Ep. 50 – The 50th Special

Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast

Show Notes & Links:

• Vortex Manipulators should be hard to find
• It was, of course, an Oilers jersey
• Erika Ensign can be heard on Verity, Lazy Doctor Who & many other Incomparable podcasts
• Steven Schapanksy is the other half of Lazy Doctor Who & can also be heard on Radio Free Skaro & The Memory Cheats
• Night of the Doctor was released on 14th of November, 2013
• Steven’s interviews with Paul McGann can be heard on Radio Free Skaro #510
• Steven Moffat was the show runner for Doctor Who from 2010-2017
• Karn & the eponymous Sisterhood, first appeared in The Brain of Morbius
• Coincidentally, The Sun Makers was set on Pluto
• Britbox is not available in Australia, but we do have Youtube
• Paul Cornell & Lizbeth Myles are writers who share a podcast, Hammer House of Podcast
• Paul has written numerous Doctor Who Stories, including Father’s Day, Human Nature & The Family of Blood
• Liz has written the 12th Doctor audio Distant Voices & forthcoming River Song adventure Abbey of Heretics
• She can also be heard on Verity
• Both Paul and Liz are blogging in the lead up to Xmas
• What Paul said to himself that night, all those years ago, was a quote from The Outer Limits
• The other, less impressive mini-episode was The Last Day
• The Eight Doctor got his hair cut, & new outfit, in the Big Finish audio story Fugitives
• The Brain of Morbius was written by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes
• Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords
• The renown Discontinuity Guide was written by Paul, Martin Day & Keith Topping
• The Sisterhood of Karn also appear in The Deadly Assassin
• Ohila, played by Gilly Brown is not to be confused with Ohica, played by Clare Higgins
• John Hurt played Caligula in I, Claudius
• Peter Cushing is a fine actor who once played The Doctor
• Turlough didn’t get many lines in Resurrection of the Daleks
• The Time Monster is a, somewhat divisive, Third Doctor story
• Josh Kinal introduced the OM to podcasts and was one of the hosts, with Glenn Peters, on the long running Boxcutters
• The Doctor Who Technical Manual was released in 1983
• Paul McGann starred in Withnail & I
• Adventure Time is an animated TV series
• There are many differences between The Doctor & Gregory House
• Bluey is a short-form animated TV show from Australia
• The creepy question is from The Empty Child
• These notes were a much bigger job than usual

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