Are you tired of old men ranting about the current state of both Doctor Who and Star Trek? Well, brace yourself for more as Screen Rant of all places has a well-thought out piece about the future of both franchises and we may have cogitated more than is strictly necessary about the topic! Plus we look into a new set of action dollies from Character Options, Big Finish reveals, Tubi bringing back on-demand Doctor Who (in the US) and we're Making It Political as we interview writer Lizbeth Myles about her new book, Where We Stand, Where We Fall – The Politics of Doctor Who!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• ScreenRant: The Two Biggest Sci-Fi Franchises On TV Face The Same Existential Crisis
• The War Between not on the May schedule for Disney+
• The Daleks' Master Plan screening in Manchester on May 23
• The Crusade episode 1 debuted on the Classic Doctor Who YouTube channel (US only)
• Doctor Who back on Tubi (US only)
• Character Options Announces First Doctor Who Collect & Build Range In 17 Years
• Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Pandemonium released
• Big Finish: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: Run Fast, Be Kind details announced
• Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Thirteen O'Clock due Jun 2026
• Big Finish: The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways coming Nov 2026
• Timelash: Confessions of a Visual Effects Assistant
• Ncuti Gatwa to receive honourary doctorate from the University of Glasgow

Interview:

• Where We Stand, Where We Fall – The Politics of Doctor Who
• Lizbeth Myles

In the wake of not only the glorious return of both missing episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan to the Doctor Who archive but also four brave astronauts (one of them Canadian!) to the Earth, we're back to our usual cogitating about the BFI screening of the TV Movie on its 30th anniversary, Big Finish covers and a lovely trailer by the Brothers Kibble-White, the Radiophonic Workshop getting a well deserved award, AND the return in the form of Part the Third of our Classic Series Commentary on "The Mysterious Planet"!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Film is Fabulous panels from the Riverside event
• Sue Malden interview about finding the Daleks' Master Plan episodes
• Sold out BFI screening for the Doctor Who TV movie happening May 17
• The Quiz of Rassilon TV Movie special, May 17 at the BFI bar
• Doctor Who Magazine Special 73 – 30 Years of the Eighth Doctor
• BBC Studios Launches First-Ever Airline Streaming Service
• Doctor Who: The Official Doctionary due Oct 22
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – Helter Skelter out now
• Trailer for Doctor Who – Helter Skelter
• Big Finish: Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part One out now
• The BBC Radiophonic Workshop will receive the Music Producers Guild Pioneer Award Apr 16

Commentary:

• The Mysterious Planet Part Three

The time has come and the two previously missing but now gloriously present episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, namely The Nightmare Begins (Episode 1) and Devil's Planet (Episode 3), are here to be viewed and reviewed! They appeared not only on the BBC iPlayer but also in full on the US (but not Canadian, feh) Classic Doctor Who Youtube channel, and we have viewed said episodes and have thoughts. But that's not all we also have an interview with Toby Hadoke, who hosted a screening at Riverside Studios and reflects with Steven on the screening, the episodes, and the overall wonder that is their return!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• The Daleks' Master Plan: The Nightmare Begins – iPlayer
• The Daleks' Master Plan: Devil's Planet – iPlayer
• The Daleks' Master Plan: The Nightmare Begins – YouTube
• The Daleks' Master Plan: Devil's Planet – YouTube
• Doctor Who Magazine 628 released
• BBC Three to run Twenty Years of Tennant marathon Apr 16
• HBO says not aware of a potential Doctor Who partnership with the BBC
• Big Finish: Doctor Who: Time War – Uncharted: Branches due May 2026
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – Rutans vs Sontarans: Betrayal at the House of Sontar out now
• Big Finish: Torchwood: Curtain released
• Paul Hayes' Flight Into Danger documentary and article
• World of Telly – Gangsters
• Laurie Webb died at 101

Interview:

• Toby Hadoke
• Riverside Studios Event