A Doctor Who Podcast
We celebrate the Eighth Doctor the only way we can with Friday Night Who, by watching the much love Doctor Who: The Movie!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexKeith & @VortexGlenn press play at Midnight CDT.
And as always keep an eye #FridayNightWho & #DoctorWhoTheMovie
We’re back on track for our 11 weeks for 11 Doctors as we watch the only outing for Paul McGann’s 8th Doctor, “the Movie”!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexGlenn, @VortexKeith & @VortexShaun for all the fun at Midnight CDT!
And as always don’t forget the hashtags #FridayNightWho and #DoctorWhoTheMovie
You heard it on our podcast, but now you can see the panel as well!
In this week’s episode we land at Kansas City’s Number One Comic Book and Pop Culture Convention, Planet ComiCon. No reviews this week, just us talking about the fun and adventurous weekend.
Also, joining us on this trip, is the lovely Daphne Ashbrook who plays Grace Halloway along side the Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie.
But first, our reactions to some of the news of the week, and of course your feedback.
Enjoy!
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 119 - Planet ComiCon 2013 [ 2:13:39 | 91.82 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Join us tonight for Friday Night Who at Midnight CDT!
We’re watching Doctor Who: The Movie in celebration of Daphne Ashbrook being at Planet Comicon, and our podcast/panel interview with her.
As always keep an eye out and use the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #DoctorWhoTheMovie and follow @TravelVortex for the countdown to pressing play!
Ah. That time of year when you can smell New Who on the air like the coming of Spring, and all my scheduling work goes out the window and has to be cobbled together last minute to take those new episodes into account. Oh well.
Tonight’s Friday Night Who (3/22) is part of our monthly celebration of the second Doctor, “The Mind Robber”.
Episode #117 of Traveling The Vortex is all things second Doctor, and will include our reviews of “The Mind Robber”, IDW’s comic “Prisoners Of Time 2”, Big Finish: Destiny Of The Doctor 2: Shadows Of Death, our look back over the 2nd Doctor Era for our 50th Anniversary Discussion, and, if Keith gets it read in time, his review of the book “The Moonbase”
Friday Night Who on 3/29 gears us up for the new season by revisiting Matt Smith in “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day Of The Moon”…
…which leaves TTV #118 reserved to devote our full attention to “The Bells Of St. John”.
On 4/5 FNW revisits “Doctor Who: The Movie” in celebration of Daphne Ashbrook coming to Planet Comicon that weekend.
Look for updates all weekend long, (and maybe a few special exclusives too,) but we’ll give you the full scoop on Planet Comicon 2013 in episode #119, as well as start the month of April with our celebration of Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor by reviewing IDW Comic’s “Prisoners Of Time 3”.
FNW 4/12 is “The Waters Of Mars” with tenth Doctor David Tennant.
Because of the hugeness of Planet Comicon, you may have noticed we didn’t review the new episode of Who last week. Well fret not, because you’ll get a two-fer in Traveling The Vortex #120, covering both “The Rings Of Akhaten”, and “The Cold War”.
and the plot thickens…
As a special treat for our Kansas City area listeners, the Kansas City Time Lord Society, and Kansas City Planet Comicon, we got a special shout out message from Amazing Grace herself, Daphne Ashbrook.
Wishing joyous birthday celebrations to eighth Doctor companion and upcoming Gally guest, Dr. “Amazing” Grace Holloway, Daphne Ashbrook.
Okay, one more tonight. Couldn’t leave the listeners hanging. Mel and Shaun check in one more time tonight with an update from Gallifrey One’s Network 23 in California.
I’m sure tonight they will be exhausted, sleeping deeply, and dreaming of the fond memories they have had at this year’s convention. But, we will have more from them when they return on Monday to Kansas.
But here you are, another fine update.
Enjoy!
traveling the Vortex - Gally Update 9 - Drezzing For The Occasion [ 15:12 | 13.91 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Please join Traveling The Vortex in wishing Daphne Ashbrook, who played eighth Doctor companion Dr. “Amazing” Grace Holloway, a very happy 49th birthday!
Welcome to “Loose Threads”, where like the 4th Doctor’s scarf, I hope to combine bits of factoidal information to present a fun if chaotic picture of the Whoniverse at any given moment.
50th Anniversary Plans, Big Finish Comes To Gally and The Waters Of Mars
* TV line talks with Stephen Moffat about the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who in 2013, and he promises emphatically, “it will be huge”. Moffat wouldn’t be pinned down on weather the anniversary extravaganza would involve stand alone specials, an extra memorable season or other fun stuff. “It won’t be just one thing…. We’ll be doing lots of stuff,” is all Moffat would concede. “The plans are quite extensive and changing all the time. Oh my God, we will hit that year very, very hard indeed.” The BBC execs “are full committed” to his vision. “There’s lot of decisions we’re making that are about making all that possible. It’ll be amazing.”
With all the talk of a multi Doctor story featuring some or all of the combinations—Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccelston and David Tennant—reuniting, is it true? And might other familiar faces from the past return as well? “Possibly…. It’s so far in the future, it’s only a set of notions,” Moffat replies, adding that he’s still got this year’s Christmas special to focus on before he gets to locking in plans for the big 50.
* GallifreyOne just updated their guest list for next year. The list now includes a quartet of Big Finish folk: Nicholas Briggs, executive producer for Big Finish Productions as well as the voice of the Daleks for the past six years; Barnaby Edwards the principal Dalek operator, director, actor, and writer for Big Finish; Beth Chalmers, new 7th Doctor companion Raine Creevey; and Lisa Greenwood, 6th Doctor companion Philippa “Flip” Jackson. Also on the guest list are new series directors Toby Haynes and Richard Senior, between the two of them responsible for some of the more impresive Matt Smith episodes, including; “The Impossible Astronaut”, “Day Of The Moon”, “The Pandorica Opens”, “The Big Bang”, “Time”, “Space” and the upcoming “Let’s Kill Hitler”.
And working on a full house for the 1996 TV Movie reunion (Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso are already signed to appear), Philip Segal, executive producer of the TV Movie and the man who championed to get Doctor Who back on the air. It is the 15th anniversary of the Movie, is it possible that The Master himself, Eric Roberts could be making an appearance? Stay tuned…
* And finally in a bit of science reality, NASA has announced the Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered evidence of flowing water on Mars. Water on Mars is no news and has been reported on before of course, but flowing water on the surface is a big deal. Just ask the Doctor, he could tell you. For the full report, click here. <>