Radio Free Skaro #1058/A – News Bulletin! Two Missing Doctor Who Episodes Returned!
BREAKING NEWS! Two previously missing episodes of Doctor Who have been returned to the BBC Archives! Episodes One and Three of The Daleks’ Master Plan were found in a film collection obtained by Film is Fabulous, and will be streamed on BBC iPlayer at Easter.
Full coverage of the recovery will be on the next episode of Radio Free Skaro!
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Radio Free Skaro #1057 – UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose
As world events trend ever downwards, you can always count on the Three Who Rule to not only give you the latest exciting news from the world of Doctor Who, such as Murray Gold reporting there are numerous versions of the upcoming Xmas Special written, a BBC executive saying quite sensibly that Doctor Who will come back when it’s good and ready and more, but also our usual basting in the warm glow of the past as we go back to the halcyon days of 1986 with a Classic Series Commentary on the greatest model shot in the history of television (and some story stuff I guess) with Part One of “The Mysterious Planet”!
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- Murray Gold says multiple versions of 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special have been written
- Murray Gold on The Whoniverse Show
- BBC Director of Drama Lindsay Salt on Doctor Who
- Doctor Who – Season 2 coming to Blu-ray on June 2
- You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who due May 25 from Ten Acre Books
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The Legacy of Time released
- Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – UNIT Eras: Hostile Universe due April 2026
- Numerous guests announced for Long Island Who
- Jonathan Helm (Who FX/Making Blake’s 7) Substack on Shada
- Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant died
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Radio Free Skaro #1056 – We’ll Always Have The Sandbaggers
It’s a banner day for Wilderness Years junior campers as the 35mm prints of the TV Movie have been lovingly scanned and become a 4K release on Blu-Ray, at least in the UK (for now). Plus there’s a new documentary on The War Between on Youtube for North Americans pining to see…well, anything about them there Homo Aquas, a new Rachel Talalay video revealing “The Star Beast” directorial trickery, and most excitingly, an interview with journalist Paul Kirkley about the current state of the UK industry. Hint…it ain’t great! Set your VCR to channel 3 to find out more!
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- Doctor Who: The Movie has been newly restored for 4K and Blu-ray
- Doctor Who: The Movie 4K trailer
- The War Between the Land and The Sea – Deep Dive
- The War Between not airing in March 2026 on Disney+
- How I Filmed This – Rachel Talalay: The Star Beast: The Cardboard Box Problem
- Big Finish: From the Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks due Apr-Jun 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Time War Uncharted: Branches due May 2026
- Big Finish: Star Cops – Conflict: Shadow of the Moonlight released
- World of Telly – Season 2 Trailer
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- Paul Kirkley
- We’re seeing the future of British TV – and it’s American
- Deadline: British TV Dramatists Lament “Austerity” Era As They Navigate Funding Crisis With No Easy Solutions
- The New Statesman: Netflix is not going to destroy traditional broadcasting – because not everyone wants to watch US TV
Radio Free Skaro #1055 – Terra Firma
The Three Who Rule are reunited as Steven reports back from his sojourn into the depths of Los Angeles and Gallifrey One and Chris and Warren regale him with tales of The Android Invasion and Warriors of the Deep viewings in Vancouver! Burying the lead here though, it’s a banner day for Whovians as that most holy of 1970s brands, Fisher-Price has finally released Little People in the form of Doctors 9-15, excluding 14. Plus we have a surfeit of Big Finish covers to wildly speculate about, BBC executive Zai Bennett adds to the pile of vague confirmations about the future of Doctor Who, and more!
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- Doctor Who Little People
- Season 13 Blu-Ray hit #6 on the US sales charts
- BBC’s Zai Bennett’s comments on the future of Doctor Who
- BBC licence fee will increase to deliver “financial stability it needs”
- Propstore Doctor Who Online Auction 2026
- Jodie Whittaker will participate in Red Nose Day March 20
- ‘The Empty Child’ and more adventures come to the Doctor Who Shop
- ‘The Rescue’ comes to vinyl for Record Store Day 2026
- Doctor Who Magazine 626
- Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 11: 1984 released February 12
- Big Finish renews Doctor Who license through 2035
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Cloud Eight released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: The Collected Sixth Doctor 1 released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – Short Trips: Impeccable and Other Stories released
- Big Finish: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Expulsion due Apr 2026
- Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Pandemonium due Apr 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Helter Skelter due April 2026
- Big Finish: Rutans vs Sontarans begins April 2026
- Big Finish: The War Doctor Rises: Fear of the Light due May 2026
Radio Free Skaro #1054 – The Doctor Is Worth The Monsters
It’s Gallifrey One time! While the Canadian contingent in Los Angeles this year was low (including both Warren and Chris, who like many Canadians chose not to frequent the environs of our troubled neighbours), Steven represented both the Embassy of Radio Free Skaro, and the nation of Canada (the latter unofficially). Erika from Verity! and Chip from 2MTL join Steven in recapping this weekend’s convention, including talks of panels, and going inside with the many main stage interviews that Steven performed.
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Radio Free Skaro #1053 – Shiny Happy People
It’s that time of year again, the annual Gallifrey One preview show, and even though only one of our august number is braving the geopolitical winds of Canada-U.S. kerfuffles (Steven, if you’re keeping track) that won’t stop us from overanalyzing the schedule and pointing out all the highlights! Plus a surfeit of Big Finish releases, a destroyed Dalek dolly along with 1980s Tegan, some musical deep dives, and more!
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- Gallifrey One
- 2026 Doctor Who Yearbook
- Character Options Doctor Who Tegan Jovanka and Destroyed Dalek released
- Big Finish – Torchwood: Everyone’s Dead on Floor 3 out now
- Big Finish – Doctor Who – Short Trips Rarities: An Eighth Doctor Collection out now
- Big Finish – Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: The First Question due Mar 2026
- Big Finish – The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Transformation due Apr 2026
- Tom Baker and John Leeson in upcoming audio drama Sir Sherlock: The Red Letter Day due Mar 2026
- Jess Jurkovic’s Tristram Cary video
- Twenty Thousand Hertz episode about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- Blu-Ray Collection fan-made inserts
Radio Free Skaro #1052 – The Minnesota Fighting Saints
It’s the return of STATS! as we ruminate over not just some frankly dismal Disney+ numbers for our beloved Doctor Who but a smattering of other genre offerings who stumbled or triumphed on the way to your eyeballs. Plus the Gallifrey One schedule is out, Blake’s 7 may be coming back, Rachel Talalay continues to win YouTube with a deep dive into Peter Capaldi’s “Be Kind” speech from “The Doctor Falls” in its various forms, and a.feature interview with Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White about their excellent podcast about archive UK telly, “Through the Square Window”!
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- Gallifrey One schedule released
- Gallifrey One Kaffeeklatsch Sign-Ups, New Guests, Schedule Updates, New Receptions & Other Events and MORE!
- BBC Group and YouTube announce new strategic partnership
- ‘Blake’s 7’ Reboot In The Works From Peter Hoar, Jason Haigh-Ellery, and Matthew Bouch
- Disney+ Season 1 viewing figures leak
- Doctor Who Magazine Special 72 – the 2026 Yearbook
- Rachel Talalay: Unseen, Uncut Dailies & Edits: The Doctor Falls “Be Kind” Speech
- Aliens of London, The Satan Pit, and The Time of Angels novels and audio CDs coming March 26
- Alex Kingston on The Whoniverse Show
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus out now
- Big Finish: The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard – Series One released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress due June 2026
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Radio Free Skaro #1051 – A Big Red Button
Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder exhibit in San Diego being extended, and CONsole Room in Minneapolis happening this coming weekend! Also Big Finish, the delightful Jodie Whittaker answering questions, but most importantly our final Miniscope on director Nick Hurran’s work on The Day of the Doctor!
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- Freema Agyeman Returns to Gallifrey One
- Paul Kasey and Charlie Condou announced for Gally
- CONsole Room: January 23-25 in MSP
- Worlds of Wonder’ exhibit to be extended until January 2027 at Comic-Con Museum
- Jodie Whittaker answers Big Finish listeners’ questions
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Ride or Die out now
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour due March 2026
- Big Finish – UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall due Mar 2026
- Derek Martin died age 92
- Marcus Gilbert died age 67
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Radio Free Skaro #1050 – Harsh Language
It’s another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don’t fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring “Asylum of the Daleks” and “The Angels Take Manhattan”!
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- Ian McNeice, Kai Owen, Ricco Ross added to Gallifrey one guest list
- Go behind the scenes as Fourth Doctor Tom Baker receives his MBE
- Doctor Who Magazine 625
- BFI Warriors of the Deep screening Feb 28, tickets on sale Jan 15
- The War Between overall viewing figures
- BBC Studios expands pay model to the BBC App in the US
- Rachel Talalay: What to do when the plans don’t work? Bill Potts-Cyberman reveal
- Big Finish Audio Novellas The Time-Splitters and Dimension 13 released
- Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One coming January 22
- Gregory de Polney (D84 in Robots of Death) died Jan 1
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Radio Free Skaro #1058 – Pier Pressure
Posted on March 8, 2026 by Chris
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Happy Magna Carta Day, everyone! One of them, anyway. Now that that’s out of the way, there’s heated debate on The Billie Piper Matter in both The Sun and The Telegraph, and the Three Who Rule add their shopworn takes to this interminable discussion that will be an absolute delight until Xmas 2026. Plus we have a set report from 2004, the iPlayer possibly re-re-re-inventing cable and hosting rival broadcasters, the Ianto Shrine nearing its end and the feelings around that, and most importantly, Part the Second of our “The Mysterious Planet” Classic Series Commentary!
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