Show 11: Doctor Who (The Edge of Destruction)

Welcome to our final show of the year, and so we can keep our suitable festive theme started in our last show when we covered The Box of Delights we now serve you the true turkey that is The Edge of Destruction.

This is the third show in the first run of Doctor Who, and was first broadcast in 1964. It is the ultimate example of what American TV would call a “bottle” show – in that it contains no guest cast and no new sets. It also, as you will know if you have seen it, contains almost no acting and very little script!

This story is not available by itself, but forms the final disc in the “The Beginning” boxed set that contains the whole first three classic Who stories. And a good thing to, becuase really you wouldn’t choose to buy this thing by itself!

But you might not agree with us, so if not please do not hesitate to get in touch about it! Contact info is on the panel to the right, and tell us what you thought of this story. You cab also leave comments here if you are a member of our Facebook Group.

You can download the show manually by clicking here.

That’s it for 2008, we will see you in a fortnight with our first show on a Doctor Who story that is only available on audio, Marco Polo. That will be released on or around the 9th of January.

From all of us here at Cadmium2 and Futility Radio, have a cracking new year!

“Oh No He Isn’t!”

According to BBC News, Tennant dismissed speculation that he’s leaving Doctor Who. Well, bully for him. It doesn’t mean that he isn’t though. He still says that he’s currently only doing Season 4 and four specials. Which means that Tate’s comment that he’s not doing any more series still stands.

And call me an old cynic but doesn’t anyone else feel that they trot this story out every time they want to drum up publicity for a new series/special? I will nail my colours to the mast right now: I think that he will regenerate in the last special and series 5 will have a new Doctor (as well as a new Executive Producer).

Only a couple of years to go before we find out if I’m right…

Your feedback…

We recently put a poll on the main page about the content of the show. As regular listeners will know we put out two shows every month, one based on Doctor Who, one based on something else, and we wanted to know if you thought we had got the balance right, hence the poll. 68% of you told us we were getting the balance about right, with 12% saying that we put too much emphasis on Who, and the other 20% wanting more Who content! We are pleased with this because it suggests that we got the balance about right.

The next show (which is Doctor Who based) will be out on Boxing Day, and from that point the show will come out every other week on a Wednesday. (At the moment we do two per month, so going every other week means that you will get 26 shows per year out of us instead of 24!) We are also planning to go weekly for two months this year – May and June – so there will be plenty of content available for those of you who are going on holiday and have long journeys there and back.

Please continue to give us feedback, either via this blog or our Facebook Group, we hope to use it in future shows.

See you Boxing Day!

Time for a Change?

According to Catherine Tate, on this morning’s Jonathan Ross show on Radio 2, Season 4 could well be “David’s last series”.

Before all the fans of David Tennant (of which I am one) start hurling themselves from the top of the Millennium Stadium, I should point out that this is not really a surprise. He wasn’t going to stay forever, was he?

Having said that, just because this may be his last series doesn’t mean he won’t do the specials. Let’s be honest, I don’t think the production team would shoot themselves in the foot by casting a new Doctor for a series of sporadic specials. The poor sod wouldn’t get a proper chance to settle in with the viewer, which would be damaging for the “franchise”.

I think that, if Tate is right, Tennant will regenerate in the last special, ready for a new boy to take over in Series 5.

Having said that, it’s all speculation and may be a load of cobblers. But even if it IS true, Tennant has done wonders for the shows popularity and, in my view, is probably the single greatest thing to come out of New Doctor Who. A proper Doctor, properly played. He’ll have done 3 series as our hero, plus another 4 specials – and been the Doctor in the eyes of the public for four years, giving a consistency to the show that was sorely needed after Eccleston’s early departure.

Show 10: The Box of Delights

As it is Christmas, (well almost anyway) we have chosen a Christmassy themed topic for the first December show – the BBC’s 1984 adaptation of John Masefields book The Box of Delights. There has been a discussion thread set up on our Facebook group, so please feel free to leave us some feedback on our thoughts or some of your own!

To download the episode manually, click here.

If you don’t yet own your own copy of The Box of Delights click here for some links that will enable you to buy it!

In two weeks time (yes, that’s Boxing Day folks!) we will be back with a show about the Doctor Who story The Edge of Destruction.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far, we really do appreciated it and look forward to more throughout next year (we’re really on the ball, we already have five months worth in the can!)

Have a great Christmas!