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Pull To Open: A Random Doctor Who Podcast
by Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
There are many Doctor Who podcasts. Only one dares review the entire show... in entirely random order! Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer. New episode every Saturday!
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Christmas Is Canceled (Mourning the Special That Never Was)
Christmas is canceled. Doctor Who isn’t. But as RTD exits under a cloud of Winternox, we’re all a bit Bafflers about what comes next. Pull To Open pours one out, and thrashes out where the show should go next. Hard or soft reboot? Continue with Billie Piper or start afresh? And who can handle the hardest showrunning job in all of time and space? Join us for the finest bespoke headcanon around, from multi-companion Doctors to alt-universe Daleks!Pull To Open: Christmas Is CanceledSeason 7Episode 13Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
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Snakes on an Astral Plane (Manifesting "Kinda")
Open the box, Pull To Open listeners—but be sure your mind is ready. Kinda is the kinda… er kind of Doctor Who story where the themes are so rich you don’t care what it looks like. Which is just as well because the jungle looks like a garden center, the villain looks like an ’80s music-video nightmare, and the real monster may be your own mind. Peter Davison’s trip to Deva Loka banks hard into Buddhism, colonialism, feminism, telepathy, forbidden apples, silent men, and Hindle going so far over the top he may actually achieve orbit. But is this Mara tale a classic, a green-tinted mess, or somehow both? Join us as we face the dark places of the inside, ask why we didn’t get more possessed Tegan, and try not to laugh at a giant pink snake surrounded by mirrors. Silence, male fools—the wheel is turning.Give your own rating for Kinda on Spotify!Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and become a True Companion of the podcast to get new episodes before everyone else!Subscribe to our newsletter at pulltoopen.net for extended notes on Kinda.Support the podcast by becoming a patron of Pull To Open on Patreon.Please review Pull To Open on Apple Podcasts.Timeline:Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:01:50Whomoji Challenge 00:07:21Poll to Open 00:14:14Comment of the Week 00:17:13TL;DW 00:22:32Review: Kinda 00:25:30Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:17What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:00Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:15:24Final Judgment 01:20:24Randomizer! 01:26:41Follow us on:TikTok: @pulltoopenInstagram: @pulltoopen63Facebook: @pulltoopen63X: @pulltoopen63Threads: @pulltoopen63Bluesky: @pulltoopenPlay Pull To Open BingoStory EssentialsSeries 2, Episode 11Season 19, Serial 3Story number: 118, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Christopher BaileyDirector: Peter GrimwadeScript Editor: Eric Saward (commissioned by Christopher H. Bidmead and worked on by Antony Root)Producer: John Nathan-TurnerAired 1–9 February 1982Pull To Open: KindaSeason 7Episode 12Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris TaylorMusic: Martin West/Thinking Fish©️AnyWho Media LLC 2026Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
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Drawn Apart (Illustrating "Fear Her")
Doctor Who fans have long feared Fear Her—and not necessarily for the reasons the episode intended. A lonely child, a suburban street, a cupboard-dad, a doodle monster, a rogue Isolus, and one baffling Olympic torch relay all add up to what may be the most filler-y filler episode Russell T Davies ever filled. But is it really as bad as its reputation suggests? Chris reaches for the Ogron almost immediately, while Pete shocks the universe by defending the value of low-stakes Doctor Who, especially when David Tennant and Billie Piper are still bringing the charm. Grab your crayons, keep an eye on the TARDIS, and join us as we ask the terrifying question: what if the scariest thing about Fear Her is that it’s… kind of fine?Give your own rating for Fear Her on Spotify!Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and become a True Companion of the podcast to get new episodes before everyone else!Subscribe to our newsletter at pulltoopen.net for extended notes on Fear Her.Support the podcast by becoming a patron of Pull To Open on Patreon.Please review Pull To Open on Apple Podcasts.Timeline:Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:03:34Whomoji Challenge 00:07:09POLL To Open 00:12:42TL;DW 00:18:07Review: Fear Her 00:19:33Four Questions to Doomsday 00:55:21What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 00:57:36Where Is the Clara Splinter? 00:59:57Final Judgment 01:05:33Randomizer! 01:11:26Follow us on:TikTok: @pulltoopenInstagram: @pulltoopen63Facebook: @pulltoopen63X: @pulltoopen63Threads: @pulltoopen63Bluesky: @pulltoopenPlay Pull To Open BingoStory EssentialsSeries 2, Episode 11Story number: 179, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Matthew GrahamDirector: Euros LynScript Editor: Simon WinstoneProducer: Phil CollinsonExecutive Producers: Russell T Davies and Julie GardnerAired 24 June 2006Pull To Open: Fear HerSeason 7Episode 11Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris TaylorMusic: Martin West/Thinking Fish©️AnyWho Media LLC 2026Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
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Time’s New Romans (Rebooting "The Pandorica Opens” and “The Big Bang")
It’s the end of the universe as Moffat knows it, and somehow we feel fine. The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang two-parter throws every monster in the closet at Stonehenge, locks the Doctor in the most mythic box since the TARDIS, shoots Amy, explodes reality, gives Rory 2,000 years of plastic husband duty, and then fixes everything with a wedding phrase. Does it all make sense? Frequently! Does it cheat? Occasionally! Does it still make Team PTO cry happy tears? Like Karen Gillan reading the deepest-blue terms and conditions. Join us as we salute Matt Smith yelling at spaceships, interrogate Moffat’s monster fan service, ponder whether Sutekh got rebooted with the TARDIS, and ask whether this fairy-tale finale is really as good as we remember.Give your own rating for The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang on Spotify!Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and become a True Companion of the podcast to get new episodes before everyone else!Subscribe to our newsletter at pulltoopen.net for extended notes on The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang.Support the podcast by becoming a patron of Pull To Open on Patreon.Please review Pull To Open on Apple Podcasts.Timeline:Intro 00:00:00Previously… 00:02:12Whomoji Challenge 00:12:27POLL To Open 00:15:39Comment of the Week 00:17:56TL;DW 00:24:11Review: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang 00:27:39Four Questions to Doomsday 01:02:20What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:06:17Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:12:45Final Judgment 01:19:44Randomizer! 01:24:24Follow us on:TikTok: @pulltoopenInstagram: @pulltoopen63Facebook: @pulltoopen63X: @pulltoopen63Threads: @pulltoopen63Bluesky: @pulltoopenPlay Pull To Open BingoStory EssentialsSeries 5, Episodes 12 & 13Story number: 215, per the The Pull To Open CodexWriter: Steven MoffatDirector: Toby HaynesScript Editor: Lindsey AlfordProducer: Peter BennettExecutive Producers: Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger and Beth WillisAired 19–26 June 2010Pull To Open: The Pandorica Opens | The Big BangSeason 7Episode 10Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris TaylorMusic: Martin West/Thinking Fish©️AnyWho Media LLC 2026Doctor Who ©️BBC 1963
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
There are many Doctor Who podcasts. Only one dares review the entire show... in entirely random order! Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer. New episode every Saturday!
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