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Doctor Who talk with old-fan warmth.
Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast follows Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson through classic stories, modern episodes, and Big Finish audio adventures. Their conversations mix plot recap, character debate, cast recognition, fandom memory, and easy personal banter.
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Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast treats Doctor Who as a shared memory, not just a viewing assignment. Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson lead the show with the comfort of people who have been talking fandom together for years. The format is familiar in the best way. They open with life notes, scheduling jokes, football pain, Springsteen plans, vacations, or old fan-community memories, then steer back toward the episode under review. The coverage reaches across eras. Recent conversations include Second Doctor Big Finish audio, Third Doctor UNIT stories, Hartnell-era comedy, Tennant-era domestic menace, Matt Smith-era symbolism, and Ninth Doctor and Rose material. The show likes detail. It pauses over the Brigadier's relationship with different Doctors, asks what the Doctor really saw in The God Complex, compares cast depth to championship sports teams, and notices when a Big Finish story feels more mobile than the usual haunted-house setup. It can be playful. It can also take darker story elements seriously, especially abusive family dynamics, fear, leadership failure, and ordinary people behaving badly. The tone stays warm even when the opinions sharpen. Charles and Jesse often correct, overlap, and circle back, which gives the discussion a lived-in rhythm rather than a polished lecture feel. Trivia and side memories matter here. Titan Talk, fan fiction, old podcast friendships, and another voice at the table all sit naturally beside Daleks, Ice Warriors, Sutekh, Rose, the Brigadier, and the TARDIS team. Holly Mack adds fresh readings without changing the show's central shape. The appeal is strongest for listeners who already enjoy Doctor Who enough to follow references across eras and formats. Newer fans can still catch the broad reactions, but the deeper pleasure comes from hearing longtime fans compare interpretations, track continuity, and argue lovingly over small choices. Next Stop Everywhere is less about quick judgment than sustained companionship with the franchise. It sounds like Doctor Who night on the calendar, every couple of weeks, with enough structure to guide the chat and enough looseness to let the detours breathe.
Made for: Best for Doctor Who fans who enjoy era-by-era reviews, Big Finish discussions, companion talk, UNIT lore, and relaxed fandom banter. It especially suits listeners who like recaps with personal memory and side-path trivia.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through the long-running friendship between Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson, whose rhythm turns reviews into a familiar ongoing conversation. It covers classic television, modern episodes, and audio adventures without losing the casual fan-table feel.
Charles Skaggs & Jesse Jackson are your guides to Doctor Who, the world's longest-running SF series. All of time and space...Where do you wanna start?
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed character questions and an easy co-host rapport turn Doctor Who revisits into thoughtful, open-ended criticism.
Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson treat Doctor Who as an ongoing conversation, moving between classic television, modern episodes and Big Finish audio with the same close attention.
The TARDIS lands you between character analysis and two friends' football grievances.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, companionable look at the Second Doctor, the Brigadier, and a wide-open trip to Mars.
Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson dig into this Second Doctor Big Finish audio through the Doctor's relaxed chemistry with the Brigadier, using that contrast with the Third Doctor's forced exile as a useful way into the story.
A loose, thoughtful Doctor Who discussion centered on Room 11, the crack in time, and what the Doctor may have seen.
Room 11 becomes the episode's most interesting pressure point, with the white light behind the door treated less as a solved detail than as a question worth sitting with.
A classic Doctor Who chat turns performance reviews and old fan writing into a warm portrait of fandom as friendship.
Day of the Daleks turns into a fond look at the backstage life of fandom. The Brigadier has his best man on the case, while the Doctor shows almost no interest in the assignment, and Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson use that mismatch as a running joke about performance reviews.
A warm, morally alert revisit that sets an ordinary villain beside the face-stealing threat.
Charles Skeggs and Jesse Jackson find two very different villains in "The Idiot's Lantern": the face-stealing threat on the television and Eddie's cruelty inside the Connelly home.
Planet of Evil becomes a lively argument about leadership when experience and authority stop lining up.
Planet of Evil gives Next Stop Everywhere a sharp question to work over: what happens when the person in command seems less fit to lead than the older, steadier figure standing nearby?
Next Stop Everywhere finds Cold War pressure and stubborn certainty inside Frontier in Space.
Next Stop Everywhere treats Frontier in Space as a Cold War pressure chamber, with the Doctor's clash with Williams set against a more textured view of the Draconians.
A focused Doctor Who review about Rose, guilt, and old friendships strained by time travel.
Snare is strongest when the conversation settles on Rose's uneasy attempt to reconnect with Kevin, the childhood friend she has left behind while traveling with the Doctor.
Marvel TV reviews with pub-quiz energy.
Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson discuss the 1973 Doctor Who serial 'Frontier in Space,' starring Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning.
Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson host Holly Mack to discuss Doctor Who news and review the Big Finish audio 'Snare'.
The hosts of a Doctor Who podcast introduce themselves and discuss the classic episode 'Galaxy 4' which was recently animated in 2021.
Co-hosts Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson discuss the Doctor Who episode 'New Earth' and their memories of it.
A podcast episode reviewing and analyzing the Doctor Who episode 'Victory of the Daleks' from the Matt Smith era.
Next Stop Everywhere episode 368 covers Wrath of the Ice Warriors, a July 6, 2022 Big Finish audio set between The War Games and Spearhead from Space.
Next Stop Everywhere reviews Doctor Who's "The God Complex," a 2011 Series 6 Matt Smith story written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Nick Curran.
Next Stop Everywhere revisits Doctor Who's Day of the Daleks, the 1972 season-nine serial written by Lewis Marks and directed by Paul Bernard, with John Pertwee, Katy Manning, and Nicholas Courtney in the leads.
Co-hosts Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson introduce a podcast episode discussing a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.
Co-hosts Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson discuss the classic Doctor Who serial 'The Romans' and tie it to the Super Bowl's use of Roman numerals.
Rose and the Doctor call out Eddie Connolly while the Union Jack, “woman’s work,” and his wife’s house collide.
Charles Skaggs, Jesse Jackson, and first-time guest Mike McCarty cover "Planet of Evil," a 1975 Tom Baker and Sarah Jane Smith serial from season 13.
Co-hosts Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson introduce a Doctor Who podcast episode about Sutekh, with a brief tangent about NFL season openers.
Co-hosts Charles Skaggs and Jesse Jackson introduce a Doctor Who podcast episode about Pyramids of Mars, with banter about baseball teams.