Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast

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There are hundreds of Doctor Who episodes and stories out there and we set out to watch them all! Not just that – We set out to watch, review, discuss, debate, rate and praise and/or poke holes in every episode of Doctor Who, starting with the 1963 pilot. That’s right; we started with William Hartnell and worked our way forward through time, episode by episode and Doctor by Doctor. In parallel, we also reviewed New Who, starting with Eccleston in the 2005 revival. At the time of writing this we're reviewing Ncuti Gatwa's first series and are nearly caught up!
From comparing Dalek and Cybermen military strategems to ranking companions by hairstyle, we’ve got it covered. And while you subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast fix, we’re populating WhoBackWhen.com with written reviews, episode statistics and an ever-growing Visual Index of aliens, creatures, historical figures and companions that the Doctor meets along the way. So join us! We'd love to travel down that temporal road with you!

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N187 Empire of Death

Sep 01 2024 131 mins

Myriad single tears later, an old man takes credit for the women doing all the work in this season finale * * * Let’s pick up where we left off, shall we? Susan Triad has turned into Sutekh’s puppet, along with Harriet Arbinger, and they’re threatening everyone with some death dust. Before you know it Sue is blowing kisses to the TV crew and they fall to the floor like grai

N186 The Legend of Ruby Sunday

Aug 11 2024 121 mins

Sutekh's back and Kate just had a flapjack, as RTD lines up a plethora of mysteries that surely all will be explained in the next and final episode of the series, surely * * * It’s mid-June and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for a Doctor Who Christmas Special! Thus, the Fifteenth Doctor brings legendarily mysterious companion Ruby Sunday to UNIT HQ and there poses th

N185 Rogue

Jul 28 2024 103 mins

Doc cranks the flirting up to Fifteen while some posh birds hatch a plan for fatal Bridgerton cosplay * * * Oh, my Bridgerton, doesn’t 1813 Bath seem a wee bit familiar? With the dances, scandals and old-timey modern music, you might be mistaken for thinking you’ve fired up the wrong subscription service. But that’s our Doc on the dancefloor, about to cut a rug with that ha

B098 Eleventh (11th!!) Anniversary Bloopers

Jul 04 2024 10 mins

Holy Bananas and Cheesecakes, how can we still be blooping after eleven years?! * * * Happy Polling Day, UK-based Podcastlanders! Happy Independence Day, Peeps in the US! And Happy Birthday to us!! Thank you for eleven years of travelling down that temporal road with us, dearest Podcastland. Fret not, regular programming will resume very soon. In the meantime, please enjoy our

N184 Dot and Bubble

Jun 24 2024 119 mins

White-power walkers are too busy influencing to notice the epic slugfest around them * * * In the immaculate city of Finetime, Lindy hops out of bed for another day of two hours’ work on substack processing, before spending the rest of the time hanging out with her Close Friends in her head-orbiting bubble, an arrangement she might call piss-easy if she ever had to urinate. Bu

N183 73 Yards

Jun 09 2024 119 mins

Yes! Wow! Finally! Wales! And, honey, Wales in 2024 has a lot going for it: fresh air, cliffs, hiking trails, fairy circles that can make people disappear and interfere with causality if you break their string boundary and/or read out messages folded up inside them. Wait, what? Yep, Doctor Who is diving into the supernatural side of things this week. Next you’ll tell me they even

N182 Boom

The military industrial complex doesn't stand a chance against the power of dad in this bottle episode * * * “Have you done your teeth?” asks literally named father John Fancis Vater as he blindly walks through a war-torn planet. No, he’s not just paying little attention, he’s a casualty of war and has been blinded in combat. So why would he be asking about dental hygiene

N181 The Devil’s Chord

A musical-ish episode with an actually sonic screwdriver, but no real twist at the end * * * We co-launch into the soft reboot of Doctor Who with this second half of a re-premiere and the prospect of the long-awaited, Beatles-centric, musical extrava-gonzo. When Ruby asks to see The Beatles record their first ever album, Doc steers the TARDIS to London in 1963 — Ring any bells?

N180 Space Babies

Babies, boogers and fart jokes remain an unexpected way to inaugurate a new era of Doctor Who * * * Ruby Sunday is in for a fun day, a she-gon’-have-to-run-day, as the marvellous Fifteenth Doctor with his pearly whites full-beaming gives her a whistle-stop TARDIS orientation, a quick chaos effecting and un-effecting tour of the past, then whisks her into Babystationary orbit ab

B097 Series 14 (Season 1) Predictions and Bants

Apr 14 2024 69 mins

We’ve now been treated to no less than TWO trailers for the upcoming Series 14 of Doctor Who, and so we sat down for a boozy (well, for one of us) evening of predictions and general pondering. How excited are we about the new series, and why? How many Bridgerton references do we think there will be in the Bridgerton episode? Is Agent Smith a colleague of Captain Jack’s?