Night Of The Living Geeks

It's August and a brand new episode is here to grace your ears with some weird! This month we share some exciting news for early 2024, Seb tells tale of the possible timeslip from 1964 back to Custer's Last Stand! And Taylor finally finds a Bigfoot story...but thinks there's a far higher strangeness at work with the case! Get ready for "Custer's Last Wormhole" and "Bigfoot Hit My Car!"

Well, reviewing Night Terrors led us to an interest debate that we're going to take up closer to Halloween: what's the scariest episode of Doctor Who? Because Taylor definitely thinks this story could take the cake! Between the various tropes. a possible homage to Poltergeist, the transition to Peg Doll effects, and lots of spooky directorial choices...Night Terrors definitely rates high on the Behind the Couch scale!

The whole first half of Season 6 has led up to this! A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR! The Doctor raises an army of friends and cameos and callsback to earlier in the season to storm Demon's Run to rescue Amy and her baby! But twists and turns abound in the Season 6 mid-season finale (remember when those were a thing?)! Join us for a romp through this adventure and then seek out Episode 205 for Let's Kill Hitler and the come back in two weeks for Night Terrors!

July is here and we are in the midst of a heatwave here at All Night with the Living Geeks HQ! So it's time to grab a cool drink, set the fans to high, and settle in for an episode at the beach! Well, half of it's at the beach. We start with the story of Sidney Padrick, TV repairman from Watsonville, CA, who late one night has an encounter with Ziena down at his local beach. And then we head to the UK where Seb has a fascinating story of a train wreck that was foretold, but not even British Rail's efforts to renumber the engine could avoid fate! And the for dessert, Seb's Descent into the Archive has cookies!

This week we watched The Almost People and realize that we probably should have watched it alongside The Rebel Flesh from last time. Sometimes the weight of having a massive reveal at the end (that doesn't impact the current episode) leads to an unbalanced storyline. And given a bit of the body horror present in this story, we wonder if the magical healing properties of the TARDIS are played a little too much toward the end. Regardless, we always find the bits we like most and try to focus on those!

Maybe we need to start calling this our Summer of Season Six as we continue to march through this era of Doctor Who. This week we watched The Rebel Flesh in which The Doctor, while trying to help folks through a solar tsunami accidentally gives that extra spark of life to programmable flesh and a whole slew of Spiderman pointing at himself memes ensue!

June is here and with it, we have two more strange cases from the pages of old UFO magazines and newsletters! This month, Seb talks about an unusual case of abnormal grow rates on the island of Martinique! Could there be a race of giants hiding out near the Pelee Mountain. And Taylor brings us the case of an alleged UFO that was tracked from New York to Nevada and apparently crashed with a flash large enough to be seen from six states! It's a really odd tale with no clear resolution. So hop on board the weird train and let's get into it!

It's the episode we swore we'd already reviewed (but hadn't)! Our tour of Season 6 continues with The Doctor's Wife! Spoilers: we loved this story! And it absolutely holds up almost 12 years later. Granted, there are a couple things that still had us wondering, but it didn't detract from our enjoyment of meeting Idris and trying to outwit House! So sit back and enjoy (no biting!).

We keep that Season 6 train a'rollin friends with The Curse of The Black Spot! Flimsy pirate metaphors aside, we really enjoyed this episode, especially coming back to it basically knowing how it plays out and picking up on the cues and the story's own rules. Lots of great banter! Smith's ability to rattle off technobabble is without equal here! So swash those buckles and let's get into it!

May is here and, with it, another strange pair of cases for our team at All Night with the Living Geeks to investigate. This month we look at The Bairnsdale Pole...the bizarre sighting of a pole-shaped creature in Bairnsdale, Victoria Australia on the morning of the Moon Landing...and The Bearer of Bad News...a case of a UFO taking over control of a car in upstate New York, dragging it through a field, and then telling the driver that an acquaintance had died in a truck accident. And he actually had! Why don't we all get our news via UFO encounters?

Well, we couldn't leave last episode's cliffhanger alone and so we dove into DAY OF THE MOON with gusto and are loving just how much fun we remembered having with this era of Doctor Who! This time around, Moff leans hard on the horror tropes as The Silence become even more of a menace and Team TARDIS (plus Canton) do their best to defeat them. All that, plus we kick around some new shirt ideas!

This week we keep the Moffat train a-rollin' with THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT! Yep, the Season Six opener that set the stage for the season's mystery and main story arc. This was peak Modern Who and we recount what fandom was like in this era along with how the show finally did some filming in America. John also thinks the show really has something against hats. This one definitely has some scares and some elements of horror, so be mindful of this one if the youngest viewers are around.

Well, no foolin'! We're dropping our April episode a day early just to ensure you don't think we're messing around. This month Seb brings us the fascinating story of a UFO that punches through a billboard (see the actual picture in our episode art!) and Taylor brings us the strange tale of Snippy the Horse! Was he killed by a UFO? Honestly, Snippy's life he's much stranger after his death!

After The Pandorica Opens...the Pandorica closes...and then opens again because the Doctor is jumping around in time (as he's wont to do) making sure that the cracks in the universe don't consume the whole thing and ensuring that his friends come out alright. Even if that means removing himself from the universe. But is the Doctor ever really gone? Hmm, that's a phrase we usually save for the Master! Anyway, this time we review The Big Bang...and a word of warning to our headphone listeners, Taylor's switched up his mic game this ep and is coming in a little hot. So maybe turn us down a notch or two.

Hey friends, want to hear a funny story? It's a story about how this podcast got its name...275 episodes after our first episode. Yeah, time is definitely funny that way, but we're here this week to talk about The Pandorica Opens! The penultimate episode of Matt Smith's first season and all sorts of bonkers-ness is breaking out! So join as we finally get back into some Modern Who and see how well this story holds up almost 13 years after it first aired!

As our season From the Pages continues, we look at two unusual cases. First up is The Green Lady of Wahiawa! A tale from Hawaii in the late 1950s...you can find poor retellings of it on the web today, but Taylor thinks this might be the origin point for this legend. Seb talks about a pretty famous UFO case...Portage County, Ohio in 1966...but he does a deep dive on one aspect of the case that tends to get left out of modern retellings of the incident.

Well, friends, your hosts are back in their respective homes and recovering from Gallifrey One, so they sit down with another annual tradition: a post-Gally ep chosen by friend of the show M.A. Solko! This time around, we're subjecting ourselves to the 1993 30th Anniversary Special "Dimensions in Time!" It's...well, it's definitely a thing that went to air. Regardless, we definitely have some fun with it as well as recap our Sunday at Gallifrey One last week.

Hello again, fellow Whovians! Gallifrey One has come and gone, but you can still listen to our DAY TWO recap featuring our very good friend Terry (@CaptAceDanger)!

HELLO FELLOW WHOVIANS! We have gotten coffee, put together our podcasting gear, and gave you our Day 1 thoughts LIVE from the lobby at Gallifrey One!

GALLIFREY ONE IS UPON US! But first, The Doctor and Rose return to the “present day” a mere 12 hours since they…wait, what? Okay, I’m getting late breaking news that the TARDIS still doesn’t have the best aim. They’ve actually returned 12 months since they last left! But, strangely enough, just in time for opportunistic aliens to whip the planet into a panic and slag the whole place in order to sell it off in the biggest fire sale ever! Toss in the introduction of Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North and you have the Aliens of London nearly starting World War 3!