Season 3, Episode 5: The Visitation

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re going back to the 17th century, a time of plagues, fear, fires and space fish with disco robots. That’s right, it’s classic Fifth Doctor story The Visitation! As always,…

Season 3, Episode 4: The Stones of Blood

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re exploring the prehistory of the British landscape, which includes waaaaaay more robot judges than you’d expect. That’s right, it’s classic Fourth Doctor story The Stones of Blood! As always, you…

Season 3, Episode 3: The Time Monster

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re experimenting with time travel before heading to the Bronze Age to see the fall of Atlantis, in classic Jon Pertwee story The Time Monster. UK listeners, don’t forget that…

Season 3, Episode 2: The Tomb of the Cybermen

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re revisiting a classic story, the Patrick Troughton sci-fi horror tale The Tomb of the Cybermen. Plus, as a special bonus, we’re taking a look at the 1959 Hammer…

Season 3, Episode 1: The Gunfighters

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re looking at the William Hartnell oddity The Gunfighters, a divisive story with a peculiar brand of what Sidney Newman politely called “mickey-taking.” As always, you can check out…

Season 2, Episode 6: The Curse of Fenric

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode, we’re looking at the vampire-Viking-WWII story The Curse of Fenric, a classic tale of the Sylvester McCoy era. Stay tuned below for plenty of photos and stuff! As always, you can…

Season 2, Episode 5: The Mark of the Rani

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the podcast where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! In this episode we look at the … classic? … story The Mark of the Rani. It’s got living history, industrial heritage and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As always, you can go to…

Season 2, Episode 4: Terminus

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the show where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! This episode we’ve got early medieval inspiration, a tale of production woes and more unfulfilled potential than you can shake a stick at. Disco space pirates in bubble helmets! Drug-addict corpse knights!…

Season 2, Episode 3: Pyramids of Mars

Welcome back to Pledge Break, the show where two old friends talk about the Doctor Who version of history and the history of Doctor Who! This episode we are talking about the classic Tom Baker story Pyramids of Mars, and it’s a humdinger, with one of the greatest villains of the classic Who era in Gabriel Woolf’s Sutekh.…

What we missed!

Our recent episode on classic Third Doctor story The Daemons was a lot of fun if we say so ourselves, but we did miss out one really cool story that seems relevant to it — the case of the Devil’s Footprints! This is a mysterious event that occurred in Devon in February 1855 after a heavy…