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Ep. 0 – Wave Hands
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
11/29/15 • 7 min
11/29/15 • 7 min

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Ep. 56 – Wait, Where Are We Now?
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
12/30/21 • 16 min
Show Notes & Links:
- Azhur Saleem debuts as DW director
- Alain Resnais made Last Year at Marienbad
- Satsumas are rare in Oz
- We do love Ruth Doctor (fugitive) & Jo Martin
- Though this is not really an example of Ebert's law
- The Weeping Angels were introduced in Blink...
- In which we learn the Angels have the phone box
- We don’t know much about the Mouri
- Bell does not have a tamagotchi
- Hopefully, one day, people will need COVID explained
- The YW was *almost* on board with The Timeless Child
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
12/30/21 • 16 min
Ep. 51 – Messing with the Humans
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
01/09/20 • 21 min
Show Notes & Links:
- Missy (the previous incarnation of The Master?) was last seen at the end of S10
- Part 1 was directed by Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 2 by Lee Haven Jones
- Ada Lovelace was a pioneer in computer science & Noor Khan a British WWII hero
- Big Finish should ask Nakkiah Lui to write about the Doctor in the Outback
- Google used to have a ‘don’t be evil’ clause in it’s Code of Conduct
- Unlike the classic-villain-free season which preceded it, the previous New Year’s Day special, Resolution, included a Dalek
- Day of the Doctor was the amazing culmination of the 50th Anniversary Year
- The Cartmel Master Plan was never really Cartmell’s master plan
- Kylo Ren is a Star Wars villain
- Omega & Rassillon were (two of?) the founders of Gallifrey
- There was a Classic example of ‘contact’ in The Three Doctors
- The Remnants mentioned The Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument
- The Boneless were antagonists from another dimension in Flatline
- It’s Artron Energy, not Archon Old Man
- Donna’s fate in Journey’s End was very controversial
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
01/09/20 • 21 min
Ep. 54 – So Different, So Good
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
12/26/21 • 15 min
Show Notes & Links:
- Some are quite invested in the Thasmin ship
- As many were with Rose
- We are still processing our feelings about the Timeless Child & Division
- Time Lords first appeared in The War Games
- The COVID-19 impact on Doctor Who is a story still untold
- Doctor Who has a long history on the ABC in Australia
- A Thanos version of the Red Skull in an episode with a colour palette reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy
- Segun Akinola continues to deliver
- Dan Starkey looked truly disgusting
- The Doctor was once Lord President of the Time Lords
- The Sontarans first appears in The Time Warrior
- Paternoster Gang! Paternoster Gang!
- Russell T. Davies foreshadowed his return as show runner with this Instagram Post
- The Cloister Bell tolls in the most serious of emergencies
- The Mad Mole was a posthumous nickname for Joseph Williamson
- Vortex Energy had less impact here than in Bad Wolf
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
12/26/21 • 15 min
Ep. 53 – So Many Questions
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
11/24/20 • 16 min
Show Notes & Links:
- The Doctor first called her companions ‘fam’ during The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- We keep talking about events in the previous episode, Ascension of the Cybermenthe mast
- The Ruth-Doctor appears in Fugitive of the Judoon
- The Master says “everything you know is a lie” in Spyfall
- The Doctor has had more than the 12 regeneration ‘limit’
- Clara asking the Time Lords to give the Doctor more regenerations in The Time of the Doctor is retrospectively amusing
- References in this episode include Borusa and the Panopticon
- The matrix appeared in Hell Bent
- The Old Man is making a confused reference to The Deadly Assassin
- Previous incarnations of the Doctor are shown in The Brain of Morbius
- The Doctor having two hearts is not introduced until Spearhead from Space, being a Time Lord in The War Games, and regeneration in The Tenth Planet
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
11/24/20 • 16 min
Ep. 52 – Is There Even a Word
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
02/01/20 • 24 min
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”
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
02/01/20 • 24 min
Ep. 55 – Several Exclamation Points
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
12/27/21 • 14 min
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
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
12/27/21 • 14 min
Ep. 50 – The 50th Special
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
12/15/19 • 27 min
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
12/15/19 • 27 min
Ep. 49 – Objectively Way Cooler
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
11/30/19 • 14 min
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
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
11/30/19 • 14 min
Ep. 57 – An Element of Risk
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast
01/01/22 • 13 min
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
We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium
01/01/22 • 13 min
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How many episodes does Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast have?
Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast currently has 59 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Podcasts, Tv and Tv & Film.
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The episode title 'Ep. 0 – Wave Hands' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast is 12 minutes.
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Episodes of Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast are typically released every 13 days, 19 hours.
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The first episode of Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast was released on Nov 29, 2015.
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