Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

The moment has arrived for the Doctor, Millie and their big fluffy dog Sutekh as the universe gets dusted, mysteries are solved to varying degrees of success, and the Three Who Rule reach unforetold levels of Grumpy Old Man-ism as they discuss “Empire of Death”, the finale to Doctor Who, Season 1! What did they think of the first finale of the RTD2 era? Were their memories jogged by a certain cramped TARDIS? Who’s pointing at what, and why? Abase yourselves, insects, and find out! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Review: Doctor Who S1E08 “Empire of Death” “Empire of Death” in-vision commentary Tales of the TARDIS: Pyramids of Mars Gabriel Woolf interview Doctor Who Magazine #605 Big Finish – Third Doctor Adventures: The Quintessence due October 2024 Dalek 63-88 “The Lost Toymaker Scripts” Kickstarter for Starlost Unauthorized and the Quest for Canadian Identity

It’s the penultimate episode of Doctor Who Season 1 and the mysteries are piling up in UNIT HQ! Who or what is Susan Twist? What about the cloaked lady who may or may not be Ruby’s mum? Why in the name of all the gods in the pantheon is Sutekh causing trouble and blinged out in Disney finery? The Three Who Rule don’t have the answers but they do have baseless speculation and a bunch of irrelevant Classic Who references to tide us over until next week! Plus some book and comic and Big Finish stuff but let’s be real…..SUTEKH’S BACK!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Magna Carta Day Review: Doctor Who S1E07 “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” Reminder: A new Tales of the TARDIS episode airing on BBC Four on June 20 Doctor Who: Print The Legend now available BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor Doctor Who: The Official Guide coming August 15 Doctor Who: Annual 2025 coming September 5 Doctor Who: Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories coming September 19 Cutaway Comics Paradise

It’s Regency drama, gossip, and scandalous dances on this week’s Doctor Who adventure, “Rogue!” The Bridgerton fans are losing their minds at this episode, including one Ruby Sunday, but what did the Three Who Rule think of this theatrical and romantic undertaking? Plus we pay tribute to William Russell, Doctor Who’s original Man of Action and Knight of Jaffa, and we encourage you to listen to our own interview with Mr. Russell from 2012. Plus Big Finish celebrates 25 years, Tales of the TARDIS mystery, and this very podcast gets called out for both its numerous crimes and its place as one of the best Doctor Who podcasts! Will wonders never cease? Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Review: Doctor Who S1E06 “Rogue” Returning to the Regency William Russell, Doctor Who legend, dies aged 99 Carole Ann Ford’s tribute to William Russell RFS 298 with William Russell interview A new Tales of the TARDIS episode airing on BBC Four on June 20 Radio Times: Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson star in Tales of the TARDI

Doctor Who shows its range again with “Dot and Bubble,” an adventure that goes from the superficiality of social media all the way to some very real-world issues in what’s ostensibly a Doctor-lite episode but is in fact very heavy. Does it seem like we’re dancing around the content of the story? Well, we are! Tune in and listen to our takes, then find out about a new visual guide chronicling the adventures of Character Options dollies, a sneak peek at the first 15th Doctor comic, the further exploits of the Terry Nation Army, more Big Finish excitement including Christopher Eccelston’s final audio adventure (for now), and more! Don’t slide us! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Review: Doctor Who S1E05 “Dot and Bubble” Indiegogo for Go Figure! A Visual Guide to Character Options Doctor Who Action Dollies Terry Nation Army: Every Mistake in “Planet of Decision” Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction moves to New Zealand Big Finish: Doctor Who – Star-Crossed, the last Ninth Doctor box

A very divisive episode of one Radio Free Skaro as the Three Who Rules review “73 Yards,” a parable of Welsh magic, loopy time conundrums and craven Prime Ministers (well, one at least). What did they think of this Millie Gibson acting tour-de-force and what in the dickens is the mysterious lady saying? Listen and find out! Plus DWM 604, virtual production, a rabbit hole discussion of 4K Blu-Rays and much, much more! Also, why not metric? Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Review: Doctor Who S1E04 “73 Yards” Doctor Who Magazine 604 DWM Print the Legend bookazine due June 6 Bringing Virtual Production to Doctor Who 2-part finale of Season 1 to be screened in cinemas across the UK Doctor Who wraps production on Season 2 Pertwee’s Take-Away shirts now on TV Cream’s Redbubble store Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War – Uncharted 1: Reflections due October 2024 Next Time: Dot and Bubble 650pm June 1 on BBC One

Steven Moffat returns to the world of Doctor Who with Boom, a tension-filled episode with land mines, Anglican Marines, many a trope from his previous era, and more! The Three Who Rule are well-known Moffat-ites to be sure, but did this measure up to their thoughts and prayers? Plus the media blitz continues with Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Time Magazine (of all things) and a halfhearted stab at the increasingly irrelevant…stats! Ahhh-aahhhhh! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Ncuti Gatwa on how to pronounce his name: “n-SHOO-tee” Review: Doctor Who S01E03 “Boom” Pertwee’s Burgers Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat on returning with Boom and putting the Doctor “on a knife’s edge” Doctor Who #4 on Disney+ on opening weekend (paywall) BBC One overnights for Space Babies 2.6M, The Devil’s Chord 2.4M, Boom 2.04M Ncuti Gatwa on the cover of Time Magazine The BIG Interview: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat Hollywood Reporter Interview with Steven Moffat Hollywood Reporter Interview with Russell T Davies How ‘Doctor

Doctor 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! Links: 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

It’s less than one week until Doctor Who enters a new era on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer, and the Disney+ money machine has been busy bussing Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson all around New York City to promote the show, look generally gorgeous wearing many different looks, and riding a Doctor Who-themed NYC subway car! There’s also chatter about Doctor Who: Unleashed, the TARDIS at Disneyland, theatre productions, and more, with our friend Sarah Murphy sitting in as guest host! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Ncuti and Millie on Good Morning America Ncuti and Millie on ABC News Ncuti Gatwa on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on their “great chemistry”, loving Jon Pertwee and the future of Doctor Who Rolling Stone: ‘It’s About Time’: Ncuti Gatwa on Becoming the New Face of ‘Doctor Who’ “Space Babies” airs at 6:20pm on BBC One; “The Devil’s Chord” at 7:05pm on May 11 Ncuti Gatwa’s Message to the Fans Doctor Who segment on Blue Peter airing May 10 Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa set

The Doctor Who publicity machine is slipping into second gear with Gatwa and Gibson making the rounds of a BBC premiere, chat shows, Variety Magazine, and more, but that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from marinating in questionable nostalgia as they recall viewing The Phantom Menace for the first time 25 years ago, aka the Dawn of Anticipointment. Plus we issue an all hands on deck alert for next week’s Gallifrey One Hotelmageddon, and Warren emerges from the Metaverse to give his take on the just released PS VR2 version of The Edge of Time! Don your own Helmet of Pretend and join us!   Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One 2025 hotel block on sale May 3 BBC Press Launch of Season 1 Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on The One Show on April 26 Variety: Doctor Who Regenerates Doctor Who Magazine #603 Doctor Who Magazine Special: 50 Years of the Fourth Doctor coming May 2 “The Church on Ruby Road” will be under Season 1 on Disney+ starting May 10 Doctor Who Season 1 to be released on Blu-ray

The hype train has left the station for Doctor Who as Entertainment Weekly, SFX, Attitude, and other pulp-based data products celebrate the impending Full-On Ncuti Gatwa Era along with the BBC and Disney+ releasing promo illustrations, and most importantly of all the release of Movellan action dollies, which caused spontaneous disco-infused celebrations across the United Kingdom. There’s also the quite suspicious timing of a restored Let It Be hitting Disney+ two days before the two-part premiere of Doctor Who, and most exciting of all, Episode Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One 2025 Tickets Now Available; Hotel Reservations on May 3 New BBC promo image promoting Doctor who launch New Disney+ promo image promoting Doctor who launch Entertainment Weekly: A new (re)generation: Inside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who Entertainment Weekly: Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa Breaks Down Every Doctor in the Show’s History Doctor Who Season 1 pre

We’re less than a month away from new Doctior Who on Disney+ and the BBC and to help us navigate this stormy sea of streaming madness is professor, media expert, and all-around lovely fellow Derek Kompare as we look into the BBC’s inevitable admission that Varada Sethu is joining the cast of the show, a fascinating Beatles-centric (or lack thereof) interview in Empire Magazine with Ncuti Gatwa and one Russell T. Davies, archive film musings, Chicago TARDIS news, and a very important televisual anniversary! Plus Episode Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who – First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson ahead of Season Two Empire Magazine Interview with Russell T Davies and Ncuti Gatwa Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Russell T Davies in the Radio Times TV 100 list The Celestial Toymaker to be released June 10/11 in the UK, North America The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years available soon Film is

Chris is a wandering vagabond this week, trolling both the Internet and ourselves with images of the real Magna Carta, but the real highlight of this week is the appearance of one Kyle Anderson of Nerdist fame for his thoughts on Doctor Who trailers, the current media landscape, and more! Plus we have news of one Dr. Who in Roblox form, the release of the Companions of Doctor Who on April 10, and River Song is back in Big Finish’s “Death and Life of River Song: Last Words”! Plus Past Chris returns in Episode Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon BBC launches new Wonder Chase experience on Roblox The Companions of Doctor Who Available April 10 Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words coming August 2024 Doctor Who’s WEIRD History of Regeneration Commentary: Terror of the Autons Episode 2

Another new Doctor Who trailer! New episode titles unveiled! Golda Rosheuvel is in Episode 1! All this and more in a timey-wimey episode of the podcast, which contains much Mrrahh Business, more cast announcements, a light dusting of contempt for AI, a Steven Moffat conversation on Youtube, and Episode One of our Classic Series Commentary for “Terror of the Autons”!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who – Golda Rosheuvel jumps aboard the TARDIS as episode titles are revealed New BBC Doctor Who Trailer Doctor Who Magazine 602 Two Doctor Who episodes nominated for Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Doctor Who 2024: BBC Confirms 4K For The Full Series BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints BBC Director General nevertheless revealed there are bold plans for AI going forward Russell T Davies says end of BBC is ‘undoubtedly on its way’ BBC looks for commercial deals as it faces potential end of licence fee Doctor Who cited as evolution of of how

In an exciting adventure in time and mostly space, Chris joins Warren in Vancouver for a very special episode of Radio Free Skaro where we look at a new Disney+ Doctor Who trailer featuring dinosaurs, Ruby Sunday stepping on a butterfly, glimpses of upcoming mysteries, and clearly a whole lot of Disney+ money. Plus confirmation Steven Moffat is back for at least one Season 1 episode, Russell T Davies using a Canadian emoji to not only tease the audience but also confound us, Big Finish celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a very special day, some MRAHHH BUSINESS from Doctor Who producer Jane Tranter ,and our Miniscope examining the work of Thirteenth Doctor-era director Jamie Childs! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon New Disney+ Trailer Steven Moffat writes episode for new season of Doctor Who with Julie-Anne Robinson directing RTD uses

After a long and punishing era of North America tapping its toes and drumming its fingers waiting for the adventures of Doctor Who on their televisual devices, Disney+ has upended the universe with a global release on its streaming service with the result that North Americans will see the show Friday afternoon and the UK will suffer the INDIGNITY of having their beloved Gallifreyan arrive at midnight, a crime as monumental as the United States seceding from the Commonwealth. We also have Steven Moffat allegedly writing the 2024 Xmas special, man about town and Nerdist scribe Kyle Anderson’s look at regenerations, and an interview with Chris Chapman about his Graham Williams documentary on said collection,”Darkness and Light: The Life of Graham Williams”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who Returns May 10/11, Premiering on iPlayer/Disney+ at Midnight UK Time BBC Press Release on Doctor Who Premiere Radio Times: Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat ‘returns to write 2024 Christmas special’ Alison Sterl

It’s time for a mea culpa about Magna Carta by the Three Who Rule (much less than before) before we move on to the news of the moment, including Rachel Talalay highlighting female Doctor Who directors and appearing in Edmonton to celebrate her film work, Mark Ayres going to bat for the Celestial Toymaker’s experimental animations, the BBC with an AI-generated foot in its mouth after it decided simple humans can’t possibly promote their Doctor Who material, Warren has news of scribbling for an RPG merchant ,and the second part of a completely historically accurate exploration Classic Series Commentary of Magna Carta AND shapeshifting robots in…”The King’s Demons”, Part the Second!   Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Radio Times: Rachel Talalay: Doctor Who’s female directors have defied the odds Mark Ayres defends “experimental” Celestial Toymaker animation BBC is exploring generative AI to increase experimentation and improve Doctor Who promotion Big Finish: Bernice Summerfield: The Eternity Club ser

On this most important Magna Carta Day (yes, we know it’s actually June 15), the Three Who Rule are digging deep on morsels of news including the BFI screening of the Celestial Toymaker along with some Hot Takes on the current state of AI, the Sea Devils spinoff supposedly starting shooting on March 4, new casting, “The Daleks in Colour” available for digital purchase, an entirely made up new villain called the RUSAN, an upcoming convention for The Tripods which sold out within hours, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for “The King’s Demons”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Celestial Toymaker screening at BFI on March 2 Doctor Who Sea Devils begins production March 4 Gallifrey One 2024 Wrap-Up and 2025 Update Doctor Who Magazine #601 Genesis Lysea, Gwïon Morris Jones join cast for Season 1 Makalla McPherson directing Doctor Who in Season 2 Amanda Brotchie directs block 3 Doctor Who feature in Disney twenty-three magazine The Daleks in Colour now available for digital purchase in No

It’s the week after Gallifrey One but your dedicated town criers The Three Who Rule are here to give you the latest facts from the worlds of Doctor Who including a BFI showing of The Celestial Toymaker on March 2, a surfeit of scripts from the BBC, even more Blu-rays from the BBC Shop (sorta), and even more Big Finish news, most of it announced at the aforementioned Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles! But all this is burying the lede as the BBC Archive’s Youtube channel rewards us with a visit in 1990 to…the BBC Film and Tape Library! And also, the Three remember the great Pamela Salem. Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Celestial Toymaker screening at BFI on March 2 Fifteenth Doctor’s Audition and hundreds of other scripts released Meet ‘The Edge of Destruction’ on vinyl this Record Store Day Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 9: 1971 Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour due March 19 (North America) Doctor Who: Peter Davison Complete Season 2 due April 2 (North America) Doctor Who: The Celestial Toym

That’s a wrap from Gallifrey One this year, but what a weekend it was! Disney+ chose Gallifrey One as the time and the place to launch their promo campaign for Doctor Who, including a special message to the convention and a new promotional poster. Gallifrey One Program Director Shaun Lyon tells us what went into that. Also, Simon Guerrier talks about BBC Television that eventually inspired Doctor Who, and Peter Harness joins us to preview his new series Constellation, premiering February 21 on Apple TV+! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One Disney+ Promo Launch Constellation on Apple TV+

Quite a treat for all of us on this episode as we are joined by none other than Sir Derek Jacobi, legend of stage and screen, portrayer of The Master in Doctor Who in 2007, and also the most charming and affable of fellows! The Three Who Rule, along with Erika from Verity! and Jason Snell from The Incomparable, also ruminate on how their Friday and Saturday went at Gallifrey One, including a full rundown of the live show to kick off the convention! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Gallifrey One