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Victorious Mastering of the Schedule

Cpt 7

Lucky number seven. Double-O seven, Seven-eleven…

“Will you knock it off?” She asked, though she wasn’t entirely sure who she was talking to anymore. It might be a plea to the author, (if she ever pleaded for anything, which she didn’t), or perhaps she was talking to herself, ordering her brain to cease its whimsical connective association game. Or hell, it may even be that she was talking to him.

The rest had done her some good, and now she gingerly sat up in the bed, finding the restraining field had dissipated. There was a red light on the console next to her, silently blinking on and off. Surely an indicator to the console room that she was awake and mobile.

Which meant the next move was hers.

Well, technically the next move involved getting to the wardrobe, which indeed, opened only on a sparse closet containing her clothes and sword and not into the fabulous fantasy world of Narnia.

“Well, he did warn me.” She mumbled, getting dressed. Which lead to the next thought. If he was honest about the clothes and sword, was he being honest about everything else? She barked out a laugh, which same so quickly and forcefully it startled her. What was she even thinking?

The only thing the Master was honest about was his dishonesty. The Doctor’s oldest foe, (and hers too, if she were quite honest), he put the MY in enemy. Fiendish, clever, ruthless, and evil, but still charming in his own way. What with the whole Time Lord Victorious nonsense, this was no time for him to show up and wreak his usual brand of havoc.

And yet, he had returned the sword to her. He was either being extra dubious, or he didn’t see her as an immediate threat.

She’d have to cure him of that notion, toot sweet.

Dressed and armed, she made her way through his TARDIS. Whether through simple necessity or some trick of the trans-dimensional engineering, the sickbay bedroom was just down the corridor to the console room, so she didn’t wander far. She drew the sword, and with her left hand grasped the doorknob to the nerve center of the ship. She didn’t have a plan so much as an inkling of a course of action, but sometimes those were best. With a mighty bestial roar (what Whitman described as a barbaric yawp and Robin Williams tried to explain to a group of adolescents in that movie), she charged through the door, sword leading the way.

He stood at the controls on the far side of the center console, the lighted column in the middle rising and lowering with each great breath of the time machine indicating they were in flight.

And because that was the scene she expected in her mind’s eye, the sheer number of him in the room stopped her in her tracks and the yawp died in her throat. There was a Master in a fetching purple three-piece checking the time on a fob watch. Another Master wearing a leather coat and sunglasses leaned against the wall looking for all the world like he’d rather be somewhere else. A Master who looked like he’d been left too long in the sun—scratch that, ON the sun—hunched over the other side of the console consulting with still another Master in black crushed velvet.

There was some Mucho Master going on.

Another sword tip parried hers, and SHE stepped forward in her blue and orange Mary Poppins ensemble. Suddenly that nightmare about a classroom full of clowns was starting to look pretty good.

“Oh, you’re awake my pet” Missy said, managing to be all kinds of condescending. “Pity.” She turned to yet another Master, this one with short blonde hair. “I owe you a five spot.”

“Double or nothing she disarms you in under two minutes.” The Master leaning against the wall said.

Missy turned back to face her. “What do you say gosling? Shall we dance?”

The Master, (the original in her mind, though honestly who could know at this point where his timeline diverged and folded back on itself) stepped forward. “Now now, is that anyway to treat a guest? Arissa is here at my invitation. I do not want her to feel unwelcome.” He raised a gloved hand and lowered the points of their still crossed swords.

Arissa took a chance a lowered her guard. Either this would look cool and carefree, or Missy would try and run her through. “Alright, I’m here. I’m not fighting–” She stopped herself. “—yet. So what’s going on? You having a soirée? A little get-together? A meeting of the Master-minds?” She was proud of that one. She knew by pushing she was increasing the odds of Missy lunging point first, but she was on a roll. “Are there refreshments? Some chips and dip? OOOOhhh, a convention! Where’s the ‘I tried conquering the universe and all I got was this lousy t-shirt’ vendor?”

Missy smiled that quirky, half smirk of hers, and Arrisa steeled herself for the steel that would surely be plunging into her any minute. But instead, she turned her maniacal glare back to the Master—damn the descriptors when multiple versions of the same person are present—and said menacingly, “We don’t really need her, do we?”

The Master surprised her then. “In point of fact, we do. My dear Arissa, as impossible as it may be to believe, I rescued you from THE DARK TIMES—”

“Oy!” Shouted the blond Master.

“Forgive me. WE. We rescued you from THE DARK TIMES… because we need your help. Not only has the Doctor’s foolish Time Lord Victorious crusade endangered the cosmos on scale we could only hope to dream of, but your podcaster friends are in trouble as well.”

“The author? But he’s controlling all this.”

“If only that were the case. You keep sending out their schedule because it was what you were contracted to do, and you never renege on a contract. An admirable trait. But its so much more than that. Despite its insignificance to the world at large, the very act of sharing it is also a tether. A very tenuous tether keeping the real world from disintegrating entirely.”

“We know a thing or two about disintegrations.” Said the purple clad Master a little too eagerly.

“Speaking of” the crispy Master spoke from his perch at the controls, and his voice was as dry and raspy as his skin. “It’s time to transmit the new schedule.”

“Then by all means.” The Master said, moving back to the console and pressing a series of buttons, then flipping a toggle.

They all turned to the viewer, which irised open to display the following:

491 – Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome: Havoc Files (5) by Various Artists

492 – 25th Anniversary of Doctor Who: The Movie, Big Finish Master!: #1 Faustian, #2 Prey #3 Vengeance

493 – Fury From the Deep (Animated) DVD review

494 – Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter by Various Artists

495 – TLV: Echoes of Extinction (Big Finish Audio)

496 – TLV: The Edge of Time (Video Game), Time Fracture (Event), The Time Lord Victorious & Brian the Ood (Action Figure/Short Story?), Overall impressions (w/special guest Timothy Harvey of SciFi4MeTV’s TARDIS Sauce)

“What do you mean tether? Why is this podcast so important to the fate of everything? And what does the author have to do with this?”

Missy whirled on her, her eyes flashing. “Tell us poppet, what do you know about The Land of Fiction?”

Scheduling Victorious III

Cpt 3

She crumples the paper into a compact wad and throws for the wastebasket, (both as anachronistic as can be: an Osirian Pyramid ship from the 35th century—one of the most technologically advanced pieces of starcraft ever created—and sitting in its gleaming white, high-tech, fully automated control room, an honest to goodness piece of paper and cylindrical metal can) sending it in a near-perfect arc across the room. The makeshift ball bounced once on the rim and out, skittering across the floor making that noise that was both satisfying and strangely unnerving.

She rolls her eyes. “Really? You couldn’t let me have that one?”

She melts upright off the couch and into a stretch, her lithe body arching beneath her white silk robes. Paradoxes aside, it was getting annoying to have to reschedule things every other week, even if she was just the mouthpiece. Sauntering over to the wastebasket, she nimbly plucks the wad of paper up and unsmooths it, re-reading the characters on the page. She shakes her head, inputs a few sequences on the panel before her, and hits the transmit button.

TTV #473 –Tales of the Dark Times #3 (Comic Maker), The Enemy of My Enemy (Big Finish Audio), Monstrous Beauty #3 (Comic)

Thanksgiving – OFF

TTV #474 – TLV: Daleks! #1 “The Archive of Islos”, #2 (Animated Series)

TTV #475 – TLV: Daleks! #3, #4 (Animated Series)

TTV #476 – TLV: Daleks! #5 (Animated Series), The Minds of Magnox (Audio Book)

That finished, (again), she crumples the paper and drops it without fanfare into the trash.

“You realize this is wrong, right?” She shakes her head. “I mean, you are aware of the inaccuracies here.” She hooks a thumb over her shoulder toward the platform she spoke from not all that long ago. “I mean, aside from the fact that there is a ruined city outside that looks like it barely survived a nuclear blast—and granted, that may just be 2020 doing its thing—there’s a golden Pyramid ship sitting on top of it. Weird, right?”

She begins to pace, waving her hand around the room. “A 35th century Pyramid ship, you described it as. But the Osirians, are from the DARK TIMES. With one or two notable exceptions, they do not still exist today, and they certainly won’t exist in the 35th century to create this technological marvel that I’m currently shooting hoops in.” She moves back to the wastebasket and digs out the printout. “And look at this!” She cries out, holding the page aloft. “It’s ye ol’ green and white striped, tractor fed, DOT MATRIX paper!?! Could you get any more analog? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!?”

She collapses back on the couch, a sense of genuine worry about her.

“Are you off your game? I mean, I thought something was afoot last week when you named the post ‘Scheduling Victorious II’ and didn’t tag it with ‘Electric Boogaloo’ at the end. I know how you love that joke.” She pauses, the wheels in her sharp mind turning. “Unless… the Time Lord Victorious paradoxes… are they affecting you too? Is that even possible? I mean, you’re the author. The Narrator. You should be outside of these fictional events, but…” Her eyes travel skyward as if looking for god. “Hell, I’m self-aware, so who knows what your game plan is.”

Somewhere, the loud and abrasive grinding of the dot matrix printer started its insecticide chewing noise. It was only one line, and so mercifully short. She rose to pull the just printed page.

AS ALWAYS, THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

She re-reads the words several times as if imposing her own will on the text would cause it to change. But of course, it doesn’t. Instead, she wads the paper up and tosses it into the trash, where it makes a perfect basket, (nothing but net) thudding on the bottom of the can with a small echo.

“That isn’t reassuring.” She tells the author.

Scheduling Victorious II

Cpt 2

Deep within the pyramid that sat atop the ruined city, she lounges on a couch of black silk. The couch is in stark contrast to everything else in the room which gleamed white, from the sandblasted marble floors to her own white silk robes. She cradles her head in her hands, long, slender fingers absentmindedly play with an errant lock of her short, spiky blonde hair.

“Don’t do that.” She mutters. “I’m tired and frustrated. It’s been a long year that doesn’t show any signs of improving. I’m in no mood to have you describe my beauty just to make me feel better.”

But she was beautiful, tall and strong, with rounded features and bright eyes that sparkled with the depths of her intelligence.

“Okay, that wasn’t bad.” She admits. “At least my eyes aren’t piercing. What do you want anyway? Shouldn’t you be toppling a regime or sending a starship into a black hole or something?”

A wall panel within the pyramid illuminated suddenly. Words filled the glowing wall, words she barely payed attention to from her perch on the couch.

“Seriously? You’re still doing this? After the last batch was such a disaster?”

The words continued to flow across the wall screen.

“I mean, it’s not like we told people you were going bi-weekly and had to change it. OR that several of the dates were wrong and you had to issue a retraction. A retraction, I might add, that you simply uploaded to the website without calling attention to it. You sneaky bugger.”

The words paused, then in all capital letters spelled out, “AS ALWAYS THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE” then went back to their scrolling.

“Ooh, THAT hit a nerve. Look, don’t blame me. If you didn’t want to have these stimulating verbal debates, you wouldn’t have written me as self-aware.” She rises from the couch and considers the writing on the wall. “I’ll make the announcement.”

Nov
TTV #472 – Book Review – The Wintertime Paradox by David Rudden, TLV: Canaries (Short story)

TTV #473 – TLV: The Last Message (Short Story), Tales of the Dark Times #3 (Comic Maker), The Enemy of My Enemy (Big Finish Audio)

TTV #474 – TLV: Mission to the Known (Short Story), Monstrous Beauty #3 (Comic), Daleks! #1 “The Archive of Islos” (Animated Series)

TTV#475 – TLV: Daleks! #2 & #3 (Animated Series)

That taken care of, she returns to her place on the couch to contemplate her part in this mad story.

Scheduling Victorious

Dawn.

The sun’s rays have just begun to crest the horizon, illuminating a towering pyramid that looms over the desolate cityscape below. ‘Scenes from an apocalypse’ might be one way to describe the city. If it were a boxer, it would be beaten, bruised, and bloodied. The sprawling metropolis certainly had seen better days, but it was the people who still cowered in it that should be the focus. They too were broken and haunted, mere shadowy reflections of their former selves, for their eyes had seen horrors.

And yet they survived.

Atop the pyramid, a cloaked figure appears, gliding up to a stone podium that stands near the edge. Soft robes billow about her form as she lifts her hands aloft. The silence, which in reality was merely quiet, now becomes an eerie sound vacuum in anticipation of the words to follow. Breaths are held in that pause for attention, and she certainly has it.  Time stretches out into a thin stream of nothing in that heartbeat before she begins to orate, leaning into the strange device that can only be a microphone sending her voice booming into the valley below:

“Is this thing on?”

The cacophony of sudden noise startles her, and the bombastic feedback of her words causes a crumbling tower to finally give up its fight against gravity and collapse to the earth.

“Right. Here we go…

BEHOLD MORTALS:

A NEW DAY DAWNS.

A NEW FORMAT BEGINS.

TRAVELING THE VORTEX RETURNS.”

She pauses, looking thoughtful.

“Really? Is that it? Isn’t this an awful lot of pomp and circumstance just to announce your silly little podcast is coming back? I mean, I get it, you’ve been doing this pretty much non-stop, week after week for YEARS.” She draws out the word, adding more syllables to it than should be phonetically possible. “And then you take a little hiatus for a breather and suddenly that turns into a long hiatus because of a pandemic and…”

The author stares hard at her, projecting his will onto the flashing words that form on the screen. The meaning is clear.

“Oh fine, I’ll get on with it,” She mutters, not at all convinced the author wouldn’t carry out his threat to feed her to some horrible abomination in his next story. She coughs, attempting to get back into character.

“JOIN THE VORTEX BOYS IN THEIR NEW BI-WEEKLY FORMAT AS THEY REVIEW WHAT MAY BE THE MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT IN DOCTOR WHO HISTORY:

THE MULTI-PART, MULTI-FORMAT TIME LORD VICTORIOUS!”

Words appear at the bottom of the screen, spelling out the upcoming schedule dates and topics:

Aug
8/31 TTV #465 – LOCKDOWN continued…

Sep
9/21 TTV #466 – Lost in Time: The Myth Makers (Recon and Novelization)

Oct
10/5 TTV #467 – TLV: A Dalek Awakens (Escape Room), Defender of the Daleks #1 (Comic), The Guide to the Dark Times (Annual 2021)

10/19 TTV #468 – TLV: Monstrous Beauty #1 (Comic), The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (Book)

and more to come!

“AS ALWAYS,” She concludes, looking rather exasperated by the whole ordeal, “THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, BUT WE’LL TRY AND LET YOU KNOW!” With that, she turns in a flutter of robes and strides from the dais, muttering something about “real authors like Andy Frankham-Allen”.

And in the ruined city below, a faint sound reaches back up to the top of the pyramid. She could not be certain, of course, but it sounds like applause.

A Pause in the Proceedings…

So you may have noticed a significant lack of new show this week. And with everything going on, you might be (understandably) concerned about us. Rest assured, we are fine, life just managed to throw a couple of curve balls our way (some expected, some not) and we thought we could field them, and wound up flubbing them a bit.

(Look at me with the Sports analogies!)

First, Baby Liam has arrived! Safe, sound and without a time head, so that’s good. Mamma Sarah is fine, and Keith is busy doting over the new arrival and keeping Jemma occupied.

Glenn has been sick with a lingering… thing. It’s not Covid19, thank goodness, but it’s a persistent bug. (Maybe the Nucleus of the Swarm got him? I’ll have to monitor and see if he begins muttering “Contact has been made.”) At any rate, he’s taking it easy and recuperating.

Leaving Shaun to run the asylum.
[lightning flashes]
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Anyway, we were planning to taking a break around the birth of the baby anyway, it just came a week earlier than we anticipated, and Glenn and I didn’t get out the special content we wanted too to tide you over. So sorry. 🙁

But, rest assured we are not done, not by a long shot.

Traveling the Vortex will return…

No Time To Schedule

Been a while since we let you know what was up, so here we are… letting you know what is up.

Our march through the new season of WHO continues over the next four weeks…

TTV #460 – Can You Hear Me?

TTV #461 – The Haunting of Villa Diodati

TTV #462 – (S12x09)

March

TTV #463 – (S12x10)

Then a return to the literary worlds of Doctor Who in TTV #464 with a Book Review: Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome: Rise of the Dominator by Robert Mammone

Hiatus – A break in the action here, as Keith and Sarah celebrate the arrival of Little Liam. Glenn and Shaun plan on recording something to fill the empty void in your lives, not sure yet what it will be!

We’ll return in April with more Big Finish as we delve into the War Doctor in TTV #465 with the Series 1 boxset: The Innocent, The Thousand Worlds, The Heart of the Battle

TTV #466 is Lethbridge-Stewart The Laughing Gnome: Lucy Wilson & The Bledoe Cadets by Tim Gambrell

And back to where we left off with the 8th Doctor in TTV #467 as we review Big Finish 8th Doctor Adventures #4.2 Situation Vacant, and #4.3 Nevermore

The 4th Doctor and Leela grace our ears with Big Finish 4th Doctor Adventures Series #3.3 The Crooked Man, and #3.4 The Evil One in TTV #468

and the first arc of Titan Comics Thirteenth Doctor Season 2 is the topic of TTV #469 (#1-4)

Plans are to draw the Laughing Gnome series to a close in May in TTV #470 with On His Majesty’s National Service by John Peel.

Beyond that? Only time will tell!

Scheduling The Return of Podcast Mysterio

Well, we’re done with our hiatus. We’re back, we’re tan, and we’re raring to go. Without further ado, here’s a look at what’s coming up in the vortex…

Our soon-to-be-released episode #441 will conclude our look at Big Finish “The Legacy of Time” with episodes 4.1 “Relative Time”, 5.1 “The Avenues of Possibility”, and 6.1 “Collision Course”. 

Returning to a fun theme from the 50th anniversary, we go BEYOND THE DOCTOR, but with a twist as we are coming up on spooky time. So we’re focusing on all horror/thriller and suspense films starring your favorite actors.

TTV #442 features the fourth Doctor Tom Baker in the tales from the crypt Esq. “The Vault of Horror” (free on Shudder) and Christopher Eccleston in the zombie flick “28 Days Later”.

 

TTV #443 checks out the War Doctor John Hurt in “The Ghoul” (free on Amazon Prime), and current Doctor Jodie Whitaker in “Attack The Block”.

October opens with Jon Pertwee in “The House That Dripped Blood” and Peter Capaldi in “Lair of the White Worm” (both streaming free on Amazon Prime) feature in our Beyond the Doctor 3 for TTV #444.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TTV #445 brings us a triple threat, with Doctors 5, 6, and 7 (Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy all staring in “The AirZone Solution” (streaming free on Amazon Prime) and David Tennant in “Fright Night”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TTV #446 showcases Patrick Troughton in the classic “The Omen”, and Matt Smith in “Patient Zero”.

Beyond The Doctor concludes with our Halloween special (TTV #447) and a twist, with the first Doctor Richard Hurndall in “I, Monster” (Free on Daily Motion), and Paul McGann in “Afraid of the Dark”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(We are trying to locate Midnight at Madame Tussaud’s (also known as Midnight at the Wax Museum in the states) for William Hartnell, but as of yet cannot find a copy.

Moving into November, we get a book review of “The Pirate Planet” by Douglas Adams and James Goss for TTV #448.

More Torchwood in TTV #449 with Titan Comics Torchwood Vol. 3, and Big Finish Torchwood “Forgotten Lives”.

and speaking of Big Finish, we continue our celebration of their 20th anniversary by starting Gallifrey with series 1 “Weapon of Choice” and “Square One” in TTV #450

Gallifrey continues in TTV #451, with “The Inquiry” and “A Blind Eye”.

And that takes us all the way into December with our look back at The Macra Terror, (Now with Animation!) for TTV #452.

As always, the schedule is subject to change, but we’ll keep you in the loop if it does.

 

 

Schedule for the Endgame of Thrones

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.

Life Finds A Way…To Interfere

Life has gotten in the way of the podcast this week. Between some travel, work and other commitments this week’s podcast will be delayed until next week.

Please tune in then for our thoughts on Short Trip 9.01 “The Revisionists” written by friend of the podcast Andy Frankham-Allen.

Sorry to keep you waiting!

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

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…

TARDIS Sauce – A DOCTOR WHO Discussion

Be sure to check out a new project we are involved in with the good folks over at SciFi4Me TV. TARDIS Sauce is a half-hour discussion and review program airing every other Thursday on SciFi4Me TV featuring SciFi4Me anchor Timothy Harvey and Traveling the Vortex podcast co-hosts Glenn Bartlett, Shaun Collins, and Keith Miles.

You can find the YouTube Channel here:

SciFi4Me

 

Here are links to the episodes released so far:

TARDIS Sauce – Episode 0 – Special Guest: Andrew Cartmel (Doctor Who 1987-1989)

TARDIS Sauce — A DOCTOR WHO Discussion — Episode 1

Happy New Schedule!

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!

The Schedule of Ranskoor Av Kolos

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!