A Doctor Who Podcast
In this week’s show, we got around to finally seeing The Evil of the Daleks that was recently released in North America. We discuss the story that’s been lost in time and tell you what we thought of it and the animation that it is presented in.
Enjoy!
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 511 - The Dalek Factor [ 35:57 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This week we continue to explore films starring actors who have played the Doctor.
Halloween is almost upon us, so we’re reviewing movies that could be considered a horror, a thriller, or just spooky in story and tone.
In this episode we look at Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton and bonus Unbound Doctor David Warner in the 1976 Richard Donner directed film, The Omen. And then we follow that up with Eleventh Doctor actor Matt Smith in the zombie thriller, Patient Zero released last year.
And, of course, feedback.
Enjoy!
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 446 - Beyond the Doctor: Spooky Time 5 - Countdown to Armageddon [ 1:17:30 | 72.38 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this week’s show we examine two versions of a classic Dalek tale.
First, it’s the recently released animated version of the classic Second Doctor story, The Power of the Daleks featuring Patrick Troughton’s first appearance as the Doctor. He joins companions, Ben and Polly on this adventure.
Then, we look at the fan mounted The Power of the Daleks – Reimagined, which is a modernized take on the classic tale, presented to fans as part of a fundraising effort for charities back in 2013.
Also, we look at some news and rumors.
And, of course, your feedback.
Enjoy!
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 319 - We've Got the Power [ 1:12:08 | 99.3 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWe finish where we left off last week with the rest of “The Power of the Daleks” for Friday Night Who!
We will leave it up to you to decide if you watch in color or in black and white
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play on parts 4-6 at Midnight CST on Friday!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #ThePoweroftheDaleks
Finally! We get “The Power of the Daleks” onto Friday Night Who! (at least the first half)
We will leave it up to you to decide if you watch in color or in black and white
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play on parts 1-3 at Midnight CST on Friday!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #ThePoweroftheDaleks
We continue where we left off last with “The Web of Fear” for Friday Night Who this week!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play on parts 4-6 at Midnight CST!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheWebofFear
Our first Friday Night Who for December is the first half of “The Web Of Fear!”
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play on parts 1-3 at Midnight CST!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheWebofFear
While speculation has run rampant for weeks now, BBC Worldwide has just announced the official word on the project. All six parts of the Patrick Troughton story “The Power Of The Daleks” will be animated and released for the episode’s 50th Anniversary.
It’s a move that surprises no one after a clip surfaced (and was immediately removed by BBC) on line, but delights everyone. Power of the Daleks is reported to be one of the more iconic, and powerful stories in the show’s history. It’s Troughton’s first episode, and features the first regeneration, (here called renewal) by William Hartnell into Troughton. While that clip is technically the very end of the preceding story, The Tenth Planet, this episode deals with the ramifications. The story features the second Doctor, Polly and Ben fighting Daleks on the planet Vulcan. It aired only once, and unfortunately was junked as part of the BBCs then standard practice.
The animation is being produced by the same team that did a highly successful animation for a missing episode of Dad’s Army “A Stripe For Frazer”, which was first released on BBC Store in February this year. The producer and director is Charles Norton, with character designs from acclaimed comic book artists Martin Geraghty and Adrian Salmon.
Previous animations commissioned by the BBC were usually only two segments to complete a serial that was missing individual pieces, such as “The Reign Of Terror”, “The Tenth Planet”, “The Underwater Menace”, “The Moonrise”, “The Ice Warriors” and “The Invasion”.
“The Power Of The Daleks” will initially be exclusively released on BBC Store, with episode one available on the 50th anniversary of it’s original air date, Saturday, November 5th at 5:50pm. The others will be released on consecutive days thereafter. Readers can register their interest in the download at the BBC Store. The story will become available online more widely on the 14th of November, and will also be released on DVD in the United Kingdom on the 21st of November.
No other regions have been announced at present.
In addition to the story’s release, there will be a special screening of the first three episodes at the BFI in London, which will include a Q&A with Anneke Wills, Charles Norton and Frazer Hines. Further information will be available from the BFI website from Monday September 19th.
Paul Hembury, Executive Producer, BBC Worldwide says: “Charles and his team are remarkably talented and passionate about Doctor Who and we are thrilled that fans will soon be able to enjoy this rather sinister but wonderful, classic story.”
There is no other information on what this announcement means for other missing episodes.
Update:
In the U.S. BBC America announced “The Power of the Daleks” will air Sunday, Nov. 12th and will be available online to stream the next day.
Just 3 weeks ago we watched “The Underwater Menace” for Friday Night Who…this Friday we watch the next story…”The Moonbase!”
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play at Midnight CDT on Friday!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheMoonbase
We Americans have been waiting months for this week’s Friday Night Who. Now that “The Underwater Menace” has been released today that’s what we’re watching this week!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play at Midnight CDT on Friday!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheUnderwaterMenace
We pick up where we left off last week in the episode finale of the Second Doctor’s tenure in The War Games for Friday Night Who!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play on parts 6-10 at Midnight CST!
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Forget reindeer games….we’re taking part in War Game for Friday Night Who this week!
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Since this story is an epic 10 episodes, we are only doing parts 1-5 this week.
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheWarGames
Since we are in Wichita for Time Eddy this week where Deborah Watling & Frazer Hines will be guests, so appropriately Friday Night Who this week is Tomb of the Cybermen!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexGlenn & @VortexKeith as we press play at Midnight CDT!
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We finish where we left off last week on the Web of Fear!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexKeith & @VortexGlenn as we press play on parts 4-6 at Midnight CDT!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheWebofFear
A change of schedule for Friday Night Who this week…to go better with Lethbridge-Stewart: The Forgotten Son we’re watching The Web of Fear!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexShaun, @VortexKeith & @VortexGlenn as we press play on parts 1-3 at Midnight CDT!
And as always keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheWebofFear
