Hogan Reviews

The first series of Fourth Doctor adventures at Big Finish came to an end with the fun reveal of the Geoffrey Beevers’ Master once again facing off with Tom Baker’s Doctor, and later the, um, less interesting reveal that the Kraals were also back for another shot at Tom Baker’s Doctor… Yeah, I know which one would’ve made for the better surprise but I guess The Master was also more likely to push sales! Anyway, does this four-parter end the first series on a high? Let’s take a look…

The next story in the first run of Fourth Doctor adventures was “Energy of the Daleks”, the want for every companion to have a Dalek story at Big Finish was immediately satisfied with this, Leela’s first encounter with them. It’s was also the first Fourth Doctor story featuring Daleks without Davros, which is interesting. Beyond all that “first time” box-ticking it’s pretty bog-standard Dalek stuff. Let’s take a look!

In terms of the first series of “Fourth Doctor Adventures” this was the story I was most looking forward to revisiting as I remembered strongly liking this story at the time. It’s a simple but effective idea: send Leela back to the time of Boudica and watch the Doctor look on in horror as she finds a kindred spirit she wishes to help, despite the fact history has other ideas. Let’s take a look!

The Renaissance Man is an odd one, and I don’t mean it how I normally do in terms of “hard to talk about for reasons” but I mean it in that it’s intentionally an odd one! Full of surreal humour and scenes and some fun back-and-forth between The Doctor and the villain of the day it was a definite step up from Nerva if nothing else, but what’s it like now, divorced of the “shiny new Tom Baker audios” feel? Let’s take a look!