#sylvester-mccoy — Public Fediverse posts

Radio Free Skaro #1078 – I See That You Know Your Judo Well

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The TARDIS is in Glasgow this week as both the King and Queen of England opened the Commonwealth Games and Sylvester McCoy (in costume and adorned with a traffic cone) calls out all the Scottish Doctors by name, as is his right), and in February of next year both Carole Ann Ford and Anita Dobson will be in Los Angeles for Gallifrey One! Also, we discuss the future of Doctor Who alongside a new DWM article, Dugga Doo action dolly madness, a strange digression into the work of Giorgio Moroder, and is The War Between The Land and the Sea coming to Disney+ in January? If you can get past all that, we also have Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Warriors of the Deep”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The TARDIS Is On A Royal Mission To The Commonwealth Games
• Sylvester McCoy being an icon for 26 seconds
• Carole Ann Ford, Anita Dobson announced for Gallifrey One 2027
• Doctor Who Magazine #632, including the next chapter of Circuit Breaker
• First look at Circuit Breaker story ‘The Honourable Society’
• What has the BBC ever done for me?
• No TWBTLATS on Disney+ schedule for August
• Russell Tovey hints at 2027 Disney+ release for The War Between
• DisneyBeat fan site predicted January 9, 2027 as TWB premiere
• Character Options The Fifteenth Doctor Set with Mr Ring-a-Ding & Dugga Doo available Aug 3
• Doctor Who: The Key to Time novelization series, including three new books, coming Oct 29
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: The Broken Man available now
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident released
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation due Sep 2026
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Greatest Train Robbery due Sep 2026
• Network DVD returns to business with new ownership

Commentary

• Warriors of the Deep Part Three

Radio Free Skaro #1070 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?

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Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD’s hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won’t be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation’s Child graphic novel! Space Comics!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Radio Times report on supposed upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special
• Russell T Davies on LBC: “I’m not filming anything until 2027”
• Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann on the Whoniverse Show
• Jonathan Helm on the Doctor Who TV Movie pre-titles sequence
• Doctor Who TV Movie 4K review
• Doctor Who Magazine 630 released
• Doctor Who (1963-1996) coming to Britbox in Australia in June
• Doctor Who Adventures: Save the Humans! due Aug 18
• Cybertropolis The Art & Times of the Cybermen from Andrew Skilleter due autumn 2026
• Big Finish: Torchwood: Fare Well released
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers due July 2026
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident due July 2026
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers due October 2026
• Paradise Towers: Unalive the Multiverse Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics
• Marcia Lucas passes away

Interview:

• Salvation’s Child graphic novel
• Paul Cornell
• Sophie Aldred
• Adrian Tchaikovsky

Apart from that disturbance in the Force, I got a photo of the #MasterChief with Mum and David from #Glasgow dressed as #SylvesterMcCoy’s #DoctorWho. I swear I've met him at a past con...

Although I've always considered Tom Baker "my" Doctor Who, I've grown very fond of Sylvester McCoy, the seventh doctor, in recent years. His nemesis, the Rani, is my favorite Whovian villain and his companion Mel reminds me of a friend of my youth, Beth Kibler. #doctorwho #doctorwhoepisodes #classictv #classictelevision #scifi #sciencefiction #classicsciencefiction #classicscifi #vintagesciencefiction #vintagescifi #sylvestermccoy #tombaker #britishtv #britishtelevision #englishtv

Recalling the 1988 #DoctorWho story, #RemembranceOfTheDaleks, and the horrifying way the story presents the moral failings of the Seventh Doctor as heroic.

#DrWho #Daleks #SylvesterMcCoy #BenAaronovitch

https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/classic-who-revisited-remembrance-of-the-daleks-fascists-to-fascists/

Now THAT is sexy news

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/doctor-who-the-movie-has-been-newly-restored-for-4k-and-blu-ray

#DoctorWho #PaulMcGann #SylvesterMcCoy #EighthDoctor #DoctorWhoTheMovie

And while we're waiting for #TOTP, here's the Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz from 1988.

Can you do better than Sylvester McCoy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5FhysK8pU

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy #TomorrowsWorld

I made a Sylvester McCoy 📺

#LEGO #DoctorWho #LEGODoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy #7thDoctor #Minifigs #Minifigures #AFOL #MOC

Since no one is commenting (again), here is me commenting to myself. Wow, just listened to your pod. Amazing work, man, but you were too hard on #RichardBriers and #SylvesterMcCoy.

#CaptainRoysRustyRocketRadioShow: THE #UK #Geek #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, and #Horror #Podcast

#Whovians, time for another #revisit of #ClassicDoctorWho!

#CRRRRS 593 #DoctorWho: #ParadiseTowers

Listen: https://archive.org/download/roymathurspodcast/2025-08-29-captain-roys-rusty-rocket-radio-show.mp3

Subscribe: https://roymathur.com/podcast.html

Even more #OldWho and #NewWho here: https://www.google.com/search?&q=site:roymathur.com%20Doctor%20Who

#Cult #Beeb #SFFH #TV #Pex #Kroagnon #RichardBriers #SylvesterMcCoy #BonnieLangford #Cannibals #Arcology #Dystopia #UrbanDecay

My epic 44th birthday haul 🙌

#JudgeDredd #2000ad #DoctorWho #SeventhDoctor #SylvesterMcCoy

After 4 Polls, here is the ultimate showdown between classic and modern era Doctors 📺

#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPoll #ClassicEra #ModernEra #TomBaker #SylvesterMcCoy #DavidTennant #PeterCapaldi

Because classic chaos is needed 😏

(Part Two)

#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPoll #ClassicEra #PeterDavison #ColinBaker #SylvesterMcCoy #PaulMcGann

I randomly saw #SylvesterMcCoy in #Sense8 (which I dropped out of but the lady is still watching) and I can’t help but wonder: why don’t we get Doctors like that anymore in #DoctorWho? (He even plays a Doctor type character)

Eccentric, smart, witty, weird. Not some … human.

I miss that kind of Doctor so much. #DrWho

I think this is an official BBC account on YouTube putting up full serials of classic Doctor Who.

Some great stuff here!

https://www.youtube.com/@BBCClassicDoctorWho

Some of my picks:

"The Happiness Patrol" (Sylvester McCoy)
(This was a great season, but I don't have this one on DVD. This is the next season for their Blu-Ray release series, BTW, also includes "Silver Nemesis" and "Remembrance of the Daleks", both great)

"Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (Jon Pertwee)
"The Time Warrior" (Jon Pertwee)
(I think had these on VHS, recorded off-air, but it's been a long time since I watched them).
#DoctorWho #JonPertwee #SylvesterMcCoy

Happiness will prevail. ✨

📸 https://Instagram.com/Mrsir2

#DoctorWho #DrWho #SylvesterMcCoy #SeventhDoctor #SophieAldred #7thDoctor #BluRay #DVD #LimitedEdition #CollectorsEdition #SciFi #ScienceFiction #1980s #80s #1988 #80sTV #TV #Television

Have you read the Doctor Who novel Love and War? If so, why not join us at #TARDISGuide to discuss it.

https://forum.tardis.guide/t/book-club-love-and-war/4171?u=deltaandthebannermen

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy #BerniceSummerfield #NewAdventures #books #Virgin

It was my birthday the other day. Main present from my husband was a Sylvester McCoy as Radagast sculpt from Weta in New Zealand. I love how full of character it is! I did not enjoy the Hobbit trilogy of movies, though loved Lord of the Rings. But his performance and character were a rare highlight. #birthday #sculpture #figurine #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Hobbit #Filmstodon #OorWullie #SylvesterMcCoy #WetaFx #Weta #PeterJackson #Art #Wizards #Fantasy #Films #Movies #DoctorWho

#CRRRRS: THE #UK #Geek #SFFH #Podcast #Whovian #PSA

#TheTwinDilemma up next, sometime this weekend.

Finishing #revisit-ing classic #DoctorWho is one of several things I want to accomplish by the end of the year. #ColinBaker, #SylvesterMcCoy, #PaulMcGann, #PeterCushing, a wrap party, then I'm free! Free, free, freeeeee! Hahahahaaaaaa!

NB I have revisited all previous #OldWho stories in chronological order. They are available through the feed or directly. See: https://roymathur.com/podcast.html#subscribe

In the last week we watched #DoctorWhoSurvival - the very last serial and the end of the #ClassicEra. Over 10 years my wife and I have collected the entire series (from '63 to '89) on DVD and watched them religiously in chronological order. Finishing it was emotional!

And last night, we watched #DoctorWhoTheMovie - just to finally ice the cake and bid farewell 🫡

#DoctorWho #DrWho
#WilliamHartnell #PatrickTroughton
#JonPertwee #TomBaker
#PeterDavison #ColinBaker
#SylvesterMcCoy #PaulMcGann

The Fourth Doctor calls the Seventh Doctor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGaHn8NIg4

#DeadRingers #DoctorWho #JonCulshaw #SylvesterMcCoy

Point of fact:

The 1987-1989 Doctor Who opening theme fucking OWNS

This is not up for debate

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy

My marathon continues with Forty Five: Casualties of War

https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/1945-casualties-of-war/

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy #SophieAldred #PhilipOlivier

Review of the 'not Doctor Who honest guvnor' audio, Island of Lost Souls:

https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/1943-island-of-lost-souls/

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy
#SophieAldred #ww2 #worldwartwo

A review of the #ww2 set #DoctorWho #BigFinish audio, Colditz

https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/1944-colditz/

#SylvesterMcCoy #SophieAldred #SeventhDoctor #Ace

If you grew up in the 80s, these were your Doctors 📺

#DoctorWho #PeterDavison
#ColinBaker #SylvesterMcCoy

A new #FilmsTRIPS #podcast is out! This time, Andrew and I return to Munster territory by looking at #RobZombie's 2022 film #TheMunsters: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-12-07T16_42_12-08_00 #SheriMoonZombie #JeffDanielPhillips #DanielRoebuck #SylvesterMcCoy #JorgeGarcia #CassandraPeterson

Author #RobPalk on Xitter was sharing some old #panto posters and this 1989 Aladdin one is just astonishing.

#EarthaKitt! Still technically TV’s #DoctorWho, #SylvesterMcCoy! Hi De Hi’s #PaulShane!

WITH A SPECIAL APPEARANCE FROM… #GARFIELD!

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.
#DoctorWho
#JodieWhittaker
#MandipGill
#SylvesterMcCoy
#SophieAldred

Psst, for the first time, I kinda met and attended a Q&A with a real live actual in the flesh #DoctorWho

#SylvesterMcCoy was an absolute delight, when I say real live, I mean both words in equal amounts of heavy emphasis.

He hopped down from the stage and walked to every questioner with a pantomimed microphone. It was surprisingly intimate and he was, well, delightful really is the best word.

His Q&A was the most entertaining thing I saw all weekend, & it was a pretty entertaining con.

Which of the winners of my previous polls is the greatest 7th Doctor serial?

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy​
#SeventhDoctor #7thDoctor

Which is the greatest 7th Doctor serial?

PART THREE: SEASON 26

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy​
#SeventhDoctor #7thDoctor​

Which is the greatest 7th Doctor serial?

PART TWO: SEASON 25

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy​
#SeventhDoctor #7thDoctor​

Which is the greatest 7th Doctor serial?

PART ONE: SEASON 24

#DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy
#SeventhDoctor #7thDoctor

Had to rewind the Dracula Unearthed documentary when I recognised - initially by voice - a certain very familiar Scottish actor in a clip
#ScottishActors #ScottishFilm #Dracula #Horror #7thDoctor #SeventhDoctor #DrWho #DoctorWho #SylvesterMcCoy #1970sFilms

I didn't discover #DoctorWho until I was in college. In #Mississippi, the local #PBS station played four or five episodes at once on Saturday afternoons. A group of us would get together, eat #pizza and #popcorn, and geek out, making our way, week by week, from the #Hartnell years all the way through to #SylvesterMcCoy.

It was all new to us, so we had a lot to explore and enjoy.

I miss those #DoctorWho Saturdays: good friends, guiltless snacking, infinite adventures ahead.