Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

The time has come once again for everyone to lose their collective minds as a real, proper, UNIT-y, Toymaker-centric trailer graces our internet and airwaves featuring David Tennant, Donna Noble, Jemma Redgrave, and Ncuti Gatwa in two minutes and change of new footage! What did the Three Who Rule think? And what are their opinions on news such as a UK free live tv service over broadband, a Radio Times list of the top 100 television shows and radio programs, and what do they think about Big Finish Ood adventures featuring Torchwood! All of that is mere piffle however compared to the main event, a long-gestating analysis of Canadian sci-fi television “legend” The Starlost, featuring Steven, Warren, Harlan Ellison editor, author and friend Jason Davis and Incomparable host and producer Annette Wierstra. Prepare the Bounce Tube! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon 60th Anniversary Trailer BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 to launch free live TV service over broadband Rachel Talalay, Jeff Rawle coming to Chic

Is a missing episodes return on the horizon via private film collectors? We talk to Tim Burrows of the Doctor Who Missing Episodes Podcast to learn more. It’s also a bumper crop of news this week as Miriam Margolyes is confirmed as the voice of Beep the Meep, Simon Guerrier measures the length, intensity and frequency of the Screams of Mel, Steven spends an inordinate amount of time cogitating about the upcoming Doctor Who Limited Edition New Who box set, we ponder the significance of Disney’s D23 being held at the same time as WorldCon in Glasgow (August 8-12, 2024), and more! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Miriam Margolyes officially confirmed as voice of the Meep Tennant and Tate 15 years later Doctor Who Magazine 595 Simon Guerrier analyzes Mel’s screams Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (Canada) Doctor Who: Limited Edition New Who Collector’s Blu-Ray Set art and trailer (US) Doctor Who: The White Dragon 13th Doctor graphic novel due Mar 1, 2024 D23 a

For the first time in almost 20 years, #WhoSpy has returned to give you all sneak peeks from behind the scenes of Doctor Who (from a year ago now, but still!) Plus we have new photos in EW that are ever-so-slightly different from what we’ve already seen of the three Tennant specials, a spurious rumor about Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who, and Jemma Redgrave saying “not really, no” to a UNIT spinoff, plus a BFI premiere, a yearbook, Dan Slott’s “Once Upon a Time Lord” is finally almost here, and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for “Mawdryn Undead”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon #WhoSpy returns Entertainment Weekly Doctor Who preview contains new photos Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who? Jemma Redgrave confirms she’s back in Doctor Who, denies UNIT spin-off Gallifrey One 2024 update The Underwater Menace BFI premiere happening October 21 Doctor Who Magazine Special #65 2024 Yearbook due Jan 24 Titan Comics “Once Upon A Time Lord” by Dan Slott due October 24 Commentary: Mawdryn Undead, Part

It’s a bumper crop of news this week with confirmation of Ncuti Gatwa’s second season being built as you read this, Rose Noble as played by Yasmin Finney, more Marvel and Disney+ machinations, and hold onto your wallets because Doctor Who: Magic the Gathering is due to arrive in October, if you haven’t already spent your cash on audio annuals, new Big Finish releases and a plane ticket to Chicago TARDIS to see Doctor Who legend Carole Ann Ford! All this, and we also have an extensive interview with one Toby Hadoke about all things Quatermass! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who Series 15 production underway, lasting from July 2023-May 2024 BBC confirms Rose Noble as the character played by Yasmin Finney Doctor Who 60th anniversary musical celebration coming September 28 Marvel Shows Shift Premiere Dates Due To Strikes & New Disney+ Strategy Disney+ passes on “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, non-Disney IP that was already completed Disney also passes on Nautilus UK Series Doctor Who Annual 2

It’s a mystery that isn’t as the BBC publishes then pulls confirmation that Ncuti Gatwa’s first series will air in “Spring 2024”, as we all suspected. This had the unsurprising effect of clickbait farms pondering on Doctor Who’s future, which in actuality will also feature Big Brother and Dead Set’s own Davina McCall and Indira Varma! We also have a video essay about I, Claudius (because of course we do), details on the book launch of Simon Guerrier’s “David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television”, Big Finish endings and audiobook news, and most excitingly, Part One of our Classic Series Commentary of “Mawdryn Undead”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon BBC “confirms” Spring 2024 debut for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season, Indira Varma in “Christmas special” 2023 Davina McCall appearing in Christmas special Video essay on multicam directing in I, Claudius David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television: Book Launch Take a glimpse behind-the-scenes of Doctor Who 40 years ago Doctor Who: A

A new era of action dollies is upon us with more Daleks, Colin Baker with a new coat and and AND a Richard Hurndall dolly for all you devoted Hurndallists to enjoy (pineapple not included)! There’s also Blu-Ray uprez news, pointless banter about Supermen and 90s classic(?) film Hackers, Cutaway Comics releases and the main feature, an interview with “Pull to Open” author Paul Hayes about the birth of Doctor Who! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who Magazine 594 Four actors announced for upcoming episodes, Yasmin Finney sticking around? Doctor Who 14th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Standard Edition B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 13 The Five Doctors B&M 2023 The History of the Daleks 14 Revelation of the Daleks B&M 2023 The Sixth Doctor and TARDIS A newly remastered Series 1 – 4 Blu-ray of Doctor Who is coming soon to the UK Season 20 – The Collection UK release date confirmed as Sep 18 Cutaway Comics Omega & Sutekh – Gods and Monsters due Sep 2023 Interview: Pull to Open by P

Animated adventures are back! At least, The Underwater Menace is coming soon to DVD and Blu-ray, both in colour and black and white! There’s also a 60th anniversary concert on the way, an illustrated edition of Rose arriving on November 23, the sad news that luxury dollyists Big Chief Studios are shuttering their doors, some truly bizarre photos from the 1973 Radio Times retrospective on Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary, and the second of our two-part Miniscope on Saul Metzstein, featuring the esteemed director’s work “The Snowman”, “The Crimson Horror”, and “The Name of the Doctor”! Well, Trenza my Lores! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Missing adventure ‘The Underwater Menace’ to be animated in 2023 Doctor Who 60th Anniversary concert coming Autumn 2023 Deluxe illustrated edition of ‘Rose’ coming Nov 2023 Big Chief Studios closing Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Then Legendary Tapes screening Sep 22 in Hastings Brain of Morbius cinema screening in Newcastle Nov 18 Radio Times 10th Anniversary retr

The news remains fallow in these Times of No Who Yet, but we do have missives from the further adventures of Doom’s Day, colourization of old episodes on many fronts, an action dolly magazine spectacular, Tom Baker’s son’s Who-themed Nottingham pub and part one of our Miniscope examination of director Saul Metzstein’s work, featuring “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” and “A Town Called Mercy”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who Magazine Special 64 – Action Figures – The Essential Guide 2005-2023 Big Finish Doctor Who – Doom’s Day: Dying Hours (hours 2000-2300) due September 2023 Doctor Who classic The Smugglers gets colour revamp Doctor Who colourizations by jamesknox817 Missing episodes in collectors hands? Doctor Who-themed pub in Nottingham run by Tom Baker’s son Miniscope: Saul Metzstein Part 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship A Town Called Mercy

Unlike last week’s veritable tsunami of info, this week we have a quieter news offering, including a staggeringly expensive 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver replica, more bon mots from Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa via Rolling Stone, Gav Rymill noodling with AI to recreate missing episodes (sort of), Doom working through her Day in game form, and the highlight of this week’s episode: an interview with skilled Photoshopist and bon vivant Andrew-Mark Thompson, author of “This Is A Fake – A Collection of Unreal Things”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who and the Sonic Screwdriver Rubbertoe Replica 14th Doctor sonic screwdriver Ncuti Gatwa’s Rolling Stone UK cover shoot video New instalment of Doom’s Day called AI am the Doctor coming soon BFI to show colourized early DW as part of Missing Believed Wiped Gav Rymill testing AI for recons Doctor Who The Sun Makers Original Music Soundtrack Orange Vinyl LP Doctor Who The Visitation Original Music Soundtrack Green Vinyl LP BF Rose Tyler: The Dimension

After subjecting you to an intense bout of trivia last week, we have a surfeit and indeed a tsunami of News Content for you, including a new sonic for the Fourteenth Doctor, promo pics, a pink TARDIS Barbie cross-promotion, Ncuti Gatwa being funny and fashionable in a Rolling Stone UK interview, new books, audios, missing episode musings, a gigantic Blu-Ray set off all the Doctors from Eccleston to Whittaker, another Blu-Ray set for Season 20, and much, much more! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon New promo pics Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver Fourteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver sold out Series 14 wraps filming (Instagram link) Series 14 wraps filming (Wales Online link) Doctor Who/Barbie pink TARDIS crossover promotion Ncuti Gatwa interview in Rolling Stone UK Doctor Who Magazine 593 Fourth Doctor comics Anthology, including The Star Beast, coming November 2 Season 20 announced as the news classic Blu-Ray set Season 20 Blu-Ray set trailer “The Passenger” “The Passenger” behind the scenes The Fi

Several self-styled Doctor Who “experts” in the form of Warren, Chris, Kat and Erika square off against trivia master and Smug Poltroon Steven in our semi-annual trivia showdown aptly named “Trivia, Mr Fibuli”! Based on Jacqueline Rayner’s Doctor Who – The Official Quiz Book from 2014. Who will emerge triumphant in this contest of intellect, skill and pointless fact-knowing? Tune in and find out!

The news is sparse this week, as sparse as the Thursday/Friday schedule for San Diego Comic Con, reflecting the general malaise of the entertainment media complex in these times of IP dominance and labour strife. But that won’t stop the Three Who Rule from giving their half-baked opinions on costuming, editing video tape via razor blades and gumption, the non-legacy of VR, and Threads, the latest in a long line of social media hellsites. So go on, skeet that toot into your eardrums, tweeps! Not the nighttime crowd, obviously. Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon SDCC Hall H Schedule SDCC Panel: Titan Comics Doctor Who The 1960s Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part three Peter Davison reveals scrapped plans for Five(ish) Doctors Reboot follow-up How Jack the Ripper Shaped The Talons of Weng Chiang 2023 Hugo Awards nominees Doctor Who The Target Book Club happening July 16 Sacha Dhawan coming to Long Island Who Big Finish Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Intelligence for War due Oct 2023 B

It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…by the Three Who Rule who are ringing in Canada Day weekend by wringing out the very last vestiges of the Timelash, our popular(?) time-filling exercise in Doctor Who reflection. We also have news of Doctor Who mostly absent from SDCC, MIA for Fortnite, and country cousin Star Trek all but vanishing from Crave, which continues to be Canada’s HBO by going from quite decent to very crappy in under a year. Next week…not the Timelash, that’s for sure! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Doctor Who Pride Month wrapup Doctor Who will be present in the Exhibit Hall at SDCC Titan Entertainment Unveils Doctor Who and My Hero Academia Merchandise for SDCC The Black Archive upcoming release schedule Doctor Who Am I available for free on Tubi Big Finish Sixth Doctor Adventures: Purity Unbound due Aug 2023 Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: Two’s Company due Aug 2023 Big Finish Box of Terrors audio novel due Nov 2023 Doctor Who/Fortnite crossov

It is a sad week for the media and for Steven as Disney and many Makers of Pretend aren’t going to San Diego Comic Con, which means Doctor Who likely won’t, which means Steven likely won’t. Curses! We do however have news of Doctor Who books, Big Finish and Paul McGann appearing at LI Who in costume as well as digressions into Canadian history and Pink Floyd (as you do) in the penultimate instalment of…the Timelash! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Doctor Who Magazine 592 released Marvel, Netflix, Sony, HBO and Universal to Skip SDCC Pull To Open – 1962-1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who coming July 24 Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas due October 2023 Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – The Diary of River Song: The Orphan Quartet due August 2023 Big Finish Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In The Night due September 2023 Paul McGann doing photo ops in costume at LI Who

While we wait for news regarding Doctor Who at San Diego Comic-Con (or not), The Three Who Rule managed to squeeze out more than an hour of top quality banter at Ncuti Gatwa’s nudity skills, Lenny Rush joining the Doctor Who cast, and the Timelash, which was stuffed to the gills with events of a chronological nature which were then commented upon! Want to hear derisive sneers about Strange New Worlds and Disney+ censorship of “The French Connection”, not to mention the Golden Age of McDonalds Ashtrays? This is the podcast for you! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Ncuti Gatwa On Barbie, Doctor Who And Baring It All In British Vogue BAFTA Award Winner Lenny Rush Joins Doctor Who June Big Finish releases Steven and Erika on Episode 1 of By Hook or By Crook podcast with Luke Harrison and Tin Dog

The Classic Companion Reunion Victory Tour as one Melanie Bush aka Bonnie Langford is set to join Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who for an adventure in space and/or time next year! Doom has also started experiencing their first of twenty-four hours of mayhem and of course we have the Timelash to entertain you with ad-hoc takes of time gone by. But more importantly, we have Gav Rymill of the Terry Nation Army in a return interview about his fantastic fan series of videos about Skaro’s crankiest denizens! Set aside a few rels and listen, won’t you? Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Bonnie Langford returns to Doctor Who Doom’s Day – Doom’s first hour Titan Comics Doom’s Day “A Doctor in the House? Part One” available for pre-order Doctor Who Chronicles 1963-64 now available BBC Books to Publish ‘Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse”, due Nov 16 Interview: Gav Rymill and Terry Nation Army

It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits technical snafus, Blu-Ray, Big Finish and vinyl releases aplenty and as always we go deep into the past to give our own vague musings in the Timelash! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Terry Burnett film archive handed over “Most of the reels are unlabelled” Network Distributing closes Waris Hussein diaries, part two Season 9 Blu-Ray release delayed to July 11 in North America Series 5 soundtrack coming to vinyl on July 7 Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy attending Chicago TARDIS 2023 The Seven Classic Daleks in the Asylum – Complete Histories Uncovered Big Finish Doctor Who – Once and Future: A Genius for War due July 2023 Big Finish Doctor Who

It’s the Eve of Doom’s Day as the BBC ramps up its transmedial multimodal whatsit starring Sooz Kempner for a debut on June 5th! The Three Who Rule cogitate on this monumental and somewhat confusing chronological crisis, along wth much more, including Indira Varma as the mysterious Duchess, Frazer Hines writing an Evil of the Daleks novelization, a contraband 1997 Doctor Who annual, Doctor Who and Top Gear going into the metaverse for some reason, the Revised Return of the Wife in Space, and the ever enjoyable Timelash! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Indira Varma joins Doctor Who as The Duchess Doctor Who Magazine 591 released Prepare for Doom’s Day Four to Doom’s Day vinyl due Aug 25 Big Finish Doom’s Day details Big Finish UNIT – Nemesis: Masters of Time due July 2023 Big Finish Torchwood Soho: Ascension due Feb 2024 BBC Studios takes Top Gear and Doctor Who into the metaverse Evil of the Daleks to be novelized by Fraser Hines Evil of the Daleks audio release due Oct 26 Jamie Mathi

It is one of the more fallow news weeks in recent memory as we have merely one Big Finish and a few novels to speak of, BUT that doesn’t stop the Three Who Rule from chewing up all of time and space with both the Timelash and and AND the return of Fluid Links! How does WKRP figure into the Tom Baker era? Why do Nimons wear loincloths? These questions and more are yours to hear and yell at in frustration! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Titles and covers released for 60th anniversary tie-in novels Big Finish Audacity due late 2023 Chris on All of Time and Space podcast, released May 26

We now have titles for the upcoming Doctor Who David Tennant specials, and a teaser trailer featuring Beep The Meep, Neil Patrick Harris as whoever he might be, and not a whole lot else! Still, it’s something, as is Regency costumes on Ncuti Gatwa and Co., Disney+ losing money due to cricket (so we’ll blame that on the fifth Doctor) , Big Finish, NFTs, analog NFTs in the form of Doctor Who themed Magic: The Gathering cards, and as ever the Timelash, where we decided Alec Baldwin has been hoarding 16mm prints of missing episodes! It’s Wednesday, Lemon! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash David Tennant specials episode titles revealed New Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials trailer Gatwa, Gibson, and Jonathan Groff pose in new Regency-era outfits Disney+ sheds subscribers Doctor Who Chronicles #8 – 1963-64 due June 8 Make Your Own TARDIS Book Nook with Blue Peter Big Finish Freebies start with an Eccleston episode Big Finish Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity open to submissions D