“What the blazes is that?! Some kind of ornament?” No, dear readers, it’s not Luke looking at John on Zoom after forgetting to put his reading glasses on but the first signs that Whovian mania has come to the Quietus! After four and a half decades of enforced followed by elective abstinence, Luke has been persuaded to watch some Doctor Who by John. With a 62-year span to choose from, the choice of story was fraught however. Would they go OG or reboot? Ncuti Gatwa or William Hartnell? Cactus loving billionaire Harrison Chase playing modular synth in his lunatic greenhouse or harrowing gasmask urchin whining, “Are you my Mummy?” Eventually The Daemons was settled on and the pair launched into an enjoyable conversation talking about wartime trauma, folk horror, the Zen of Doctor Who, Arthur C Clarke,and the pros and cons of the Doctor as a Mod versus the Doctor as proto Ziggy Stardust. John delicately explains why – even though he owns Target novelisations, old comics, a binbag full of DVDs, two copies of the Genesis Of The Daleks LP, many Tom Baker annuals, Dr Who Top Trumps, six model daleks and four model TARDI and has seen every episode available on streaming services, he still doesn’t consider himself a true fan. And then there’s just time to discuss John’s top ten Who stories of all time and the Doctor Who Masonic handshake. “Jenkins! Chap with the wings there. Five rounds rapid!”
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Low Culture Podcast: Doctor Who – The Daemons
In this month’s episode of the pod, John takes Luke to a Wiltshire village for his first introduction to the time-defying Doctor
