Happy Birthday Jon Pertwee!
Ah, third Doctor… despite the number of times you came back to grace our screens, it never seemed to be enough. Please join us in celebrating what would have been Jon Pertwee’s 93rd birthday.
Tag Archive: Jon Pertwee
Scheduling Shada (and other things)
As we enter into July, a few updates on the vortex schedule for those who like to follow along at home…
Friday Night Who on 7/6 will be eleventh Doctor Matt Smith fighting the weeping angels in the two part “The Time Of Angels” & “Flesh And Stone”.
Since we’ve already reviewed those stories, Traveling The Vortex #80 will cover all things Shada: Shada The Book, Shada The VHS Reconstruction, Shada The Animated Story, Shada The Flash Animation, Shada The Big Finish, Shada The Flame Thrower! (The kids love this one)…
Two new DVDs release on the tenth of July. We’ll cover both of them: On 7/13 Friday Night Who covers second Doctor Patrick Troughton in “The Krotons”. Our show that week (#81) sees our reviews of “The Krotons” and Big Finish #4, “Land Of The Dead”.
And then the following week we’ll cover the second release for July. FNW on 7/20 is “Death To The Daleks” with third Doctor Jon Pertwee and Sarah Jane.
Episode #82 becomes another Dalek archive, with reviews of “Death To The Daleks” and two Big Finish audio adventures, #11 “The Apocalypse Element” and #15 “The Mutant Phase”.
We round out july with a return of some fourth Doctor to our plates, as Friday Night Who on 7/27 is “The Horns Of Nimon” with Tom Baker and Romana II.
TTV #83 is a Nimon archive, with our reviews of “The Horns Of Nimon” and Big Finish #30, “Seasons Of Fear” featuring eighth Doctor Paul McGann.
And in August? more Big Finish audios, more Book Reviews, and in celebration of Keith and Sarah’s wedding, a K9 Companion Archive! As always, thanks for staying with us and we’ll see you in the vortex!
Friday Night Who 5/25
For this week’s Friday Night Who we continue in the 3rd Doctor’s era with Planet of the Daleks!
Tonight we finish the “Dalek War” box set for our upcoming Dalek Archive.
Join us at Midnight CDT and look for the hasttags #FridayNightWho #& #PlanetoftheDaleks
Friday Night Who 5/18
For this week’s Friday Night Who we return to the 3rd Doctor’s era for Frontier in Space! It could be part of an upcoming archive….**SPOILERS**
Join us at Midnight CDT and look for the hasttags #FridayNightWho #& #FrontierInSpace
Rogues And Renegades Continues
Greetings from the protectors and defenders of the vortex, with another homework update for those of you following along at home…
Friday Night Who this week on 5/4 is “The Mark Of The Rani” featuring the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, and Peri.
Show number 71 is a comprehensive review of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 2.
5/11 sees Sylvester McCoy’s seventh Doctor return to Friday Night Who in his first story, “Time And The Rani”.
Our show that week (#72) is an Adversary Archive on The Rani, as we cover “The Mark Of The Rani”, “Time And The Rani”, and… sigh… I suppose we’ll feel obligated to mention that “Dimensions In Time” thing… again.
FNW on 5/18 jumps back to the third Doctor Jon Pertwee with “Frontier In Space”, the first story from the “Dalek War” box as it’s billed in North America.
And finally, our true discussion of all these Rogue Time Lords gets underway with Traveling The Vortex #73 as we discuss the life and times of The Meddling Monk, The War Chief, Omega, The Rani, The Master, and the Doctor himself in our adversary archive on Rogues and Renegades.
The last Friday Night Who of May, (5/25) concludes the Dalek War box with Jon Pertwee in “Planet Of The Daleks”.
And of course, what would episode 74 be without a horde of homicidal robots running amok? Our fourth Adversary Archive on the Daleks will cover “Frontier In Space”, “Planet Of The Daleks”, and Big Finish #7 “The Genocide Machine”
And beyond May? Well, if all goes well expect a discussion on all things Shada, the return of Tom Baker to the schedule, our first Doctor Who book reviews, and more…
New Classic Releases Slated for July
TVShowsonDVD.com has announced that the Second Doctor story “The Krotons” and Third Doctor story “Death to the Daleks” will hit shelves in North America July 10th.
Both are expected to be 1 disc releases and priced at $24.98 SRP each.
For details on bonus features check out their write up here.
Homework From The Vortex…
Okay, as mentioned in this week’s show, here’s the update on your homework assignments if you’d like to follow along…
On 4/20 we’ll finish up the remaining 5 parts (6-10) of “The War Games” with second Doctor Patrick Troughton on Friday Night Who. We push play at midnight if you’d like to join us…
We’ll spend episode #69 covering the epic “The War Games”.
Friday Night Who on 4/27 will see us jump forward to Peter Davison’s fifth Doctor era for “Arc Of Infinity”.
And show number #70 will cover “Arc Of Infinity” and Big Finish #47 “Omega”.
On 5/4 our Friday Night Who will feature sixth Doctor, Colin Baker in “The Mark Of The Rani”
Here’s a milestone to set your clocks for, TTV #71 will be our reviews of series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. This means you have 3 weeks to watch them!
FNW on 5/11 features seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy in “Time And The Rani”
Episode #72 will be an Adversary Archive on The Rani, including our reviews of “Mark Of The Rani” and “Time And The Rani”
On 5/18 we’ll start the Dalek War box set on Friday Night Who with “Frontier In Space” staring third Doctor Jon Pertwee.
And Traveling The Vortex episode #73 brings all of the previous week’s villains back for an encore discussion of Rogues And Renegades in our Adversary Archive.
FNW 5/25 will be the second part of the Dalek War box, “Planet Of The Daleks” also featuring Jon Pertwee
Daleks on Friday Night Who? That can mean only one thing! Episode #74, Adversary Archive: The Daleks IV! Covering “Frontier In Space”, “Planet Of The Daleks”, and Big Finish #7 “The Genocide Machine (Dalek Empire 1)”
and on the horizon? All things Shada…
Friday Night Who 3/30
Tonight’s Friday Night Who is the John Pertwee story, The Sea Devils. Join us as Shaun finally watches this story, and Keith finishes it. Follow @travelvortex, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @vortexglenn for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheSeaDevils hashtags starting at Midnight CDT!
Rascals, Rogues and Renegades: Vortex Homework
Good morning! (Or Good afternoon or Good evening depending on your particular time zone) here’s an update on some of the fun things we have planned coming up on the really big show.
(Thanks, Mr. Sullivan!)
Friday Night Who this week is the just released in North America “The Robots Of Death – Special Edition” staring Tom Baker.
Show #65 is a big one. We’ll discuss new companion Jenna-Louise Coleman, our experiences at KC Planet Comicon, and hopefully have some live reports from The Official Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff from roving Traveling The Vortex reporter Philip Malkin.
For the One Year Anniversary of Friday Night Who on 3/30 we return to Jon Pertwee’s era with “The Sea Devils” (which means Shaun will finally get a chance to see it.)
Our planned companion archive for Leela gets bumped to the following show, #66 as we’ll review “The Face Of Evil” and “The Robots Of Death”
Then in APRIL we see the start of the Renegades, as our 4/6 Friday Night Who is “The Time Meddler” with William Hartnell.
Traveling The Vortex #67 will review “The Time Meddler” AND Big Finish #1 “Sirens Of Time”.
4/13 for Friday Night Who will be the first part of “The War Games” with Patrick Troughton. We’re only doing Parts 1-5 this week!
More Big Finish on the way for episode #68, a companion archive for Evelyn Smythe. Big Finish #6 “The Marion Conspiracy”, #9 “The Spectre Of Lanyon Moor”, and #22 “Bloodtide”.
On 4/20 we’ll finish up the remaining 5 parts of “The War Games” on Friday Night Who.
We’ll spend episode #69 covering the epic “The War Games”
Friday Night Who on 4/27 will see us jump forward to the Peter Davison era for “Arc Of Infinity”.
And show number #70 will cover “Arc Of Infinity” and Big Finish #47 “Omega”
That’ll take us all the way to May, so you’ve got your assignments outlined!
What’s that? You wanna know what’s up in May? Hmmm… More Renegades, Sarah Jane, and the return of everyone’s favorite pepper pots…
2012 Who DVD Releases
According to www.tvshowsondvd.com the BBC have announced two more titles to the line up for this year, “The Daemons” and “Carnival Of Monsters: Special Edition” both starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, and Katy Manning as Jo Grant. You can find more on the releases here.
These titles, likely to be released April 10th, join the already announced slate:
2/14/12
#007 “The Sensorites” – William Hartnell
#136 “The Caves Of Adrozani: Special Edition” – Peter Davison
#226 “The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe” – Matt Smith (DVD & BLU RAY)
3/13/12
#037 “Tomb Of The Cybermen: Special Edition” – Patrick Troughton
#064 “The Three Doctors: Special Edition” – Jon Pertwee
#089 “Face Of Evil” – Tom Baker
#090 “Robots Of Death: Special Edition” – Tom Baker
Friday Night Who 1/13/12
For tonight’s Friday The 13th edition of Friday Night Who, we watch the incredibly scary story, “The Monster Of Peladon” starring third Doctor Jon Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladden as Sarah Jane Smith.
It has to be scary, right? I mean… there’s a monster in it!
Scary or no, be sure to follow @vortexglenn, @VortexKeith, @vortexshaun and @travelvortex for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #DoctorWho #TheMonsterOfPeladon #FridayNightWho hashtags!
Friday Night Who 1/6/12
The first Friday Night Who of the new year belongs to Jon Pertwee, as we watch the third Doctor story “The Curse Of Peladon”.
Join @vortexglenn, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @travelvortex and look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheCurseOfPeladon hashtags for the tweet-a-long, we push play at midnight, CST!
Happy New Vortex Schedule
Hope 2012 is starting off great for everyone, we’ve got (we hope) some fun things planned for this year, starting with our show tonight, (#53) in which we’ll cover the first three Paul McGann audio adventures from Big Finish, #16 Storm Warning, #17 The Sword Of Orion, and #18 The Stones Of Venice.
There’s been a change in the program line up for Friday Night Who on 1/6, instead of our previously listed “The Seeds Of Death” we’ll be jumping ahead to “The Curse Of Peladon” with 3rd Doctor Jon Pertwee
Traveling The Vortex episode #54 has our discussion of the animated story “Dreamland” and the first of the specials, “The Next Doctor”.
Friday Night Who for 1/13 follows with the Pertwee adventure, “The Monster Of Peladon”
We continue working through the specials with TTV #55, covering “Planet Of The Dead” and “The Waters Of Mars”
Then Friday Night Who on 1/20 will be the delayed Patrick Troughton episode “The Seeds Of Death”
Our 56th episode will be an Adversary Archive featuring the fearsome Ice Warriors, as we go back and recap the last three weeks with “Curse Of Peladon”, “Monster Of Peladon” and “Seeds Of Death”
To round out January, join us on 1/27 for Friday Night Who featuring the last David Tennant story, “The End Of Time Part 1 and 2”
And then we’ll spend a whole episode talking about that epic story, (and the fact that Keith will have now seen ALL of new Who).
As always, thank you for listening!
Doctor Who Variety Hour
Artwork By Andy Lambert
Here on Traveling the Vortex we tend to discuss the variety that Doctor Who brings on the show. From actor’s different takes on the Doctor to the tone of various stories.
With Doctor Who returning this Saturday the great folks over at io9 wrote up an interesting article about how there are almost as many different shows within Doctor Who as there are regenerations. They even include video examples.
io9.com: 10 Totally Different TV Shows that Doctor Who Has Been Over the Years
Episode 34 – Goo Goo G’Joob
Third Doctor: Jo, it’s all quite simple – I am he and he is me!
Jo Grant: And we are all together, goo goo g’joob?
In this week’s episode we review four multi-Doctor stories, starting with the classic Third Doctor story, The Three Doctors. We follow that up with the less then stellar, The Two Doctors, and then the absolutely superb mini-episode, Time Crash. And to round things out, we talk a little about the multi-Doctor extravaganza, Dimensions in Time.
Oh, and of course news and your feedback! Enjoy!
Links mentioned in this episode:
The Ten Doctors PART 1 – by Babelcolour
The Ten Doctors PART 2 – by Babelcolour
2MTL 66: Animating Classic Doctors
“Excusive” KC 48 hr Film Project
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