Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Christmas is saved! The official Doctor Who YouTube Channel (don't forget to subscribe) and Big Finish have come together to present a new audio Christmas story starring Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford. We have the details. Other audio goodies are discussed as well in lieu of news of tenders and Cbeebies spinoffs, and the episode culminates in the third and final part of our Classic Series Commentary miniseries of "The Daleks' Master Plan"! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford to star in the Ninth Doctor's Big Finish Christmas special RTD speaks out against Matt Brittin's AI remarks, suggests Doctor Who should be in production by summer Doctor Who Magazine #635 BBC Audiobooks: Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara due Nov 5 BBC Audiobooks: Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor Novels due Nov 5 BBC Audiobooks: Doctor Who: The Third History Collection due Dec 3 Soundtrack for 60th Anniversary Specials coming this Doctor Who Day Character Options Unveils Penultima

Three big Doctor Who stories share the spotlight this week! Deadline reports that both Jed Mercurio's Hat Trick Mercurio and STV Studios are two of the interested bidders to make Doctor Who, the first image and details of the new CBeebies Doctor Who show TARDIS Crew were unveiled, and Russell T Davies' new memoir is out for all to dissect for its details and (lack of) juicy dirt. All this, and our second instalment in our Classic Series Commentary for "The Daleks' Master Plan"! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Deadline reveals some Doctor Who bids: Jed Mercurio, STV Studios, among others First look at 'TARDIS Crew', brand new CBeebies animated adventure from the Whoniverse Russell T Davis' book "The Queerest of Folk" released Billie Piper's tears, Weinstein tension and a knife by the door: Russell T Davies' memoir doesn't hold back Gallifrey One: October Update: Discussion Panels & TARDIS Talks Big Finish: Doctor Who: Halloween – Doctor, Doctor, Doctor and Other Stories available now Big Finish

Doctor Who is dead, long live Doctor Who! Russell T Davies speaks of the end of his time on Doctor Who in an excerpt from his new book, while Bad Wolf's Jane Tranter laments the dismantling of the most recent TARDIS set. All this is happening while BBC Studios may have multiple bids to produce the next era of Doctor Who. All this and more, including the first episode of our Classic Series Commentary of the first quarter of "The Daleks' Master Plan"! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon 'Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!': Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who Jane Tranter mentioned on Instagram the TARDIS set was being torn down 'Doctor Who': Multiple BBC Studios Labels Likely To Apply For Tender Doctor Who: The Satan Pit Extended Movie Cut UK DVD/Blu-Ray announced, no release date yet Encore screening of The Daleks' Master Plan at Riverside Studios on October 31 The Savages now on iPlayer The Black Archive: Frontios by Paul Driscoll due Oct 6 from Obverse Books Big Finish: The Thirtee

It's the end, but the Circuit has been prepared for! Big Finish concludes the Fugitive Doctor's multi-month, multi-platform saga with audio play Full Circuit and Short Circuits, a couple of audiobooks. Plus "The Satan Pit" hits movie theatres on November 23, the BFI hosts a Blake's 7 Series 3 event, the usual Timelash nonsense continues apace and the one, the only David J. Howe graces us with an interview about all manner of Telos Publishing goings-on!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon BFI Blake's 7 Series 3 event BBC announces The Satan Pit: Extended Movie Cut in cinemas November 23; tickets on sale Sept 26 BBC Expected To Announce TV & Radio Network Closures Next Week Matt Brittin: BBC cannot guarantee any programme or channel will exist forever Big Finish: Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker: Full Circuit now available Big Finish: Doctor Who – Circuit Breaker concludes with Short Circuits Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: River and Rory due Feb 2027 The Whoniverse Show with Peter Daviso

Big news! The moment has been prepared for by a cabal of BBC pencil pushers as the official Doctor Who Invitation To Tender was released to all and sundry! Steven and Warren pick apart the document with a fine tooth comb, highlighting requirements like "essential Britishness" before spring boarding into the usual speculation, and theorizing and equal parts cynicism and copium. Plus Big Finish and DWM news, The Timelash and a Miniscope featuring all three of the Three Who Rule examining the directing work of Peter Hoar! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon BBC publishes Doctor Who invitation to tender Doctor Who Magazine #634 Doctor Who "The Satan Pit" coming to Canada and UK cinemas on November 23 Written by Terrance Dicks: Book Launch with Simon Guerrier on November 26 in Manchester James Cooray Smith article The Last Battle Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe available now Big Finish: The War Doctor Rises: Serpent's Nest available December 2026 Big Finish: Doctor

A light week of Doctor Who related banter as we soldier through continued Circuit Breaker fun, speculate wildly about the upcoming Blakes 7 Series 3 Collection that was officially announced this past week, the usual Big Finish cover art overexamination, and a travel back through the years via The Timelash! Forwards to the Past, or something! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Circuit Breaker: Kaleidoscope review Blake's 7 Series 3 Collection announced Frontios Black Archive book due Oct 6 The Reality War – 2005-2025: How the Doctor Who Revival Transformed Television coming Oct 26 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation released Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master – Part Three released Big Finish: Halloween and Christmas collections due Oct 2026 and Dec 2026, respectively Big Finish audio novels The Missing Hour, due Oct 2026, and The Bath Chronicles, due Jan 2027 The Timelash

As befits these dog days of Doctor Who, we start this episode delving into both Edmonton infrastructure projects and the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, before summarily slapping ourselves upside the head and reporting on Warren's progress reading Circuit Breaker: Kaleidoscope (pretty good so far!) and the extraordinarily expensive yet mouth-wateringly lovely new Character Options set featuring Liz Shaw and a Primordial Professor Stahlman  Also books, the Timelash and an interview with the Cyberleader himself David Banks about his new book Man and Cyberman! Excellent! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon 2026 Hugo Award winners Circuit Breaker: Kaleidoscope Character Options Season Seven Set Liz Shaw and Primord available September 14 The Daleks' Master Plan: The Making of a Television Serial by Alan Stevens due Sep 2026 Screen Printed: The Definitive Guide To The Exciting Adventures Based On The Popular BBC Television Serial available now Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: War Widow released

The War between the Galactic Republic (Canada) and the Trade Federation (America) continues and is finally affecting things that actually matter like Doctor Who as Catherine Tate and other guests have bowed out of Edmonton Expo due to overcomplicated plane shenanigans as available flights plummet between our two nations! In better news, Steven sings the praises of the BBC show Ludwig, which is like Doctor Who if Doctor Who was a crime procedural, and Gallifrey One continues with their second wave of guest announcements! Plus more exciting Circuit Breaker updates, New Paradigm Dalek dollies, more mutant heads aka Funko Pops, and another edition of The Timelash!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Katy Manning, Frazer Hines. Simon Guerrier, Stephen Cole announced for Gallifrey One Catherine Tate, other guests cancel Edmonton Expo appearances due to lack of Edmonton-LA flights Circuit Breaker: The Doctor and the Three Witches Circuit Breaker: Momento Mori Waris Hussein and Carole Ann Ford on The Whonive

Despite the continuing lull in Doctor Who content we've got a bumper crop of stuff to talk about this week, including a missing episodes saga of sorts from Steven with many twists, turns, and 3/4" U-Matic tapes! the ever-present Circuit Breaker (except in Canada, more on that within), Mark Gatiss predicting the Doctor Who tender "quietly won't happen," the official launch of the Pondcast featuring Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, and the return of our look back at the week in the history of Doctor Who, namely – The Timelash!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Circuit Breaker: Don't Blink! Circuit Breaker: The Three Witches (part of updated Time Lord Fairy Tales) released on August 20 Circuit Breaker: The Three Witches comes out Feb 23 in Canada Mark Gatiss predicts Doctor Who's tender "quietly won't happen": 'It's time for a break' BBC bosses headlining Mipcom Doctor Who Magazine 633 David Tennant interview excerpt on official Doctor Who website Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill officially launched Po

It's a landmark episode of Radio Free Skaro as we mark 20 years of blabbing into microphones about the greatest television show ever made, that there Doctor Who, with a touch of reminiscing and reflection on our various accomplishments, hankerings and foibles, and many, many of your Fluid Links answered in an epic-length episode the likes of which we (probably) won't do for another 20 years! In the words of Tom Baker: indomitable! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Toby Hadoke, Geoffrey Beevers, Daisy Ashford announced for Gallifrey One 2027 Catherine Tate announced for Edmonton Expo Blue Zoo Animation appoints Dominic Minns as Creative Director, Series Director of Doctor Who series Fifth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now available Eighth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver due Sep 21 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides released Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: False Friends due Oct 2026 Big Finish: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Duty of Care released Chimes of Midni

It's the end of an era but the moment has been prepared for as the trailblazing Verity! crew release their final episode capping more than a decade of smart talk about Doctor Who from six awesome ladies. Pay tribute to their work and the community they built, as we do in this episode! Plus Gallifrey One announces Mat Irvine and Waris Hussein as guests, more Circuit Breaker and Big Finish fun, various Kickstarters and neat obscurities, and an interview with Stephen James Walker, the editor of the keenly anticipated Doctor Who Production Diary – The Troughton Years!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The last episode of Verity! Mat Irvine, Waris Hussein announced for Gallifrey One 2027 Projections in Time – Battlefield happening Sep 13 at Riverside Studios, tickets sold out in 10 minutes Circuit Breaker 2 from Titan Comics available now Circuit Breaker: Lost In Time mobile game segment Castling available for a limited time The Six Doctors novelization by Simon Guerrier coming Jan 21, 2027 The Vampire

We're breaking circuits once more as we cover both the new Audiobook Doctor Who: The Deadliest Weapon and preview a new Titan comic in the sprawling saga of Circuit Breaker starring Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor! Spoilers: we're enjoying Circuit Breaker! Plus books, Big Finish tomfoolery, more Dalek 63-88 goodies, and Part the Fourth of our Classic Series Commentary for the special edition of "Warriors of the Deep"! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Graeme Harper announced as guest for Gallifrey One 2027 Circuit Breaker: Doctor Who: The Deadliest Weapon released July 30 Doctor Who Circuit Breaker #2 available August 5 from Titan Comics Circuit Breaker Big Finish stories now available for pre-order, due Sep 30 Big Finish: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Beautiful and the Damned available now Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Space Security Service: Bret Vyon Lives! available now Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Shock and Awe due Sep 2026 Colin Baker on The Whoniverse S

The TARDIS is in Glasgow this week as both the King and Queen of England opened the Commonwealth Games and Sylvester McCoy (in costume and adorned with a traffic cone) calls out all the Scottish Doctors by name, as is his right), and in February of next year both Carole Ann Ford and Anita Dobson will be in Los Angeles for Gallifrey One! Also, we discuss the future of Doctor Who alongside a new DWM article, Dugga Doo action dolly madness, a strange digression into the work of Giorgio Moroder, and is The War Between The Land and the Sea coming to Disney+ in January? If you can get past all that, we also have Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for "Warriors of the Deep"! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The TARDIS Is On A Royal Mission To The Commonwealth Games Sylvester McCoy being an icon for 26 seconds Carole Ann Ford, Anita Dobson announced for Gallifrey One 2027 Doctor Who Magazine #632, including the next chapter of Circuit Breaker First look at Circuit Breaker story 'The Honourable Soc

Do you want to hear about MRAHHH BUSINESS regarding BBC Studios and the BBC's annual report for the better part of an hour? Well, you're going to, along with keen insights into the NHK man prowling Tokyo looking for license fee avoiders, James Bond musings, the continued myth of Christopher Nolan films having minimal CGI and more! Plus exciting Jo Martin sonic screwdriver news, more Big Finish analysis, and the exciting second part of our "Warriors of the Deep" Special Edition Classic Series Commentary with a new, pizazz-filled Myrka! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon BBC Studios Boss Confirms It Will Compete To Become The Next Producer Of 'Doctor Who' Broadcast: BBC Studios revenues stable as profits rise BBC Boss Says 'Doctor Who' Disruption Is Opportunity For Creative Regeneration BBC 2026 Annual Report released BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million How BBC Studios' CEO Thinks About Mega-Mergers Reshaping the Media Landscape New Fugitive Doctor sonic scredriver unveiled, will debut in

The UK is awash in televisual Mrrahhh Business this week as Sky is set to purchase ITV for $2.13 billion and what better "experts" to weigh in on the subject than three Canadians with a passing familiarity with the industry? Plus a surfeit of Troughton-era goodness in the form of a massive production diary of the era by author David Brunt and a Doctor Who: Legends special featuring Ol' Two himself. We also have blatant foreign election interference as we endorse Count Binface and poorly explain what Ceefax is to the younger generations who do not in any way care! All this AND part one of our Classic Series Commentary for the newly released special edition of "Warriors Of The Deep"!! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon 'Doomsday' 20 years on – remembering the final adventure of the Doctor and Rose Sky acquires ITV for $2.13 billion BBC "Discussing" Partnership With Channel 4 in Streaming Race for Scale Doctor Who: Legends – Patrick Troughton available July 16 The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Trough

We're Breaking Circuits over here at Radio Free Skaro Towers, with a web-based UNIT story setting up the whole shebang and a new Titan Comics adventure (which we have read in preview form) soon to come! While TWBLATS has yet to grace North American bandwidth via Disney+, the BBC Writers Room site has provided scripts for you to peruse! Plus Steven Moffat continues his unofficial Doctor Who appreciation tour with a guest appearance on Peter Purves' podcast, Blake's 7 Series C Blu-Ray available for preorder in the US, and the conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for part four of Spearhead From Space! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Circuit Breaker: An Introduction Doctor Who Circuit Break #1 available July 8 from Titan Comics Doctor Who: 20 Years On – The Tenth Doctor BFI event Aug 15, tickets on sale July 9 The War Between the Land and the Sea scripts available on the BBC Writers Room site Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O'Clock released Big Finish: Doctor Who

It's a bumper crop of news this week despite a complete lack of Doctor Who…except for Circuit Breaker, which begins by way of an online game where you join UNIT! Plus a fine interview with Steven Moffat on the Whoniverse Show, some fine Big Finish Zaprudering, and some truly insane talk about both a possible (but thankfully never followed up on) Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover and a deep investigation into the Happy Days animated universe! Don a leather jacket and say "Wonzie" with us! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Bad Wolf producing The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special in July There were ideas for a Doctor Who/Strange New Worlds crossover Doctor Who Magazine #631 Jo Martin DWM interview excerpt Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker begins Steven Moffat on The Whoniverse Show Steven Moffat improvs a Doctor Who story Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: War Room: Loyalties available now Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans: Grave Moon released Big Finish: Torchwood: Legacy due Sep/Oct 2026 Davi

If you thought a complete vacuum of Doctor Who news would stop the Three Who Rule from prognostication based on the vapours and some recent UK media podcast analysis about the BBC tendering process, boy howdy you would be wrong! Thrill to our educated guesses as to where we go from here in a fractured media landscape! Puzzle over the tender process! Draw no real conclusions! Plus part the third of our Spearhead from Space Classic Series Commentary! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Rest is Entertainment podcast on the Doctor Who farrago The War Between not in the Disney+ schedule for July How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay – Regenerating Doctor 12 to Doctor 13 First Doctor Who Collect & Build Set to be released June 29 Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Three released Commentary: Spearhead From Space, Episode 3

It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously pursued. Sad news to be sure, but we've cobbled together industry and wider fan reaction along with our own lengthy takes tinged with what we'd like to think is both optimism and realism. More importantly, we have former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury to give us his rather more informed take on the whole situation. Brave Heart, Tegan, after all somewhere the tea is getting cold.  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon An update on the future of Doctor Who 'Doctor Who' Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That's Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers Russell T Davies on Instagram: "For the record, there was no script" Russell T Davies: Doctor Who hasn't been cancelled Bad Wolf Studios post on Instagram Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who news Andy Pryor also le

The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irritate us all, and actual footage of RTD saying there will be a BBC press release in a week or two. The Three Who Rule dig deep and are quite skeptical of all this torpor (other than RTD's almost certainly correct claim) as well the usual Big Finish and Dalek 63-88 updates and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for Spearhead from Space! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon RTD says to expect a press release about Doctor Who in the next couple weeks "BBC Announces Doctor Who Christmas Special to Mark End of an Era" fake press release The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About – Because No One Knows About It Dalek 63-88: Why The Daleks' Master Plan Makes No Sense – The Galactic Warfare Problem Big Finish Day 2027 will be April 17, 2027 Big Finish: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress released Big Finish: Doctor W