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Krynoid PodCast
by Jim Cameron, Martin Hannan
Podcast reviewing televised Doctor Who stories
Episodes
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150b: The Daleks' Master Plan II
After escaping the hullabaloo of Hollywood, normal service resumes for our intrepid adventurers. And that means a sticky wicket, a volcanic rendezvous, a lasered lock, Egyptian escapades and an advanced case of premature ageing. What's so special about the Doctor's ring? What nationality did…
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150a: The Daleks' Master Plan I
The nightmare begins... in episode 7 of The Daleks' Master Plan. But before that Christmas Day calamity, there's the first half of an epic saga of planet-hopping, fire-resistant plants, black-clad slapheads and table-thumping weirdos. And fear not, the lads will soon serve up the exciting...
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149: Mission to the Unknown
The name's Bond... Space Bond. Who needs the Doctor and co when you have Her Majesty's Space Security Service's best man on the job? Turns out he and his meagre team do as they fight in vain against collaborative Daleks and their perambulating pet cacti. How kind are Daleks to their plants? Will...
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148: Planet of Fire
Kamelion reminds us all that he still exists and causes an eruption of trouble for the Doctor and Turlough. They must confront an alien marital aid, a sneaky stepdad and a livid waiter on Earth. And Sarn is no better, accommodating as it does a guy-linered zealot, a boy band leader and more lava...
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147: The Rescue
The newly Susan-free TARDIS lands on Dido (but, alas, too late to prevent her musical career from happening). There they find a distressed Susan-alike, her grumpy companion and the sinister Koquillion, who is spiky both in physiognomy and personality. Can our intrepid travellers discover…
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146: The Wheel in Space
After a series of scrapes with mercury vapour, a robot and a food machine, things get even worse for the Doctor and Jamie. They fetch up on the latest base-under-insane-leadership and meet some old enemies and a smart-arsed new friend. Are three digits really better than five? Brother, can you...
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145: Genesis of the Daleks
Three wise time travellers journey in search of the darkest of nativities, meeting some lowly creatures and a highly unstable messiah. Harry develops a seafood allergy, Sarah's a fallen woman and the Doctor finds that navigating Skaro can be a bit of a minefield. Why does Sevrin like steamy...
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144: The Aztecs
Barbara's penchant for historical re-enactment gets our intrepid time team into a spot of bother down old Mexico way. While she cosplays as a dead bloke, the Doctor and Susan try to dodge a double wedding and Ian has to use his thumb for more than hitchhiking. Will Susan get spiked, Ian skewered...
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143: Carnival of Monsters
We're used to looking at a screen and seeing dodgy creatures attacking a pair of plucky adventurers. With Carnival of Monsters, you can watch other folk doing the same thing. It's like Gogglebox with grey aliens. Can a chota peg really solve any behemoth-based problem? How easy is it to drug-mule…
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142: The Underwater Menace
The Krynoid PodCast boys welcome you back to the Green Cathedral this Yuletide to offer you perhaps the closest thing to a pantomime that '60s Who gets, The Underwater Menace. What the heck is the Doctor wearing and why? Is the rest of the Atlanteans' male grooming as lax as their eyebrows? How...
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141: The Keeper of Traken
We return to Who with a tale of secret enemies, ostentatious acting and stentorian asides. Will the Keeper ever escape his shower cubicle? Will aubergines ever replace Rice Krispies? Will Tom Baker ever wipe his nose? And will The Keeper of Traken give Jim and Martin a new lease of life or leave...
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140: The Abominable Snowmen
Jim and Martin spring a festive surprise with some new Krynoid PodCast material! They scan the snowless Snowdonian slopes for monstrous myths and find the Doctor giving an old friend a bell, Victoria repeating herself and Jamie threatening everyone with a bagpipe recital. But did The Abominable...
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"We're coming back..."
Jim and Martin are returning to podcasting... with a surprising plot twist. Listen here or on Spotify.
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Announcement
An announcement on the future of the Krynoid PodCast.
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139: The Hand of Fear
So it's time to go home for Andy Pandy fangirl, Sarah Jane Smith. And there's a hand pulling the strings in this show too, giving tupperware a bad name and Professor Watson a bad day at the power plant. Handily, crystalline cosmic crook Eldrad can reform herself from her moribund mitt and then…
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138: The Ultimate Foe
Welcome to The Fun Factory: trespassers will be self-prosecuted. The Valeyard (aka The Flaw Doctor) makes the most of a unique Time Lord feature and gives his own SJW predecessor a right legal leathering on Space Station SFX. But they still find time for trips to Camber Quicksands and…
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137: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
You may think life can't get much worse at the moment but locked-down Brexity Britain looks positively idyllic compared to Blighty under the rubber skirt of Dalek rule. This septic isle is overrun with motorised dustbins, headphone-wearing dullards who've really let themselves go and the most...
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136: Snakedance
What could be more fun at Christmas than a Punch and Judy show? Almost anything, of course, but perhaps even puppety domestic violence is preferable to mental subservience to an ancient evil. This is the lot of tetchy Tegan, who's red in tooth and eye again, but at least she gets to spread the…
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135: The Invasion of Time
When is a talkative chair not a talkative chair? When it's an alien shower curtain. Or a stumpy git in a pith helmet. But, underwhelming as they are, the Vardans still plan an Invasion of Time by conquering pound-shop Gallifrey – a land of medicinal jelly beans, powerful ping pong balls and...
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134: Fury From The Deep
Scream if you want to leave faster! That seems to be Victoria's tactic as she sobs, whimpers and shrieks her way out of the show in Fury From The Deep. Indeed, old Leather Lungs' prodigious output is harnessed to harass some killer kelp and make its human puppets less weedy – even beating the...
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133: The Space Museum
A museum? On a planet, you say? Amazingly, that's just where TARDIS brings Doctor Who and chums in The Space Museum. But the problems here are worse than an expensive gift shop, a blocked urinal or a coach party of feral school kids. For the planet Xeros is occupied by the moaning Morocks, a race...
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132: Colony In Space
A bit of holiday advice from the Green Cathedral: better a staycation in Blighty than a sojourn on Uxarieus, a planet more miserable than Raymond Cusick at a Dalek memorabilia auction. But this monochrome blob of clay is surprisingly sought after, with hairy hippies and corporate breadheads alike...
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131 The Dominators
As travel restrictions relax, maybe it's time to give Cully's Adventures Unlimited a whirl? His ship's a bit of a squeeze but the elderly Lothario can secretly sail you to the enticing Island of Death with its distinctive countryside, prestigious museum and friendly fellow tourists, The…
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130: Image of the Fendahl
Many of you may still be locked up with your family but, with any luck, your house-mates don't include a glowing alien skull, a gun-toting Teuton and a creepy occultist. Even Benylin Bandersnatch's mum would be of little comfort, haunted as she is by a noisy, slimy creature (named Adam Colby).…
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129: Paradise Towers
Feeling trapped in your home with limited entertainment and an uncertain world outside? Well maybe you can sympathise with the residents of Paradise Towers – a horrible high-rise housing low-rent war machines, an apparently tin Hitler, omnivorous OAPs and TV's most amateur and least dramatic…
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Krynoid PodCast Extra: Dimensions in Time
As our next episode (Paradise Towers) will be later than usual and as many of you will have more time than usual to kill, we've dredged up something from our past as a piece of additional Lockdown content. Back in March 2017, the Blue Box Podcast kindly invited us and others to contribute to…
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128: Marco Polo
With all of us seeing rather too much of our immediate locales at the moment, what better time to come with us on a voyage through old Cathay? That said, our TARDIS team may have preferred to self-isolate from their travelling companions – a thieving Venetian and a Machiavellian Mongol. On this...
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127: The Leisure Hive
In need of a holiday in these trying times? Where better than Space Fawlty Towers on the nuke-shagged planet of Argolis? Answer: almost anywhere. For The Leisure Hive is a place where reptiles skin up, guests are dismembered and squash players lose their balls. Romana gets a new lab partner, the...
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126: The Power of the Daleks
So you want to continue your successful show but need to recast your leading man. What do you do? Why you make it as difficult as possible for your bemused audience to accept him, of course! The Power of the Daleks sees impish impostor Pat Troughton cackling evilly, talking about himself in the...
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125: Earthshock
We start 2020 with an ending. Loathe him or hate him, Adric has been a big part (prat?) of 80s Who but all things must pass, however indigestible. Yes, this is Earthshock, which packed a couple of major bombshells back in the day (not counting Beryl Reid). It's a tale of pointless deaths, some...
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124: The Armageddon Factor
In our December episode, Jim and Martin ease themselves into Whuletide by settling down to watch The Black and White Guardian Show. It's something of a festive feast, featuring as it does Rudolph the Two-Nosed Shadow, a space Trotter on hols from ver Big Smoke and some props which look…
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123: Planet of the Spiders
"No, I shan't… you shan't take him!" Jenny Laird crashes out of the running for her own award in the arachnophobe's nightmare that is Planet of the Spiders. It's a tale of a tweedy traitor, yogic flying, mind-altering jewellery and more creepy crawlies than you can shake a rolled-up newspaper at....
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122: The Myth Makers
"Mightiest of warriors, greatest in battle, humblest of your servants." Well they do say learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all, Achilles, but this is tendon towards arrogance. Yes, this month it's the swords and sandals epic, The Myth Makers, in which Steven gets a new outfit…
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121: State of Decay
"Then die. That is the purpose of guards." It seems that the life of a vampire's chief henchman is no better than that of an Alzarian milkmaid. No wonder he turned to drink. This is 1980's State of Decay, eliciting the cheesiest ever episode of this podcast from The Two Who Fool (About). In a…
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120: The Ice Warriors
"I've had enough of experts!" Now there's a phrase with a familiar ring. And Britannicus Base's self-imposed brain drain and dislike of the unlike is sending the UK into chaos. You couldn't make it up. But Brian Hayles did, in 1967's snowy saga The Ice Warriors - a tale of unripe tomatoes…
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119: The Mysterious Planet
"If the rest of his presentation is as riveting as the first little epic, wake me when it's finished." The Trial of a Time Lord goes all meta with one of the riskiest lines in Doctor Who history. The "first little epic" is The Mysterious Planet, in which the Doctor is on remand, Peri (from Marble...
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118: The Massacre
"Nicholas only knows the most boring places." He's obviously not acquainted with the Doctor's wardrobe then, which contains... Who knows what? And there's plenty going on in the rest of 16th Century Paris, with a familiar-looking priestly weirdo, a companion's possible ancestor and man-hungry...
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117: Warriors of the Deep
"There should've been another way." Yup. But when you only have a couple of days, £37.50 and a two-man human centipede, you will inevitably end up with 1984's Warriors of the Deep. But the Doctor still manages to trade his cricket beiges for a daring new beige outfit and some temporal footwear,...
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116: The Daleks
"My legs! My legs!" Zero out of a million on the tact front from Ian, crowing about his pins when surrounded by legless Daleks. Actually, they haven't touched a drop but they have experimented with some freaky hallucinogens from their peacenik neighbours. So this is the TARDIS foursome's first...
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115: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
"Weirdos!" It's not often that a Doctor Who story reviews Jim and Martin but this is the topsy-turvy world of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. It's all a bit of a circus as the Ringmaster puts the 'c' into 'rap', a foxy artiste blames it on the moonlight and the Chief Clown grins all the way to…
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114: The Sontaran Experiment
"I've lost my sonic screwdriver. I feel completely lost without it." Lost? Modern Doctors would need resuscitating. Yes, it's back to basics with The Sontaran Experiment, wherein hairy rock dwellers set traps, chuck rocks and threaten people with hot sticks. Undeterred, Sarah channels Margo...
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113: The Highlanders
"He says he's a frog doctor, sir." Let's have some fanfic where the Troughton and Whittaker Doctors combine forces to heal a lonely amphibian universe. Actually… let's not. No, this is The Highlanders, where you could be excused for thinking the Doctor's bizarre accent was French and that his hat...
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Xmas Special 2018: Series 11 Review
Merry Christmas! And let's hope it stays merry after listening to Jim and Martin discussing the Series 11 episodes not yet covered in the Krynoid PodCast, and then the series as a whole. We play out with John Gonzalez's Christmas-tinged rendition of the Doctor Who theme (find it on YouTube...
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112: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
"There's your monster maker… Caught in the act." And lo… Barry Letts did advance upon him, spitting tacks and brandishing a rubber T-Rex, with insertion on his mind. Yes, this is yer actual Invasion of the Dinosaurs – a tale of double talk, double-crosses and double denim. The Doctor drives…
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111: The Celestial Toymaker
"I'm bored." Well, if you can't stand the ennui, get out of the kitchen. Yes, we're in the strange and underfunded world of The Celestial Toymaker where the fun barely starts. The Doctor single-handedly plays the world's worst spectator sport, while Steven and Dodo are forced to tackle...
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110: The Two Doctors
"Boing! Boing!" The unmistakable sound of the bells of Seville (and nothing to do with Peri running down a hillside). So the JN-T holiday charabanc ends up in Spain in 1985 and his latest jaunt promises country yomps, moth collecting and acid sports, with dinner thrown in – several times over.…
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109: The Faceless Ones
"Now go on. Ben can catch his ship and become an Admiral and you, Polly, you can look after Ben." The Doctor reminds Ben and Polly they're back in 1966 – a time (and indeed date) menaced by War Machines, alien shape-shifters, Daleks and gender stereotyping. They also have to contend with dodgy...
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108: The Android Invasion
"Is that finger loaded?" A good question because nothing is as it seems in Devesham-on-Oseidon. The horse-brasses are plastic, the dartboard has a functional bullseye and the ginger beer may not be The Real Thing (but its supply is inexhaustible). Then there's Guy Crayford, who has a spacesuit of...
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107: Planet of Giants
"You've got some of it on your hands and you didn't tell us anything about it. It was very wrong of you, wasn't it?" The Doctor makes Barbara feel small with a little ticking off. Fair enough though - she had almost died from the stiffest of upper lips (and a dangerously unbathed ankle)....
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106: Terminus
"What is this horrendous place?" Well, Nyssa, it's Terminus - a place to which Bor was presumably drawn by nominative determinism. It's a drab old hospital where the porters are metal, the doctors are Goths and the burglars are New Romantics. The Doctor wins a fight, Nyssa loses her skirt and…
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