Doctor Who: The Alhambra Podcast

In our final podcast for the year of 2014 we finish our first year of podcasting with part 1 of a two part podcast. Part One: We discuss the Doctor Who and Big Finish news from December till early January. We look at the Doctor Who, UNIT and Derrick Sherwin unhappiness, as Liam relates his Whoverville Interview and the DWM interview (DWM #479, p. 54-60). Then a quick discussion of The British Film Institute survey of the Best Sci-Fi characters of all-time, and the DW related names. We then finish off with some of the new Big Finish announcement regarding future releases. Once we get to the reviews, we look at the 2014 releases for Big Finish: The Rani Elite (MR #194), An Ordinary Life (EA. #1.4), The Highest Science (Novel Adaption #2), Blake's 7 Fortuitas (2.2), Survivors Audio Book, The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes (Box Set 4). We then finish off with Doctor Who TV series Christmas Special "Last Christmas." During our discussion we rant, complain, and have an odd discussion regarding what Anglophiles do to Brits in their American neighborhood. References to the Inbetweeners 2 movie, Misfits, and other fun stuff are intertwined in this joyous romp of a podcast Contact us: Twitter: @alhambrapodcas Email: [email protected]

In Episode 15th, Liam and Cam look back at the Doctor Who and Big Finish releases during the 2013. We review and discuss if these BF audio and in the TV new series of Doctor Who properly represent and celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who. We try our best to look at the year as a whole and work hard to not let what we know of 2014 influence our opinions. Rants and off topic conversations occur, but a fun time was had by the both of us during this podcast. Due to some Christmas holiday/family obligations, some of the podcast does have background noise that couldn't be helped. I tried to clean it up as best as I could, apologies for the bits that couldn't be fixed.

Part 2 of the November 2014 Doctor Who Alhambra podcast starts with a review of the Blake's 7 Liberator Chronicles Box Set 10 and the first episode of the second season of the Blake's 7 Full Cast audio. Then we review the last 3 episodes of Series 8 of Doctor Who, go into some of the holes and pitfalls that ended the 8th sereis. Starting off with In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water, and Death of Heaven. Finally we end with Liam's recorders of the Whooverville 6 interviews. These recordings can be found at minute mark 42:00. Next month we will have two podcasts: 1st we'll be reviewing the Doctor Who and Big Finish releases for 2013. 2nd we'll have a review of the Big Finish releases for the month of December 2014.

Episode 14A of the Doctor Who: Alhambra podcast begins with discussing the news associated with Doctor Who and Big Finish. Next, Liam reviews Big Finish's Frankenstein release. We then transition to the main range releases The Widow's Assassin and Masters of Earth. Then we move on to the Early Adventure: The Bounty of Ceres and Dark Eyes 3. We conclude part 1 of the podcast by reviewing Confessions of Dorian Gray Series 3. Stay tuned for part 2 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra podcast, were we will finish reviewing the November Big Finish releases, Blake's 7 Full Cast and Liberator Chronicles Box set 10. Finishing up with our spoiler filled review of Doctor Who Series 8 episodes "In the Forest of the Night," "Dark Water," and "Death in Heaven." Also featured in part 2 of the podcast will contain the interviews Liam obtained during his attendence of the Whoverville convention in October.

The 13th episode of the Doctor Who: Alhambra podcast, we discuss the news of Colin Baker's new companion for the next 6th Doctor main range release. Have a discussion of the new Doctor Who book, Engines of War, which features the War Doctor. Sadly as of the recording of this episode, 25th of October, the Main Range release The Widows Assassin hadn't been release, so no review on that until November. We discuss the Early Adventure story "The Doctor's Tale." Before we get into The Worlds of Doctor Who box set, we get distracted by some on-line community blind allegiance to only the Steven Moffat era of the New Who. We discuss why the Sherlock episode length format could work better in the new series of Doctor Who. Finally, after a rant that could have been go on even longer, but we got railed in (luckily). Next we move on to series 8 of Jago and Litefoot, which I cannot stop talking about one of my least favorite episode ever, and Liam trying to convince me otherwise. It leads to an impromptu ranking of the Doctor Who Big Finish audio musicals (Doctor Who and the Pirates, The Scorchies, and Encoure of the Scorchies). After hitting each of the series 8 Jago and Litefoot stories, we move on to the whole reason why we started this podcast, discussing what Doctor Who is like for those who aren't able to visually watch it. My findings of purely listening to it was interesting and I appreciated Liam's perspective and his understanding of perhaps some insensative wording (I did stumble over my wording a lot during the segment, because I'd hate to offend anyone). We end the podcast by reviewing, with spoilers, the new series of Doctor Who stories: Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express, and Flatline. Stay tuned for our next audio only story, as we've yet to select one, but it will be determined soon!

Maggie Stables passing, reviewing non-Doctor Who BF releases and series 8 new Who In this episode of the Doctor Who: Alhambra podcast, we discuss the recent passing Maggie Stables, one of the great actresses to be apart of the Big Finish family, playing the part of one of the greatest companion, Evelyn Smythe. We have a quick discussion on the best Maggie Stables Doctor Who releases. Next, Liam reviews episode 4 in the Rise of the Runelords range "Fortress of the Stone Giants." Then we both discuss the Tom Baker at 80 Big Finish interview and move to the Night of the Triffids release with some discussions connecting this release with the original release Day of the Triffids. Finally, we have a quick discussion regarding the audio book release of The Omega Factor, read by Louise Jamieson. We finish the podcast off with a review of series 8 of Doctor Who, focusing on "Time Heist" and "The Caretaker." For the month of October we'll do the Talons of Weng-Chiang review with the additional October Big Finish releases.

In episode 11 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra podcast, we briefly discuss the new Doctor Who book releases before we take a look into the Doctor Who universe. We review the main range releases 190 Mask of Tragedy and 191 Signs and Wonders which is the second and third releases in the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hector trilogy storyline. The Philip Hinchcliffe Presents boxed set stories: The Ghosts of Gralstead (Six episodes) and The Devil's Armada (Four episodes). We finish the Big Finish reviews talking about The Early Adventure story: Domain of the Voord, which we feel was the strongest most enjoyable Doctor Who Big Finish release for the month of September. We throw in some of our silly opinions and some rants with some information Liam obtained from the latest Doctor Who convention. Next we discuss the first 4 episodes from series 8 of the new Doctor Who TV series. We cover our likes and dislikes and provide logical reasons for these opinions regarding Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robots of Sherwood, and Listen. We throw in connections between Vincent and the Doctor and Hush to Listen, and complain about Danny Pink needing to be in the series, and the Darkness of the 12th Doctor. Later this month we will be reviewing the rest of the Big Finish, non-Doctor Who releases to close off the month of September. Next month we will review Worlds of Doctor Who, even though it was released in September, it was announced for October, then as there was just a numerous amounts of Big Finish releases in September, we decided to keep it with the October Reviews.

In this month's Doctor Who Alhambra, Liam returns from his two month holiday to review the June and July releases that he missed. We talk and discuss the DWM episode rankings. Throw in some additional sci-fi and fantasy talk, then finish off with reviewing the Big Finish releases from August 2014. Here's a list of the Blake's 7 chronological placement This is my current list of Big Finish B7 (excluding Liberator Chronicles 9, which are presumably set in Season C, given the cast lists). Will update the main file at some point this month (lots to listen too!)SEASON AB7A01 The Way BackB7A02 Space FallB7A03 Cygnus AlphaB7A04 Time SquadB7A05 The WebB7A06 Seek-Locate-DestroyB7A07 Mission To DestinyB7A08 DuelB7A09 Project AvalonB7A09A The Turing TestB7A09B SolitaryB7A09C CounterfeitB7A09D PromisesB7A09E EpitaphB7A09F KerrB7A09G DisorderB7A09H The Hard RoadB7A10 BreakdownB7A11 BountyB7A12 DeliveranceB7A13 Orac SEASON BB7B01 RedemptionB7B01A SpyB7B02 ShadowB7B03 WeaponB7B04 HorizonB7B05 Pressure PointB7B05A WolfB7B06 TrialB7B06A LogicB7B06B Risk ManagementB7B06C ThreeB7B06D PresidentB7B06E The Sea of IronB7B06F SpoilsB7B07 KillerB7B08 HostageB7B09 CountdownB7B09A The Magnificent FourB7B10 Voice From the PastB7B10A False PositiveB7B10B FracturesB7B10C BattlegroundB7B10D DronesB7B10E MirrorB7B10F Cold FuryB7B10G CagedB7B11 GambitB7B12 The KeeperB7B13 Star OneB7B13A Warship SEASON CB7C01 AftermathB7C02 PowerplayB7C03 VolcanoB7C03A IncentiveB7C04 Dawn of the GodsB7C05 The Harvest of KairosB7C06 City at the Edge of the WorldB7C07 Children of AuronB7C08 Rumours of DeathB7C09 SarcophagusB7C10 UltraworldB7C11 MolochB7C12 Death-WatchB7C12A The Armageddon StormB7C13 TerminalSEASON DB7D01 RescueB7D02 PowerB7D03 TraitorB7D04 StardriveB7D05 AnimalsB7D06 HeadhunterB7D07 AssassinB7D08 GamesB7D09 SandB7D10 GoldB7D10A The Sevenfold CrownB7D10B The Syndeton ExperimentB7D10C Jenna's StoryB7D10D Blake's StoryB7D11 OrbitB7D12 WarlordB7D13 Blake SEASON EB7E01 LuciferB7E02 Lucifer: Revelation

This months podcast has us focus on the Big Finish releases for the month of July. However, since we only got through the first 2 stories from Survivors Box Set 1, we finished the third and fourth reviews on this podcast. I take a brief moment to discuss my disappointments I have with the Pathfinders range. Briefly look at the Counter-Measures Box Set 3 release, until we look at the 4ith Doctor Adventure story "The Abandoned" written by Nigel Fairs and Louise Jameson, and the spoof take I had due to the confusion I found with the first part of this story (perhaps I used the oddity that is Number Wang too much in my spoof, but hey, what ever). I finish off be looking at the four short story main range release "Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories."

This month we look at the new news regarding season 8 of the new series of Doctor Who. We discuss the Big Finish releases for June 2014 which include: Blake's 7 Full Cast, Survivors Box Set 1, Doctor Who Main Range, last Companion Chronicle, 4th Doctor Adventure, and The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield. Trying to get further into the Doctor Who univierse, we will reviewing a Doctor Who or Sci-Fi book each month in a segment called "Doc's Books." This month I take a brief look at the Third Doctor book "Harvest of Time" by Alastair Reynolds.