Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast - Episode 16 - The Power of the Daleks

09/30/24 • 149 min

Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast

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It’s episode 16 of The Missing Episodes Podcast! The third story of season 4 introduces Patrick Troughton as a very different Doctor Who, if indeed he is The Doctor. A question which divides the rest of the TARDIS crew, Ben and Polly.

But despite this fundamental change to the show, this story doesn’t sit around navel gazing. We’re quickly immersed in the politics of Vulcan as David Whitaker returns to pen one of the truly great Dalek stories.

Tim is joined not only by Doctor Who historian Rhys Williams, but three new podcast guests: Something Who podcast host Richard Smith and multi-media producer and DVD range veteran John Kelly. Later, co-host of the most excellent 42 to Doomsday podcast, Rob Mammone, drops by to tell us how he helped to recover some of the many clips that exist of this story.

The team delve into the history, production and themes of this six-part classic, then explore how so many clips came back, then it’s off on a world tour to work out whether one day we might get to see any more...

So put on your Earth examiner badge, listen more carefully than Lesterson and avoid the mercury vapours as we take a very deep dive into The Power of the Daleks.

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Rhys is on Twitter https://x.com/Mister__Rhys .

John’s credits can be found on many, many classic Doctor Who DVD’s and blurays, but he’s also on Twitter https://x.com/JohnPKelly78

Richard is on Twitter https://x.com/Richard1J1Smith and Something Who is here: https://somethingwho.podbean.com/

Rob’s (and Mark’s) wonderful 42 to Doomsday Podcast can be found here: https://vyb42todoomsday.podbean.com/

Executive Producers: Rich Tipple and Bedwyr Gullidge

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So put on your Earth examiner badge, listen more carefully than Lesterson and avoid the mercury vapours as we take a very deep dive into The Power of the Daleks.

Tim is on Twitter Tim - Missing Episodes Podcast (@drwhopodcasters) / X (twitter.com), and please do come and like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/drwhoandthepodcasters

Rhys is on Twitter https://x.com/Mister__Rhys .

John’s credits can be found on many, many classic Doctor Who DVD’s and blurays, but he’s also on Twitter https://x.com/JohnPKelly78

Richard is on Twitter https://x.com/Richard1J1Smith and Something Who is here: https://somethingwho.podbean.com/

Rob’s (and Mark’s) wonderful 42 to Doomsday Podcast can be found here: https://vyb42todoomsday.podbean.com/

Executive Producers: Rich Tipple and Bedwyr Gullidge

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Doctor Who: The Missing Episodes Podcast - Episode 15 - The Tenth Planet

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We’re back just and in time to see off the First Doctor. Yes, it’s episode 15 of The Missing Episodes Podcast! The second story of season 4 sees not only the end of the wonderful Hartnell era, but the introduction of a foe that will be back for decades to come: The Cybermen.

Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis get their first co-writing credit and riff on a truly terrifying theme: what happens if you replace increasing amounts of a person with spare parts? What becomes of their soul?

Tim is joined by content creator and camera-script investigator, David Gillespie-Pratt, and we have a very welcome return for vintage TV expert and curator of “From the Archive”, Greg Bakun.

Thankfully the team are less care-free than the Cybermen and have greater detective skills that the world’s scientists (which isn’t difficult in this one) as they delve into the story’s successes and failures. Then it’s off on the usual world tour, as we look at what happened to the film prints of The Tenth Planet and what the chances are of ever seeing some more of it!

So put on your best snow cap, keep Geneva on hold and join us as we take a very deep dive into The Tenth Planet.

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Greg is on Twitter @FromtheArchive, his must-subscribe Youtube channel is @FromTheArchive1and his blog lives at http://www.from-the-archive.co.uk/

Executive Producers: Rich Tipple and Bedwyr Gullidge

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