Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

While “Not a complete piece of trash” may not be the most glowing review we’ve ever given on this show, it’s just one of the many opinions heard in our discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of PLANET OF EVIL. (Trust me, it’s not as negative as that makes it sound.) Who could possibly have said such a thing? Could it be our host Tony Whitt? Could it be our regular panelist Dalton Hughes? Or could it be that plucky guest panelist Jenny Ingersoll? Come take a listen and find out! 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, p

What exactly does Victor Pemberton have against the smell of fish, anyway…? Come join our three-person discussion (including Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) to find out, as we discuss Pemberton’s novelization of the very first “audio drama” (quotation marks intended), the long-playing record album THE PESCATONS. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at 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 Faceboo

Good news, everyone! The Monster has finally been defeated, he's going back home, and he's not going to destroy us after all! (I’m talking about the Loch Ness Monster – who were YOU thinking about? Though that other one does spend a lot of time in Scotland and is essentially a stop-motion puppet, too…) Come choke on your haggis as you listen to our four-person discussion (including Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and Trey Korte) talking about pirated audiobooks for the blind, how a Sister is not a Sister, what the Doctor’s talking about when he says he’s “seen bigger,” and all sorts of amazing subjects regarding Terrance Dicks’ novelization of TERROR OF THE ZYGONS, sensibly renamed THE LOCH NESS MONSTER. 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 t

Where does one go on Craigslist to get a job as a double-agent for the Cybermen and the Vogans, especially in this economy? And would Goldfinger be a villain not just for James Bond but for the Cybermen as well? Come join our sausage fest of a three-person discussion panel (Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Trey Korte) as we address these and other stimulating questions regarding Terrance Dicks’ novelization of REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN. 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 deadli

How exactly do Daleks work, anyway? And how do two enemy nations carry on a thousand year war when they live literally a few minutes’ walk away from each other? Come join our four-person discussion panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and Trey Korte) as we address these and other burning questions you were too bored to ask about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of GENESIS OF THE DALEKS. 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

What possible connection could there be between Ian Marter’s novelization of THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT and the movie MEAN GIRLS? Come join our three-person discussion panel (Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Trey Korte) as we talk about how Sarah Jane is the most durable companion on the printed page, and why Sontarans are absolutely disgusting. 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 give

Just how many times can four people say the word “visceral” in an hour and a half? And why do portable hard drives suck so much? Come join our discussion panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and guest Trey Korte) to find out the answers to those questions, as well as why Ian Marter is possibly one of the best writers in the Target range (and yes, I will fight you if you disagree). 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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, simpl

How does the Fourth Doctor translate to the page? And what’s the most scandalous thing Tom Baker said about his time in the monastery? (If we left that at “the most scandalous thing” period, we’d be here for days…) Come join our GIANT discussion panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and guest Trey Korte) as we talk about Dicks adapting Dicks (not as fun as it sounds), and why that front cover looks so awful. 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 bo

What do this story and CHARLOTTE’S WEB have in common? That’s right, they both end with the death of a major character! (What did you think we would say?) Come join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and guest Trey Korte, to discuss how a whole generation of schoolkids came to believe that spiders die after laying an egg sac. It’s more fun than it sounds! (The discussion, I mean, not laying an egg sac. That hurts.) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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

We tried, dammit, we really tried, but we couldn’t find much to say about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE MONSTER OF PELADON – and yet we talked about it for about an hour anyway! Come join us (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) to see how we managed to waste your time in brand new and less than exciting ways! (It’s actually a better one than I’m making out here. I like it, and maybe you will, too.) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 re

Can a DOCTOR WHO story still be a good one if it uses words like “tits,” “marmalade,” and “cowsh*t”? Are we all going to N-Space when we die – or are we doomed to go into E-Space? Do they have anything to do with each other at all? And who cares? These are a few of the many burning questions that Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes explore in their discussion of Barry Letts’ TECHNICALLY TARGET novelization of his radio play THE GHOSTS OF N-SPACE. 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to hav

EPISODE 72: DEATH TO THE DALEKS Add two cups of previous Dalek story tropes. Sprinkle in some seasoning from other non-Dalek stories. Liberally baste with sometimes ludicrously out of place incidental music. Throw it in the oven and don’t bother to time it or see how the mix turns out. That’s the recipe for Terry Nation’s DEATH TO THE DALEKS. Can Terrance Dicks pull off a move worthy of TOP CHEF and somehow fix this dog’s breakfast of a story by putting it into print form? Come join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes to find out! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very

EPISODE 71: THE DINOSAUR INVASION Warning: Political Content Ahead! In other words, no different from our other episodes - except in addition to our usual gang of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, we are joined by Trey Korte to discuss one of the most overtly political novels in the Target range, Malcolm Hulke’s THE DINOSAUR INVASION. If we don’t offend at least one person on BOTH sides of the political divide with this one, we haven’t been doing our jobs properly. And speaking of which, though it shouldn’t even have to be said: BLACK LIVES MATTER. (If you don’t think the Doctor wouldn’t be saying that right now, you’re really not getting what our favorite series is actually about. There. I said it.) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed

Let’s get all sliggy hoo and drink ourselves blatt! Actually, let’s just get reasonably drunk and discuss Barry Letts’ adaptation of his own 1993 radio play THE PARADISE OF DEATH – and if you don’t feel like you’re in some sort of virtual reality by the end of this one, there’s no helping you. Our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss what may be the second most-reviled DOCTOR WHO release of the 1990s. (No need to name the first one here, since you already know what it is, but it starts with “Ch” and ends with “ildren in Need”…) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book dis

And then there was Sarah Jane Smith. And the Sontarans. And Gallifrey (or at least its name). And there’s even the Tom Baker logo before there was Tom Baker! Unfortunately, there was also Irongron, Bloodaxe, and a whole host of other Ren Fest rejects. Our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Terrance Dicks’ novelization of the eleventh season opener by Robert Holmes! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given bo

The environment is in peril, there’s a food crisis, and a megalomaniac emerges from a corporation to try to take over the world? The only difference between this story and the world of 2020 is we don’t have giant maggots – yet! But we do have our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes to discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the tenth season finale! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply

…or, as so many have noted, PLANET WITH SOME DALEKS ON IT. Wish we could say that’s the only thing wrong with this story, but we really don’t like to lie. That, and it reminds us at times of viruses and bad leadership, two things we’re trying to escape these days. What’s not to hate? Turns out, there’s some good here, as our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discover! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book re

What’s worse than a sitting President not listening to the truth about a pandemic? A sitting President not listening to the truth about an impending interstellar conflict. (That, and a whole lot of running around. I mean, SO much running around. ENDLESS running around.) All that, and tons of background hum, is what you’ll get from our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the story FRONTIER IN SPACE, THE SPACE WAR, brought to you by your socially distant friends on Zoom, Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes! If you like what you hear, please check our Patreon page, at https://patreon.com/DWTargetBC. Depending on the amount you give per month, you will receive, among other possible goodies, a randomly chosen BBC Book just to say thank you for being willing to help us stay on the virtual air! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read al

A new year, a new way of recording the podcast…a new pandemic…But hey, you can’t have everything. What you CAN have is our discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS, brought to you by your friends on Skype, Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. 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! In the meantime, if you’ve liked what you’ve heard here, like us on Facebook at DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast, all one word with no spaces. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice, including Spotify. If all else fails you, email ME directly at emperordalek@gmail.com with TARGET BOOK CLUB in the subject line so I don’t ignore it. Videos to accompan

EPISODE 64a: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2019 Just what it says on the tin. Includes an interview with Louise Jameson – and bloopers! You’re welcome! Although we are as of now going on a two month hiatus – we will be back in March 2020, never fear - if you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (with properly positioned microphones next time!), 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. 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 dea