A Doctor Who Podcast
We’re back to the Last Great Time War for this episode, with a review of Gallifrey: Time War 4 from Big Finish.
Plus, more Big Finish News with the announcement of a new Eighth Doctor adventure.
And, in our ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’, Glenn reviews Doctor on Display (Blackpool 1974-1985) from Reeltime Pictures.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 550 - They Looked Down [ 1:08:17 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this week’s show, we review the recently released Big Finish audio Doctor Who: Once and Future: Past Lives. This is part of the studio’s offering for the 60th anniversary year.
Plus, Shaun brings us this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ with a look at The Amazing World of Doctor Who audiobook from BBC Physical Audio.
And, we discuss the recently announced episode titles for the upcoming anniversary specials.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 549 - Or, is it 548, or Maybe 547? [ 42:19 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We’re back to our adventures in the Time War, with the Big Finish audio, Gallifrey: Time War 3. We rejoin the recently exiled Romana and Narvin as they search the vortex for Leela.
Plus, we discuss the BBC Ident 60th Anniversary teaser.
And, Glenn has a ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ of Paradise Towers: Paradise Found, a sequel to the classic Sylvester McCoy, Seventh Doctor story from Cutaway Comics.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 547 - Bring It On! [ 1:02:15 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this episode, we really delve into Season 6B, the narrative space between the end of The War Games and the beginning of Spearhead from Space. We kick things off with the recently released Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games from Big Finish which features the stories The Final Beginning by Mark Wright and Nicholas Briggs and Wrath of the Ice Warriors by Andrew Smith.
Then we review the short story, Save Yourself written by Terrance Dicks which is found in ‘The Target Storybook’.
And Glenn gives a ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ of Rani Takes on the World: Beyond Bannerman Road which was just released by Big Finish.
Plus we discuss some recent news including composer Murray Gold returning to Doctor Who and Titan’s Doom’s Day 2 issue comic story featuring the return of Missy.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 546 - Great Dane One [ 1:02:44 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this week’s show, we are back to Act Three of the Last Great Time War. Again joining the War Doctor for his darkest adventure yet, with the Big Finish audio drama, The War Doctor Begins: He Who Fights With Monsters.
Plus, we talk about some 60th-anniversary tie-in announcements including a graphic novel and some books coming later this year.
And an update from Doctor Who: Wolds Apart, the online TCG.
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Links mentioned:
gerardgroves.com
Doctor Who – The Complete Adventures
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 545 - We Librarians are a Tough Breed [ 1:06:19 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This week we take another turn celebrating 60 years of Doctor Who, with something that tangentially connects to the upcoming specials. We are reviewing ‘The Iron Legion’ comic strips featured in Doctor Who Weekly issues 1 through 8, written by Pat Mills, and John Wagner, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Then we turn to the Big Finish audio, The Comic Strip Adaptations – “Doctor Who and the Iron Legion”, adapted from the comics by Alan Barnes. Wondering what the connection to the 60th Anniversary is? Listen to the end to find out,
Plus Keith talks about the newly released hidden object mystery game, Doctor Who: An Unlikely Heist. It’s this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 544 - Good Name for a Salad [ 43:33 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We’re back in the Time War this week, continuing with act three of the saga. This time with a review of Big Finish’s The War Doctor Begins 3 – Battlegrounds. Hear what we thought about this three-part story.
Plus, Glenn reviews the Doctor Who: William Hartnell – Complete Season Two Blu-Ray set. in this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’.
And we talk about some recent casting news.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 543 - Designing Corridors [ 53:30 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This week we return to the Time War. We continue Act Three with the second installment in The War Doctor Begins series with Volume 2, The Warbringer.
Plus, in this week’s ‘Something New, 2 Minute Review’ Glenn reviews the rest of the fourth volume of The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, All of Time and Space.
We also talk Oscars.
And we discuss the recent announcement for the next multimedia crossover event, Doom’s Day.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 541 - On to Plan G [ 1:03:29 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this week’s episode, we take an unexpected detour back to Act Two of the Time War to pick up the recently released Doctor Who – The Time War 5: Cass from Big Finish. We decided to switch to this review instead of moving on to The War Doctor Begins series to keep some continuity in our Time War reviews. Please forgive us if you were expecting the latter.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 537 - One Big Continuity Error [ 55:32 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Our travels through the history of the Time War continue, and we make a spot on landing at the Big Finish audio drama, Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters 2. Of course, only one of the four stories actually takes place during the Time War, but we wanted to go ahead and review the entire box set anyway, Hear what we thought of these stories.
Plus, we discuss some more new series casting news.
Enjoy!
Links mentioned in the show:
The Diary of River Song 1.4 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 437
Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1.3 – Reviewed in TTV Episode 453
The Legacy of Time – Reviewed in TTV Episode 440
Night of the Doctor – Reviewed in TTV Episode 151
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 535 - Spot on Landing [ 1:16:14 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We continue with Act 2 of the Time War and this time land at Bliss’ home colony for Big Finish’s Eighth Doctor – Time War Volume 2,
We discuss our likes and dislikes about this box set.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 530 - Renegade Name Changer [ 58:35 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
As the title of this episode hints, we continue our journey through the Time War with the Doctor and his companions, both real and fake. This time we tackle the Big Finish Eighth Doctor box set, Time War 1.
Plus we catch up on some other pop media we took in this week.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 529 - Trying to Avoid the Time War [ 56:50 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
After a brief break, we resume our journey through the Time War as we enter Act Two of the story. This time another Timelord enters the foray. We join the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan with two stories. First, it’s Big Finish Short Trips 7.10 – “All Hands on Deck”, featuring Susan and the Eighth Doctor. Then we move on to the box set, Big Finish’s “Susan’s War”.
Hear what we thought of these stories, plus a quick recap of what we’ve been up to while we were gone.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 528 - Hope You Brought Biscuits [ 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Our travels through the Time War bring us back to the first of the War Master box sets finishing off stories 2 through 4 of The War Master – Only the Good starring Derek Jacobi. Hear what we thought of what is understood to be The Master’s last adventures before we pick up again with him in Utopia,
Plus we discuss the death of David Warner.
And talk of Doctor Who possibly coming to Disney+ streaming service.
Enjoy!
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 526 - The Most Wonderful Man in the Universe [ 1:14:41 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
In this episode, we review The War Master, Volume 7 – Self-Defence. Hear what we think of this story starring Sir Derek Jacobi, with a special appearance by David Tennant as The Doctor.
We continue our year-long journey through the Time War.
Plus, we discuss the recent MCU film, Thor: Love & Thunder.
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Traveling the Vortex - Episode 525 - Grab Your Cannons, We're Going Gardening [ 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download