Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

A freak disruption in the T-Mat system has caused our audio this week to go all FUBAR! (Actually, it’s just a fault in our Discord server, but as you will soon hear, we do have a lot to be upset about.) Not exactly the best way to welcome our guest panelist, Skip Benninghouse from the FICTION PARADOX podcast, but there you go. You’ll be able to hear him just fine, by the way – it’s Tony Whitt and Alyson Fitch-Safreed who sound like we’re speaking through a fan on high speed. Sigh. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (don’t judge us by this one too harshly, please!), 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 now have a book discussion gr

Not only are they beautifully designed, they’re tasty and add so much to a boring, average salad…oh, you meant KROTONS. Nope, useless. Good book, dumb monster. But as usual, our three-person panel (including Dalton Hughes and Alyson Fitch-Safreed) have a lot to say about it, and you may actually enjoy it as much as a salad brimming with tasty croutons (though somehow we doubt it). 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 now 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

What do the Cybermen have in common with Mormon polygamists? If you never thought you’d ever be asking that question then you’ve got to listen to our discussion of Ian Marter’s novelization of THE INVASION! Come join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as they discuss Cybercontinuity, Marter’s penchant for gore, and how UNIT and MST3K exist in the same universe. As Isobel Watkins might say, it’s a gas! 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 now 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

Where WAS Moses when the lights went out, anyway? How did Jamie lose his face? Even more importantly, how does Jamie suddenly know how to pilot the TARDIS? All of these questions – well, two of them – will be fully answered in our Holiday episode discussing THE MIND ROBBER by Peter Ling. Our usual panelists Tony Whitt and Dalton Hughes are joined by a special guest, Stephen Fodor of the TOO MUCH SCROLLING podcast! Download this to listen to on your way to Grandmother’s house (unless there are kids in the car – then don’t), and enjoy your travels! See you again next year! 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

Just how dull can a kiss get? If it’s on the planet Dulcis, pretty damn dull – and even a bit of domination can’t spice things up. Come join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as they discuss the sadomasochistic stylings of Ian Marter in his novelization of THE DOMINATORS by Norman Ashby (spoiler alert: not a real person). Plus we welcome our new Patron, Jay Berry! 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 now 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 b

We have our second live recording and first room party at the best DOCTOR WHO convention in the Midwest, Chicago TARDIS! You’ll hear applause, audience participation, and the interruption of the occasional over-served guest while our three-person discussion discusses Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE WHEEL IN SPACE! Come join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Trey Korte as they discuss this rarest of DW novelizations and discover that expensive does not equal good… Special guest appearance by our Patreon, Rick Taylor! 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 now have a book discussion group of

EPISODE 41: FURY FROM THE DEEP It’s time for a bit of weeding, or for a hit of weed, depending on your individual tastes. Oh, and don’t forget the nori! If none of this makes any sense yet, then come join our three-person discussion panel, featuring Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes, as we discuss Victor Pemberton’s novelization of FURY FROM THE DEEP. It still won’t make any sense, but you won’t care as much. 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. As a Halloween special giveaway, if you decide to join our Patreon at any level by 11:59pm CST on Thursday, November 22, you’ll be eligible to win one of the two copies of the book read in our Halloween special – we will announce the winners at our room party/live recording on November 23 at Chicago TARDIS! Oh, and did we mention we’re having a room party/live recording at Chicago TARDIS? Set aside at least a couple of hours for us that night around 7pm and

EPISODE FORTY-a: 2018 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL It’s finally Halloween, and time for our three-person discussion panel, featuring Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes, to do something special – for our Halloween Special! Come listen, if you dare…or if you’re just really, really bored, of course. 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. As a Halloween special, if you decide to join our Patreon at any level by 11:59pm CST on Thursday, November 22, the night before the 55th anniversary of DOCTOR WHO, you’ll be eligible to win one of the two copies of the book we’re discussing in our Halloween special (but you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out what book we’re doing – spoilers!). We now 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,

It’s Halloween month, and what’s Halloween without a little fear? Come join our three-person discussion panel, featuring Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes, as we get back to Dicks and discuss his novelization of THE WEB OF FEAR. Now with 100% more Lethbridge-Stewart! 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. As a Halloween special, if you decide to join our Patreon at any level by 11:59pm CST on Sunday, October 28, you’ll be eligible to win one of the two copies of the book we’ll be discussing in our Halloween special, to be released on October 31 (but you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out what book we’re doing – spoilers!). We now 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 give

Could Ian Marter’s book be the worst novelization we’ve read so far? By “we,’ we mean our unprecedented two-person discussion “panel,” featuring Dalton Hughes – now with one-third less pretension! And, as it turns out, one-third less script in the book… 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 now 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! If you r

EPISODE THIRTY-EIGHT: THE ICE WARRIORS Hayles? Hayles! The gang’s all here! And by “gang,” we mean our three-person discussion panel, featuring Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes, ready to discuss one of only two novelizations the late Brian Hayles did, THE ICE WARRIORS. Get out your parkas, ‘cuz it’s about to get chilly! 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 now 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

What does one panelist call “the best Dicks we’ve had so far”? Why, THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN, of course! Come see why our four-person discussion panel, featuring Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and classic panelist Danny Celedon consider this book the pick of the Dicks! 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 now 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 w

What’s the best Target novelization to feature a sinister plot that makes no sense, cyberbugs that aren’t named after bugs, and people that are named after clothing? Why, TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN by Gerry Davis, of course! Come see what our four-person discussion panel, featuring Jenny Ingersoll, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, thinks of this classic book despite all of its unavoidable craziness! 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 now 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,

To follow up on our discussion of EVIL OF THE DALEKS, we interview author John Peel about this book, talk about his later DOCTOR WHO works, find out about the unusual OUTER LIMITS books he wrote for kids, and ask the question that everyone has about WAR OF THE DALEKS: why, exactly? The answers may shock you! (Or they may not surprise you at all. Listen and find out!) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider o

How did we get to Jamie/Kemel slash fiction, FINDING NEMO, and SWEENEY TODD? It’s pretty easy when you have three gay men discussing EVIL OF THE DALEKS! Our diabolical panel this week includes Dalton Hughes and special guest Trey Korte discussing what makes a companion a companion, why Jamie is suddenly awesome, and why we still love John Peel. 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can

MAD MEN, it’s not. Instead, we have a book about kids getting miniaturized snf kidnapped out of airplanes – and not a Mile High Club in sight. Yes, we mean THE FACELESS ONES, written by the prolific author whose name we love to knock, Terrance Dicks. Our not-so-miniature panel this week includes Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Trey Korte! (Apologies for the sound quality of this one, which was easily the most difficult one I have ever edited: after three full days of editing, there are parts that still have echoes, garbled audio, sound dropouts, you name it. And yes, we are looking for a sound editor, so if you want an unpaid job, we’ve got one for 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

Break out the Rid Shampoo – we’re going to be talking giant crabs! Actually, the crabs we’re discussing in THE MACRA TERROR are far more annoying, and their relationship with humans makes far less sense. We complete our Pride Month episodes with an especially prideful panel, including Jenny Ingersoll, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Trey Korte! (Please note: the sound quality on this one is variable – Mrs. Ingersoll’s kitchen can be rather echo-ey, and editing together four separate sound tracks is no picnic, either.) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact o

We kick off Pride Month with an all-gay panel discussing whether THE CYBERMEN is a homophobic book. (The answer? Anything can be anything if you want it hard enough?) Come join Tony Whitt and co-panelists Dalton Hughes and Danny Celedon to find out whether the Cybermen really are meant to be a bunch of emotionally unavailable yet hunky men in fetish wear…oh. 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your c

Happy Memorial Day! It’s 92 f**kin’ degrees here in Chicago, so we’re celebrating the holiday by staying indoors and playing trivia against the man who created DOCTOR WHO trivia himself, Nigel Robinson! (That’s actually just the last few minutes of the show – we first ask him lots of questions that you’ve always wanted to ask but never could because he doesn’t know you. So there. Nyah.) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via

Atlantis (Version 1.0), a city without refrigerators…and a possible slap for Polly?! This week we debate possible sexism and definite lack of plot (albeit not the fault of the author this time) in Nigel Robinson’s novelization of THE UNDERWATER MENACE! Come join host Tony Whitt and a panel comprised of not one but two novice fans, our usual fish o’ the sea Alyson Fitch-Safreed and our fill-in Fish Person Rory Jobst! We also have a Patreon extra this time, available starting Sunday, May 20 – we watch episode three of the original disaster at sea and make a few comments throughout. Not MST3K, but hey. Speaking of which, 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! I