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So I’d say we’re probably pretty annoying little twerps too.

This week we watch a story that says TV is dangerous. But if we’re watching Doctor Who on TV, does that mean that Doctor Who is telling us that watching Doctor Who is bad? This is very confusing stuff this. It’s The Idiot’s Lantern, written by Mark Gatiss and aired on May 27, 2006.

Show-notes:

Doctor Who (c) The BBC
Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.
The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Murray Gold.

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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 24.

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 24.

Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins and Keith Dunn sit down, awakening, in front of the 2017 Doctor Who S10 episode, ‘Empress of Mars’, and spout our usual nonsense!

Bill has fallen down a hole, Nardole is sitting this one out (again) and Iraxxa wants to make an interstellar phone call. But enough of their problems, please sit down with us to enjoy Empress of Mars...

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Wikipedia: Empress of Mars.
• BBC: Doctor Who – Empress of Mars.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.

What you are about to hear is the story of a connection, a connection that was made between a television series and a viewer's life.

The You and Who books are the story of that connection, as told by the people who watch the programmes that make us come alive. Chiefly, of course, Doctor Who.

This podcast will relate some of the stories from those books... and beyond.

In this episode:

Making television in your head: Survivors by JR Southall
The Curse of Talons: The Talons of Weng-Chiang by Rob Irwin

With an intermission featuring Rob Irwin talking to JR Southall.

The You and Who books, from which all royalties are paid to charity, are available in print and for Kindle, from watchingbooks.weebly.com

Find Rob on Twitter @theDWshow and JR on Twitter @JR_Southall

As we close out our very first year of the show, we are pleased to have with us fellow podcaster and brand new Doctor Who fan, Eric Molinsky of the Imaginary Worlds podcast. We chronicle his journey from barely having seen and episode of Doctor Who to becoming a huge fan - and you won't believe how far he's progressed since he started!

Then we switch over to one of Eric's favorite shows, the recent J.J. Abrams television sci-fi series, Fringe - a show all about multiple universes and sometimes diabolical experiments. And we round out the interview turning our focus back to Doctor Who.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to you all! Please join us for another year in January and maybe even a Christmas surprise coming very soon. Thanks for listening!

Merry Christmas! With what has now become a Yuletide tradition for us here at Traveling the Vortex, we present this year’s Christmas special.

And, because we like to rank things (not) we decided it would be fun to take a look back at some of the Doctor Who Christmas specials and choose our top five favorites. Also, we look at the one story we think is the absolute worst. And we decide which story we feel best represents Christmas.

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas! With what has now become a Yuletide tradition for us here at Traveling the Vortex, we present this year’s Christmas special.

And, because we like to rank things (not) we decided it would be fun to take a look back at some of the Doctor Who Christmas specials and choose our top five favorites. Also, we look at the one story we think is the absolute worst. And we decide which story we feel best represents Christmas.

Enjoy!

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 23.

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 23.

Andy, AKA The Rev, formerly a contributor to our very own Who Wars and 1/3 of the original Diddly Dum lineup joins forces with a number of friends including author and another 1/3 of the original Diddly Dum lineup, Al No, to talk about Star Wars The Last Jedi, a new Harry Potter exhibition, and the exclusive Doctor Who Twice Upon a Time screenings in the UK - one of which he attended. Throw in some music, banter and retro chat about the greatest presents Andy, Al, and Andy's mate Sean received in the 1980s, and you have the recipe for Christmas fun.

It's great to have Andy and friends back at Christmas and this forms the first in a trilogy of podcasts coming out this holiday season, which Rob briefly announces at the start of the show.

Jim Cameron of the KRYNOID PODCAST and Bob Fleming of the PROGTOR WHO podcast present RANDOM FANDOM.

Do you have a random question about Doctor Who? The guys are here to answer them.

Find the guys on Twitter:

Jim - @KrynoidPodCast
Bob - @BoFleming

You can email the show: random.fandom@mail.com

Jim Cameron of the KRYNOID PODCAST and Bob Fleming of the PROGTOR WHO podcast present RANDOM FANDOM.

Do you have a random question about Doctor Who? The guys are here to answer them.

Find the guys on Twitter:

Jim - @KrynoidPodCastBob - @BoFleming

You can email the show: random.fandom@mail.com

In our special all-cyber Episode 53: South Pole Base of International Stereotypes, your hosts Kelvin, Pat, and Scott Glancy Joshua Scrimshaw are joined by special guest Matt Kessen to bring everyone up to speed in anticipation of Peter Capaldi’s final episode. They cover Big Finish’s cyber-origin story Spare Parts and the first cyber-appearance (and final William Hartnell TV story) The Tenth Planet, and Matt sums up the totally logical and not at all cosmologically indecent history of the Cybermen in a special episode of “Reverend Matt’s Monster Science”!

SHOW NOTES:
- Hey, here’s a Bill Sienkiewicz sketch of Peter Capaldi!

- One of Pat’s many inaccuracies in this episode was to misidentify Mick McMahon’s wonderful DWM Cyberman art as that of Kelly Jones. Apologies to Mr. McMahon!

The fourth and final episode of our Advent Travesty.

Merry Christmas everybody! x

The fourth and final episode of our Advent Travesty.

Merry Christmas everybody! x

The fourth and final episode of our Advent Travesty.

Merry Christmas everybody! x

The fourth and final episode of our Advent Travesty.

Merry Christmas everybody! x

In this special Side Trip edition, Keith and Shaun review a book they read way back in January. “The Legends of River Song” was the Goodreads Traveling the Vortex Book Club selection for that month. It was our intention to review it sooner, but we kept pushing it off. So, Glenn thought it would be fun to see what Keith and Shaun could remember, and this is the result.

Enjoy!

In this special Side Trip edition, Keith and Shaun review a book they read way back in January. “The Legends of River Song” was the Goodreads Traveling the Vortex Book Club selection for that month. It was our intention to review it sooner, but we kept pushing it off. So, Glenn thought it would be fun to see what Keith and Shaun could remember, and this is the result.

Enjoy!

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 22.

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 22.

Monts and Nuge, the original geeks, are finally back in the Geek Syndicate house.

In this episode Monts tries to learns the ways of the Nuge side and comes up a little short.

News

The lads are not happy with the petition to remove The Last Jedi from Canon.

Week that was

The Last Jedi - a none spoiler review from Nuge leads in to a general conversation about the state of today's geekdom.

Ready Player One - Monts gives his view on the novel

The Flash - Nuge has a new fave Flash villain

Monts and Nuge, the original geeks, are finally back in the Geek Syndicate house.

In this episode Monts tries to learns the ways of the Nuge side and comes up a little short.

News

The lads are not happy with the petition to remove The Last Jedi from  Canon. 

Week that was

The Last Jedi - a none spoiler review from Nuge leads in to a general conversation about the state of today's geekdom.

Ready Player One - Monts gives his view on the novel

The Flash - Nuge has a new fave Flash villain

After seven years and with unfortunate poor sound quality the quarrelsome twosome bow out for a final episode with With listen feedback, subjects not covered and recommendations.

We’re still around on facebook and twitter, so feel free to follow us at  @DissectingWrlds and @thegrampus

The end. That's your lot. Take care.

After seven years and with unfortunate poor sound quality the quarrelsome twosome bow out for a final episode with With listen feedback, subjects not covered and recommendations.

We're still around on facebook and twitter, so feel free to follow us at @DissectingWrlds and @thegrampus

The end. That's your lot. Take care.

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg! Yes, it's nearly Christmas so that means it's time for the Who's He? Podcast Christmas Special! So sit back and relax and listen as Phil, Paul and Tony mutter their way through K9 and Company in a festive audio commentary! Amongst the devil worship and sacrifice and an entire village getting drunk and smoking themselves to death, our intrepid trio hold up in the face of adversity (with the help of good old fashioned booze!) and bravely try to be informative with what was on telly and what was the Christmas number 1 on 28th December 1981.

Incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg! Yes, it's nearly Christmas so that means it's time for the Who's He? Podcast Christmas Special! So sit back and relax and listen as Phil, Paul and Tony mutter their way through K9 and Company in a festive audio commentary! Amongst the devil worship and sacrifice and an entire village getting drunk and smoking themselves to death, our intrepid trio hold up in the face of adversity (with the help of good old fashioned booze!) and bravely try to be informative with what was on telly and what was the Christmas number 1 on 28th December 1981.

Incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg! Yes, it's nearly Christmas so that means it's time for the Who's He? Podcast Christmas Special! So sit back and relax and listen as Phil, Paul and Tony mutter their way through K9 and Company in a festive audio commentary! Amongst the devil worship and sacrifice and an entire village getting drunk and smoking themselves to death, our intrepid trio hold up in the face of adversity (with the help of good old fashioned booze!) and bravely try to be informative with what was on telly and what was the Christmas number 1 on 28th December 1981.

Incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!

After the usual news Steve and Scott talk about their highlights of 2017 in Cinema, TV, Games and Books.  It's been a great year, and there should be something here to appeal to everyone.  This is the last Grouchy Old Geeks of 2017, so have a great xmas, a prosperous new year and we'll see you all in 2018.

After the usual news Steve and Scott talk about their highlights of 2017 in Cinema, TV, Games and Books. It's been a great year, and there should be something here to appeal to everyone. This is the last Grouchy Old Geeks of 2017, so have a great xmas, a prosperous new year and we'll see you all in 2018.

Jim Cameron of the KRYNOID PODCAST and Bob Fleming of the PROGTOR WHO podcast present RANDOM FANDOM.

Do you have a random question about Doctor Who? The guys are here to answer them.

Find the guys on Twitter:

Jim - @KrynoidPodCast
Bob - @BoFleming

You can email the show: random.fandom@mail.com

As you know, back in October we traveled to Wichita, KS to attend Time Eddy III. We were honored to be able to conduct a few panels, including one with the beautiful Katy Manning and charming and lovely Matthew Waterhouse. This is the audio we recorded at that panel.

It starts with Matthew, as Katy had been feeling under the weather for much of the weekend and on top of that she agreed to add a panel to make up for the absence of another guest. She joins the panel about halfway through.

Thanks again to the organizers of Time Eddy three years of enjoyment.

As you know, back in October we traveled to Wichita, KS to attend Time Eddy III. We were honored to be able to conduct a few panels, including one with the beautiful Katy Manning and charming and lovely Matthew Waterhouse. This is the audio we recorded at that panel.

It starts with Matthew, as Katy had been feeling under the weather for much of the weekend and on top of that she agreed to add a panel to make up for the absence of another guest. She joins the panel about halfway through.

Thanks again to the organizers of Time Eddy three years of enjoyment.

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 21.

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 21.

This week conclude our look back over our past few years of podcasting about all of classic Doctor Who.

So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag

Retrospective: Part 2

Hosts:

• Trevor @WhovianTrev Trevsplace
• Charlie @insanityinchaos The Infinite Longbox The Comic Conspiracy
• David http://www.davidsafar.com/ @gwythinn MaroonedWhovian

Join us next week as we begin Wanderers in the Fourth Dimension: The Wilderness Years, covering Doctor Who and related media from the show's long hiatus from 1989 to 2005. We'll begin with the UNIT movies Wartime, Downtime, and Daemos Rising! These are a bit tougher to find than the canon Doctor Who serials, but some of them have multi-region DVD releases. Our audio adventure will be The Sirens of Time, available from BigFinish.com.