Category: Classic Season 22

Mindless Entertainment – “The Long Game” & “Vengeance on Varos”

Post author By Porter & John
Post date October 17, 2020

No Not the Mind Probe: A Doctor Who Podcast

Mindless Entertainment - “The Long Game” & “Vengeance on Varos”

00:00 / 1:06:03

Can you imagine what a world would look like if it the media was totally controlled by a near omnipotent Editor? Well neither can the producers of The Long Game, which trusts that Porter and John will take their word for it in this vicious takedown of people who surgically put holes in their heads. [Trigger warning: Do not watch if you have a hole in your head.]

Of course, Doctor Who had long ago put the media on notice in the 6th Doctor adventure Vengeance on Varos, which made a strong statement against the horrifying effects of subjecting people in corridors to different lighting gels but is surprisingly ambivalent on throwing people into acid.

Tags Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Sixth Doctor

Classic Season 22 NuWho Series 3 Podcast Season 3

Author, Author! – “Shakespeare Code” & “Timelash”

Post author By Porter & John
Post date February 20, 2021

No Not the Mind Probe: A Doctor Who Podcast

Author, Author! - “Shakespeare Code” & “Timelash”

00:00 / 1:11:01

Ol’ Billy Shakespeare (friend of the show, big Prober) steps onto the Doctor Who stage and uses his gift of words (with a dash of support from J.K. Rowling) to help Martha and the Doctor battle the wicked Carrionites. Will Porter fall in love with this slice of Elizabethicana (see, it’s not just Shakespeare who has a way with words)? Will John try to pretend that he is as deeply conversant with all of Shakespeare’s works as he is with Doctor Who canon? Find out when you crack The Shakespeare Code.

We then rocket back to the classic era – and WAY down the ol’ Who popularity totem pole – to what Doctor Who Magazine once tried (unsuccessfully) to suggest could become the Rocky Horror Picture Show of Doctor Who. Will Porter and John join in the frolicking and throw things at the screen or shout lines along with the characters… or should they save their breaths for the 6th Doctor… erm… classic Timelash – because most people watch it… with a scream.