Wanderers In The 4th Dimension: A Journey Through Doctor Who

This week we begin our coverage of the modern era of Doctor Who with Rose!  A new Doctor, a new companion, and a brand new show! QotW: According to the writings of William Shakespeare, "A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet." If you were to propose another name Rose, what would it be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News Discussion of "Rose" (David 7.75, Trevor 8, Charlie 8, Connor 8) Big Finish Audio Adventure: The Stones of Venice (David 7.5, Trevor 4, Charlie 6, Connor 6.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #158, The End of the World! Our audio adventure will be Minuet in Hell, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we conclude our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Real Time and Scream of the Shalka! QotW: If you could choose one Doctor, companion and foe to have a new adventure in animated form which Doctor, companion and foe would it be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Real Time" (Trevor 6.5, David 6.5, Charlie 6.5) Discussion of "Scream of the Shalka" (Trevor 8.75, David 8.25, Charlie 8.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: Sword of Orion (Trevor 7.75, David 7.5, Charlie 7.25) Number Crunching: Classic Who Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald Join us next week as we begin our coverage of modern Who with our review of the series premiere, Rose! Our audio adventure will be The Stones of Venice, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Death Comes To Time and Lungbarrow! QotW: Which companion, classic or modern, would you nominate to be granted an epic destiny on a one-shot special? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Who News Discussion of "Death Comes To Time" (Charlie 8.5, Trevor 8, David 7.5) Discussion of "Lungbarrow" (Charlie 7, Trevor 7, David 8.75) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our reviews of Real Time and Scream of the Shalka. Our audio adventure will be Sword of Orion, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Mindgame, Mindgame Trilogy, and The Curse of Fatal Death! QotW: How would you finish this #DoctorWho bar joke? "A Draconian, a Sontaran, and a Human walk into a bar..." #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Mindgame" (David 6.5, Charlie 6, Trevor 7) Discussion of "Mindgame Trilogy: Battlefield" (David 9, Charlie 7, Trevor 8) Discussion of "Mindgame Trilogy: Prisoner 451" (David 7, Charlie 6, Trevor 6) Discussion of "Mindgame Trilogy: Scout Ship" (David 7.5/7, Charlie 7/7, Trevor 7.5/6.75) Discussion of "The Curse of Fatal Death" (David 8.75, Charlie 9.5, Trevor 9.25) Big Finish: The Tenth Doctor Adventures 2.3: Cold Vengeance (David 7, Charlie 7, Trevor 6) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald Join us next week as our coverage of the Wildernes

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the Auton trilogy! QotW: Steven Moffat has done his last episode of #DoctorWho as show-runner and Chris Chibnall will be at the helm next season. What’s the biggest change you’re hoping to see under the new show-runner? #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Auton" (Trevor 7, David 7.25, Charlie 7) Discussion of "Auton 2: Sentinel" (Trevor 8, David 7, Charlie 7) Discussion of "Auton 3" (7.75/7.75, David 6.75/7, Charlie 6.75/7.25) Big Finish: The Tenth Doctor Adventures 2.2: Sword of the Chevalier (Trevor 8, David 7, Charlie 7.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our reviews of Mindgame, Mindgame Trilogy, and The Curse of Fatal Death! For our audio adventure, we’ll finish up the Tenth Doctor Adventures V

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the third and fourth P.R.O.B.E films, Unnatural Selection and Ghosts of Winterborne! Last week's QotW: What cancelled TV series would you like to see brought back as a movie? QotW: What was your favorite twelfth Doctor story? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "P.R.O.B.E.: Unnatural Selection" (Charlie 6.5, Trevor 5.75, David 6.25) Discussion of "P.R.O.B.E.: Ghosts of Winterborne" (Charlie 6.75, Trevor 5, David 6.75) Big Finish: The Tenth Doctor Adventures 2.1: Infamy of the Zaross (Charlie 8, Trevor 9, David 8.75) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our reviews of the Auton movies, Auton, Auton 2: Sentinel, and Auton 3. For our audio adventure, we’ll continue our coverage of The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volu

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the 8th Doctor's first, last, and only full-length television story, Doctor Who: The Movie! Discussion of "Doctor Who: The Movie" (Connor 9, David 7.5, Charlie 7.5, Trevor 6) Big Finish: Storm Warning (David 6.9, Charlie 7.5, Trevor 7) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor YouTube: The Deadly Emerald Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our reviews of the PROBE films Unnatural Selection, Ghosts of Winterbourne, and When to Die. Our audio adventure will be Tenth Doctor 2.1 Infamy of the Zaross, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with the first two P.R.O.B.E films, The Zero Imperative and The Devil of Winterborne! QotW: The acronym P.R.O.B.E. stands for "Preternatural Research Bureau", but leaves the letters "O" and "E" unused. Let's fix the acronym -- what should P.R.O.B.E. stand for, using all the letters? (You can change the "P", "R", and/or "B" if you like.) So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative" (Trevor 5, David 6.5, Charlie 7) Discussion of "P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterborne" (Trevor 6, David 7, Charlie 6.75) Big Finish: Davros (Trevor 7.75, David 7.75, Charlie 7.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our review Paul McGann's first, last, and only full-length television adventure, Doctor Who: The Mov

This week we continue our coverage of the Wilderness Years with Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time! QotW: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans takes place during the novel Shakedown. What novel (#DoctorWho related or otherwise) would you like to see adapted into a movie? #QotW So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans" (Charlie 3, Trevor 6.5, David 7.25) Discussion of "Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time" (Charlie 7.5, Trevor 7.75, David 6.75) Big Finish Novel Adaptation: Love and War (Charlie 9.5, Trevor 9.5, David 8.75) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as our coverage of the Wilderness Years continues with our reviews of PROBE: The Zero Imperative and PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne. Our audio adventure will be Davros, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we begin our look at the Wilderness years with three Reeltime Productions films: Wartime, Downtime, and Daemos Rising! So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Wartime" (David 6, Charlie 3, Trevor 3.5) Discussion of "Downtime" (David 7.75, Charlie 8, Trevor 8.75) Discussion of "Daemos Rising" (David 7, Charlie 5, Trevor 6) Big Finish: The Sirens of Time (David 6.9, Charlie 7.5, Trevor 7.25) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as we continue our coverage of Wilderness Years productions with Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time. Our audio adventure will be the novel adaptation Love and War, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we cover story # #276, Peter Capaldi’s swan song, the brief introduction of Jodie Whittaker, and the 2017 Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time!  The Doctor, refusing to regenerate, finds himself at the South Pole where he meets his first incarnation, also refusing to regenerate.  When time freezes and a WWI soldier mysteriously appears, the Doctors must discover why -- and come to terms with their own ability to cheat mortality! Question of the Week: What word(s) would you use to fill in the blank(s)? On the first day of Christmas, the Doctor gave to me ___. (If inclined, feel free to fill in the blanks for all 12 days of Christmas). So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Review of "Twice Upon a Time" (Trevor 8.75, David 8.5, Charlie 9, Connor 9.9) Big Finish Audio Adventure: Bonus Releases » XII. Trial of the Valeyard (Trevor 8, David 8.5, Charlie 8) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.

This week conclude our look back over our past few years of podcasting about all of classic Doctor Who. So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Retrospective: Part 2 Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as we begin Wanderers in the Fourth Dimension: The Wilderness Years, covering Doctor Who and related media from the show’s long hiatus from 1989 to 2005. We’ll begin with the UNIT movies Wartime, Downtime, and Daemos Rising! These are a bit tougher to find than the canon Doctor Who serials, but some of them have multi-region DVD releases. Our audio adventure will be The Sirens of Time, available from BigFinish.com.

This week we look back over our past  So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Retrospective: Part 1 Sylvester McCoy Era Number Crunching Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT Assembled 4.4: United (Charlie 7/8, David 8/7.75, Trevor 7.75/8) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week as we continue our retrospective of classic Who covering stories 1-155. If you’d like to share your thoughts on classic Who in general or your own experiences as a Wanderer in the 4th Dimension, now’s your last chance to weigh in, so send in your questions, comments, audio segments, and whatnot. We won't be covering an audio adventure next week, but we'll be back in two weeks with a fresh Big Finish review!

This week we cover story #155, Survival!  The Doctor and Ace return to Ace's childhood home of Perivale to check on her old friends, only to find they've been vanishing -- and the town has been troubled by a mysterious plague of cats.  The mystery leads them to another world, where a deadly foe lies in wait! QotW: If you could get revenge on the person who canceled classic Doctor Who, what would you do? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Survival" (Trevor 7.25, Charlie 6.75, David 6.75) Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT Assembled 4.3: Retrieval (Trevor 8, Charlie 8.25, David 7.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our retrospective of classic Who covering stories 1-155. If you’d like to share your thoughts on classic Who in general or your own experiences as a Wanderer in the 4th Dimension, now’s your last chance to wei

This week we cover story #154, The Curse of Fenric!  The Doctor and Ace travel to World War II where they encounter and English base under threat from Russian troops.  But the place is haunted by a prophecy and a curse, and an ancient evil lies in wait here for the Doctor! QotW: What classic #DoctorWho protagonist do you think should have been tied into a modern era story but wasn't? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag/Call for Retrospective Segments Discussion of "The Curse of Fenric" (David 7.5, Trevor 6.75, Charlie 7.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT ASSEMBLED: 4.2 Tidal Wave (David 8.25, Trevor 8.5, Charlie 9) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #155, the classic series finale, Survival! You can stream the serial from BritBox, buy a digital copy on iTunes, rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD f

This week we cover story #153, Ghost Light!  The Doctor takes Ace to revisit a place from her past 100 years earlier as an "initiative test".  The old haunted house plays host to strange happenings which will force Ace to face the choices she made there a century later! QotW: If the Doctor were to unexpectedly take you back somewhere you were unprepared to return to, where would he take you? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Ghost Light" (Charlie 5, David 4.75, Trevor 4.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: UNIT ASSEMBLED 4.1 Call to Arms (Charlie 7, David 7.75, Trevor 7.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #154, The Curse of Fenric! This serial is out of print in region 1 and the DVD is unreasonably expensive, but you can still stream the serial on BritBox. For our audio adventure, we’ll be c

This week we cover story #152, Battlefield!  The Doctor and Ace receive a distress call and follow it to Earth's near future, where Arthurian villains from another dimension threaten to conquer the Earth.  UNIT recalls the Brigadier to active duty and he joins forces with the Doctor and Ace to oppose the Arthurian onslaught! QotW: What fictional character from myth or legend would you like to have turn out to actually be the Doctor? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Battlefield" (Trevor 8.5, Charlie 9.5, David 8.25) Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - Month 25 (Trevor 6.75/6.5, Charlie 6.5/6, David 6.75/6.75) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #153, Ghost Light! The DVD is out of print and very expensive in region 1, but you can stream it from Britbox, buy a digital c

This week we cover story #151, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!  The Doctor and Ace receive an ad for the Psychic Circus and decide to check it out, but soon find themselves drawn into the circus's web of intrigue when they learn that circus fans and performers alike have been disappearing.  Who is behind the mystery of the Psychic Circus? QotW: If you could populate a circus with aliens from #DoctorWho, what aliens would be performing what acts? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (David 7.5, Trevor 6, Charlie 6.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - One Enchanted Evening (David 6.5, Trevor 6, Charlie 6) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #152, Battlefield! This one is out of print in region 1 and hard to find for a reasonable price, bu

This week we cover story #150, Silver Nemesis!  When a pair of travelers come to present-day England from hundreds of years in the past in anticipation of the arrival of the destructive comet Nemesis, the Doctor and Ace must get involved -- but the Cybermen have arrived as well, and a group of neo-Nazis styling themselves as the fourth Reich.  What could the comet's secret be, and what does it have to do with the Doctor? QotW: If you could mix three themes, elements, characters, or ideas into a single Doctor Who story, what would you mix? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Silver Nemesis" (Charlie 9, Connor 10, David 8, Trevor 8.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - Wednesdays for Beginners (Charlie 7, Connor 8.9 chocolate bars, David 7.5, Trevor 7.5 cheetos) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor The Deadly Emerald

  This week we cover story #149, The Happiness Patrol!  The Doctor and Ace explore the colony of Terra Alpha, where unhappiness has been outlawed.  This displeases them, much to their own peril! QotW: If you were to be executed by lethal candy, what kind of candy would you want it to be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "The Happiness Patrol" (Trevor 6, Charlie 7.75, David 6.75) Connor's Corner Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - The Year After I Died (Trevor 6.5, Charlie 6.5, David 7) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #150, Silver Nemesis! You can stream the serial on BritBox, buy a digital copy on iTunes, rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD from Amazon.com or other fine retailers. For our audio adventure, we’ll be continuing The Lives of Captain Jack boxed se