Fusion Patrol Doctor Who Coverage Special Announcement

This is a short special announcement to give you an idea of what’s coming up through the rest of 2019 and into 2020. Throughout the month of December 2019 we will be continuing our coverage of Firefly, Doomwatch and Moonbase 3. We’ll be kicking off January 2020 with the special episode where we add Big Finish’s new Space: 1999 – Breakaway into our episode-by-episode coverage of Space: 1999. After that it’s Doctor Who season and we will be covering each episode as it airs. That will take us through the first part of 2020. With regards to the release of Doctor Who episodes, we’re gonna be trying something just a little different again this year. For starters, we will be returning to our old format of releasing Doctor Who episodes as soon as we can after the episode initially airs. We release our episodes at 12:01 AM local time to me (UTC -7,) which is essentially end of day Sunday. Doctor Who airs on Sunday, and it will be logistically impossible for us to watch the episode of Doctor Who, record, edit, and post a podcast episode by our normal release time. Therefore our podcast for an episode of Doctor Who will be released on Monday, eight days after airing. Two-part episodes will be combined into one podcast episode. So, for example we know that the first part of the first story, Spyfall, will air on January 1, with the second part airing on Sunday, January 5. We will record the episode as soon as possible and release it on January 13. If there are any other two-part episodes, this will result in a week’s skip in the release schedule and we fill in a special episode on those weeks. We’ve got some great special episodes coming including the BBC’s 1981 Day of the Triffids and the 1960’s Dr. Who movies with Peter Cushing, so keep an eye out for those. For our patrons on Patreon, we realize that it will be impossible for us to release the Doctor Who episodes of full week in advance of the regular release as we normally do for our valued patrons. So this year, we have a series of special Doctor Who-related sidecar episodes which we will release on the normal Patreon release date, and then just as soon as we complete the editing of each regular Doctor Who podcast, we will release those into the Patreon feed. Following the close of the Doctor Who series, we will resume with our regular programming. As you may know Moonbase 3 and Firefly are coming to a close. We’ve got some great stuff coming up to follow that including Nigel Kneale’s Beasts, Star Cops and Starhunter Redux – plus some other surprises! Thanks for being a listener!