Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

What could THE INVASION OF TIME possibly have in common with MIGHTY MORPHIN’ POWER RANGERS? And why are bathrooms so inherently funny? These questions – as well as the usual ones about what’s the difference between a Gallifreyan and a Time Lord, or the difference between an Outside and a Larper – are all answered as Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Terrance Dicks’ adaptation of the (ahem!) epic season finale story THE INVASION OF TIME! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to t

Why is UNDERWORLD (or, as Target calls it, THE UNDERWORLD) so reviled? And why is the book not much better, to be honest? Join Tony Whitt and guest panelists J.G. McCrory of the TALKING WHO TO YOU podcast and Jenny Ingersoll as we discuss how even on the printed page, UNDERWORLD just about works, but only if you squint really hard. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Fac

How do you celebrate the landmark episode of a podcast you’ve been doing for years now that talks about Target books? Talk about something entirely different! This time, our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes is joined by friend of the podcast Larry VanMersbergen for a special bumper volume (hey, that’s a Target reference) for a joint episode with his own show, THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST. And what are we discussing? Only the first major crossover between our favorite show and another franchise (and no, I don’t mean the DARK SHADOWS/VAMPIRELLA comic, either): THE DOCTOR AND THE ENTERPRISE! The not-at-all Target book we will be covering in this episode can be found in four parts (text only) starting at the first link below, or in PDF version at the second link: https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part-1/ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m3buz511jyu3sg1/AACrXlzuAbuWktYbY9am5QDDa?dl=0 If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patre

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The Company mistreats its workers, taxes their earnings to nothingness, and works them until they die. But enough about Amazon – let’s talk about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE SUNMAKERS instead! Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Jenny Ingersoll as we examine this story from the 1970s that has nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING, to do with life in 2021. Seriously. It really doesn’t. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a damn socialist. Or communist. Or some other word that means “bad.” Our next episode is our 100th, and we’re doing a special joint podcast with THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, hosted by our good friend Larry VanMersbergen! The not-at-all Target book we will be covering can be found in two parts (text only) at the first two links below, or in PDF version at the third link: https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part-1/ https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part2/ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/

How do you become the head of a coven, anyway? Can anyone do it, or do you need a certificate? And just exactly what is the best way to make a fruitcake – and why would anyone want to do such a vile thing in the first place? Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as we ask these and other stimulating questions about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline,

“The Age of the Virus has begun” – get out the hypodermics and the bleach! It’s 2021, when vaccination rates are up (in some places), while in others Contact has definitely been Made. Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as we say far, FAR less about the pandemic than this stupid description would have you believe, in our discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by t

Why exactly IS the Doctor wearing that bowler hat, anyway? And what’s his obsession with always putting Leela in petticoats? These are two questions that will NOT be answered, as our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE HORROR OF FANG ROCK (and how much we all wish Vince had survived, of course)! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, fe

Is it time to “cancel” Weng-Chiang? Or can we continue to enjoy a well-written story featuring Chinese stereotypes, yellowface makeup, and poorly realized giant rats? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we talk about this and other pugilistic peregrinations pertaining to Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exac

What is the Wilhelm Scream, and why doesn’t Taren Capel use it in his bizarre machinations with machine men? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we ask this and other stimulating questions about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE ROBOTS OF DEATH! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter (we’re

What does this story have to do with the New Age musician Yanni, or the Arab-Israeli conflict? For that matter, does it have anything to do with either of those two things? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we look at Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE FACE OF EVIL to find out! (An earlier version of this podcast claimed that Chris Boucher is the only writer from the original series to have two consecutive stories produced. This is incorrect. The currently posted version has been edited to remove that misinformation.) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your quest

When is a Time Lord not a Time Lord? Why is that people who can’t regenerate do and people who can regenerate don’t? And why does the Master look like he had a bad chemical peel? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we look at Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE DEADLY ASSASSIN, also known as “Everything You Wanted To Know About Time Lords But Didn’t Know You Needed To Ask.” If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will s

Elisabeth Sladen requested that her last story as Sarah Jane Smith be nothing special, and boy, did was she not disappointed. Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and special guest Jennifer Picker, as we look at Terrance Dicks’ attempt to novelize the only script for a companion’s departure written on the back of a napkin. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, f

A good novelization trims the fat. An anorexic novelization trims off bits that you actually need to survive. Guess which one Philip Hinchcliffe’s novelization of THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA is? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Erik Gulbrandsen of the VIDEO JUNKYARD PODCAST and the POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, as we try to figure out how the producer of a sci-fi show doesn’t know simple things like how many hearts his main character actually has. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group

Ever planted the seed of a very robust kind of plant, only to have it not only NOT grow but wither miserably? Ever find a flower that looked good but smelled horrible? Then you may have some idea what it’s like to read Philip Hinchcliffe’s novelization of THE SEEDS OF DOOM. Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, Jenny Ingersoll, and special guest Erik Gulbrandsen of the VIDEO JUNKYARD PODCAST and the POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, as we try to figure out exactly why this particular plant didn’t bloom… If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read al

We completely lose our heads over the novelization of THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS by Terrance Dicks – get it, lose our…oh, forget it. Suffice it to say, though, who would’ve thought such a good novelization could be done by the very man whose script was essentially butchered and then sewn up together again by Robert Holmes? (See, there’s another one. You’re welcome.) Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Jenny Ingersoll as we try to piece together (ha!) what makes this book so good! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join t

EPISODE 87: SCRATCHMAN How exactly does a novelization of a story that was never actually made fit into our humble little project? Come join our three-person discussion panel, including host Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, as we discuss why it’s called TECHNICALLY TARGET and how Tom Baker’s book of SCRATCHMAN is simply to good to pass up discussing. (And yes, it comes after THE ANDROID INVASION. Fight me.) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, a

Exactly what ARE those three race car drivers doing out in the middle of the woods together? Why do androids need to be “trained” to do something? And is Sarah so attached to that jacket that it’s part of her self-image? These questions, and more, are addressed by our four-person discussion panel, including host Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and special guest panelist, the creator and writer of the DARK SHADOWS EVERY DAY blog, Danny Horn! (Spoiler alert: someone on our panel likes this story. Seriously.) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book

Long Live Ernie! That seems to be the consensus of our panelists this time (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and Jenny Ingersoll) as we discuss Terrance Dicks’ novelization of the classic Tom Baker story THE PYRAMIDS OF MARS – and if you have to ask who “Ernie” is, you need to go read it to find out! And yes, we will also be talking about racist Egyptian caricatures, the role of time travel in shaping history, and hilarious deaths via group hug, just in case you were wondering. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join

Got a bit of cash lying around and want to get that DOCTOR WHO fan in your life a holiday gift that says, “Just so you know, you’re on the Naughty list”? Why not find a tatty copy of the DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1976, then send them the link to our three-person discussion of three stories in that annual? It’s the perfect gift for the fan whose time you want to waste! Join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as we discuss “The Hospitality on Hankus” (aka “Planet of Giants II”), “Neuronic Nightmare” (in which no two pictures are the same), and “The Sinister Sponge” (which appears to be about birth control). Happy Holidays! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads!