Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast
472 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThere are hundreds of Doctor Who episodes and stories out there and we intend to watch them all! Not just that – We’ll watch, review, discuss, debate, rate and praise and/or poke holes in every episode of Doctor Who, starting with the 1963 pilot. That’s right; we’re beginning with William Hartnell and then working our way forward through time, episode by episode and Doctor by Doctor. In parallel, we’re also reviewing New Who, starting with Eccleston in the 2005 revival. At the time of writing this, we’re already well into the Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi eras! From comparing Dalek and Cybermen military strategems to ranking companions by hairstyle, we’ve got it covered.
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Episodes
C043 The Wheel in Space
July 11, 2016 22:55 - 1 hour - 14 MBThe most convoluted Cyberman plot to date VS. The least professional space station crew ever
B025 Third Anniversary Blooper Reel!
July 03, 2016 23:30 - 11 minutes - 2.97 MBWho Back When is Three Standard-Earth-Years Young!
N036 Human Nature
July 03, 2016 12:05 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBAn army of scarecrows, realistic depictions of racism, and an amnesiac Doctor
C042 Fury from the Deep
June 28, 2016 12:31 - 48 minutes - 11.4 MBLethal bubble baths, homicidal seaweed and the first appearance of the Sonic Screwdriver
C041 The Web of Fear
June 20, 2016 02:50 - 1 hour - 20.8 MBThe epic return of two foes and introduction of a lifelong friend and ally
C040 The Enemy of the World
June 05, 2016 19:11 - 1 hour - 22.6 MBAnother Doctor Doppelgänger and almost as many parallel plots as there are plot twists. Fantastic!
N034 The Lazarus Experiment
May 29, 2016 23:49 - 1 hour - 19.7 MBThank goodness for big, red, scorpion-monster-friendly buttons!
C039 The Ice Warriors
May 23, 2016 02:52 - 1 hour - 22.9 MBIce Warriors, nipple computers and a fruit museum appear in this serial that moves at a glacial pace
N033 Evolution of the Daleks
May 15, 2016 16:33 - 1 hour - 20.5 MBThe Human Dalek wants to put more Human in the Dalek Humans, and the Dalek Daleks disagree.
C038 The Abominable Snowmen
May 08, 2016 23:02 - 59 minutes - 14 MBTurns out the Great Intelligence is the Yeti of this story.
N032 Daleks in Manhattan
April 23, 2016 17:08 - 1 hour - 19.6 MBA sequence of “final" experiments, pig chaps, and what is ostensibly a Monoid with a Dalek for a hat.
N031 Gridlock
April 03, 2016 00:29 - 1 hour - 19.9 MBThe Doctor teams up with an Irish cat and the Face of Boe when Martha Jones gets stuck in traffic.
B024 OxCon 2016 (Oxford Comic Con)
March 12, 2016 12:58 - 25 minutes - 6.09 MBFor a weekend, Oxford played host to cosplay, celebs and myriad nerdalicious events as Comic Con invaded the city of dreaming spires.
N030 The Shakespeare Code
March 07, 2016 00:47 - 1 hour - 18 MBDoc and Martha are nearly showered in excrement on their first non-date and Shakespeare couldn't be randier in this pseudo historical
C037 The Tomb of The Cybermen
March 02, 2016 16:04 - 1 hour - 18.7 MBRacist Space-archeologists unearth a fortune in Cyber-stencils in this legendary serial.
N029 Smith and Jones
February 21, 2016 14:47 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBIdentical cousins, rhino police and a little old lady from space. We review Martha Jones' debut as The Tenth Doctor's new companion.
C036 The Evil of The Daleks
February 13, 2016 17:21 - 1 hour - 16.1 MBA Karl Marx lookalike delivers spiffing technobabble while time travel goes straight down the drain in this senseless yet hugely compelling serial.
A017 Wirrn Dawn
February 02, 2016 20:31 - 55 minutes - 13 MBCow bugs, loud noises and a thorough misinterpretation of the concept of race memory.
B023 Surprise January Bloopers
January 31, 2016 01:21 - 14 minutes - 3.7 MBFret not, we’re still here! In fact, take these Surprise January Bloopers as proof!
B022 The Husbands of River Song – The 2015 Christmas Special
January 06, 2016 22:57 - 55 minutes - 12.9 MBA pointless sidekick, an inconsistent robot and a massive get-out-of-jail-free card. Fun!
B021 The Who Back When 100th-Episode Podcast Extravaganza
December 23, 2015 10:10 - 1 hour - 18.5 MBWe assemble to celebrate our 100th episode!
N028 The Runaway Bride
November 29, 2015 21:22 - 1 hour - 17 MBA Killer Christmas Star, a frustrated bride, and it turns out our world is just cosmic dirt wrapped around a spider nest
C035 The Faceless Ones
November 23, 2015 00:57 - 49 minutes - 12 MBAliens commit identity theft and wield foreign stamps in Ben and Polly's final serial
N027 Doomsday
November 15, 2015 20:40 - 1 hour - 19.7 MBIt's Rose's last episode (sort of), with Sarcastic Daleks, a Doc who doesn't give a damn, and a Tyler family reunion
C034 The Macra Terror
November 08, 2015 23:47 - 41 minutes - 10.1 MBTeam building, space crabs and this one time at band camp
B020 Doctor Who comic book reviews #1
November 08, 2015 23:29 - 32 minutes - 8 MBFor once, we review Doctor Who in TWO dimensions.
N026 Army of Ghosts
October 31, 2015 18:50 - 1 hour - 15.9 MBGiant levers, office romance, and apparently everyone's OK with ghosts
C033 The Moonbase
October 24, 2015 18:06 - 1 hour - 18.3 MBCoffee breaks, national stereotypes and some classic 60s sexism are the cornerstones of this classic Cybermen serial
N025 Fear Her
October 17, 2015 13:24 - 1 hour - 20.1 MBSuperfluous singing, the power of love and some of the worst parenting ever.
N024 Love and Monsters
October 05, 2015 19:24 - 1 hour - 16.6 MBELO, an obese alien and a living cement fleshlight in possibly the most divisive episode of Doctor Who to date.
C032 The Underwater Menace
September 28, 2015 21:07 - 43 minutes - 10.7 MBThe lost city of Atlantis, fish people, and a mad scientist who ISN’T The Doctor
B019 The Magician’s Apprentice – Instant reaction review
September 20, 2015 01:27 - 31 minutes - 7.8 MBAn old foe, older friends and a creepy guy entirely made of snakes.
B018 The First Doctor Retrospective
September 12, 2015 10:12 - 1 hour - 23.7 MBIt all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard. Time to review the highlights and low-points of The First Doctor.
N023 The Satan Pit
September 09, 2015 22:11 - 54 minutes - 13 MBAss-shots, vent farts and a fire-breathing ethicist.
B017 Capaldi’s Series 8 Retrospective (Part II)
September 05, 2015 11:25 - 53 minutes - 12.9 MBA moon dragon, a bush junkie and the Master who could have been. It’s our look back on Capaldi’s Series 8 (Part 2)
B016 Capaldi’s Series 8 Retrospective (Part I)
August 28, 2015 23:31 - 49 minutes - 11.9 MBA dinosaur, the afterlife and a badass new Doctor. It’s our look back on Capaldi’s Series 8 (Part 1)
C031 The Highlanders
August 09, 2015 13:31 - 41 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Doctor pretends to be German, disguises himself as an old lady and commits fraud in soon-to-be-a-companion Jamie's first ever serial
B015 2nd Anniversary Blooper Reel
July 22, 2015 22:23 - 11 minutes - 3.22 MBHoly Smokes! Who Back When is 2 years old! It must be time for some celebratory bloopers.
N022 The Impossible Planet
July 07, 2015 11:39 - 58 minutes - 13.5 MBOod, Electric Brain YoYos, and demonic, temporary tattoos.
C030 The Power of The Daleks
June 28, 2015 00:21 - 58 minutes - 13.6 MBMultiplying Daleks and surveillance fruit on the planet Vulcan? I'm in.
N021 The Idiot’s Lantern
May 19, 2015 00:20 - 1 hour - 18.1 MBA large hat is about to be placed on a little lady while the rest of us are being turned into faceless drones.
C029 The Tenth Planet
May 08, 2015 00:47 - 1 hour - 21 MBCybermen make their first appearance on Doctor Who, and William Hartnell his last (for a while), in this legendary classic serial.
N020 The Age of Steel
April 18, 2015 16:40 - 57 minutes - 13.7 MBThe Doc euthanises a young bride-to-be, tortures millions of people to death, and then Mickey and Jake go to France.
N019 Rise of the Cybermen
April 12, 2015 21:57 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBA crazy billionaire creates the Cybermen in a bizarro London, and alternate-universe-Mickey (aka Ricky) is really angry.
C028 The Smugglers
March 26, 2015 00:30 - 50 minutes - 12.2 MBThe tale of one solitary woman in drag, stuck at an ultra-violent, 17th-century sausage fest while pirates look for hidden booty.
N018 The Girl in the Fireplace
March 12, 2015 15:57 - 1 hour - 18.8 MBClockword androids watch as the Doctor snogs a woman he met when she was a little girl. And then there's a horse.
B014 Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
February 16, 2015 22:48 - 1 hour - 20.2 MBDoctor Who now has a hot niece, Ian's been replaced by Bernard Cribbins and there's plenty more Cushing for the pushing!
B013 Springtime for 347
February 01, 2015 13:06 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MBA Bonus Doctor Who Adventure to say thank you to our iTunes Reviewers #2
C027 The War Machines
January 30, 2015 00:12 - 1 hour - 22.7 MBA maniacal, telepathic computer dispatches clunky Dalek-wannabees to enslave mankind. Why? Because shut up, that's why.