Get Off My World!

Episode 85: Baskets of Wrong

[https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Doctor-Who-The-War-Games.avif]https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Doctor-Who-The-War-Games.avif In Episode 85: Baskets of Wrong, Ariel is away, starring in her own spinoff adventure, but Kelvin and Pat are joined by special guest Melissa Kaercher to enthusiastically discuss the epic conclusion to the Second Doctor’s run, The War Games! Join us for facial hair and another phantom Master! Regeneration and glasses-fashion! A digression about tabletop wargames, and a shout-out to the late Peter Watkins, director of the non-Doctor Who 1966 TV drama The War Game, who recently died at the age of 90. All this and Devo HQ!

Episode 84: Shrinkage!

[https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Planet_of_the_Giants.jpg]https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Planet_of_the_Giants.jpg In Episode 84: Shrinkage!, the team discuss a trio of tiny-person episodes: the First Doctor adventure Planet of Giants, the Third Doctor adventure Carnival of Monsters, and the Fourth Doctor adventure The Invisible Enemy. Plus, Pat races through a library’s worth of Doctor Who book recommendations, Kelvin shares an impromptu lecture on Polari, and Ariel gives us all the giggles. You too can join in the fun when you experience Shrinkage! Note: Ariel relates her trip to Perivale in Episode 67: Kids Love Murder [https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/2019/06/episode-67-kids-love-murder/].

Episode 83: Unicorns and Phantom Masters

[https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/blackorchid1.jpg]https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/blackorchid1.jpg In Episode 83: Unicorns and Phantom Masters, the gang and special guest Tony Karna visit the Land of Fiction to uncover Doctor Who‘s relationship with other forms of fictionality. Listen as we discuss The Mind Robber, Black Orchid and The Unicorn and the Wasp, touching on a lot of strange pain points along the way: Agatha Christie! The British culture industry! Brothers hidden in rooms! Kelvin’s Masterpiece Theater PTSD! A surprise appearance by Philip Larkin! We may be scared, nervous and unsure, but we at Get off My World are just gonna podcast through it all!

Episode 82: Time and the Scrimshaw

[https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/doctor-who-meglos-f.jpg]https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/doctor-who-meglos-f.jpg In this particularly sexy-voiced Episode 82: Time and the Scrimshaw, Kelvin, Ariel and the entity known as “Pat” discuss some previously underexplored corners of Doctor Who: First up, one of the very earliest First Doctor adventures, Marco Polo; and next, the cactus-heavy and thankfully non-yellowfaced Fourth Doctor episode Meglos. And there’s more! Mysterious audio engineer Tony Karna emerges from behind his headphones to chat with us about the past and future of the podcast. But where is Joshua Scrimshaw?, you ask. What a question… the final answer will shock and surprise you! Find out in this extra-special blood-sweat-and-glue episode of Get Off My World!

Episode 81: Skritches for the Garm

[https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/terminus10.webp]https://getoffmyworldpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/terminus10.webp In Episode 81: Skritches for the Garm, the gang are joined by a very special guest, the embodiment of galactic badness Himself, The Black Guardian, as we discuss the Fifth Doctor trilogy Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment. We encounter our past selves from 2016, learn how the time-traveling Terminus is retroactively influential, keep obsessively discussing everybody’s outfits for some reason, and test just how deep our reservoir of fanbase goodwill goes. You don’t know what to make of this puzzling set of stories? Let us enlighten you!