Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

Can we please stop talking about the Key to Time now? Join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as they discuss just how tired they are of segments, tracers, and shadows, and why Mary Tamm deserved so much better. We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simp

Our usual gang of Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Jenny Ingersoll decides to take a holiday break from the Target books to look at three short stories from the DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1980 – you know, the one with Romana and K-9, the one with the actual logo on the cover for a change? Tune in to find out whether it’s naughty or nice! Link to the PDF of the DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1980 mentioned in this episode: https://tinyurl.com/y9ucknbw We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more det

We resume our regular programming with a discussion of colonialism, Dalek p*rn, and Aunt Jemima syrup. Oh, and a giant squid god named Nick Kroll or something. Come join Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Jenny Ingersoll as we try to find something interesting about a story that just kinda lies there in the mud like…well, like a giant squid god. (Features a remembrance of the late Chris Achilleos.) Link to the PDF of the DOCTOR WHO ANUUAL 1980 mentioned in this episode: https://tinyurl.com/y9ucknbw We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contri

Remember going to your elementary school’s book fair and seeing such exciting books as GOOSEBUMPS, NANCY DREW, VALLEY HIGH, and…JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO? Yeah, we don’t either. (The last one, we mean – those others were awesome!) Turns out there are good reasons why you’d never have seen these back then, which is also why you rarely see them these days, either. Tune in as Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guests Trey Korte and DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST host Larry VanMersbergen discuss why, if you’re reading titles like JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO AND THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS to your six year-old, you should probably have CPS called on you. A special episode for Chicago TARDIS weekend 2021! Links to the PDFs of the JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO books for this episode: JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO AND THE GIANT ROBOT: https://tinyurl.com/rkwnrb9r JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO AND THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS: https://tinyurl.com/wc4nds2m We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS POD

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, with some androids thrown in? Yep, that’s about it, really – but can Terrance Dicks make a silk purse of a derivative sow’s ear? (Spoiler alert: No.) Join Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guest, host of the POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD podcast Erik Gulbrandsen, as they discuss Dicks’ novelization of David Fisher’s THE ANDROIDS OF TARA. (And no, Fisher didn’t like this one, either.) Links to the PDFs of the JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO books for our next episode: JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO AND THE GIANT ROBOT: https://tinyurl.com/rkwnrb9r JUNIOR DOCTOR WHO AND THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS: https://tinyurl.com/wc4nds2m We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide

Ever watched a horror movie that you thought would be really scary, and it turned out to be…not really a horror movie at all? Join Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Jenny Ingersoll as they discuss the DOCTOR WHO equivalent of such an experience just in time for Halloween, Terrance Dicks’ novelization of David Fisher’s THE STONES OF BLOOD: two episodes of terror followed by…two episodes of courtroom antics? If you’re terrified of courtrooms, then this is the episode for you! We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at an

Just how different can two books written by two authors from a single script be? And can they both be any good, especially when the original story is so full of subtlety, pathos, and restrained acting? Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss both the fan version by David Bishop and the “official” version by James Goss of Douglas Adams’ script of THE PIRATE PLANET to find out, and the answers are…well, mostly harmless. We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for mo

Ever have that favorite uncle or aunt that gave you the best Christmas gifts, but one year they gave you a pair of socks – and even worse, the socks didn’t fit right? That’s exactly how Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes feel about discussing Ian Marter’s version of THE RIBOS OPERATION. If you like ill-fitting socks, you just might like this episode. We are now a proud part of the Direction Point Podcast Network, including such fine shows as THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, THE POLICE BOX IN A JUNKYARD PODCAST, and TIMESTREAMS. You can check out these and other podcasts in the network at http://www.directionpoint.org! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on G

What could THE INVASION OF TIME possibly have in common with MIGHTY MORPHIN’ POWER RANGERS? And why are bathrooms so inherently funny? These questions – as well as the usual ones about what’s the difference between a Gallifreyan and a Time Lord, or the difference between an Outside and a Larper – are all answered as Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Terrance Dicks’ adaptation of the (ahem!) epic season finale story THE INVASION OF TIME! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to t

Why is UNDERWORLD (or, as Target calls it, THE UNDERWORLD) so reviled? And why is the book not much better, to be honest? Join Tony Whitt and guest panelists J.G. McQuarrie of the TALKING WHO TO YOU podcast and Jenny Ingersoll as we discuss how even on the printed page, UNDERWORLD just about works, but only if you squint really hard. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our F

How do you celebrate the landmark episode of a podcast you’ve been doing for years now that talks about Target books? Talk about something entirely different! This time, our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes is joined by friend of the podcast Larry VanMersbergen for a special bumper volume (hey, that’s a Target reference) for a joint episode with his own show, THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST. And what are we discussing? Only the first major crossover between our favorite show and another franchise (and no, I don’t mean the DARK SHADOWS/VAMPIRELLA comic, either): THE DOCTOR AND THE ENTERPRISE! The not-at-all Target book we will be covering in this episode can be found in four parts (text only) starting at the first link below, or in PDF version at the second link: https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part-1/ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m3buz511jyu3sg1/AACrXlzuAbuWktYbY9am5QDDa?dl=0 If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patre

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The Company mistreats its workers, taxes their earnings to nothingness, and works them until they die. But enough about Amazon – let’s talk about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE SUNMAKERS instead! Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Jenny Ingersoll as we examine this story from the 1970s that has nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING, to do with life in 2021. Seriously. It really doesn’t. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a damn socialist. Or communist. Or some other word that means “bad.” Our next episode is our 100th, and we’re doing a special joint podcast with THE DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST, hosted by our good friend Larry VanMersbergen! The not-at-all Target book we will be covering can be found in two parts (text only) at the first two links below, or in PDF version at the third link: https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part-1/ https://scirev.net/2010/06/the-doctor-and-the-enterprise-part2/ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/

How do you become the head of a coven, anyway? Can anyone do it, or do you need a certificate? And just exactly what is the best way to make a fruitcake – and why would anyone want to do such a vile thing in the first place? Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as we ask these and other stimulating questions about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline,

“The Age of the Virus has begun” – get out the hypodermics and the bleach! It’s 2021, when vaccination rates are up (in some places), while in others Contact has definitely been Made. Come join our three-person discussion panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes as we say far, FAR less about the pandemic than this stupid description would have you believe, in our discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by t

Why exactly IS the Doctor wearing that bowler hat, anyway? And what’s his obsession with always putting Leela in petticoats? These are two questions that will NOT be answered, as our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE HORROR OF FANG ROCK (and how much we all wish Vince had survived, of course)! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, fe

Is it time to “cancel” Weng-Chiang? Or can we continue to enjoy a well-written story featuring Chinese stereotypes, yellowface makeup, and poorly realized giant rats? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we talk about this and other pugilistic peregrinations pertaining to Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exac

NOTE: This version has been edited to correct for a factual error spoken during the original recording. What is the Wilhelm Scream, and why doesn’t Taren Capel use it in his bizarre machinations with machine men? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we ask this and other stimulating questions about Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE ROBOTS OF DEATH! If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really li

What does this story have to do with the New Age musician Yanni, or the Arab-Israeli conflict? For that matter, does it have anything to do with either of those two things? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we look at Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE FACE OF EVIL to find out! (An earlier version of this podcast claimed that Chris Boucher is the only writer from the original series to have two consecutive stories produced. This is incorrect. The currently posted version has been edited to remove that misinformation.) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your quest

When is a Time Lord not a Time Lord? Why is that people who can’t regenerate do and people who can regenerate don’t? And why does the Master look like he had a bad chemical peel? Come join our panelists Tony Whitt, Dalton Hughes, and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as we look at Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE DEADLY ASSASSIN, also known as “Everything You Wanted To Know About Time Lords But Didn’t Know You Needed To Ask.” If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at the link below. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will s