Doctor WHOdcast
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Handsome Whovians Charlie Harris and Will Paxton go deep into the wonderful world of Doctor Who. Join them, episode by episode, to praise, critique, and joke about all things Gallifreyan. A brilliant podcast for those that love nostalgia, nerdiness, and early 2000s special effects.
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Episodes
The Christmas Invasion (w/ Emma Phelan)
December 25, 2020 12:26 - 1 hour - 103 MBMerry Christmas to all the Doctor WHOdcasters in the universe. Will Charlie and special guest Emma Phelan return to record the first and in our opinions most festive Christmas Special, "The Christmas Invasion" We discuss Roses' season 1 to season 2 hair, the David Tennant references in the TARDIS wardrobe, How the sycorax look better with the helmet on and how on earth does there whip work, and compare stories of our family traditions when watching the Christmas special Netflix Synopsis: R...
Season 1 Reunited
December 23, 2020 18:21 - 1 hour - 217 MBOn the eve before our Christmas Invasion special, Charlie and Will rewind back through Season 1 of the Doctor WHOdcast with a little help from our friends and co-hosts Alex Wilcox, Chavonne Brown, Faye Lawlor and Tom Thornhill. Yes that's right, it's a good old fashioned REUNION EPISODE! Join us as we talk about the romance of season 1 compared to the honeymoon period of season 2, the Doctor Who Movie being the Room of the whoniverse, Christopher Ecclestone lightness and joy and Henry Van ...
The Parting of the Ways (w/ Tom Thornhill)
December 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBIt’s the end. But the moment has been prepared for.” Charlie, Will and returning guest Tom go straight in and dive… into the US election result that was announced the day before recording. And then we talk about one of the best final episodes of a Doctor Who season there has ever been. Join us as we compare Joe Biden to Wilfred Mott, explore the differences between the finales of Classic Who and Modern Who, talk about that landmark kiss (and no I do not mean the Doctor and Bad Wolf) and sc...
Bad Wolf (w/ Tom Thornhill)
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBAfter 5 long months Will and Charlie have finally reached the season 1 two-part finale! Will, Charlie and special guest Tom Thornhill (or as he is now known DJ TJ Thornhill) dive deep in our longest and episode to-date, delving into the major and the minutia. We examine the significance of the three main television companies banding together for Doctor Who, revel in how Strewd is a fabulous reference to successful queer big brother contestants, reminisce about Doctor Who Top Trumps, and fury...
Boom Town (w/ Faye Lawlor)
November 17, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBWe are back and with returning special guest Faye Lawlor to review the dark buddy comedy that is Boom Town. We talk about the best fart joke of 2005, the best multi-person TARDIS crew, the oddly pipe-cleaner esque egg and the alternate planned version of Episode 11 that made all our jaws drop. Netflix Synopsis: While in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, the Doctor encounters an enemy he thought was dead. Theme tune inspired by the Doctor Who Theme by Murray Gold. Written by Will ...
The Doctor Dances (w/ Chavonne Brown)
October 07, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBJoin Charlie, Will and returning special guest Chavonne Brown as they review the second part of Moffat's gothic horror/queer romp - The Doctor Dances. We discuss Charlies hatred of the squareness gun, Gay Uncle Vernon, the plot spoiling next time for Boom Town, the beginning of Moffatisms and Jenna Coleman as a Captain Marvel plot device. We also ask important questions like in the previous nine episodes, is the Doctor always carrying a banana? Why does the Doctor never save Ramadan, Eid or ...
The Empty Child (w/ Chavonne Brown)
September 22, 2020 16:23 - 1 hour - 108 MBEpisode 9 out now and it's our second TWO PARTER SPECIAL. On the podcast this week we are joined by the wonderful Chavonne Brown for the episode that scarred all of us as children and still as adults, Steven Moffat's The Empty Child. We talk about the importance of Captain Jack for queer representation on TV, the wonderful guest cast, adorable child actors, Roses T-Shirt, the campness of the colour move and somehow squeeze in more appreciation of the Mox of Balhoon. Netflix Synopsis: The...
Father's Day
September 08, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBCharlie and Will finally meet in person (socially distanced of course) to dote on the brilliant Father's Day. We fall in love with Pete Tyler (THE Daddy), continue to chart The Doctor's hatred of men, explicate the nuances of Rose's near perfect cry acting, give some love to Birmingham Drag Legend Ginny Lemon, compare Adam with Wesley Crusher and end by giving an emotional love letter to Christoper Ecclestone Netflix Synopsis: When Rose alters the course of events and saves her father, sh...
The Long Game
August 25, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBThis week on the podcast Charlie and Will discuss the most classic Doctor Who episode of the new who series, The Long Game. We ask if the Doctor is a doctor of medicine, appreciate Christopher Ecclestone's eagerness to hug, invent our own Turn Left(esque) take on the Walking Dead, ponder if Rose and the Doctor are intergalactic swingers, queen out on Simon Pegg and sing the praises of Solo: A Star Wars Story. Netflix Synopsis: the Doctor, Rose and Adam visit the year 200,000, where Earth's...
Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996) - Part 2
August 16, 2020 17:25 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBIn Part 2 of the Doctor Who Movie, Charlie and Will explore all the different sides to Eric Robert's Master, including Bruce the Terminator, Zombie Master, The Hood from Thunderbirds Master and finally Hades from Disney's Hercules Master. We also chat about how Sacha Dwarnan is similar to Jonathan Price's Master, wonder what on earth temporal drift actually is (apart from a need for speed game), and whether Hayden Christensen actually likes sand. Theme based on the Doctor Who Theme by Mur...
Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996) - Part 1
August 14, 2020 12:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBWe are now halfway through Season 1 and so we thought we would give our whodcasters a little treat by recapping the wonderfully bizarre Doctor Who TV Movie. This was the first episode of the podcast ever recorded by Will and Charlie, so it's even more wibbly wobbly than usual. Join us as we present our thesis on why we love Doctor Who, the problematic orientalism of Chang Li, the high-camp of Grace Holloway’s introduction, Queer as Folk discrediting Paul McGann and #jizzsnake. Get it trendi...
Dalek (w/ Alex Wilcox)
August 11, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBWith the announcement that Christopher Ecclestone will be returning to the whoniverse with Big Finish, what better time to recap the episode that made us trully marvel at his take on the Doctor, Dalek. Alex Wilcox joins Charlie and Will as we discuss the steampunk, brassy new who Dalek, laugh about Henry Van Statten's alternate name, cringe at Adam and Roses dialogue and breifly touch on Jubilee, Robert Shearmans Big Finish masterpiece that spawned one of the best acted episodes of modern ...
World War 3 (w/ Faye Lawlor)
July 27, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBIt's World War 3 for the UK and the only bomb dropped was by Mickey Smith. Faye is back for one of the most tangential and whimsical podcasts that we have ever done. We talk Slitheen in feather bowers, imagine the Made in Chelsea cast hunted down by Danny Dyer and praise the Slitheens body positivity. Victory should indeed be naked! Netflix Synopsis: The Doctor, Rose and Parliament official Harriet Jones discover the motive behind the alien crash-landing but are trapped inside 10 Downing Str...
World War 3
July 27, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBIt's World War 3 for the UK and the only bomb dropped was by Mickey Smith. Faye is back for one of the most tangential and whimsical podcasts that we have ever done. We talk Slitheen in feather bowers, imagine the Made in Chelsea cast hunted down by Danny Dyer and praise the Slitheens body positivity. Victory should indeed be naked! Netflix Synopsis: The Doctor, Rose and Parliament official Harriet Jones discover the motive behind the alien crash-landing but are trapped inside 10 Downing Str...
Aliens of London (w/ Faye Lawlor)
July 21, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBIt's Episode 4, there are Aliens in London and we have reached our first TWO PARTER SPECIAL! Charlie and Will are joined for both episodes by the whovian with that good flair, Faye Lawlor. We talk about the sponge density of a jelly-baby spaceship cake, cringe at all the unnecessary farting, distinguish whether there is a place for bad morals in good sex and talk a lot about Mickey Smith. Netflix synopsis: Rose and the Doctor return to the present day and witness the crash of an alien airc...
Aliens of London
July 21, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBIt's Episode 4, there are Aliens in London and we have reached our first TWO PARTER SPECIAL! Charlie and Will are joined for both episodes by the whovian with that good flair, Faye Lawlor. We talk about the sponge density of a jelly-baby spaceship cake, cringe at all the unnecessary farting, distinguish whether there is a place for bad morals in good sex and talk a lot about Mickey Smith. Netflix synopsis: Rose and the Doctor return to the present day and witness the crash of an alien airc...
The Unquiet Dead
July 10, 2020 16:00 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBThis week on the Doctor WHOdcast we review the spooooookyyy 'The Unquiet Dead', an episode so scary to our seven year old selves that we have not rewatched this episode since it aired! Join Charlie and Will as they make Star Trek double entendres, praise the impeccable work of Simon Callow and ponder how Doctor Who was not able to get better extras. Netflix Synopsis: Travelling to the year 1869, The Doctor and Rose investigate the origins of a blue gas that brings the corpses in a funeral ...
The End of the World
July 03, 2020 16:02 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBThis week join Charlie and Will as they travel to the year 5 billion with the Doctor and Rose. The formerly Handsome, now alluring Whovians natter about the immortal bitchiness that is Lady Cassandra and the baffling presence of a curtain in the middle of a space station. Netflix Synopsis: The Doctor and Rose board the TARDIS and travel to year 5 billion on the eve of Earth's apocalypse. Theme Music inspired by the Doctor Who Theme by Murray Gold. Written by Will Paxton, produced by Tom ...
Rose
June 26, 2020 09:03 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBJoin Charlie and Will for Rose, the triumphant return of Doctor Who as we reunite with the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, and much much more. We talk about the 'terror' of the nestene conciousness, our love for Jackie Tyler and when Charlie met the eternal Doctor, Tom Baker Netflix Synopsis: Department store clerk Rose Tyler meets the mysterious Doctor when he rescues her from a squad of killer mannequins. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/will_paxton BLAM UK: https://blamuk.org/ Woke Doctor Who...