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HAPPY NEW YEAR from MUTTER'S SPIRAL Podcast, and we're finally here to discuss the crackingly wonderful DOCTOR WHO Christmas episode, "Last Christmas"!  Join us as we go over every aspect: the scares, the FEELS, the delight at Santa meeting the Doctor, and then the Christmas present to everyone, MORE of 12 and CLARA.  The episode is the favorite Christmas ep for one of us, even!  Plus, there's trivia, of course!  But no tangerine (seriously, can someone explain those to us??)!

HAPPY NEW YEAR from MUTTER'S SPIRAL Podcast, and we're finally here to discuss the crackingly wonderful DOCTOR WHO Christmas episode, "Last Christmas"! Join us as we go over every aspect: the scares, the FEELS, the delight at Santa meeting the Doctor, and then the Christmas present to everyone, MORE of 12 and CLARA. The episode is the favorite Christmas ep for one of us, even! Plus, there's trivia, of course! But no tangerine (seriously, can someone explain those to us??)!

In this first episode, Dan and Eric begin their journey through space and time -- or more specifically, through the Netflix streaming catalog of classic Doctor Who episodes -- with the story entitled "The Aztecs". This story features the original Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and his companions Barbara and Ian. Along the way they  meet ancient British Mexicans, a scenery-chewing High Priest, and some well performed stage acting.

Fancy a return to Alzarius? We did, so we contacted classic Doctor Who and Big Finish writer Andrew Smith about “Mistfall,” his upcoming Big Finish audio play which sends the Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Tegan back to E-Space. Andrew also joins us to look at the news of the week, including stats, plush Tennants, and a possible controversy concerning Netflix! Toby Hadoke also makes a special appearance to reflect with Steven on the life and times of Bernard Kay, the accomplished actor who appeared in The Daleks, the Crusade, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space, and who sadly passed away this week. Enjoy, and look forward to next week, where we continue our Chicago TARDIS interviews with the fantastic Camille Coduri!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

Fancy a return to Alzarius? We did, so we contacted classic Doctor Who and Big Finish writer Andrew Smith about “Mistfall,” his upcoming Big Finish audio play which sends the Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Tegan back to E-Space. Andrew also joins us to look at the news of the week, including stats, plush Tennants, and a possible controversy concerning Netflix! Toby Hadoke also makes a special appearance to reflect with Steven on the life and times of Bernard Kay, the accomplished actor who appeared in The Daleks, the Crusade, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space, and who sadly passed away this week. Enjoy, and look forward to next week, where we continue our Chicago TARDIS interviews with the fantastic Camille Coduri!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

Fancy a return to Alzarius? We did, so we contacted classic Doctor Who and Big Finish writer Andrew Smith about "Mistfall," his upcoming Big Finish audio play which sends the Fifth Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Tegan back to E-Space. Andrew also joins us to look at the news of the week, including stats, plush Tennants, and a possible controversy concerning Netflix! Toby Hadoke also makes a special appearance to reflect with Steven on the life and times of Bernard Kay, the accomplished actor who appeared in The Daleks, the Crusade, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space, and who sadly passed away this week. Enjoy, and look forward to next week, where we continue our Chicago TARDIS interviews with the fantastic Camille Coduri!

Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

It's been a more than a year (maybe more than two) since we've talked about the Cybermen. There've been changes and new things to learn about them since we last examined them. And, gosh darn it, we just saw them at the end of Series 8 and we want to talk about them again! So there!

WARNING: Contains rabbits

It's been a more than a year (maybe more than two) since we've talked about the Cybermen.  There've been changes and new things to learn about them since we last examined them.  And, gosh darn it, we just saw them at the end of Series 8 and we want to talk about them again!  So there!

WARNING: Contains rabbits

That way more exciting serial with a way less exciting podcast episode!

Welcome to 2015, TYD fans! This week Kiyan and Dylan take a journey into The Seeds of Death, not the be confused with the later 4th doctor serial, The Seeds of Doom. The Seeds of Death was written by Brian Hayles and aired in January and March of 1969.

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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 Delia Derbyshire.

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That way more exciting serial with a way less exciting podcast episode!

Welcome to 2015, TYD fans! This week Kiyan and Dylan take a journey into The Seeds of Death, not the be confused with the later 4th doctor serial, The Seeds of Doom. The Seeds of Death was written by Brian Hayles and aired in January and March of 1969.

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 Delia Derbyshire.

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Summary:

Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review ‘Doctor Who: Last Christmas’, come up with our Predictions, Hopes and Dreams, and Fears for 2015, see how wrong we were about our Predictions for 2014, play an audio quiz, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:

• 00:00 – Intro and theme tune.
• 00:42 — Welcome!
• 01:52 – News:
• 02:04 — Doctor Who: Clara back for another season.
• 05:45 — Star Trek: New scriptwriter required.
• 07:33 — Models: Unofficial Sci-Fi models.
• 10:45 – The News Quiz 2014.
• 26:08 – Doctor Who: Last Christmas.
• 43:36 – Predictions, Fears and Hopes & Dreams for the future:
• 43:50 — How wrong we were: Predictions for 2014.
• 50:27 — Predictions for 2015.
• 56:06 — How wrong we were: Hopes and Dreams for 2014.
• 63:03 — Hopes and Dreams for 2015.
• 68:14 — How wrong we were: Fears for 2014.
• 71:47 — Fears for 2015.
• 78:23 – Emails and listener feedback.* Hit us yourself at
• 84:55 – Farewell for this podcast!
• 85:40 — End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.

Vital Links:

• Staggering Stories.
• Staggering Stories: Podcast Drinking Game, Fifth edition.
• BBC: Doctor Who.
• Star Trek.
• Shapeways 3D printing service.
• Shapeways: Mechanoid’s shop of Sci-Fi things.
• Crooked Dice: Unofficial minatures.
• BBC: Doctor Who – Last Christmas.
• Wikipedia: Doctor Who – Last Christmas.
• YouTube: Chris’ link – Herbie Goes Bananas – French Trailer.
• Soundcloud: The Infinity Archives podcast.
• Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.
• Stitcher: Smartphone podcast streaming app.
• Facebook: Staggering Stories Group.
• Google+: Staggering Stories Page.

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoe? (Barbara, obviously.) What's our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian's series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.

• Anneke Wills's autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.

• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox's Seasons of Fear.

• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can't wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoe? (Barbara, obviously.) What's our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian's series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.

• Anneke Wills's autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.

• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox's Seasons of Fear.

• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can't wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoe? (Barbara, obviously.) What's our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian's series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.

• Anneke Wills's autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.

• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox's Seasons of Fear.

• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can't wait to hear from you!

Last Christmas we gave you a podcast, but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save us from tears we'll just do exactly the same thing. We don't learn.

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 320
Running time: 1:42:02

We review live on-the-net the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special, 'Last Christmas' starring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, plus news, your live feedback, and more. Hosted by Louis Trapani, and Dave Cooper.

Presented to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions.

This podcast is made possible in part by and is brought to you by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you.

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This episode is also brought to you by Audible. Visit http://podshock.net for the link to your FREE audio-book download with free trial.

Do you want the Enhanced Podcast AAC file format? Get our Enhanced Podcast version of this episode using our feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshock.xml.

Last Christmas we gave you a podcast, but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save us from tears we'll just do exactly the same thing. We don't learn.

It's still Christmas, darn it! And the Doctor Who series isn't over yet! At least that's what I'm trying to convince myself, by inviting National Public Radio's Petra Mayer and Doctor Who: Verity!'s Tansy Rayner Roberts over to 2MTL to talk one last time about Last Christmas, Steven Moffat and Clara Oswald.

In this Very Special Episode, Brendan, Richard and Nathan are interviewed by Doctor Who convention impresario Todd Beilby about their experience of podcasting their way through Doctor Who in the sixties. Hartnell, Troughton or Cushing? Barbara, Polly or Zoë? (Barbara, obviously.) What’s our favourite story? Our favourite moment? Our favourite villain? Our favourite pratfall? And, most importantly, what have we learned from our flight through entirety?

Special thanks to friend-of-the-podcast Peter Griffiths for his help with the questions.

Links

• Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs Women in Video Games can be found at the Feminist Frequency Website.
• Anneke Wills’s autobiographies can all be found and ordered from her website.
• The Voord return in the recently-released Big Finish audio The Domain of the Voord. And the Nimon are back in Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox’s Seasons of Fear.
• Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain.

Follow us!

As always, you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook, check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com and rate or review us on iTunes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

We generally take on a Steve Lyons book every once in a while and, perhaps to clear the air after the controversy that was stirred with Time of Your Life, we've taken another look at a Lyons novel, and this time it's The Murder Game, a BBC Past Doctor adventure featuring the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly.  From the back cover:

The faded glamour of a hotel in space, spinning in an all-but-forgotten orbit round the Earth, is host to some unusual visitors this weekend - including a party that claim to travel in a battered blue police box...

It is the year 2146.  Answering a distress call from the dilapitated Hotel Galaxian, the TARDIS crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend.  But it seems someone from his motley group of guests is taking things a little too seriously.

While the Doctor, Ben, and Polly find themselves joining in the shadowplay, it becomes clear that a real-life murderer is stalking the dark, disused corridors of the Galaxian.  But worse than this: there's a sinister force waiting silently in space for events to unfold.  A terrible secret is hidden on board the Galaxian, and if it is discovered nothing - least of all murder - will ever be the same again.  If this is a game, the stakes just got higher.

Set between "The Power of the Daleks" and "The Highlanders", The Murder Game was the second in the BBC Past Doctors series.  It's also the unofficial first appearance of the sonic screwdriver (or rather its prototype).

Sit back, pour yourself some bitter beer, and listen in as we discuss Steve Lyons' The Murder Game.

We generally take on a Steve Lyons book every once in a while and, perhaps to clear the air after the controversy that was stirred with Time of Your Life, we've taken another look at a Lyons novel, and this time it's The Murder Game, a BBC Past Doctor adventure featuring the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly. From the back cover:

The faded glamour of a hotel in space, spinning in an all-but-forgotten orbit round the Earth, is host to some unusual visitors this weekend - including a party that claim to travel in a battered blue police box...

It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapitated Hotel Galaxian, the TARDIS crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But it seems someone from his motley group of guests is taking things a little too seriously.

While the Doctor, Ben, and Polly find themselves joining in the shadowplay, it becomes clear that a real-life murderer is stalking the dark, disused corridors of the Galaxian. But worse than this: there's a sinister force waiting silently in space for events to unfold. A terrible secret is hidden on board the Galaxian, and if it is discovered nothing - least of all murder - will ever be the same again. If this is a game, the stakes just got higher.

Set between "The Power of the Daleks" and "The Highlanders", The Murder Game was the second in the BBC Past Doctors series. It's also the unofficial first appearance of the sonic screwdriver (or rather its prototype).

Sit back, pour yourself some bitter beer, and listen in as we discuss Steve Lyons' The Murder Game.

After having to postpone recording due to sickness and work commitments we return after a slightly longer break than normal.

In this week’s podcast we discuss how our Christmas was, and the Doctor Who goodies we got, also some of the movies we watched over the long time between recordings.

We also give our thoughts on the 2014 Christmas special “Last Christmas”, and our reaction to some news.

And last but not least your feedback.

Enjoy!

More coverage of Big Finish Day 5 with a Panel featuring Matthew Waterhouse, Dan Starkey, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill & Jane Slavin

You can see some video of the cosplay contest that followed the panel here http://youtu.be/6ciIpavzjY0

and my photos of Big Finish Day 5 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/sets/72157647509384126/

End theme is Dr Who(Gypsy Guitar) by Thrip

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

More coverage of Big Finish Day 5 with a Panel featuring Matthew Waterhouse, Dan Starkey, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill & Jane Slavin

You can see some video of the cosplay contest that followed the panel here http://youtu.be/6ciIpavzjY0

and my photos of Big Finish Day 5 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/sets/72157647509384126/

End theme is Dr Who(Gypsy Guitar) by Thrip

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

More coverage of Big Finish Day 5 with a Panel featuring Matthew Waterhouse, Dan Starkey, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill & Jane Slavin

You can see some video of the cosplay contest that followed the panel here http://youtu.be/6ciIpavzjY0

and my photos of Big Finish Day 5 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/sets/72157647509384126/

End theme is Dr Who(Gypsy Guitar) by Thrip

The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/

If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

Dave and Barry return with more geek sass than you can shake a lightsaber at with Episode 237 of Geek Syndicate.

News

Northampton Comic Con is coming while the Marvel universe is ending.

The casting of Supergirl in her upcoming TV series.

Dissecting Worlds Live

Week that was

Ripper Street

Danger 5

Constantine

Houdini vs Sherlock Holmes

Starship Troopers invasion

Dave and Barry return with more geek sass than you can shake a lightsaber at with Episode 237 of Geek Syndicate.

News

Northampton Comic Con is coming while the Marvel universe is ending.

The casting of Supergirl in her upcoming TV series.

Dissecting Worlds Live

Week that was

Ripper Street

Danger 5

Constantine

Houdini vs Sherlock Holmes

Starship Troopers invasion