Doctor Who: Watchers in the Fourth Dimension
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
Three Americans and a Brit attempt to watch their way through all of Doctor Who (in order), and discuss each story with a mix of whimsy and intellect.
Episodes
- Podcast Announcement (hiatus explanation)
Anthony brings an update with the reason for our ongoing hiatus and when you can (probably) expect more episodes of Watchers in the Fourth Dimension again.
- Episode 164: Hold Me Closer, Tiny Master (Planet of Fire)
In this penultimate episode of the Davison era, we continue to clear house of the Fifth Doctor’s TARDIS by finally saying goodbye to Turlough (and there was much rejoicing by Julie and Reilly). That’s right dear listeners, we are covering…
- Episode 163: Don't Yuck Davros' Yum (Resurrection of the Daleks)
It’s time to once again say “hello!” to everyone’s favourite pepper pots – the Daleks – as they return to their creator Davros, in Resurrection of the Daleks . But do the creatures and their creator have the same agenda? We’re about to fin…
- Episode 162: Oi! Plant Boy! (Frontios)
Warm up your pan flutes and brace yourself for meteorites, listeners. We really hope none of you get sucked into the ground just to be used by our favorite giant pill bugs. That’s right, everyone. We’ve made it to Frontios . Over the cours…
- Episode 161: A Public Service Announcement About LARPing (The Awakening)
We’re off to rural England, where a giant stone head is driving a group of English Civil War LARPers to a new level of intensity, while Tegan gets ready to be sacrificed as the village’s May Queen. That’s right – we’re discussing Season 21…
- Episode 160: The Sea Derps (Warriors of the Deep)
We kick off Season 21 with a story that has ranked as the 15th worst Doctor Who story of all time in TWO separate Doctor Who Magazine polls – Warriors of the Deep ! We all collectively say “there should have been another way!” as we dissec…
- Bonus Episode 44: A Sulk-Off With Worzel (Worzel Gummidge: Pilot + Christmas Special)
As we have all foreseen, Julie has taken over the show again for our 2025 Holiday special and has done her best to find something actually Christmas-y this year. Digging into the depths of the strange children shows of the UK, we came acro…
- Episode 159: The Podcast Episode of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)
In today’s episode we get not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Doctors. You heard right, everyone, we are covering the amazing story that is The Five Doctors, featuring Richard Hurndall as our replacement Hartnell, Patrick Troug…
- Episode 158: We Got the B-Team Here (Season 20 Retrospective)
Oh boy, it’s that time again... and this time, it is NOT pretty! We look back on the entirety of Season 20 with our usual combination of awards, a recap of our various metrics, and questions from our friends on social media. But how effect…
- Episode 157: This is No Tangerine Dream (The King's Demons)
Is everyone ready for another musical number?!?! That’s right, Julie brings out her songwriting skills and rusty vocal chords in order to cover the final story for Season 20, The King’s Demons . We are so sorry for everyone who chose to re…
- Bonus Episode 43: That is Why You Stay With the Tour (The Savages Animation)
It’s time for one of our many bonus episodes this season! We are joined by our good friend and official/unofficial fifth Watcher in the Fourth Dimension, Alan Siler, as we watch the not-so-recently animated story in Doctor Who, The Savages…
- Episode 156: Captain Wrack's Rack (Enlightenment)
The Black Guardian Trilogy comes to an end in Enlightenment with a space race on Edwardian-inspired ships, where a dominatrix threatens Turlough, a creepy Eternal hits on Tegan, and the Black and White Guardians end as they started this th…
- Bonus Episode 42: Zombie Bites Are Rarely Consensual (The Gorgon + The Blood on Satan's Claw)
Welcome, once again, to our annual house of horror special!! This year, we kickoff with, yet again, another Hammer Film. This time, we’re covering The Gorgon , featuring Peter Cushing and the wonderful treasure that is Patrick Troughton. W…
- Episode 155: I'll Take the Disease, Please (Terminus)
Join us this episode as we ask the big question: How does the Big Bang happen because of something that happens after the Big Bang? See if we ever find out as we discuss the second story of the Black Guardian trilogy, Terminus . It should…
- Episode 154: 2 Brigs, 1 Ship (Mawdryn Undead)
We kick off the Black Guardian trilogy with a new companion joining the TARDIS, the return of the Brigadier, and the return of the Black Guardian (on whose head they’ve inexplicably put a dead bird!), as we discuss Mawdryn Undead (or, to t…
- Episode 153: Gettin' Stoned on that Snake Venom! (Snakedance)
It’s Kinda 2: Electric Boogaloo – or as it’s better known to most people… Snakedance! Beyond the return of the Mara, we get the return of good ol’ themes of colonialism, complete with a spoiled brat heir, a difficult and ignorant historian…
- Episode 152: Not Angry, Just Very Disappointed (Arc of Infinity)
We're kicking-off Season 20 with Arc of Infinity ! This story features Time Lords doing what Time Lords do best, the return of Omega and introduction of his mutant turkey/pterodactyl thing, and some traipsing around Amsterdam. It sounds li…
- Episode 151: Unnecessarily Gross (Season 19 Retrospective)
We have finally made our way through the entirety of Season 19, the first run of Peter Davison as the Doctor. You all know what that means!!! It’s time for our customary season retrospective, in which we look back at the entire season, usi…
- Bonus Episode 41: Old School Propaganda (Spare Parts)
This episode, bear with us as we meander our way through our discussion of Spare Parts. Who knew we needed to discuss fake commercials and who may secretly be Hitler while commenting on such a good Big Finish story. Join us as we discuss o…
- Episode 150: An Excessive Dose of Mucinex (Time-Flight)
Don’t you just love an insane scheme by the Master? Especially when it involves disguising himself as a horrendous racial stereotype when he has no reason to be in disguise at all? Oh, and we have some wonderful product placement for Heath…
- Episode 149: Jur-Adric Park (Earthshock)
In potentially the biggest story of the Season (somehow even bigger than the Fifth Doctor’s debut in Castrovalva ), we have Cybermen! Androids! Gritty troopers and gritty freighter crew! Oh, and we say goodbye to a much loved (lol) compani…
- Episode 148: Measuring Things in "Adrics" (Black Orchid)
In this episode, we dial in our love for Agatha Christie and Charlotte Brontë, as we discuss Black Orchid . How they were able to pack so much character intertaction AND a self-indulgent cricked match into only two episodes, we will never…
- Episode 147: Emotionally Unavailable TARDIS Crew (The Visitation)
After the last episode where we all let out many exasperated sighs, the Watchers now let out a great sigh of relief as we discuss The Visitation!! We have finally gotten the companion interaction we deserve, even with Adric remaining a com…
- Episode 146: New Wave Fever Dream (Kinda)
SILENCE!! while we dive into yet another story touching on our dislike for colonialism, but engaging us, however briefly, in our appreciation for fever dreams. That’s right, dear listeners, we’re discussing Kinda this week and hopefully yo…
- Episode 145: *exasperated sigh* (Four to Doomsday)
This episode, we tackle a story that has been in the bottom quartile in both DWM’s Mighty 200 and 50th Anniversary polls – it’s Four to Doomsday ! But, what will the Watchers think? This one goes probably as well as you’d expect… Join us a…
- Episode 144: ...is the Master a Brat? (Castrovalva)
This episode, we finally get ourselves started on the Fifth Doctor era as the Master returns (again) to taunt our new Doctor in Castrovalva … heh heh heh… Join us as we discuss just how young Peter Davison was when this was made, whether o…
- Episode 143: Brendan is the WORST! (K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend)
This episode, we discuss Doctor Who’s very first attempt at a spin-off with the rather questionable K9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend ! It was certainly a wild ride watching this one, with plenty of witches and honking along the way… Jo…
- Episode 142: Where Are the Women, PHIL!? (Tom Baker Era Retrospective)
As we’ve finally made it to the end of the Tom Baker era (a feat that has taken us close to two-and-a-half years!), we are once again joined by the 5th Watcher, R. Alan Siler, who guides us through our era-spanning retrospective for the lo…
- Episode 141: The Master Wants Kisses (Season 18 Retrospective)
Another season in the can! Season 18 done and dusted, and you know what that means… it’s time for our customary season retrospective, in which we take a look back at the entirety of the season with our blend of awards, metrics, and questio…
- Episode 140: Let Me Speak With Your Manager (Logopolis)
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for… (were we ever going to start out this blurb with anything else!?) We finally reach the end of Tom Baker’s seven year tenure on the show with the Master embarking on a bonkers scheme that…
- Episode 139: Bowie: Keeper of Earth (The Keeper of Traken)
Back in N-Space, we find ourselves in the very odd (but apparently extremely harmonious) society of Traken, ruled over by an apparently all-powerful Keeper in The Keeper of Traken ! All is not as it seems, as an old, kinda crispy enemy lur…
- Episode 138: The Printer and the BabyBjörn (Warriors' Gate)
It’s time to BRING THE WEIRD as we wrap up the E-Space trilogy with a white void, slavers, lion-man slaves (who used to be slavers), magic mirrors, and more questions than answers. Oh, and Adric spends most of the time flipping coins. It c…
- Episode 137: Give Me an Ankle, at Least! (State of Decay)
It’s Doctor Who-does-Vampires as we encounter everyone’s favourite bloodsuckers in E-Space (well, everyone except Diana, who apparently thoroughly dislikes vampires!) Throw in some absolutely unnecessary Time Lord lore, and we have State o…
- Bonus Episode 40: He WAS the Dish of the Day! (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
For our 2024 Holiday special, Julie’s taking over the show, and we’re joined by our favourite regular guest R. Alan Siler, as choose not do something seasonal, but to do something very much related to Doctor Who that we’ve really wanted to…
- Episode 136: Dungeons & Dragons: Mistfall (Full Circle)
We’re off into E-Space this episode, as we encounter a group of people who’ve come full circle in… uh… Full Circle ! We are also introduced to our newest companion, Adric. What will the Watchers think of him!? Will it be love at first sigh…
- Episode 135: Cosplaying as Skeletor (Meglos)
Moving further into this brave new era of Doctor Who, Jacqueline Hill returns in nobody’s favourite story, Meglos ! In addition to Barbara-but-not-actually-Barbara showing up, we also get a genocidal cactus. It’s an absolutely bonkers one,…
- Episode 134: One Berry Short of a Bushel (The Leisure Hive)
It’s all change as we kick off Season 18 with The Leisure Hive ! New title sequence, new arrangement of the theme, new incidental music, and a new costume for the Doctor! Meanwhile, we welcome our new co-host Diana for her first regular ep…
- Podcast Announcement (and this time it's good news, we promise!)
Anthony, Reilly, and Julie bring some exciting news about the future of the podcast!
- Bonus Episode 39: Wear My Face! (The Romance of Crime)
We’re at the end of Season 17, and could we really get there without a Big Finish bonus episode!? This time around, we’re talking about The Romance of Crime , which was adapted from a Virgin New Adventures novel by RTD/Moffatt-era writer (…
- Episode 133: Would Somebody Think of the Children!? (Season 17 Retrospective)
Another season in the can, bringing the 1970s era of the show to a close. Of course, that means that it’s time for our customary season retrospective, where we’ll look back at the entirety of Season 17 with our usual blend of end-of-season…
- Bonus Episode 38: He Also Double Tapped It (The Vampire Lovers and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors)
Welcome, once again, to our annual house of horror! As usual, we discuss two horror movies featuring the stars of television’s Doctor Who. This year, we kick off proceedings with Hammer Films’ The Vampire Lovers (featuring Ingrid Pitt, Pet…
- Episode 132: Such is the Burden of a Yokel (Shada)
While The Horns of Nimon was officially the end of Season 17, efforts have been made over the years to complete the unfinished story that was meant to be the season finale – Shada . And we are discussing the “definitive” version of that st…
- Episode 131: Pour One Out for Dudders (The Horns of Nimon)
It’s time for us to discuss what was unexpectedly the season finale of Season 17. The last contributions to the show of Graham Williams, Douglas Adams, Dudley Simpson, and Anthony Read. It also has the reputation of being one of the worst…
- Episode 130: A Thrilling Conversation About Insurance (Nightmare of Eden)
We’re tackling the war on drugs in a delightfully zany story by one half of the Bristol Boys – Nightmare of Eden ! This one is filled with so many ideas that it can only be a Bob Baker script – spaceship crashes, insurance conversations, c…
- Episode 129: Hairy Rolling Balls (The Creature from the Pit)
In this episode of the podcast, we demonstrate what utter masochists we are by subjecting ourselves to the absolute mess that is The Creature from the Pit . Oh boy. We’re just going to say it up front. We hated it. There you go. That’s the…
- Episode 128: K9 Hates French People (City of Death)
We’re off to Paris (don’t you think it has a bouquet?) for what is held up by many as the outstanding adventure of Season 17 – City of Death! Will we find it as endearing as the majority of fandom seems to (8th in DWM’s Mighty 200 poll and…
- Bonus Episode 37: A Collection of Dodo Don'ts (The Celestial Toymaker Animation)
It’s a full house, as we are joined by both Alan Siler and Diana Birney to discuss the recent animation of The Celestial Toymaker . Will it be the best animation yet, or nothing more than psychedelic nightmare fuel? Join us as we discuss t…
- Episode 127: Chuck Davros Out the Window (Destiny of the Daleks)
New Romana, who dis? It’s the return of everyone’s favourite hack writer, Terry Nation, as we kick off Season 17 with Destiny of the Daleks ! We get multiple quarries, a ton of NationTropes™, a bunch of Douglas Adams-inserted humour, and s…
- Episode 126: Silver Glamazon Queen (Season 16 Retrospective)
Having made our way through the entirety of Season 16 and completed the quest for the Key to Time, it’s time for us to look back on the entirety of the season. Of course, we do this through our usual blend of awards-style prizes, quantitat…
- Bonus Episode 36: Upper Class Twit of the Year (The Auntie Matter)
It’s time for our Season 16 Big Finish bonus episode! Join us as we encounter the Upper Class Twit of the Year, his “Aunt,” and a succession of poor women who’ve had their bodies stole in The Auntie Matter ! Join us as we discuss how good…