Saturday 11 February 1967

The Moonbase

The Show as We Know It

The Second Coming, Episode 2
Sunday 4 May 2025.

We’re walking on eggshells this week as we await the arrival of an army of marching Cybermen, approaching the Moonbase with a dastardly plan to change Doctor Who for ever. For the better, on the whole.

Notes and links

The Moonbase was novelised by Gerry Davis as Doctor Who and the Cybermen, published in 1975. The audiobook is read by Anneke Wills and was released in 2009.

The article Peter cites as a source for the phrase “behind the sofa” was called “The metamorphoses of Who”, written by Stanley Reynolds and published in The Times on 9 April 1973.

If you want to hear more of Adam’s theories about the world of Doctor Who, and of course you do, you can tune into his daily Doctor Who podcast Adam Richard Has a Theory.

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And more

You can find links to all of the podcasts we’re involved in on our podcasts page. But here’s where we’re up to right now.

The next episode of The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire will be out on Monday: we’ll be offering our lukewarm takes on Lucky Day.

Brendan, Steven and Richard’s Avengers podcast The Three-Handed Game has just released a new episode on the New Avengers episode Emily, Part 2 of their triptych This Green Unpleasant Land.

Our Space: 1999 commentary podcast Startling Barbara Bain has reached Episode 12, End of Eternity. Plans are underway to record Episode 13 some time this month.

And finally there’s our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we watched a classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode from the show’s imperial phase, The Drumhead, guest starring Jean Simmons.