum podcast to discuss the letters from a vintage issue of DWM from Doctor Who's 25th anniversary year. This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go anywhere the guest wants them to go. This is Primary Sources.

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode! This time, our top Earth-based stories. A topic that can be taken in a number of ways, as we go on to prove. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are also welcome; get in touch! Twitter, Facebook or email us old-school style at hello@thedwshow.net

On July 29, the BBC announced that Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker would be leaving Doctor Who after a six-part series later in 2021 and three specials in 2022, ending around November with the centenary celebrations of the BBC. In the spirit of our '21 Replacements For 12' episode on February 1, 2017 (where we came up with 21 potential new Doctors to replace Peter Capaldi), here we discuss 14 picks (seven each), to replace Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. We also discuss Joe Michael Straczynski (aka 'JMS') throwing his hat into the ring to be the new showrunner of Doctor Who. Naturally, we approve. Who would YOU cast as the 14th Doctor? Why not get in touch and let us know? Tweet us, Facebook us or email us at hello@thedwshow.net

Early in July we ran a Twitter poll with two Modern Who series picks from Dave and two from Rob. We asked which one you'd like us to discuss in the July episode and the results, after 268 votes were... Series 7a - 9.3% Series 6  - 14.6% Series 9  - 35.4% Series 2  - 40.7% So tonight we honour the vote by discussing David Tennant's debut series as The Doctor. What did we make of it at the time? What do we think of it now? Before then, of course, there's some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics to discuss. You know the drill for our flagship show by now, dear listener. Hope you enjoy the episode. Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net New Earth Tooth and Claw School Reunion The Girl in the Fireplace Rise of the Cybermen The Age of Steel The Idiot's Lantern The Impossible Planet The Satan Pit Love & Monsters Fear Her Army of Ghosts Doomsday

Welcome to the tenth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on the feed every month in between our regular monthly shows. Normally Rob sits down with his co-host Dave, or a guest, to talk about letters from classic issues of Doctor Who Magazine. In today’s podcast, however, Dave is presenting letters to Rob from a classic issue of Sonic Screwdriver – the fanzine of the Victorian Doctor Who Fan Club. This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go anywhere the guest wants them to go. This is Primary Sources.

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode! This time, our top stories of the 1980s. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are also welcome; get in touch! Twitter, Facebook or email us old-school style at hello@thedwshow.net

Regular listeners will know we don't talk a lot of Big Finish on the show. We occasionally mention it in news stories and Rob recently reviewed the new Eccleston box set, "Ravagers", but on the whole we aren't a Big Finish podcast and often point our listeners towards the excellent, Sirens of Time podcast by fellow Aussies Dwayne Bunney and Philip Edney. Tonight, however, we talk about our backgrounds with Big Finish... what we have and haven't heard... what we'd like to do with our Big Finish listening in the future... and most importantly of all, we review THE HOLY TERROR by Rob Shearman, as voted by YOU. Before then, of course, we have some news from the past month in Doctor Who, and some mini-topics we want to discuss. You know the drill for our flagship show by now, dear listener. Hope you enjoy the episode. Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net

Welcome to the ninth episode of the podcast we’re dropping on our podcast feed every month in addition to The List Makers and our flagship Doctor Who Show episodes. These are short podcasts where Rob sits down with a guest and reads letters – the primary sources of the title – about Doctor Who from the 80s and 90s, for the purpose of kick-starting a conversation. Vitally, the guest doesn’t know anything about the content of the letters before we record. In this episode, Rob talks to Richard Smith from the Something Who podcast about the letters in DWM from August of 1987! This is Doctor Who without a safety net. The conversations could go anywhere the guest wants them to go. This is Primary Sources.

A new month means a new LIST MAKERS episode!  This time, our top worst special effects in Doctor Who. These are 20m chats based around making a list related to a Doctor Who topic and discussing our similarities, differences, and whatever else comes up during the chat! If you’re enjoying this format, write in and let us know. Suggestions for future lists to be drawn from The Hat of Rassilon are also welcome; get in touch! Twitter, Facebook or email us old-school style at hello@thedwshow.net

What started as an off-hand comment in an episode last season has grown into its own topic on today's show - Cool Spaceships in Doctor Who! Which are the ships we think are cool between 1963 and 2021... and why? Before then, we do our usual news and short topics which, this month, includes some commentary on both the Noel Clarke and John Barrowman situations. Topics we aren't happy to be talking about but which, as we say in the episode, would be conspicuous by their absence if we ignored them. We also look at the BBCs stance on fan-created content. Later in the episode it's over to our listeners for three great picks from our mailbag. And that's May! Hope you enjoy the episode. Contact us anytime, hello@theDWshow.net