Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Doctor Who is leaving HBO Max in the USA! What does that mean for the Three Who Rule? Nothing, because they live in Canada, but they discuss the news anyway. Also, the UNIT Black Archive experience is coming to SDCC, three new Doctor Who Season 2 novelizations are out now, Big Finish excitement, another adorable Fourth Doctor Build-a-Bear, and the crown jewel of this episode, the thrilling conclusion of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Visitation”! Links: * Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeskaro] * Disney+ and ITVX content sharing [https://deadline.com/2025/07/disney-itv-landmark-deal-love-island-the-bear-the-kardashians-1236453780/] * UNIT’s Black Archive pop-up experience coming to San Diego Comic Con 2025 [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/units-black-archive-pop-up-experience-coming-to-san-diego-comic-con-2025] * Doctor Who: Tom Baker Complete Series Two (Blu-ray) released January 26, 2026 in North America [https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Baker-Complete-Blu-ray/dp/B0FG3HY3ZC/] * Doctor Who (2005-2022) leaving HBO Max on July 31 [https://movieweb.com/doctor-who-leave-streaming-hbo-max/] * Doctor Who: The Adventures After being released October 23 from BBC Books [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-an-exclusive-extract-from-new-short-story-by-carole-ann-ford] * Target Collection – Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution by Una McCormack out now [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469654/doctor-who-the-robot-revolution-target-collection-by-mccormack-una/9781785949548] * Target Collection – Doctor Who: Lux by James Goss out now [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469655/doctor-who-lux-target-collection-by-goss-james/9781785949555] * Target Collection – Doctor Who: The Well by Gareth L Powell out now [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469656/doctor-who-the-well-target-collection-by-powell-gareth-l/9781785949562] * Read a deleted scene from ‘The Robot Revolution’ from the new Target novel [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-a-deleted-scene-from-the-robot-revolution-from-the-new-target-novel] * Read an exclusive extract from new short story by Carole Ann Ford [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-an-exclusive-extract-from-new-short-story-by-carole-ann-ford] * Big Finish Dark Gallifrey released [https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/a-field-trip-with-the-master] * Big Finish UNIT – Brave New World: Fractures due Mar 2026 [https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/bambera-and-ancelyn-reunited] * Build-A-Bear Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Version 2 [https://www.buildabear.com/doctor-who-teddy-bear-fourth-doctor-gift-set/33348_30248_26674.html] Commentary: * The Visitation Part Four [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_(Doctor_Who)]

The Loch Ness Monster is back! At least in fancy new VFX form in the just announced Season 13 Blu-Ray Collection which will have all manner of goodies which we will pore over in intimate detail both in this episode and when these discs grace North American shores later in the year! But that’s just the icing on the cake as we also have beloved Doctor Jodie Whittaker and equally beloved companion Mandip Gill arrive in our ears in the form of Big Finish’s Vampire Weekend, as well as in our futures with the Return of the Doctor, which features a Disco Armadillo! Plus comics, nonsense, and part the third of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Visitation”! Links: * Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeskaro] * Amazing15 Design [https://amazing15.com/newmain.html] * Season 13 announced as the next instalment in the Classic Blu-ray range [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/season-13-is-the-next-instalment-in-doctor-who-the-collection-blu-ray-range] * Doctor Who Blu-Ray Special Features wiki [https://whospecialfeatures.fandom.com/wiki/Index] * Doctor Who Collection PDF inserts available c/o Brandon Wood [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Bi0hWP32MmLdMRSFd6B1se3Dl3Mwj02D] * Coming Soon: New adventures for the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda from Titan Comics [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/coming-soon-new-adventures-for-the-fifteenth-doctor-and-belinda-from-titan-comics] * Big Finish Doctor Who: Vampire Weekend, the first Jodie Whittaker story, released [https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-thirteenth-doctor-adventures-begins] * Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill Big Finish interview [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1mkCAizwE] * Big Finish Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Return of the Doctor, coming in September [https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/a-return-trip-for-the-thirteenth-doctor] Commentary: * The Visitation Part Three [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_(Doctor_Who)]

It’s a real grab bag of news this week with Peter Davison critiquing the current series of Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi being cool as hell at Glastonbury, and a truly mammoth editorial by Chris about the Blu-ray for The War Games in Colour and the cost thereof given that it is only one disc. Somehow we get an hour out of this, and we also have an extensive interview with long-time friends and Televisual Specialists John Williams and Neil Perryman about their new podcast where they watch every television show ever made – World of Telly! Links: * Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeskaro] * BBC statement on complaint about Ncuti Gatwa-Billie Piper regeneration coverage [https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaint/drwhoncutileaving] * Peter Davison on the current state of Doctor Who [https://youtu.be/LtjR-fo4OH0] * Doctor Who Magazine Special #70: The Horror Issue due Sep 24 [https://cultbox.co.uk/news/magazines/doctor-who-magazine-to-offer-horror-special] * Preview of ‘Night of the Shreek’ from the 2026 Doctor Who Annual [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-an-exclusive-preview-of-the-doctor-and-rubys-lucky-day-adventure-night-of] * The War Games in Colour North American Blu-Ray release [https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F48GN3JD] * Classic Second Doctor adventure ‘The Moonbase’ coming to vinyl [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/classic-second-doctor-adventure-the-moonbase-coming-to-vinyl] * Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway due Nov 2025 [https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-causeway-awaits-the-eighth-doctor] * Doctor Who and sustainability [https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-alexander-devrient-sustainability-exclusive-interview/] * Peter Capaldi onstage with Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KNCAgkpko] * Ncuti Gatwa introduces JADE at Glastonbury [https://x.com/JADEtearoom/status/1938966624805040487] * Laundry Files RPG 2nd Edition preorder announced – and Warren wrote for it! [https://cubicle7games.com/our-games/the-laundry-roleplaying-game] Interview: * World of Telly Podcast [https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofTelly] * Neil Perryman [https://bsky.app/profile/neilperryman.bsky.social] * John Williams [https://bsky.app/profile/worldoftelly.bsky.social]

We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Twenty-five years after his death, Adams’s books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42”, have seeped deep into public consciousness. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’s former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’s personal friends like Stephen Fry and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most beloved and visionary writers of our time. Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks [https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobooks], or wherever audiobooks are sold.

If you enjoy baseless speculation about the future of Doctor Who, The War Between the Land and the Sea, RTD’s career prospects, and most importantly, musings about Edmonton AM radio frequencies past and present, then this episode of Radio Free Skaro is for you (you sicko)! Plus we cover a new official Doctor Who quiz book from Beth Axford and “The Moon Cruise” by Esmie-Jikiemi-Pearson, some Steven Taylor Big Finish goodness, Steven’s recent podcast promiscuity and the second part of our Classic Series Commentary for “The Visitation”!  Links: * Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeskaro] * Will The War Between The Land and The Sea all drop at once on iPlayer and Disney+? * Doctor Who Magazine 618 released [https://www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/doctor-who-magazine-618-gbdrw618-uk02.html] * RTD’s column from DWM 618 [https://www.reddit.com/r/DoctorWhoNews/comments/1lej2ui/full_rtd_letter_off_the_latest_doctor_who_magazine/] * The Fourteenth Doctor and the Meep action figure set now available [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/the-fourteenth-doctor-and-the-meep-action-figure-set-now-available] * The Official Doctor Who Quiz Book by Beth Axford coming Sep 2025 [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463614/doctor-who-the-official-quiz-book-by-who-doctor/9781405973847] * New Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda novel ‘The Moon Cruise’ by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson coming in Nov 2025 [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/new-fifteenth-doctor-and-belinda-novel-the-moon-cruise-coming-in-november] * Big Finish released two new audiobooks read by Peter Purves to celebrate 60 years of Steven Taylor [https://bigfinish.com/news/v/a-feast-of-steven] * Doctor Who Season 1 Blu-Ray releasing Tuesday in North America [https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0DYPWXP94/] * Doctor Who The War Games in Colour releasing Tuesday in North America [https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0F48GN3JD/] * Steven on The Incomparable Doctor Who Season 2 wrap-up [https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/771/] * Steven on the Strangers in Space Doctor Who news update episode [https://strangersinspace.libsyn.com/blue-box-176-primed-for-action] Commentary: * The Visitation Part Two [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitation_(Doctor_Who)]