Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroMar 29

Radio Free Skaro #1061 – Beloved In The Local Film Community

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Our deepest of dives into the wilds of missing episodes continues as our feature interview this week is with John Franklin of Film is Fabulous!, who chats all about the organization’s mission, the complicated saga of tracking down not just Doctor Who but other film artifacts from collectors across the UK, and of course a deep dive into the technical nitty-gritty of film restoration, as is the remit of this here podcast. Plus a greeting from Chairman of the Board Tom Baker on the 45th anniversary of the Fourth Doctor’s swan song in “Logopolis”, Gallifrey One’s hotelmaggedon looms in May, Matt Brittin takes on the job of BBC director general, and more!

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#BigFiniah #BluRay #CamilleCoduri #doctorWho #FilmIsFabulous #GallifeyOne #Interview #JohnFranklin #MattBrittin #Merchandise #Season21 #TheWhoniverseShow #TomBaker
Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroMar 15

Radio Free Skaro #1059 – The Ghasting of the Flabbers

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It is indeed an amazing week in the world of Doctor Who as two (!) episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan, specifically episodes 1 and 3, have been resurrected into the daylight through the good work of Film Is Fabulous! Revel with the Three Who Rule as they mull over how this came to be, what it means future Who media releases, the relative calm of this announcement as compared to 2013’s ominrumour, and more! Plus we have an interview with Tim Burrows of the Missing Episodes Podcast to give you more of those granular details of technical cut film reels that all Archival Sickos crave! Also the usual Big Finish, EagleMoss figurine, and other news tidbits. Listen, or Bret Vyon will arrest you!

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#BBC #BigFinish #FilmIsFabulous #GavRymill #Merchandise #MurrayGold #PeterPurves #SimonGuerrier #SueMalden #TheDaleksMasterPlan #TheWhoniverseShow #TimBurrows
Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroMar 8

Radio Free Skaro #1058 – Pier Pressure

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Happy Magna Carta Day, everyone! One of them, anyway. Now that that’s out of the way, there’s heated debate on The Billie Piper Matter in both The Sun and The Telegraph, and the Three Who Rule add their shopworn takes to this interminable discussion that will be an absolute delight until Xmas 2026. Plus we have a set report from 2004, the iPlayer possibly re-re-re-inventing cable and hosting rival broadcasters, the Ianto Shrine nearing its end and the feelings around that, and most importantly, Part the Second of our “The Mysterious Planet” Classic Series Commentary!

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#BBC #BigFinish #BilliePiper #cardiff #Commentary #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #GarethDavidLloyd #iPlayer #RetroTV #RussellTDavies #Season3 #Series1 #TheKingSDemons #TheMysteriousPlanet #TheSun #TheWhoniverseShow #torchwood
Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroMar 1

Radio Free Skaro #1057 – UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose

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As world events trend ever downwards, you can always count on the Three Who Rule to not only give you the latest exciting news from the world of Doctor Who, such as Murray Gold reporting there are numerous versions of the upcoming Xmas Special written, a BBC executive saying quite sensibly that Doctor Who will come back when it’s good and ready and more, but also our usual basting in the warm glow of the past as we go back to the halcyon days of 1986 with a Classic Series Commentary on the greatest model shot in the history of television (and some story stuff I guess) with Part One of “The Mysterious Planet”!

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#BBC #BigFinish #BluRay #Commentary #doctorWho #JonathanHelm #LindsaySalt #LongIslandWho #Merchandise #MurrayGold #RedDwarf #RobGrant #Season2 #Shada #TenAcreBooks #TheMysteriousPlanet #TheWhoniverseShow
Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroJan 25

Radio Free Skaro #1052 – The Minnesota Fighting Saints

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It’s the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs. Plus the Gallifrey One schedule is out, Blake’s 7 may be coming back, Rachel Talalay continues to win YouTube with a deep dive into Peter Capaldi’s “Be Kind” speech from “The Doctor Falls” in its various forms, and a.feature interview with Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White about their excellent podcast about archive UK telly, “Through the Square Window”!

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#AlexKingston #AliensOfLondon #BBC #BigFinish #BlakeS7 #Disney #doctorWhoMagazine #GallifreyOne #GrahamKibbleWhite #RachelTalalay #SamiraAhmed #TheSatanPit #TheTimeOfAngels #TheWhoniverseShow #ThroughTheSquareWindow #YouTube

Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroDec 23

Radio Free Skaro #1047 – Turf and Surf, The Third

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(Our review of The War Between The Land and The Sea episode 5 is from 4:28 – 1:00:35)

It’s the final episode of The War Between The Land and the Sea and with it our final review of this clash between Dirt and Wet for the future of…Doctor Who? Thrill to our musings along with David Tennant appearing on the Whoniverse Show, more Rachel Talalay video fun on the making of The Star Beast, Film is Fabulous hinting at new old things returning, upcoming Big Finish releases, and more!

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#80 #AlexKingston #AmandaBrotchie #BigFinish #BluRay #CBeebies #doctorWho #FilmIsFabulous #GilGerard #GuguMbathaRaw #Hoopla #LorneBalfe #MattSmith #Obituary #RachelTalalay #TheIceWarriors #TheStarBeast #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TheWhoniverseShow

Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroNov 30

Radio Free Skaro #1043 – Tip Toe and Son

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It’s a veritable tsunami of The War Between the Land and the Sea news this week, including a trailer, a new episode of the Whoniverse Show, Turf and Surf behind the scenes VAM, a reassurance from RTD that yes, he will eventually write a 2026 Xmas special, deleted scenes, dollies, figurines, AND part the fourth of our retrospective of Children of Earth! Have a listen, and then take a nap!

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#bigFinish #bridgingTheRift #characterOptions #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #heavenSent #hoopla #merchandise #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #radioTimes #russellTDavies #season2 #series10 #series9 #theStarBeast #theWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #theWhoniverseShow #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth

Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroNov 2

Radio Free Skaro #1039 – So Here It Is

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The moment has arrived! That is, an actual announcement of Doctor Who’s future from the BBC (and not the outgoing Disney+) in the form of a last hurrah from Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf by way of a Christmas special in 2026, along with official confirmation of Turf and Surf hitting the iPlayer this Christmas and Disney+ in February. What does this portend for both the present and future of Doctor Who? The Three Who Rule put on their television detective hats and as usual solve nothing, as do many entertainment journalists including friend of the show Kyle Anderson, and lesser lights such as Variety, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter. Plus the usual Big Finish cover over-analysis, a smidgen of Can*Con, and the conclusion of our four-part Classic Series Commentary for “The Sun Makers”!

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#BadWolf #BBC #BigFinish #Commentary #Disney #doctorWho #KyleAnderson #Merchandise #NabilShaban #Obituary #RussellTDavies #TheSunMakers #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TheWhoniverseShow #TobyHadoke

Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroOct 5, 2025

Radio Free Skaro #1035 – Six Suns on Pluto

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Wild speculation abounds as rumours of the BBC and Bad Wolf “it’s not you, it’s me” -ing each other surface given the somewhat mid (as the kids say) reception to the latest iteration of Doctor Who, The Three Who Rule have theories a-plenty as to the show’s next steps, anchored by nothing but their half-formed notions of media literacy (and some inside knowledge). Besides that, we have more exciting Big Finish previews, a Verity! mention on UK game show “The Chase” and the first part of our Class Series Commentary for seminal 1970s serial “The Sun Makers!”

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#BadWolf #BBC #BigFinish #Commentary #PeterPurves #TheChase #TheMissingEpisodesPodcast #ThePeterPurvesPodcast #TheSunMakers #TheWhoniverseShow #TiaKofi #TitanComics #VerityPodcast

Doctor Who: Radio Free SkaroAug 17, 2025

Radio Free Skaro #1028 – State of the Who-nion

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Never let it be said we won’t overdeliver content in this barren time of Non-Who as we have a feature interivew with former editor of Doctor Who Magazine and current TV Choice writer Tom Spilsbury as he and Steven pore over the current state of Doctor Who, the larger state of streaming, the business case for library content, and more! Plus we have news of The Whoniverse Show from BBC Studios, a new book about action dollies called Go Figure, a surfeit of Big Finish things both neato and keen, and more!

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#21 #ActionDollies #BigFinish #ChristelDee #Interview #KrystinaArielle #LongIslandDoctorWho #Merchandise #RadioFreeSkaro #RoundelBooks #TheWhoniverseShow #TomSpilsbury #TyrellCharles