Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

It’s that time again, friends, where we dust off the previous series of Doctor Who, having let it settle in our minds for the past few weeks (or, given that it’s 2020, the past few decades in the longest year ever) and take a fresh look at it with some friends both new and old. This week, we look back at “Spyfall – Part One”, with guest Rachel Donner, as we begin the odyssey of our Doctor Who Series 12 Commentaries! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Doctor Who Magazine Production Design special The Wintertime Paradox book due October 15 Big Chief Sixth Doctor Commentary: Spyfall – Part One Rachel Donner

It’s trivia time again! Coming off Warren’s stunning victory in the first instalment of our new trivia segment Trivia, Mr. Fibuli, we invite our friend Kyle Anderson along to challenge both Warren and Chris as we play the latest version of Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit. Also, the Radio Times readers have chosen David Tennant as their favourite Doctor (just), new action dollies are coming, and we give you det Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! David Tennant voted most popular Doctor Six new Character Options sets New Time Lord Victorious figurines Dhawan’s Master officially comes after Gomez’s Jodie Whittaker to appear on Who Do You Think You Are? Tasmanian fossil named after Tom Baker Trivia, Mr. Fibuli: Kyle Anderson

Are you ready for Bradley Walsh to join Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill on the Doctor Who panel at New York Comic-Con on October 8? Are you ready for some amazing looking new Doctor Who figurines from Eaglemoss? Are you ready for an impromptu deep dive into the history of the Canadian Football League? Be ready, and also be ready for, there’s a new Miniscope with the director of Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars and Resolution…Wayne Yip! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! New York Comic-Con Doctor Who Panels details Big Finish Dalek Universe Doctor Who Magazine 556 Eaglemoss Electrode Dalek Eaglemoss 13th Doctor in tuxedo Eaglemoss Alien Ambassador Miniscope: Wayne Yip The Lie of the Land Empress of Mars Resolution

It is with a heavy heart we relay the news that Gallifrey 2021 has been postponed due to the ongoing awfulness that is the world, more specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s merely a pleasure deferred however, as all memberships are being shifted to Gallifrey 2022 when hopefully the world is a better and healthier place. We also have news of a Jodie and Mandip (psst, Thasmin confirmed) panel at virtual NYCC, a new Daleks animated program to tie in with Time Lord Victorious, and more! And to top it off, a deep dive into Doctor Who missing episodes with Tim and Paul from Doctor Who – The Missing Episodes Podcast! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One 2021 postponed New York Comic-Con Doctor Who panel announced Daleks! animated show coming in November Daleks! teaser Fury from the Deep trailer BritBox UK getting Blake’s 7, Survivors and the Cushing Dr. Who films Diana Rigg died Interview: Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes podcast

The Time Lord is victorious, and we now have issue #1 of the Doctor Who Comic and trailer to prove it as David Tennant tosses high collars over the brown suit for the latest transmedia adventures of our favourite Galllifreyan. Mark your calendar for Titan’s Doctor Who Comics Day on Nov. 21, and keep your ears peeled for new BBC Audio on the horizon! But let’s stop shilly shallying, shall we? We have our Classic Series Commentary over the concluding episodes of “The Power of the Daleks”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! More Whoray releases in the works Time Lord Victorious trailer Doctor Who Comics Day November 21 Upcoming BBC Audio releases: Enlightenment, The Keeper of Traken, The Web Planet The Macra Terror wins RTS award The Doctor Who Cookbook Blu-Ray feature also wins RTS award Star Trek Day Commentary: The Power of the Daleks, episodes 5-6

The moment you have waited for has arrived! Well, honestly just Warren was waiting for Character Options Daleks from “The Chase”, otherwise known as “secretly getting Cushing Daleks into the Dolly Canon.” And here they are! Also, there’s some news of further Big Finish Tenth Doctor adventures, the re-emergence of a Colin Baker graphic novel, rumours of newly animated missing Patrick Troughton adventures, and Episodes Three and Four of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Power of the Daleks”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Survival supercut Character Options Chase Daleks Time Lord Victorious Comics series trailer James Goss talks Time Lord Victorious Big Finish Out of Time pairs David Tennant with Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker The Age of Chaos due for reissue in 2021 Blackpool Remembered Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen – next to be animated? The Power of the Daleks 2016 vs 2020 animation Commentary: The Power of the Daleks, episodes 3-4  

Time is fracturing! Of course you knew that, given the pandemic has jumbled all sense of continuity and indeed sanity, but also because of a new immersive experience called Doctor Who: Time Fracture which premieres in London in February 2021. Also Titan Comics is relaunching the pencil and ink adventures of Doctor Who, River Song is meeting K-9 and the Mechanoids in the Realm of Audio, and we begin our commentary for Power…of the Daleks! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Doctor Who Time Fracture opens February 2021 Time Fracture website Time Fracture trailer Time Fracture UNIT promo 1 Time Fracture UNIT promo 2 Time Fracture UNIT promo 3 Doctor Who Magazine 555 Titan relaunching Doctor Who Comic Big Finish Diary of River Song volume 8 Commentary: The Power of the Daleks, episodes 1-2

It’s the fourteenth anniversary of Radio Free Skaro! From humble beginnings in 2006 to slightly less humble surroundings now, we hope we’ve entertained you over the years. And to celebrate this milestone, we’re introducing a new game show: Trivia, Mr. Fibuli! Where we…well, we just play Doctor Who Trivial Pursuit for a while. Moons of madness! See who wins the epic battle of Doctor Who facts between Warren and Chris, with Steven serving as the adjudicator! Revel Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances tweetalong Matt Smith, Karen Gillan & Arthur Darvill panel The Deadly Assassin supercut The Daleks’ Master Plan making-of by Josh Snares Big Finish December 2020 releases Time Lord Victorious timeline Time Lord Victorious origins Worlds Apart digital TCG announced Team TARDIS Diaries Volume 1, Paper Moon Team TARDIS Diaries Volume 2, Ghost Town

Available starting August 11, Season 2 of David Tennant Does A Podcast With...!

Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who via Big Finish Fury from the Deep DVD/Blu-Ray details BBC America will broadcast The Faceless Ones The Curse of Fenric supercut Thirteenth Doctor with blue top action figure Big Finish introduces a new Fourth Doctor companion, due in 2024 Big Finish Echoes of Extinction rounds out their Time Lord Victorious offerings Doctor Who Annual 2021 will tie in with Time Lord Victorious, due September 3 Time Lord Victorious Comics #1 covers Lytton comic stretch goal for Orcini one-off Andrew Skilleter Target designs mug & coaster sets Two charity collections from Obverse Books Victor Pemberton radio drama The Slide being rebroadcasted 2020 Hugo Awards Miniscope: Pip & Jane Baker The Mark of the Rani Terror of the Vervoids The Ultimate Foe episode 2 Time and the Rani

Stop! There will be no battle here! Unless you mean the final two episodes of our Classic Series Commentary for “Battlefield”, which features in this here episode of Radio Free Skaro. The Three Who Rule also go over the news from the past week, including Doctor Who’s first ever Emmy nomination, a recap of some of the notable events of Comic-Con At Home, and some general confusion about oxen! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! The Runaway gets Emmy nomination Regenerations charity anthology due August 3 Time Lord Victorious/Titan Comics SDCC Panel Red Dwarf The Promised Land SDCC Panel Commentary: Battlefield episodes 3-4

This week begins our Classic Series Commentary for the Sylvester McCoy Season 26 opener “Battlefield”! Twisting Warren’s arm to watch his favourite era of Doctor Who is a favourite pastime for the other Two Who Rule. Also, Dan Peck from The Game of Rassilon, a fun and entertaining Doctor Who RPG podcast, drops by for a chat. Plus, news on virtual conventions for Chicago TARDIS and Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine, and more! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Ghost Light highlights video Power of the Daleks Special Edition trailer Hollow Planet print and play game SDCC@Home Titan Comics Time Lord Victorious panel Time Lord Victorious figurines announced Doctor Who Magazine 554 Dalek Combat Training Manual BritBox UK to get UFO, Sapphire & Steel, The Prisoner and more Chicago TARDIS 2020 goes virtual Big Finish Day 2020 goes virtual Eric Saward kickstarter for Lytton comic series Interview: Dan Peck The Game of Rassilon Commentary: Battlefield

The last Classic Who tweetalong, a Torchwood: Children of Earth supercut, and a Big Ol’ Delgado action dolly are in the news this week, along with the tragic news of the passing of actor Maurice Roeves and Mythbusters host, engineer, and Gallifrey One mainstay Grant Imahara.  But along with that we’ve got answers, pedantry and obfuscations with our latest edition of…Fluid Links! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Survival tweetalong Survival tweetalong bonus content Torchwood Children of Earth 29-minute supercut Big Chief Studios Roger Delgado Master due August 2021 Marco Polo 4-LP vinyl release due September 11 Latest DWAS TARDIS Magazine released Maurice Roeves died Grant Imahara died

Truncated Doctor Who? Normally nerds would scream bloody murder at such impertinence, but not when it’s the official Doctor Who YouTube page with half hour versions of “The Masque of Mandragora” and “The Hand of Fear”! Other bibs and bobs this week included photos of Matt Smith trying on test outfits before he went full tweed, Big Finish news and Target book delays, but let’s be frank, you’re here for the second part of our look at look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on “Listen”, “Time Heist”, “Flatline” and “The Husbands of River Song” in…the Miniscope! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Masque of Mandragora 30-minute edit The Hand of Fear 30-minute edit Matt Smith test outfits Time Lord Victorious: Minds of Magnox due December 3 The Fifth Doctor fights The Daleks in 8 Big Finish stories Big Finish Torchwood late 2020 monthly releases Target books delayed to March 2021 Time Scope charity anthology Miniscope: Douglas Mackinnon Listen Time Heist Flatline The Husbands of River Song

Both America and Canada celebrated their birthdays this week, and Radio Free Skaro was there on July 1st via Twitter to highlight the Doctor Who accomplishments of some notable Canucks working in the Doctor Who trenches over the show’s 50-year history. In other news, we’re all addicted to varying degrees to the simplistic Thirteen tile game, and there’s a Series 6 Blu-Ray steelbook headed to UK fans in early August. Whoop! But let’s cut to the chase here, it’s our 750th episode, and to celebrate, we have the first part of a look at director Douglas McKinnon’s work on Doctor Who…in the Miniscope! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Radio Free Skaro celebrates Canadians involved with Doctor Who Thirteen game Series 6 Blu-Ray Steelbook UK release Louis Mahoney died Earl Cameron died Doctor Who’s Line Is It Anyway charity special Miniscope: Douglas Mackinnon The Sontaran Stratagem The Poison Sky The Power of Three Cold War

Hotelmageddon! Yes, even in this time of the Swarm, the love for Doctor Who and celebration of said televisual program continues unabated as we all hope to see each other at Gallifrey One in February 2021 at the LAX Marriott, the room block for which is now sold out. In the meantime, there’s a great panel with three Doctors Who and friend of the show Riley Silverman, plus the usual Big Finish, Doctor Who Magazine and whatnot, plus a new discussion about noted communist agitator Malcolm Hulke! And if that isn’t enough proletariat agitprop, we have the second half of our “The Leisure Hive” commentary! Tachyoneriffic! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block sold out Whittaker, Smith and Tennant interviewed together for HBO Max promo Riley Silverman also interviewed Whittaker, Smith and Tennant for Nerdist Doctor Who Magazine contributions to Time Lord Victorious begin in issue 556 Doctor Who Magazine 553 released Worlds Collide remote Doctor Who escape room experience Big Fini

The news is thinner than David Tennant’s waistline this week, despite the appearance of good ol’ Number 10 along with current TARDIS occupant 13 herself on James Corden’s late night talk show. Gallifrey One hotel rooms are opening up this week, a peek at Time Lord Victorious and…that’s the extent of it. Perhaps it’s the fault of the advanced science of tachyonics as seen in Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for…”The Leisure Hive”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One 2021 hotel block opens June 26 Doctor Who can’t be made to the same standard with distancing rules Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant were on the Late Late Show with James Corden Whittaker and Tennant judged a cosplay contest on the Late Late Show Time Lord Victorious comics announced First look at Time Lord Victorious #1 Commentary: The Leisure Hive, episodes 1-2

Now that the Doctor Who tweetalongs are winding down, we’re back to the Time of (Almost) No News, which seems apt given the Cavalcade of Things occurring in the real world at the moment, but there’s some Steven Moffat bonus content in the form of “The Best of Days”, a bonus bit of Nardole/Bill content, along with the script for “Blink,” one of his most lauded works, being available for download. Plus there’s some hot Rory content coming from Big Finish, learnin’ stuff from Twinkl and the BBC, and the antithesis of education in the form of…Fluid Links! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26 The Best of Days by Steven Moffat The Best of Days will be Moffat’s last Who work Script for Blink released Season 14 UK Blu-Ray re-release Big Finish’s The Lone Centurion brings back Rory Educational DW resources released by Twinkl and BBC Studios Twinkl Doctor Who Educational resources

Sometimes the world outside our Doctor Who fandom has to be accounted for and engaged with. We hope we can bring some levity to your week nonetheless, but we implore you to do your own reading, research and thinking. We also have a miniscope with Steve Thompson, the (possibly fictional?) writer of “The Curse of the Black Spot”, “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”, and “Time Heist”, and we will once and for all determine if he exists! Or will we? Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Gallifrey One hotel block goes on sale June 26 Final tweetalong for World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls canceled World Enough and Time & The Doctor Falls scripts made available Black Girls Create tweetalongs The Secret of Novice Hame extra for New Earth/Gridlock The Guardian profiled Who fandom during lockdown TARDIS Touchdown Techniques extra for The TARDIS Chronicles The Faceless Ones DVD delayed in Canada Conundrum from the Doctor Who Audio Annual released for free Big Finish Time Lord Victorious announcem

The tweetalongs will continue until morale improves, which it has, due to tweetalongs! Specifically New Earth, Gridlock and Rings of Akhaten along with some Long Song bonus content. Want more? Noel Clarke interviews RTD and if you’re American, HBO Max has all of “new Who” for you! Plus more Big Finish, DVD news, and Doctor Who on Turkish television along with the grand finale of our Planet of the Daleks commentary featuring..the Three Who Rule! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! New Earth/Gridlock tweetalong Rings of Akhaten tweetalong The Long Song fan choir Noel Clarke interviews Russell T Davies HBO Max launched in the US Big Finish in Lockdown video The Faceless Ones North America DVD release Lost TV episodes collection 4 CD release Big Finish brings together Tom Baker and David Tennant DWAS releases Doctor Who Audio Guide volume 2 Doctor Who Magazine 552 released Doctor Who comes to Turkish TV Commentary: Planet of the Daleks, episodes 5-6