The next Rutans vs. Sontarans story is “Rendition”, and it’s technically a Second Doctor adventure, it’s just I normally put stories that feature multiple Doctors in the style of the oldest Doctor present, which in this case is the Eighth Doctor even if he is just a mysterious cameo. “Rendition” is an odd story, featuring the Rutans under a microscope as a bunch of them have found themselves outside of the war and cut off from the host mind. Let’s take a look!
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After a long wait and a pretty bang-average previous boxset we finally have the next box in the odd Second Doctor post-regeneration story arc and guess what? Once again it’s not great as some of the early parts may as well have not existed and there is a heavy focus on your typical Dalek stuff we get so often in other ranges rather than anything interesting the concept could have given us. Oh well, let’s have a closer look…
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The latest Classic Doctors, New Monsters set has once again created a two-parter but split the parts across two different eras of the Doctor, in this case the Second and Seventh, so in order to cover the story as a whole I’m linking them together with the Seventh Doctor template, but Part 1 is still all Troughton, so to speak. The Krillitane are an interesting concept in that that keep adapting themselves all the time, stealing things from other species in packs, so no Krillitane grouping is ever the same, visually or power-set-wise, so it’s nice to see them appear here (even if the visual on the cover has them looking exactly the same as their TV appearance, but I can forgive that as it’s kind of the point of the set…) Let’s take a look!
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In terms of “Lost Stories” that are left to adapt Deathworld was a big one as it was the original planned 10th Anniversary story featuring all three Doctors at that point in the show, but William Hartnell’s failing health meant it was scrapped early on and The Three Doctors was created instead. It always sounded really odd based on what we knew and getting to hear it adapted hasn’t changed my mind there, I have no idea how this would’ve worked at the time, but whatever. How does it work now, as an audio drama with four of the six regulars being recasts? Let’s find out!
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After a sudden return of the Novel Adaptation range we now get to the first of two returns to the Lost Stories range! “Operation Werewolf” was partially pencilled in for the Second Doctor era before, I believe, it was scrapped because it was considered bad taste to do a story set during WWII as it hadn’t been that long since its end (which is a weird thought really) but here in 2024 we have no such worry, in fact Doctor Who especially is if anything overran with the time period. It’s for that reason I wasn’t super excited for this release (at least not compared to the next one) but I am a fan of the new Michael Troughton Second Doctor so I was looking forward to a non-Season 6B story featuring him, and I got that at least! Let’s take a look.
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We’re back to the Big Finish-exclusive “post War Games” era of the Second Doctor with “Conspiracy of Raven”, featuring three strongly-linked stories moving the plot forward. I stress moving forward rather than “bringing to an end” as it is just the next chapter is this storyline rather than anything else, and as a chapter it’s not really that interesting. Still, the performances are great, so that elevates the material a bit! Let’s take a look.
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*This review was originally written before I changed the review format but has been kept in its original form (don’t worry, this is the last one in the old format!)
When planning this run of stories out I decided to throw in Black Hole for no other reason than I’ve mentioned it several times during the course of this blog so I fancied giving it another listen. It features The Second Doctor, Victoria, Jamie and The Monk, and is a fun story all round, but does the heavy-handed forced continuity hurt or add to the experience? Let’s find out!
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*This review was originally written before I changed the review format but has been kept in its original form (mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to rearrange it…)
It’s funny that I’ve gone this far without reviewing a Second Doctor Companion Chronicle, then when I finally pick one it’s the one story where its actually more of an audio drama than a traditional CC two-person reading. It’s cleverly written and well acted though, as I remembered, which is why I threw it in here… So let’s take a look!
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It’s been about two years since I’ve been so caught up with Big Finish releases that I can actually post reviews of other Doctor Who stuff during quieter periods. The last one was in the middle of the Second Doctor part of this random TV and other media marathon and I actually went on to write the three other Second Doctor reviews before this site went on hiatus, so these next three random Who reviews are still in the old review format but Third Doctor onwards will match with current reviews. Without further ado:
So the non-TV part of the Second Doctor’s run in this chunk of older Who reviews starts off with a book review, a rare thing on this blog due to nothing other than me being a slow reader. Anyway, when I decided to finally go back and read some of the Doctor Who books I’d always wanted to read this was an obvious one because the idea of not just the Second Doctor meeting the Master but also a look at how The Doctor’s old friend became his enemy was too interesting a concept to pass up. Did it live up to that possibility? Let’s find out!
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The latest animated Doctor Who release has arrived (well, it arrived a month or so ago, I’m just getting to it now because I decided to wait to get it as a Christmas present…) and while I’m thrilled the range isn’t dead I have to say that the Underwater Menace is among my least favourite Who stories and this release hasn’t changed that opinion. The animation is fun and helps hold my attention more than the screenshot slideshows did but the old idiom “You can’t polish a turd” comes to mind… Let’s take a look!
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