Updated on March 31st 2006: Due to work commitments and a general lack of the kind of time needed to record a 45-minute podcast in real time on a frequent basis, I’ve decided to end theLogBook.com’s Doctor Who podcast experiment for now. As is already generally known, the first season will be available on DVD in the U.S. this July (in fact, you can order it in theLogBook.com Store now), complete with full-length commentaries that will make these podcasts rather redundant.
I appreciate everyone who decided to give them a try, and this won’t be the last podcast you hear on theLogBook.com – but the next one will simply have to wait until time permits.
Earl Green
theLogBook.com webmaster / editor-in-chief
On the off chance that Sci-Fi Channel hasn’t arranged to offer up any podcasts to accompany its broadcasts of Doctor Who, and considering how much I’ve enjoyed the podcasts for Battlestar Galactica, I thought I’d throw together my own podcasts. The idea here is to provide something to point out the numerous in-jokes and past references to new viewers; I doubt old hands will find much new here. The beauty of the new series is that you don’t need any of this to get into the show, but here it is just in case you wish to explore the Doctor’s adventures further.
A couple of warnings: I’m by no means presenting myself as a world-class Doctor Who expert here, nor for that matter even a terribly good extemporaneous speaker (my radio days are a distant memory). So…apologies in advance there. And speaking of “in advance,” in order to have these ready before the episodes air on Sci-Fi, I’m recording the commentary while watching the Canadian DVD set…so, with no idea of how Sci-Fi will carve the episodes up with commercial breaks, I leave it to you to pause the podcast until the show starts again. (As far as when to start it, just start it when the show starts. Sophisticated, eh?) I also had some tapes of the CBC broadcasts, again from Canada, but had no idea if the commercial breaks would end up in the same places.
Please right-click and save each file to your hard drive, we’ll all get along better that way.
Naturally, Doctor Who is © by the British Broadcasting Corporation.