The Writers' Room

Doctor Who: The Writers' Room is back, baby! After two years away from the TARDIS, Erik and Kyle have returned to tackle Doctor Who from 2005-2017. Much different than before, the fellas are going fairly chronological and what better place to start than showrunner Russell T Davies' first two episodes, "Rose" and "The End of the World?"

Direct download: Rose__The_End_of_the_World.mp3
Category:Doctor Who -- posted at: 7:13pm EDT

We did it! Yes, another season of The Writers' Room comes to a close, and it's a good one. Sapphire & Steel's final story, "Assignment Six," gives us a lot to chew on, and some really fascinating implications.

We also talk about the show as a whole, and prepare you all for the return of Doctor Who: The Writers' Room!

Direct download: Assignment_6.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

This penultimate episode of The Writers' Room's look at Sapphire & Steel is a bit different. Creator P.J. Hammond did not write Assignment 5, aka the one that's a murder mystery---and it shows. Instead, Kyle and Erik talk about what an S&S serial looks like interpreted through the pen of former Doctor Who scribes Don Houghton and Anthony Read. The answer: not as good.

Direct download: Assignment_5.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

We're nearing the ending of the year and we're also starting down the road to the end of Sapphire & Steel. Assignment 4 affords Erik and Kyle opportunities to discuss poetry, spooky photography, the poetry of prose, and whether P.J. Hammond is a pessimist. Fun! 

Direct download: Sapphire_and_Steel_Assignment_4.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Erik and Kyle take on Assignment 3 of Sapphire & Steel, in which the elemental time menders contend with, not things from the past, but beings from the dystopian future. Is it as good as ghosty ancient things? Well, it does have the first appearance of Silver...and a creepy baby man monster things. Neat!

Direct download: Sapphire_and_Steel_Assignment_3.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

This month, Erik and Kyle are going into an old dilapidated railway station full of war ghosts and stuff for Sapphire & Steel Assignment 2. We talk about the morality of fighting time ghosts, the sadness of war, and the pain of lost love. But, like, it's fun!

Direct download: Sapphire_and_Steel_Assignment_2.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 6:21pm EDT

It's a new month, but it's also a new season! A very short new season, but a new season just the same. Erik and Kyle are looking at time fissures, ghost houses, and ambulatory alien element metal things. It's Sapphire & Steel! P.J. Hammond's landmark in weird sci-fi. We begin, sensibly, with Assignment 1.

Direct download: Sapphie_and_Steel_Assignment_1.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 1:43am EDT

Once again, Erik and Kyle have gotten to the end of a series! This month marks the final episode discussing The Outer Limits and they're thankfully ending with a bang. Story editor Seelag Lester is the subject, who wrote "Wolf 359," the amazing two-parter "The Inheritors" and the final episode ever, "The Probe."

Next month, a new show has been assigned...

Direct download: TOL_-_Seelag_Lester.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Once again, Erik and Kyle have gotten to the end of a series! This month marks the final episode discussing The Outer Limits and they're thankfully ending with a bang. Story editor Seelag Lester is the subject, who wrote "Wolf 359," the amazing two-parter "The Inheritors" and the final episode ever, "The Probe."

Next month, a new show has been assigned...

Direct download: TOL_-_Seelag_Lester.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

It's our penultimate episode about The Outer Limits, so why not talk about a bunch of crap? It's another of our now-ubiquitous episodes about writers who wrote only one episode.

This time out it's "Cold Hands, Warm Heart," "Behold! Eck," "Expanding Human," and "The Premonition."

Also, we've got announcements about our next two shows we're going to cover...

Direct download: Episode_16_-_Outer_Limits_One-Offs_2.mp3
Category:television -- posted at: 12:00am EDT