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• Song Name: 22. A Wind-Up Merchant and a Tease
• Artist: On the Time Lash
• Year: 2015

As the Doctor welcomes new companions, Ben and Mark welcome journalist, blogger, archive TV enthusiast and friend of the show; Jon Melville on board.

The stories under discussion this week are Smith & Jones and The Face of Evil. Does the Doctor really NEED a companion? Is RTD any less of a "sexist" than Steven Moffat? And which Hollywood director was once up for the role of Davros?

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