Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast

Show Notes & Links:

• Watches have previously been used to store the memories of Time Lords locked away by the Chameleon Arch
• There have been many other stories featuring multiple Doctors
• There were three TARDISes in one room during The Day of the Doctor
• To the relief of the OM, Chris Chibnall confirmed, “she is definitely the Doctor. There is no sore of parallel universe going on, there’s no tricks.”
• In The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End Ten nearly regenerates but keep his appearance by using a handy hand.
• The sonic screwdriver first appeared during the 2nd Doctor’s time but wasn't a regular part of the show until later
• YW thought Ruth was acting like the Master when he still thought he was a human in Utopia
• Clara’s TARDIS initially has a Type 1 default interior
• The Judoon first appeared on the moon
• Nida Manzoor also directed Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (not Spyfall, OM)
• During Spyfall Part 1 the Master tells the Doctor, “everything that you think you know... is a lie”

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Show Notes & Links:

• Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
• We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol
• Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
• Not like Back to the Future
• Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
• Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts

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Show Notes & Links:

• Vortex Manipulators should be hard to find
• It was, of course, an Oilers jersey
• Erika Ensign can be heard on Verity, Lazy Doctor Who & many other Incomparable podcasts
• Steven Schapanksy is the other half of Lazy Doctor Who & can also be heard on Radio Free Skaro & The Memory Cheats
• Night of the Doctor was released on 14th of November, 2013
• Steven’s interviews with Paul McGann can be heard on Radio Free Skaro #510
• Steven Moffat was the show runner for Doctor Who from 2010-2017
• Karn & the eponymous Sisterhood, first appeared in The Brain of Morbius
• Coincidentally, The Sun Makers was set on Pluto
• Britbox is not available in Australia, but we do have Youtube
• Paul Cornell & Lizbeth Myles are writers who share a podcast, Hammer House of Podcast
• Paul has written numerous Doctor Who Stories, including Father’s Day, Human Nature & The Family of Blood
• Liz has written the 12th Doctor audio Distant Voices & forthcoming River Song adventure Abbey of Heretics
• She can also be heard on Verity
• Both Paul and Liz are blogging in the lead up to Xmas
• What Paul said to himself that night, all those years ago, was a quote from The Outer Limits
• The other, less impressive mini-episode was The Last Day
• The Eight Doctor got his hair cut, & new outfit, in the Big Finish audio story Fugitives
• The Brain of Morbius was written by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes
• Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords
• The renown Discontinuity Guide was written by Paul, Martin Day & Keith Topping
• The Sisterhood of Karn also appear in The Deadly Assassin
• Ohila, played by Gilly Brown is not to be confused with Ohica, played by

Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument

• Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement
• Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor
• The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido
• We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives
• The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who
• How do you know it’s a duck pond?
• The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun

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Review of S13E04 — Village of the Angels

Show Notes & Links

• The cliffhangers continue to not disappoint
• The Angels appeared in Blink, The Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone and The Angels Take Manhattan as well as in various other cameos
• Maxine Alderton also wrote The Haunting of Villa Diodati
• ‘Reverse the polarity’ was said first in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Devils and for the second time in The Five Doctors
• How fast is a Weeping Angel?
• This was not the first mid-credit sequence which came in Death in Heaven
• Our memories of Utopia are a little vague
• Claire Brown is a percipient
• The OM is confused about Weeping Angel biology

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