Dr Poo aired in a series of daily episodes that each ran for around 2 minutes. Sadly there is sadly no such thing as a complete database of storylines and episodes, but what follows is our attempt to create one, built-up from several fans' recordings, dedicated research and educated guesses!
We’ve unearthed episodes from the following storylines so far – plots and quotes await you, o connoisseur of Poo, just click below!
Thanks to a bootleg of the first 31 episodes, we are able to accurately recount the Doctor's first adventures:
Dr Poo and the Dreks
(12 episodes, beginning around May 1979)
Episodes 13-22
Genghis Khan
(10 episodes, around June 1979)
Episodes 23-26
Inside Dana's Head
(4 episodes - an inbetween adventure, around June 1979)
Episodes 27-31 & beyond
K-Tel-Derado
(5+ episodes, around July 1979)
Members of the Dr Poo Fan Club were given a flyer titled 'A History of Poo'. It summarised the early series in hand-written text linked by arrows, and covers several early storylines that are missing.
Future Earth
Alf & Elsie, the cleaning staff are Earth's only inhabitants except for a wild Maurice Chevalier Monster, which the Doctor domesticates. Alf gives the Doctor a new toilet seat for the TURDIS. All ends well. (Another bloody happy ending!!)
Footnote: The rest of the population left earth to be in 'GOD-THE MOVIE', Cecil B. de Millennium's brick-busting epic based on the bubblegum card of the same name. Now showing at someone's local drive-in.
Bob Hawke
Doctor very hung over after party, Kevin the announcer takes advantage & steps into middle of story. Demarcation dispute ensues. Enter... Bob Hawke + dispute settled. Everybody happy (for the time being)
Granny World
Planet populated entirely by grannies. Economy based on tea & bingo. Doctor forced to be bingo caller under threat of having his legs smacked, but he escapes. Dana king-hits defenceless granny in getaway.
From a selection of representative Dr Poo episodes retained by the ABC, which is now held in the NAA archive, we can trace the following stories:
Episodes including 60, 62, 63
Sherlock Humms and the Case of Jack the Quipper
(around August 1979)
Episode 121
Poker
(an inbetween adventure, around November 1979)
Episodes 134-140
Collision with Dr Who
(around Nov/Dec 1979)
In which the TURDIS crashes into the TARDIS
Episode 134 is labelled as such in the NAA archive, and by coincidence that's exactly where Poo fan Warren Hillsdon's off-air recordings began, allowing us to correctly number his subsequent episodes!
Immediately following the Dr Who storyline, the Doctor announces that he's going on holiday for 4 weeks. Dr Poo is then replaced by 'The Khan Ages' for 18 episodes, transmitted over Christmas 1979 and into the New Year, featuring Genghis Khan and his mongrol hoards travelling across Europe.
Episodes 141-142
What We Did on Our Holidays
(an inbetween adventure, around January 1980)
The Doctor, Dana, Dennis and Kevin tell us what they got up to whilst they were away.
Episodes 142-170
The Great Universal Cuckoo Clock of Time
(28 episodes, around Jan/Feb 1980)
Evil villain Dr Wee has stolen the Key of Time, so the Doctor and Dana embark on a quest to build a spare one, in order to wind up the Great Universal Cuckoo Clock of Time.
Warren's recordings stop here, and we're back to the NAA archive for information about later stories:
Episodes including 172, 175
Dr Poo in Ancient Egypt
(around February 1980)
Episodes including 228, 229, 244
Knees Ahoy!
(around May 1980)
Knees Ahoy! was later cut-down into fewer but longer instalments for the infamous record release.
Episode 255
The New TURDIS
(around June 1980)
This story obviously follows on from the TURDIS being blown up with the SS Nautilegs in Knees Ahoy. This episode has them landing on the Duck Side of Moon.
Episode 273
Dr Poo on Trial
(around early July 1980)
This episode mentions "listening to Dr Poo for a year", and seems to bring us close to the Universal Administration storyline, which is where Phil Coy's off-air recordings began:
Universal Administration
(5+ episodes, July 1980)
The next week of episodes, where Dr Poo was given a mission by God, was not recorded in 1980 as Phil's family took their annual holiday! Phil's recordings then continued uninterrupted for over 100 episodes.
The following transmission dates have been worked out by a process of deduction, working forwards from Phil's family holiday, and backwards from an episode of Dr Wee (where Doug Mulray actually announces the date), using pointers from other Mulray comments about the weekend or the elections.
The CackRonald Affair
(16+ episodes, August 1980)
Bernie Smith
(4 episodes, August 1980)
The Wedding of Gary Sock
(14 episodes, September 1980)
The Dubbo French Revolution
(22 episodes, Sep/Oct 1980)
Australian elections took place during the transmission of the Dubbo storyline, and we believe that a standalone episode of Dr Poo - a monologue for the Doctor, without the theme idents - aired on or around Mon 29 Sep, either in place of the on-going story, or as an additional bonus episode, or special outro.
Felix Major
(20 episodes, Oct/Nov 1980)
Wild Cat Strike
(5 episodes, November 1980)
In his link after the final episode of this storyline, Doug Mulray referred to the show as being "nearly 500 episodes" old - we think this was a slight exaggeration!
Galah-Free
(8 episodes, November 1980)
Chinese Checkers
(23 episodes, Dec 1980 - Jan 1981)
Episode 20 categorically aired Fri 2 Jan, 1981 - Doug Mulray announced the date shortly after the episode.
The following storyline was intended to run to 30 episodes, according to an interview published in 1981. Only 8 were broadcast, though a compilation version of the story preserves some later episodes.
Dr Poo's African Adventure
(30 episodes)
... the compilation version continues directly into:
The Time Tap
(6+ episodes)
In fact, Phil remembers that the original series was taken off-air in the middle of the African Adventure plot, and that later in 1981 DJs on Triple J played "previously unaired" episodes - perhaps from the end of African Adventure and the beginning of The Time Tap. Our guess is that the Time Tap episodes were the last ever made...
You can read about the the collections of Dr Poo recordings that we have found (or that found us) by clicking here.