On the Time Lash
- Description:
- Join Ben and Mark down the pub for a few pints and a pub crawl through 21st Century Doctor Who. Beginning with Rose, each fornight they'll work their way through every episode of modern Doctor Who comparing each story with a classic serial. Join them on Twitter (@OnTheTimelash, @BenVerth @Oldmankrondas) or on www.facebook.com/onthetimelash
Homepage: https://www.facebook.com/onthetimelash
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- Episodes:
- 221
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:1:32:17
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:2:21:00
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 14 days, 3 hours, 55 minutes and 56 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 24 January 2014 (9:36pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 2 May 2021 (11:35am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 12 days, 0 hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds
On the Time Lash Episodes
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75. Take it all Baby
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 39 minutes and 35 secondsIn the last episode before a summer break, Ben and Mark rather aptly confront an evil sun and an evil arts project that attracts a cavalcade of freaks and riffraff. Is 'The Rings of Akhaten' as bad as its reputation suggests? Is there any real merit in asking an old Doctor to do a new speech? Does arc-building have casualties? And whilst we're at it, what is 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy' about, anyway? Violent hippies? The battle to save Doctor Who from cancellation? Comedy as a defence mechanism? All this and more in the 75th On the Time Lash!
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73. You Just Haven't Earned it Yeti Baby
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 45 secondsContent
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72. When We Were Lion Kings
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 50 minutes and 10 secondsBen and Mark bid farewell to three Doctor Who companions and ponder the differing approaches to the farewell story. In 'The Angels Take Manhattan', they discuss just how sad and tragic an ostensibly happy ending can be, suggest that Dudley Simpson is better than Sting, compare Alex Kingston to a frog and wonder just how practical sending a Weeping Angel out for your groceries actually is. And in 'Warrior's Gate', Ben can't get his head round how bad many companion departures actually are, Mark admires Paul Joyce's pretensions, and is it really just simply about how awful slavery is?
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71. Extraordinary Participation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes and 38 secondsAs we prepare to say goodbye to the Ponds, Ben and Mark talk about friendship via THE POWER OF THREE and THE SEEDS OF DOOM. In a podcast first, Ben views a bona-fide Doctor Who classic for the very first time, whilst both hosts try to read between the lines to figure out exactly what the hell was going on with Steven Berkoff. Also: Yet another Big Finish pitch, rampant consumerism, a bolshy and bruising Tom Baker, another tribute to the wonderful Elisabeth Sladen and the fall and rise of UNIT in Doctor Who. You can tweet us @OnTheTimeLash or find us on Facebook, and do please leave us a review on iTunes.
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The Magnificent 70
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 8 minutes and 49 secondsTo celebrate 70 podcasts, Ben and Mark discuss the Doctor Who westerns 'A Town Called Mercy' and 'The Gunfighters' over a magnificent 70(ish) minutes of drinks and chat. Under discussion this month: Toby Whithouse's Wild West shopping list, the Western genre, comedy in Doctor Who, William Hartnell's comic chops, singing, childrens TV and a long overdue appreciation of some of the show's unsung heroes like cinematographers and directors. Thanks for joining us for 70 of these things, as ever, if you like the podcast, leave us a review on iTunes and/or tweet us @OnTheTimeLash
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The On the Time Lash Annual 2019
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 28 minutes and 5 secondsContent
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67. A Pigeon in a Loft
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes and 7 secondsTime is against them as Ben and Mark battle sickness and a naughty dog to bring you their discussion about 'The Wedding of River Song' and 'The Time Monster'. Two season finales as Steven Moffat brings his tangled web of plotlines together to close out Series 6 and Robert Sloman does whatever it is he's doing to close Series 10. Why does the Doctor have a mullet? Is the new series missing the madness of Moffat? Is Kronos, God of time really such a threat? How does eating pheasant at a publicly funded institution look? How sexy is Roger Delgado? ALSO: Ben and Mark discuss their reactions to Series 11 thus far and question whether or not Doctor Who is still for them. You can read Mark's latest blog for Big Blue Box here: https://www.bigblueboxpodcast.co.uk/doctor-who-the-childrens-own-programme-that-adults-abhor/
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66. Pantomimetic
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 34 minutes and 27 secondsBen and Mark discuss sub-par Cyber sequels as they debate the relative merits of 'Closing Time' and 'Attack of the Cybermen'. Are they each as bad as fan wisdom will have you believe? If you've been listening to this podcast for a while you'll probably know the answer to that. Under discussion: Parenthood, the fear of children, psycho-analysing Steven Moffat, being rude about DWM staff, saying nice things about Eric Saward, dodgy synths and guns. Also: As series 11 continues, Ben and Mark briefly discuss 'Rosa' and 'Arachnids in the UK'. As ever, tweet us at @OnTheTimeLash, @BenVerth & @Oldmankrondas
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65. Ben and Mark Get the Horn(s)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 25 minutes and 39 secondsBen and Mark talk a load of bull in their fruity Scottish accents as they reach The God Complex and pair it up with 1979's The Horns of Nimon. Expect Brexit metaphors, an impassioned defence of a much maligned classic, an embarrassing defeat in Degsey's Where Did it Come Game, the differing approaches to the comedy of Douglas Adams and appreciation for an animatronic minotaur, Amara Khan, Rory Williams and Lalla Ward. Praise them. Also this week: Ben and Mark discuss The Ghost Monument, the new TARDIS, and ponder where the new merchandise for the kiddies has disappeared to.
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Extra 13.1: Tim Shaw & The Baconaise Benefactor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 55 minutes and 52 secondsContent
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64. An Enigma Wrapped in a Mystery Dressed in a Schoolboy Outfit that's Age Inappropriate
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 33 secondsContent
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63. EastEnders Land
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes and 42 secondsBen and Mark discuss Doctor Who's relationship with realism as they watch "Night Terrors" and "Survival". Is Night Terrors' main issue a lack of grounding in a particular time or place? Is Survival the perfect end for Doctor Who? Along the way, Mark goes a bit Noel Edmonds and ponders Doctor Who's cosmic coincidences, Ben discovers the inherent sadness of the humble dog on a chain and there's some discussion of the endings to Seinfeld, Star Trek and Will & Grace. ALSO: Doctor Who Magazine, Series 11 "news" and "Earthshock" at the BFI.
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62. Doctor Who Discovers: Nazis
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 48 minutes and 48 secondsReturning from a summer break, and hounded by a pack of rabid dogs, Ben and Mark discuss portrayals of the Nazis in Doctor Who via a discussion about "Let's Kill Hitler" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". Along the way, Ben buys Steven Moffat a drink, which thankfully isn't a bottle of Hitler branded wine. Under discussion: The dangers and benefits of playing Hitler for laughs, the 2001 novel "The Shadow in the Glass", the Nazis in the cultural landscape of the 1960s, time travelling vigilante justice, as well as the new Sunday timeslot and the DWM Time Team.
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61. On the Time Lash LIVE!
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 35 secondsThree men go to war against sobriety as Ben, Mark and Derek tackle "A Good Man Goes to War" and "The Caves of Androzani" in a special 61st episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh Geek and Nerd Festival's WhoFest weekend. Competing with both an incoming pub quiz and the hottest day of the year, they discuss hubris, consequences, toy boxes, glibness and "American Daytime Soap Opera shitness".
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60. A Depraved Nicholas Lyndhurst
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 39 minutes and 25 secondsFree tickets for On the Time Lash LIVE are available from tinyurl.com/OTTLLIVE Ben and Mark discuss evil doubles as they reach The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People and pair it up with Enemy of the World. Along the way they discuss pregnancy horror, David Cronenberg, Malcolm Hulke, Donald Trump, Brexit, fictional Mexicans and rapey Captain Kirk. ALSO: Ben sings, Mark rounds up some of the most insane responses to the lack of a S11 trailer, Ben admits to a criminal act and nobody mentions Miami Twice.
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59. A Hand in the Doctor's Wife
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 14 secondsBen and Mark crack open a can of TARDIS Special as they discuss The Doctor's Wife and The Edge of Destruction/Brink of Disaster/Inside the Spaceship/Or What You Will.... Along the way, they discuss the muted effect mythology episodes of long-running shows can have in retrospect, have a brief but spoileriffic chat about Steven Moffat's Day of the Doctor novelisation and place the praise for who the Doctor is today firmly at the feet of Ms. Barbara Wright. But before all that there's the matter of Doctor Who on Twitch, #London1965, the Tom Baker BluRays and brand identity.
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58. Whipping Boy
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 27 minutes and 28 secondsBen and Mark visit some of Edinburgh's less busy taverns on an uncharacteristically busy Wednesday evening to discuss The Curse of the Black Spot and The Smugglers. Apologies for the slightly noisy soundscape, just imagine you're in a pirate tavern, a pirate tavern pumping out Lionel Ritchie.
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57. Kicking F*** Oot Ae Silence
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 24 minutes and 16 secondsContent
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57. Booting F*ck Oot ae Silence
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 50 minutes and 14 secondsAfter a slightly longer break than planned, the boys are back! We open Series 6 with late 60's set conspiracy thriller The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon and pair it up with 1970's conspiracy thriller The Ambassadors.........................of Death! Under discussion: How many ideas are too many in a Doctor Who story? Mark defends the controversial 'genocide' ending, more Big Finish proposals, a pitch for a controversial new reality show, why The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon gets Nixon right and an act of idolatry towards a bright yellow roadster.
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56. Tegan Jovanka's Funky Ambulance
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 47 minutes and 36 secondsBen and Mark FINALLY reach the end of Series 5 with a discussion about The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang and Castrovalva. Along the way, they ponder how a Dalek would read an Usborne guide to the Romans, pitch a potential Big Finish boxed set, sing Alanis Morissette, sing Morrissey and just generally have a good time. Whilst some of the chat is potentially a by-product of booze and two friends having not seen each other for a while, there are also some more measured discussions of Amy and Rory's relationship, the problems with the Davison era and a lot of 80s Doctor Who as a whole, and what makes for a good debut from a Doctor.
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55. Spooky Hoose
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 45 secondsUnder discussion: Two spooky houses as we turn our focus towards The Lodger and Ghost Light. Ben reappraises a story he long thought that he hated and Mark tries to explain just what on Earth is going on at Gabriel Chase, which would be easy enough if he could even remember watching it.
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55. Spooky Hoose
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes and 45 secondsUnder discussion: Two spooky houses as we turn our focus towards The Lodger and Ghost Light. Ben reappraises a story he long thought that he hated and Mark tries to explain just what on Earth is going on at Gabriel Chase, which would be easy enough if he could even remember watching it.
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The On the Time Lash Annual 2018
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 46 minutes and 58 secondsIn a special seasonal episode, Ben and Mark are joined by their old friend Jonathan Melville to discuss Twice Upon a Time, A Christmas Carol, the end of the Moffat/Capaldi era and the start of the Chibnall/Whittaker one. Along the way they'll unwrap gifts, reflect on Christmases past, present and still to come, discuss the pros and cons of Steven Moffat, Doctor Who in the age of Netflix and long form drama, and ask whether it's entirely helpful in the current climate to so egregiously misrepresent a whole era. Apologies for the interference in the second half, clearly we're a bit out of practice.
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The On the Time Lash Annual 2018
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 46 minutes and 58 secondsIn a special seasonal episode, Ben and Mark are joined by their old friend Jonathan Melville to discuss Twice Upon a Time, A Christmas Carol, the end of the Moffat/Capaldi era and the start of the Chibnall/Whittaker one. Along the way they'll unwrap gifts, reflect on Christmases past, present and still to come, discuss the pros and cons of Steven Moffat, Doctor Who in the age of Netflix and long form drama, and ask whether it's entirely helpful in the current climate to so egregiously misrepresent a whole era. Apologies for the interference in the second half, clearly we're a bit out of practice.
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OTTL Extra: The Marshall/Whittaker Conundrum
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 22 secondsThe future is indeed all girl as Ben and Mark welcome the new Doctor, discussing their hopes for the female led series 11 before looking back on Peter Capaldi's final series as the Doctor.
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OTTL Extra: The Marshall/Whittaker Conundrum
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes and 22 secondsThe future is indeed all girl as Ben and Mark welcome the new Doctor, discussing their hopes for the female led series 11 before looking back on Peter Capaldi's final series as the Doctor.
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49. A Crack in Churchill's Bunker
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 46 minutes and 51 secondsContent
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49. A Crack in Churchill's Bunker
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 46 minutes and 51 secondsOddly topical for a podcast recorded back in August, Ben, Mark and their good friend Derek discuss poor decisions made in the interests of marketing as they cover Victory of the Daleks and The Claws of Axos. Are these aliens acting in our best interests?
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48. Birdbath
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 41 secondsOr "Worse than Tom Baker blowing off a big green cock" Ben and Mark discuss two of Doctor Who's lesser loved stories; The Beast Below and Dragonfire in a discussion of benevolent creatures, good/bad monster design, the BBC's sitcom season, the introduction of Ace, the hastily written departure for Mel and that cliffhanger.
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48. Birdbath
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 41 secondsOr "Worse than Tom Baker blowing off a big green cock" Ben and Mark discuss two of Doctor Who's lesser loved stories; The Beast Below and Dragonfire in a discussion of benevolent creatures, good/bad monster design, the BBC's sitcom season, the introduction of Ace, the hastily written departure for Mel and that cliffhanger.
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Film Club #1; Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 44 secondsThe first of an occasional series in which Ben and Mark take a look at films with tangential links to Doctor Who. To begin with though, it's a film with an overt link to Doctor Who, 1966's Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD to celebrate 50 years since it's UK release. Did the Daleks exterminate British cinema and is there a deeper, cultural reason behind the film's failure at the box office?
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Film Club #1; Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 44 secondsThe first of an occasional series in which Ben and Mark take a look at films with tangential links to Doctor Who. To begin with though, it's a film with an overt link to Doctor Who, 1966's Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD to celebrate 50 years since it's UK release. Did the Daleks exterminate British cinema and is there a deeper, cultural reason behind the film's failure at the box office?
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46. It's All About the Feels
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 51 minutes and 15 secondsIt's the 46th episode and time to bid farewell to David Tennant and Russell T Davies with a discussion about the (criminally underrated?) End of Time, pairing it with the (criminally overrated?) The War Games. Topics covered include: Fans "tweaking" established history, differing portrayals of the Timelords, why the Tenth Doctor's regeneration isn't long and drawn out and whether or not a 10 episode story is too long.