Toby Hadoke

[upbeat music] Well, a very warm welcome to Happy Times and Places, this positively inclined Doctor Who episode commentary podcast in which I, Toby Hadoke, ask a friend to choose a Doctor Who story.

We both watch it separately.

They send me their thoughts, including their secret favorite thing, and as I watch, I have to guess what that one is for each episode.

My name is Ken Patterson, a broadcaster in the Silicon Valley, California, and my selection for you and your followers to join along with is the once incomplete and first to be reanimated story, "The Invasion." [upbeat music]

Well, hello, and welcome to the second episode of "The Invasion." It's gonna be slightly less animated than the first, but I am corporeal.

My name is Toby Hadoke.

Hello, and we had a wild old time with episode one.

One of my lesser experienced episodes of Doctor Who, if I have to be honest.

Is it Haydock?

Toby Hadoke.

Haydock.

Toby Hadoke.

Sorry, I had a mental, mental freeze there for a moment.

Um, so Toby Hadoke, uh, Peter Purves was there.

Um, what was really interesting was they also had two film collectors there.

So, um, I think it was important to have them there, 'cause it kind of brought home really the human element of, um, having Missing Episodes.

[laughs]

[outro music] That was 500 Year Diary starring Nathan Bottomley, Peter Griffiths, Toby Hadoke, and Simon Moore.

The theme was composed by Cameron Lamb.

This episode, "Choreography of the Daleks," was recorded on the 4th of July, 2026 and released on the 20th of September.

[upbeat music] Well, a very warm welcome to Happy Times and Places, a positively inclined Doctor Who commentary podcast in which I, Toby Hadoke, ask an interesting Doctor Who fan of my acquaintance to choose a story that we will both watch, and then we will try to choose our favourite things about it.

But will my favourite things be my guest's favourite things?

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to you, Toby, and to all of your listeners and viewers, whenever they are, wherever they are.

Uh, and so I, yeah.

So, so, so long as Doctor Who is involved, I suppose, uh, nobody, u-unlike the TARDIS, nobody is entirely invisible.

[upbeat music] Thanks very much for listening to Happy Times and Places, which is presented by me, Toby Hadoke, and my guest, Ken Paterson.

And Ken has asked me to point out that his show is now on from 7:00 till 10:00 PM, not 3:00 PM Pacific Time.

I'm grateful to Ken and to the patrons who make these podcasts possible, and they include Reuben Herfindahl, Steven Moffat, Joel Aarons, Joanne Abbott, Keith Adams, Mark Aldridge, Kit Allen, Neil Allen, Steve Appleman, Sebastien Aprile, Tilt Arreaza, Radit Ariza, Endaf Arwyn, Simon Ash, Richard Ault, John Babb, P. Baker, Richard Baker, John Ball, Simon Barker, Ollie Barrett, Andy Benison, Richard Bignell, Peter Blackett, Robin Bland, Gareth Bowley, Ian Bradley, David Brodie, Timothy K.

For me, I just-

... you know, that your friendships with Tim Burrows and Toby Hadoke should come to such an-

[laughs]

... economical ending here.