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!

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• 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!

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• 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!

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• 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

It’s time for some overanalyzing, pondering and intellectual cogitating as the Three Who Rule examine the second anniversary of the Disney+ and Doctor Who agreement, as well as a fascinating survey from the UCLA (partially funded by Disney) of what teens are both watching and want to see! Plus, a detailed hashing-over of where to start watching Doctor Who if you’re a novice, some random tat, and Part Three of our Terry Nation Miniscope covering Planet of, and Death to, the Daleks!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Two Years since Doctor Who/Disney+ Partnership was announced
• Teens Want To See Less Sex, More Friendship In Movies & TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds
• Disney Unveils First Star Wars And Marvel TV Show 4K Blu-Rays With Dolby Vision
• Official Doctor Who website: Where to start with Doctor Who?
• Ncuti Gatwa wins Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs for DW; Euros Lyn wins for directing Heartbreaker
• Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 Standard Edition due Dec 2
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Gallifrey: Echoes Through Eternity due November 2024
• Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Deadly Strangers due December 2024

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 3
• Planet of the Daleks
• Death to the Daleks

Controversy stalks the BBC as the question is asked: did they censor Ncuti Gatwa’s comments on The Graham Norton Show about a possible third season of New New Doctor Who? And the answer is…likely not. What is much more probable is the Three Who Rule excoriating the current state of television while referring to a recent Deadline story on that same topic, but enough of these dour matters! There’s a new Gallifreyan translator that can turn your words into circles, an Adventures in Type and Space book on the way featuring the work of Sid Sutton, and part two of our Terry Nation Miniscope, where we delve into his work on “The Chase”, “Mission to the Unknown”, and “The Daleks’ Master Plan”! Assemble the Galactic Council!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The BBC allegedly did not censor Gatwa’s remark on The Graham Norton Show
• Katherine Pope of Sony Pictures laments gaps between TV seasons
• Official Doctor Who Gallifreyan Translator
• Adventures in Type and Space: The Sid Sutton Collection due November 25
• Alvin Rakoff died

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 2
• The Chase
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Daleks’ Master Plan

It’s a new and wonderful era as Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action dollies are both announced and will trounce your bank account! That’s in addition to intrigue and mumblesuch on the set of the Graham Norton Show as insight-sharer Ncuti Gatwa mentions movement on the Series 3 front, which was then mysteriously absent from the broadcast! There’s a contest to see the upcoming Xmas special “Joy to the World” in your local cinema, unless you live in Canada, in which case you can go to hell, and ITV is now premiering Coronation Street online previous to broadcast, a move sure to perturb elderly Corrie-heads! All this and part one of the Terry Nation Miniscope multi-part spectacular awaits.

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ncuti Gatwa says he’s filming Doctor Who Season 3 in 2025 (not included on Graham Norton)
• Doctor Who Magazine #609
• Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday action figures coming October 17
• BBC contest to win local cinema screening for “Joy to the World” (UK/US only)
• ITV premiering episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITVX before evening broadcast
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Audio Novels: The Lord of Misrule audiobook due Jan 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: Doctor Who and the Brain Drain due Feb 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Hellwood Inheritance starts March 2025

Miniscope:

• Terry Nation, Part 1
• The Daleks aka The Dead Planet aka The Mutants
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth

It’s a banner week for VAM enthusiasts as comedian, writer and Blu-Ray documentary impresario Toby Hadoke joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion and mutual Doctor Who actor identification session with Steven, plus we have some ruminating on both a Variety article about toxic fandom and foment a conspiracy about the lack of 1980s Cybermen in Big Finish! Could it be an audio phonic conspiracy to commit David Banks erasure? Listen…and find out nothing!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who Magazine 609
• Variety article on toxic fandom
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: Genesis of the Cybermen due March 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – Planet Krynoid: Nightfall due April 2025
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight Parts One and Two due April and May 2025

Interview:

• Toby Hadoke

It’s a banner day for filmic snipping enthusiasts as we have an exclusive (we emailed, he said yes) interview with film editor and 1960s Doctor Who alumnus Chris Hayden, who speaks with Steven about working on “Planet of Giants” and “The War Games”, hanging out with New Hollywood legends in the early 1970s, and more! Plus we have Big Finish news, bookywook updates, and a special project that Steven has worked on in tribute to the late and great James Earl Jones. That’s right, Sally!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Nicola Bryant, Wendy Padbury, Andrew Smith, Nev Fountain added to Gallifrey One guest list
• Andrew Smith Just Giving page
• Mark Ayres added to guest list for Chicago TARDIS
• TWBTLATS filming in Mallorca, Spain in October
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 Blu-ray coming to North America on December 10
• Fifteenth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver now (officially) on sale
• Ncuti Gatwa appearing on The Graham Norton Show on October 11
• Doctor Who: Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children due October 24
• Doctor Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival due November 21
• Doctor Who: Into the Vortex now available
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: The Doctor and Carnacki due in November
• Big Finish: New monthly Torchwood stories revealed for October-January
• The Box of Delights 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray due Nov 25 in the UK
• Vader Sessions (Remastered)

Interview:

• Chris Hayden