A NEW TO WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: HO HO HUM! (OUR CRAP FAVOURITES) New to Who bring you gifts you probably didn’t really want this Christmas, and that you will only end up throwing out along with the wrapping on Boxing Day. Merry Crapmas - it’s our Ho Ho Hum special! Because it’s been that kind of year, Col, Dan, and Steven have taken to looking for …

NEW TO WHO and the THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH New to Who lands in a London of the future - a city of fear, devastation and holocaust . . . a city now ruled by DALEKS. Col, Dan, and Steven meet a team of underground resistance workers, among the few survivors, but after an unsuccessful attack on the Dalek spaceship, they are all forced to flee the …

NEW TO WHO and the HORROR OF FANG ROCK Off a remote rocky island a few miles off the Channel coast stands the New To Who lighthouses. There have always been tales of the three beasts of New To Who, but when the Tardis lands here with Leela and the Doctor, the force they must deal with is more sinister and deadly than the mythical beasts of the past…

A NEW TO WHO TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: BAH HUMBUG! WORST.EPISODE.EVER. New to Who materialises on Twelfth Night in a Parallel Whoniverse where the natural order of things has been turned upside down. It is in this shadow dimension that Parallel Dan, Parallel Col, and Parallel Steven have gathered to glare menacingly at each other through on…

This episode of New To Who is dedicated to dedicated to Sir Terrance Dicks NEW TO WHO and THE SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE In this, their twenty-third incarnation, NEW TO WHO and Returning Friend of the Podcast, Pete, grapple with the nightmarish invasion of the AUTONS - living giant-sized plastic-modelled ‘humans’ with no hair and sightless eyes; waxwork …

NEW TO WHO and THE TV MOVIE “We’re back - and it’s about time!” Late July, 2019: the brink of a new episode of New To Who. An anachronistic Australian podcast materialises in San Francisco (or is that Vancouver?) amid a hail of laughter which finds its intentional targets - three strange men who walk out of the pod. But Col, Dan, and Steven are not…

NEW TO WHO: A Hinchcliffe and Holmes Retrospective New to Who sit down to talk with friends and fellow podcasters from all over the world about the perceived golden age of Doctor Who; the Hinchcliffe and Holmes era - but is it…? Join Liz Myles and Paul Cornell from the Hammer House of Podcast, Nathan Bottomley from Flight Through Entirety, Jeremy R…

NEW TO WHO and THE ARK IN SPACE At a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully-automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth… Thousands of years later, New To Who return. Col, Dan, and Steven find things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under …

NEW TO WHO meet CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEAD It is with great pleasure that we give Our #SweetDorks an interview with the Script Editor of Doctor Who during the Season 18 and writer of Logopolis, Christopher H Bidmead. Dan, Steven, and Col are joined by Christopher, who relates the story of how he became a writer, actor, and script editor of Doctor Who. O…

NEW TO WHO - LOGOPOLIS In theory Dan and Steven should be able to change †heir appearance to blend in unobtrusively wherever they happen to materialise. In practice, however, because of a fault in the chameleon circuit, they always look like a police box - a minor inconvenience the they now hope to correct. Fixing the mechanism involves a visit to …

A NEW TO WHO SURPRISE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FOR OUR SWEET DORKS New to Who looks back at our 2018, asking our guests for their personal all-time favourite Classic Doctor Who story EVER! Join Dan and Steven under the Christmas tree in a West Australian summer as they unwrap their gifts to Our Sweet Dorks. (Re)introducing: The Watcher Special thanks to S…

NEW TO WHO AND THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI From the moment they land on the planet Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for Dan and Steven and their young companion, Bridget. They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun-runners, ruthless Federation troops, and the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths of the caves with his…

NEW TO WHO AND THE TENTH PLANET Dave Kitchen from The Doctor Who Show blinked again. Lights were moving towards him through the murk of the blizzard. Even as he looked, the lights changed into figures clad in silver-armoured suits, advancing across the ice with a slow deliberate step. Horror-struck, Dave reached for his microphone. BUT THEY CONTINU…

NEW TO WHO AND THE GENESIS OF THE DALEKS The Place: Scotland Time: The day Verity!’s Liz Miles joined New To Who After over fifty years of futile discussion between fans, Steven thinks this is the perfected form that carries Doctor Who into eternity - the dreaded GENESIS OF THE DALEKS. Without feeling, conscience or pity, Steven is joined as ever b…

NEW TO WHO - GHOST LIGHT Perth, 2018 In the sleepy, rural parish of Perth, New To Who is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim pod, but the owners, the reclusive and controversial Dan and Steven, receive occasional visitors. The Reverend Nathan Bottomley and James Sellwood (of the Flight Through Entirety podcast), have trave…

NEW TO WHO meet ANDREW CARTMEL We are privileged to bring you an extended interview with the Script Editor of Doctor Who during the entirety of the Sylvester McCoy era; Andrew Cartmel! Join us as Andrew charts the behind-the-scenes story of a golden period for Doctor Who, starting as an aspiring writer working in a technology firm before getting a …

NEW TO WHO - VENGEANCE ON VAROS Dan and Steven have stalled in Sydney, and it is only on the planet Varos that they can find his precious Zeiton-7 ore they need to continue their podcasting through time and space. Arriving on the planet, Dan and Steven meet the rebel Todd Beilby and incur the wrath of Richard Stone, representatives of the most exce…

NEW TO WHO AND THE ROBOTS OF DEATH On a desert planet the giant sandminer crawls through the howling sandstorms, harvesting the valuable minerals in the sand. Inside it, Dan and Steven relax in luxury, while most of the work is done by the robots who serve them. Then JR Southall arrives - and the mysterious deaths begin. First a suspect, then a hun…

NEW TO WHO - ENLIGHTENMENT In response to a warning of great danger given by Rob Irwin from The Doctor Who Show podcast, Dan and Steven set new co-ordinates and the TARDIS materialises on the heaving deck of a Sydney racing yacht. But as they all soon discover, this is no ordinary yacht – and no ordinary race. Dan, Steven, and Rob are competing for…

NEW TO WHO - INFERNO Inferno is the name of a top-secret podcast to penetrate this story's crust and release a major new guest, Erik Stadnik from the Doctor Who: The Writers' Room. A crisis develops when a noxious Dan and Steven leak out as drilling progresses - the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings. As the Earth's …

NEW TO WHO AND THE INVASION Materialising in Sydney, Dan and Steven meet the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, led by Brigadier Nathan Bottomley and Sergeant Brendan Jones from Flight Through Entirety. Together, they team up to infiltrate and investigate the nefarious Tobias Vaughn and his bumbling henchman, Packer!, at the headqu…

NEW TO WHO AND THE SEEDS OF DOOM In the desert wastes of sun-burnt Australia, a strange pod is unearthed, buried deep in the sands. Curiosity turns to alarm as the pod begins to grow - then horror when suddenly it cracks open and Dan and Steven shoot out, mercilessly seeking the nearest live victim... In London, PAUL CORNELL is bewildered. Called i…

"It's a bit Michael Jackson 'Thriller'" After seventeen centuries trapped in the shadow dimensions, Steven and Daniel are reunited with Bridget, only to discover that they are all themselves descendants of the original Vikings who carry THE CURSE OF FENRIC! The last story of the original series of Doctor Who save one, this post-modern masterpiece i…

"Two words, gentlemen: Hubba hubba" Col, Daniel, and Steven are joined by Pete, a mysterious human from the 21st-century, to 'time-jump' back into the 20th century so as to discuss a high-ranking Classic Doctor Who episode; DAY OF THE DALEKS! Another instance of Doctor Who being ahead of its time, this time-y wime-y plot by Louis Marks has since be…

"I love testicle head!" Materialising on a sand pit alien planet - this time in black and white - our heroic trio, Daniel, Col, and Steven, discover the ice tombs of Telos, now home to the hibernated Cybermen led by the terrifying Cyber Controller! Perhaps the apotheosis of Doctor Who's "Base Under Siege" genre that was a staple of 1967's Season Fi…

"Who ordered the soup?" Bridget joins Daniel, Colin, and Steven as they run through the streets and galleries of Paris in 1979, actually (more of a table wine, shall we say?) for CITY OF DEATH! Doctor Who's largest ever watching audience of 16 million people tuned in to watch this at the time, and none of them were wrong to do so. Written by DOUGLA…

"Time will tell - it always does." If you have never seen REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS before, we envy you! Doctor Who's silver jubilee season kicked off in incredible style with a return to its very beginnings set in 1963, and a London already infiltrated by Daleks. Written by BEN AARONOVITCH, this story established what Doctor Who could and would be…

"She's like a dinner lady in space" The Beryl Reid Appreciation Society (i.e., Colin, Daniel, and Steven) return for EARTHSHOCK, in which the new and young Fifth Doctor faces one of his deadliest and long-lost enemies. Who survives? Who doesn't? And what terrifying direction does the show's new Script Editor have in store for our favourite celery-a…

"Who de 'eck arr you?" New-to-Who Ed joins Colin, Daniel, and Steven for THE TERROR OF THE AUTONS , where the Third Doctor meets his companion, Jo Grant, for the first time while we are introduced to the Master, who plans to take over the world with the aid of an army of plastic men! This is the story where the formula for what Doctor Who is today …

"Set your TARDIS co-ordinates for confusion!" In the first of our adventures proper through Time and Space, arguably the definitive Doctor and companion team land in Scotland, 1975 to join forces with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and U.N.I.T to overcome the shapeshifting Zygons! A classic from the Hinchcliffe and Holmes 'gothic horror' period of Cl…

"Hello, Sweet Dorks!" Daniel, Colin and Steven nervously introduce themselves and their hare-brained idea for an intro cast to classic Doctor Who, designed for 'New Who' fans. But now that all the preparations made over pub lunches are over and they have finally hit record, can they deliver? What better way to start this great spirit of adventure t…