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This podcast is is two parts. First comes our look back at last weekend’s Doctor Who Appreciation Society convention, “Capitol 2” – the first convention for Doc and Mark. Listeners are advised to arm themselves with ear defenders to protect themselves from the avalanche of u-turns as Doc takes back everything he’s said previously about conventions and autographs. Gasp as Allan reveals behind-the-scenes secrets. Go aaaaah as Doc and Mark fall head over heels in love with several people. Wince in sympathy as you hear why Hayden had to pull out at the last minute.

Then we take a look at “Thin Ice” and “Knock Knock”, the next two new episodes in Series 10 of Doctor Who.

Direct MP Download Link = DDPC076 – Topping Up The Soul

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(00:25:42) The results of “Challenge Daphne” – Daphne Ashbrook’s attempt on the world record for the mos individual selfies – can be found at the Doctor Who Appreciation Society Facebook page.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:29:45) Mark has finally laid to rest all debate over the “Revenge of the Cybermen” double-page spread in the second “Doctor Who Monster Book” by getting David Banks to sign the page “Not canonical”. See our Tumblr page here.

(00:30:40) Mark meets Uncle Terrance Dicks.

(00:35:00) After opposing the idea of a female Doctor for so long, Doc gives way upon meeting the divine Daphne Ashbrook. See our Youtube channel here.

(00:43:56) The fabulous Katy Manning arrives to be interviewed by Allan.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 075 – The Reverse Gaiman

28 Friday Apr 2017

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The Diddly Dumbers review the first two episodes of the new series 10 of Doctor Who – “The Pilot” and “Smile”.

Along the way, Mark explains how he gets vertigo in museums, Hayden relates how his grandparents used to scare the living bejesus out of his uncle in the 1960s with a PVC Dalek suit, Allan discurses on moral responsibility in a determinative universe, and Doc is hospitalised after another attempt to scale the North Face of his voice impersonation of Zor, leader of all Pescatons.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC075 – The Reverse Gaiman

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(00:19:22) Following the success of the inaugural event, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is proud to announce ‘The Capitol II’ – a full scale, two day event that will take place at the Arora Hotel Gatwick over the weekend of the 6th & 7th May, 2017.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:14:05) “The Greatest Adventure Yet From Captain Kremmen” LP (1980).

(00:15:05) Kenny Everett’s notorious appearance at the 1983 Conservative Party Conference.

(01:03:08) The Infinite Monkey Cage radio show and podcast.

(01;46:15) Andrew Vardy video.

(01:50:28) The Alan Gribble Trophy raises money for cancer research in memory of Hayden’s Dad. Please make a donation if you can.

(01:50:53) Podcasters Royale is our sister podcast run by Hayden as a tribute to everything 007.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 074 – Deviation from Sanity

15 Saturday Apr 2017

Please make a donation if you can at Hayden’s “Just Giving” page for the football match in aid of Cancer Research in memory of his Dad.

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In the final week before Season 10 of Doctor Who begins, we take a look the various cult books which have been arriving at The Whoseum for our delectation. This leads to much wistful sighing over memories over comics from the 1970s, especially 2000AD. We also look at some promising hints about Pearl Mackie’s companion character.

Then the Diddly Dum Whoseum hosts its first ever game of Just a Minute.

Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC074 – Deviation from Sanity

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(00:03:55) The roots of jamminess run deep in Hayden’s family. Here’s his Dad on the inside cover of the Pink Floyd Wall album.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:06:31) Richard Franklin appears in a McDonalds commercial.

(00:08:01) The Great Curator scene from “Day of the Doctor” done by Jon Culshaw and Jake Dudman.

(00:11:29) “Scarred for Life: Volume One – The 1970s”.

(00:14:56) “Serial Killer, Part 1: Read Em and Weep” – Pat Mills.

(00:16:00) Ro-busters.

(00:16:20) “Thrill Power Overload”.

(00:16:50) “The Day the Law Died”.

(00:28:17) “Doctor Who and the Fescan Threat”.

(00:29:30) “The Unofficial Doctor Who Limerick Book”.

(00:41:01) Pearl Mackie’s interview.

(00:53:09) Podcasters Royale is our sister podcast run by Hayden as a tribute to everything 007.

(01:11:35) The Alan Gribble Trophy raises money for cancer research in memory of Hayden’s Dad. Please make a donation if you can.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 073 – A Farewell to Childhood

06 Thursday Apr 2017

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Listen in to the second half of our Pat Troughton tribute as we celebrate “The Enemy of the World” and “The War Games”. But first, Allan returns from his mysterious absence last time to regale us with tales of visiting the Doctor Who set during filming in Cardiff.

Along the way, we compare the prospects of a world controlled by Tony Hancock’s idiot flatmate or a galaxy controlled by the Rentaghost landlord, and we consider Pat Troughton’s swan song as a theme for the loss our childhood.

Direct MP3 Download Link = Diddly Dum Podcast 073 – A Farewell to Childhood

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(00:40:38) Bill Kerr was a South African-born entertainer, who had a successful career in Britain and Australia as an actor, comedian and vaudevillian. He developed a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of Hancock’s Half Hour.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:35:27) The Usborne Spy’s Guidebook.

(00:36:22) The Know-How Book of Spycraft.

(00:42:28) “The Test Pilot” sketch from “Hancock’s Half-Hour”.

(00:00:00) “Rentaghost” was a British children’s television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 1976 and 1984. The show’s plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the spirits for various tasks.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 072 – A Mild Shampoo for the Mind

22 Wednesday Mar 2017

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For the second podcast running, the Five Faces of Delusion are only four this week as Allan has gone missing, summoned away at the last minute from his Northern fastness by a mysterious invitation to Cardiff from the movers and shakers of Doctor Who. Our faithless listeners can rest assured that, come next time, we’ll be pumping Allan thoroughly in the debriefing room (audio only alas). In his absence this week, we start a double-podcast tribute to Patrick Troughton, covering “The Highlanders” and “Tomb of the Cybermen”.

Along the way, Hayden’s Jam Pantry (hitherto thought impregnable) gets raided; we examine the curious role played by the Spurs Supporters Club at the Battle of Culloden (with a rare find of a piece of music more ear-shredding than bagpipes); Hayden auditions for TV game shows; Toberman gets a good mind-rinse with Cyber-shampoo and we drool over the long awaited Issue 3 of Vworp Vworp magazine.

Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC072 – A Mild Shampoo for the Mind

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(00:50:35) Hayden’s notoriously ungelled interview with BBC News upon the departure of Matt Smith can be found on our Youtube channel here.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:04:53) Following the success of the inaugural event, the
Doctor Who Appreciation Society presents ‘The Capitol II’ – a full scale, two day event that will take place at the Arora Hotel Gatwick over the weekend of the 6th & 7th May, 2017.

(00:19:35) Vworp Vworp magazine issue 3 has now been published in all its gorgeousness.

(00:52:50) Doc’s personal blog “Doctor Whom” can be found here. And his journey from “An Unearthly Child”onwards can be found here.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 071 – Dead Links

04 Saturday Mar 2017

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This week, the Diddly Dum Podcast is brought to you by the letter A. Two things are missing this week – Hayden and all Doc’s notes for his Whoseum segment. As a result, only Mark and Allan have exhibits to present – a wheelbarrow full of charred fragments of blue wood (which looks surprisingly like the debris of a TARDIS) and a broken link.

Along the way, Allan performs his first ever live stand-up gig, we investigate the unexpected origins of the presidential salute, we follow what happened to the Dalek ship prop after Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 AD (1966), and we examine the link between Shakespeare’s punk phase and Vincent Price’s horror films.

Direct MP3 Download Link = ddpc071-dead-links

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(00:20:33) Mike Yarwood is an English actor, comedian and impressionist. He was one of Britain’s top-rated entertainers, regularly appearing on television from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:05:24) Allan’s first ever comedy stand-up routine courtesy of The Comic Trust.

(00:17:50) “Doc’s Comedy Hour” can be found at episode 53 of the Diddly Dum Podcast.

(00:55:30) The TARDIS Builders Forum.

(00:57:15) “The Body Stealers” (1969).

(01:00:04) The TARDIS Video Cabinet.

(01:05:00) The shop window scene from the “Sleeper” episode of “The New Avengers.

(01:09:10) Daphne Ashbrook’s dead link.

(01:23:10) “Screen Test” is a children’s game show that aired on BBC1 from 18 November 1970 to 20 December 1984. It is first hosted by Michael Rodd from 1970 to 1979, then hosted by Brian Trueman from 1979 to 1983 and finally hosted by Mark Curry in 1984.

(01:26:28) Allan writes reviews of horror movies for theslaughteredbird.com.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 070 – Surfeit of Beef

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

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This week, The Five Faces of Delusion take a look at two stories from Jon Pertwee’s final season. With “Invasion of the Dinosaurs” we show how, if you look beyond the ropey models and the heavy “Eastenders” influences, this story is essentially Malcolm Hulke doing to the Communist Party of Great Britain what Robert Holmes did to the Inland Revenue with “The Sun Makers”. With “Planet of the Spiders” we draw a direct line from this story to the twin literary masterpieces “Flowers for Algernon” and “Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH”.

Along the way, we look at how Rick James was knocked off the top spot he’d occupied since “The Mutants”. We question whether one’s attitude to the Third Doctor’s authoritarianism changes with the onset of fatherhood. We explain how The Whomobile was the Wonderbra of its day. And we poke our noses into Richard Franklin’s political career.

Mark’s daughter, Polly, was so inspired by “Invasion of the Dinosaurs” that she wants to watch another UNIT story next. Send us your recommendations for the best UNIT story for Mark to watch with her.

MP3 Direct Download Link = ddpc070-surfeit-of-beef

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(00:33:19) “The Avengers – The House That Jack Built” (S04E23)can be found here. The scene where Steed finds that Emma has sorted out the trouble for herself occurs about 49 mins into the episode.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:08:30) The Chewits Monster.

(00:57:20) Jon Pertwee drives The Whomobile into the Blue Peter studio to meet Peter Purves on 7 January 1974.

(00:57:50) Jon Pertwee drives The Whomobile around Chingford on 26 July 1975.

(00:58:37) It’s been suggested that The Whomobile owed more than a little to the design of the X.P.A.C. 400 Air Car, built in the early 1960s by George Barris (King of the Kustomisers).

(00:59:34) Daryl Joyce’s painting of The Whomobile chasing Lupton in the gyrocopyter.

(01:00:33) The Daypol tooling master-model of The Whomobile was intended for production in 1991 but was never produced.

(01:01:03) The Corgi tooling master model of The Whomobile.

(01:06:05) The jewel thief from Episode 1 of “Invasion of the Dinosaurs” is played by Gordon Reid who’s better known to Doc’s generation as the voice of Angel Two from Radio 4 sci-fi series “Earthsearch”.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 069 – Three Candles

15 Sunday Jan 2017

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Come and have a piece of cake as we celebrate the third birthday of the Diddly Dum Podcast. Originally intending to review “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, we get slightly sidetracked by listing what Doctor Who goodies we got for Christmas. Then Hayden regales us with a tale of his Christmas visit to The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge where he discovered playable games consoles and games from his youth.

Eventually, we leave the subject of the 90s Doctor Who pinball game and the Activision Ghostbusters game from the 80s and turn to chatting about the latest Doctor Who Christmas Special.

Along the way, we discover Peter Cushing’s unusual hobby, we keep finding William Russell in the seasonal TV fare, and we look back to a very early podcast where we covered an early computer game featuring the voices of Jon Pertwee and Ian Dury.

MP3 Direct Download Link = ddpc069-three-candles

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(00:31:28) “Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?” is a slogan that was used in an advert for milk by the Milk Marketing Board in the 1980s in the UK.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:08:30) Hayden visited The UK Computing Centre in Cambridge over Christmas. Some of his photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:00) A photo of a ghetto blaster to beat Ace’s can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:14:00) Footage of playing the Doctor Who pinball game machine from the 1990s can be found here. Also, while filming “More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS”, Sylvester McCoy played the game in unincluded footage which can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:19:48) In Diddly Dum Podcast #07, we looked at the “Deus Ex Machina” video game from Automata.

(00:29:34) Activision released a Ghostbusters video game in 1984, screen footage of which can be found here.

(00:33:11) Doc was given a copy of “The Doctor Who Whoniverse” for Christmas.

(00:38:27) Hayden’s sister podcast at “Podcasters Royale” continues to go great guns.

(00:41:57) William Russell appears with George Baker in a screen test for Ben-Hur in the 1950s.

(00:44:20) “Astronomer’s Call” is a spoken word section on “Before the Dawn” – the second live album by Kate Bush, released on 25 November 2016 by Bush’s label Fish People.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 068 – Play Your Kaleds Right

13 Friday Jan 2017

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As Hayden delivers the Christmas presents and drinks to the Whoseum, an accident throws our podcasters through Space-Time onto Satellite 5 which is still broadcasting old gameshows to Earth. They must negotiate their way through numerous gameshow studios in order to find their way home in time for the traditional Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run.

Is Brucie a Skarosian agent under the control of his Dalek dolly dealers? Can the boys find the route out of The Crystal Maze? Will they win through to the Head-to-Head round of a Blankety Blank hosted by Terrance Dicks? Will they return to 2016 in time for the gala release of the Diddly Dum charity single? Listen in to find out.

MP3 Direct Download Link = ddpc068-play-your-kaleds-right

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(00:51:25) “The Crystal Maze” was shown on Channel 4 in the UK between 1990 and 1995, hosted first by Richard O’Brien and later by Ed Tudor-Pole.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:00:00) Hayden as been moonlighting as a long distance lorry driver this Christmas.

(00:09:18) Woolworths Christmas TV ad from 1981.

(00:29:20) “Play Your Cards Right” was broadcast on ITV from 1980 to 1987, hosted by Bruce Forsyth.

(00:49:20) The equivalent of the Woolworths Christmas TV ad for Hayden’s generation was the Toys R Us ad.

(00:55:00) “Blankety Blank” ran from 1979 to 1990 on BBC One, hosted first by Terry Wogan from 1979 until 1983 followed by Les Dawson from 1984 until 1990.

(01:04:00) The “Gold Run” was the final round of “Blockbusters”which ran on ITV from 1983 to 1993, hosted by Bob Holness.

DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 067 – Schmooze, Blues and Doctor Twos

20 Sunday Nov 2016

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This week, the opening “what have we been doing since last time” section takes longer than the main theme section. That’s what happens when all four members of The Six Faces of Delusion discover a social life.

Before we tackle the first four episodes of “Class”, Allan attends the unveiling of Jon Pertwee’s blue plaque and meets a shedload of celebrities. Mark visits Dungeness Power Station (a.k.a. The Nuton Power Complex from “Claws of Axos”) before coming face to face with dinosaurs which never existed. Doc and Hayden attend the premier of the animated “Power of the Daleks” at the British Film Institute and hide from a roomful of uber-fans while the celebrities hide in the green room.

MP3 Direct Download Link = ddpc067-schmooze-blues-doctor-twos

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