Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 10.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 9.

Everything is happening! As we hurtle towards New Year’s Day and the premiere of “Spyfall”, the first of a two-part episode of Doctor Who Series 12, the info we were waiting all of 2019 for is now flying fast and furious and the Three Who Rule are all that stands between you and total cranial destruction! So let’s get right to this melange of promotional show appearances, UK, US, and Canadian air dates, and an interview from Chicago TARDIS with former Doctor Who brand manager Edward Russell! Listen, or you will be destroyed (by news!) Links:   – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Radio Free Skaro Fluid Links Advent Calendar – LEGO Telesnap Versions – 30 years since Survival aired, piece by James Cooray Smith – Series 12 opens with “Spyfall”, airing New Year’s Day – Episode 1 first look – Series 12 release date trailer – The series will open with a 2-parter – Some Series 12 episodes will have a cold open – BBC One will broadcast Spyfall at 6:55pm – BBC America will broadcast Spyfall at 8:00 ET/PT – CTV Sci

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 8.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 7.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 6.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 5.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 4.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 3.

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 2.

As the 2019 calendar strikes December, we are officially one month until new Doctor Who (likely) returns on January 1! And to that end, we bring you an interview Steven did with Tosin Cole, recorded live on stage at Chicago TARDIS, where Tosin teases elements of Series 12 of Doctor Who while also discussing his work on Series 11. But before that, Paul Booth drops by to talk with Steven about the convention, the news of the week, that Series 12 trailer, and more! Links:   – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Chicago TARDIS 2019 – Pearl Mackie announced as Gallifrey One guest – Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tracie Simpson headline Gallifrey One guest announcement – Doctor Who (likely) returns January 1 – New First and Thirteenth Doctor and Companion sets from Hero Collector – Big Finish Class series 3 & 4 announced, due April 2020 – Big Finish The Prisoner Volume 3 released – Doctor Who Infinity Announces Full Launch Interview: – Tosin Cole

This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 1.

Happy 56th birthday, Doctor Who! And what better way to celebrate than with a new Series 12 trailer featuring Cybermen, a giant scorpion, guest stars like Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry, and most importantly, the Doctor in a tux! Of course there’s always other tat and such to celebrate, such as goodies from Big Finish, the World Cup of Terrance Dicks, and Big Finish releases, and we have our final Series 11 commentary for “Resolution” with Danica LeBlanc! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Happy Doctor Who day! – Series 12 trailer – Radio Times trailer breakdown – Nerdist trailer breakdown – S12 wrapped filming – Chibnall mentioned series 13 is in the works, with him at the helm – Sir Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry confirmed for series 12 – Robert Glennister and Goran Visnjic confirmed for series 12 – Whovian complaint form – First 8 selections in the World Cup of Terrance Dicks – Final 2 selections in the World Cup of Terrance Dicks – DWAS charity appeal in the name of Terrance Dicks – Celestial Toyro

Friends, the Doctor Who dark time is nearly over. Not only do we now have the names of the writers and directors behind Series 12 of Doctor Who, but come November 23, we should have a firm picture of what will consist of the series, as well as when it will begin airing! How about that? We cover all of the Series 12 in this episode of the podcast, plus a bevy of other coverage of The Edge of Time VR game, and more, and cap it off with our Series 11 commentary for “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”, with guests Heather Berberet! Links:   – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Series 12 writers and directors announced – Gally mid-November update – Whittaker, Cole and Gill before BBC Children in Need – BBC Children in Need Doctor Who segment – The World Cup of Terrance Dicks – Kklak! The Doctor Who art of Chris Achilleos – Doctor Who Magazine 545 released – Doctor Who Ground Zero paperback – Resurrection of the Daleks paperback due June 2020 – Revelation of the Daleks paperback due June 2020 – Electronic Sound M

Watch this space! Keep watching, as the BBC Doctor Who Twitter presence consistently teases us with a trailer or announcement or something or other, apparently coming on the show’s 56th anniversary of November 23, 2019. Now watch some more! Or just listen to the other news on hand, including Britbox launching in the UK, a BFI screening of the feature-length documentary about John Nathan Turner in the Series 26 Blu-Ray set, Sonic Screwdriver tat, and the resumption of the Doctor Who Series 11 Commentaries with “It Takes You Away” with Nicole Hill! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Watch This Space – BritBox launches in the UK, Doctor Who absent until Boxing Day – Season 26 Blu-Ray Due March 24 in the US – Feature length JNT documentary from Season 26 Blu-Ray set to have BFI screening – Big Finish First Doctor Adventures Volume 4 – Sonic Screwdriver collection – An Unearthly Convention – Chicago TARDIS Commentary: – It Takes You Away – Nicole Hill

Animated Doctor Who reconstructions, off-the-cuff HBO Max reveals of future Doctor Who series, Jodie Whittaker being a Coldplay superfan and most importantly MORE STAR COPS are all in the news mix this week, and our feature interview is with Gavin Rymill and Jon Green, the Youtube documentarians behind the Dalek 6388 deep dive known as “Terry Nation Army”. Take a listen and find out how they plumb the depths of BBC administrivia to bring you a comprehensive look at how Doctor Who’s most iconic villains go from script to screen to shopping mall openings! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Doctor Who teases “Watch This Space” – HBO Max apparently confirms at least two further seasons of Doctor Who – “Fury From The Deep” to be animated in 2020 – “Fury From The Deep” teaser video – Sophie Aldred Doctor Who novel “At Childhood’s End” coming February 2020 – Members of Coldplay surprise Jodie Whittaker as she records for Children in Need – Big Finish Star Cops: Mars 1 due Dec

The #WhoForSchools initiative has officially launched, and we have the list of commentators on hand for you! Special guests include Sophie Aldred, Andrew Cartmel, Vinay Patel, Peter Harness, and a veritable buffet of Doctor Who podcasters commenting on Series 26 and having fun for a good cause! We also have a release date for “The Edge of Time” VR game, alternate covers for the Thirteenth/Tenth Doctors crossover event from titan Comics, and an interview with Simon Guerrier about the newly released Doctor Who: The Target Storybook! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – #WhoForSchools commentary participant list – Series 11 supercut – Edge of Time release date – First look at Titan Comics Doctors 10 and 13 crossover – Upcoming Keith Barnfather releases featuring Sil – Target Storybook excerpt Interview: – Simon Guerrier – Target Storybook, released Oct 24  

It’s a celebration of anniversaries this week as Doctor Who Magazine, the esteemed publication that has been by the Three Who Rule and many, many others for decades, celebrated its 40th anniversary this past week. And the tenth anniversary season of Classic Doctor Who finally saw its Blu-ray release here in North America, in a slimmer case than in the UK. Oh, the controversy! But the real celebration is welcoming Joy Piedmont from Reality Bomb for the Series 11 commentary of “The Witchfinders”! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Season 10 Blu-Ray released in North America – Doctor Who Magazine 544, 40th Anniversary issue, released – DWM Doctor Who Companion, Twelfth Doctor Volume 2 – Brief history of the Virgin New Adventures – Terry Nation Army video about the Mechanoids – Doctor Who night at the Natural Museum History Lates, October 25 Commentary: – The Witchfinders – Joy Piedmont

This week marks the launch of the #WhoforSchools initiative, a charitable effort spanning the Doctor Who podcast community and spearheaded by Reality Bomb’s Graeme Burk and Joy Piedmont, along with Hockey Feels co-host Rachel Donner, to help fund educational access. Your own hosts have appeared on several different commentaries spanning the 14 episodes of season 26, along with with many other Who luminaries. This week also marks milestones like the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine, as well as the release of a recreation of the lost Hartnell episode “Mission to the Unknown” by University of Central Lancashire students that if you squint hard enough might as well be Classic Who! Plus we have a Series 11 Commentary for “Kerblam!”, with The Time Ladies, AKA Beth Axford and Kezia Newson! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – “Mission To The Unknown” recreation released on Doctor Who YouTube Channel – Doctor Who features at London Comic-Con October 25-27 – Doctor Who Mag

New York Comic-Con has come and gone, and while there was no official Doctor Who TV-related presence there, we here at Skaro HQ still have a Christopher Eccleston panel at NYCC to tell you about, in addition to upcoming DVD and Blu-ray news, comic releases, the Mission to the Unknown remake, and Jodie Whitakker rising up the charts with her cover of “Yellow” for Children in Need. And we top it off with our Series 11 commentary for “Demons of the Punjab”, with guest Claudia Boleyn! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 sold out – Christopher Eccleston NYCC panel – NYCC Titan Comics news – Mission to the Unknown debuts Oct 9 on YouTube – Updated Trial of a Time Lord Blu-Ray set trailer – North American DVD re-releases – Children in Need Got It Covered album due Nov 1 – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (UK Only Link) – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (Spotify) – Jodie Whittaker Yellow cover (Apple Music) – 1984 Philadelphia Doctor Who convention footage, featuring Ian Marter and Terrance Di