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206 episodes
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Pete Pachal and Chris TaylorExplicit
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Date created
2019/12/30
Latest episode
2026/01/31
Average duration
88 min.
Release period
14 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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Parallel Metal (Initializing “Rise of the Cybermen” and “The Age of Steel”)
2026/01/31
Some stories upgrade the villains. This one upgrades everything. We venture to Pete’s World to face the stompiest reintroduction of a classic foe in rRise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel. But are these metal men truly scary, or are they just Bluetooth bullies from Big Tech? Let’s debate the genius of rewriting Cyber-history, discuss what the story steals from Spare Parts, and say goodbye (maybe?) to Mickey. Wherever you land on this story, you have to admire it for accurately predicting Apple AirPods.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:03:37Whomoji Challenge 00:08:11POLL to Open 00:12:43Comment of the Week 00:15:03TL;DW 00:20:04Commentary: Rise of the Cybermen | The Age of Steel 00:22:31Four Questions to Doomsday 01:08:41What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:13:06Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:18:30Final Judgment 01:24:45Randomizer! 01:30:30
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Series 2, Episodes 5 and 6Story number: 175, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Tom MacRaeDirector: Graeme HarperShowrunner: Russell T. DaviesAired 13–20 May 2006
Pull To Open: Rise of the Cybermen | The Age of Steel
Season 7Episode 3
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Bonnie Dangerously (Quartering “The Highlanders”)
2026/01/17
It’s the Second Doctor’s second story, and he’s already cross-dressing, bashing heads, and doing the worst German accent this side of Oktoberfest. The Highlanders is a story where the Doctor flails through post-regeneration weirdness while Ben, Polly, and proto-companion Jamie navigate the aftermath of Culloden and a plot to sell Scots into slavery. With violent slapstick, dodgy disguises, and an unexpected showdown on a boat, this might be the most violent—and historically faithful—Doctor Who story ever made. But does the Randomizer’s gift of Jamie McCrimmon come wrapped in tartan triumph… or just more post-battle trauma?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:03:05Whomoji Challenge 00:07:07POLL to Open 00:13:23TL;DW 00:19:55Commentary: The Highlanders 00:22:26History Corner 00:47:20Four Questions to Doomsday 01:02:08What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:05:13Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:09:10Final Judgment 01:12:57Randomizer! 01:17:14
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Story Essentials
Season 4, Serial 4Story number: 30, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriters: Elwyn Jones, Gerry DavisDirector: Hugh DavidScript Editor: Gerry DavisProducer: Innes LloydAired 17 December 1966–7 January 1967
Pull To Open: The Highlanders
Season 7Episode 2
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
©️AnyWho Media LLC 2026
Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Clash of the Eras (Mediating “Doctor Who and the Silurians”)
2026/01/03
Season seven of Pull To Open begins where all great potholing expeditions do: deep underground, with claw marks from the Randomizer and a moral crisis waiting at the exit. This week it’s Doctor Who and the Silurians, the only story bold enough to put “Doctor Who” in the title, and then end by asking: “So… was that a genocide?” Pete and Chris debate Malcolm Hulke’s surprisingly textured reptiles, UNIT’s “sealed permanently” semantics, and why Pertwee is somehow fully formed in his second story. Plus: an experimental Whomoji where nobody knows the answer, an extremely nerdy Bessie license-plate detour, and a dream involving Avon from Blake’s 7 and… kissing. (Not that kind of dream.)
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:35Whomoji Challenge 00:07:01POLL to Open 00:14:01TL;DW 00:18:00Commentary: Doctor Who and the Silurians 00:22:34Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:58What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:13:15Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:17:59Final Judgment 01:22:40Randomizer! 01:29:53
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Story Essentials
Season 7, Serial 2Story number: 51, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Malcolm HulkeDirector: Timothy CombeScript Editor: Terrance DicksProducer: Barry LettsAired 31 January–14 March 1970
Pull To Open: Doctor Who and the Silurians
Season 7Episode 1
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Dawn of the AIpocalypse (Deprogramming “The War Machines”)
2025/12/20
Long before Skynet, the British Post Office built its own murderbot. In The War Machines, a supercomputer called WOTAN tries to conquer the world by... hypnotizing secretaries and constructing clunky Dalek knockoffs in a warehouse. And honestly? It almost works. Join us as we revisit the First Doctor’s most tech-forward outing, featuring the debut of companions Ben and Polly, the Inferno Club (not that one), face-sucking elevators, and a press conference for the ages. Is this the beginning of UNIT-era vibes? Did the GPO invent AGI? And wait, did they seriously name-check Jimmy Savile?! Tune in for evil acronym discourse, war machine shenanigans, and the shocking origin of the Cybermen.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:22Whomoji Challenge 00:05:55POLL To Open 00:11:36TL;DW 00:19:32Commentary: The War Machines 00:22:17Four Questions to Doomsday 01:07:12What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:10:07Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:32Final Judgment 01:21:56Randomizer! 01:26:33
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Story Essentials
Season 3, Serial 10Story number: 26, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Ian Stuart Black, from a story by Kit PedlerDirector: Michael FergusonScript Editor: Gerry DavisProducer: Innes LloydAired 25 June–16 July 1966
Pull To Open: The War Machines
Season 6Episode 33
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Invasion on 34th Street (Speciating “Daleks in Manhattan” and “Evolution of the Daleks”)
2025/12/06
What happens when the Daleks land in 1930s New York and start questioning who they are? You get one of Doctor Who’s strangest detours for a marquee monster, where the Cult of Skaro grapples with ambition, identity, and a makeover ambitious enough for a Broadway musical. We dig into how Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks blend showbiz sparkle with Hooverville grit, why Dalek Sec’s big evolutionary leap still resonates, and how a story filled with showgirls, pig slaves, and lightning-powered science ends up delivering some of the most intriguing self-reflection the Daleks have ever attempted.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:56Whomoji Challenge 00:07:59POLL to Open 00:12:49TL;DW 00:18:09Commentary: Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks 21:25:19History Corner 01:02:50Four Questions to Doomsday 01:07:05What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:14:22Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:17:09Final Judgment 01:21:38Randomizer! 01:31:15
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Story Essentials
Series 3, Episodes 4 and 5Story number: 185, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Helen RaynorDirector: James StrongShowrunner: Russell T. DaviesAired 21–28 April 2007
Pull To Open: Daleks in Manhattan | Evolution of the Daleks
Season 6Episode 32
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
©️AnyWho Media LLC 2025
Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Space: 1969 (Energizing “The Space Pirates”)
2025/11/22
Ahoy, space scallywags! This week the Randomizer maroons us in The Space Pirates, the six-part “epic” so padded it should come with its own flotation device. Join us as we navigate Argonite economics, Star Trek knockoff vibes, Clancy's comedy moustache, a CEO who is definitely up to something, and a TARDIS crew who spends most of the story confused, kidnapped, or both. Is this Bob Holmes’ secret experiment? A proto–frontier-in-space? Or simply the BBC showing off their 1969 model shop? Whatever it is… grab your magnets and hold on.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:37Whomoji Challenge 00:08:58POLL to Open 00:16:35TL;DW 00:22:00Commentary: The Space Pirates 00:25:17Four Questions to Doomsday 01:01:37What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:03:45Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:08:49Final Judgment 01:13:22Randomizer! 01:18:23
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Story Essentials
Season 6, Serial 6Story number: 48, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Robert HolmesDirector: Michael HartScript Editor: Derrick SherwinProducer: Peter BryantAired 8 March–12 April 1969Pull To Open: The Space Pirates
Season 6Episode 31
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Doctor, Octopus (Filleting “The Power of Kroll”)
2025/11/08
Doctor Who’s biggest monster gets his due—or does he? The Randomizer drops us into The Power of Kroll, the soggiest segment of the Key to Time season, where the squid is supersized but the stakes… maybe not so much. Join us as we wade through methane, musical glass-shattering, suspicious swampies, and the curious absence of K9. Is Bob Holmes’ least favorite script really that bad, or are we just blinded by all the green body paint?
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:25Whomoji Challenge 00:06:17POLL to Open 00:12:02TL;DW 00:18:49Commentary: The Power of Kroll 00:21:27Four Questions to Doomsday 00:58:33What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:04:25Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:07:27Final Judgment 01:12:14Randomizer! 01:18:25
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Story Essentials
Season 16, Serial 5Story number: 101, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Robert HolmesDirector: Norman StewartScript Editor: Anthony ReadProducer: Graham Williams, John Nathan-TurnerAired 23 December 1978–13 January 1979Pull To Open: The Power of Kroll
Season 6Episode 30
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Who Returns? (Reacting to the 2026 Christmas Special News)
2025/10/29
Doctor Who is back, babes! The BBC has reclaimed its Time Lord, and Pull To Open is here with a full transatlantic debrief. What does Disney’s departure mean for the future of the franchise? What might RTD’s newly announced 2026 Christmas Special look like? Will it be the final chapter of RTD 2.0 or the beginning of something entirely new? Join us for Rose-tinted speculation, companion casting theories, fandom grievances, and way too many ideas for how to fix the streaming rights vortex. Plus: Jelly Babies, Susan, and why the Santas from "The Christmas Invasion" might just be coming back 🎅
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Pull To Open: Who Returns?
Season 6Episode 29
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
The Martians (Chilling “The Ice Warriors”)
2025/10/25
It’s the second Ice Age and Britannicus Base is under siege—by glaciers, bureaucracy, and a hissy Martian warlord with grabby hands. Join us as we dig into The Ice Warriors, the monster debut that screams “classic” but quietly whispers “fix me.” Are the Warriors even wearing armor? How does Jamie know Shakespeare? And did humanity really get rid of all the plants? The Randomizer serves us a slow-burn base-under-siege with a plot twist that feels… scientifically questionable. But we’re here for Penley’s beard, Clent’s drama, and Victoria’s HR complaint. Also: there's a bear. A real one.
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Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:10Whomoji Challenge 00:06:23POLL to Open 00:12:15TL;DW 00:19:57Commentary: The Ice Warriors 00:23:45Four Questions to Doomsday 01:04:32What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:08:22Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:14:05Final Judgment 01:18:11Randomizer! 01:25:06
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Story Essentials
Season 5, Serial 3Story number: 38, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Brian HaylesDirector: Derek MartinusScript Editor: Peter BryantProducer: Innes LloydAired 11 November–16 December 1967
Pull To Open: The Ice Warriors
Season 6Episode 28
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Wolf Clan (Metamorphosing “Tooth and Claw”)
2025/10/11
We are amused. Even Queen Victoria couldn’t keep a straight face through this lycanthropic slice of Tennant-era mayhem. Tooth and Claw is a kung-fu-kicking, wolf-howl-screaming, Torchwood-originating slice of steampunk nonsense, and honestly? It rules. The TARDIS misses Ian Dury and lands in the middle of an accidental backdoor pilot for Torchwood—with kung fu monks (???), an anti-wolf diamond laser, and a Queen who just wants these grinning time travelers gone. Does it all hold up? Sort of. Does it matter? Not really. Werewolves are real, the monarchy may be cursed, and Rose just might be the Bad Wolf again. Join us as we karate-chop our way through one of the wildest RTD-era monsters-of-the-week and explore why Queen Vic is the real final boss.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:59Whomoji Challenge 00:06:49POLL to Open 00:14:57TL;DW 00:22:22Commentary: Tooth and Claw 00:24:16History Corner 00:53:17Four Questions to Doomsday 01:02:29What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:06:17Where Is the Clara Splinter 01:11:14Final Judgment 01:17:39Randomizer! 01:22:19
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Story Essentials
Series 2, Episode 2Story number: 172, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Russell T. DaviesDirector: Euros LynShowrunner: Russell T. DaviesAired 22 April 2006
Pull To Open: Tooth and Claw
Season 6Episode 27
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
©️AnyWho Media LLC 2025
Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Planet Mirth (Delighting “The Happiness Patrol”)
2025/09/27
Doctor Who gets political, camp, and candy-coated all at once in The Happiness Patrol. On Terra Alpha, Helen A rules with a smile—and a gun—while her confectionary executioner, The Candy Man, dishes out death by fondant. Pete and Chris dive into this neon-noir dystopia, unpack the not-so-subtle Thatcher parallels, and debate whether Sylvester McCoy’s most infamous outing is biting satire, glorious camp, or both. Happiness will prevail… but only if the Randomizer allows it.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:47Whomoji Challenge 00:07:57POLL to Open 00:12:44TL;DW 00:19:16Commentary: The Happiness Patrol 00:21:36History Corner 01:07:22:21Four Questions to Doomsday 01:09:17What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:14:08Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:18:58Final Judgment 01:23:21Randomizer! 01:30:29
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Story Essentials
Season 25, Serial 2Story number: 152, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Graeme CurryDirector: Chris CloughScript Editor: Andrew CartmelProducer: John Nathan-TurnerAired 2–16 November 1988
Pull To Open: The Happiness Patrol
Season 6Episode 26
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
©️AnyWho Media LLC 2025
Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Island Chat (Interviews from Long Island Who 2025)
2025/09/14
What’s it like to work on Doctor Who and Torchwood when you’re not in the spotlight—but still right there among the monsters, costumes, and chaos? In this very special live episode recorded at Long Island Who, Pete and Chris chat with two veterans of the Whoniverse: Mickey Lewis, a monster actor and novelist with stories to spare (including some very punk-rock prose the BBC might not approve of), and Amy Benedict, a Hollywood mainstay whose time on Torchwood: Miracle Day gave her a fresh outsider’s perspective on the show’s darker corners. From Dalek mishaps to John Barrowman pranks-that-weren’t, this is Doctor Who behind the masks, gloves, and prosthetics—where candor meets fandom.
Pull To Open: Interviews from Long Island Who 2025
Season 6
Episode 25
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Master of the Moment (Ingesting “The Time Monster”)
2025/08/30
TOMTIT jokes. Chronovores. Diapers. That one time the Doctor ran interference with a cork and a fork. Welcome to The Time Monster — a Pertwee six-parter that throws everything into the vortex, including Atlantis, bird gods, and a TARDIS nesting doll. Is this Jon Pertwee’s “so bad it’s good” masterpiece? Or just a cautionary tale about letting the Master go full academia? We try to make sense of the nonsense, analyze why the Master needs to chill with the bird metaphors, and launch a bold theory: Clara Oswald is Kronos. Fight us.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:34Whomoji Challenge 00:06:10TL;DW 00:20:25Commentary: The Time Monster 00:24:29History Corner 01:04:16Four Questions to Doomsday 01:07:42What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:11:31Where Is the Clara Splinter 01:16:30Final Judgment 01:19:51Randomizer! 01:26:36
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Season 9, Serial 5Story number: 63, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Robert Sloman, Barry LettsDirector: Paul BernardScript Editor: Terrance DicksProducer: Barry LettsAired 20 May–24 June 1972
Pull To Open: The Time Monster
Season 6Episode 24
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Rex and the City (Regressing “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”)
2025/08/16
Dinosaurs in Doctor Who? Always a risky proposition—especially when they’re on a BBC budget in 1974. Invasion of the Dinosaurs tries to roar, but often just… stands there looking sleepy. Still, there’s more to this six-parter than claymation T-rexes. Sarah Jane gets her best early outing as a journalist, UNIT is (mostly) back together, and Mike Yates makes a shocking heel turn. Add in Operation Golden Age, one of Classic Who’s most bonkers conspiracies, and you’ve got a story that’s as much political paranoia as prehistoric spectacle. Just don’t expect Jurassic Park. Maybe Jurassic parked.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:05Whomoji Challenge 00:10:32Poll To Open 00:15:18TL;DW 00:20:31Commentary: Invasion of the Dinosaurs 00:24:02Four Questions to Doomsday 01:05:47What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:08:27Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:13:02Final Judgment 01:18:29Randomizer! 01:23:21
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Season 11, Serial 2Story number: 70, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Malcolm HulkeDirector: Paddy RussellScript Editor: Terrance Dicks, Robert HolmesProducer: Barry LettsAired 12 January–16 February 1974
Pull To Open: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Season 6Episode 23
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
Mission Creep (Silencing "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon")
2025/08/02
Memory, manipulation, and moon landings collide in one of the most audacious season openers in Doctor Who history. In The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon, Steven Moffat unleashes the Silence — a monster so terrifying, you forget them the moment you look away — and dares viewers to keep up with a non-linear plot packed with space-suited children, timey-wimey double Doctors, and a shockingly competent Nixon. But does all the complexity serve the story, or is it storytelling gymnastics for its own sake? The team digs into Moffat’s high-wire act of serialization, the emotional weight behind Amy's and River's connections with the Doctor, and how forgetting may be the most frightening concept of all.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:52Whomoji Challenge 00:08:00Poll to Open 00:13:51TL;DW 00:21:14Commentary: The Impossible Astronaut | Day of the Moon 00:24:07History Corner 00:43:04Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:16What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:11:05Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:23Final Judgment 01:19:37Randomizer! 01:26:16
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Series 6, Episodes 1 & 2Story number: 217, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriters: Steven MoffatDirector: Toby HaynesShowrunner: Steven MoffatAired 23–30 April 2011
Pull To Open: The Impossible Astronaut | Day of the Moon
Season 6Episode 22
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
©️AnyWho Media LLC 2025
Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
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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.
Here’s an episode whomoji: 🐘⛵️👁️👄
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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-rowan
jc17_Ace 2023/01/16
Open This Podcast
This podcast is an excited and accessible review of episodes from both the modern and classic episodes of the television show Doctor Who, a show with ...
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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