The Randomiser: Unpredictable Doctor Who chat

Tim Reid & Charles Auchterlonie
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Unpredictable, ok unplanned, chat about Doctor Who and much more from two old farts, er, lifelong fans.

  1. JAN 27

    47: Melon Farmer

    With special guest The Grinch! (We tried to book The Vlinx but got confused)We're talking War Between the Land and the Sea, Mad Death and shite. -- Spoilers warnings for --- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including The Reality War.- The recent spin off "The War Between the Land and the Sea"- The 80's rabies drama "The Mad Death" which probably has a really big page on Doesthedogdie.com... Regular Features: Your Cheatin' MemoryEach episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.  This episode, we've rewatched The Monster of Peladon. And may rename this section "Your Failin' Memory" Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... He's made such an effort this time! Box of DelightsThe Mad Death, foaming at the mouth, babbling and afraid of water, and that's just Tim and Chaz. We welcome your thoughts and feedback!randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: (00:00:00) - Intro / The War Between the Land and the Sea(00:21:56) - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisiting The Monster of Peladon(00:30:44) - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal of the next episode to watch(00:38:03) - Challenge!(00:41:43) - Box of Delights(01:07:58) - Outro

    1h 12m

  2. 06/07/2025

    46: Caves of Wilf

    Discussing Wish World and The Reality War, so lots to talk about... -- Spoilers warnings for --- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including The Reality War. And discussions of all that it might mean...- And a brief chat about Star Trek: Enterprise Regular Features: Your Cheatin' MemoryEach episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.  This episode, we've rewatched Attack of The Cyberman Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... Expect an in depth review... We welcome your thoughts and feedback!randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: (00:00:00) - Intro(00:00:43) - Enterprise(00:02:57) - Doctor Who Season 2 Finale(00:05:53) - Wish World(00:08:44) - Reality War: Anita(00:09:58) - UNIT and the Bum Beasts(00:15:42) - Zero Room at the Inn(00:17:29) - Conradical(00:20:39) - Music(00:22:06) - The Two Ranis(00:28:37) - Rogue Yawn(00:33:48) - Omega 3 - a bit fishy(00:40:21) - Belinda Smith(00:44:50) - Remembrance Sunday(00:50:39) - Sturm und Geddon(00:52:20) - 13(00:54:10) - Susan no twist(00:58:13) - The Boss(01:00:01) - The Doctor(01:05:42) - Pregeneration(01:06:28) - Introducing(01:16:34) - Back to the Pregeneration(01:17:40) - Billie Piper as...?(01:24:20) - Overall thoughts(01:30:37) - Challenge(01:31:02) - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisit (01:42:42) - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal(01:43:31) - Outro

    1h 45m

  3. 05/23/2025

    45: The Mon Mothma Prophecies

    Discussing The Well through to The Interstellar Song Contest, along with a quick trip to see Nikola Tesla and a disappointing eBay purchase. -- Spoilers warnings for--- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including The Interstellar Song Contest. Regular Features: Your Cheatin' MemoryEach episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.  This episode, we've rewatched Nikola Terror's Night of Tesla. Or something. No ComplicationsThings that give us joy in randomly chosen Doctor Who episodes, whether or not they're supposed to. Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... I'm sure this time he won't dance around the issue. We welcome your thoughts and feedback! randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: (00:00:00) - Intro(00:02:07) - The Well(00:17:42) - Lucky Day(00:41:28) - The Story and The Engine(00:58:30) - The Interstellar Song Contest(01:32:59) - Challenge!(01:35:12) - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisit (01:42:48) - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal(01:44:17) - No Complications(01:39:24) - Outro

    1h 52m

  4. 04/27/2025

    44: Is not ha-ha yes?

    We’re still here! We watch Tim McInnery get Oodly interrupted on the Planet of the Ood, Play guess the milkshake and puzzle over Bod, and discuss the first two episodes of 2025 Season 2 of some show called Doctor Who... -- Spoilers warnings for--- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including Lux,Bod and The Tomorrow People. (that's two separate things, sadly) Regular Features: Your Cheatin' MemoryEach episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.  This episode, we've rewatched Planet of the Ood. It's an Ood awakening! No ComplicationsThings that give us joy in randomly chosen Doctor Who episodes, whether or not they're supposed to. Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... I'm sure this time he won't dance around the issue. Box of DelightsWe choose from a box of wee bits of paper an old TV show or film to watch. This time - Bod. The terribly sweet children's show from the 70s proves strangely hard to watch.What's your flavour? The Tomorrow PeopleIt's the end, or at least we can only hope so. The moment's sort of been prepared for. We welcome your thoughts and feedback! randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: (00:00:00) - Intro & Robot Revolution & Lux(00:38:49) - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisit (00:46:11) - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal(00:46:45) - No Complications(00:52:45) - Challenge!(00:55:13) - Box of Delights(01:07:13) - The Tomorrow People(01:39:24) - Outro(01:40:24) - Every. Ninth. Word.

    1h 42m

  5. 03/09/2025

    43: The Happy Ones Patrol

    Happy Day! We revisit Terror of the Autons, chill with the Ice Pirates, discuss Children of the Stones and a whole bunch of Tomorrow People. Join usssss... -- Spoilers warnings for--- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including Joy to the World, Children of the Stones, The Ice Pirates and The Tomorrow People. Regular Features: Your Cheatin' Memory Each episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.  This episode, we've rewatched Terror of the Autons. Stay away from the daffodils! No ComplicationsThings that give us joy in randomly chosen Doctor Who episodes, whether or not they're supposed to. Most Terrible ThingsWe watch stuff you recommend as "So bad it's good" - We watched and immediately forgot almost everything about The Ice Pirates. A sort of sexy Star Wars. Except for the sexy bit. And the Star Wars bit. Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... This time he's sirious about it! Box of DelightsWe choose from a box of wee bits of paper an old TV show or film to watch. This time - Children of the Stones, the biopic about Bianca Jagger, no wait, the 70's kids folk horror with Gareth Thomas and Ian Cuthbertson. The Tomorrow PeopleTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - we've watched a bunch of them: from A Much Needed Holiday to The Haunted Castle. The end is near! We welcome your thoughts and feedback!randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: (00:00:00) - Intro(00:04:05) - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisit (00:28:07) - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal(00:28:32) - No Complications(00:34:56) - Challenge!(00:36:37) - Most Terrible Things(00:41:15) - Box of Delights(01:09:42) - The Tomorrow People(01:31:21) - Outro(01:33:14) - Bonus - Five Rounds Rapid Five Rounds Rapid: It's a quiz, a quickfire quiz guaraneed to bring out the living gargoyle in you all. If you enjoy it, find more at:https://open.spotify.com/show/1Kq8S0EdKGpdKTWuHjzjn2?si=FXtdUQ2NQ3uPvZg-DGUUvQ Here's the link to the steelbook maker, in case you'd like to get a spine...TinyPinkPom's shop on Etsyhttps://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TinyPinkPom https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TinyPinkPom

    1h 48m

  6. 12/31/2024

    42: Not even quarter-buttocked

    Joy to the World! We discuss the 2024 Christmas Special, The War Games both in Black and White and the other stuff, and also Stephen Moffat's Jeckyl. -- Spoilers warnings for--- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including Joy to the World,- The War Games - both versions!- Jeckyl. Regular Features:   Your Cheatin' Memory Each episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time.    This episode, we've rewatched The War Games and took so damn long that they'd made a colour version by the time we finished... No ComplicationsJoy! Things that give us joy in randomly chosen Doctor Who episodes, whether or not they're supposed to. Most Terrible ThingsWe watch stuff you recommend as "So bad it's good" - We start off with "Plan 9 from Outer Space" - find out what we thought and also what Plans 1-8 are... Challenge! Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... He's hovering on the brink of achieving it... Box of DelightsWe choose from a box of wee bits of paper an old TV show or film to watch. This time - Jeckyl, Stephen Moffat's reimagining of the story of the most two-faced bloke ever... We welcome your thoughts and feedback!   randomiserpodcast@gmail.com https://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide:  00:00:00 - Intro00:02:58 - Joy to the World00:24:03 - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisiting the War Games00:33:01 - The War Games - in colour00:49:19 - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal 00:50:36 - No Complications - in colour 00:52:50 - Challenge!00:56:42 - Most Terrible Things 01:01:49 - Box of Delights - Jeckyl 01:11:43 - Outro

    1h 13m

  7. 07/27/2024

    41: Enough voice samples for you to become an AI

    We're back with a long episode covering all of Season 14, or 1 or whatever it is - the first season of Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor. We revisit Flatline and choose a new random episode to rewatch. -- Spoilers warnings for --- all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including Empire of Death, and the associated "Unleashed" episodes Regular Features: Your Cheatin' MemoryEach episode we use therandomiser.net to choose a random Doctor Who story and see what we can recall about it. Then we go away and rewatch it to discuss next time. This episode, we've rewatched Flatline, the little known crossover episode with "Rising Damp". Challenge!Chaz has been challenged to finally watch The Mutants... Can he go the distance this time? We welcome your thoughts and feedback! randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide: 00:00:00 - Intro00:02:14 - The Church on Ruby Road00:18:54 - Space Babies00:36:29 - The Devil's Chord00:48:04 - Boom00:56:16 - 73 Yards01:11:24 - Dot and Bubble01:23:10 - Rogue01:29:16 - The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death01:44:35 - Series Sum-up02:07:44 - Challenge!02:10:35 - Your Cheatin' Memory - revisit02:17:07 - Your Cheatin' Memory - reveal02:17:52 - Outro

    2h 19m

  8. 12/25/2023

    40: Wilderness Baby

    A bigenerated extra episode recorded the day after The Giggle aired!We’re joined by Stefan Adegbola - Bola - actor, child of the wilderness years and newfound friend from Tim’s recent show “Quiz”. We begin climbing the mountain of things to discuss: meandering around the foothills a bit, getting a cable car to the top of the Giggle, and skiing down precarious slopes of old Doctor Who.  -- Spoilers warnings for -- • all episodes of Doctor Who up to and including The Giggle • Torchwood, Children of Earth We welcome your thoughts and feedback!  randomiserpodcast@gmail.comhttps://tinyurl.com/RandomiserYouTube Episode Guide:  00:00 - Intro1:19:08 - Outro That was simple huh?

    1h 21m
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Unpredictable, ok unplanned, chat about Doctor Who and much more from two old farts, er, lifelong fans.

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  • Creator
    Tim Reid & Charles Auchterlonie
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Tim Reid & Charles Auchterlonie