Doctor Who: 42 To Doomsday

Episode 112 - Press Play on (Video) Cassette (Part 2) We conclude our look back on the Doctor Who VHS range via the fandoms' orifice that was DWB! Listen as the afterglow of the recovery of Tomb gives way to rancour and bile! Marvel at how the titles of 30th anniversary year are leaked to the outrage of some. We look at the classic stories that were overlooked and instead replaced with 'patchwork' titles selected to keep a former producer gainfully employed! What missing episode of Doctor Who is the equivalent Schrödinger's Cat? Was Roger K Barrett any relation to the former lead singer of Pink Floyd? And find out which one of our listeners broke the embargo and got to watch Tomb of Cybermen 3 days before everyone else!!! All this plus we 'celebrate' our 10th Anniversary by taking a small (and self-indulgent) stroll down memory lane to reminisce about the good old days. All this, some special appearances from 'phantoms of the past!' and listen to the very end for some Tomb of the Cybermen radio goodness from 1992!! Katy Manning Live in Australia - https://www.sirensofaudio.com/p/katy-manning-live-in-australia-october.html Evolution of the Toy Dalek (and others!) - https://sevenzeronet.wordpress.com/ebooks/ Birds of Passage by Rob Mammone - https://tinyurl.com/2499trde Aron's Collectibles - https://aronscollectables.com/

Episode 111 - To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the home video release of Revenge of the Cybermen we stroll down memory lane and present to you an (extremely) potted history of the Doctor Who video range through the rabid eyes of fandom and its vehicle of choice DWB! In this first installment, we discuss how the range came into existence, the non canon covers, naughty edits, how many times particular titles were re-released and re-released yet gain and just like the Ashes chat about how Australia won the 'best Tom Baker stories released in Australia before the UK' stakes. All that plus our Tomb of the Cybermen on VHS reminises and latest* news including Mark’s calm and measured response on the return of Mantovani Gold! * Latest at the time of recording!

Episode 110 - Everyone in fandom remembers the bombshell news late in 2022 heard exclusively in episode 106 – Unleash the Hoard(ers)! of the 42 to Doomsday podcast, announcing the discovery of a hoard of audio-visual material recorded off domestic television in Australia dating back to the early 1970s. We promised you, our loyal listeners, that we would keep you up to date with any new information as it came to hand. Well, we come through with our promise big time by bringing you an exclusive interview with Professor Jason Bainbridge, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, the man responsible for taking on this vast collection and integrating it into the media studies course at the University of Canberra. Listen as Professor Bainbridge discusses his history with the show, the role popular culture plays in our present day lives, the state of the Australian television and film industries, before he moves on to discuss the vast scope of the collection, what he hopes to achieve with it academically, and his hopes for what might be waiting to be brought blinking into the light of day. 42 to Doomsday – your go to podcast for the inside running on this fascinating story!

Episode 109 - Doctor Who has always had a troubled relationship over the years with Australian censors. In this episode we demonstrate how troubled with the able assistance of researcher Mike Pummel who has dug up a treasure trove of correspondence relating to the many cuts that were inflicted upon our favourite show! We discuss the process of how episodes of Doctor Who and other TV shows were submitted for review before transmission and what needed to be excised to achieve a ‘family friendly’ rating during the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Was there any method to their madness? Or was it down to an individual's view on how to protect fragile Australian minds from British filth and violence? What other shows failed to escape the dreaded guillotine and ‘Holy censorship!’, we detail the cuts made to Caves of Androzani Part 4 and would have Mark’s ‘directors cut’ suggestion for the ending saved the show from cancellation? All this plus Rob goes back to the sweet, sweet 90s and gives us all a taste of Young Rob's percolating bile against the New Adventures! Janet Fielding in Australia details: https://www.sirensofaudio.com/p/janet-fielding-down-under-sydney-hobart.html Sophie Aldred in Australia details: https://www.sirensofaudio.com/p/sophie-aldred-in-sydney-13th-may-2023.html

Episode 108 - It's our contractually obligated New Years Eve Special and we conclude our 1982 archival dragging sifting through the mountains of fan correspondance sent to both Celestial Toyroom and Skaro! Listen as fans react to the recently transmitted Season 19. Was Davison's Fifth Doctor a 'hit' or 'miss' from the off? What is the marketing potential of plastic celery? Gasp in wonder at the high praise for a certain script editor that continues to echo some 40 years later! All this...plus Rob comes clean with his true feelings for a certain Antipodean 80's companion! 42 to Doomsday will be back in 2023 for our 10th year!! (Should we change our name to 52 to Doomsday?)

Episode 107 – We are back (and just in time for Xmas!) While Rob is forages through the hoarder's house for any fragments of Power of the Daleks, Mark, Dave and Richard reconvene! We reminisce about our favourite and not so favourite convention anecdotes where discuss our (naughty and nice) encounters with Doctor Who fans and guests alike. Gas as we regale you with tales of guests who made a beeline for the buffet lunch and then shout through. And let your mind boggle at the stories of fist fights in the men's room! The dreaded metal pepper pots are the focus of our Target Book Club this episode! We whisk ourselves away via the power of prose to Skaro, Mechanus, Spiridon and...umm...Skaro again and too close things out we put forward our nominations for Fanwank of the Year Award! All this plus our tribute to the late, great Chris Boucher, find out which co-host’s bottom appeared in the DWB Compendium AND will Dave’s coffee table survive the channelling by Richard of Doctor Who’s number one fan???

Episode 106 - Rob and Mark are joined by our special guest, Aron Challinger and in this episode listen to Aron recount how he came across one of the largest and oldest collection of domestic home video tapes in Australia and the strange story attached to them and the possibility of missing material Doctor Who or otherwise included in this haul?

Episode 105 - As the Chris Chibnall / Jodie Whitaker era of Doctor Who fades into the time vortex, Rob, Mark and special guest Rob Lloyd discuss (not review!) the 13th Doctor swan song / BBC Centennial special 'The Pow(d)er of the Doctor'. Join us as we highlight out likes, dislikes and what we thought about those numerous (French) kisses to the past. Did they add or diminish our enjoyment of this story and which Rob will align to which host's view of the episode? All this plus the news that Doctor Who will be joined at the hip to the House of Mouse and what impacts this will have to particularly overseas audiences and current licensees of the program. And should we be worried by the Americanisation of our favourite programme?

Episode 104 - During April of 1983, Peter Davison was shipped from good ol' Blighty to the colonies for a breakneck promotional tour of our Great Southern Land to meet and greet the general public and Doctor Who fans within the confines of our largest department chain, Myer! This 'blink and you miss it' visit lives on in the memories of only the select few who attended. However, through the miracle of the internet, the mighty Australian Doctor Who zine, Zerinza, plus the recollections of our wonderful listeners, Mark and Rob decamp for 1983 and revisit Peter Davison's tour of our shores where he dazzled hundreds, nay, thousands of impressionable Australian youths. Join us as we recount those wonderful times as well as an interview with local journalist, Chris Middendorp, who was there on the day Doctor Who came to Melbourne! All this plus 'who was that terrible woman?' Mrs (or should that be Lieutenant!) Scott?, Rob continues his work as the 'unofficial' advocate of South Australian tourism and listen to the very end for a bizarre interview between the great man and an Australian journalist way back in the day!

Episode 103 - It's Xmas time but not the one you are expecting! Mark, Dave, Richard and Rob are back together on the couch warding off the winter chills by talking Doctor Who! Listen to us reminisce about watching the Dalek movies on the big screen in glorious 4K where we were so close we could feel their fire, and then burrow our way down the nostalgia tunnel to the good old pirate VHS scene where we discuss how we got to see and acquire vintage Doctor Who and how technological advances along the way made it much easier to watch out favourite shows without waiting 18 months to hit Australia TV. That meddlesome Master is the focus of our Target book club and we are completely bemused by some of the more umm ‘interesting’ turns of phrase from two director's turned authors and crack open our new (and undamaged) Season 22 box sets and discuss the new documentaries, the season as a whole and is there anything else left to say about this turbulent era of the programme? All this plus our mid year fanwank of the year awards and will a certain audio production company who ‘love stories’ be given a free pass or again take away the grand prize!

Episode 102 – We conclude our look at the Doctor Who news via Celestial Toyroom issues from 1982! Find out who is on board for the Five / Six Doctors special; the 20th Anniversary documentary that was so good no one can remember it; examine whether Terminus will be terminated; find out who was to return in the ‘The Return’ and what Doctor Who artefacts did those pesky Vandals get their hand on! All this plus: Which 'Excellent' story topped the season poll, the Doctor Who Gift would we buy, why the producer of Doctor Who issued a ‘cease and desist’ order and Rob’s reaction to a certain ex-Doctor Who composed a theme song for a children’s TV show!!

Episode 101 – We are back and we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the debut of the 5th Doctor Who by dragging through our fanzine collections of yesteryear, looking at all the Doctor Who news from 1982. It’s so chunky we are splitting this over 2 episodes! Travel back with us to the year where the first computer virus was unleased on the world, the greatest microcomputer designed by man was released and MJ was on top of the charts (Shamone!). In this episode we see how in Doctor Who Land fans were awaiting ‘Time ---- Flight’ with baited breath! Find out WHO topped the Daily Mail ‘Hero’ awards, there is an in-depth interview with the actress who played the Doctor’s companion Byssa (!) and coverage of the cancellation crisis of 1982 (and was the producer the first to know?) All this plus our new ‘Battle of Wits segment, listener feedback (both written and verbal), and by unpopular demand Mark unleashes his latest batch of ‘jokes’! #prayforrob

Episode 100 – Australia’s oldest Doctor Who podcast is back and what a way to celebrate our 100th episode by the BBC announcing the newest of new Doctors, NCUTI GATWA! Mark and (real) Rob gather to discuss the impact and implications of this stunning casting news before Mark and Melbourne’s own Rob Lloyd thrash out (our long delayed Top 5 Master stories - with a dash of real Rob and a whole heap of appalling acting!) as well as the suggestions from our loyal listeners / followers! So pour yourself and nice glass of TCE, drezzz for the occasion and strap yourselves in, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking with us for the last 100 episodes and here’s to 100 more (at least!)

Episode 99 - Mark and Rob are (surprised) and delighted to welcome acclaimed Doctor Who researcher and writer Richard Molesworth on to the podcast to discuss his soon to be released book The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990. Richard gives us an in-depth view of writing the book, the new nuggets of information he uncovered while putting the book together and offers a candid assessment of JNTs time as producer. We also discuss Richard's other work, particularly Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes and his involvement as Project Manager on the Doctor Who Blu Ray range including the upcoming Season 22 Blu-ray set! The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 is released 1 May 2022, but we urge all our listeners to pre-order directly from Telos Publishing here: https://telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-who/jnt-diary/

Episode 98 – In this episode we flip the ‘what is the best story to show a non-Doctor Who fan?’ criteria on its head and discuss with the chaps from the Diddly Dum podcast ‘what would be the worst story you could ever introduce someone to Doctor Who?’ Both the classic and new series are not safe from their ‘suggestions’ including some ‘sacred cows’ (blasphemers!) being slain! Loads of listeners suggestions culminate in a Top. 10 countdown that surely will be on any Doctor Who fan’s ‘avoid’ list. All this and how will they ‘fix’ A Fix with a Sontaran on the upcoming Season 22 boxset, our thoughts on cash for conventions and the demise of Australia’s greatest TV export (and no its not Love Thy Neighbour – In Australia!)

Episode 97 – It's time again for our regular (and slightly delayed) 7th staff Christmas party (or as we are calling it our Summer Special!) where Mark is joined by Dave, Richard and Rob (via time eddy!) in a 2 hour plus extravaganza talking all things Doctor Who! We digest and regurgitate over Flux, discuss what makes a good TV producer, especially in the context of our favourite program, chat about our Top 3 Deaths in Doctor Who, Target Book Club where we revisit the novels of writers who only had one stab and then....our big one! That's right, the much heralded Fanwank of the Year Awards © where we nominate our ‘highlights’ for 2021. Does Big Finish runaway with all the awards, or do we have bigger fish to fry? So strap yourselves in as we chat and laugh our way through our topics. Plus, who is the Laura Ashley of Doctor Who and more importantly will Rob’s Time Eddy be able to smash through the Vortex without the power of Patreon funds!!??

To celebrate the release of Season 17 on Blu-Ray which includes the 235th version of SHADA since it’s untimely(?) demise in 1979, Mark presents a soon to be award winning dramatisation / audio book / poorly impersonated reading of his then contemporary review of the J-N-T cobbled together version, which appeared in issue 73 of the Doctor Who Club of Victoria’s fanzine Sonic Screwdriver. An interesting footnote to this is that J-N-T did actually sell his memoirs to the Cardiff Pravda (a.k.a Doctor Who Magazine) after this ‘review’ was published! 42 TO DOOMSDAY WILL RETURN IN 2022!!

Episode 96 - We are back (delayed slightly more than anticipated) with our latest podcast where we debut our new ‘Fake Views’ segment where our ‘lovely’ listeners put forward scenarios that they know we are absolutely diametrically opposed to, forcing us to surrender all our morals and values to argue in the affirmative! Listen to us squirm whilst we expound on the musical genius of Keff McCullough, toss relentlessly as we argue that David Bradley is the ‘definitive’ First Doctor and listen aghast as Rob tears out his on entrails arguing that Horror of Fang Rock is not only the worst Tom Baker story ever, but actually predicted Brexit! All this plus our thoughts on the Galaxy 4 (our eyes!) animation, listener feedback and more rumours than a Fleetwood Mac album!! 42 TO DOOMSDAY WILL RETURN IN 2022!!

Episode 95 - Just like RTD and ABBA we have returned, this time dragging our way through the archives for the year 1981! We've plucked the very best from the pages of Celestial Toyroom and TARDIS for your listening pleasure! But before all that we discuss the ‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’ return of RTD to our favourite television series. Using information from our mole burrowed deep into the BBC, we talk about how RTD pitched his new concept to the BBC to regain control in time for the 60th anniversary and beyond and then we discuss what his Five Year Plan means! Then we dig into the fan discussion of Season 18 - Kit Pedlar is dead! Marrying Time Lords! Did Uncle Terry sign on to novelise Evil of the Daleks? And what was the fallout of K9’s doggie bag?

Episode 94 – Doctor Who exhibitions are ‘showcased’ in this episode and helping us walk down the promenade of yesteryear are John Collier and Alex Storer, the team behind 2020’s FANTASTIC ‘Blackpool Remembered’ publication. We discuss the book which celebrates the legacy of the Blackpool Exhibition, and also other exhibitions that followed. We discuss how the publication came together, the sourcing, sifting of the many contributions from fans and exhibition staff alike and the reaction to Blackpool Remembered and what readers can expect from Blackpool Revisited. We chat about our experiences visiting the Blackpool Exhibition, what we bought from the shop, a ‘doppelganger’ Bessie and was it really the 6th Doctor downing a crafty pint at a pub in a small Welsh village? All this plus Rob and Mark’s delayed and muted response to the departure of the Pip and Jane Baker of the new series. Plus, we respond to our overflowing mailbag of listener's comments about their view of the current state of the Omni-Rumour ™ and another ‘What If?’ scenario is posed to us! Visit the Blackpool Revisited Site at: https://blackpoolremembered7485.wordpress.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blackpool7485 Who, Where & When: http://sevenzero.net/who_where_when.html Alex Storer's Doctor Who Inspired Art: ortfolio/doctor-who/