{"id":3588,"date":"2026-05-24T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2026-05-24T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:27:31","slug":"staggering-stories-podcast-498-barbara-slays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Stories Podcast #498: Barbara Slays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1192\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3588-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast498_25-05-2026.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast498_25-05-2026.mp3\">https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast498_25-05-2026.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast498_25-05-2026.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringPodcast498_25-05-2026.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:06:14 &#8212; 38.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/Podcast498.jpg\" alt=\"60\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jay Doran, Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review the First Doctor story Doctor Who: The Rescue and the 2012 film Men in Black 3, discuss their visit to The Capitol (Doctor Who convention) and the BFI for a screening of Doctor Who: The Movie, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>01:08 &#8212; Welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong>01:53 &#8211; News:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>02:02 &#8212; Doctor Who: Some episodes coming to AMC+ in the USA.<\/li>\n<li>05:21 &#8212; The X-Files: Ryan Coogler&#8217;s pilot enters production.<\/li>\n<li>09:54 &#8212; Westworld: Rebooting as a film.<\/li>\n<li>11:39 &#8212; Star Trek: DS9 goes comic.<\/li>\n<li>13:31 &#8212; David Burke: DEAD!<\/li>\n<li>15:15 &#8212; Jill Curzon: DEAD!<\/li>\n<li><strong>16:47 &#8211; Men in Black 3 (2012 film).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>29:39 &#8211; Doctor Who: The Movie BFI event.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>38:56 &#8211; Doctor Who: The Rescue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>52:09 &#8211; Doctor Who: The Capitol convention 2026 &#8211; 50 Years of DWAS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>61:27 &#8211; Farewell for this podcast!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>62:07 &#8212; End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vital Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/\">Staggering Stories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">BBC: Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfiles.com\/\">The X Files<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westworld_(film)\">Wikipedia: Westworld (film)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/\">Star Trek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Burke_(British_actor)\">Wikipedia: David Burke (British actor)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jill_Curzon\">Wikipedia: Jill Curzon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Men_in_Black_3\">Wikipedia: Men in Black 3<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Who_(film)\">Wikipedia: Doctor Who (film)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rescue_(Doctor_Who)\">Wikipedia: The Rescue (Doctor Who)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwasonline.co.uk\/thecapitol\/\">DWAS: The Capitol<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/26860495434\">Facebook: Staggering Stories Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Jay Doran, Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review the First Doctor story Doctor Who: The Rescue and the 2012 film Men in Black 3, discuss their visit to The Capitol (Doctor Who convention) and the BFI for a screening of Doctor Who: The Movie, find some general news and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,37,82,12,10,16,6,13,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","category-film","category-men-in-black","category-podcast","category-review","category-sci-fi","category-staggering-stories","category-staggering-podcast","category-staggering-regular-podcast","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}