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Saturday 22 May 1965

The Chase

Pushed up in the Schedule

Taranium Core, Episode 4
Sunday 6 September 2026

This week, Adam Richard and Kevin Burnard join us for a picaresque and shoddily made romp through time and space, with Daleks, followed by a devastating emotional farewell.

The Chase got its first home video release in 1993 in the form of a limited edition two-tape VHS box set which also contained fan-favourite Remembrance of the Daleks. So there was no avoiding it really.

Way back in 2018 (for God’s sake), a massive marathon of Classic Doctor Who episodes was broadcast on Twitch, and the reaction to these ancient televisual artefacts was heartwarmingly positive, and included the meme-ification of Ian’s line from Part Six — “London, 1965!”

Nathan discussed The Chase on an episode of the All of Time and Space podcast called Scooby Who, which was released in June 2021.

Here’s Elizabeth Sandifer’s not-entirely-serious redemptive reading of The Chase, which culminates with an earnest appreciation of the show’s beautiful final scene.

This article on the TARDIS wiki enumerates the further adventures of the Mary Celeste in Doctor Who, including Nardole’s account of the digestion of the entire crew by an Enzomodon ambassador, in The Eaters of Light.

The introduction of time-travelling Daleks inevitably reminds Nathan of Carolyn Seymour’s turn as an evil leaper in Quantum Leap. By the most amazing coincidence, Seymour had played the lead in Season 1 of Terry Nation’s post-pandemic series Survivors in 1975.

A somewhat more modern take on the conflict between the Daleks and the Mechanoids can be found in Daleks! (2020), a five-part animated series written by James Goss and released as part of whatever Time Lord Victorious was. It featured Anjli Mohindra as the Mechanoid Queen.

Some faint praise, perhaps, for Benjamin Cook’s pop-art version of The Daleks, called The Daleks in Colour, which was released in 2023 as part of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebrations.

Flight Through Entirety discussed The Chase in Episode 5: She’s Madame Mao, released on Sunday 3 August 2014.

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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.

A new triptych has just started on The Three Handed Game called Back to the Bassinet. Episode 1 is Something Nasty in the Nursery — Brendan, Steven and Richard are reunited with a bunch of sitcom actors from their childhoods (or from Richard’s childhood, at least), while Steed and Mrs Peel investigate some leaky civil servants.

On Untitled Star Trek Project, Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford watched Captain Sisko take on the Maquis’s most determined musical theatre gay, Michael Eddington, in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called For the Uniform.

Taranium Core, Episode 4: Pushed up in the Schedule (The Chase)

Recorded on Saturday 6 June 2026 · Download (68.3 MB)
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