On this week’s show, Archie Panjabi is playing a new Doctor Who villain (probably not The Rani) next season, plus Russell T Davies and Disney+ teasing a TARDIS set pic (and potential Season 3 renewal?) on Instagram, but the key to this whole endeavour is the flights of fancy on our latest Fluid Links where we invent not one but two imaginary Doctor Who media properties! Lights, camera, nonsense!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• RTD posts (cryptic?) photo on the TARDIS set; Disney responds with (cryptic?) eyes emoji
• Archie Panjabi Set To Play ‘Doctor Who’ Villain In New Season
• Big Finish The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers, due Dec 2024
• Big Finish Most Wanted due Jan 2025
• Film is Fabulous GoFundMe: Help restore a missing episode of b&w television
• Geoff Hinsliff died
• David Graham, voice of the Daleks, died

Despite a dearth of real news, and because of one glorious piece of fake news from the Onion, the Three Who Rule faff on less than usual this week, with a look at various Blu-Ray controversies, David Banks in Doctor Who magazine, a Classic Who event at the cool-name-having Electric Palace movie theatre. Plus our Classic Series Commentary for the final episode of “Planet of the Spiders”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Onion: Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’
• Doctor Who Magazine #608
• Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray due October 24
• Blake’s 7 Series 1 collection available for pre-order (Amazon US)
• Classic Doctor Who night on September 19 at the Electric Palace
• Doctor Who Limited Edition Tankard

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 6

A Gallifrey One guest announcement tops the RFS headlines as Jenna Coleman aka Clara Oswald is set to arrive in Los Angeles this upcoming February! Plus Russell T Davies is in the latest SFX to explain how TV works to you nerds, so what better time for the Three Who Rule to add their uninformed insights to the pile? An Emperor Davros dolly is on the way from B&M, Ncuti Gatwa’s theatrical spectacular The Importance of Being Earnest heads for cinema screens and more, before a Classic Series Commentary on the penultimate episode of both “Planet of the Spiders” and the Jon Pertwee era!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Jenna Coleman announced as guest of Gallifrey One
• RTD says Season 3 renewal won’t come until after Season 2 airs
• BFI redux screening of The Happiness Patrol on September 29
• B&M 2024 Remembrance of the Daleks – Emperor Davros
• B&M 2024 The History of the Daleks #18
• Ncuti Gatwa’s The Importance of Being Earnest getting UK cinema release
• Doctor Who finalists for five BAFTA Cymru Awards (aka The Welshies)
• Breakdown of the first scene of The Power of the Daleks

Commentary:

• Planet of the Spiders Episode 5