A Doctor Who Podcast
Join us tonight at midnight central standard time for the start of it all, William Hartnell in “An Unearthly Child”.
You’ve seen “The Wedding Of River Song” which is the last episode of WHO to date, now watch the first!
As always, join @travelvortex, @vortexkeith, @vortexglenn and @vortexshaun on Twitter for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #AnUnearthlyChild hashtags.
Over half way done with the epic Key To Time season, as four segments have been found, and four episodes down in Series Six. Only two of each left to go!
FNW 8/26 – The Ribos Operation (4 Baker)
TTV #35 – The Ribos Operation, Let’s Kill Hitler
FNW 9/2 – The Pirate Planet (4 Baker)
TTV #36 – The Pirate Planet, Night Terrors
FNW 9/9 – The Stones Of Blood (4 Baker)
TTV #37 – The Stones Of Blood, The Girl Who Waited
FNW 9/16 – The Androids Of Tara (4 Baker)
TTV #38 – The Androids Of Tara, The God Complex
Friday Night Who 9/23 – The Power Of Kroll
TTV #39 – The Power Of Kroll, Closing Time (S6x12)
FNW 9/30 – The Armageddon Factor
* TTV #40 – The Armageddon Factor, The Wedding Of River Song (S6x13)
* Note, this episode will be late getting to you, as Glenn is on Holiday (again) and we decided NOT to press ahead with recording without him.
Having watched the last episode of Doctor Who to date, we’ll jump back and do the first for our post Key To Time Friday Night Who…
FNW 10/7 – “An Unearthly Child” starring William Hartnell
TTV #41 – An Unearthly Child, Edge Of Destruction, Marco Polo
Then, the fun stuff. Friday Night Who presents three weeks of terror! Horror! Thrills! Gothic tales from behind the sofa!
FNW 10/14 – The Brain Of Morbius
TTV #42 – Season Five / Six Recap
FNW 10/21 –The Seeds Of Doom
TTV #43 – Torchwood Season 2
FNW 10/28 – The Horror Of Fang Rock
TTV #44 – Halloween Special – The Brain Of Morbius, The Seeds Of Doom, The Horror Of Fang Rock
And coming in November, the return of David Tennant!
* Spoilers below if you dont want to see episode titles from the new series!
Home work assignments for those of you following along, the next several weeks will find us deeply entrenched in Tom Baker and Matt Smith, as the continuation of Series Six starts this week with six new episodes, and our Friday Night Who’s will be the six segments of the Key To Time. The show’s review schedule shakes down like this:
On 8/26 Friday Night Who kicks off with the first story of The Key To Time with “The Ribos Operation”.
Traveling The Vortex #35 will see us reviewing “The Ribos Operation” and S6x08, “Let’s Kill Hitler”.
Friday Night Who 9/2 is “The Pirate Planet”
Episode #36 covers “The Pirate Planet” and “Night Terrors” (S6x09).
Then on 9/9, one of my favorite episodes, “The Stones Of Blood”.
TTV #37 will be our reviews of “The Stones Of Blood” and S6x10, “The Girl Who Waited”
The week of 9/16 Friday Night Who is “The Androids Of Tara”
And then we’ll review “The Androids Of Tara” and the Star Trek sounding “The God Complex” (S6x11) on episdode #38.
FNW 9/23 – is the penultimate (see Keith, I DO listen to you!) Key To Time story, “The Power Of Kroll”
Episode #39 of the podcast is “The Power Of Kroll” and “Closing Time” (S6x12)
And finally we wrap up the Key To Time saga on 9/30 Friday Night Who with “The Armageddon Factor”
Traveling The Vortex episode #40 (40?!? Seriously?!? WOW!) will be our reviews of “The Armageddon Factor” and the final episode of series six, “The Wedding Of River Song” (S6x13)
And then a special treat. It occures to us that our novice Keith will have watched the LAST episode of Doctor Who ever made (or at least the most current), we should go back and bookend it with the FIRST episode of Doctor Who ever made. So, for Friday Night Who on 10/7, we’ll be watching “An Unearthly Child” with William Hartnell.
Our review for that week (episode #41) will cover The Begningings DVD box set, with “An Unearthly Child” and “Edge Of Destruction” (although I imagine we’ll gloss over or ignore “The Daleks” since we’ve already reviewed that monster story!)
And speaking of Monsters, while I have a tenetive plan mapped out for where we go after this, does anybody want to do some Halloween themed Friday Night Whos at that time? Sound off!
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
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
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 34 - Goo Goo G'Joob [ 2:11:20 | 120.3 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHere it is, and back on time this week. Recorded from our new studio digs (or in other word’s Shaun and Keith’s place) is this week’s show. This time, we review The Five Doctors.
Not much news going on this week, well of course with the exception of Keith moving in with Shaun, and now I only have a 2 minute commute as opposed to a 20 minute commute to record on Sunday. Can you tell how happy I am that Keith moved?
Also, your feedback!
* The Retraction Of Rassilon: Wanting to stem the flow of corrections early, we got into a bit of a quagmire over the name of Patrick Troughton’s son in this episode. Turns out he has 2, David Troughton is an actor who, among other credits played King Peladon in “The Curse Of Peladon” and his younger brother Michael Troughton is currently at work on a biography of his late father due out in November.
Traveling the Vortex - Episode 33 - The Episode of Rassilon [ 1:32:57 | 85.16 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis is it. This is THE BIG ONE! #FridayNightWho tonight at midnight CDT features William Hartnell, Richard Hurndall, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker AND Peter Davison in #TheFiveDoctors. We’ll be watching the Special Edition version, so follow @vortexKeith, @vortexglenn @vortexshaun and @travelvortex for the Tweet-A-Long, and look for the hashtags!
This week (barring any unforeseen disasters with a rampaging Myrka or a jar of Marmite) marks the 25th episode of Traveling The Vortex, and I thought it appropriate to pause and take stock. Twenty-Five. That is kinda a big deal for 3 nobody’s from Kansas. If you had asked me then if we’d last twenty five episodes… well of course I would have said yes, but that’s just ego talking. Not being one to miss the opportunity to celebrate an anniversary, I thought I’d trot out a few other things that were turning 25 this year, since it’s such a fun number.
The year was 1986…
Manned spaceflight is struck a huge blow when a faulty “O”-ring causes the loss of the 7 astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Challenger just minutes after lift off. Less than a month later, the Soviets launch Space Station Mir. Explosions and fire would be the least of the worries for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ultimate killing over 4000 people and resettling at least 350,000 others. The IRS started something called “E-filing” for taxes, and the Ruton Voyager became the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or taking on fuel.
The first case of “Mad Cow Disease” is found in England, Antarctica scientists find a hole in something called the Ozone layer, Oliver North starts shredding documents that would link him to Iran-Contra, and the Pope meets Mother Teresa.
Eastman Kodak lost the Supreme Court appeal on a patent dispute with Polaroid over instant cameras, while Fujifilm releases the first disposable camera. Other noteworthy inventions that year included Apple’s Macintosh Plus, featuring a whopping 8 MHz processor, and 1MB of RAM and a 9” screen; IBM shipped the first laptop weighing a hefty 13 pounds; and the first prototype Pneumatic Water Gun was patented, though it wouldn’t be until 1993 that it earns the name Super Soaker.
In other computer news, Unisys became the world’s second largest computer company, Bill Gates became one of the world’s youngest billionaires when Microsoft went public, and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is developed, and enables emails to be access without downloading the messages to a local hard drive. The first PC virus spreads from a couple of Pakistani computer store operators, and an essay about early hacker culture “The Conscience of a Hacker” or the ‘Hacker’s Manifesto’ as it came to be known, is published. It would later be quoted in the 1995 movie Hackers.
Speaking of movies, “Top Gun” reigns supreme at the box office. Other notable films celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year include “Crocodile Dundee”, “Platoon” James Cameron’s “Aliens”, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”. The computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, is purchased by Steve Jobs for $10 million dollars and established as an independent company called Pixar. And Francis Ford Coppola directs the first “4D” movie which runs 17 minutes and cost $30 million dollars. “Captain EO” starred Michael Jackson and ran exclusively at Walt Disney World.
Other entertainment anniversaries include “Les Miserables” debut on Broadway, BOTH Wondercon and Dragoncon, conventions turn 25 this year, as well as a certain Italian plumber and heroic elf. Super Mario Bros. and The Legend Of Zelda debuted in 1986. Mike Tyson became the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history, Captain Midnight hijacked HBO’s satellite signal to send his own pirate message “$12.95/Month?…No Way!”, and the first ten musicians were inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Game, including James Brown, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
On the Who front, 1986 brought Colin Baker’s epic “Trail Of A Time Lord” season to TV, although the 25th anniversary episode of Doctor Who “Silver Nemesis” would star Sylvester McCoy, and wouldn’t be broadcast until 1988. And IN universe, The Doctor lands the TARDIS at the Snowcap Space Tracking station at the South Pole in 1986 in the episode “The Tenth Planet”, and returns Peri to Blackpool 1986 in the “lost story” audio adventure “The Nightmare Fair”.
Of course some people will cry foul, as this list represents actual anniversaries. “You’re only on episode 25!” Those people will declare, hardly an anniversary. Okay, let’s take a look at some WHO-centric 25 episodes. The 25th individual episode of Doctor Who was “Sentence Of Death” from the Keys Of Marinus story arc. The 25th Story arc was “The Gunfighters”, both starring William Hartnell. I think we’re in good company. And if you disagree… Phooey on you, this is our podcast and we’ll celebrate any old number we choose!
But it does feel good to hit 25. Thanks as always to our listeners for making it happen, glad you like the show.
Until the next fun number…
A double dose of Who this week. First a review of the classic First Doctor story, The Aztecs. Then the episode we have been waiting for months, The Impossible Astronaut.
Also, a look back on the life of Elisabeth Sladen, our Sarah Jane Smith.
And of course, your feedback.
Plus, please note, we are still in the process of moving our iTunes feed over to our new server. If you fail to get this week’s episode in iTunes, you can subscribe to the show by clicking the subscribe links on the right side of the page. Also, you can go to feeds.feedburner.com/travelvortex to update your subscription options. And you can download a copy of the show right here from this post.
Enjoy!
Links mentioned in the show;
Cyberman Bob by Mark Lee.
For tonight’s edition of FRIDAY NIGHT WHO, we take a stab at the William Hartnell classic, “The Aztecs”. Please join us on Twitter, following your hosts @glenn_bartlett, @vortexshaun and @travelingthevortex (once again, Keith is excused since this is homework for this week) for a live tweet-a-long with the episode. Look for the #FridayNightWho hashtag. See you at midnight, central standard time, (or about 6 AM if you’re across the pond!)
