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Pull To Open Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
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There are many Doctor Who podcasts. Only one dares review the entire show... in entirely random order!
Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer.
New episode every Saturday! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pull-to-open/support
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O Holy Plight (Beholding “The Church on Ruby Road”)
Coincidence is how goblins surf time, according to The Church on Ruby Road. So when the Randomizer took us to Ncuti Gatwa’s Christmas special mere days before his first season, you can forgive us for being a little freaked out. Join us as we argue over literally everything in this light-hearted romp, from Ncuti’s narration at the start to Mrs. Flood’s wink at the end. But the moment has been prepared for: who is the Watcher, and why is he pointing silently at episodes that are still in the future?
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:03:16
Whomoji Challenge 00:07:10
POLL To Open 00:12:22
TL;DW 00:17:06
Commentary: The Church on Ruby Road 00:19:00
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:11:34
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:14:33
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:18:12
Final Judgment 01:20:54
Randomizer! 01:27:07
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Story Essentials
2023 Christmas Special
Story number: 306, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writers: Russell T. Davies
Directors: Mark Tonderai
Showrunner: Russell T. Davies
Aired 25 December 2023
Pull To Open: The Church on Ruby Road
Season 5
Episode 16
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Disasters of the Universe (Unleashing “Flux”)
What the Flux? No, seriously, what was the actual Flux that happened in Series 13, and why has the Randomizer brought us here now? Can Chris Chibnall’s sprawling Time vs. Space opera even be explained? And did anyone notice the 7 billion dead dogs? Join your totally professional tour guides to Liverpool — er, Doctor Who — as we journey down the time tunnels to the ancient world of 2021 and summarize the whole story in our longest TL;DW yet. Like Evil Dan, we’re good at this!
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:30
Whomoji Challenge 00:11:51
POLL To Open 00:20:12
TL;DW 00:31:02
Commentary: Flux 00:39:08
History Corner 01:30:34
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:34:46
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:38:37
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:48:04
Final Judgment 01:53:59
Randomizer! 02:06:38
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Story Essentials: Flux
Series 13
Story number: 299, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writers: Chris Chibnall, Maxine Alderton (Village of the Angels)
Directors: Jamie Magnus Stone (The Halloween Apocalypse, War of the Sontarans, Village of the Angels), Azhur Saleem (Once, Upon Time; Survivors of the Flux; The Vanquishers)
Showrunner: Chris Chibnall
Aired 31 October – 5 December 2021
Pull To Open: Flux
Season 5
Episode 15
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/ -
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Lost in Transport (Contemplating Teleportation in Doctor Who)
Beam us up, Doctor! From T-Mat to the Kerblam Man, Doctor Who has a rich history of playing with teleportation. We lock onto the show’s best and most notorious materializations, examining how instantaneous travel between two points in space can be amazing or infuriating storytelling. Does teleportation make for lazy plotting or does it open up a universe of narrative possibilities? Grab your vortex manipulator and join us as we also tackle the ultimate question about transmats: Aren’t they killing you every time you use them?
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Pull To Open: Teleportation in Doctor Who
Season 5
Episode 14
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Do You Dream What I Dream? (Awakening “Last Christmas”)
Ho-ho-holy hidden depths, Santa! Last Christmas is the Who holiday special where Steven Moffat bakes an impossible tangerine cake: light and Christmassy on the surface, frosty chills and an arctic expanse of meaning underneath. Plus it changes Capaldi’s Doctor forever. But why has the randomizer, famed for its seasonal programming, served it up to us now? One word: Easter.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:44
Whomoji Challenge 00:09:33
POLL To Open 00:14:55
TL;DW 00:17:28
Commentary: Last Christmas 00:21:27
Four Questions to Doomsday 00:54:37
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 00:57:51
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:03:56
Final Judgment 01:08:26
Randomizer! 01:14:36
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Story Essentials
2014 Christmas Special
Story number: 256, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Paul Wilmshurst
Showrunner: Steven Moffat
Aired 25 December 2014
Pull To Open: Last Christmas
Season 5
Episode 13
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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Faust Return Switch (Corrupting “The Keeper of Traken”)
May the Source be with you! Tom Baker’s regeneration eve story The Keeper of Traken starts strong with a Shakespearean wedding on a utopian world of niceness — but soon devolves into a slap fight between drama nerds and science nerds over a strangely buff statue. Even its surprise reveal is far from the most masterful. So can the Doctor and Adric’s double act, plus manic pixie dream Nyssa and too-good-to-be-true Tremas, deliver this nostalgia fest from evil? Grab an eggplant and claim consular privilege with us while we investigate.
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Timeline:
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:41
True Companions Unite! 00:04:44
Whomoji Challenge 00:06:49
POLL To Open 00:12:19
TL;DW 00:17:38
Commentary 00:22:23
Four Questions to Doomsday 00:53:44
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 00:58:14
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:01:12
Final Judgment 01:04:59
Randomizer! 01:11:34
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Story Essentials
Season 18, Serial 6
Story number: 114, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writer: Johnny Byrne
Director: John Black
Script Editor: Christopher H. Bidmead
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Aired 31 January–21 February 1981
Pull To Open: The Keeper of Traken
Season 5
Episode 12
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
Customer Reviews
Paying it forward.
Your podcast has given me hours upon hours of entertainment. I thought it only right to return the favor by providing you Good Sirs of Tardis a deep bench of Whomojis and a piece of head canon.
Susan. Did she create the word TARDIS? I actually think so. Whatever sci-fi technobabble unpronounceable word the Time Lord use to refer to there space/time capsule is probably far too complex to be easily translated. So, when Susan told Ian and Barbra about the acronym she created, that became the default ‘human way’ to refer to such a machine. Thus, the translation circuit adopted it. I have also always thought that we, the audience experience the effects of the translation circuit too, and that’s why we always hear the Time Lords’ machines called TARDISes.
Now to make sure my favorite segment is solid for the foreseeable future.
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The Caves of Androzani
Time and the Rani
The Rings of Akhaten
Terror of the Autons
Planet of the Spiders
Thanks again, fellas.
Scratches the itch.
People like us have a constant itch JUST to talk about Doctor Who. Your podcast scratches that itch for me. As grateful as I am… For the respite from my fandom babbling, my family is even happier. 5 stars more than earned.
Emoji titles incoming… A hard one followed by an easy one.
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Wild Blue Yonder
Love & Monsters
My new go-to commute podcast
Lovely show! I’ve unconsciously started using the Dalek/Ogron rating system when I watch Doctor Who. Don’t let the length scare you off; the side quests and short trips are a great point of entry. They can be a bit long-winded, but they’re working on it! Timestamps in the podcast description would be helpful, especially when they’re doing an episode I haven’t seen and I want to skip to the randomizer and see what’s next.
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