Episodes
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Episode 66: Scr*w You Guys, I‘m Going Home (Inferno)
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
We’re turning into green werewolves and bringing on the apocalypse, as we tackle a much-loved Pertwee classic in the shape of the one-and-only Inferno! Will the team unanimously love this one, or as the season finale will it be true to form, consistent with the rest of the Season 7 seven-parters, with the Watchers split on their opinions?
Over the course of the episode, Julie ships Greg and Petra, Anthony ships Stahlman and the drillhead, Don complains about the return of his least favourite Doctor Who trope – the bad boss, and Reilly becomes obsessed with the prospect of green demons. The crew discuss the morality of not saving everyone’s parallel universe doppelgangers.
If you would like to watch along with us, this story is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). If you’re a little old fashioned (like Anthony), you can get it on physical media from both Amazon US (https://amzn.to/2XUlvdl) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3koirNV).
Other media mentioned in this episode:
- Spies Like Us (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3yefqVw | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3mrTJPp)
- W.A.T. – The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ypeMVr | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Df1L4g)
- Dr Strangelove (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/387PP6b | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3keQnwo)
- Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 2 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/38a8G0j | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2WjWPdC)
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ziWDtt | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2WmHjxJ)
- Chernobyl (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3gtrOuT | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jfw9Uk)
- Spaceballs (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2WeS5WY | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3gqxe9O)
- John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3gumkjz | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jeiUTO)
- Flubber (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3koS5LO | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jdwt5E)
- Ghostbusters II (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3mvmpHA | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jg03I2)
- 1984 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ychMUH | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3sHpRzC)
- Scooby Doo Where Are You – The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2WeSMj2 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3zeqTFO)
- This is Spinal Tap (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ye4MOs | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3j9zkg1)
- Verdi’s La Traviata (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3sHdXG9 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2WmilxY)
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Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Episode 65: Vicious Quatermassturbation (The Ambassadors of Death)
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
This episode, it is our Moral Duty™ to take Quatermass homage to the extreme, engaging in some “Vicious Quatermassturbation” as we discuss The Ambassadors OF DEATH! It’s time for incompetent military forces (possibly including murdering scientists?), conspiracies, and plenty of model sequences!
Over the course of the episode, Don talks miraculously disappearing accents, Reilly finds that he’s unable to say “Taltalian”, Anthony gets nostalgic about UK Gold, and Julie laments the general lack of women on screen. The entire team discuss this serial's rather inconsistent usage of plot-selective radioactivity (or is it actually just good ol' Whitakerian static electricity?).
If you would like to watch along with us, this story is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). If you’re a little old fashioned (like Anthony), you can get it on physical media from both Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3g5U0n8) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/2VVBBTh).
Other media mentioned in this episode:
- The A Team: The Complete Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3iM3cPy | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3lY7ipI)
- The Quatermass Xperiment (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3jRIw88 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/37HHEgt)
- Quatermass II (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2VNnpvJ | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3lZsL1v)
- Spies Like Us (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3sljUbt | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jSS5ng)
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2VNSNKA | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/37JfHoE)
- Lost in Space: The Complete Classic Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3m44ffy | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3yQVHfQ)
- Donovan’s Greatest Hits (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3sf9w5b | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3ANzBeN)
- Air on a G String, by J.S. Bach (YouTube: https://youtu.be/GMkmQlfOJDk)
- A Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procul Harum (YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mb3iPP-tHdA)
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Episode 64: Costume Change Level: Zoe (Doctor Who and the Silurians)
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
This episode, we discuss our very first encounter with the other intelligent species from Earth in Doctor Who and the Silurians. Suffice to say that living through a pandemic, we all find ourselves somewhat triggered as we watch a deadly disease spread across England in this one!
During the episode, Reilly talks two-state solutions, Anthony focuses on the “otherness” of the Doctor, Julie gets offended by humans being repeatedly referred to as “apes,” and Don questions why the initial problem of the research facility losing power was considered a UNIT problem. The entire gang questions the wisdom of writing a dinosaur into the script and whether it was actually needed (spoiler: it’s not).
If you would like to watch along with us, this story is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com/) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk/). If you’re a little old fashioned (like Anthony), you can get it on physical media as a standalone release from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3lgYj2o) and Amazon UK as part of the “Beneath the Surface” box set (https://amzn.to/2V08VZ3).
Other media mentioned in this episode:
- Death and Doctor Who, by Dave Columbus (https://linktr.ee/greenpear)
- The New Statesman (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2WGS7qn | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3C3UqDS)
- A Very Peculiar Practice (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/37dOgCZ | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3zVoekp)
- Rugrats: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3zSBCWs | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3fcP3bF)
- Chernobyl (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3j2EOYK | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3j6kGF1)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3C1D9eD | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3CaA503)
Finally, you can also follow us and interact with us on various forms of social media - Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also e-mail us at watchers4d@gmail.com. If you’re enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating or review.