• Radio Free Skaro #298 – Knights of Jaffa

    Our Gallifrey One coverage concludes for another year as we chat with some gentlemen who played integral roles in launching Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1990s. First up, Ian Chesterton, Sir Ian, Knight of Jaffa himself, the amazing William Russell joins Steven and Ken Deep in reminiscing about what ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #297 – No More Janus Thorns

    Radio Free Skaro dives into history with Gallifrey 2012 guests starting with Louise Jameson, otherwise known as the beautiful savage Leela, Louise was an absolute delight to talk to about her tenure on the program and her many other roles, ranging from Shakespeare to soaps and everything in between. We ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #296 – Cleaning Up the Corn Field

    Day Two of Gally! And what a day of behind the scenes luminaries it was, with Doctor Who director Richard Senior ("Let's Kill Hitler"), writer Simon Guerrier and the inestimable Steve Roberts of the Doctor Who Restoration Team rounding out the behind the scenes chatter. Plus the delightful mendicants from ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #295 – Radio Free Skaro and The World of Tomorrow

    Gallifrey Live Show! For only the second time (and the first in the main ballroom), the Three Who Rule entertained the huddled Earth masses in attendance at the Gallifrey One convention on Los Angeles with ribaldry, shenanigans and interviews with Who luminaries such as Camille Coduri, Simon Fisher-Becker, Dalek operator ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #294 – The Dog Days Are Over

    The annual meet up of Doctor Who podcasters at Gallifrey One forms the backbone of this, the first of Radio Free Skaro's episodes covering the convention. Among our friends joining us is Simon Harries, late of Tachyon TV and attending his first Gally since 2010, and Josh Zimon, long time ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #293 – Occupy Gallifrey

    GALLY! It's the most wonderful time of the year once again, a glorious three-days-to-a-week where thousands of Doctor Who fans descend on the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles and bathe in glorious nerdery (and also sip a snifter of port on occasion.) Our annual tradition is to run through the ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #292 – Amok Time

    At long last, Radio Free Skaro's time-filling series of Series 6 commentaries comes to an end with the Three Who Rule talking over "The Wedding of River Song". They manage to keep vaguely on topic, perhaps a tough task given their general ennui towards the Series 6 finale which contained ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #291 – That Which Survives

    A simple commentary about "Closing Time," which gave the Three Who Rule ample time to discuss the great chemistry between Matt Smith and guest star James Corden, instead devolved into a simply rancid discussion on babies and their propensity to poop on this episode of Radio Free Skaro. Our ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #290 – Whom Gods Destroy

    Ah, that's the January we remember. The Christmas Special aired weeks ago, it's a long time until new Doctor Who (even longer than usual) and there's really not too much going on in the Who world. But there's always Gallifrey! A bit of Gally news and banter helps, well, fill ...

  • Radio Free Skaro #289 – Errand Of Mercy

    Gallifrey One, the massive and amazing annual fan-run Doctor Who convention, is rapidly approaching and we take some time to talk to Program Director Shaun Lyon about the recently-released convention schedule and to formally announce details of our live show - Radio Free Skaro And The World Of Tomorrow! As ...

On May-31-2010 9 Comments

Radio Free Skaro #200 – Click here to listen

With Warren in the Galapagos Islands unleashing his fiendish experiments to make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a reality, Radio Free Skaro celebrates its 200th episode, keeping things low key and just having a couple old friends over for drinks. Neil Perryman and Simon Harries from Tachyon TV join in the fun with a look at not only the current episode of Doctor Who, Cold Blood, but the gang also gabs about Series 5 as it stands thus far. A bonus treat of some kind words provided by some of our listeners rounds out this milestone episode. Onward to the next 200!
Show Notes:

- Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
- Tachyon TV
- Episode Nine…Cold Blood
- Cold Blood…Ratings!
- The Hungry Earth…Appreciation Index!
- Amy’s Choice…Final Viewing Figures!
- The Lodger…June 12!
- The Lodger…Synopsis!
- Vincent and the Doctor…Schedule Change!
- Doctor Who Series 1-4…On SPACE!
- Return of…The Welshies!
- Seires 5…Action Figures!
- Revenge of the Cybermen…DVD Details!
- Silver Nemesis…DVD Details!
- Time and the Rani…DVD Details!
- September 2010…North America DVD Releases!
- BBC One…Simulcast In HD!
- BBC…Shownar!

On May-27-2010 0 Comments

SPACE, Canada’s home of Doctor Who, has announced broadcast information for Series 1-4. Beginning Monday, May 31, SPACE subscribers can catch up with past series of NuWho. Episodes will air every Monday through Thursday at 8:00PM Eastern Time with repeats at Midnight.

Read more at the SPACE website!

On May-27-2010 0 Comments

September 7th sees the North American release of, well, a couple not-so-great Doctor Who titles. Thankfully Planet of Fire is amongst the bunch to give the month a little bit of cred. Coupled with The King’s Demons in the UK, the North American release sees separation again as with the Peladon stories released recently. The first story produced for Season 17, The Creature From The Pit is the last of the month’s releases.

Below are the covers for each DVD, click on the thumbnail for a larger version.

Check out the full story at TVShowsOnDVD.com.

Edit: Warner has issued corrected cover art for The King’s Demons, removing the spelling error in Peter Davison’s name. Planet of Fire has now also been confirmed as a 2-disc release however updated cover art is not yet available. See the update at TVShowsOnDVD.com.

Edit #2: Warner has now issued corrected cover art for Planet of Fire, similarly fixing the spelling error in Peter Davison’s name, and now reflecting the fact it’s a 2-disc release. See the update at TVShowsOnDVD.com.

On May-23-2010 5 Comments

Radio Free Skaro #199 – Click here to listen

It shaped up to be a good week for the Three Who Rule on account of the return of some of their favourite classic series monsters, the Silurians (aka Eocenes, aka Homo Reptilia). “The Hungry Earth”, the episode in which they made their first successful appearance in 40 years (see what we did there?), also had a distinctly classic feel to it, making one almost feel like we were watching Jon Pertwee’s Doctor and UNIT battling with cave monsters in the 1970s (aka the 1980s). Onwards!
Show Notes:

- Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
- Episode Eight…The Hungry Earth
- The Hungry Earth…Ratings!
- Amy’s Choice…Appreciation Index!
- The Vampires of Venice…Final Viewing Figures!
- Cold Blood…7PM Start Time!
- Vincent and the Doctor…June 5!
- Vincent and the Doctor…Synopsis!
- Karen Gillan…Back for Series Six!
- Series 5…Finale Titles!
- Episode 10…Advance Screening!
- Episode 12…Advance Screening!
- Doctor Who…Live!
- TV Choice…Fictitious Nominations!
- BBC…Shownar!

On May-21-2010 0 Comments

spacebadgeSince there’s no edition of the SPACE Podcast this week, the good folks at Canada’s home of Doctor Who have turned the floor completely over to Radio Free Skaro to review the most recent episode that aired in North America, “Flesh and Stone”. This is also the only place you can find out what Chris thought of the episode, as he wasn’t around for the regular Radio Free Skaro review of it a couple weeks ago. What a stunning exclusive!

Join us or die! Can you do any less?

On May-19-2010 0 Comments

For the keen-to-know, the BBC has released the titles for the Series 5 finale episodes via their Series At A Glance web page. Those who don’t wish to know the titles will want to avoid the link, of course!

Episode titles can sometime be indicative of the episode content, but regardless if that holds true in this case or not it’s certainly a pair of evocative titles. Episode 12 has been referenced in a previous episode while Episode 13 sounds like it could be another finale on a massive scale. Appetites at the RFS bunker have nonetheless been whet!

BBC – Doctor Who: The Series At A Glance.

On May-17-2010 1 Comment

For those who missed it, here’s a short new trailer from the BBC promoting The Hungry Earth, which airs Saturday, May 22 at 6:15 PM:

On May-16-2010 7 Comments

Radio Free Skaro #198 – Click here to listen

Given the mixed reactions that The Three Who Rule have had about past attempts of surrealism in Doctor Who, one wouldn’t expect the latest noodle-scratcher to be an episode for them to agree on. But that’s just what “Amy’s Choice” was, a daring and bold step into a world of dreams featuring pregnant Amys, awkward Doctors, and rampant elder abuse. Really, what’s not to love? And there wasn’t even one hint of The Valeyard making a return appearance. Or was there….?
Show Notes:

- Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
- Episode Seven…Amy’s Choice!
- Amy’s Choice…Ratings!
- The Vampires of Venice…Appreciation Index!
- Flesh and Stone…Final Viewing Figures!
- The Eleventh Hour…a hit on iPlayer!
- Cold Blood…airing May 29!
- Cold Blood…Synopsis!
- Episode 11 called…The Lodger!
- Doctor Who theme…third most recognizable!
- BBC…Shownar!

On May-14-2010 0 Comments

spacebadgeOn the latest SPACE Podcast, the Three Who Rule give their thoughts on the first half of the Weeping Angels duology, “The Time of Angels”.

Don’t worry! Listen and find out for yourself!

On May-9-2010 6 Comments
Radio Free Skaro #197 – Click here to listen!

Vampires! Venice! Fish people! Disagreement! While two of the Three Who Rule were less than blown away by the latest historical romp, “The Vampires of Venice”, with little else to discuss during this slow news week it was that or stats. Which were also discussed. Harrumph.
Show Notes:

- Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
- Episode Six…The Vampires of Venice!
- The Vampires of Venice…Ratings!
- Flesh and Stone…Appreciation Index!
- The Time of Angels…Final Viewing Figures!
- Amy’s Choice…Broadcast Time!
- The Hungry Earth…Broadcast Time!
- The Hungry Earth…Synopsis!
- BBC…Shownar!

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