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Epiversary CONTEST!!!

September 24, 2018 0 Comments

We are rapidly coming up on our 400th episode! And while that milestone would have seemed ludicrous to us seven years ago when we started, we are very aware that we only attained it due to the support and diligence of our listeners. In short, we owe you. So we are gonna have some fun, and fill this upcoming epiversary with giveaways!

“How can I enter?” We hear you ask. Well here’s the skinny:

Like and Follow us on Facebook – 1 entry

Sharing our Facebook Page – 1 entry

Follow us on Twitter – 1 entry

Retweeting the “epiversary” tweet – 1 entry

Follow us on Instagram – 1 entry

Joining the Goodreads Book Club – 2 entries

Signing up to support us on Patreon – 2 entries

Reviewing us on iTunes or other host sites – 2 entries

Then send us an email detailing what you like/shared/followed/reviewed. For each that we confirm you’ll be entered that many times into the giveaway. Shaun is shining up the fishbowl now, and we’ll be drawing “LIVE” on the cast and through Facebook Live!

And if you’ve already done these things? No worries! Go ahead and send that email, you will still be entered!

Thanks so much, here’s to the next 400!

 

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The Schedule Who Fell To Earth

September 5, 2018 0 Comments

With today’s announcement that Doctor Who returns on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7th, we have revised the upcoming schedule to reflect some changes.

This week’s episode, TTV #397 will still cover our thoughts on Titan Comics 10th Doctor Year 3 #11 – 14 and Big Finish 10th Doctor Adventures #1 Technophobia.

TTV #398 is now a catch up of Titan Comics, The 11th Doctor Year 3 #12 & #13 AND the 12th Doctor Year 3 #10 – #13

Our Book Review of Lethbridge-Stewart: The Laughing Gnome – Scary Monsters by Simon Forward has been moved up to TTV #399.

Our EPIVERSARY #400 still includes fun and games with Doctor Who Fluxx (LIVE!) and mucho giveaways, but now it also includes Titan Comics “Road to the Thirteenth Doctor” issues #1 – 3.

And then, what we’ve all been waiting for… #401 and the start of series 11, with “The Woman Who Fell To Earth”.

Beyond that? Nine more weeks of Jodie Whitaker! Thanks for listening!

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Legends of the Fall Schedule

August 23, 2018 0 Comments

Another “short schedule” post, as we edge ever closer toward the start of the new series, we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves and have to change it.

*NOTE – This schedule can change at a moment’s notice with new series information.

This week’s TTV #395 is a pair of Book Reviews: Lethbridge-Stewart: The Lost Skin by Andy Frankham-Allen, and the short story Cow Pats and Comfort by Tim Gambrell (from the LS Quiz Book) 

 In TTV #396 we’ll take a look at Big Finish 4th Doctor Adventures Series 3: #1 “The King of Sontar” and #2 “White Ghosts” 

Titan Comics returns to our line up in TTV #397. We’ll finish off the10th Doctor Year 3 with issues #11 – 14, AND take a listen to Big Finish 10th Doctor Adventures #1 “Technophobia”. 

 TTV #398 has some more Torchwood action. Titan Comics Torchwood Vol 2 and Big Finish Torchwood #2: “Fall to Earth” are on the docket.

 TTV #399 is a real treat, in real time. We’ll listen and watch the Big Finish audio and BBCi versions of “Real Time”. 

 A big epiversary looms! Time for some fun and games in TTV #400 with Doctor Who Fluxx (LIVE!) AND some GIVEAWAYS!

Candy Jar Books is back in TTV #401 with a Book Review of the start of the next phase, Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome – Scary Monsters by Simon Forward.

And that takes us into October when the fabled new season is set to start, so we’ll pause there. Again, thanks to everyone for checking in. 🙂

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It Is The End, But The Schedule Has Been Prepared For…

April 19, 2018 0 Comments

At long last, after nearly 7 years, we have reached the end. The moment I have been dreading. The regeneration of MY Doctor. I’ve not seen these since they aired. Not sure how I will feel about revisiting them…

Episode #379 is our discussion of Whobots: The Artificial Life Forms of Doctor Who. No Androids, no Cyborgs. Just good old fashioned clunky sci-fi bots. Get your thoughts in now!

TTV #380 – “The Keeper of Traken” 

TTV #381 – “Logopolis” 

TTV #382 – “Castravalva” and the New Beginnings Trilogy (We’ll close out the end of one era and the birth of another, and discuss the trilogy as a whole.)

A treat for episode #383, since Keith will have now seen EVERY Regeneration episode, we thought we’d talk about a Whole New Life Cycle…

UPDATE! – TTV #384 takes us back to the Brigverse for our book review of Lethbridge-Stewart: The New Unusual by Adrian Sherlock and Andy Frankham-Allen (this replaces Man From Yesterday, which has been bumped to episode #387.

Some Big Finish Companion Chronicles for episode #384, with Series 3 #10 “The Magician’s Oath” and Series 4 #3 “The Prisoner of Peladon”. 

TTV #386 has our thoughts on Big Finish #104 “The Bride of Peladon”, and the end of another era…  

UPDATE! – More Brigverse reviews in episode #387 with a look at Lethbridge-Stewart: The Man From Yesterday by Nick Walters (this replaced our review of The Lost Skin, which has been bumped to a later time.)

And the Eighth Doctor makes a welcome return to the schedule in episode #388. Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures Season 2: #5 “The Scapegoat”, #6 “The Cannibalists”.

TTV #389 takes a look at Big Finish #90 “Year Of The Pig”. 

And to fill out the rest of July starting in episode #390, we’re getting Lost In Time with a VERY detailed look at the massive missing first Doctor story, “The Daleks’ Master Plan”.

Our look at Lethbridge-Stewart: The Lost Skin by Andy Frankham-Allen, and Cow Pats, and Comfort by Tim Gambrell (short story from the LS Quiz Book) will come after.

As always, thanks for supporting us.

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New Unusual Eggs-cert: An Easter Give-away!

March 30, 2018 0 Comments

UPDATED: Sorry the promotion is now closed.

Our friends over at Candy Jar Books are offering an “egg-stra” special treat this Easter weekend. From now until Sunday night they are offering an “egg-cert” from their upcoming novel, Lethbridge-Stewart: The New Unusual by Adrian Sherlock & Andy Frankham-Allen.  And they are giving our listeners a chance to download the chapter for the limited time.

From Candy Jar:

“Eggs are at the centre of The New Unusual, and it was hoped advanced copies of the book would be available in time for Easter. Alas, it was not possible, so instead Candy Jar is offering up the first chapter as a special gift to their readers – a taste of what’s to come next.”

Click the link to download the free chapter. The New Unusual – Egg-cerpt! Sorry the promotion is now closed.

Be sure to head over to the Candy Jar store for your copy of the book so that you can read the entire story when it comes out.

You can pre-order the The New Unusual at Candy Jar Books

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Whoops! Scheduling

February 7, 2018 0 Comments

WHOOPS! STOP THE PRESSES! SHAUN SCREWED UP.

MAKE A NOTE IN THE LOG.

Yes, friends and constant listeners, I’m human, much to my chagrin, and that means I occasionally goof up. And I goofed up the schedule. We were to listen and review Big Finish #102 for this week’s cast, but it turns out that’s the FOURTH part of a four-part arc, and we had only listened to part one thus far. And so it’s time for a…

SCHEDULE CORRECTION!

TTV #369 will instead the next story in the Virus Strand arc, Big Finish #95 “Exotron” / “Urban Myths” 

One more 8th Doctor/comics match up in TTV #370 with Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures Season 3: #4 “Wirrn Dawn” and Titan Comics 12th Doctor Year 3 #5-7 

A bit of fun for TTV #371. We’ll talk about everybody’s favorite Brigadier via the “Liberty Hall” short film interview (this can be found as a bonus feature on “Mawdryn Undead”) and Candy Jar Books The Lethbridge-Stewart Quiz Book by Marc Jones. 

MAR

We’ll talk about last year’s huge Titan Comics crossover event “Lost Dimension” with all eight issues in TTV #372.

TTV #373 has a look at Big Finish #97 The Wishing Beast/The Vanity Box 

Glenn is gone this week, so Keith and I are cooking up something special for TTV #374.

Lost In Time with The Highlanders (Novelization & Recon) moves to TTV #375. 

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TTV #376 –  NOW we’ll get to Big Finish #102 The Mind’s Eye/Mission of the Viyrans, and discuss “The Virus Strand” Arc as a whole.

Book Review: Lethbridge-Stewart: A Very Private Haunting by Sharon Bidwell for TTV #377 (if I have my dates right)

Back to Big Finish for TTV #378 with #96 Valhalla, and the Titan Comics miniseries Ghost Stories #1-4 

TTV #379 promises to be fun, so start formulating your feedback now! Whobots – The Artificial Life Forms of Doctor Who. Here are the ground rules for this discussion: We are NOT talking Cyborgs, so Daleks and Cybermen are out. We are NOT discussing lifelike humanoid robots (those are androids) so the Androids of Tara and any doppelgangers of our cast are out. No, we want to discuss the clunky, the box with legs, the giant rumba robots that tend to inhabit the Whoniverse. Think Chumblies, or War Machines, or Vox Robots, or K1, or K9 etc… Should be lively… unlike the subjects of discussion.

That’s us playing a bit of catch up. On the horizon? We may finally get to the worst kept secret in the Vortex and land on Traken…

As always, thanks for your indulgence, and for listening!

 

 

 

 

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Transitional Scheduling

January 8, 2018 0 Comments

A quick look at this in “transitional schedule” for those of you that like to follow along with our homework.

If and when Glenn ever gets over being sick, we’ll get together and discuss our thoughts on the Tom Baker story “Planet Of Evil” in TTV #364. (This is also the last televised Sarah Jane Smith story we have yet to review.)  

TTV #365 is Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures Season 3: #2 “Hothouse” and Titan Comics 9th Doctor #11-15. 

More of the same in TTV #366 with Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures Season 3: #3 “The Beast of Orlok” and Titan Comics 10th Doctor Year 3 #6-8 & 10 (Notice a slight jump here, we are going to do the Lost Dimension as a separate event.)

Hard to believe it was all the way back in episode 42 that we looked back at seasons 5 and 6 with a Moffat retrospective. Well, a month has passed since the official end of the era, and we thought we’d take another crack at it. TTV #367 Grand Moff Steven – A look back at Seasons 5-10.

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Really excited to get to TTV #368 and our book review of Candy Jar Books Lethbridge-Stewart: Travers And Wells by Robert Mamone. 

TTV #369 takes a look at Big Finish #102 “The Mind’s Eye” / “Mission of the Viyrans” 

One more 8th Doctor/comics match up in TTV #370 with Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures Season 3: #4 “Wirrn Dawn” and Titan Comics 12th Doctor Year 3 #5-7 

A bit of fun for TTV #371. We’ll talk about everybody’s favorite Brigadier via the “Liberty Hall” short film interview (this can be found as a bonus feature on “Mawdryn Undead”) and Candy Jar Books The Lethbridge-Stewart Quiz Book by Marc Jones. 

MAR

We’ll talk about last year’s huge Titan Comics crossover event “Lost Dimension” with all eight issues in TTV #372.

TTV #373 has a look at Big Finish #106 The Dark Husband 

Get Lost In Time with The Highlanders (Novelization & Recon) in TTV #374. 

And a bit more Big Finish to round out the month in TTV #375 with mainline range #97 “The Wishing Beast” “The Vanity Box”.

That’s us playing a bit of catch up. On the horizon? We may finally get to the worst kept secret in the Vortex and land on Traken… 

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The Midnight Schedule Is Close At Hand * UPDATED *

October 17, 2017 0 Comments

Busy Busy Busy this week as we run up to Time Eddy III. If you are new the proceedings, thanks for joining us, here’s a breakdown of what’s on tap for the podcast if you want to follow along:

Our weekly Doctor Who watch along Friday Night Who selection on 10/20 is “An Unearthly Child” (but of course a reminder that due to con commitments we may not actually be present for it. If not, just push play at 10:30 without us! 

TTV #353 – The Trilogy Concludes, as we bring you all the news fit to print, talk, and rave about Time Eddy III. 

FNW 10/27 our Halloween offering this year features Tom Baker vs the Great Vampires in “State of Decay”

TTV #354 – It’s been too long since we last checked in on the Brig-Verse, so it’s past time for some book reviews! We’ll offer up thoughts on The Two Brigadiers by Jonathan Macho, Lethbridge-Stewart: Daughters of Earth by Sarah Groenewegen, and The Cruel Oil by Harry Draper.  

Colin Baker falls into a “Twin Dilemma” on 11/3 Friday Night Who.

Continuing where we left off on Excelis, TTV #355 will have our thoughts on Big Finish’s “Excelis Rising” and “Excelis Decays”. 

FNW 11/10 is the first three parts of the third Doctor story “The Sea Devils”.

And we’ll finish off the saga of Excelis and give our thoughts on the over all arc in TTV #356 with Bernice Summerfield in “The Plague Herds Of Excelis”. 

FNW 11/17 finishes off “The Sea Devils” with Parts 4-6. 

Back to the books in TTV #357 with a look at Lethbridge-Stewart: The Dreamer’s Lament by Benjamin Burford-Jones. 

Matt Smith comes back to FNW on 11/24 in “The Rings Of Akhaten”.

A mixed bag this week for TTV #358 as we review Big Finish #94 “Id/Urgent Calls”, and pending the outcome of this year’s Lost Dimension crossover event, Titan Comics 11th Doctor Season 3 issues #6-10. Very subject to change here.  

FNW on 12/1 is the always near the top of the list rated “Caves Of Androzani” with Peter Davison.

TTV #359 has us look at Big Finish #99 “Son Of The Dragon”, and Titan Comics 12th Doctor Season 3 issues #1-5. 

A brand new one this week for Friday Night Who on 12/8! “The Creature From The Pit” with Tom Baker. 

and we’ll offer up our thoughts on that story in TTV #360. 

Pertwee returns to FNW on 12/15 in “The Curse Of Peladon” 

We’ll review the Brig-Verse novella The Flaming Soldier by Christopher Bryant in TTV #361.

Hope you picked up your bluray or DVD copies of Series 10, as we’ll do a recap of the finale “World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls” for Friday Night Who on 12/22… 

…and then it will be time to say goodbye to Peter Capaldi in TTV #362 as we discuss his swan song and the arrival of Jodi Whitaker in the Christmas special “Twice Upon A Time” 

Wouldn’t be Christmas without a proper Christmas Who, so even though it’s a week late, our last Friday Night Who of the year (12/29) will be “The Runaway Bride” with David Tennant.

TTV #363 will bring on The Havoc Files 4 collection of short stories from Candy Jar Books and the Brig-Verse.

Beyond that? 2018. 

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Friday Night Who 9/22

September 21, 2017 0 Comments

Friday Night Who – Battlefield

 

We travel backward to the Seventh Doctor story “Battlefield” for Friday Night Who this week. Grab your DVD or boot up your Britbox subscriptions and join us this Friday night at 10:30pm Central. Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@travelvortex) and look for the #FridayNightWho & #Battlefield hashtags to join the conversation.

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UPDATED: Scheduling Revisions (or Fixing What Shaun Hath Wrought)

September 14, 2017 0 Comments

Friday Night Who for 9/15 features the Fifth Doctor and his companions, Nyssa, Tegan and Adric with all four parts of Four To Doomsday.

For TTV Episode #348, we review Big Finish Doctor Who Main Range entry #221 The Star Men and we start Titan Comics’ 10th Doctor Year 3 with issues #1-5

On 9/22, Friday Night Who will feature the Second Doctor story, The Krotons.

And then for TTV Episode #349 it’s a ‘Lost In Time’ feature as we look at Britbox’s reconstruction of the story, The Wheel In Space. We’ll also review the novelization of this story written by Terrance Dicks for Target Books. (This is subject to a timely release of the story by Britbox, of course)

For Friday Night Who on 9/22 we are watching Battlefield featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Then for TTV #349 we review Big Finish Main Range story #92 Nocturne with Seven, Ace and Hex, plus a look at Titan Comics 9th Doctor issues #6-10.

The for Friday Night Who in 9/29 we head back to Series 9 for the Peter Capaldi two-part story, Under The Lake / Before The Flood.

Then, it’s the episode we’ve been warning you about for years! Open up the pocketbook and loosen those purse strings, it’s an “epiversary” special for TTV #350 with our PLEDGE DRIVE! In this show we will also be giving you a SPOILER FREE sneak preview of Candy Jar Books’ Lethbridge-Stewart spin-off, The Lucy Wilson Mysteries: Avatars of the Intelligence.

For Friday Night Who on 10/6 we are watching Battlefield featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Then for TTV #351 we review Big Finish Main Range story #92 Nocturne with Seven, Ace and Hex, plus a look at Titan Comics 9th Doctor issues #6-10.

On 10/6, Friday Night Who will feature the Second Doctor story, The Krotons.

And then for TTV Episode #351 it’s a ‘Lost In Time’ feature as we look at Britbox’s reconstruction of the story, The Wheel In Space. We’ll also review the novelization of this story written by Terrance Dicks for Target Books. (This is subject to a timely release of the story by Britbox, of course)

Friday Night Who for 10/13 sees us viewing the Fifth Doctor story, Frontios

TTV #352 is a ‘Companion Archive’ featuring Iris Wildthyme. We’ll review two Big Finish stories featuring the character with Excelis Dawns and Big Finish Main Range story #51 The Wormery

On 10/20 we go all the way back to the beginning for Friday Night Who with the story, An Unearthly Child.

And fresh off of this year’s Time Eddy 3, TTV #353 will feature our time at the Wichita Doctor Who convention.

Beyond that, who knows? But, there is always Christmas to look forward to.

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Friday Night Who 9/15

September 14, 2017 0 Comments

Friday Night Who – Four to Doomsday

 

We travel back to the Peter Davison era this week. Grab your DVD or boot up your Britbox subscriptions and join us for “Four to Doomsday” featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric this Friday night at 10:30pm Central. Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@travelvortex) and look for the #FridayNightWho & #FourToDoomsday hashtags to join the conversation.

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Friday Night Who 9/1

August 31, 2017 0 Comments

Friday Night Who – The Talons of Weng-Chiang

 

We travel back to the Tom Baker era this week. Grab your DVD or boot up your Britbox subscriptions and join us for the first three parts of “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” this Friday night at 10:30pm Central. Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@travelvortex) and look for the #FridayNightWho & #TalonsOfWengChiang hashtags to join the conversation.

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