A Doctor Who Podcast
If you didn’t get enough Cybermen last week for Friday Night Who you’re in luck!
They come back tonight with a vengeance in their second (and recently released & animated) story “The Moonbase”!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexKeith @VortexShaun, & @VortexGlenn as they tweet along to this Patrick Troughton epic at Midnight CST!
And keep an eye out for the hashtag #TheMoonbase & #FridayNightWho
Since we just got a multi-Doctor anniversary episode with “Day of the Doctor” and will be discussing the Big Finish anniversary “The Light At the End” we figured it would be appropriate to continue the trend with “The Five Doctors” for Friday Night Who!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexKeith, @VortexGlenn & @VortexShaun as they tweet along to the Special Edition (The 1999 DVD release and Disc 2 in the 2008 25th Anniversary release) at Midnight CST!
Keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheFiveDoctors!
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“A man is the sum of his memories. A Time Lord even more so.”
Our 11 weeks for 11 Doctor countdown brings us to everyone’s favorite cosmic hobo, the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton’s era!
Join @TravelVortex, @VortexKeith, @VortexGlenn & @VortexShaun as they tweet along to The Dominators starting at Midnight CST!
Keep an eye out for the hashtags #FridayNightWho & #TheDominators
The BBC announced today that 2 “Missing” Doctor Who adventures have been found!
That’s right after much speculation of episodes being found it was announced that 9 episodes of Patrick Troughton’s Era have been recovered:
Film recordings of eleven episodes of Doctor Who – nine of which were considered ‘lost’ – have been discovered in Nigeria.
All six episodes of The Enemy of the World and five of The Web of Fear were found by Phillip Morris, director of Television International Enterprises Archive, in a television relay station in Jos, central Nigeria.
Morris tracked records of shipments made by the BBC to Africa, that contained tapes for transmission. BBC Worldwide is currently re-mastering these episodes to restore them to the fantastic quality that audiences expect from Doctor Who.
You can now purchase them on iTunes right now.
They will also be released on DVD, but no word on a US release date for either.
Below are two trailers for the stories and for MUCH more information visit www.doctorwho.tv
Join us in celebrating Patrick Troughton’s birthday! Fitting that this is the month we celebrate all things second doctor, and today marks what would have been his 88th birthday.
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…
For this week’s celebration of second Doctor Patrick Troughton, our Friday Night Who will be the 5 part story, “The Mind Robber”.
It’s available on Netflix, so if you don’t own it and still want to join in the fun, follow @vortexglenn, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @travelvortex for the live tweet-a-long, look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheMindRobber hashtags, and push play at midnight, CDT.
We’ve tweaked the upcoming schedule a bit to line up better with our 50th Anniversary plans, so for those of you following along at home, here’s an update for the next month or so…
The first week of March (3/1) we’ll finish “The Reign Of Terror” (parts 4-6) on Friday Night Who.
Traveling The Vortex #114 is our First Doctor retrospective. We’ll discuss “The Reign Of Terror”, give our thoughts on the values of these and other animated episodes, as well as cover the first Doctor era (that we’ve reviewed to date).
Friday Night Who on 3/8 is “The King’s Demons” with fifth Doctor Peter Davison.
TTV #115 covers our reviews of “The King’s Demons” and Big Finish #26 “Primeval”.
Come celebrate my birthday on 3/15 with Tom Baker in “The Ark In Space”.
Traveling The Vortex #116 will have our reviews of “The Ark In Space” and our first foray into the Big Finish 4th Doctor Adventures; #1 “Destination: Nerva”.
On 3/22 our Friday Night Who will be the 2nd Doctor Patrick Troughton in “The Mind Robber”.
And episode #117 will be our Second Doctor retrospective, and have our reviews of the “The Mind Robber” as well as IDW’s comic “Prisoners Of Time” issue 2, and Big Finish’s Shadow of Death (Destiny Of The Doctor 2).
That rams us right up against the new series starting.
(SPOILERS AHEAD) I’m still fleshing things out from that point on, but if the scuttlebutt is to be believed, the first episode of the return of series seven deals with ghosts. I’d love to pair up the seventh Doctor adventure “Ghost Light” with that one, but we’ll wait and see if things get a bit more nailed down in the coming weeks.
Tonight we will be watching the JUST RELEASED in North America on DVD “The Krotons”, starting second Doctor Patrick Troughton. Please join us on twitter for the conversation, you can find us at @vortexglenn, @VortexKeith, @vortexshaun and @travelvortex. Look for the hashtags #TheKrotons and #FridayNightWho. We push play at midnight, CDT!
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!
The wait is over, this week’s episode is finally released! Thank you for your patience.
On this week’s show we continue to look at renegade Time Lords as we focus our review on the final Second Doctor story – The War Games. We’ll talk about the departure of Patrick Troughton’s Doctor, as well as a goodbye to his two faithful companions, Zoe and Jamie.
Also, in feedback we get a little off track to answer some very insightful questions from one of our devout listeners.
And a look at the news… albeit a very slow week in the Doctor Who universe.
Enjoy!
Links mentioned in this week’s show:
James Hance: Relentlessly Cheerful Art
Adventures with the Wife in Space
John Travolta – Time Traveler?
Nicolas Cage – Vampire?
Surely there’s a FACE/OFF joke to be made here somewhere?
And now, Matt Smith playing with his hair…
And Matt Smith playing with the Beatles?
Steven Moffat’s reaction on Twitter:
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For this week’s Friday Night Who we’re finishing Patrick Troughton’s swan song The War Games as we continue our look at Rogues and Renegades. We hit play on episode 6 starting at Midnight CDT!
Follow @travelvortex, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @vortexglenn for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheWarGames hashtags.
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.
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…
For this Friday the 13th edition of Friday Night Who we’re watching the first half of Patrick Troughton’s swan song The War Games as we continue our look at Rogues and Renegades. Follow @travelvortex, @vortexshaun, @VortexKeith and @vortexglenn for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #TheWarGames hashtags starting at Midnight CDT!