Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Amazingly, we’ve reached episode 900 of this here internet audio programme and we celebrate with not only the news of the day, including DWM tidbits, Big Finish and more audio fun, and the ever-present Timelash, but with the first of three exciting Classic Series Commentaries about the 1964 William Hartnell classic “Planet of Giants!”

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Doctor Who Magazine 589 released
• Directors discuss the new TARDIS set
• Casting news from Doctor Who Magazine
• Doctor Who Am I available
• Radiophonic Workshop videos on BBC Archive YouTube Channel
• Serpent Crest 10 LP set due May 26
• Big Finish Rani Takes on the World: The Revenge of Wormwood due April 2023

Commentary:

• Planet of Giants

It’s the conclusion of our “Remembrance of the Daleks” Classic Series Commentary where we blatantly ignore foundation-shattering lore and Gallifreyan artifacts and yander on about something irrelevant, probably. Plus we have Gallifrey One news, the ever-present dip back into history with The Timelash, BFI screenings, and new Big Finish initiatives, and an interview with DWM’s Emily Cook where she reveals her righteous disdain for...stats! Ahhh-ahhhhh! STATS!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Gallifrey One update
• Doctor Who Magazine 574
• BFI Revelation of the Daleks screening
• Big Finish Unbound: Doctor of War – Genesis
• Doctor Who and the Daleks illustrated edition
• B&M Dalek Assault Mini Bobble Set

Commentary:

• Remembrance of the Daleks episode 4
• “How I Made Ace’s Jacket”
• @who_fx looks at Remembrance of the Daleks in 2016

Interview:

• Emily Cook

It’s the conclusion of Doctor Who: Flux and the Three Who Rule stayed up late (but not as late as the brave and valiant livestream viewers!) to hash out what they liked, what they didn’t, and what baffled and confused them as Series 13 reached the end of its six-part saga with “The Vanquishers”. But there’s more to come as “Eve of the Daleks” is headed our way on New Year’s Day and..well, that’s it until Easter! Between the very new Flux discussion and the near endless pondering during the Timelash about 625-line video and the animated fate of “The Feast of Steven”, we managed to eke out almost two hours of quality banter, so we hope you like it!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers review
• Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers RFS twitter poll
• Survivors of the Flux BBC One overnight viewing figures 3.82M
• Survivors of the Flux AI 77
• Survivors of the Flux BBC America overnights 334K
• Village of the Angels final BBC One viewing figures 4.55M
• Doctor Who will return in Eve of the Daleks on New Year’s Day
• Sony completed its majority stake purchase of Bad Wolf
• Big Finish Peladon with the 6th and 8th Doctors, River Song and David Troughton
• Doctor Who: The BBC Radio Episodes collection
• Doctor Who: The Resurrection Plant
• Doctor Who: Origin Stories
• Flux pin badges
• Gallifrey One will require proof of vaccination

It’s another week where the Doctor Who news is thin on the ground and Christopher Eccleston offhandedly calling multi-Doctor stories a “cash grab” is grist for the clickbait mills but hold on to your hats, because we have a Miniscope about Ian Stuart Black, the writer of not only “The Savages”, but also “The War Machines” and and AND “The Macra Terror”! Buckle up, crab enthusiasts!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Eccleston preemptively says no to multi-Doctor story
• Big Finish: The Eighth of March – Protectors of Time released
• Big Finish: The Diary of River Song – Two Rivers and a Firewall due August 2022
• First Doctor Who touch-to-see draft given to Louis Moorhouse
• Lynda Baron died
• Stewart Bevan obituary by Toby Hadoke

Miniscope:

• Ian Stuart Black
• The Savages
• The War Machines
• The Macra Terror

It’s another fallow week of news in The Land of Who but that won’t stop us going on about Star Trek Picard, Star Wars Celebration and maybe even some BBC show where Steven Moffat won the Terrance Discks Award for Writers, a new batch of novels arrive for the 60th anniversary, Once Upon a Time Lord gains a cover, the Timelash does the thing it does (going through the years and making offhand remarks) and...for real this time, Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Planet of Giants”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Timelash
• Moffat wins Terrance Dicks Award for Writers
• Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebrated with new series of novels
• Doctor Who Magazine 61-80 Bundle Complete History Special Issue
• Doctor Who Once Upon a Time Lord from Titan Comics cover art released
• Big Finish Star Cops – The High Frontier: 2 now available
• Murray Melvin died

Commentary:

• Planet of Giants episode 3 – Crisis