Welcome to the first of a planned three-part miniseries on The Daleks' Master Plan. This week we are joined by John Peel, who wrote the two-book novelization, and Darren Mooney of The 250 Podcast and The M0vie Blog.

These episodes of Doctor Who Literature follow on from Jason's two most recent appearance on Trap One: a discussion of the recovery of two episodes of DMP, and a long form look at DMP Episode 1 - The Nightmare Begins.

Jason provides a bonus solo audio commentary of DMP Episode 5 - Counter Plot.

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Originally released in June 2022, this classic episode of Doctor Who Literature fell out of the Spotify archives. The episode has been slightly re-edited and reposted, in anticipation of our coming mini-series on The Daleks' Master Plan. If you discovered DWLit after 2024, this will be your first opportunity to hear Jason's interview with long-time DW author John Peel.

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"Doctor Who – The Dalek Invasion of Earth" features cover art by Chris Achilleos.

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As this Doctor Who Literature episode was in production, it was announced that two missing installments from The Daleks' Masterplan, both broadcast in November 1965. These will be available for UK audiences in April 2026. This is tremendously exciting news and will be dominating Doctor Who podcast discussions for several weeks.

But this week we are up to the second of three Missing Season 23 novelizations. Melvin Pena is on board this week to help Jason try and make sense of the various elements of this story.

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"Doctor Who – The Ultimate Evil" features cover art by AlisterPearson.

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When it comes to talking the William Hartnell era on Doctor Who, Jeff Goddard is The Man. Jeff, who's frequently heard on top-tier podcasts such as Gallifrey's Most Wanted and What's In The Box?, makes his 2nd DWLit appearance... and, it seems, not a moment too soon. We discuss not just The Chase but also the whole of Doctor Who's astounding 1964-1965 season.

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"Doctor Who – The Chase" features cover art by AlisterPearson.

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DWLit opens this week with Jason and Conrad poolside at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles in February 2026.

Ian Potter joins us for a song parody related to the previous episode, The Nightmare Fair.

Jim Sangster, DWLit's co-producer and co-host, joins Jason for a look at the final Trial of a Time Lord novelization.

The late great Richard Hunt co-stars in this 1989 Sesame Street segment...

...and read more about Richard Hunt in Jessica Max Stein's 2024 biography.

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"Doctor Who –Mindwarp" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

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In February 1985, Doctor Who was canceled...temporarily, at least. The premiere of Season 23 was pushed back from January 1986 to September, and the original slate of stories was all scuttled. As Doctor Who fans like to do, even stories that were junked and scrapped and lit on fire, are worthy of resurrection, such that you can find much of that canceled Season 23 done up as full-cast Big Finish audios... and three of them done up as Target novelizations in 1989 and 1990. The Nightmare Fair is the first of those.

Dan Hollingsworth, one of Jason's Trap One Podcast co-hosts, makes his Doctor Who Literature debut to help quantify just how much a Nightmare this story is (or isn't!). Mark from Trap One adds a dramatic reading and audio essay.

This week's non-Doctor Who essay is a tribute to the recently deceased American entertainer "Uncle" Floyd Vivino.

The DWM backup strips, including the Celestial Toymaker, can be found (and discussed on Trap One) in Return of the Daleks and Black Sun Rising.

One of the more accessible clips from "The Uncle Floyd Show" can be viewed here.

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"Doctor Who – The Nightmare Fair" features cover art by AlisterPearson.

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Doctor Who Literature's final season continues with the great Dave Rennie from the A Kettle and Some String podcast. This week we are discussing the penultimate (canonical) Colin Baker novelization, Eric Saward's gruesomely violent yet oddly touching novelization of a Season 22 Cybermen story...of heavily disputed parentage.

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"Doctor Who –Attack of the Cybermen" features cover art by Colin Howard.

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Doctor Who Literature extends a warm welcome to Anthony and Alasdair from the brilliant Too Broad and Too Deep podcast, which covers Jason's beloved Doctor Who New Adventures novels of the 1990s.

This week we are discussing Dragonfire, the final story of Doctor's 24th season, the swan song for Bonnie Langford's Mel (until the 21st century), and the debut of Ace. There's a lot to discuss here, and Anthony & Alasdair bring their "A" game.

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Jim Sangster wrote and recorded this week's song.

Graeme' Burk's The Comics Code is well worth its seven episodes, and not only because Jason's voice acting is featured.

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"Doctor Who – Dragonfire" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

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