PEL Presents PMP#169: Doctor Who? (When?)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Do you Who? Did you Who back in the day, or just from the point of the 2005 revival? Did you Who through Tennant, Smith, Capaldi... Were you still on board for Whittaker, and now as Disney+ and revival creator Russell T. Davies attempt to make this more readily accessible in all ways with the transition to Ncuti Gatwa?
Mark, Al, and Lawrence are joined by our special guest, improv comedian Chris Rathjen to talk about the appeal and evolution of this very long-running British sci-fi show.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Pretty Much Pop is sponsored by Good Chop, a delivery service for high quality meat. |
| 0:04.8 | Learn more at good Chop.com slash Pretty 120. This is pretty much pop a culture podcast and whenever anything goes wrong with |
| 0:20.6 | someone's recording or a miscommunication about scheduling or what |
| 0:23.3 | not, I just assume at this point that it's aliens. |
| 0:26.5 | Today we're discussing the long-running British TV show, Doctor Who, premiered in 1963, cancelled in 1989, revived in 2005 after a previous American revival attempt in 1996 failed, |
| 0:39.0 | and late in 2023 released four specials designed to transition to the 14th season of the revived run |
| 0:45.6 | which would be its 40th season overall that is a mouthful a mouthful |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Marklinson Meyer with only one heart but enough love for two and my favorite doctor is |
| 0:55.8 | I'm gonna say because the quality of the writing of the time Matt Smith |
| 0:58.6 | By the power vested in me by the worshipful and ancient law of Gallif, I am Al Baker coming to you from Leeds in the UK, and my favorite doctor is Peter Davidson. |
| 1:07.8 | Oh man, Mark already stole my favorite doctor. |
| 1:10.9 | I'll do my second favorite. |
| 1:12.3 | That's okay. My name is Lawrence Ware. I'm coming from Oklahoma, |
| 1:15.2 | David Tenant is my second favorite doctor. My name is Chris Rathgin. I'm |
| 1:20.2 | coming to you today from Chicago, Illinois, where I have been on the run from my own people |
| 1:26.4 | the whole time, and my favorite doctor is Peter Capaldi, came in with a late move to the top of the list. |
| 1:34.7 | That's such an intriguing choice. |
| 1:36.0 | It's an intriguing choice, but I do like him. |
| 1:39.2 | I mean, they're all good. |
| 1:40.4 | This is consistently well cast. |
| 1:42.0 | I always feel like, like Saturday Saturday Night Live you can tell at least the Lauren Michael cast so almost all the cast |
| 1:48.0 | You could tell a Saturday live person just but they just they just look a certain way they just look funny |
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