Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast

What’s the best Target novelization to feature a sinister plot that makes no sense, cyberbugs that aren’t named after bugs, and people that are named after clothing? Why, TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN by Gerry Davis, of course! Come see what our four-person discussion panel, featuring Jenny Ingersoll, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, thinks of this classic book despite all of its unavoidable craziness! 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 now 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,

To follow up on our discussion of EVIL OF THE DALEKS, we interview author John Peel about this book, talk about his later DOCTOR WHO works, find out about the unusual OUTER LIMITS books he wrote for kids, and ask the question that everyone has about WAR OF THE DALEKS: why, exactly? The answers may shock you! (Or they may not surprise you at all. Listen and find out!) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider o

How did we get to Jamie/Kemel slash fiction, FINDING NEMO, and SWEENEY TODD? It’s pretty easy when you have three gay men discussing EVIL OF THE DALEKS! Our diabolical panel this week includes Dalton Hughes and special guest Trey Korte discussing what makes a companion a companion, why Jamie is suddenly awesome, and why we still love John Peel. 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can

MAD MEN, it’s not. Instead, we have a book about kids getting miniaturized snf kidnapped out of airplanes – and not a Mile High Club in sight. Yes, we mean THE FACELESS ONES, written by the prolific author whose name we love to knock, Terrance Dicks. Our not-so-miniature panel this week includes Alyson Fitch-Safreed, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Trey Korte! (Apologies for the sound quality of this one, which was easily the most difficult one I have ever edited: after three full days of editing, there are parts that still have echoes, garbled audio, sound dropouts, you name it. And yes, we are looking for a sound editor, so if you want an unpaid job, we’ve got one for 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

Break out the Rid Shampoo – we’re going to be talking giant crabs! Actually, the crabs we’re discussing in THE MACRA TERROR are far more annoying, and their relationship with humans makes far less sense. We complete our Pride Month episodes with an especially prideful panel, including Jenny Ingersoll, Dalton Hughes, and special guest Trey Korte! (Please note: the sound quality on this one is variable – Mrs. Ingersoll’s kitchen can be rather echo-ey, and editing together four separate sound tracks is no picnic, either.) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact o

We kick off Pride Month with an all-gay panel discussing whether THE CYBERMEN is a homophobic book. (The answer? Anything can be anything if you want it hard enough?) Come join Tony Whitt and co-panelists Dalton Hughes and Danny Celedon to find out whether the Cybermen really are meant to be a bunch of emotionally unavailable yet hunky men in fetish wear…oh. 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your c

Happy Memorial Day! It’s 92 f**kin’ degrees here in Chicago, so we’re celebrating the holiday by staying indoors and playing trivia against the man who created DOCTOR WHO trivia himself, Nigel Robinson! (That’s actually just the last few minutes of the show – we first ask him lots of questions that you’ve always wanted to ask but never could because he doesn’t know you. So there. Nyah.) 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! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via

Atlantis (Version 1.0), a city without refrigerators…and a possible slap for Polly?! This week we debate possible sexism and definite lack of plot (albeit not the fault of the author this time) in Nigel Robinson’s novelization of THE UNDERWATER MENACE! Come join host Tony Whitt and a panel comprised of not one but two novice fans, our usual fish o’ the sea Alyson Fitch-Safreed and our fill-in Fish Person Rory Jobst! We also have a Patreon extra this time, available starting Sunday, May 20 – we watch episode three of the original disaster at sea and make a few comments throughout. Not MST3K, but hey. Speaking of which, 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! I

Och, aye, we’ve bin oot and aboot…no, no, don’t do that. Just…don’t. In our discussion of Gerry Davis’ novelization of THE HIGHLANDERS, we find ourselves saying that a lot – especially since our extra-special guest panelist, J.G. McQuarrie of the TALKING WHO TO YOU podcast, has exactly that accent! (Or at least more of one than anyone onscreen or on the page does…) Join host Tony Whitt, J.G., and returning panelist Jenny Ingersoll as they try to figure out why historicals suck, why historicals like this one do not suck, what this story has to do with a show called OUTLANDER, and why books that end abruptly throw J.G. into a wee rage! (Only without the wee, because that’s, well, disgustang.) If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our fir

In this episode, we (finally!) kick off the Troughton-era novelizations with the extra-special double-length POWER OF THE DALEKS by John Peel! Come join host Tony Whitt and panelists Dalton Hughes and Alyson Fitch-Safreed as they marvel over the wonders of Whitaker, the prose of Peel, and how it’s possible they’ve done so many episodes together without going all Janley on each other! (Oh, and please ignore the echoes in Alyson's first five minutes? Didn't realize that had happened until after the whole thing had been edited...) If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ https://www

Although our discussion of POWER OF THE DALEKS is delayed till next week due to real world problems, we do have a special treat this week: an interview with the author of the book, John Peel! In this discussion, our host Tony Whitt asks Peel about being the go-to guy for Target Books about the Daleks, his friendship with Terry Nation, and what Dalek character most resembles Donald Trump. It’s a fun time! Featuring special guest stars: John’s pet birds! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcas

We appear to have been hacked. No, seriously. This was supposed to be POWER OF THE DALEKS, but it’s…not. I have no idea where this file came from, nor do I have any memory of recording it. It certainly isn’t DOCTOR WHO, and I would never, NEVER threaten the life of one of my panelists during a recording, even in jest. Ahem. Anyway, some of you may still enjoy it… 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! And if we meet our funding goals by April 6, 2018, some lucky random patron will receive an original first edition of DOCTOR WHO IN AN EXCITING ADVENTURE WITH THE DALEKS! Visit the site for more details! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (

Care? Why should you care? There are podcasts being produced all over your world, yet you do not care about them. Well, you should care about THIS one, as it features our usual panel of experts and semi-experts discussing Gerry Davis’ novelization of the first Cyberman story and the final William Hartnell story, THE TENTH PLANET. We also find out which author you thought gave us the best version of the First Doctor (and why, just like resistance, polls on Facebook are useless)! CORRECTION TO THIS WEEK'S EPISODE: Tony states that this book is no longer in print. Tony is an idiot. The book has been reprinted as part of BBC Books' reproduction series. Stupid Tony. 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! And if we meet our funding goals by

What happens when you have three panelists who don’t give a s**t about the book you’re discussing? You get our discussion of THE SMUGGLERS, of course! Come listen to us kick off our fourth season of the podcast by smuggling with THE STRUGGLERS…er, other way around. And yes, any time two of the three panelists wander off in the middle of the episode to go to the kitchen (and one of them is the host!), you know it was a rough time. Enjoy! Which author do you think gave us the best version of the First Doctor? Come participate in our Facebook poll and tell us before midnight CST on March 20! The poll is here: https://poll.fbapp.io/which-author-gave-us-the-best-first-doctor 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! And if we meet our funding

We finish Black History Month with the second of two books written by Ian Stuart Black, THE WAR MACHINES. Come listen as regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes discuss Evangelical thought, British and Spanish colonialism, Internet culture, slavery, and, of course, megalomaniacal computers who want to take over the world. In other words, Saturday. 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! And if we meet our funding goals by April 6, 2018, some lucky random patron will receive an original first edition of DOCTOR WHO IN AN EXCITING ADVENTURE WITH THE DALEKS! Visit the site for more details! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’

“Tuesdays!” Trust us, that’ll make a bit more sense after you listen to our host Tony Whitt slowly losing his mind over THE SAVAGES, the first of two books written by Ian Stuart Black for Black History Month. (No, we’re not kidding.) Come listen to the fun as regular panelists Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Dalton Hughes discuss the promise and perils of a 60s-era DOCTOR WHO story trying to (and sometimes even succeeding at) unpacking the seemingly endless struggles between the oppressor and the oppressed. (And no, we’re not entirely successful at figuring it out ourselves…) 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! And if we meet our funding goals by April 6, 2018, some lucky random patron will receive an original first edition of DOCTOR WHO IN A

Well, pardners, seems like them thar ghosts of Donald Cotton and Ned Buntline didn’t want us to complete this here episode, discussin’ their long lost reportin’ on the real events of the OK Corral, but we showed ‘em in the end! We’re late, but not dead! Come join us in our discussion of THE GUNFIGHTERS! We also now have a 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! And if we meet our funding goals by April 6, 2018, some lucky random patron will receive an original first edition of DOCTOR WHO IN AN EXCITING ADVENTURE WITH THE DALEKS! Visit the site for more details! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of yo

For our one-year anniversary, we try to solve one of the few unresolved questions around THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER: who actually wrote the damn thing? And no, we don’t mean the televised story! This time, we’re discussing Gerry Davis and Alison Bingeman’s alleged novelization, and we welcome back Dalton Hughes and Alyson Fitch-Safreed! It’s more fun than a Trilogic game set to move 1000! We also now have a 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! Visit the site for more details! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn)! Videos to acco

It’s our first Holiday Special, and we’re posting it early for your commute home for the holidays – but have we given you a lump of coal this year? This time, we’re discussing Paul Erickson’s novelization of THE ARK, and we have not one but two novice panelists this time: we welcome back the lovely Jenny Ingersoll and introduce a new panelist Rory Jobst! We don’t have a tree, but we do have a gigantic statue of a human with a Monoid head – come see what gifts we put under it! We also now have a 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! Visit the site for more details! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider

Oh, yes, it’s Ladies’ Night, and the feeling’s right – but it’s also THE MASSACRE, so the feeling is…not so right. Because, really, can all the wine in the world make us feel any better about a story that ends in the slaughter of thousands of French Protestants? In addition to our usual host, our three-person panel includes not one but two novice fans, both of the female gender: Alyson Fitch-Safreed and Jenny Ingersoll! A warning: the quality of this episode goes a bit south later on due to some recording problems – we will do better next time, we swear! But before that, you get to hear Jenny Ingersoll call William Hartnell “an Obi-Wan motherfu**er!” And finally: every time you hear the phrase “dog cart,” take a shot! We also now have a 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