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This week’s podcast opens with the motorcade of Tony Jordan sweeping up to the Diddly Dum Whoseum as the DWAS head honcho visits us to look forward to the looming Capitol³ convention.

Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC094 – Jordan’s Alive

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(00:00:00) “Dum Dum” is a song written by Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley and performed by Brenda Lee. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 in Australia, and #22 in the UK in 1961. It was featured on her 1961 album, “All the Way”.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:04:00) Paul Winter, the then Co-ordinator of the DWAS, guested on our podcast #54 (Conventionality Belongs to Yesterday) which can be found here.

(00:09:15) Mark Barton Hill is a guest at Capitol³.

(00:11:40) Our own Allan appearing on Sky News to talk about the casting of Jodie Whittaker and appearing on BBC News to talk about Tom Baker’s cameo in the Shada animation.

(00:14:21) Mike Tucker is a guest at Capitol³.

(00:15:05) Our former co-host Andy (a.k.a. The Rev) related meeting Hayden at the Myth Makers event during our podcast #13 (Doctor Huw) which can be found here.

(00:49:49) Tony’s interview with Royce (Voice of the Daleks) Mills is on Youtube. Tony talks to Royce Bout his time on Doctor Who and his career on the stage and on TV. This is the first part of their stage panel and this is the second part.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 093 – Peter Patter

31 Saturday Mar 2018

Excitement abounds this week at The Whoseum as we reveal details of our partnership with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s CAPITOL³ convention as their official podcaster.

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But eventually we get down to our tribute to the late Peter Miles by taking a look at the Season 7 (1970) story – The Silurians. Along the way, we look at Peter’s work with Dusty Springfield, Jim Davidson latter career as a Liberace impersonator and the most bad-ass recurring villain of the Pertwee era (it’s not what you may think).

Plus we make a singular phone call to Hayden.

Direct MP3 Download Link = DDPC093 – Peter Patter

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(00:01:11) The Diddly Dum Podcast has been asked by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society to be the official podcasting partner of their Capitol³ convention at the end of April 2018.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:00:00) One of Peter Miles’s lesser-known activities was as a jazz singer and, 50+ years ago, he duetted with his friend Dusty Springfield on “Can’t We Be Friends”. This track has recently been released by a major record company. Peter can be seen at 10 mins into this video clip contributing to a South Bank Show looking at Dusty Springfield.

(00:06:45) Hayden’s interview with Tony Jordan from May 2015 can be found on episode 33 of the Diddly Dum Podcast (starts at 01:41:45) which can be found here.

(00:07:02) Hayden’s first Saturday morning breakfast show on Cambridge 105Radio goes out on 07 April 2018 between 7am and 8am.

(00:11:25) The XS Malarkey Comedy Club.

(00:14:42) This clip is from the beginning of the Series 5 episode of Frasier – “Desperately Seeking Closure” which can be seen here.

(00:21:50) The Who at the Hoylake convention.

(00:49:40) Cult BBC TV series from 1975 with music by electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who went on to score The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. The critically acclaimed BBC TV series, The Changes, was first broadcast by the BBC in in 1975, accompanied by music from electronic pioneer Paddy Kingsland, who wrote and recorded the score while working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

(00:52:00) “Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast” has recently been launched by friends of the show, David Kitchen and Richard Nolan. Every fortnight these two fans (and their guests) have a look at each episode of Blake’s 7, in order, discussing what they love about it, but also going into more depth about the stories and characters. They’l also be looking at the guests stars, and including some fun segments such as “look, it was the 1970s”, “what cool lines did Chris Boucher write for Avon this week?”, and “player of the week”!

(00:54:56) “Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story” (released in the US as Color Me Kubrick) is a Franco-British comedy-drama film directed by Brian W. Cook, released in 2005. The film stars John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a man who had been impersonating director Stanley Kubrick since the early 1990s. One of the biggest scams is when Conway promises to help establish Lee Pratt (Jim Davidson) as a headliner act in Las Vegas. Pratt is a British entertainer who’s had limited success as a flamboyant dancer and stage singer. Pratt is described as a “low-rent Liberace with an Elvis gleam in his eye.” The singing clip can be found here.

(01:31:00) One of Peter Miles’s lesser-known activities was as a jazz singer and, 50+ years ago, he duetted with his friend Dusty Springfield on “Can’t We Be Friends”. This track has recently been released by a major record company. Peter can be seen at 10 mins into this video clip contributing to a South Bank Show looking at Dusty Springfield.

(01:31:58) This clip is from the sixth episode of Series 1 of Blake’s 7 – “Seek Locate Destroy”. It can be found at 00:18:40 here.

(01:39:19) This closing music is “The Manchester Rap” (1990) by The Bosnians. A slightly (but only slightly) exaggerated parody of the Manchester/Salford accent.

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DIDDLY DUM JOINS THE CAPITOL³

20 Tuesday Mar 2018

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In an exciting/innovative/”eeeek what have we done?” venture, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society has invited the Diddly Dum Podcast to step out from behind the curtain and throw the full weight of the publicity behemoth that is our audience (both of them) behind Capitol³ – the DWAS convention in April.

His fellow podcasters dragged Doc, an inveterate wild-horses-wouldn’t-drag-me cynic about fan conventions, to Capitol 2 last year and he came away an enthusiastic convert. Our own Mark’s friends and family kept telling him after the Capitol 2 weekend that he looked as if he’d been on a week’s holiday – and somewhere tropical, not just Bognor. Allan chaired panels and the fair Erica corralled the autograph queues into order with her pack of sheepdogs. Poor Hayden was moving house that weekend and missed all the fun.

This year’s guests include Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, William Russell, Anneke Wills, Wendy Padbury, Katie Manning, Lalla Ward and many more.

We’ll be putting out a number of podcasts over Capitol³ weekend, peeping behind the scenes, chatting to the guests and hopefully bringing some of the fun to those of you who can’t get to the event (you’d better have a good excuse).

Guests include Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, William Russell, Anneke Wills, Wendy Padbury, Katie Manning (squeeeee!), Lalla Ward and many more.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 092 – Who Unearthed Tom Baker?

11 Sunday Mar 2018

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Four of the Five Four Faces of Delusion have been listening this week to the audiobook of “Who on Earth is Tom Baker”, the great man’s autobiography, and have gathered to find the maximum number of tangents to shoot off at while discussing the masterpiece.

Along the way, we take a well-earned cup of tea until rain forces us indoors,we look at boys’ comics of yesteryear, and we find out what Doc as a boy wanted to be when he grew up.

MP3 Direct Download = DDPC092 – Who Unearthed Tom Baker

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(00:12:52) Recently, on his journey home from work on the London Underground, Doc was diverted by the light saber umbrella clutched between the knees of the man sitting next to him. A photo can be found on our Tumblr page here.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:00:00) “Who on Earth is Tom Baker?” is the autobiography of the great man, published in 1997. Tom can be found reading the audiobook here (assuming you still have a cassette player.

(00:15:25) The purportedly final episode of the “42 to Doomsday” podcast can be found here.

(00:17:07) “Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast” has recently been launched by friends of the show, David Kitchen and Richard Nolan. Every fortnight these two fans (and their guests) have a look at each episode of Blake’s 7, in order, discussing what they love about it, but also going into more depth about the stories and characters. They’l also be looking at the guests stars, and including some fun segments such as “look, it was the 1970s”, “what cool lines did Chris Boucher write for Avon this week?”, and “player of the week”!

(00:19:01) Kevin (Jon) Davies, was the mastermind of “More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS” and jammy meeter of Douglas Adams in his youth. The whole of podcast #40 was devoted to Hayden’s interview with Kevin in 2015 and can be found here.

(00:23:18) Rafaella Carra Raffaella Maria Pelloni, better known as Raffaella Carrà, born 18 June 1943, Bologna) is an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, and actress. In 1977, she had her only entry to the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 9, with “Do It, Do It Again”.

(00:34:24) The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45” by Nicholas Stargardt.

(00:38:12) Tom Baker: In Confidence (2010).

(00:39:39) Bernhard Carl “Bert” Trautmann OBE (22 October 1923 – 19 July 2013) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.

(00:41:18) “Boys’ Weeklies” is an essay by George Orwell in which he analyses those weekly story-paper publications for boys which were current around 1940. The essay deals primarily with the School Stories published in The Magnet and The Gem and also with the ‘Tuppenny Bloods’ published by D.C. Thomson.

(01:09:57) “Late Night Story was a TV series broadcast on BBC2. Over Christmas 1978, it starred Tom Baker reading to camera four macabre stories on the theme of childhood. These stories were “The Photograph” by Nigel Kneale, “The Emissary” by Ray Bradbury, “Nursery Tea” by Mary Danby, “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene. The fifth story, “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), was unscreened owing to a BBC strike. The full set can be found as extras on the “Key to Time” DVD box-set.

(01:14:43) Tom Baker appearance on “This is Your Life” (2000) can be found here.

(01:22:32) “The Guardians”, a dystopian political thriller, is a television drama series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971. The complete series DVD box-set can be bought online here or here.

(01:24:25) “An Hour With Jon Pertwee” was a BBC radio show.

(01:26:10) “Who’s Next?” is the memoir of Derrick Sherwin.

(01:29:34) As our Easter Egg closing trest, Rafaella Carra visits The Whoseum to sing “Do It, Do It Again”.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 091 – Panem et Circenses

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

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“Imagine a world created by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and the Marx brothers”. Yes, it’s the Diddly Dum Whoseum, put once more to its proper role as a repository for Doctor Who memorabilia. The themes of the items presented this week by the podcasters is food and board games, with a linking theme of Daleks.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC091 – Panem et Circenses

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(00:05:21) Following the success of the “The Capitol II”, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is hosting “The Capitol ³“ – a full scale, two day event that will take place at the Arora Hotel Gatwick over the weekend of the 28th & 29th April 2018. “Capitol ^3″ will offer a mix of guests panels, on screen presentations, autographs, photo studio, merchandise and more. Special events, as well as a plethora of guests, are planned for the weekend, with details being revealed over the coming months.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:02:01) The 2018 “Who at Hoylake” convention will be held at Hoylake Social Club at postcode CH47 2BR. Guests announced so far include Toby Hadoke, Michael Troughton, Philip Hinchcliffe, Marcus Gilbert and Sophie Aldred .

(00:05:03) “The Guardians”, a dystopian political thriller, is a television drama series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971. The complete series DVD box-set can be bought online here or here.

(00:08:34) “EBC1″ – a.k.a “Emu’s Broadcasting Company” (1975–1980) was a children’s television series featuring Rod Hull and Emu running their own television station, which parodied many BBC series of the time. Supporting Rod Hull and his emu puppet were Billy Dainty who played a James Bond pastiche called Captain Perceval and Barbara New who played the tea lady. For those of a certain generation, this show was memorable for its Doctor Who parody, “Doctor Emu”.

(00:17:49) “Robert Homes: A Life in Words” by Richard Molesworth.

(00:18:58) “Space Spinner 2000” is a podcast where two friends from the US try to make sense of the UK’s 2000AD, the Galaxy’s Greatest comic, one month of issues at a time!

(00:21:08) “Invasion” was a series created by Pat Mills and mostly written by Gerry Finley-Day that appeared in the first 51 editions of the weekly comic 2000 AD.

(00:21:50) The Heavy Metal Kids (in 2000ad comic) were gigantic construction robots used for heavy demolition.

(00:24:30) “Crackerjack!” was a British children’s television series that aired on the BBC 1955 until 1984 (except during 1971). “Double or Drop” was a quiz game in the show where each of three contestants was given a prize to hold for each question answered correctly, but given a cabbage if they were incorrect. They were out of the game if they dropped any of the items awarded or received a third cabbage. While the winner took his or her pick from a basket of toys, every runner-up won a much-envied marbled propelling pencil as a prize, which became so popular that in 1961 Queen Elizabeth was presented with Crackerjack! pencils for Anne and Charles. In March 1975, the show included a Doctor Who based sketch, “Hallo, My Dalek”.

(00:25:15) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:25:28) “Spirograph” is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.

(00:28:10) “Frustration” board game and “Headache” board game were very similar.

(00:29:40) The free transfers which came with Issue One of Doctor Who Weekly in 1979.

(00:32:26) “Panzer Pranks” board game.

(00:33:21) “Call of Cthulu” is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft’s story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is currently in its seventh edition, with many different versions released. It makes use of Chaosium’s Basic Role-Playing (BRP) system, with special rules for Sanity.

(00:34:46) “Paranoia” is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games.

(00:36:22) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:48:41) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:56:26) In 1965, Louis Marx issued the “Dr Who the Mysterious Daleks” with “Amazing Robot Action” (later known as bump and go) daleks which came in black or silver/grey both with two gold bands. These very successful battery-operated daleks altered direction when they bumped into something and were re-released in several versions. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:59:21) A photo of the Click-and-Catch toy can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:03:00) The coin-operated Dalek ride was manufactured by Edwin Hall & Co between 1964 and 1967 and distributed by Edward Saville Amusements. A photo can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:04:34) In 1975, Wall’s launched the Dalek Death Ray ice lolly. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:13:40) Dr Who’s Space Adventure Book was a 1967 magazine published as a part of the Doctor Who/Dalek licensing agreement enjoyed by Wall’s Ice Cream. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here and here and here and here and here. The TV commercial can be seen here.

(01:16:30) Dr Who and the Daleks sweet cigarettes were 1964 tie-in food products manufactured by Cadet Sweets. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(01:21:00) Nestlé’s Doctor Who milk chocolate was a licensed product from the 1970s. At least two series of milk chocolate bars were produced by Nestlé. One was issued in 1971, coinciding with the broadcast of season 8. Photos can be found on our Tumble page here.

(01:25:35) Doctor Who baked beans were offered by Crosse & Blackwell in 1977. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 090 – What Becomes of the Broken Hartnells?

16 Tuesday Jan 2018

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It’s the podcast’s 4th birthday and the Five Faces of Delusion are reviewing “Twice Upon a Time”. Along the way, we find a connection between “Box of Delights” and early breathalyser tests, we howl for The North, and we look at the pros and cons of having superfans as showrunners and writers.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC090 – What Becomes of the Broken Hartnells

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(00:18:36) “The Night Walkers” was a story published in TV Comic featuring the Second Doctor. It is considered to be the conclusion of Season 6B. Published in three parts from 8-22 November 1969, it is the last TV Comic story to feature the Second Doctor and the very last adventure of this incarnation, loosely serving as a direct prequel to Spearhead from Space. It is also the only story to feature and properly show the Second Doctor’s regeneration, given that his last regular TV appearance didn’t show him regenerating, and also uniquely the only time the Doctor has regenerated in a comic story as opposed to an onscreen episode.

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SHOWNOTES
(00:05:21) ECANOTMA is short for “Everything’s Connected And None Of This Means Anything”, a book written by former Diddly Dum host Al No.

(00:06:07) A picture of the UNIT badge Mark gave Polly for Christmas can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:06:49) A picture of Hayden’s TARDIS cabinet can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:13:58) Tony Slattery is an English actor and comedian.

(00:58:54) The larger British supermarket chains and department store chains have become famous in recent years for spending millions on arty TV commercials over Christmas. In 2014, Sainsbury’s supermarket gave us one based on the 1914 Christmas truce.

(01:00:25) This clip comes from the final episode of “Blackadder Goes Forth”.

(01:27:52) Hayden’s book “A Child Out Of Time” continues to do well.

(01:47:56) This clip of Jim Broadbent and Victoria Wood comes from her TV play “Staying In”.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 089 – Galen’s Alive!

17 Sunday Dec 2017

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Find out how being stuck in a snow drift without petrol in the Whoseum’s antique Rolls Royce still didn’t frustrate our marking Diddly Dum’s fourth Christmas with our traditional gameshow.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC089 – Galens Alive

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(00:05:00) The 2018 “Who at Hoylake” convention will be held at Hoylake Social Club at postcode CH47 2BR. Guests announced so far include Toby Hadoke, Michael Troughton and Philip Hinchcliffe.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:08:34) On 9 Dec 2017 on BBC2, the BBC broadcast “John Noakes: TV Hero” as a tribute to the late icon of so many British childhoods.

(00:08:50) “Blue Peter at 50” narrated by Tom Baker and originally broadcast by the BBC on 11 Oct 2008.

(00:09:25) “Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes” is a film designed solely for live screenings and is made up almost entirely of never before seen footage edited together from hundreds of hours of unseen material from director Michael Cumming’s personal archive.

(00:11:07) English musician Neil Innes sued the band Oasis claiming their song “Whatever” borrowed portions of his song “How Sweet to Be an Idiot”. Innes and Oasis settled a plagiarism lawsuit and Innes received songwriting credit.

(00:13:10) Keith Chegwin (17 January 1957 – 11 December 2017) was an English television presenter and actor, appearing in several children’s entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including “Multi-Coloured Swap Shop” and “Cheggers Plays Pop”.

(00:17:24) Mark received a Fourth Doctor Funko Pop from his Secret Santa, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:17:59) Doc received from his Secret Santa the DVD box-set of the BBC’s late-1980s “Chronicles of Narnia” adaptation, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:19:54) Hayden received from his Secret Santa a mug displaying Sid Barrett’s Fender Esquire, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:21:45) Allan received from his Secret Santa the Podcaster Options boxed play set of the “Allan & Erica Return From Cardiff” story, a photo of which can be found on our Tumblr page here. This refers to March 2017 when Allan and his missus Erica visited the Doctor Who set in Cardiff at Matt Lucas’s. As they prepared to return home, they spied a golden Ice Warrior prop (from “Empress of Mars”) in a skip. Only the lack of a roof-rack prevented them from taking it back to The Wirral with them. The whole story can be heard on our podcast #73 here (around 4 mins in).

(00:24:34) “The Box of Delights” is a BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield’s children’s fantasy novel starring Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens. It was broadcast on BBC One between 21 November and 24 December 1984.

(00:25:30) Judge for yourselves whether Doc is right in thinking that Glyn Baker (the actor who played Herne the Hunter in “The Box of Delights”) bears a resemblance to Doctor Who Visual Effects Designer Mat Irvine.

(00:30:20) Mark received as an extra pressie from his fellow podcasters a Galen Doll from the “Planet of the Apes” TV series. This was to replace the one he accidentally destroyed during over-enthusiastic boyhood play. A photo of it can be found here.

(00:37:00) “Play Your Kaleds Right” is, of course, based on “Play Your Cards Right”, a British TV game show broadcast on ITV from 1980 to 1987 and hosted by Bruce Forsyth.

(01:07:12) The longest standing tradition of the Diddly Dum Podcast is our Christmas Blockbusters Gold Run – a quiz on the previous year’s podcast in the style of TV’s “Blockbusters”. The game board for this year’s Gold Run can be found on our Tumblr page here. Also see below these Show Notes.

(01:13:30) Our tribute to The War Bungle can be found on our Youtube page here.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 088 – Tell-Tale Trews

01 Friday Dec 2017

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This week, we take a look at the Season 14, Fourth Doctor story “Robots of Death”. Along the way, we ask who was the hardest Doctor, Mark recalls being at the 1988 gig when Alice Cooper very nearly did hang himself and we salute the passing of heroes in Paddy Russell, Dudley Simpson, Scott Fredericks, Keith Barron and Rodney Bewes.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC088 – Tell Tale Trews

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(00:34:20) Keith Barron provides the voiceover for the 1975 public information film warning about the dangers of grain pits.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:06:17) Allan and Erica visit the capital to see Tony Slattery’s show.

(00:10:38) Mark visits the capital to see Alice Cooper’s UK tour. This reminds him of the Alice Cooper gig he attended in 1988 when an on-stage hanging nearly went wrong.

(00:19:43) The Doctor Who clip from this year’s BBC Children in Need night.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 087 – All of Our Dinosaurs Are Missing

10 Friday Nov 2017

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This week, we take a look at Earthshock (the Season 19, Fifth Doctor story from 1982) and we lift the lid on the long-concealed scandal of overenthusiastic sentry-extras in Doctor Who.

Along the way, we take a good look at coarse acrostics, David Banks’s career as a soap star and Beryl Reid’s lookalike. And, if any of you think that a school bully breaking one of his toys in Hayden’s book was the most heartbreaking thing you’ve ever heard about, then our swerve down the side road of the Planet of the Apes TV Series from 1974 and how it inspired a young Mark’s imagination may well leave you in tears.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC087 – All of Our Dinosaurs Are Missing

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(00:15:09) Links to Allan’s “A Day in the Life” short story in the “Read Now, Write Now” anthology can be found here on his blog.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:16:24) Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1938. Two sequels, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength were published in 1943 and 1945, completing the so-called Cosmic Trilogy or The Space Trilogy.

(00:19:39) A scan of what may well be the final installment of Wotcher! by The Watcher from DWM #518 can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:21:19) A scan of this Private Eye article can be found on Doc’s personal blog here.

(00:26:52) Our suggestion of what the DWM Reminder Room might look like can be found on our Tumblr page here.

(00:40:17) L!VE TV was a British television station that was operated by Mirror Group Newspapers on cable television from 12 June 1995 until 5 November 1999. It was later revived for Sky from 2003. In 2006, the new L!VE TV’s name was changed to Babeworld to reflect the channel’s gradual change of focus towards “adult material”.

(00:40:35) L!VE TV’s content included “Canary Wharf”, a soap opera, which used the station’s offices in the Docklands as a set and starred none other than the Cyberleader himself David Banks. David’s climactic scene starts 03:10 into this clip.

(00:44:10) “Planet of the Apes” is an American science fiction television series that aired on CBS in 1974. The series stars Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton, Mark Lenard and Booth Colman. It is based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. The series starred Roddy McDowall as Galen, a young chimpanzee that is sent by Zaius with Urko to ensure the safety of two humans that have survived a crash landing on Earth. McDowall previously played Cornelius and Caesar throughout the various film versions. Mark’s Galen doll, now sadly lost to a tragically heroic death by a laser defence system, can be seen here.

(01:01:00) The “cold open” song from Craig Ferguson’s show can be found here.

(01:11:48) Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she is perhaps most well known for her role as Nellie Pledge in the ITV sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1968–73) and for her role in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

(01:12:08) British comedians Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker released a version of the “You’re the One That I Want” in 1978 which reached Number 22 in the UK charts.

(01:12:49) “Not On Your Nellie” is a British sitcom that ran from 1974 until 1975. It starred veteran actress Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, a Bolton woman who moves to London to help run her ailing father’s Chelsea pub. Seventeen episodes of the series were produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.

(01:14:56) Our suggestions of what the cyber sentries are gossiping about can be found on our Tumblr page here. The scene of the overenthusiastic Tommy from “The Pandorica Opens” can be found on our Tumblr page here.

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DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 086 – Wobbles on Cobbles

29 Sunday Oct 2017

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The Five Faces of Delusion discuss “Remembrance of the Daleks” (the season 25 Seventh Doctor story from 1988).

Along the way, Hayden’s book “Child Out of Time” is finally published and Mark considers having Ace’s T-shirt design tattooed on his forearm.

MP3 Direct Download Link = DDPC086 – Wobbles on Cobbles

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