We begin this episode with the premise that pirates are cool – but perhaps not these pirates… ‘The Space Pirates’ starring Tom Baker. Thankfully, none of that stops us doing gags about seamen and the poop deck! We also talk … Continue reading Episode Eighteen: The ‘Tache Pirates
In tonight’s thought experiment we feature David Tennant starring in ‘The Bells of Saint John’ and try to work out how different that would be. Suddenly it’s 2008, which is longer ago than it feels, and instantly we’re full of … Continue reading Episode Seventeen: The Bells of Allons-Y
This is Time Ram, currently number 14 on Feedspot‘s list of the top Doctor Who podcasts! This time, we discuss the episode ‘Extremis’, unexpectedly starring Jon Pertwee – and some other surprising names. In the process, we get to explore terrible … Continue reading Episode Sixteen: Cinema Veritas
This time we feature William Hartnell starring in the Christopher Eccleston classic ‘The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances’, or as we must now call it: ‘The Empty Child / Air Raid / Hospital of Fear / Volcano Day/ Unexploded … Continue reading Episode Fifteen: A Jolly Good Bottom
This time, we examine the Peter Davison classic from 1984: ‘The Sea Devils’. You remember it: the one where all those extras playing Sea Devils in heavy leather Samurai costumes drowned in the sea. The story in which the Doctor … Continue reading Episode Fourteen: The Sea Turloughs
Join us as we discuss Sylvester McCoy’s ‘The Green Death’, featuring Nick Berry, Alun Armstrong, John Woodvine and… Ken Dodd? Really? Are we going there? Apparently, we are. Also: Helen Mirren. In the process, we investigate giant maggots, Margaret Thatcher, … Continue reading Episode Thirteen: Maggie and the Maggots
This is Time Ram, the podcast that randomly mashes up different eras of Doctor Who, and welcome to our latest episode: Paradise Towers as you’ve never imagined it! Transposed to the 1970s and the Tom Baker era, this is Paradise … Continue reading Episode Twelve: No Pex Please, We’re British
This time, Time Ram discusses the Jon Pertwee story ‘Mission to the Unknown’ – a famously colourful story, celebrating the glam and huge ‘taches of mid-seventies Britain. It’s the era of Jason King, open shirts, big medallions and endless smoking. … Continue reading Episode Eleven: Mission to Department S
This time, we examine Sylvester McCoy’s ‘The Chase’, ably assisted by our special guest star: writer Jon Blum, of New Adventures and BBC Books fame! In the process, we learn about Doctor Who as sitcom, Terry Nation’s thought processes, how … Continue reading Episode Ten: The Professor, Ace and the Chase Through Space
Welcome to Time Giraffe! This time, we make sounds on the internet about the Matt Smith story ‘Nightmare of Eden’. In the process, we learn that there is more to it than Z-grade monsters encountering a party of Gearon’s pac-a-mac … Continue reading Episode Nine: Nightmare of Fraxoie