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Schedule for the Endgame of Thrones

May 1, 2019 0 Comments

As we wind down a pretty geek intensive week, here’s the new hotness on what to expect coming up…

May

TTV #429 – Am I Blu? With three classic series Blu-ray box sets available, we take a look at whether or not it’s worth upgrading, or even going completely digital / streaming.

TTV #430 – Big Finish #105 “The Condemned”  

TTV #431 – Book Review: Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker, Titan Comics Free Comic Book Day 2019 

TTV #432 – Big Finish 8th Doctor Adventures 4.1 “Death in Blackpool”, Bonus Release: “An Earthly Child”

 

June 

TTV #433 – Big Finish 10th Doctor Adventures 1.2 “Time Reaver”, 1.3 “Death and the Queen” 

TTV #434 – Shada Again: Taking a look at the new animated reconstruction of the story and the Ian Levine fan produced animation. 

TTV #435 – Book Review: Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome: The Danger Men by Nick Walters 

TTV #436 – Big Finish The Diary of River Song 1.1 “The Boundless Sea”, 1.2 “I Went to a Marvelous Party”

 

July 

TTV #437 – Big Finish The Diary of River Song 1.3 “Signs”, 1.4 “The Rules of the Universe”

TTV #438 – Big Finish Companion Chronicles 1.1 “Frostfire”, Titan Comics 13th Doctor Vol. 1  

TTV #439 –  Companion Archive: Sara Kingdom – The Outlaw Planet (The Dalek Outer Space Book), “The Destroyers” (BF The Lost Stories – Second Doctor Box Set), Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent (The Dalek Outer Space Book – Comic) 

TTV #440 – Big Finish #111 “The Doomwood Curse”

 

Aug

TTV #441 – Titan Comics Torchwood Vol 3, Big Finish Torchwood “Forgotten Lives”

 

As always, this schedule is subject to change. Coming up beyond that? Another Lost in Time moment, and more Big Finish as we celebrate their 20th Anniversary.

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Early Spring Schedule (Or, The Groundhog Lies Like The Doctor)

February 11, 2019 0 Comments

As winter continues to keep most of us in its icy grip despite the prognostications of a certain rodent who is on my list right now, we present the next bit of scheduling or a few things to do while you try and keep warm:

Tonight (2/11) we’ll record our thoughts on the “animated” audio adventure “Real Time” for TTV 418.

TTV #419 offers up a couple of Big Finish Companion Chronicles: 5.5 “A Town Called Fortune”, and 5.7 “Peri and the Piscon Paradox”

Alternate Who in TTV #420 as we return to the world of Torchwood with Titan Comics “Torchwood Vol 2”, and Big Finish “Torchwood: Fall to Earth”.

The month of March kicks off with our thoughts on Big Finish #115 Forty-Five for TTV #421. 

 A long-delayed book review finally hits in TTV #422: Doctor Who and The Krikkitmen by Douglas Adams and James Goss

TTV #423 has some more Big Finish with mainline story Big Finish #120 “The Magic Mousetrap”

Discussion topic time as we tackle the idea of Desktop Themes and The Evolution of the Console Room for TTV #424. This also happens to be Planet Comicon Weekend, so we’ll give you a few highlights of that. 

TTV #425 starts off April with Big Finish Short Trip 9.01 “The Revisionists”, and Andy Frankham-Allen, keeper of the Lethbridge-Stewart flame, drops by for an exclusive interview and update on the state of the Brigverse. 

Another long-delayed book review in TTV #426 as we take a look at Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome: Fear of Web by Alyson Leeds. 

My goodness. More Big Finish? It’s almost like we were building up to something… TTV #427 has our take on mainline story  #121 “Enemy of the Daleks”.

Am I Blu? With three classic series Blu-ray box sets available, we take a look at whether or not it’s worth upgrading in TTV #428.

And a not so long-delayed book review hits in TTV #429, as we take a look at the just-released Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker.

Yes, that’s a lot of Big Finish and books we’re tackling in a three-month span. But rest assured, constant listener, there is a method to the madness and a master plan behind it all. On the horizon? That would be telling…

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Happy New Schedule!

December 31, 2018 0 Comments

A Couple of quick revisions and updates as we look out into the wilds of 2019…

For TTV #413 (which will be recorded late on Wednesday due to the premiere of the New Year’s special) we’ll take a look at Resolution (S11x11). 

We flip-flopped a couple of weeks here, so this is the seventh Doctor gets some love for TTV #414. We’ll take a look at the recent Titan Comics mini-series Operation Volcano, and Big Finish #109 The Death Collectors / Spider’s Shadow 

Another Candy Jar Book Review in TTV #415 with Lucy Wilson Mysteries: Curse of the Mirror Clowns by Chris Lynch 

Back to Big Finish to start 2019 in TTV #416 by finishing off the 8th Doctor Adventures Season 3, #7 The Eight Truths, #8 Worldwide Web 

 And something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time finally comes to fruition in TTV #417 as we look at the BBCi and Big Finish co-production of “Real Time”. We’ll be covering both the 90 minute animated webcast version, AND the extended audio for comparison.

That gets us into February with TTV #418, a look at the book Doctor Who and The Krikkitmen by Douglas Adams and James Goss.

As always, thanks for sticking with us!

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The Schedule of Ranskoor Av Kolos

December 3, 2018 0 Comments

Been a while since we posted one of these. Now that the 11th season is winding down, we’re back into rotating topics of show discussion. Here’s what’s on deck for upcoming episodes!

TTV #410 will have our thoughts on the season finale, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”

TTV #411 is a Book Review, we’ll look at Candy Jar’s Lethbridge Stewart: Lineage, and Titan Comics 13th Doctor issues #1 & 2.

We thought for Christmas we’d have some fun and do a Lost In Time Christmas special: The Celestial Toymaker. (Toymaker. That’s a Christmas story, right?) Well, find out in TTV #412 as we tackle the novelization & the reconstructed episode.  

Don’t worry, we will do a little something special for Christmas, we just don’t know what yet.

For TTV #413 we celebrate the New Year with the as of yet untitled New Year’s episode (S11x11) 

Back to Big Finish to start 2019 in TTV #414 by finishing off the 8th Doctor Adventures Season 3, #7 The Eight Truths, #8 Worldwide Web 

Another Candy Jar Book Review in TTV #415 with Lucy Wilson Mysteries: Curse of the Mirror Clowns by Chris Lynch 

The seventh Doctor gets some love in TTV #416. We’ll take a look at the recent Titan Comics mini-series Operation Volcano, and Big Finish #109 The Death Collectors / Spider’s Shadow 

 And something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time finally comes to fruition in TTV #417 as we look at the BBCi and Big Finish co-production of “Real Time”. We’ll be covering both the 60 minute animated webcast version, AND the extended audio for comparison.

Beyond that? Lethbridge-Stewart returns, we revisit Torchwood, and finally, have that desktop theme discussion. As always, thanks for listening!

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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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The Schedule of the Master Plan of the Daleks Master Plan

July 12, 2018 0 Comments

With 12 parts to this behemoth story, we knew it would take a bit of patience and schedule finagling to figure out how to break it up and review it, and then time to get to it, and we are finally ready. Traveling The Vortex presents… the Master Plan of the Daleks Master Plan!

PART 1 of the plan is revealed in TTV #390:

0 Mission to the Unknown 22:42 Only stills and/or fragments exist Animated (Amateur Production)
1 The Nightmare Begins 22:55 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
2 Day of Armageddon 24:25:00 16mm t/r Film (Lost In Time)

 

(We labeled Mission to the Unknown as part 0 since it’s technically not part of the story proper.)

PART 2 comes in episode #391:

3 The Devil’s Planet 24:30:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
4 The Traitors 24:42:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
5 Counter Plot 24:03:00 16mm t/r Film (Lost In Time)

 

PART 3 will happen the last week of July, in TTV #392:

6 Coronas of the Sun 24:45:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
7 The Feast of Steven 24:36:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Animated (Amateur Production)
8 Volcano 24:42:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)

 

and finally, part 4 opens August, in episode #393:

9 Golden Death 24:38:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
10 Escape Switch 23:37 16mm t/r Film (Lost In Time)
11 The Abandoned Planet 24:34:00 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)
12 Destruction of Time 23:31 Only stills and/or fragments exist Reconstruction (Loose Canon)

 

(Along with the episodes listed above, we will also be reviewing the comic series that was released to tie into the story.)

Episode #394 has us return to Big Finish with a look at mainline story #106 The Dark Husband.

…and the Brigverse returns in Episode #395, with our reviews of Lethbridge-Stewart: The Lost Skin by Andy Frankham-Allen, and Cow Pats and Comfort by Tim Gambrell (short story from the LS Quiz Book)

 

Easter Saturday is just around the corner (we think) and with it, our run-up to season 11 (we think) which means the schedule from this point out becomes much more fluid to handle sudden changes. We’ll keep you appraised, and as always, thanks for listening…

 

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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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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. 

APR

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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Scheduling Support From Viewers Like You

August 18, 2017 0 Comments

The adventures in scheduling topics and conversations with Friday Night Who episodes and conventions continues… In this episode…

Friday Night Who on 8/25 is the William Hartnell story “Planet of Giants”. 

TTV #344 features our look at a pair of Big Finish Companion Chronicles from Season 3: #1 “Here There Be Monsters” (Susan) and #7 “The Transit of Venus” (Ian). 

Everybody’s favorite (except ours), “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” hits Friday Night Who on 9/1. (Well, the first three parts anyway.) 

Since we’ll have Tom on the brain, TTV #345 finishes off the Big Finish 4th Doctor Adventures Season 2 with episodes #6 “The Dalek Contract”, and #7 “The Final Phase”.

We’ll finish the final three parts of “Talons of Weng-Chiang” on 9/8. 

TTV #346 has our insights into this year’s Topeka based Top Con.

FNW 9/15 is “Four To Doomsday” 

More big finish is on tap for TTV #347 with a big jump ahead to #221 “The Star Men”, as well as Titan Comics 10th Doctor Season 3 issues #1-5. 

FNW 9/22 has Patrick Troughton’s second Doctor in “The Krotons”

Lost In Time returns! TTV #348 will take a comprehensive look at “The Wheel In Space” (Assuming the Britbox Recon is released by now) 

FNW 9/29 – Battlefield (7 McCoy) 

TTV #349 sees us review Big Finish #92 Nocturne, and Titan Comics 9th Doctor ongoing issues #6-10.  

PCap makes a return visit to Friday Night Who on 10/6 with “Under The Lake” and “Before The Flood”. 

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FNW 10/13 – Frontios (5 Davidson) 

Here’s a feature that hasn’t been seen in a while, making a return to TTV #351. A Companion Archive on one Iris Wildthyme. We’ll take a look at two Big Finish tales, Excelis Dawns and mainline story #51 The Wormery. 

and we go back to the beginning for Friday Night Who on 10/20 with “An Unearthly Child”. 

TTV #352 is our very full discussion of what is sure to be a very full weekend at Time Eddy III. (Have you bought YOUR ticket yet?)

Beyond that? Christmas baby! Christmas!

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Friday Night Who 7/28

July 28, 2017 0 Comments

It’s another “Funky Pertwee” episode tonight, or at least, half of one. Grab your DVD or boot up your Britbox subscriptions and join us for the first three parts of “Colony In Space” tonight at the *new* time of 10:30pm Central. Be sure to follow us on twitter (@travelvortex) and look for the #FridayNightWho #ColonyInSpace hashtags to join the conversation…

 

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The Schedule Falls – UPDATED

June 22, 2017 0 Comments

Updates Updates Updates!

As we discussed on the podcast this week there is a tweak to the schedule, (we have added a week to our Candy Jar book reviews to better get caught up and cover the awesomeness there in.) Changes marked in red. The rest of the schedule stays the same, just backs up a week…

First, the big super huge announcement you may have missed… Based on YOUR feedback, (no, not you. You. No, you! You in the back. YES YOU! YOUR FEEDBACK!) Our weekly Doctor Who watch along Friday Night Who has been moved to a new time, permanently! (Well, as permanent as anything is in this crazy mixed up world of ours.)

Join us now each week, starting at 10:30pm Central.

This means you ALL better be breaking out that BritBox subscription or booting up your DVDs to join us!!!

Next up is the schedule:

Friday Night Who on 6/23 is Colin Baker in “Attack Of The Cybermen”

Our show this week for Traveling The Vortex #336 is the penultimate series 10 episode “World Enough And Time”

FNW 6/30 is the first appearance of Mondasian Cybermen in “The Tenth Planet” with William Hartnell.

and TTV #337 is the series finale, “The Doctor Falls”

Peter Davidson hits Friday Night Who on 7/7 in “Awakening”

TTV #338 will have our review of the first (and possibly only season) of the spin-off series Class.

FNW 7/14 is a Nu Who episode with Matt Smith, “The Beast Below”

We’ll take a look at some Eleventh Doctor comics in TTV #339. Titan Comics 11th Doctor Season 3 #1-5 to be exact, along with Big Finish mainline #89 “No Man’s Land”

We’ve added a week here: FNW 7/21 is the Tom Baker serial “The Sun Makers”

We’re breaking up our Candy Jar book reviews, into two weeks! Traveling The Vortex #340 takes a look at Havoc Files 3 (featuring a story by a certain member of this podcast, who will NOT be allowed to tell you how great it is), and the novela Life of Evans by John Peel.

FNW 7/28 is the debut of the Jon Pertwee story “Colony In Space” Parts 1-3

More Candy Jar goodness with the short story Runaway Bomb by Nick Walters, and the novel Lethbridge-Stewart: Night Of The Intelligence by Andy Frankham-Allen (which features a prologue by a certain member of this podcast, who will NOT be allowed to tell you how great it is.)

We’ll finish up “Colony In Space” Parts 4-6 for Friday Night Who on 8/4

TTV #341 will feature our review of “Colony In Space”

A classic FNW for 8/11 featuring Tom Baker, “The Brain Of Morbius”

8th Doctor Big Finish action in TTV #342 with our thoughts on the Big Finish 8th Doctor Adventures Season 2: #7 “Sisters of the Flame”, and #8 “Vengeance of Morbius”

More NU WHO on FNW 8/18 with Christopher Eccelston in the two part “Aliens In London / World War III”

and TTV #343 has Big Finish 8th Doctor Adventures Season 3: #1 “Orbis” and Titan Comics 9th Doctor Season 1 #1-5

Beyond that in the dog days of summer? I can strongly hint that our Lost In Time feature is coming back, and we might just be revisiting the idea of Beyond The Doctor.

Maybe.

As always, thanks for listening!

 

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Friday Night Who Moves To New Time

June 22, 2017 0 Comments

 

We asked, you answered, we listened.

Our weekly Doctor Who watch along Friday Night Who will make the permanent move to 10:30pm on Friday Nights instead of midnight. (Times are still Central). We hope this change will allow more of you to join in with us!

The change is effective immediately, with this week’s offering, #AttackOfTheCybermen

Fire up those BritBox subscriptions or dust off your DVDs, We push play at 10:30, and look for the #FridayNightWho hashtags on twitter!

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Friday Night Who 5/26

May 26, 2017 0 Comments

 

Join us for Friday Night Who, a different episode of Doctor Who every Friday Night at midnight, Central time! Tonight’s selection is the Tom Baker masterpiece, Pyramids Of Mars! Synchronize your watches and DVD copies (or boot up that BritBox subscription) we push play at midnight. Be sure to follow @travelvortex on twitter for all the action and look for those #FridayNightWho #PyramidsOfMars hashtags!

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