Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

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EPISODE 64: THE THREE DOCTORS If the book is called DOCTOR WHO AND THE THREE DOCTORS, then in the immortal words of Fraser Hines, who is Doctor Who? Does a gel monster split in the woods? And why in the hell is Alyson so LOUD this episode? Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes try to answer only one of these three – can you guess which one? Recorded live at Chicago TARDIS 2019! 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 dis

Just how many damn Atlantises WERE there, anyway? Should we attribute all that’s witty and good in this book to Dicks? And is Kronos truly beyond good and evil? Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes struggle with those questions and more, while still laughing at the naughty bits. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (better content than THIS episode, anyway), please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. In our hopes of getting more Patreons onboard, between now and November 29, the first day of Chicago TARDIS, any new Patreons will get a double entry in our giveaway, the winners of which will be announced at our live recording room party that night. The first prize is THE (UNOFFICIAL) DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1972, the two second prizes will be a special limited edition DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOK CLUB PODCAST t-shirt made to your specifications, and the three third prizes will be a surprise book! If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort t

In some alternate universe, Target Books paid for a separate novelization of the one episode story MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN. The resulting novel was more like a pamphlet, only 19 pages long, but it got reading audiences excited for the two volume novelization of the 12-episode story that was to follow. This is our mirror universe discussion of that oh so brief novel... Welcome to our DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOK CLUB CUTAWAY… This was originally recorded as a Patreons-only episode and was released on our Patreon site on November 10, 2017. Here's the original description: Welcome to our first Patreon-only episode, our DALEK CUTAWAY! Come join our three-person panel, featuring Dalton Hughes and Alyson Fitch-Safreed, in a parallel universe where Target Books published the one-part MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN as a special short pamphlet. In that same universe, Tony and Dalton are straight and married (though not to each other), Alyson has a girlfriend named Big Bertha, and Hillary Clinton is President. Which of these is th

I should have known that any episode I would edit during Halloween week would be cursed, but boy howdy. If you can manage to listen to this discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE MUTANTS, by our usual panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, and still enjoy it, then all we can do is paraphrase Sally Field and say, “You like us! You really LIKE us!” If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (better content than THIS episode, anyway), 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 qu

Pizza, cocaine, sushi, and petty theft – one of these things doesn’t belong, right? And yet somehow they ALL come up, as Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of his own script for THE SEA-DEVILS (hyphen optional). If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 deadline, and we will see i

Will Britain join the EEC? Will the Doctor manage to discover who is trying to keep the backwater “developing” planet of Peladon from joining the Galactic Federation? And does anyone f**king care? If you’re Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, or Dalton Hughes on this week’s panel discussing Brian Hayles’ THE CURSE OF PELADON…well, you can figure it out, can’t you? In fact, you have our permission to skip this one if you want to. Really, go ahead. Listening to three adults trying to find something interesting to say about this story is a bit like listening to Trump’s lawyers trying to list the ways that he’s innocent… No? Well, you were warned. Anyway, THE SEA DEVILS next time! Yay! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 al

Could one of the best Target novelizations of all time have been a Terrance Dicks book all along – and more surprisingly, could it have come from such a piece of crap episode? Join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Larry VanMersbergen as they discuss this amazing piece of writing. Then stay tuned for a special tribute to the late Terrance Dicks, who recently passed away, after the end credits. My thanks to Larry VanMersbergen and to Brandon Gantt for their recorded memorials, and credits for the clips used in this tribute appear below. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 de

Is science really magic? Is religion really science? And how much does the Third Doctor actually hate Jo Grant? Our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jennifer Picker) address those questions and more, during our discussion of Barry Letts’ novelization of THE DAEMONS. (That’s “DEE-mons,” by the way – the book even says so! What, did you fail Latin as well as English, you useless sack?) If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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

Dystopiana, robber barons, pet coke, and Tinder – what do they all have in common? Somehow this week, our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jason A. Miller) manages to link them all together and more, during our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of THE DOOMSDAY WEAPON. Consider it the perfect way to lift your spirits now that your IMC-chosen wife has left you! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 questi

Could Chin have become the Cousin Oliver of DOCTOR WHO? This is just one of the many stimulating questions that our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Trey Korte) discusses, during our episode on Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE CLAWS OF AXOS. Let the Feeding Cycle begin – but don’t forget your Rolaids! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, simpl

A creature that eats evil, bootleg Pinnacle hardcovers, and the Master’s bad taste in music: these subjects and more are covered as our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) welcome guest panelist Larry Van Mersbergen of the DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST for Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE MIND OF EVIL. All this, and the surprise reappearance of the Master, too! Will we ever see him again? Funny you should ask… If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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

Killer Teletubbies, insecure madmen who are NOT the President, and a new assistant with the science knowledge of a third-grader: these are all things that our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) discuss, and more, during our episode on Terrance Dicks’ novelization of TERROR OF THE AUTONS. All this, and the Master, too! Enjoy him, because you will NEVER see him again! (Ahem.) If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 r

A dictatorial nitwit who thinks he knows everything and listens to no one steers a project with no oversight on a course for disaster, all the while turning into a monster before everyone’s eyes. But enough about Trump. Let’s instead talk about the novelization of INFERNO, which our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) discovers has its own shocking parallels to our own space-time continee… contin…continuum? (Is that what he was trying to say?) Then stick around to hear Tony ask David Tennant what his favorite Target book is! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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

It’s not short, it’s not sweet, and it will definitely give you cancer. But enough about AMBASSADORS OF DEATH… Our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes get together to talk about why the novelization of this story isn’t much better than the televised story and may indeed be far, far worse. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, including one for this very episode! 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 t

Last time we asked the experts what they thought of Malcolm Hulke’s THE CAVE MONSTERS, and this time our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes are joined (and hosted) by special guest panelist Jenny Ingersoll to give us their semi-novice opinion…and wow, are they ever different! Also, Jenny tells us what potholing really is – which is worth the entire episode, in our opinion. Hint: NSFW. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, including one for this very episode! 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

Some writers are so good that they have other writers as fans, which is why Target novelist John Peel specifically requested to come on the show to talk about Malcolm Hulke and THE CAVE MONSTERS. (Y’know, those creatures the continuity geeks call “Silurians”?) We’re also joined by fellow podcaster Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, host of DOCTOR OF THE DEAD, as we try to reproduce the energy we would have had if we’d done the episode live at (Re)Generation WHO 5 as planned. (And I think we succeed!) The novice panel gets their say on the book next time! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, including one for this very episode! Visit the site f

Life in plastic? It’s fantastic! But you can’t brush their hair or undress them anywhere – their creation is your extermination! It’s a new era for the podcast, with new artwork by our lovely Ron Schiding, a new arrangement of our theme music by Tony Whitt, and a Terrance Dicks book that feels brand-new! Come join our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes as they discuss Dicks like they’ve never seen Dicks before! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, including one for this very episode! 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://t

NOTE: A corrected version of this episode was uploaded at 1:30am CST on Monday, March 11. If you didn't like it the first time because of all those echoes, try it again, won't you? Thank you! It’s the end of the Troughton era, and the moment has been prepared for, with a special extra large panel to deal with the novelization of the extra long story THE WAR GAMES! (You were expecting a Dicks joke? Too bad, because it’s a Malcolm Hulke novelization. We’ll get one for you next time.) Come join our regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes as they are joined by special guest panelist and our favorite expert on Caledonian affairs, J.G. McQuarrie of the TALKING WHO TO YOU podcast! Also, stay tuned to the end to hear our music regenerate into our brand-new (but somehow quite familiar) closing theme! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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 discu

Could there actually be some good things to say about this much maligned story from an early Robert Holmes and a late Terrance Dicks? It’s the lowest rated Target book on Goodreads, but surely there’s something good about it? Come join our panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes as they try to find the few digestible pieces of corn in this old turd – and they succeed! (Kind of.) Featuring a cameo by special panelist Trey Korte! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, including one for this very episode! 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