Episode 50 - The War Games (with Ross Aitken, and many special guests)

50 episodes of Doctor Who Literature, and this episode releases of the first anniversary of my original trailer for the then-forthcoming podcast, November 6. It's been a fun and rewarding year, we've read some great books and interviewed some great guests. Thanks to all of you who have been along for all or part of this journey. "The War Games" is surely one of Doctor Who's best -- and most groundbreaking -- TV serials. The novelization by Malcolm Hulke has not quite received perhaps quite so much love, but we try to remedy that over the course of this episode. Joining Jason this week is Ross from Gallifrey's Most Wanted Podcast as well as Stop! Let's Team Up. We discuss War Games, Jack Kirby, and Eli Wallach; and reflect on some of the badly-dated language used in the 1970s to denote race in the Target novelizations. Many other special guests stop by this week to remember "The War Games" (TV and book) and to wish the podcast a happy 50th episode. Read more about Rudolph Walker, who had a too-small part in Episodes Four and Five of "The War Games". Pete Seeger's rousing rendition of "John Brown's Body", a fight song for the Union Army in the American Civil War, as referenced in the novelization. Eli Wallach's excellent autobiography was published in 2005. The actor passed away a few years later at age 99. "Doctor Who and the War Games" features cover art by John Geary. Doctor Who Literature is now a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network. Please e-mail the pod at [email protected]. You can catch all past episodes at https://anchor.fm/doctorwholit.

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