It’s time for Big Finish’s celebration of 50 years of the Fourth Doctor, and you what? They actually didn’t go overboard this time! Instead of an old enemy and companion-fest like the Fifth and Sixth Doctors got, or whatever the hell “The Last Day” for the Seventh Doctor was, we have a perfectly pleasant Doctor/Sarah/Harry story that nicely slots into their debut season with some warm and comfortable tropes thrown in. Sound good? It did to me, both leading up to the release and when actually listening to it, so let’s take a look!

Finishing off the “Deadly Strangers” set then is a story featuring the return of The Mara, well, sort of anyway. It takes place in a clinic where people are sent to a deep sleep for many years at a time and so the idea of the Mara invading people’s dreams while they’re kept under is a good, it’s just sadly the story really isn’t all that interesting. Ah well, let’s take a look!

The next set of Eighth Doctor / Charley / Audacity stories has arrived (or did a short while ago…) and with it an interesting titbit: the first story in the set, “Puccini and The Doctor”, was written by Matthew Jacobs, the man who wrote the TV Movie and therefore created the Eighth Doctor, returning to the franchise for the first time since then. It’s a good thing it has such an interesting behind-the-scenes bit of info because I have to say the set as a whole is rather average or in one case flat-out bad, so there isn’t a lot to talk about otherwise…