Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago
- Description:
- A Podcast which takes a historical look at Doctor Who episodes from fifty years ago
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- Episodes:
- 80
- Average Episode Duration:
- 00:00
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 00:00
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 0 minutes and 0 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 8 September 2016 (8:03pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 19 May 2023 (4:00pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 30 days, 13 hours, 8 minutes and 57 seconds
Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago Episodes
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Season 10: The Green Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsHow much does this story get right about pollution? Surprisingly much. Ben, Luke and Nick pick apart this Pertwee classic.
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Season 10: Planet of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis edition of the Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago podcast covers Planet of the Daleks, comparing the theme of warfare and the use of emotions in this story, and in more recent Who stories.
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Season 10: Frontier in Space
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, we look at what Frontier in Space can tell us about 1973, and dissect the "metaphor of the Master's plan" to spread fear and xenophobia.
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Season 10: Carnival of Monsters
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, the podcast reviews Carnival of Monsters in the context of 1972, and Robert Holmes' view on history, bureaucracy, society and entertainment in his carny story.
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Season 10: The Three Doctors
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe podcast returns to start looking at Season 10's stories, with plenty to discuss on the differences on the show and in the world in 1972 and 2022. We begin with the first multi-Doctor story, so here's multiple people to review and analyse it!
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A Character Analysis Podcast on "The Master"
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsA special edition of the Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago podcast in which Ben, Luke and Nick commit an in-depth analysis into the long-term villain of the show, "The Master".
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Episode 25: Inferno Episode 7: Endings and Beginnings
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsA Doctor Who series and a government ends, and a new government begins in the 1970s which brought in an element of internationalism. In 2020, there might be an end of an age with isolationist nationalistic agendas cropping up. We can but analyse what Doctor Who and the world was in 1970, compare it to what it is in 2020, and murmur disapprovingly.
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Episode 24: Inferno Episode 6: The Flame of Hope versus the Wind of Injustice
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThere’s a tiny glimmer of goodness in the face of inevitable destruction in this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago. There’s also a fight against this goodness which threatens the safety of everyone we like. I cannot shove my tongue further inside my cheek even if I wanted to. Something something apocalypse now.
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Episode 23: Inferno Episode 5: The Eruption Division
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe morals are wobbly and grey, as is the concept of soldiers, heroes and bureaucrats. We recognise when the rules can be broken, deify those who do and vilify those who don't, a humanisation of soldiers. The environment also gets a mention as it threatens to consume us all, very quickly in the story, very slowly in reality.
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Episode 22: Inferno Episode 4: Violence and Interrogation
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWe interrogate an episode in which the Doctor is interrogated to tell anything except the truth and the concept of the parallel universe gets another turn. There's also deep discussion about how violent acts and regimes are portrayed, and a subverted view of bureaucracy.
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Episode 21: Inferno Episode 3: A Power Play
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWhilst an election looms in Britain 50 Years Ago, so does a story about parallel universes where extremism holds power and how it all ends in fire. Or is it connected to Buddhism? It's all visually interesting.
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Episode 20: Inferno Episode 2: How to Treat Technology
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe calculated brainy use of brawn, how space and drilling are viewed by authors and audiences and how future technology is viewed by everyone are discussed in this episode of Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago.
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Episode 19: Inferno Episode 1: A Fiery Hierarchy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis episode talks about several power complexes: control of information, government and technology, renegades and experts in the past as seen in this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, which has repercussions for the present and indeed the future.
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Episode 19: Inferno Episode 1: A Fiery Hierarchy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis episode talks about several power complexes: control of information, government and technology, renegades and experts in the past as seen in this episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago, which has repercussions for the present and indeed the future.
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Episode 18: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 7: Media of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn which there is a large discussion about how the media is portrayed in fiction between fifty years ago and now as "The Ambassadors of Death" fizzles out right at the very end.
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Episode 17: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 6: Space Odyssey of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe plot of this tale becomes apparent, but we can’t help but compare the space elements of this episode to high sci-fi elements of a Space Odyssey.
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Episode 16: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 5: Mark 3 Fuel Variant of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis episode of Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago is about fuelling a space mission. Of course, Apollo 13 happened in real-life at the same time. That's quite interesting, and so are the subjects of regular characters, communications and privacy.
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Episode 15: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 4: Bureaucratic Inertia of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis episode deals with the concept of trust, black and white morality, and an unfortunate mishap with fuel for a space program. Yes, that space program. Also food shortage and disease was also happening 50 Years Ago, because nothing changes.
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Episode 14: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 3: Suited and Booted
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn which a long monologue about Spacesuits is spoken to you, as well as radiation, the media, and stuntmen.
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Episode 13: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 2: The Conspirators of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsIn which various genres, including the spy thriller, are discussed, along with the political sympathies of the Conspirators in this tale of space-astronaut kidnap, hairdryer guns and jazzy soundtrack.
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Episode 12: The Ambassadors of Death Episode 1: The Broadcast of Death
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWe open a seven episode Spy Thriller with action and space capsules galore. We talk about the relaxation of broadcast media, the seriousness of space science and, erm, Milton Keynes *screams*
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Episode 11: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 7: Explodey-Wodey
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe Military Mind clashes with science, and explosions prevail. Turns out the Doctor losing makes the episode better.
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Episode 10: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 6: Medicine Man and the Cottage Hospital
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsAn episode in which the cure for a virus is looked into which the Brig is being military and Liz is being science-y. The differences between sci-fi realism in 1970 Doctor Who and the goings-on in the world in 2020 are also discussed, because they have to be.
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Episode 9: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 5: Viral
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsTo hold in our hands, an episode of Doctor Who Fifty Years Ago that uses a virus as a plot-point, compared to nowadays, where viruses make the world squirm. That power would be the crowning irony of ironies, and through this episode, Ben, Luke and Nick gain ironic power.
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Episode 8: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 4: Man-Trap
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick get trapped by a visual stimulant in an episode about human and alien moral values, and also talk about radio wars, jungle wars and generation wars. Bubbly liquid also froths.
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Episode 7: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 3: The Silurians and the Subtext
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsSelfish scientists and Silurian scales form basis for a slow discussion about this episode of Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago.
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Episode 6: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 2: Full of Character and Noise
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick attempt to explain how good Malcolm Hulke's characterisation and Carey Blyton's music is in this episode of Doctor Who by critiquing the characters and becoming the music itself.
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Episode 5: (Doctor Who) and the Silurians Episode 1: Classy and Dumb
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThe episode walks a fine line between eminently respectable and completely absurd. Ben, Luke and Nick love this and will happily talk about it, if only because they think they're the same as the show they like. They can but dream.
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Episode 4: Spearhead from Space Episode 4: NesTENe out of NesTENe
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsMarks for this alien invasion, and its effect on the watching public? Well, have a guess. We also talk about rockets and leftist purges, just to spice up this excellent conclusion to this good serial.
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Episode 3: Fleshy Scobie's Dynamite
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsAn episode which talks about espionage, human like mannequins and the glory of it being in colour, as we slowly move towards an awe-inspiring conclusion, hence the allegory of dynamite.
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Episode 2: Spearhead from Space Episode 2: Arguments about Aliens
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick get themselves embroiled in a few arguments about characters, alien invasions, sci-fi realism and fantasy and many other things included in this episode of Doctor Who: Fifty Years Ago.
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Episode 1: Spearhead from Space Episode 1: Robert Holmes' Script Meteorite
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsSeason 7 begins, and the 1970s begins. Robert Holmes throws his rejected scripts into space, and they come back to Earth looking suspiciously like Quatermass II. Ben, Luke and Nick review this episode, the media, dolly-birds and colour television.
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Episode 44: Finale: Discussion about Doctor Who Season 4
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsLuke, Nick and Ben discuss Season 4 of Doctor Who (1966/1967) and determine what it was about, what it succeeded in and why its so important to Doctor Who.
CHANGE!
Oh, this is the last video/podcast/BlogSpot post. Thanks for watching and listening. Keep watching Doctor Who, folks.
Ben.
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Episode 43: Evil of the Daleks Part 7: The Penultimate End
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick make big speeches. Rank them in your favourite order!
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Episode 42: Evil of the Daleks Part Six: The Impotent Emperor
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick travel into the future, never to return.
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Episode 41: Evil of the Daleks Part 5: Let's Play Trains
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick watch Daleks at their most evil: causing a country manor special of Doctor Who. But is it a good one?
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Episode 40: Evil of the Daleks Part 4: Humans and the Human Factor
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick get the closest they will ever be to the Doctor in this episode, in that they are also mostly off screen and nodding occasionally
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Episode 39: Evil of the Daleks Part 3: Not Like Moffat
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsBen, Luke and Nick see the finale of the podcast in sight, and so end up looking at the finales of Doctor Who. Also, Evil part 3.
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Episode 38: Evil of the Daleks Part 2: Competency of the Daleks
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsOur three intrepid heroes, Ben, Luke and Nick, dive into an unknown world, that of strange moving pictures. Do they enjoy their adventures in this bizzare realm?
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Episode 37: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 1: Romping around Borough de Chelsea
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsOne last crime drama mystery for us to start this last story of this season. A romp in Chelsea, dancing in bars, the poshest man in the world, this story draws on the '60s very well.
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Episode 36: The Faceless Ones Episode 6: Champagne Socialism Revolution
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis plot resolves itself remarkably quickly. Let's instead answer questions such as; how much did this cost? Who is David Ellis? How does Champagne Socialism relate to the Faceless Ones? Find out in this conclusion.
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Episode 35: The Faceless Ones Episode 5: Contrasts
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsA great number of contrasts are found in this episode, with clever yet silly villains, simplistic and complicated ideas about identity and villainy and a moral dilemma placed in a traditional Doctor Who story.
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Episode 33: The Faceless Ones Episode 3: The Crime of Comedy
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis serial turns into a crime drama and our three critics don't mind it. The subject of comedy in Doctor Who is also discussed, it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Episode 32: The Faceless Ones Episode 2: The Sound of Spies
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis episode is turned into a spy thriller, according to Nick, Ben and Luke, with a great soundscape and tense atmosphere, aided by great performances. It's winning them over.
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Episode 31: The Faceless Ones Episode 1: One's Authoritarian Dilemma
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsMalcolm Hulke swings right off the bat with moral dilemmas the fight between an anarchic Doctor and authority continues and jokes about numbers. All in an airport. Ben, Nick and Luke enjoy this one.
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Episode 30: The Macra Terror Episode 4: Not a Happy Ending
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsEmotions run high and the end is nigh for the Macra and the Terror, but is this a happy ending? Luke, Nick and Ben tell it like it is.
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Episode 29: The Macra Terror Episode 3: Better than Jaws
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWhilst this is a weak episode, its content remains worthy of discussion. Sharks, brainwashing, idioms and tense music are discussed by Ben, Nick and Luke. Speaking of idioms; here's one; "Subscribe now!"
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Episode 28: The Macra Terror Episode 2: Indoctrinated
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsLuke produces a thesis on why this episode is so good; the fear, the terror, the paranoia, the gas-lighting. Here's a story that Nick, Ben and Luke all attempt very hard to fault it and fail. This is good.
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Episode 27: The Macra Terror Episode 1: Black to Platt
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsThis curiously complicated episode draws many comparisons from Luke, Nick and Ben. Its themes of paranoia, culture and crabs are all intensely scrutinised, as are comparisons with episodes fifty years later.