98 episodes
The Writers' Room Erik and Kyle
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- TV & Film
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4.4 • 58 Ratings
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This monthly podcast will look at Doctor Who through the writers who molded the show and their televised output. Hosted by Kyle Anderson (Doctor Who blogger for Nerdist.com) and Erik Stadnik (host of the Doctor Who Book Club podcast)
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The End of Time
It's here. It's finally here. Kyle and Erik's discussion of the RTD tenure (first one) comes to an end with sigh "The End of Time." Both parts. They're doing it. Here we go.
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Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars
And so begins the gap year specials in earnest. Kyle and Erik are very nearly at the end of the Tennant and RTD (1) years. This month, it's "Planet of the Dead" and "The Waters of Mars." One of these won a Hugo for being one of the best pieces of sci-fi of the modern age. The other, did not. Care to guess which one's which?
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The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
We are indeed approaching the end of some journey! Kyle and Erik take a look at the Series 4 finale two-parter "The Stolen Earth/Journey's End," in which Russell T Davies tried to bring back nearly everyone from his entire era, plus Davros. Lot going on, shame about the bad stuff.
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Midnight and Turn Left
This month is a big one, folks! We're in the home stretch of the RTD1 era, talking about two of the writers' best episodes. "Midnight," series 4's companion-lite episode, and "Turn Left," the Doctor-lite episode that aired the following week. Both showcase Davies' trademark cynicism and have their own kinds of terrors. Neither are feel-good, but we sure like 'em!
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10th Anniversary Mailbag Bonus Episode!
Folks! It's a b-b-b-b-b-b-BONUS-s-s-s-s-s-s episode! To celebrate 10 years, Erik and Kyle are giving you, the free listener, access to our Patreon bonus mailbag episode. Listeners wrote in questions about our opinions, hopes, hypothetical ideas, and more all pertaining to our favorite show, Doctor Who. Please enjoy!
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The Lazarus Experiment and The Doctor's Daughter
Can you believe it, folks? This episode marks the 10th anniversary of Doctor Who: The Writers Room. What a long strange trip as has been for Kyle and Erik. So many episodes, so many laughs, so many writers covered.
And to commemorate 10 years, the fellas are...talking about bad Doctor Who. That's right, the two episodes written by accomplished playwright Stephen Greenhorn, "The Lazarus Experiment" and "The Doctor's Daughter." They really ought to have planned this better. Oh well.
Customer Reviews
May be writers, definitely not audio techs
Totally addicted. Discovered this podcast about 2 weeks ago, and I'm already 24 episodes in. Very much enjoy getting this POV on "Doctor Who."
Having said that, the hosts need to give a little plot summary as they begin to talk about each story, so people can keep up without having watched the story in question (or without being such "Who" geeks they know every plot since 1963 off the tops of their heads — fortunately I *am* that geeky).
Also, they need some help with their audio. In every episode (and yes, I've jumped ahead to make sure current episodes have this problem before reviewing) one of the hosts sounds like he's been recorded via Skype, and in every episode both hosts keep varying wildly their distance from their (cheap?) microphones, and varying how loud they're talking. I'm constantly having to adjust the volume — especially when the Skyping host laughs. Yikes...and ouch!
These guys are fans?
I’ve listened to a handful of episodes and they appear to dislike, as a whole, every episode of Doctor Who. Even episodes Eric and Kyle say they like are belittled so badly it’s confusing. Everyone is entitled to express their opinion, I just don’t understand spending so much time on something you seem to not like.
Not for me I don’t suppose
Prefer shows that find the positive in every episode. And that aren’t quite as condescending. If I like an episode they don’t I guess I’m stupid or something.