A Doctor Who Podcast
Tonight’s Friday Night Who is the Tom Baker story, The Robots of Death. Follow @travelvortex, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @vortexglenn for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheRobotsofDeath hashtags starting at Midnight CDT!
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…
Recovering from Gallifrey One (and I do mean recovering. I think someone gave me the funk, but I’m hopeful it’s just sinuses.) and I thought maybe I should update all of you on the schedule, cause there’s a few big things on the horizon, and I know how some of you like to do your homework for our shows…
We’ll record episode #60 tonight, a full report of my experiences at Gally. Mel will join us in studio, and you can look for this on the feeds tomorrow.
This Friday, 2/24, we’ll complete the Black Guardian Trilogy on Friday Night Who with “Enlightenment”.
Traveling The Vortex episode #61 will be our complete recap of the Black Guardian Trilogy, as we talk about all three Peter Davison episodes, “Mawdryn Undead”, “Terminus” and “Enlightenment”.
Barring such a long winded Gally breakdown that we go two episodes (which I don’t see happening. lol) the following week 3/2 on Friday Night Who, we’ll watch Colin Baker in “Attack Of The Cybermen”
TTV #62 is a review of The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 1. This is only two weeks out, so you may want to start working your way through them now!
FNW on 3/9 is Sylvester McCoy’s Cyberman story, “Silver Nemesis”
News to keep Keith happy, TTV #63 will be our second Adversary Archive on the Cybermen, as we discuss “Attack Of The Cybermen” and “Silver Nemesis”.
Taking advantage of the new DVD releases this month, Friday Night Who on 3/16 is “The Face Of Evil” with Tom Baker. (This title releases earlier that week in North America, so we are right out of the gate here!)
Another homework heavy podcast here, as TTV #64 is our second Big Finish block with Paul McGann, covering the next three 8th Doctor stories – #19 Minuet In Hell, #28 Invaders From Mars, and #29 The Chimes Of Midnight
FNW on 3/23 is another new release for this month, “The Robots Of Death – Special Edition” again with Tom Baker.
Episode #65 is, believe it or not, only our second Companion Archive, this one on Leela, and covers the two new releases we’ll have just watched, “The Face Of Evil” and “The Robots Of Death”.
So that brings you up to speed. As always, the schedule is subject to change. And because I know some of you are dying to plan out even farther, let me give you a hint…
Renegades…
From tvshowsondvd.com
Early in October we revealed that – according to word at Amazon.ca, the Canadian branch of the mega e-tailer – the classic Who titles on the March slate would start with 3 “revisitation” titles: Doctor Who – Story #037: The Tomb Of The Cybermen: Special Edition (Patrick Troughton’s 2nd Doctor), Doctor Who – Story #065: The Three Doctors: Special Edition (Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor joining forces with the 1st and 2nd Doctors against Omega) and Doctor Who – Story #090: The Robots Of Death: Special Edition (Tom Baker’s 4th Doctor.
Today the BBC has confirmed that these will indeed be released on March 13th, exactly as we previously reported. But we’ve learned that they will be joined by a fourth title as well: the new-to-DVD release of Doctor Who – Story #089: The Face of Evil, starring Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor and introducing the character of companion “Leela”, played by Louise Jameson.
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