The Time Meddler is a seminal moment in Doctor Who history. No Doctor Who podcast can be complete without acknowledging it, and no podcast about Doctor Who Literature can be complete without discussing its novelization.

Frazer Gregory, one of my most frequent and popular guests, rejoins me for the first time since Episode 100. We have a lot to say about this story, including a discussion of its geography -- where in Northumbria does it take place, and on what precise day does it take place? Frazer has a theory, and it involves, perhaps, the very week that we're talking to you.

There are also games to be played, not just the one that I have for Frazer, but the one that he has for me ...

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Welcome to Part One of our intermittent ongoing look at The Trial of a Time Lord, a single 14-part Doctor Who serial that comprised the whole of Season 23, televised between September and December 1986, but broken up into four separate novelizations. Confusingly released out of order and non-consecutively.

Jim Sangster, Doctor Who Literature's multi-talented co-producer, logo designer, and in-house band, adapted and performed this week's introductory number, appeared as a talking head on the Trial of a Time Lord DVDs (recorded 16 years prior to the production of this episode), and is this week's guest. We'll about about Liverpool and its many connections to Doctor Who, and speculate just when does Trial take place relevant to the Sixth Doctor's own timeline?

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Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Jeff from Gallifrey's Most Wanted. The Rescue is one of Jeff's favorite Doctor Who episodes and it's great to hear him discuss.

Sampled is an audio encore of Jason's favorite Harvey Keitel interview.

You might also recognize some dialogue from The Big Lebowski.

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Welcome to an extra long episode of Doctor Who Literature, but one of the deepest and most rewarding ones we've ever produced.

The subject is the February 1966 Doctor Who episode The Massacre, a troubled production where the original author tried to disclaim credit, the video is lost and only a few publicity photos survived, and the surviving audio is hard to untangle as William Hartnell only appears in a small handful of scenes.

We have three guests this week to help unravel the story:

--Repeat DWLit guest Denise Sutton joins Jason for a specially-recorded live introduction in Central London.

--Repeat DWLit guest Ian Potter, a Black Archives writer, helps Jason try to unravel the troubled production (and troubled production team!) at the heart of the TV serial.

--The Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, an American Baptist minister and Doctor Who fan, whose surname ties into this story, helps us understand the historical and religious context of August 1572.

And although he doesn't appear in this episode, we could not have produced this week without James Cooray Smith, who ⁠literally wrote the book on The Massacre⁠.

We'll be back next week to cover another William Hartnell adventure, with a much shorter episode!

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A warm Doctor Who Literature welcome-back to Kate and Jon, last heard together on this show discussing The Talons of Weng-Chiang in July 2022. Two years and many books later, we are gonna get deep into The Ambassadors of Death.

You can find several new works by Kate and Jon, as discussed during the episode:

--Saltier, a short story by Kate.

--United Nations and Intelligence Taskforce, two recent Lethbridge-Stewart novels by Jon from Candy Jar Books.

--and Meanwhile, Turlough, a bonus-download Big Finish audio by Jon.

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Long-time listeners of Doctor Who Literature know that this podcast is a K-9 house. We are all about K-9 here. This week, his first TV spinoff, the Christmas 1981 special gets its own novelization, the final book of the short-lived Companions of Doctor Who line.

Joining Jason this week are two great friends making their first appearance on the show: Drew and Brent, from Who & Company. And yes, it's coincidence that they're showing up to discuss K-9 & Company.

Jason appeared on Who & Company a few months ago.

Jason has also recently been on Trap One to discuss the Celestial Toymaker Blu-ray animation and a tribute to the late William Russell.

I recommend audio clips from The Simpsons' "Kamp Krusty" and the legit banger that is the Ian Levine & Fiachra Trench K-9 & Company theme.

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As Doctor Who Literature nears the end of a very packed season discussing each of the novelizations and other Doctor Who spinoff books of 1986 and 1987, Jason and Callie were also watching the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- 144 episodes in about 144 days. Now we sit down in our dining room to discuss the series. This episode will cover "Welcome to the Hellmouth" through "The Gift".

WARNING: Spoilers will get discussed as the series is nearly 30 years old. Not recommended if you've never watched the series before. There is ambient noise, mostly cats, throughout the recording. Smudge watched all 144 episodes of Buffy with us, so how could we exclude her from this recording?

Welcome to the final week of our four-episode William Hartnell mini-season. The Romans is released in paperback in September 1987 and is the fourth straight Doctor Who novelization to come out of the First Doctor era.

Here on Doctor Who Literature, Jason Davis is back for the week to talk us through The Romans in both its print and TV incarnation. We also discuss lots of classic film and TV contents, and the particular perils of being an American Doctor Who working retail in the late 1990s.

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Denise Sutton rejoins Doctor Who Literature during Week 3 of a 4-week stretch of four consecutive William Hartnell novelizations.

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"Doctor Who – The Reign of Terror" features cover art by Tony Masero.

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Much has been said about the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Sensorites. Not all of it positive. We at Doctor Who Literature are here to reverse that trend. The Sensorites is awesome. Except when it isn't, but when it lands, it really lands.

This week's guest is Black Archives writer Jon Arnold.

Here is one of Jon's many recent appearances on Strangers in Space.

Cover artist of The Sensorites novelization, Nick Spender, passed away recently.

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