Our celebration of the New Series of Doctor Who is bittersweet as we learn of the passing of actress Jean Marsh. Best known to Doctor Who fans as First Doctor Companion “Sara Kingdom“, Marsh found fame worldwide thanks to the hit show ‘Upstairs, Downstairs‘. We here at MarkWHO42 send our condolences to her friends and family.
As Episode 1 of the Second Season of the new Doctor Who arrives, the cancellation rumors are in a frenzy. However, as Mark Twain once said, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Instead, we prefer to focus on this week’s episode. Who is Belinda Chandra, and is she a new Impossible Girl? Why is she needed on Missbelindachandra One? What is the AI Generator? Will the temporal explosion have additional consequences? What happened to the Earth on 24th May 2025? Where will “The Long Way Around” take The Doctor and Belinda? Listen as Mark Baumgarten and Vicky Jakubowski, with special guests Zion Quiros, Jarrod Cooper, and Neisha T Mulchan, ponder these questions and more.
One of our special guests on this episode is Neisha T Mulchan, aka Neisha M, Your Geek Mom to her friends, fans, and followers. She is a Nurse Practitioner Clinical Researcher, and author, with 26 years of experience in health care; with specialties in Family Practice, Neuro-Psychiatry, Self-Care & Mental Wellness. As part of their dedication to address mental health disparities, she and her daughter founded Diversely Geek in 2011. Diversely Geek is a global SM-based non-profit mental wellness organization that promotes the ethos of “Embracing Our Inner Geek, which helps us to establish positive self-identity and to transform our fandom passions into positive action.”
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Mark Baumgarten is an old school Whovian who hosts and runs the award-winning online science fiction radio show and podcast The MarkWHO42's Universe Podcast. He became a fan of Doctor Who in 1978 and worked on several of the Omnicon Conventions in South Florida back in the 1980's. With an accumulated knowledge of Who-lore as well as Science Fiction in general, he needed to share it with the world. In 2010 he started markwho42 Books selling Doctor Who books online and at conventions and in 2012 started the show MarkWHO42 and has been invited as a guest panelist at conventions around the country. He definitely puts the "Mark" in MarkWHO42!
