Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

EPISODE 71: THE DINOSAUR INVASION Warning: Political Content Ahead! In other words, no different from our other episodes - except in addition to our usual gang of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, we are joined by Trey Korte to discuss one of the most overtly political novels in the Target range, Malcolm Hulke’s THE DINOSAUR INVASION. If we don’t offend at least one person on BOTH sides of the political divide with this one, we haven’t been doing our jobs properly. And speaking of which, though it shouldn’t even have to be said: BLACK LIVES MATTER. (If you don’t think the Doctor wouldn’t be saying that right now, you’re really not getting what our favorite series is actually about. There. I said it.) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed

Let’s get all sliggy hoo and drink ourselves blatt! Actually, let’s just get reasonably drunk and discuss Barry Letts’ adaptation of his own 1993 radio play THE PARADISE OF DEATH – and if you don’t feel like you’re in some sort of virtual reality by the end of this one, there’s no helping you. Our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss what may be the second most-reviled DOCTOR WHO release of the 1990s. (No need to name the first one here, since you already know what it is, but it starts with “Ch” and ends with “ildren in Need”…) 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book dis

And then there was Sarah Jane Smith. And the Sontarans. And Gallifrey (or at least its name). And there’s even the Tom Baker logo before there was Tom Baker! Unfortunately, there was also Irongron, Bloodaxe, and a whole host of other Ren Fest rejects. Our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Terrance Dicks’ novelization of the eleventh season opener by Robert Holmes! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given bo

The environment is in peril, there’s a food crisis, and a megalomaniac emerges from a corporation to try to take over the world? The only difference between this story and the world of 2020 is we don’t have giant maggots – yet! But we do have our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes to discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the tenth season finale! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply

…or, as so many have noted, PLANET WITH SOME DALEKS ON IT. Wish we could say that’s the only thing wrong with this story, but we really don’t like to lie. That, and it reminds us at times of viruses and bad leadership, two things we’re trying to escape these days. What’s not to hate? Turns out, there’s some good here, as our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discover! 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book re

What’s worse than a sitting President not listening to the truth about a pandemic? A sitting President not listening to the truth about an impending interstellar conflict. (That, and a whole lot of running around. I mean, SO much running around. ENDLESS running around.) All that, and tons of background hum, is what you’ll get from our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of the story FRONTIER IN SPACE, THE SPACE WAR, brought to you by your socially distant friends on Zoom, Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes! If you like what you hear, please check our Patreon page, at https://patreon.com/DWTargetBC. Depending on the amount you give per month, you will receive, among other possible goodies, a randomly chosen BBC Book just to say thank you for being willing to help us stay on the virtual air! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read al

A new year, a new way of recording the podcast…a new pandemic…But hey, you can’t have everything. What you CAN have is our discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS, brought to you by your friends on Skype, Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. 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! In the meantime, if you’ve liked what you’ve heard here, like us on Facebook at DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast, all one word with no spaces. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice, including Spotify. If all else fails you, email ME directly at emperordalek@gmail.com with TARGET BOOK CLUB in the subject line so I don’t ignore it. Videos to accompan

EPISODE 64a: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2019 Just what it says on the tin. Includes an interview with Louise Jameson – and bloopers! You’re welcome! Although we are as of now going on a two month hiatus – we will be back in March 2020, never fear - if you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (with properly positioned microphones next time!), 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. 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 dea

Here's a preview of our Christmas special, which will be released this Sunday: the Christmasified version of our opening, as originally composed by Aaron S! Thank you, Hans Wax, for the help in realizing this!

EPISODE 64: THE THREE DOCTORS If the book is called DOCTOR WHO AND THE THREE DOCTORS, then in the immortal words of Fraser Hines, who is Doctor Who? Does a gel monster split in the woods? And why in the hell is Alyson so LOUD this episode? Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes try to answer only one of these three – can you guess which one? Recorded live at Chicago TARDIS 2019! Although we are as of now going on a two month hiatus – we will be back in March 2020, never fear - if you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (with properly positioned microphones next time!), 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book dis

Just how many damn Atlantises WERE there, anyway? Should we attribute all that’s witty and good in this book to Dicks? And is Kronos truly beyond good and evil? Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes struggle with those questions and more, while still laughing at the naughty bits. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (better content than THIS episode, anyway), please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. In our hopes of getting more Patreons onboard, between now and November 29, the first day of Chicago TARDIS, any new Patreons will get a double entry in our giveaway, the winners of which will be announced at our live recording room party that night. The first prize is THE (UNOFFICIAL) DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1972, the two second prizes will be a special limited edition DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOK CLUB PODCAST t-shirt made to your specifications, and the three third prizes will be a surprise book! If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort t

In some alternate universe, Target Books paid for a separate novelization of the one episode story MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN. The resulting novel was more like a pamphlet, only 19 pages long, but it got reading audiences excited for the two volume novelization of the 12-episode story that was to follow. This is our mirror universe discussion of that oh so brief novel... Welcome to our DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOK CLUB CUTAWAY… This was originally recorded as a Patreons-only episode and was released on our Patreon site on November 10, 2017. Here's the original description: Welcome to our first Patreon-only episode, our DALEK CUTAWAY! Come join our three-person panel, featuring Dalton Hughes and Alyson Fitch-Safreed, in a parallel universe where Target Books published the one-part MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN as a special short pamphlet. In that same universe, Tony and Dalton are straight and married (though not to each other), Alyson has a girlfriend named Big Bertha, and Hillary Clinton is President. Which of these is th

I should have known that any episode I would edit during Halloween week would be cursed, but boy howdy. If you can manage to listen to this discussion of Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE MUTANTS, by our usual panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, and still enjoy it, then all we can do is paraphrase Sally Field and say, “You like us! You really LIKE us!” If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content (better content than THIS episode, anyway), 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your qu

Pizza, cocaine, sushi, and petty theft – one of these things doesn’t belong, right? And yet somehow they ALL come up, as Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of his own script for THE SEA-DEVILS (hyphen optional). If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. 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 i

Will Britain join the EEC? Will the Doctor manage to discover who is trying to keep the backwater “developing” planet of Peladon from joining the Galactic Federation? And does anyone f**king care? If you’re Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, or Dalton Hughes on this week’s panel discussing Brian Hayles’ THE CURSE OF PELADON…well, you can figure it out, can’t you? In fact, you have our permission to skip this one if you want to. Really, go ahead. Listening to three adults trying to find something interesting to say about this story is a bit like listening to Trump’s lawyers trying to list the ways that he’s innocent… No? Well, you were warned. Anyway, THE SEA DEVILS next time! Yay! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by al

Could one of the best Target novelizations of all time have been a Terrance Dicks book all along – and more surprisingly, could it have come from such a piece of crap episode? Join Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Larry VanMersbergen as they discuss this amazing piece of writing. Then stay tuned for a special tribute to the late Terrance Dicks, who recently passed away, after the end credits. My thanks to Larry VanMersbergen and to Brandon Gantt for their recorded memorials, and credits for the clips used in this tribute appear below. If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more de

Is science really magic? Is religion really science? And how much does the Third Doctor actually hate Jo Grant? Our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jennifer Picker) address those questions and more, during our discussion of Barry Letts’ novelization of THE DAEMONS. (That’s “DEE-mons,” by the way – the book even says so! What, did you fail Latin as well as English, you useless sack?) If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to

Dystopiana, robber barons, pet coke, and Tinder – what do they all have in common? Somehow this week, our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jason A. Miller) manages to link them all together and more, during our discussion of Malcolm Hulke’s novelization of THE DOOMSDAY WEAPON. Consider it the perfect way to lift your spirits now that your IMC-chosen wife has left you! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your questi

Could Chin have become the Cousin Oliver of DOCTOR WHO? This is just one of the many stimulating questions that our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Trey Korte) discusses, during our episode on Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE CLAWS OF AXOS. Let the Feeding Cycle begin – but don’t forget your Rolaids! If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simpl

A creature that eats evil, bootleg Pinnacle hardcovers, and the Master’s bad taste in music: these subjects and more are covered as our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes) welcome guest panelist Larry Van Mersbergen of the DOCTOR WHO COLLECTORS PODCAST for Terrance Dicks’ novelization of THE MIND OF EVIL. All this, and the surprise reappearance of the Master, too! Will we ever see him again? Funny you should ask… If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, 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, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! 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 https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want