Cold War was written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Douglas Mackinnon, and stars Matt Smith as the Doctor, Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald, Nicholas Briggs as the voice of Skaldak, Liam Cunningham as Captain Zhukov, and David Warner as Professor Grisenko From the BBC Website: On a Russian...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download In the beginning, the four of us sat down in front of microphones and unleashed ourselves upon an unsuspecting world with the misbegotten notion that somebody out there might actually want to hear what we have to say.  Ego, much?  You betcha. 100...

This is the next in line of my Big Finish Productions Doctor Who retro-reviews. #28 – “Invaders From Mars” From Big Finish’s site: Hallowe’en 1938. A year after a mysterious meteorite lit up the skies of New York state, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least,...

This is the next in line of my Big Finish Productions Doctor Who retro-reviews. #27 – “The One Doctor” From Big Finish’s site: When the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction. So it’s...

Outside of conventions, I rarely get the opportunity to interview anyone.  I was very pleased, that Mark R. Largent (Stalled Trek and the upcoming the Wobbling Dead) could take a few moments out of his day to answer some questions I had for him via email.    Much thanks to him for taking...

After two days at a con, I’m exhausted! I had every intention of getting this out as soon as I got home from Sci-Fi Expo, but I found myself completely wiped out after all the excitement that I was too out of it to put together coherent thoughts! Day 2 had me heading directly to the...

Day 1 of the Sci-Fi Expo at the Irving Convention Center has passed us, and what a day it was! Unlike the other cons that we’ve attended in the past year, we didn’t get much recorded, but that’s not to say I wasn’t mentally taking notes of everything going on. One of...

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week the Twitter-Sphere and Inter-Webs were all a buzz with the announcement that J.J. Abrams was confirmed as the director of Star Wars Episode VII.  We give our thoughts on Mr. Abrams being the director of both Star Trek and Star Wars...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week we discuss the things we are looking forward to in 2013.  We discuss what events, books, TV shows, and movies we are most interested in attending, reading, listening too, and seeing in 2013.  Of course our usual staples of Doctor Who, Star...

  This years’ Doctor Who Christmas special, The Snowmen, was an exciting fun fairy tale romp of an adventure.  The Doctor has been in a self imposed exile living in London in 1892.  He has parked the TARDIS in the clouds and has an invisible staircase and ladder leading up to it.  Lady...

Before Star Wars, before Star Trek, before Doctor Who… there were names amongst names in science fiction that resonate to this day.  One of the most venerable of that bygone age is Flash Gordon.  How influential is this character?  ”Originally I wanted to make a Flash Gordon...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week we discuss the current state of Film Restoration, and some of the “improvments” that are being done to films when they are being restored.  We go into some of the changes that we have seen so far in DVD/Blu-Ray re-mastering of...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week we discuss NaNoWriMo, or the National Novel Writing Month.  Basically NaNoWriMo is an annual challenge that you can enroll yourself in where you are supposed to write a 50,000 word novel over the course of the month of November. As 3...

This is the next in line of my Big Finish Productions Doctor Who retro-reviews. #11 – “The Apocalypse Element” (Dalek Empire Part Two) From Big Finish’s site: When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening...

This is the next in line of my Big Finish Productions Doctor Who retro-reviews. #8 – “Red Dawn” From Big Finish’s site: Ares One: NASA’s first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems? While the NASA team investigate an ‘anomaly’ on the...

Day 2 of the con was a sheer blast of fun for all involved. When the con opened for guests, my first job was to go and get the autographs that I was missing. Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund and Tara Strong. As always, I felt the butterflies almost immediately as I entered the room....

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The first day has ended, and I’m as buzzed as I can be. I’ve been pumping off of adrenaline all day with anticipation of the stars I would meet and the general excitement of being with the fans. Today saw more people than I actually expected. There were at least a couple thousand...

NBCs new post apocalyptic series Revolution premiers Monday September 17th at 10/9PM Central. From NBC: What would you do without it all? In this epic adventure from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and “Supernatural’s” Eric Kripke, a family struggles to reunite in...

On this date 46 years ago, Star Trek premiered to American audiences, the first primetime science fiction series for adult audiences filmed in color.  Over the years, the story of how the series was created has become part of what actor Robert Wuhl once termed “The Liberty Valance...

The world of classic science fiction lost another one.  William Windom, actor of film, stage, and screen, and World War II veteran paratrooper, passed away on August 16th of congestive heart failure.  He was 88 years old.  Windom’s first motion picture role was Mr. Gilmer, the prosecuting...

As a dealer and a podcaster I go to a lot of conventions.  This weekend I went to a new convention in Fort Smith Arkansas.  This convention is called Konsplosion, and this was its first year, so the turn out was little small 800-900 people, but not a bad turn out for the first year. ...

As many of you know, we had a recent poll on the website to determine what everybody’s favorite classic TV series in sci-fi. Some of the results that we received were very interesting. There were several shows that I was sure would be somewhat popular and others I was sure would not be...

Before I start my rant a brief background on my history with Doctor Who: I have been a fan of Doctor Who since I was 6 years old.  This is not unusual in England, where Doctor Who is a part of the culture, much like Star Wars and Star Trek are here.  In the USA most fans, at least my age or...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week Carl and Troy discuss Warp Drive, and other propulsion systems used in SciFi.  We ask what could be the next big thing in SciFi Propulsion?  We talk about Warp Drive, Transwarp, Jump Gates, Stargates, Space Folding, Dimensional Portals,...

Star Trek first appeared on our television screens back in 1966.  Artist/Designer Jaun Ortiz used the “Swinging Sixties” as his inspiration when creating these amazing retro posters for 4 of the original series episodes. And my personal favorite… You can order a full set...