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Pete Pachal and Chris TaylorExplicit
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Date created
2019/12/30
Latest episode
2026/10/24
Average duration
86 min.
Release period
13 days
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There are many Doctor Who podcasts. Only one dares review the entire show... in entirely random order! Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer. New episode every Saturday!
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The Fast and the Furriest (Outlasting "Survival")
2026/10/24
Classic Doctor Who went out not with a bang but with a cat. The Doctor takes Ace home to Perivale, where her old mates are being snatched off the street by a planet of Cheetah People, the Master is holding conversations with a cat, and the fate of two worlds comes down to a motorbike joust in a quarry. Survival is Rona Munro's three-part fable about primal violence versus self-control, and it might also be an off-Broadway production of Cats, in which Sylvester McCoy takes an undignified tumble, Anthony Ainley dons yellow contact lenses, and the Doctor delivers the "tea's getting cold" speech that closed 26 years of television. So is the last story of the original run a thoughtful send-off, a half-finished masterpiece, or an unintentional parody of itself?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:33Whomoji Challenge 00:07:52Poll to Open 00:11:56Comment of the Week 00:14:37TL;DW 00:19:03Review: Survival 00:24:27Four Questions to Doomsday 01:01:52What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:17Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:11:58Final Judgment 01:17:42Randomizer! 01:22:44
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Story Essentials
Season 26, Serial 4Story number: 158, per the Pull To Open CodexWriter: Rona MunroDirector: Alan WareingScript Editor: Andrew CartmelProducer: John Nathan-TurnerAired: 22 November–6 December 1989
Pull To Open: Survival
Season 7Episode 23
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Big Helix Energy (Portending “The Masque of Mandragora”)
2026/10/10
All the Doctor had to do was close the bloody TARDIS door. Instead, a sparkler from space hitches a ride to Renaissance Italy, recruits an astrologer, and sets out to stop humanity from ever getting too smart for its own good. The Masque of Mandragora looks like lavish BBC Shakespeare, sounds like a thesis on science vs. superstition, and somehow gives us skin-tight tights, cultists doing the Hokey Pokey and Tom Baker waving around a giant salami. Join us as we ask whether this gorgeous Hinchcliffe-era extravaganza is actually great Doctor Who — or just so gloriously camp that resistance is futile.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:38Whomoji Challenge 00:07:29Poll to Open 00:12:30Comment of the Week 00:14:27TL;DW 00:20:36Review: The Masque of Mandragora 00:23:15History Corner 00:54:42Four Questions to Doomsday 01:00:30What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:03:14Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:07:27Final Judgment 01:13:02Randomizer! 01:20:22
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Season 14, Serial 1Story number: 85, per the Pull To Open CodexWriter: Louis MarksDirector: Rodney BennettScript Editor: Robert HolmesProducer: Philip HinchcliffeAired: 4–25 September 1976
Pull To Open: The Masque of Mandragora
Season 7Episode 22
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Raiders of the Lost Cybermen (Thawing “The Tomb of the Cybermen”)
2026/09/26
Some Doctor Who stories become legends because everyone has seen them. The Tomb of the Cybermen became one partly because, for decades, hardly anyone could. So when the long-lost Troughton classic finally busted out of cold storage, could the real thing possibly live up to the myth? Well… mostly. Patrick Troughton is at the height of his powers, the Cybermen have rarely sounded weirder or looked more iconic, and one quiet conversation with Victoria may be among the Second Doctor’s finest moments. Unfortunately, the tomb also contains some things better left buried: logic holes, 1960s sexism, and the deeply uncomfortable treatment of Toberman. Join us as we awaken the Cyber Controller, discover the Cybermen were apparently Banksy all along, and ask the most dangerous question on Telos: does this Doctor Who legend actually deserve its reputation?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:11Whomoji Challenge 00:10:17Poll to Open 00:15:59Comment of the Week 00:18:53TL;DW 00:27:05Review: The Tomb of the Cybermen 00:29:30Four Questions to Doomsday 01:15:40What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:18:50Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:23:35Final Judgment 01:26:23Randomizer! 01:32:51
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Story Essentials
Season 5, Serial 1 — Episodes 1–4Story number: 36, per the Pull To Open CodexWriters: Kit Pedler and Gerry DavisDirector: Morris BarryScript Editor: Victor PembertonProducer: Peter BryantAired: 2–23 September 1967
Pull To Open: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Season 7Episode 21
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Caveat Inventor (Ideating “Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror”)
2026/09/12
Nikola Tesla invented our world. So why does Doctor Who keep trying to give him credit for WiFi? Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror has everything a great historical needs on paper: one of history’s weirdest geniuses, Thomas Edison as his foil, a terrific Goran Višnjić performance, and alien scavengers who could have been the cosmic extension of the Edison-Tesla rivalry. Instead, the sparks never quite make the jump. Join us as we investigate fan service without a payoff, a suspiciously Racnoss-y queen, Wardenclyffe science that probably never would have worked, Edison’s alleged elephant snuff film, Tesla’s belief in female supremacy, and the Douglas Adams-level idea hiding inside an episode that never quite realizes it. Alternating current? More like alternating quality.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:31Whomoji Challenge 00:08:36Poll to Open 00:14:13TL;DW 00:18:58Review: Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror 00:20:28History Corner 00:44:53Four Questions to Doomsday 00:55:49What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:00:56Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:06:42Final Judgment 01:11:56Randomizer! 01:17:40
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Series 12, Episode 4Story number: 292, per the Pull To Open CodexWriter: Nina MetivierDirector: Nida ManzoorScript Editor: Sheena BucktowonsingProducer: Nikki WilsonExecutive Producers: Chris Chibnall, Matt StrevensAired: 19 January 2020
Pull To Open: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Season 7Episode 20
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
The Myth Fakers (Burying “Underworld”)
2026/08/29
There are Doctor Who stories that look cheap, and then there’s Underworld: the story so broke it couldn’t afford a cave. Its vast underground world was instead conjured with experimental CSO, earning the serial a reputation that has survived for nearly half a century. But hold the fumigation! Beneath those wobbly electronic rocks lurk some genuinely huge ideas: the Time Lords’ disastrous first attempt at interference, regeneration as immortality, a 100,000-year cosmic quest and K9 saving everybody with what appear to be telephone wires. Grab your Golden Fleece and join us as we ask the forbidden question: does Underworld actually… not suck?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:57Whomoji Challenge 00:07:54Poll to Open 00:12:40Comment of the Week 00:15:16TL;DW 00:20:56Review: Underworld 00:23:24Four Questions to Doomsday 01:00:57What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:03:43Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:06:15Final Judgment 01:10:12Randomizer! 01:13:47
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Season 15, Serial 5Story number: 96, per the Pull To Open CodexWriter: Bob Baker, Dave MartinDirector: Norman StewartScript Editor: Anthony ReadProducer: Graham WilliamsAired: 7–28 January 1978
Pull To Open: Underworld
Season 7Episode 19
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Eye Rule (Preserving “The Ark”)
2026/08/15
Achoo! Humanity may have survived millions of years into the future, but apparently the common cold is still an extinction-level threat. The Ark sends the First Doctor, Steven and brand-new companion Dodo aboard an enormous generation ship packed with humans, Monoids, miniature criminals and one very real elephant—then delivers one of the greatest cliffhangers in Doctor Who history. Shame about what happens next. Join us as we jump 700 years into the future to investigate Beatles-wigged cyclopes, the galaxy’s biggest miniaturization plot hole, suspiciously accommodating invisible aliens, and a tale of colonial anxiety that looks very different through 2026 eyes. Just remember: if your mouth is also your eye, maybe don’t order the chicken.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:55Whomoji Challenge 00:07:05Poll to Open 00:10:52Comment of the Week 00:13:52TL;DW 00:19:06Review: The Ark 00:21:57Four Questions to Doomsday 00:56:19What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 00:58:46Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:02:26Final Judgment 01:07:12Randomizer! 01:12:44
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Season 3, Serial 6Story number: 22, per The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Paul Erickson, Lesley ScottDirector: Michael ImisonScript Editor: Gerry DavisProducer: John WilesExecutive Producers: N/AAired: 5–26 March 1966
Pull To Open: The Ark
Season 7Episode 18
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Warrior's Fate (De-escalating "Cold War")
2026/08/01
Doctor Who’s Cold War has the perfect pitch: an Ice Warrior wakes up aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine in 1983, with Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Liam Cunningham, Tobias Menzies and David Warner trapped beneath the Arctic ice. So why does it feel less like The Hunt for Red October with a Martian and more like an ordinary Doctor Who episode that happens to be wet? Join us as we crack open Skaldak’s armor, question whether submerged missiles can actually launch, salute the man who may have saved the real world in 1983, and prosecute Mark Gatiss for choosing the wrong Ultravox song. The sets are drenched, the cast is stacked and the premise is nuclear—but the payoff? This means nothing to us. Oh, Vienna.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:01Whomoji Challenge 00:07:34Poll to Open 00:12:57Comment of the Week 00:16:16TL;DW 00:22:21Review: Cold War 00:23:41History Corner 00:52:13Four Questions to Doomsday 01:04:30What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:06:32Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:14:33Final Judgment 01:19:15Randomizer! 01:23:13
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Series 7, Episode 8Story number: 237, per the Pull To Open CodexWriter: Mark GatissDirector: Douglas MackinnonProducer: Marcus WilsonExecutive Producers: Steven Moffat and Caroline SkinnerAired: 13 April 2013
Pull To Open: Cold War
Season 7Episode 17
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Tactical Magic (Banishing “The Dæmons”)
2026/07/18
Doctor Who meets the Devil! No, wait—sorry, the Doctor insists it’s actually science. The Dæmons brings the UNIT era to full folk-horror boil, complete with white witches, heat barriers, Morris dancers, one extremely patient gargoyle, and Roger Delgado’s Master hiding in plain sight with the diabolical alias “Mr. Magister.” But is this beloved Pertwee classic a perfect fusion of rationalism and vibes, or does its “all magic is science” sermon accidentally sneak magic into Doctor Who through the church crypt? Join us as we summon Azal, praise Bok, admire the Brigadier’s five rounds rapid, and ask the only question that matters: has the Master ever looked better in glasses?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:52Whomoji Challenge 00:07:23Poll to Open 00:12:50Comment of the Week 00:16:13TL;DW 00:23:00Review: The Dæmons 00:26:55Four Questions to Doomsday 01:03:05What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:05:34Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:08:51Final Judgment 01:13:43Randomizer! 01:20:33
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Story Essentials
Season 5, Serial 5Story number: 40, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Mervyn Haisman and Henry LincolnDirector: Douglas CamfieldScript Editor: Derrick SherwinProducer: Peter Bryant3 February 1968 – 9 March 1968
Pull To Open: The Dæmons
Season 7Episode 16
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Extreme Delays (Tunneling “The Web of Fear”)
2026/07/04
Mind the gap—and the homicidal fungus. The Web of Fear takes Doctor Who underground for a six-part siege featuring eerily convincing Tube tunnels, bulletproof Yeti and, halfway through, one highly suspicious Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. But is this rediscovered classic genuinely terrifying, or an overextended web of tunnel shenanigans, magical foam and comedy accents? Join us as we investigate the mystery of the still-missing Brigadier debut, defend Patrick Troughton’s right to say “graunched,” and ask whether the Great Intelligence’s master plan can withstand even a little constructive thinking. Next stop: Yeti.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:44Whomoji Challenge 00:10:11POLL to Open 00:16:06Comment of the Week 00:18:42TL;DW 00:28:30Review: The Web of Fear 00:32:32Four Questions to Doomsday 00:59:13What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:03:28Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:07:33Final Judgment 01:12:06Randomizer! 01:17:46
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Story Essentials
Season 5, Serial 5Story number: 40, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Mervyn Haisman and Henry LincolnDirector: Douglas CamfieldScript Editor: Derrick SherwinProducer: Peter Bryant3 February 1968 – 9 March 1968
Pull To Open: The Web of Fear
Season 7Episode 15
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Unchained Melody (Assassinating “Let’s Kill Hitler”)
2026/06/20
Let’s Kill Hitler promises history’s biggest time-travel trolley problem, then stuffs Hitler in a cupboard and turns into River Song: The Origin Story at hyperspeed. Steven Moffat’s chaotic midseason premiere delivers bootstrap paradoxes, poison lipstick, Amy and Rory unknowingly parenting their own daughter, and a human-shaped spaceship staffed by tiny people with homicidal antibodies. But can Matt Smith and Alex Kingston’s peak chemistry sell a redemption arc that races from murder to total self-sacrifice in roughly one evening? Join us as we punch fascism, debate baby Hitler, update our wrist devices and decide whether this bold, bonkers episode clears its own impossibly high bar. Shut up, Hitler!
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:29Whomoji Challenge 00:08:08Poll to Open 00:13:07Comment of the Week 00:15:08TL;DW 00:19:09Review: Let’s Kill Hitler 00:20:58History Corner 00:57:06Four Questions to Doomsday 01:11:51What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:15:31Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:23:33Final Judgment 01:27:19Randomizer! 01:33:45
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Series 6, Episode 8Story number: 222, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Steven MoffatDirector: Richard SeniorScript Editor: Caroline HenryProducer: Marcus WilsonShowrunner: Steven MoffatAired 27 August 2011
Pull To Open: Let's Kill Hitler
Season 7Episode 14
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Christmas Is Canceled (Mourning the Special That Never Was)
2026/06/11
Christmas is canceled. Doctor Who isn’t. But as RTD exits under a cloud of Winternox, we’re all a bit Bafflers about what comes next. Pull To Open pours one out, and thrashes out where the show should go next. Hard or soft reboot? Continue with Billie Piper or start afresh? And who can handle the hardest showrunning job in all of time and space? Join us for the finest bespoke headcanon around, from multi-companion Doctors to alt-universe Daleks!
Pull To Open: Christmas Is Canceled
Season 7Episode 13Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Snakes on an Astral Plane (Manifesting "Kinda")
2026/06/06
Open the box, Pull To Open listeners—but be sure your mind is ready. Kinda is the kinda… er kind of Doctor Who story where the themes are so rich you don’t care what it looks like. Which is just as well because the jungle looks like a garden center, the villain looks like an ’80s music-video nightmare, and the real monster may be your own mind. Peter Davison’s trip to Deva Loka banks hard into Buddhism, colonialism, feminism, telepathy, forbidden apples, silent men, and Hindle going so far over the top he may actually achieve orbit. But is this Mara tale a classic, a green-tinted mess, or somehow both? Join us as we face the dark places of the inside, ask why we didn’t get more possessed Tegan, and try not to laugh at a giant pink snake surrounded by mirrors. Silence, male fools—the wheel is turning.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:50Whomoji Challenge 00:07:21Poll to Open 00:14:14Comment of the Week 00:17:13TL;DW 00:22:32Review: Kinda 00:25:30Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:17What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:00Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:15:24Final Judgment 01:20:24Randomizer! 01:26:41
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Series 2, Episode 11Season 19, Serial 3Story number: 118, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Christopher BaileyDirector: Peter GrimwadeScript Editor: Eric Saward (commissioned by Christopher H. Bidmead and worked on by Antony Root)Producer: John Nathan-TurnerAired 1–9 February 1982
Pull To Open: Kinda
Season 7Episode 12
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Drawn Apart (Illustrating "Fear Her")
2026/05/23
Doctor Who fans have long feared Fear Her—and not necessarily for the reasons the episode intended. A lonely child, a suburban street, a cupboard-dad, a doodle monster, a rogue Isolus, and one baffling Olympic torch relay all add up to what may be the most filler-y filler episode Russell T Davies ever filled. But is it really as bad as its reputation suggests? Chris reaches for the Ogron almost immediately, while Pete shocks the universe by defending the value of low-stakes Doctor Who, especially when David Tennant and Billie Piper are still bringing the charm. Grab your crayons, keep an eye on the TARDIS, and join us as we ask the terrifying question: what if the scariest thing about Fear Her is that it’s… kind of fine?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:03:34Whomoji Challenge 00:07:09POLL To Open 00:12:42TL;DW 00:18:07Review: Fear Her 00:19:33Four Questions to Doomsday 00:55:21What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 00:57:36Where Is the Clara Splinter? 00:59:57Final Judgment 01:05:33Randomizer! 01:11:26
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Series 2, Episode 11Story number: 179, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Matthew GrahamDirector: Euros LynScript Editor: Simon WinstoneProducer: Phil CollinsonExecutive Producers: Russell T Davies and Julie GardnerAired 24 June 2006
Pull To Open: Fear Her
Season 7Episode 11
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Time’s New Romans (Rebooting "The Pandorica Opens” and “The Big Bang")
2026/05/09
It’s the end of the universe as Moffat knows it, and somehow we feel fine. The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang two-parter throws every monster in the closet at Stonehenge, locks the Doctor in the most mythic box since the TARDIS, shoots Amy, explodes reality, gives Rory 2,000 years of plastic husband duty, and then fixes everything with a wedding phrase. Does it all make sense? Frequently! Does it cheat? Occasionally! Does it still make Team PTO cry happy tears? Like Karen Gillan reading the deepest-blue terms and conditions. Join us as we salute Matt Smith yelling at spaceships, interrogate Moffat’s monster fan service, ponder whether Sutekh got rebooted with the TARDIS, and ask whether this fairy-tale finale is really as good as we remember.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:12Whomoji Challenge 00:12:27POLL To Open 00:15:39Comment of the Week 00:17:56TL;DW 00:24:11Review: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang 00:27:39Four Questions to Doomsday 01:02:20What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:06:17Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:12:45Final Judgment 01:19:44Randomizer! 01:24:24
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Series 5, Episodes 12 & 13Story number: 215, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Steven MoffatDirector: Toby HaynesScript Editor: Lindsey AlfordProducer: Peter BennettExecutive Producers: Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger and Beth WillisAired 19–26 June 2010
Pull To Open: The Pandorica Opens | The Big Bang
Season 7Episode 10
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Tachyons We Meet on Vacation (Touring "The Leisure Hive")
2026/04/25
The Leisure Hive should be a relaxing holiday: a beachside opening, fabulous costumes, and Lalla Ward dressed like she just won regatta season. Instead, we find a story with enough ideas for three serials and enough pacing for half of one. Is it a commentary on nuclear war? A tourism satire? A hard-sci-fi flex? A lizard-mafia caper? Somehow it’s all of them, plus the moment Doctor Who quietly kills off the Randomizer and ushers in the John Nathan-Turner era with neon, synths, and pure style. Join us as we step into the tachyon chamber to confront old-man Tom Baker and the most leisurely chaos in the Fourth Doctor’s final stretch.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:15Whomoji Challenge 00:07:52POLL to Open 00:12:36Comment of the week 00:15:03TL;DW 00:22:17Review: The Leisure Hive 00:24:51Four Questions to Doomsday 01:05:14What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:08:57Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:13:14Final Judgment 01:18:18Randomizer! 01:24:02
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Season 18, Serial 1Story number: 109, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: David FisherDirector: Lovett BickfordScript Editor: Christopher H. BidmeadProducer: John Nathan-TurnerExecutive Producer: Barry LettsAired 30 August–20 September 1980
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Season 7Episode 9
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Wderftg 2026/05/01
Wish it was just the British guy
Pretty good commentary overall, but this American guy keeps interrupting. Mute his mike, please
Nicholas Sinisi 2026/01/03
A Great TARDIS Team: Troughton, Jamie, Polly, and Ben
It’s a shame a bunch of their episodes are missing - luckily a bunch have now been animated. You mentioned recently that Polly was never given a last...
ElwynAureate 2025/07/05
Random Review
As I was listening to the latest episode of Pull To Open - the podcast of two excellent journalists watching and reacting to Doctor Who in random orde...
mio fitz 2025/02/12
Great in-depth analysis
And they have great rapport with each other.
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ct. tigg 2025/02/01
One day, I shall come back
Hello, Gentlemen. Ct. Tigg here. Once again making a brief greeting before running off to one of the dozen fan panels I foolishly agreed to moderate.
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Waters of the Rockies 2024/12/18
Pull to Open: Ex-cell-ent hosts and EX-CELL-ENT discussion! EX-CELL-ENT! EXCELLENT!
These gentleman speak with such admiration, love and thoughtfulness around all things, “Doctor Who.” I personally love the banter, emoji challenges an...
A Merry Berry 2024/02/03
Scratches the itch.
People like us have a constant itch JUST to talk about Doctor Who. Your podcast scratches that itch for me. As grateful as I am… For the respite from ...
Caroline_M_01 2024/01/19
My new go-to commute podcast
Lovely show! I’ve unconsciously started using the Dalek/Ogron rating system when I watch Doctor Who. Don’t let the length scare you off; the side ques...
ex_cinematheque 2023/03/11
Emoji Challenge!
Wasn't sure if I should include the answers, so wanted to play it safe and omit them
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oh, ya know 2023/02/26
Too much preamble
The content of the actual discussion is always very solid, but it takes far too long for each episode to get going. Just listened to their Waters of M...
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