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Rob Irwin and Dave Kitchen present The Doctor Who Show - a podcast featuring Doctor Who news and a main topic each month. Other weeks in the month play host to shorter episodes like The List Makers. This feed features our most recent 250 episodes. Go to our website to stream earlier episodes and always let us know your thoughts on anything, anytime at hello@theDWshow.net
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- Yesterday18 min
Top Nu-Who stories that deserve novels (The List Makers)
Which Doctor Who stories from the modern era deserve the novel treatment? From 2005 onwards, we’ve cast our eye over the show and picked our favourite Nu-Who stories that we’d love to see expanded into novels, exploring which adventures deserve a second life on the page. Got twenty minutes? Come with us. And while you’re here... which stories would make YOUR list? Drop us a line and tell us why. Find us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- 1 weeks ago59 min
Historical Documents (Galaxy Quest)
This episode of Alternate Galaxies turns its attention to Galaxy Quest, the much-loved sci-fi comedy that boldly goes where few parodies have gone before. Join Rob and Dave as they revisit a film that affectionately pokes fun at Star Trek, celebrates the fans who keep its universe alive, and delivers a movie with a surprising amount of heart for what could easily have been a standard pisstake. Never give up, never surrender! Contact the guys: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- 3 weeks ago1h 23m
Illegal Alien: The Unmade Season 27 Story
In today’s episode we look at the 1997 BBC Past Doctor Adventure, Illegal Alien. This story began life as an unproduced television script intended for Season 27. Britain is at war. Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London. A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets. But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere... Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open — and glimpses something emerging from within. The military dismiss his account of events. The Doctor and Ace are the only ones who believe him. Before long they find themselves on a trail that leads to hidden Nazi operatives... and some very old enemies. Before that, we kick things off with the usual mix of news and short topics. Then, after the Illegal Alien chat, we open the mailbag for a ton of feedback from our listeners on a number of topics. Enjoy, dear listener. Contact us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- 3 weeks ago33 min
Illegal Alien (Novel Synopsis)
This episode offers a 30-minute full synopsis of the 1997 BBC Books Doctor Who novel, Illegal Alien. Since the book is now nearly 30 years old, we know many listeners may not have read it recently — or perhaps ever. If you don’t want to feel left out of our Illegal Alien discussion on Sunday’s monthly show, this episode is the perfect way to refresh your memory or get up to speed beforehand. Contact us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- 4 weeks ago58 min
Kroagnon’s Cocktail Hour (Gin & TARDIS #15: Paradise Towers)
Join Dave from the Doctor Who Show, Rob and Mark from 42 to Doomsday, and Richard from Spacefall: A Blakes 7 Podcast, after knocking back a few gin and tonics at Dave’s place and watching Paradise Towers. The story sees the Seventh Doctor and Melanie Bush arrive in search of a swimming pool at the supposedly luxurious 22nd-century high-rise known as Paradise Towers. Instead, they find a crumbling, graffiti-covered concrete jungle divided between rule-obsessed Caretakers, colour-coded girl gangs called the Kangs, and elderly “rezzies” with some rather alarming dietary habits. So pour yourself a G&T and join us as we take the lift up to the pool in the sky and get to grips with one of the Seventh Doctor era’s most idiosyncratic tales. Contact us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- Oct 10, 202619 min
Top Doctor Who Episodes Featuring Religion (The List Makers)
Which Doctor Who stories dig deepest into faith, gods, belief, and the divine? From the black-and-white classics to the modern era, we’ve ranked our favourite episodes that wrestle with religion and unpack where each one takes the topic. Got twenty minutes? Come with us. And while you’re here... what would make your list? Drop us a line and tell us why. Find us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- Sep 26, 20261h 25m
No Country for Old Doctors (A Town Called Mercy)
This month on the podcast, we saddle up and head for Mercy, Nevada, where the Doctor encounters a gunslinger, a disgraced alien doctor, a town full of terrified humans, and one hell of a moral dilemma. We’re talking A Town Called Mercy - the 2012 Eleventh Doctor story that asks some pretty uncomfortable questions about mercy, vengeance, guilt and whether the Doctor gets to decide who deserves to live. Before that, there’s the usual assortment of news and short topics, and afterwards we dig into the mailbag for a heap of listener feedback. So grab your hat, keep an eye out for cyborgs, and ponder what YOU would do with an alien war criminal. Enjoy, dear listener. Contact us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
- Sep 19, 20261h 15m
The X-Files: Selected Evidence (ALTERNATE GALAXIES)
There are some TV shows that are perfectly suited to Alternate Galaxies. And then there’s The X-Files, a show that Rob has loved since it first hit Australian television in 1994, watched from beginning to end multiple times, and spent his university years discussing with strangers on the early Internet. The problem? It’s over 200 episodes long, and Dave had somehow managed to go through the entire 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s and most of the 2020s without watching it. So, we needed a plan. That plan has been to throw Dave into the deep end - but only six episodes deep to start with. Rob has picked six stories from the first four seasons that don't require you to know the show's mythology, while trying to give Dave a proper taste of the enormous tonal range of The X-Files. There are monsters, Satanists, serial killers, psychic phenomena and alien abductions, but also some extremely funny episodes where the show gleefully takes the piss out of itself. Dave then immediately broke the rules by watching a seventh episode, because apparently six episodes of homework wasn't enough. Our selections take us from the early monster-of-the-week classic Squeeze, through the Satanic weirdness of Die Hand Die Verletzt, the melancholy brilliance of Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, the genuinely harrowing Oubliette, the gloriously bonkers Jose Chung's From Outer Space and finally the dark serial-killer story Paper Hearts. We'll keep Dave's rougue choice a secret for now. Did you watch the X-Files back in the day? Have you watched it since? What do you think of Rob's episode choices? Which ones would you have given Dave? Contact us: Bluesky: @thedwshow.net X / Twitter: @theDWshow Email: hello@theDWshow.net Substack: thedwshow.substack.com Facebook: facebook.com/theDWshow
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