The Doctor Who Show

This month, we’re sinking our teeth into State of Decay, the gothic Fourth Doctor adventure from 1980 that drops the TARDIS crew into a crumbling medieval world with vampires, ancient Time Lord history, and a castle that looks like it’s auditioning for a Hammer film.

Before that, we kick things off with the usual mix of news and short topics. Then, after the State of Decay chat, we open the mailbag for a ton of feedback from our listeners on a number of topics.

Enjoy, dear listener.

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For the 59th episode of THE LIST MAKERS, we discuss our top military stories from Doctor Who. These are the stories where soldiers, strategy, command structures, and the ethics of conflict collide with the Doctor’s worldview, sometimes reinforcing it, sometimes challenging it outright.

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Year 11 of the podcast begins with an episode shaped almost entirely by you.

We opened things up and invited listeners to ask us anything, and the response was brilliant. Doctor Who, genre TV, movies, music, what we do in real life — it’s all in here, as we work our way through your questions and let the conversation go where it wants to.

There’s a quick run through the news up top, a big listener mailbag on the back end, and plenty of tangents along the way. We love our listeners, and this episode is very much for you.

That’s January wrapped for another year — hope you enjoy it.

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This episode of Alternate Galaxies heads to Deep Space Nine, the Star Trek series that broke the mould, and maybe still divides fans more than any other.

Dave has lived with DS9 for decades, knows its arcs, its politics, its slow burns and big payoffs. Rob is coming in cold(ish), watching it properly for the first time in the past few months and seeing it all with fresh eyes. Quite a contrast!

The guys dig into what DS9 was trying to do, how it evolved over seven seasons, the shift from episodic comfort food to long-form storytelling not just on DS9 but on 90s TV overall, and whether its darker tone and moral greys actually pay off. 

Along the way they talk characters, war, religion, politics, Ferengi episodes, and all the ways this show remains the black sheep of the Star Trek canon.

Join them as they look at one of sci-fi TV’s most ambitious series.

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For the 58th episode of THE LIST MAKERS, we discuss our top nostalgic stories from Doctor Who. These are the stories which resonate alongside our personal history with the show and thus push all the right nostalgia buttons for us.

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