Doctor Who: New To Who
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsEver wanted to start watching Classic Who but just don't know where to begin? Join Colin, Daniel, and Steven on an introcast through the best of Doctor Who!
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Episodes
Episode 27 - A New To Who Christmas Special: Ho Ho Hum! (Our Crap Favourites)
December 25, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBA NEW TO WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: HO HO HUM! (OUR CRAP FAVOURITES) New to Who bring you gifts you probably didn’t really want this Christmas, and that you will only end up throwing out along with the wrapping on Boxing Day. Merry Crapmas - it’s our Ho Ho Hum special! Because it’s been that kind of year, Col, Dan, and Steven have taken to looking for the good in the Doctor Who stories that perhaps aren’t as loved by many as they are loved by them. Is there even one McCoy story that Dan c...
Episode 26 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
August 30, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBNEW TO WHO and the THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH New to Who lands in a London of the future - a city of fear, devastation and holocaust . . . a city now ruled by DALEKS. Col, Dan, and Steven meet a team of underground resistance workers, among the few survivors, but after an unsuccessful attack on the Dalek spaceship, they are all forced to flee the capital. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the secret centre of DALEK operations . . . and the mysterious reason for th...
Episode 25 - Horror of Fang Rock
April 26, 2020 03:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBNEW TO WHO and the HORROR OF FANG ROCK Off a remote rocky island a few miles off the Channel coast stands the New To Who lighthouses. There have always been tales of the three beasts of New To Who, but when the Tardis lands here with Leela and the Doctor, the force they must deal with is more sinister and deadly than the mythical beasts of the past. It is 2020, the threat of coronavirus is common, and the formless, gelatinous mass from the future must use the New To Who lighthouses’ genera...
Episode 24 - A New To Who Twelfth Day of Christmas Special: Bah Humbug! Worst.Episode.Ever.
January 04, 2020 23:30 - 59 minutes - 48.6 MBA NEW TO WHO TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: BAH HUMBUG! WORST.EPISODE.EVER. New to Who materialises on Twelfth Night in a Parallel Whoniverse where the natural order of things has been turned upside down. It is in this shadow dimension that Parallel Dan, Parallel Col, and Parallel Steven have gathered to glare menacingly at each other through one eye while wearing eye patches over the other as they proclaim their picks for the stinkiest stories of Classic Who for our Worst.Episodes.Ev...
Episode 23 - Spearhead from Space
October 27, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBThis episode of New To Who is dedicated to dedicated to Sir Terrance Dicks NEW TO WHO and THE SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE In this, their twenty-third incarnation, NEW TO WHO and Returning Friend of the Podcast, Pete, grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the AUTONS - living giant-sized plastic-modelled ‘humans’ with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork replicas and tailors’ dummies whose murderous behaviour is directed by the NESTENE CONSCIOUSNESS - a malignant, squid-like monster of cosmic pro...
Episode 22 - The TV Movie
July 28, 2019 03:00 - 2 hours - 119 MBNEW TO WHO and THE TV MOVIE “We’re back - and it’s about time!” Late July, 2019: the brink of a new episode of New To Who. An anachronistic Australian podcast materialises in San Francisco (or is that Vancouver?) amid a hail of laughter which finds its intentional targets - three strange men who walk out of the pod. But Col, Dan, and Steven are not the only podcasters in Vancouver. Doctor Who royalty, Jeremy Radick - who appears as Gareth in the 1996 TV Movie - is there as well, joining N...
New To Who: A Hinchcliffe and Holmes Retrospective
April 28, 2019 03:01 - 1 hour - 120 MBNEW TO WHO: A Hinchcliffe and Holmes Retrospective New to Who sit down to talk with friends and fellow podcasters from all over the world about the perceived golden age of Doctor Who; the Hinchcliffe and Holmes era - but is it…? Join Liz Myles and Paul Cornell from the Hammer House of Podcast, Nathan Bottomley from Flight Through Entirety, Jeremy Radick, Ben and David from Metebelis II, Christopher Burgess from Radio Free Skaro and Katrina Griffiths from Verity!, Erik Stadnik from Doctor W...
Episode 21 - The Ark In Space
April 28, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBNEW TO WHO and THE ARK IN SPACE At a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully-automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth… Thousands of years later, New To Who return. Col, Dan, and Steven find things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under attack from the giant WIRRN, deadly creatures who, in their lust for power, now threaten the future of the whole Human Race… New To Who are bac...
New To Who: Interview with Christopher H Bidmead
January 27, 2019 13:50 - 59 minutes - 136 MBNEW TO WHO meet CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEAD It is with great pleasure that we give Our #SweetDorks an interview with the Script Editor of Doctor Who during the Season 18 and writer of Logopolis, Christopher H Bidmead. Dan, Steven, and Col are joined by Christopher, who relates the story of how he became a writer, actor, and script editor of Doctor Who. Over the course of our chat, we hear Christopher talk about what it was like to inherit the show from his predecessor, Douglas Adams, what it wa...
Episode 20 - Logopolis
January 27, 2019 13:50 - 1 hour - 115 MBNEW TO WHO - LOGOPOLIS In theory Dan and Steven should be able to change †heir appearance to blend in unobtrusively wherever they happen to materialise. In practice, however, because of a fault in the chameleon circuit, they always look like a police box - a minor inconvenience the they now hope to correct. Fixing the mechanism involves a visit to Perth and a trip to the planet Logopolis - normally a quiet little place that keeps itself to itself. But on this occasion the meddling presen...
Episode 19 - A New To Who Surprise Christmas Special For Our Sweet Dorks
December 25, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBA NEW TO WHO SURPRISE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FOR OUR SWEET DORKS New to Who looks back at our 2018, asking our guests for their personal all-time favourite Classic Doctor Who story EVER! Join Dan and Steven under the Christmas tree in a West Australian summer as they unwrap their gifts to Our Sweet Dorks. (Re)introducing: The Watcher Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training. NEXT MONTH: LOGOPOLIS
Episode 18 - The Caves of Androzani
November 25, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI From the moment they land on the planet Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for Dan and Steven and their young companion, Bridget. They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun-runners, ruthless Federation troops, and the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths of the caves with his android army. Key to this struggle is spectrox, the most valuable substance in the universe. Suitably processed, spectrox is an elixir of life...
Episode 17 - The Tenth Planet
October 28, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE TENTH PLANET Dave Kitchen from The Doctor Who Show blinked again. Lights were moving towards him through the murk of the blizzard. Even as he looked, the lights changed into figures clad in silver-armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow deliberate step. Horror-struck, Dave reached for his microphone. BUT THEY CONTINUED MARCHING... Dan and Steven have arrived in Sydney. The discussion of a story of firsts by this invincible, fearless podcast has begun-and the...
Episode 16 - Genesis of the Daleks
September 30, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE GENESIS OF THE DALEKS The Place: Scotland Time: The day Verity!’s Liz Miles joined New To Who After over fifty years of futile discussion between fans, Steven thinks this is the perfected form that carries Doctor Who into eternity - the dreaded GENESIS OF THE DALEKS. Without feeling, conscience or pity, Steven is joined as ever by Dan and this time by the wonderful Liz Myles to travel back through time in an effort to totally deconstruct this terrible menace of the futu...
New To Who: Interview with Andrew Cartmel
August 26, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBNEW TO WHO meet ANDREW CARTMEL We are privileged to bring you an extended interview with the Script Editor of Doctor Who during the entirety of the Sylvester McCoy era; Andrew Cartmel! Join us as Andrew charts the behind-the-scenes story of a golden period for Doctor Who, starting as an aspiring writer working in a technology firm before getting a call from Producer John Nathan-Turner... Along the way, we discuss such things as the team of writers who brought the Seventh Doctor and Ace to...
Episode 15 - Ghost Light
August 26, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBNEW TO WHO - GHOST LIGHT Perth, 2018 In the sleepy, rural parish of Perth, New To Who is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim pod, but the owners, the reclusive and controversial Dan and Steven, receive occasional visitors. The Reverend Nathan Bottomley and James Sellwood (of the Flight Through Entirety podcast), have travelled from Sydney to refute Dan and Steven's blasphemous theories of Doctor Who. The very last story filmed and the third to last story screene...
Episode 14 - Vengeance on Varos
July 29, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBNEW TO WHO - VENGEANCE ON VAROS Dan and Steven have stalled in Sydney, and it is only on the planet Varos that they can find his precious Zeiton-7 ore they need to continue their podcasting through time and space. Arriving on the planet, Dan and Steven meet the rebel Todd Beilby and incur the wrath of Richard Stone, representatives of the most excellent Doctor Who podcast, Flight Through Entirety. The hunt is on for these rebel friends. And as they are pursued through the corridors of the...
Episode 13 - The Robots of Death
July 01, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE ROBOTS OF DEATH On a desert planet the giant sandminer crawls through the howling sandstorms, harvesting the valuable minerals in the sand. Inside it, Dan and Steven relax in luxury, while most of the work is done by the robots who serve them. Then JR Southall arrives - and the mysterious deaths begin. First a suspect, then a hunted victim, JR must find the hidden killer - or join the other victims of The Robots of Death. The penultimate story of the acclaimed Season 1...
Episode 12 - Enlightenment
May 27, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBNEW TO WHO - ENLIGHTENMENT In response to a warning of great danger given by Rob Irwin from The Doctor Who Show podcast, Dan and Steven set new co-ordinates and the TARDIS materialises on the heaving deck of a Sydney racing yacht. But as they all soon discover, this is no ordinary yacht – and no ordinary race. Dan, Steven, and Rob are competing for an unusual prize – ‘Enlightenment’... The cover of the original imprint of the 1984 Target novelisation for ENLIGHTENMENT is by Andrew Skillet...
Episode 11 - Inferno
April 29, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBNEW TO WHO - INFERNO Inferno is the name of a top-secret podcast to penetrate this story's crust and release a major new guest, Erik Stadnik from the Doctor Who: The Writers' Room. A crisis develops when a noxious Dan and Steven leak out as drilling progresses - the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings. As the Earth's plight worsens, Erik is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force of INFERNO.....
Episode 10 - The Invasion
March 25, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE INVASION Materialising in Sydney, Dan and Steven meet the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, led by Brigadier Nathan Bottomley and Sergeant Brendan Jones from Flight Through Entirety. Together, they team up to infiltrate and investigate the nefarious Tobias Vaughn and his bumbling henchman, Packer!, at the headquarters of International Electromatix; the largest computer and electronics firm in the world. But in reality, it's just an excuse to talk abou...
Episode 9 - The Seeds of Doom
February 25, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBNEW TO WHO AND THE SEEDS OF DOOM In the desert wastes of sun-burnt Australia, a strange pod is unearthed, buried deep in the sands. Curiosity turns to alarm as the pod begins to grow - then horror when suddenly it cracks open and Dan and Steven shoot out, mercilessly seeking the nearest live victim... In London, PAUL CORNELL is bewildered. Called in to fight this unknown horror, will he be in time to save Earth from the rapidly spreading tentacles of the KRYNOID, a giant man-eating monster...
Episode 8 - The Curse of Fenric
December 04, 2017 08:33 - 1 hour - 144 MB"It's a bit Michael Jackson 'Thriller'" After seventeen centuries trapped in the shadow dimensions, Steven and Daniel are reunited with Bridget, only to discover that they are all themselves descendants of the original Vikings who carry THE CURSE OF FENRIC! The last story of the original series of Doctor Who save one, this post-modern masterpiece is written by the creator of Ace, Ian Briggs, and showcases the best qualities of the show under the script editorship of Andrew Cartmel. D...
Episode 7 - Day of the Daleks
October 22, 2017 13:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB"Two words, gentlemen: Hubba hubba" Col, Daniel, and Steven are joined by Pete, a mysterious human from the 21st-century, to 'time-jump' back into the 20th century so as to discuss a high-ranking Classic Doctor Who episode; DAY OF THE DALEKS! Another instance of Doctor Who being ahead of its time, this time-y wime-y plot by Louis Marks has since been cribbed by the likes of The Terminator and is inspired itself by the work of no less a sci-fi great than Ray Bradbury. Featuring the re...
Episode 6 - Tomb of the Cybermen
September 24, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour - 107 MB"I love testicle head!" Materialising on a sand pit alien planet - this time in black and white - our heroic trio, Daniel, Col, and Steven, discover the ice tombs of Telos, now home to the hibernated Cybermen led by the terrifying Cyber Controller! Perhaps the apotheosis of Doctor Who's "Base Under Siege" genre that was a staple of 1967's Season Five (aka the "Monster Season"), TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN - written by the creators of the Cybermen, Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis - is laden with at...
Episode 5 - City of Death
August 20, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MB"Who ordered the soup?" Bridget joins Daniel, Colin, and Steven as they run through the streets and galleries of Paris in 1979, actually (more of a table wine, shall we say?) for CITY OF DEATH! Doctor Who's largest ever watching audience of 16 million people tuned in to watch this at the time, and none of them were wrong to do so. Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS, at a time just before he became famous for his HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series, this story is widely seen as one the great...
Episode 4 - Remembrance of the Daleks
July 23, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MB"Time will tell - it always does." If you have never seen REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS before, we envy you! Doctor Who's silver jubilee season kicked off in incredible style with a return to its very beginnings set in 1963, and a London already infiltrated by Daleks. Written by BEN AARONOVITCH, this story established what Doctor Who could and would be in the 1990s - and beyond. The story also introduces many of the more domestic and character-driven elements we would later see when the ...
Episode 3 - Earthshock
June 18, 2017 12:26 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB"She's like a dinner lady in space" The Beryl Reid Appreciation Society (i.e., Colin, Daniel, and Steven) return for EARTHSHOCK, in which the new and young Fifth Doctor faces one of his deadliest and long-lost enemies. Who survives? Who doesn't? And what terrifying direction does the show's new Script Editor have in store for our favourite celery-and-cricket-uniform-wearing hero? Written by ERIC SAWARD, this story is a highlight of Season 19, and is the first of its kind of grittier a...
Episode 2 - The Terror of the Autons
May 21, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 105 MB"Who de 'eck arr you?" New-to-Who Ed joins Colin, Daniel, and Steven for THE TERROR OF THE AUTONS , where the Third Doctor meets his companion, Jo Grant, for the first time while we are introduced to the Master, who plans to take over the world with the aid of an army of plastic men! This is the story where the formula for what Doctor Who is today can be traced back to, and is written by Robert Holmes for the Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks production team. The cover painting for the o...
Episode 1 - Terror of the Zygons
April 23, 2017 17:00 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MB"Set your TARDIS co-ordinates for confusion!" In the first of our adventures proper through Time and Space, arguably the definitive Doctor and companion team land in Scotland, 1975 to join forces with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and U.N.I.T to overcome the shapeshifting Zygons! A classic from the Hinchcliffe and Holmes 'gothic horror' period of Classic Who, it's TERROR OF THE ZYGONS. With kind permission from and great thank to Mr Chris Achilleos for the use of his cover painting f...
Episode 0 - An Unearthly Child
April 23, 2017 11:53 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB"Hello, Sweet Dorks!" Daniel, Colin and Steven nervously introduce themselves and their hare-brained idea for an intro cast to classic Doctor Who, designed for 'New Who' fans. But now that all the preparations made over pub lunches are over and they have finally hit record, can they deliver? What better way to start this great spirit of adventure than at the very beginning with a mild curiosity in a junkyard. The first-ever episode of Doctor Who, AN UNEARTHLY CHILD... but episode one o...