It’s an exciting week for Doctor Who content as a new “Joy to the World” clip surfaced on Children in Need featuring snark, dinosaurs, and a Silurian in a briefcase along with a teaser from the episode’s writer, one Steven Moffat! Plus a “Coming in 2025” trailer for Disney+ that does not feature Doctor Who at all? Controversial? Not really. Plus Ncuti Gatwa in Vanity Fair being handsome as usual, a sneak peek at updated Blake’s 7 effects, and an exciting adventure in space and time as we present a special anniversary-themed Classic Series Commentary of the raw pilot recording of “An Unearthly Child”, a flub-filled exploration of early 1960s television production!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads
• Gallifrey One call for panelists
• Doctor Who teaser on Children in Need
• Children in Need raised over £39M
• Steven Moffat teases “Joy to the World”
• Doctor Who not listed in Disney+ “Coming In 2025” Trailer
• Ncuti Gatwa profiled in Vanity Fair (paywall)
• Gatwa posted some clips of the Vanity Fair photoshoot
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Updated Effects
• Colin Baker reunited with his Doctor Who title sequence
• Big Finish: Faithful Friends due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Call Me Master: Inner Demons due Feb 2025
• AMC completes purchase of BBC America for $42M

Commentary:

• An Unearthly Child – The Pilot
• RFS Commentary on YouTube

Things have taken a turn for the truly awful in the world this week, but Radio Free Skaro is here to assuage your worries (Steven) or at least acknowledge them (Warren). If you’re looking to distract yourself from the latest grim fandango, we have news of deleted scenes coming November 23, unaired footage of David Tennant running around the TARDIS set in “The Star Beast”, props on the auction block, Big Finish art critiques, and an interview with Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-Ray contributors Jonathan Helm, Chris Chapman, and Chris Thompson!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who deleted scenes coming November 23
• Doctor Who Magazine 610 released
• Doctor Who: Daleks – The Ultimate Guide due November 21
• TARDIS prop from “Eve of the Daleks” up for auction for Children in Need
• Doctor Who Unaired footage: introduction to the TARDIS from the Star Beast
• Big Finish Companion Chronicles: Families due Apr 2025
• Big Finish Short Trips 2024 winner announced, will be released for free Dec 29
• Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series B available now
• The Andrew Skilleter Doctor Who Art calendar 2025 available

Interview:

• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray
• Jonathan Helm
• Chris Chapman
• Chris Thompson

It’s a Current Producer-Palooza at Gallifrey One this coming February with Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins announced as guests for Gallifrey One, and that’s not all on the news list including a “world exclusive preview” of “Joy to the World” coming to Children In Need on November 15, some Robert Banks Stewart iPlayer controversy, Sylveste(r) McCoy missing episodes discovered, an action dolly report and more, including the concluding Terry Nation Miniscope segment, covering “Genesis of the Daleks”, “The Android Invasion”, and “Destiny of the Daleks”! Do you have the right to listen? You do!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins announced as guests for Gallifrey One
• “World exclusive preview” of Joy to the World on Children in Need on November 15
• Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom removed from BBC iPlayer
• Blake’s 7 Production Diary – Series B available now
• Luke Harrison interviews Richard Martin from 2018
• Two missing 1978 TV episodes featuring Sylvester McCoy have been found
• Doctor Who: Titan Bi-Generation Figurine Set
• Doctor Who: Titan Fifteenth Doctor Figurine
• Doctor Who 15th Doctor Calendar
• Black Archive: Under the Lake/Before the Flood released
• Doctor Who: Fear Death by Water hardcover by Emily Cook due May 29
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Stuff of Legend – The Live Show due December
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Infiltration due January 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 4
• Genesis of the Daleks
• The Android Invasion
• Destiny of the Daleks