Everything has led to this! That's how consecutive order works. In the epic season finale, the Third Doctor has gone AWOL and only Dylan Rees (Too Hot For TV) and Mikey Smith (Mikey and Who) can save a gameshow based on 1973's The Green Death. Which of them will get the reserve scientific adviser job? Are giant maggots more of science or nature? And who is the BOSS in deepest, darkest Wales?

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LINKS

Bisto advert 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiM2TfqL3tc

Jo Grant Returns – Season 10 Collection announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBpPWy7jB8

Who Is The Doctor? – Jon Pertwee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGlfPFv27Dk

Splink – Jon Pertwee (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1UiNZ3G4Y

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

S1E6 The Green Death: The Gameshow

Yep, it's a gameshow based on the one where the Tenth Doctor lights the Olympic flame! Writers Andrew Blair and Chris Farnell join Mark for a sports and leisure quiz that keeps getting distracted from 2006's Fear Her. Do our contestants have what it takes to make gameshow gold on A First Question Of Sport? Or will they be reported to the council?

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LINKS

Gary Lineker announces new Doctor Who trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD3WJ7KONnE

David Tennant's manic horny car salesman – Red Nose Day 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTJdqACJnuA

BBC Olympic torch relay promo 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfTCHkD_Ko

The actual greatest TV theme tune of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSP1E04zp5Y

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

SPOILERS: Erik Amaya's list from Round Five https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/worst-to-best-ranking-the-doctor-who-doctors/

S1E5 Fear Her: The Gameshow

You won't find shelter in this Norwegian cabin, just a gameshow based on the 2018 Thirteenth Doctor adventure It Takes You Away. Trap One podcasters Hannah Cooper and Pete Lambert backpack through this week's adventure, but do The Fjord Doctors know their geography backwards and forwards? Who's Ribbons trying to fool? And what is the Solitract's game?

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LINKS

Personalise Your Sonic Screwdriver ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S1_rufK9ok

Norwegian commercial compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOFSElhMFqY

Jodie Whittaker voicereels https://www.advoice.co.uk/clients/jodie-whittaker/

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

S1E4 It Takes You Away: The Gameshow

It's not just any art and literature quiz – this one spans from the dawn of time to 1979's City Of Death! Si Hart (The Library Of Impossible Things) and Lucy McCaul (Benton & Hawthorne Investigate) join Mark for a trip to Paris in 1979. How do the third- or fourth-last of the Jagaroth spend their time? Which 21st-century painters will The Impossible Librarians find in Scaroth's stash? And to be or not to be – is that the question? 

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LINKS  

Paris (Music from City Of Death) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFWICNOn-8  

Etch a Sketch advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eouBAbbopbU  

Prime Computers advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk7PwiA0Ns  

"Trevor" Skol advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1n70lwD9ng 

David Tennant – Hamlet's Soliloquy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZHb2xo0OI  

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

S1E3 City Of Death: The Gameshow

The Fifteenth Doctor, the Beatles, and RTD's lyrics are all on the deck this week as we remix 2024's The Devil's Chord into a big Doctor Who music quiz. Dancing on the big piano across Abbey Road are award-winning musical comedian Friz Frizzle and writer/visual artist Graham Williamson (Pop Screen), but can they defeat Maestro? Did Kylie actually cover Phil Collins or not? And who on Earth is Susan Tea Lady?  

The First Question is created, written, and hosted by Mark Harrison (markharrison.bsky.social) 

Thanks to my contestants and special thanks for this episode go to Andrew Blair and Mark Lund for both technical and moral support.

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LINKS  

The Daleks selling Kit Kats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOGxVDEDWU 

Lennon Naked trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHwZHaJO0M  

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

S1E2 The Devil's Chord: The Gameshow

A mad quizmaster invites Doctor Who fans to talk about The Wedding Of River Song and then turns it into a gameshow. Mark Donaldson (On The Time Lash) and Lee McMenemy (The Polis Box Live!) are the Doctor's companions as he travels from Lake Silencio in Utah to the top of the Great Pyramid. How will they fare in the history quiz? Do they have the knowledge to win? Or will they have to phone a friend?  

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LINKS

Doctor Who Series 6 action figures TV advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-QysSF8zK4 

Doctor Who: The Complete History TV advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EUZzjbxDXY  

Theme arrangement by Doctor Music Master https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjaXXba8M

S1E1 The Wedding Of River Song: The Gameshow

Do you wanna come with me? The First Question is a brand-new podcast where we talk about a Doctor Who story and then turn it into a gameshow. Listen to this totally original trailer for a sneak preview and subscribe now for future episodes - Episode 1 arrives Saturday 15th August.

Introducing The First Question...

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Mark Harrison (@questionmarkquizpod)

"The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight." Finally, a podcast where we talk about a Doctor Who story and then make up a gameshow about it.  Every week, two contestants join quizmaster Mark Harrison to discuss our favourite adventures in time and space and then answer questions and rounds loosely inspired by them.