Electric Shadow Dan Starkey: Serials and Cinema

Modern TV has melded the old-school “chapter play” format with modern,
lower-cost (and at once higher quality) production methods. The result is
episodic content that is more than giving feature-length movies a run for
their money. Erika Ensign (Verity, Lazy Doctor Who) joins Strax the
Sontarran himself Dan Starkey to reveal how Doctor Who is succeeding where
multimillion-dollar franchise features are hit-and-miss.

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Modern TV has melded the old-school “chapter play” format with modern, lower-cost (and at once higher quality) production methods. The result is episodic content that is more than giving feature-length movies a run for their money. Erika Ensign (Verity, Lazy Doctor Who) joins Strax the Sontarran himself Dan Starkey to reveal how Doctor Who is succeeding where multimillion-dollar franchise features are hit-and-miss.

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Special Guests

Erika Ensign is on the Verity and Lazy Doctor Who podcasts, and you can find her on Twitter
Dan Starkey is also on Twitter, as well as IMDb. He wrote and appears in Big Finish radio drama Terror of the Sontarans (available now on Amazon).

Show Notes and Links

Serial film
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe was one of the foundational serial influences on the original Star Wars
Doctor Who
Strax
Remembrance of the Daleks
Peter Capaldi won a 1995 Academy Award for Best Short Film (Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Ant-Man (2015) Blu-ray on Amazon
Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014) Blu-ray on Amazon

some of the faces of Dan Starkey discussed in this episode