Doctor Who: The Krynoid Podcast

Jim and Martin spring a festive surprise with some new Krynoid PodCast material! They scan the snowless Snowdonian slopes for monstrous myths and find the Doctor giving an old friend a bell, Victoria repeating herself and Jamie threatening everyone with a bagpipe recital. But did The Abominable Snowmen thaw their cockles or give them the cold shoulder. Listen to find out!  00:00 Intro and context 07:38 A walkthrough of the story 1:15:15 A review of the story 2:08:18 A discussion of the animation 2:13:46 Summing up and scores This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful 2023!

The Sixth Doctor gets a second chance with this tale of hard men, frigid women and a Fat Controller. And marvel as Jim shamelessly steals Fry and Laurie material in the intro.

Time for the story which gave our pod its name. A horticultural tale in which an artistic old bat recovers a debt, a tree-hugger becomes compost and Boycie ends up out of his depth with a gardening problem.

Burn your chess boards and steer clear of the beach... Fenric's in town! Look out for teenage vamps, ancient vampires and the strangest chat-up of all time. And give Nicholas Parsons just a minute of your time before crying "stunt casting!"

Doctor Who is required to suffer a swinging night club, a controlled companion and a Savile comparison, all while trying to defeat a computerised menace with a vendetta against cardboard boxes.

An absolute banger involving our newly dandified hero stealing a banger. Plastic killers, a shiny receptionist and a tea-dribbling basket case thrown in.

Watch out for obelisks, chessboards and mind probes - it's The Five Doctors!

Harry fiddles with a knob, Sarah passes out and the Doctor gets in a sweat on The Ark in Space.

Adric trips over nothing and Richard Mace runs off for a squirter. Don't miss the lads' take on The Visitation.

The lads get their minds fudged by The Mind Robber.

We're back with some more archive "classics" this month, starting with a video nasty which is a searing indictment of video nasties, Vengeance on Varos.

Jim and Martin delve into the patchy Seventh Doctor era and pull out a plum.

Time to enter the creaky world of black and white Who with a sojourn on the mysterious, blurred planet of Vortis!

Our first dip into the Third Doctor's era sees Jim and Martin discussing The Claws of Axos.

Our second episode, in which Jim and Martin get on to the meat and potatoes of the podcast, discussing the Tom Baker solo outing, The Deadly Assassin.

This is the first of our earliest 30 Krynoid PodCast episodes which we're uploading to Libsyn so that all of our episodes are accessible from the same place. Herein, a very tentative sounding Jim and Martin discuss their history with Doctor Who and compare NuWho to Classic Who. Apologies for the sound quality. It does get better in future episodes. And apologies for Jim's over use of samples. They start and stop here.  

Jim and Martin are returning to podcasting... with a surprising plot twist. Listen here or on Spotify.

An announcement on the future of the Krynoid PodCast.

So it’s time to go home for Andy Pandy fangirl, Sarah Jane Smith. And there’s a hand pulling the strings in this show too, giving tupperware a bad name and Professor Watson a bad day at the power plant. Handily, crystalline cosmic crook Eldrad can reform herself from her moribund mitt and then she herself suffers from a wandering hand from her leading man. For a change, we leave a quarry to land on an alien planet where ‘she’ becomes a ‘he’, the decibel level rockets and he – and the serial – fall off a cliff. But is it OK to fancy Eldrad? How many (if any) puerile ‘ring’ jokes should be allowed in one podcast episode? And do Jim and Martin think The Hand of Fear deserves a thumbs up? Or do they give it the finger? Listen and you might get an answer to some or none of the above. The lads also review the brand new audiobooks of Dalek and The Crimson Horror! Also available on Spotify.

Welcome to The Fun Factory: trespassers will be self-prosecuted. The Valeyard (aka The Flaw Doctor) makes the most of a unique Time Lord feature and gives his own SJW predecessor a right legal leathering on Space Station SFX. But they still find time for trips to Camber Quicksands and Popplewick’s House of Exploding Quills, where the waiting room is spacious but gives you that sinking feeling. The Doctor quotes, the Master gloats and Glitz dotes on bank notes, while the Keeper is not averse to the odd slide tackle to protect his Panatropic Net (even though Mel always aims for row Z). But did Jim and Martin find The Ultimate Foe ultimately forgettable or a worthy way to end an era? Listen to find out. The lads also review the audiobooks of The Krotons and The Curse of Fenric. Also available on Spotify.