Radio Free Skaro #979 - Doctor Who and The Invasion, Starring Peter Ustinov

It’s time for some overanalyzing, pondering and intellectual cogitating as the Three Who Rule examine the second anniversary of the Disney+ and Doctor Who agreement, as well as a fascinating survey from the UCLA (partially funded by Disney) of what teens are both watching and want to see! Plus, a detailed hashing-over of where to start watching Doctor Who if you’re a novice, some random tat, and Part Three of our Terry Nation Miniscope covering Planet of, and Death to, the Daleks!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Two Years since Doctor Who/Disney+ Partnership was announced Teens Want To See Less Sex, More Friendship In Movies & TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds Disney Unveils First Star Wars And Marvel TV Show 4K Blu-Rays With Dolby Vision Official Doctor Who website: Where to start with Doctor Who? Ncuti Gatwa wins Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs for DW; Euros Lyn wins for directing Heartbreaker Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 Standard Edition due Dec 2 Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity due November 2024 Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024 Miniscope: Terry Nation, Part 3 Planet of the Daleks Death to the Daleks

Controversy stalks the BBC as the question is asked: did they censor Ncuti Gatwa’s comments on The Graham Norton Show about a possible third season of New New Doctor Who? And the answer is…likely not. What is much more probable is the Three Who Rule excoriating the current state of television while referring to a recent Deadline story on that same topic, but enough of these dour matters! There’s a new Gallifreyan translator that can turn your words into circles, an Adventures in Type and Space book on the way featuring the work of Sid Sutton, and part two of our Terry Nation Miniscope, where we delve into his work on “The Chase”, “Mission to the Unknown”, and “The Daleks’ Master Plan”! Assemble the Galactic Council! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The BBC allegedly did not censor Gatwa’s remark on The Graham Norton Show Katherine Pope of Sony Pictures laments gaps between TV seasons Official Doctor Who Gallifreyan Translator Adventures in Type and Space: The Sid Sutton Collection due November 25 Alvin Rakoff died Miniscope: Terry Nation, Part 2 The Chase Mission to the Unknown The Daleks’ Master Plan

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits. Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton) Doctor Who Magazine #609 Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17 BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only) ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025 Miniscope: Terry Nation, Part 1 The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants The Keys of Marinus The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who Magazine 609 Variety article on toxic fandom Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025 Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025 Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025 Interview: Toby Hadoke

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!   Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list Andrew Smith Just Giving page Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10 Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11 Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24 Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21 Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK Vader Sessions (Remastered) Interview: Chris Hayden

On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024 Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025 Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television Geoff Hinsliff died David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died

Despite a dearth of real news, and because of one glorious piece of fake news from the Onion, the Three Who Rule faff on less than usual this week, with a look at various Blu-Ray controversies, David Banks in Doctor Who magazine, a Classic Who event at the cool-name-having Electric Palace movie theatre. Plus our Classic Series Commentary for the final episode of “Planet of the Spiders”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Onion: Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’ Doctor Who Magazine #608 Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray due October 24 Blake’s 7 Series 1 collection available for pre-order (Amazon US) Classic Doctor Who night on September 19 at the Electric Palace Doctor Who Limited Edition Tankard Commentary: Planet of the Spiders Episode 6

A Gallifrey One guest announcement tops the RFS headlines as Jenna Coleman aka Clara Oswald is set to arrive in Los Angeles this upcoming February! Plus Russell T Davies is in the latest SFX to explain how TV works to you nerds, so what better time for the Three Who Rule to add their uninformed insights to the pile? An Emperor Davros dolly is on the way from B&M, Ncuti Gatwa’s theatrical spectacular The Importance of Being Earnest heads for cinema screens and more, before a Classic Series Commentary on the penultimate episode of both “Planet of the Spiders” and the Jon Pertwee era!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Jenna Coleman announced as guest of Gallifrey One RTD says Season 3 renewal won’t come until after Season 2 airs BFI redux screening of The Happiness Patrol on September 29 B&M 2024 Remembrance of the Daleks – Emperor Davros B&M 2024 The History of the Daleks #18 Ncuti Gatwa’s The Importance of Being Earnest getting UK cinema release Doctor Who finalists for five BAFTA Cymru Awards (aka The Welshies) Breakdown of the first scene of The Power of the Daleks Commentary: Planet of the Spiders Episode 5

The Radio Free Skaro crew dips further into their nostalhia-tinged well of archive videotape fetishism this week, in addition to deep analysis of the Youtube algorithm, Star Wars Outlaws, and Steven’s never ending quest to ignore current media trends and lose himself in production minutiae. And just to add to the second-hand smoke, rampant alcoholism and leaded gasoline, it’s back to 1974 for our Classic Series Commentary of “Planet of the Spiders”, Part the Fourth!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who BBC Proms RTD mentions the DW Prom will be on UK TV at Christmas BFI Blake’s 7 screening happening October 5 Blake’s 7 Series 1 Collection PDF Archive BBC Videotape editing training film c. 1967 1969 print interview with Frazer Hines discovered, with rehearsal shots from The Space Pirates Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024 Commentary: Planet of the Spiders Episode 4

Warren has returned from his European travails, and just in time as casting for The War Between the Land and the Sea (henceforth known as TWBTLATS) is announced to much fanfare, A Disney poobah nods approvingly at Doctor Who as an idea, Catherine Tate herself hosts the BBC Proms, and Blake’s 7 news takes the internet (well, us) by storm with an amazing box set on the way for the UK (and North America?). All this as a preamble for some of the greatest acting in British televisual history as we commentate on Part Three of Planet of the Spiders! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Cast announcement for The War Between the Land and the Sea The War Between the Land and the Sea readthrough of all 5 eps happened Mon Aug 19 Disney Chief Backs ‘Doctor Who’ As “Really Good Fit” After Ncuti Gatwa’s First Season Catherine Tate hosting the 2024 Doctor Who Proms Aug 26 Radio Times’ Doctor Who Proms preview with Murray Gold Doctor Who: The Adventures Before Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2024 Doctor Who: The Sequels Hardcover – 20 Mar. 2025 Doctor Who Icons 1 Paperback – 24 Oct. 2024 Doctor Who Icons 2 Paperback – 21 Nov. 2024 Doctor Who Icons 3 Paperback – 24 April 2025 Bad Wolf launches the Blaidd Writers Program, RTD will mentor winners Big Finish Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter: Saving Time due Oct Blake’s 7 Series A coming to Blu-ray on November 11 (UK) Blake’s 7 Series A collection trailer Commentary: Planet of the Spiders Episode 3