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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 Bennett's secret?

Will Babs murder any more of Vicki's pets?

How will the Doctor survive without having the word "Grandfather" shrieked into his face on a regular basis?

And did Jim and Martin enjoy their sojourn on Dido or were they in desperate need of rescue?

Listen to find out!

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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 spare a Bernalium rod (for a hungry cybermat)?

Could you identify a Hercules Cluster in a blindfolded smell test?

And did Jim and Martin find the story 'fantastic' or was it spinning its wheels?

Listen to find out! 

Special mention to Iz and Steve Skinner for their wonderful 3D animation of the missing episodes of this story.

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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 she herself suffers from a wandering hand from her leading man.

For a change, we leave a quarry to land on an alien planet where 'she' becomes a 'he', the decibel level rockets and he – and the serial – fall off a cliff.

But is it OK to fancy Eldrad?

How many (if any) puerile 'ring' jokes should be allowed in one podcast episode?

And do Jim and Martin think The Hand of Fear deserves a thumbs up? Or do they give it the finger?

Listen and you might get an answer to some or none of the above.

The lads also review the brand new audiobooks of Dalek and The Crimson Horror!

Also available on Spotify.

"I hate the architect."

Another dose of self-loathing from the Doctor? Or has he just watched 'The Towering Inferno' once too often?

Well it's one of many questions and many twists in the oh-so-tricky Time Heist - a tale of the cloned mega-rich, sunken-headed criminals, a love-lorn mind muncher and a motley crue of amnesiac bank robbers.

One's a top-drawer impressionist, another is wired for data, and a third might end up being late for a much less important date. All are called to heel by some unnaturally assertive eyebrows.

Why are they there? What are they trying to steal? And what exactly did that naughty Sensorite get up to?

Jim and Rob do some detective work and try to crack the incredible case of the Successful Steve Thompson Story.

Listen in to see how they got on.

"I sense the vicious doctrine of egalitarianism."

Not our words, the words of financially-motivated, fish-blooded fungus, The Collector.

One of The Sun Makers, this blob of seaweed with ideas above its station loves a healthy balance sheet and an unhealthy executionee but meets his match when the 4th Doctor, Leela and K9 visit plutocratic Pluto.

It's a miserable world of wooden tables, cardboard control panels, unappetising curries and clown's-pocket-sized credit cards.

The Doctor moos like a cow, Leela fights like a wildcat and K9 acts like a dog - much to Martin's incandescent rage.

But is the story as saleable as a tray of hot cakes or a bucket of cold sick?

Listen and find out.

"Fear is like a companion. A constant companion, always there."

And some may think Clara Oswald is always there, in shot.

But not Jim and his mystery new podcast companion.

They wax lyrical on the rather watchable Listen and ponder tricky dates, misunderstood soldiers and canon attacks.

Who wrote on the Doctor's blackboard? Who or what was under the bedclothes? And was there anything outside Orson's spaceship?

For the answer to all of these questions, call Steven Moffat.

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"No damsels in distress. No pretty castles. No such thing as Robin Hood."

Well it just goes to show that even curmudgeonly old Time Lords can get things wrong occasionally, although the TARDIS team do also manage to encounter a Robot of Sherwood or several during their sojourn in Merrie England.

Hair is plucked, sandals are sniffed, targets are incinerated and a baddie is cast into a vat of boiling gold.

All in a day's work for Spoonman and Clara.

But does the episode hit the target or plummet into the moat of obscurity and derision?

Listen in and find out...

"Top layer, if you want to say a few words."

Ooh that 12th / 14th / 271st Doctor is a silver-tongued charmer, isn't he?

Perhaps being poked into a mental Dalek has upset his equilibrium? Or maybe not. Who knows? Who nose? etc. etc.

So Jim and Martin go Into The Dalek and try to discover why the Doctor looks so sheepish, if Clara's was a happy slap, what makes punters qualify for Missy's Heaven and if random words do a character name make.

Listen to their aimless pontifications here.

"And don't look in that mirror. It's absolutely furious!"

Peter Capaldi is the Doctor and Jim and Martin escape their Classic Who bonds to observe him in his inaugural outing, Deep Breath.

It's a Victorian melodrama, featuring a newly-coatless tramp, two attack eyebrows, some amazingly tolerant Londoners and the only restaurant with a negative Michelin star count.

Is age just a number? Does offing a clockwork robot count as homocide? And is Murray Gold really playing a kazoo?

Find out here. Maybe.

"Clever. Clever. Clever."

Well, if the Cybermen are that bloomin' clever, they'd target the more body-conscious members of The Moonbase crew with their veiny virus too.

Never mind, the silver giants have plenty more plans up their practice golfball-studded sleeves and this spells trouble for the internationally-branded Boyz N The Base.

But they reckon without Gollum Doctor, a lead-swinging Jamie, Polly the Barista, and Ben "Know-it-all" Jackson.

Will the Cybermen be able to cope with the gravity of the situation? Just what will fire extinguishers look like in 2070 AD? And is Dr Evans the most active dead man in history?

Find out (maybe) here!