Doctor Who Literature
By Jason Miller
DWLit Presents: Joy to the World (SPOILERS!! -- with Jason and Callie)
Doctor Who Literature is on break until the New Year, but Jason and Callie come back for one night to discuss this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special: Joy to the World, by Steven Moffat. Warning, this is a FULL SPOILER chat so don't listen until you've watched the episode first. Callie as always does not hold back on any opinion, and Jason as always has slight trouble staying on topic.
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Episode 134 - Paradise Towers (Jim Sangster & Jason Davis)
Happy American Thanksgiving to my listeners in the States.
For a Sylvester McCoy novelization on Doctor Who Literature, ya gotta have two guests, not just one. Jim Sangster and Jason Davis, both huge behind-the-scenes influences on the show, come together for the first time as we tackle Paradise Towers, the second serial from Doctor Who's controversial, divisive -- and delightful -- 24th season.
The vocals for this week's opening number are by Antony Owen. Music arranged by Jim Sangster.
Please visit Jason Davis at Humanity Is My Business and consider supporting his Patreon.
An interview with J.G. Ballard.
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Episode 133 - The Smugglers (with Jim Allenby) -- 61st anniversary!
Having a first-time guest last week worked so well, that we've done it again this week: Jim Allenby from the What's in the Box? podcast, makes his Doctor Who Literature debut.
Our story for the week is The Smugglers, but Jim A. and I also recorded our conversation on November 23, 2024: Doctor Who's 61st anniversary, and, coincidentally, the 40th anniversary of Jason discovering the show to begin with. Jim A. and I discuss An Unearthly Child, our respective fandom origin stories, and the special edition announced on the anniversary and being released in December 2024: The War Games, in color, and with new footage!
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Episode 132 - The Edge of Destruction (with Geoff Wessel)
Remember, Doctor Who Literature's primary social media presence is now on BlueSky.
Welcoming to the show this week Geoff Wessel, comic book writer (I may have misstated this in the intro) and radio DJ. Geoff's been an online friend for nearly 30 years but we'd never spoken face to face before this recording. It's a wild one!
Those curious about "The Uncle Floyd Show" can find his limited online presence here.
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Doctor Who – The Edge of Destruction" features cover art by Alister Pearson.
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Episode 131 - The Ultimate Foe (with Conrad and Mark from Trap One)
Our third of four episodes in our Trial of a Time Lord season features the conclusion of the Trial arc... but not the conclusion of the novelizations of the Trial arc.
The traditional American protest song "John Brown's Body", sampled in this episode, is from the Pete Seeger recording.
And, with that out of the way, let's talk Doctor Who Literature with Mark and Conrad from The Trap One Podcast.
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Episode 130 - The Wheel in Space (with Stacey Smith?)
Stacey Smith? joins me from another exotic locale to discuss a rare bird -- the highly-sought-after novelization of "The Wheel in Space". Is the book worth the exorbitant cover price on the secondary market? Is the TV serial a fitting capstone to David Whitaker's legacy?
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"Doctor Who – The Wheel in Space" features cover art by Ian Burgess.
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DWLit Presents: Return of the Daleks (with Paul Scoones)
We remain off the boards for one more week, to discuss not a Target Doctor Who novelization, but rather a new publication from Panini Comics. It's The Return of the Daleks (purchase link: here), a compilation of the Doctor-less backup strips from the earliest days of Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly/DWM. The compilation features commentary from Paul Scoones -- who joins us this week to discuss not only this new book, but also the TSV novelizations, high-quality fan-made novelizations of five 1970s/'80s Doctor Who TV serials which, for rights reasons, were never novelized by Target during the line's original run.
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DWLit Presents: Jason's Improbable Library
This week Doctor Who Literature takes a week off from the Target novelizations to explore the rest of Jason's childhood bookshelves. I started reading the Target Doctor Who titles when I was 11, but I started reading just before turning 5. That's a lot of reading long before I found Terrance Dicks.
So let's take an hour and walk through what Jason loved before Doctor Who. We'll discuss the Dutch-language children's fiction of Dick Bruna; the magic of Little Golden Books; the Big Three comics lines of the 1970s: Marvel, DC, and Gold Key/Whitman; baseball annuals aimed at children; and, of course, the Hardy Boys, the Choose Your Own Adventures, and the pictorial novelizations of Peanuts TV specials.
We hope you'll join for this week as we walk not just through Jason's childhood bookshelves, but also, really, his brain.
EDIT: I found that version of "The King" on YouTube. It's amazing.
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Episode 129 - The Underwater Menace (with Nigel Robinson)
This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.
Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.
This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.
You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.
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Episode 128 - Vengeance on Varos (with David Barsky)
The novelization of Vengeance on Varos was published two years behind schedule, meaning that book number 106, which was skipped in the Target Doctor Who novelization release order in 1986, is belatedly plugged in -- immediately after the previous two novelizations were both assigned number 127. Got that?
This week's Doctor Who Literature guest is David Barsky. David and Jason have lots of TV and international travel to discuss. And, occasionally, Vengeance on Varos, a controversial story and a novelization tending towards the... verbose.
Sound clips in this episode include:
--The 1969 Encyclopedia Britannica short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery";
--A Season 3 "Simpsons" riff also on "The Lottery";
--"Family Guy", like David Barsky, did not care for The Godfather;
--The venerable U.S. game show "The Price is Right", which has been on the air since, like, 1911, has memorable sound bites here and here.
Not heard in the episode, but highly recommended, is both the trailer for and the movie LOCK-UP (1989), starring Sylvester Stallone (not McCoy), the late Donald Sutherland, and the late John Amos (whose death was announced the day this episode was recorded).
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Episode 127 - Time and the Rani (Jim Sangster; Joe Ford)
Welcome to the beginning of the end of Doctor Who Literature. It's May 1988, and the paperback release of the first of the 12 Sylvester McCoy-era Doctor Who novelizations by Target Books. The Target run had a finite lifespan, and from here on out, with the last Classic Series Doctor finally joining the Target stable, the end is in sight.
We will have two guests for each of the Sylvester McCoy books. First up this week is Jim Sangster, who is now officially co-host of the show and the producer of our YouTube channel and video content. Jim has a new song for us this week.
We also have an archival interview with Joe Ford from July 2021 extolling the virtues of Time and the Rani, from Jason's first attempt at a podcast, unreleased after all this time until now.
Please purchase Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor from Ten Acre Films.
"16 Going on 17" comes from The Sound of Music. Doctor Who Literature expressly refutes Rolfe's political affiliation. As does Family Guy.
The history of the Topps 1980 baseball card set is here.
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Episode 126 - The Mysterious Planet (with Stacey Smith?); David Graham tribute
This week Jim bids a sad farewell to the legendary David Graham, contributor of voices (and two live-action roles) to Doctor Who, and who did voice work for almost every other British series that mattered, up to and including "Peppa Pig".
Stacey Smith? rejoins Jason for a look at the first Trial of a Time Lord story, The Mysterious Planet. It's Robert Holmes' final completed Doctor Who serial, and -- in story order -- Terrance Dicks' final Doctor Who novelization.
Stacey also digs deep into the rec.arts.drwho archives and finds a Jason comedy post from 1996... which Jim narrates and performs.
This week's episode's got it all.
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Episode 125 - The Time Meddler (with Frazer Gregory)
The Time Meddler is a seminal moment in Doctor Who history. No Doctor Who podcast can be complete without acknowledging it, and no podcast about Doctor Who Literature can be complete without discussing its novelization.
Frazer Gregory, one of my most frequent and popular guests, rejoins me for the first time since Episode 100. We have a lot to say about this story, including a discussion of its geography -- where in Northumbria does it take place, and on what precise day does it take place? Frazer has a theory, and it involves, perhaps, the very week that we're talking to you.
There are also games to be played, not just the one that I have for Frazer, but the one that he has for me ...
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Episode 124 - Terror of the Vervoids (with Jim Sangster)
Welcome to Part One of our intermittent ongoing look at The Trial of a Time Lord, a single 14-part Doctor Who serial that comprised the whole of Season 23, televised between September and December 1986, but broken up into four separate novelizations. Confusingly released out of order and non-consecutively.
Jim Sangster, Doctor Who Literature's multi-talented co-producer, logo designer, and in-house band, adapted and performed this week's introductory number, appeared as a talking head on the Trial of a Time Lord DVDs (recorded 16 years prior to the production of this episode), and is this week's guest. We'll about about Liverpool and its many connections to Doctor Who, and speculate just when does Trial take place relevant to the Sixth Doctor's own timeline?
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"Doctor Who – The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids" features near-pornographic cover art by Tony Masero.
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Episode 123 - The Rescue (with Jeff Goddard)
Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Jeff from Gallifrey's Most Wanted. The Rescue is one of Jeff's favorite Doctor Who episodes and it's great to hear him discuss.
Sampled is an audio encore of Jason's favorite Harvey Keitel interview.
You might also recognize some dialogue from The Big Lebowski.
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Episode 122 - The Massacre (Ian Potter; Rev. Jerrod Hugenot)
Welcome to an extra long episode of Doctor Who Literature, but one of the deepest and most rewarding ones we've ever produced.
The subject is the February 1966 Doctor Who episode The Massacre, a troubled production where the original author tried to disclaim credit, the video is lost and only a few publicity photos survived, and the surviving audio is hard to untangle as William Hartnell only appears in a small handful of scenes.
We have three guests this week to help unravel the story:
--Repeat DWLit guest Denise Sutton joins Jason for a specially-recorded live introduction in Central London.
--Repeat DWLit guest Ian Potter, a Black Archives writer, helps Jason try to unravel the troubled production (and troubled production team!) at the heart of the TV serial.
--The Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, an American Baptist minister and Doctor Who fan, whose surname ties into this story, helps us understand the historical and religious context of August 1572.
And although he doesn't appear in this episode, we could not have produced this week without James Cooray Smith, who literally wrote the book on The Massacre.
We'll be back next week to cover another William Hartnell adventure, with a much shorter episode!
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Episode 121 - The Macra Terror (with David Barsky)
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Episode 120 - The Ambassadors of Death (with Kate Orman & Jonathan Blum)
A warm Doctor Who Literature welcome-back to Kate and Jon, last heard together on this show discussing The Talons of Weng-Chiang in July 2022. Two years and many books later, we are gonna get deep into The Ambassadors of Death.
You can find several new works by Kate and Jon, as discussed during the episode:
--Saltier, a short story by Kate.
--United Nations and Intelligence Taskforce, two recent Lethbridge-Stewart novels by Jon from Candy Jar Books.
--and Meanwhile, Turlough, a bonus-download Big Finish audio by Jon.
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Episode 120A - K-9 and Company (with Drew & Brent from Who and Company)
Long-time listeners of Doctor Who Literature know that this podcast is a K-9 house. We are all about K-9 here. This week, his first TV spinoff, the Christmas 1981 special gets its own novelization, the final book of the short-lived Companions of Doctor Who line.
Joining Jason this week are two great friends making their first appearance on the show: Drew and Brent, from Who & Company. And yes, it's coincidence that they're showing up to discuss K-9 & Company.
Jason appeared on Who & Company a few months ago.
Jason has also recently been on Trap One to discuss the Celestial Toymaker Blu-ray animation and a tribute to the late William Russell.
I recommend audio clips from The Simpsons' "Kamp Krusty" and the legit banger that is the Ian Levine & Fiachra Trench K-9 & Company theme.
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"The Companions of Doctor Who –K-9 & Company" features cover art by Peter Kelly.
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DWLit Presents: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-5 (with Jason and Callie --SPOILERS!)
As Doctor Who Literature nears the end of a very packed season discussing each of the novelizations and other Doctor Who spinoff books of 1986 and 1987, Jason and Callie were also watching the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- 144 episodes in about 144 days. Now we sit down in our dining room to discuss the series. This episode will cover "Welcome to the Hellmouth" through "The Gift".
WARNING: Spoilers will get discussed as the series is nearly 30 years old. Not recommended if you've never watched the series before. There is ambient noise, mostly cats, throughout the recording. Smudge watched all 144 episodes of Buffy with us, so how could we exclude her from this recording?
Episode 119 - The Romans (with Jason Davis)
Welcome to the final week of our four-episode William Hartnell mini-season. The Romans is released in paperback in September 1987 and is the fourth straight Doctor Who novelization to come out of the First Doctor era.
Here on Doctor Who Literature, Jason Davis is back for the week to talk us through The Romans in both its print and TV incarnation. We also discuss lots of classic film and TV contents, and the particular perils of being an American Doctor Who working retail in the late 1990s.
Follow the Jason Davis by signing up for his irregularly offered newsletter at HumanityIsMyBusiness.com. Buy his book, Writing the X-Files, there or at Amazon, or books he edited from their respective authors: Stuntlady by Sandra Gimpel and Pleasure Thresholds by Patricia Tallman.
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Doctor Who – The Romans" features cover art by Tony Masero.
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Episode 118 - The Reign of Terror (with Denise Sutton)
Denise Sutton rejoins Doctor Who Literature during Week 3 of a 4-week stretch of four consecutive William Hartnell novelizations.
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Episode 117 - The Sensorites (with Jon Arnold)
Much has been said about the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Sensorites. Not all of it positive. We at Doctor Who Literature are here to reverse that trend. The Sensorites is awesome. Except when it isn't, but when it lands, it really lands.
This week's guest is Black Archives writer Jon Arnold.
Here is one of Jon's many recent appearances on Strangers in Space.
Cover artist of The Sensorites novelization, Nick Spender, passed away recently.
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Episode 116 - The Space Museum (Conrad Westmaas; David Barsky)
We open at the BFI in London where Conrad Westmaas from Big Finish appears live on the show to interview Jason!
David Barsky then joins Jason by Skype from Los Angeles to rap about The Space Museum, and to vigorously debate the most recent Disney+-streamed season of Doctor Who.
In the audio essay, Jason compares all four extant versions of Space Museum: TV, novelization, and both surviving scripts. With comparisons to the music of Elvis Costello.
Audio heard in this episode sourced from YouTube:
--Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney studio version of Veronica.
--Elvis Costello's studio version of My Brave Face.
--Elvis Costello's infamous 1977 appearance on Saturday Night Live.
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Episode 115 - The Faceless Ones (with Shannon Sullivan)
It's our second straight Patrick Troughton novelization on Doctor Who Literature -- before we jump into four straight William Hartnell books -- and this week it is time for The Faceless Ones.
Joining Jason this week is Shannon Sullivan of A Brief History of Time (Travel), the indispensable online resource for the production history of Doctor Who. Jason and Shannon have known each other for 30 years but haven't spoken in person since The Wilderness Years. They have a rousing conversation on Doctor Who, game shows, the 1993 baseball World Series, and so much more besides.
Links for this week:
The Faceless Ones page at Brief History of Time (Travel).
Shannon's 2000 appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (and he has not aged a day, trust me).
Toby Hadoke's Who podcasts, where you can find links to Too Much Information.
The last pitch of the 1993 World Series via Major League Baseball's YouTube channel.
Episode 114 - The Mind Robber (with Adam Clegg)
The Mind Robber is one of Jason's Top 60 Doctor Who episodes, and the 1987 novelization by Peter Ling more than does it justice. This week Jason is joined on Doctor Who Literature by Adam Clegg from The Real McCoy podcast to discuss the TV story, the novelization, the two New Adventures sequel novels involving the Land of Fiction... and brief discussions of the new Celestial Toymaker animation, and (as of this release date), Doctor Who's most recent TV broadcast, The Legend of Ruby Sunday.
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DWLit Presents: Farewell to William Russell
In lieu of a regularly scheduled Doctor Who Literature this week, Jason takes a moment to bid adieu to William Russell, who passed away this week at age 99, and explore the legacy of Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who.
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Episode 113 Part II -- The Ark (with Jim Sangster); Dot & Bubble
...700 years later, we return to The Ark, an instant sequel to last week's episode. Jim Sangster rejoins Doctor Who Literature to break down the story's accents and Beatles wigs.
And Jason reviews the newest Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who episode at the time of writing: Dot and Bubble.
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Episode 113 Part I -- The Ark (with Lelon Stoldt); 73 Yards
Program needs over the next two weeks has turned this look at The Ark, a 1966 episode from Doctor Who's third season, into a two-part episode of Doctor Who Literature.
This week, a conversation with Lelon Stoldt from the InDOCtrination podcast. Lelon and his daughters are not quite up to The Ark yet, but perhaps this conversation will reveal what at least one of them will think about the story/book.
And a review of 73 Yards, which at the time of release is the most recently broadcast episode of Doctor Who.
Episode 112 - Black Orchid (with Steven B. from New to Who); Boom
For this week we are going back to the Jazz Age, with Doctor Who-specific musical accompaniment by Jim Sangster.
Our Doctor Who Literature guest this week is Steven B., who you can find at the New To Who podcast, The Three-Handed Game: An Avengers Podcast, and Reimagining Doctor Who.
Among several other Doctor Who podcast episodes cited in this week's episode, you can find:
--Steven B.'s appearance on The Library of Impossible Things;
--Jason's Black Orchid appearance on the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast; and
--Jason's appearance on A Kettle and some String;
And please enjoy the following two linked articles, both relevant to this week's DWLit episode:
--James Cooray Smith discusses Paradise Towers and the casting of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor; and
--A Nerdist interview with Steven Moffat on the writing of the newest Doctor Who episode at the time that this episode was released: Boom.
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Episode 111A -- Slipback (with Keith Say); Space Babies & The Devil's Chord
Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Keith Say, a first-time guest here but a long-time guest on Trap One.
One of the two of us really enjoyed the novelization of Slipback, the first radio-only episode of Doctor Who.
The other one of us hated this book. Hated, hated, hated this book. Calling to mind one particular review by the great Roger Ebert.
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DWLit Presents: The Star Beast (with Gary Russell); The Doctor Who Subway Train
Doctor Who Literature presents:
This week, as we are in between the 1986 and 1987 slates of Doctor Who novelizations, please enjoy this following bonus content, all recorded live:
--Jason and Callie explore the Doctor Who-branded subway car in New York City.
--Gary Russell sat down with Jason at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles in February to discuss his novelization of The Star Beast.
--Jason speaks with Dale Santos in the Gally dealer's room.
--David Barksy, Mark McManus (from Trap One), Bill Evenson (from The Frankenstein Minute), and Stacey Smith?, discuss Gally One, and there's a new round of limericks.
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Episode 111 - The Seeds of Death (with Mark from Trap One -- LIVE)
It's late April 2024, but Doctor Who Literature takes us back to mid-February, and to the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, where Mark from the Trap One Podcast joined me over dinner for a My Dinner With Andre-style conversation about the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Death, and its 1986 novelization by Terrance Dicks.
You can view My Dinner With Andre in full here.
The Proclaimers appeared on Late Night With David Letterman in March 1989.
Big Blue Marble was a long-running 1970s/'80s PBS series produced in part by Rick Berman (yes, that Rick Berman). You can view an episode here. The opening theme (sampled in this episode) features lyrics by Berman, music by Paul Baillargeon, and vocals by Whitney Kershaw.
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Episode 110A -- Find Your Fate: Mission to Venus (with Tony Whitt)
This week Doctor Who Literature is NOT covering a Target book. 1986 was a bumper year for Doctor Who fiction, and, in the States, Ballantine Books got in on the action with both the man in the blue box, AND the still going-strong Choose Your Own Adventure craze, with a series of six books in the Find Your Fate series.
Joining me to read through -- and play -- this book is my old friend Tony Whitt of the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast, without which this show might not exist. Tony never holds back on his opinions, and we both have a lot to say. And not just about Doctor Who.
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Episode 110 Part I -- The Celestial Toymaker (with James Goss)
Welcome to the first of two planned episodes about the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Celestial Toymaker. The episode eventually spawned a TV sequel ... in 2023, The Giggle. The novelizations of both stories were released in 1986 and 2024 respectively.
Joining me this week is James Goss, author of the Giggle novelization, and we spend about 90 joyous minutes talking about both books.
Links to other podcasts or posts or websites discussed today:
--James Goss recently appeared on Trap One.
--Shannon Patrick Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel).
--James Cooray Smith's Psychic Paper looks at Trial of a Time Lord.
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Episode 109A - Harry Sullivan's War (with Jim Sangster)
1986 saw the release of the first two Companions of Doctor Who novels, original full-length books rather than novelizations of Doctor Who TV serials. There would only be one more after this one. Harry Sullivan's War was written by Ian Marter, who died tragically young, on his own 42nd birthday, just a couple of weeks after the book's release.
Jim Sangster rejoins me as the guest for this week's book -- and also wrote this week's theme song!
A video for Jim's son is found here. Song written by Jim Sangster and sung by Antony Owen.
The first 8 minutes are an audio essay about the 1986 baseball season. If you're not a baseball fan, you will be after hearing this essay (or not).
Recent guest Dale Smith recently penned an essay about Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, the first Companions of Doctor Who novel, covered on this show (by Dale Smith!) just last month.
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Episode 109 - Fury From the Deep (with Conrad Westmaas)
Returning to Doctor Who Literature this week is Conrad Westmaas, one of the great friends of this show, who brings news from Big Finish and the convention circuit.
After catching up, Conrad and Jason dive into this week's Doctor Who episode and novelization, Fury From the Deep, which may well be one of the 60 greatest Doctor Who stories of the past 60 years.
A link to the choose-your-own-adventure book by Eric Grissom referenced by Conrad during today's interview.
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Episode 108 - The Savages (wtih Nathan from PixelWho)
Very happy to have on the show this week Nathan Skreslet from PixelWho, an innovative Doctor Who online store, which has supplied the bookmark Jason uses while reading the novelizations -- among other art.
Michael Storm from our Mark of the Rani episode has blogged about his appearance and about the book/TV episode.
Shout out to the recent Gallifrey's Most Wanted episode covering The King's Demons, which we covered on Doctor Who Literature last week.
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Episode 107 - The King's Demons (with Jim Sangster)
Jim Sangster is back on Doctor Who Literature, not only with a new song (and, as usual, a banger), but with a new video as well Jim is here to discuss Doctor Who's Season 20 classic The King's Demons.
Recent Jason podcast appearances discussed in the episode include:
Trap One: The Underwater Menace
Trap One: The Daleks -- In Colour
Who & Company: Jason & Dark Shadows
Gallifrey's Most Wanted: Timewyrm: Genesys
Jim's video adaptation of his song for this episode can be found up on our YouTube channel!
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Episode 106 - The Mark of the Rani (with Michael Storm)
Doctor Who fans may love Pip & Jane Baker. Doctor Who may hate Pip & Jane Baker. But Doctor Who fans cannot ignore Pip & Jane Baker, and what unique voice they brought to their scripts and especially their four novelizations in between Seasons 22 and 24 of Classic Who. And now in publication order we reach the first of their books: The Mark of the Rani.
And please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Michael Storm, who makes a very memorable DWLit debut. We've got a lot to discuss.
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Episode 105A - Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma (with Dale Smith)
Here on Doctor Who Literature we take a brief scheduled break from the novelizations. It's still May 1986, and not only did we get the Doctor Who novelization of Timelash, but now we get the debut of the short-lived Companions of Doctor Who line. First up, Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma. Which doubles as the first original Doctor Who novel. Many more would follow.
Joining me to break this one down is Doctor Who novelist Dale Smith.
We'll also discuss Dale's recent Black Archive volume on The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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Episode 105 - Timelash (with Simon Guerrier -- LIVE)
Recorded live at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles last week, Simon Guerrier -- author of the magisterial new biography of David Whitaker -- sits down with me, and Mark from Trap One -- to discuss one of Doctor Who's more controversial episodes... Timelash. Plus, a brief recap of Gally.
Mark and I also collaborated on a Trap One Gally Field Report.
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Episode 104 - Galaxy Four (with Stacey Smith? LIVE)
Live from Los Angeles, it's Saturday night... or rather, Sunday morning at Gallifrey One. Welcome to the first of three live interviews recorded at the con, with another to follow next week and the third to follow in a couple of months. The accomplished and well-traveled and glamorous Stacey Smith? rejoins me to discuss one of Doctor Who's less remembered, but possible underrated, 1960s episodes.
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Episode 103 - The Twin Dilemma (with Graeme Burk)
This week's Doctor Who novelization is The Twin Dilemma. Which, when you rank Doctor Who's TV stories from best to worst, is almost always at the bottom of the list.
And our Doctor Who Literature guest this week is Graeme Burk, from one of Jason's favorite Doctor Who podcasts, Reality Bomb.
Please listen to the two Doctor Who Essentials episodes of Reality Bomb, here and here.
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Episode 102 - The Time Monster (with Si Hart)
After two weeks celebrating "The Gunfighters", we now spend a week tolerating, or at least giving a curt head nod to, "The Time Monster". Why was this one of the last Pertwee stories to be novelized? If the TV scripts were co-written by Barry Letts, why does Terrance Dicks appear to have so little patience for it?
Check out Si's Library of Impossible Things podcast.
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Episode 101-B - The Gunfighters Part II (with Jim Sangster)
Jim Sangster rejoins me this week -- this time in the interviewer's seat -- as we continue our deep dive into The Gunfighters. Why was a particular 1983 Doctor Who hardcover reference book so hard on the story? Did the story effectively kill the historical genre in '60s Who? Was this the lowest-rated story of all time? Is the inclusion of the ballad a betrayal of the Western genre?
Jim and I both love this story to bits. Which is why we spent two weeks on it and not just one.
Sampled or narrated this week:
--The final pitch of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.
--The theme to US TV's The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp.
--Frankie Laine sings the theme to Gunfight at O.K. Corral.
--The theme to Gerry Anderson's Four Feather Falls.
--The Doctor Who discussion in U.S. sportswriter Allen Barra's now out-of-print Inventing Wyatt Earp.
In short, Jim and I had a delightful two weeks in Tombstone. Next week a new guest and I will be off to Atlantis... will that be as much fun?
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Episode 101-A -- The Gunfighters Part I (with Jim Sangster)
Jason loves The Gunfighters. Unreservedly and without irony. It ranked as #13 on his Top 60 of-all-time Doctor Who stories as announced in November 2023.
So this episode about the novelization needs to be big, epic, as widescreen as Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas (and Deforest Kelley!) in John Sturges' Gunfight at the OK Corral.
This week, Jim Sangster and I focus primarily on the behind-the-scenes production chaos behind the making of Doctor Who's third production season, which informs a lot about why Gunfighters is one of the show's last pure historicals. Jason also touches briefly on the context of the novelization, and then next week, both Jim and I are back for more rootin' tootin' Gunfighters.
The Harvey Keitel interview referenced in this episode can be viewed here.
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Episode 100 - The Two Doctors (with Conrad Westmaas, Frazer Gregory, and Jason Davis)
Target Book 100 was a special event for Doctor Who fans. A milestone novel, with a special introduction written by show producer John Nathan-Turner -- his only direct contribution to the Target books -- and with a gold-stamped foil logo and a unique flash above the logo.
Is The Two Doctors -- Patrick Troughton's final live contribution to Doctor Who, filmed about two and a half years before his untimely passing -- as special a story as the novelization? We need three guests to break it down for us this week. Conrad, Frazer, and Jason Davis, all back for repeat appearances.
Conrad co-stars in a brand-new Big Finish release with the Sontarans (and TV Sontaran Dan Starkey!). Buy it here!
Musical inspiration for this episode comes from The Sundays.
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Episode 99 - The Krotons (with Jim Sangster) (CORRECTED)
NOTE: This episode run time should be 92 minutes. A 66-minute truncated version was erroneously sourced first. We have now updated the stream.
And, incidentally, a happy 2024 to all of you at home.
We are no longer on Twitter, but can be found on YouTube, BlueSky, and all your favorite podcast apps of choice.
Jim Sangster rejoins me this week with a specially recorded "Direction Point" intro, a comedy sketch featuring the Krotons, and, of course, a lengthy conversation about Xmas movies and... the Krotons.
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Happy New Year + The Future of This Podcast (with Mark from Trap One)
And, incidentally, a happy 2024 to all of you at home!
Mark from Trap One is my guest this week. We discuss the coming changes to Doctor Who Literature as Jason is deleting Twitter. You can find this show on BlueSky and YouTube going forward, as well as your favorite podcast apps of choice.
Jason and Mark watch Doctor Who's first New Year's Day special -- Volcano, Episode 8 of The Daleks' Master Plan, aired January 1st, 1966 -- and do a live episode commentary. Couldn't ask for a better discussion partner than Mark!
We also say goodbye to Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates), and discuss our plans for the upcoming Gallifrey One convention. You can hear the late Richard's appearance on Trap One here. Jason and Mark's latest Trap One is here.
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