The next release in the celebration of both Sotarans and Rutans is “The Children of the Future” fittingly featuring the Third Doctor and Sarah, the original duo who first faced off with the Sontarans 50 years ago, although this story you might be surprised to hear does not feature the Sontarans at all but is instead focused very much on the other half of the equation…
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It’s time to end the Multi-Doctor Catch Up Marathon with the very first multi-Doctor story! The Three Doctors aired to kick off Season 10 (and so fans have taken to call it the 10th Anniversary story, though technically that’s not true…) and saw the return of Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor to assist his successor. Sadly William Hartnell was too ill to actually participate on set so he advises from a “Time Eddy”, or a small plastic triangle in someone’s shed, but hey-ho. At least had an excuse, unlike Tom Baker in the Five Doctors! Add in some early fun Time Lord lore and a cheesy villain it’s a good time in front of the telly. Let’s take a look!
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The Five Doctors has to be one of my favourite “comfort food” things to put on, if I’m not really sure what to watch or for whatever reason feeling unhappy it’s something that will cheer me up for 90 minutes or so. That being said this is a review and to be completely fair to it the story really isn’t up to much, it’s a big anniversary special with loads of companions and, well, four Doctors to be more accurate, plus a few old villains and the like so it doesn’t really have time to be anything with more substance. Am I just making excuses? Well, let’s take a closer look…
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Now, “Dimensions in Time” is a tricky one because technically it doesn’t feature two Doctors interacting but given it has multiple Doctors and companions and its an anniversary story I felt I couldn’t skip over it… plus if I don’t do it now I never will! So for those not aware “Dimensions in Time” was a 1993 Children in Need 3-D charity sketch (spread over two nights) to celebrate the series 30th anniversary, but due to it being off the air for three years all we got was this, which given it also crosses over with forever-popular soap Eastenders and had a phone-in vote to decide what some of the soap’s cast did shows how the show was viewed by the BBC at the time… Let’s take a look anyway, and not worry about if its canon or not!
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“The Forgotten” was a big deal at the time of its release as it was pretty much the first bit of media to properly connect “Classic Who” with “NuWho”, with the then-current 10th Doctor strolling down memory lane in a museum dedicated to himself but with no memories of his previous lives. It’s sort of like “The Eight Doctors” but less about Terrence Dicks patting himself on the back. Sadly though as the series progresses the art gets worse and worse until the final issue has some of the worst likenesses I’ve ever seen. At the time I ignored it because “classic and old Doctors next to each other!” but now, when that concept is old hat? Let’s take a look…
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I was unsure how to cover these stories as one review for all 11 would be far too long and individually would eat up far too many days of the this already lengthy catch up marathon so I compromised in the middle (and therefore had to make a new template for them…) Basically these are Companion Chronicles, one hour audiobooks read by a companion with one extra actor performing a new guest role, with one for each Doctor up to 11 (a.k.a. all of them at the time it was written) but with a linking thread through all the stories of the Eleventh Doctor communicating with his past selves in various ways due to something happening in the final part. It was a fun idea and gave me an extra story to listen to each month leading up to the 50th but ten years later and listening to them in closer proximity is quite a different experience… Let’s take a look! (at the first three…)
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This one was a little awkward to review as it had an issue per Doctor with a linking narrative with a meet up at the end, the same set up as the next 50th Anniversary thing I’m looking at in this marathon but that I’ve split up into four whereas this I’m keeping together and that’s because the individual stories are much shorter, being single comic issues, unlike Destiny of the Doctor, which is comprised of roughly one-hour audios. Anyway! Prisoners of Time was IDW’s contribution and it had some good ideas but it was ruined by a really… really naff villain reveal and attempt to make an emotional moment out of it that only served to make me laugh. Let’s take a look!
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So as to not spam two Doctor Who reviews in one day let’s take a look at the last (until next year…) entry of the Once and Future storyline before my daily Multi-Doctor story marathon kicks off tomorrow. Thankfully “The Union” was a really enjoyable story with some fun cameos and twists, to the point where I can’t help but think adding on a second hour with similar themes to the other Once and Future releases leading into this and just releasing it stand-alone would’ve been much better than the mostly weak monthly releases we’ve had, but ah well… let’s take a look!
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A seven-part full cast audio drama set during Season 7?! The crew at Big Finish would have to work pretty hard for me not to like this one and thankfully they delivered a really good story regardless. Fits the criterial of being entirely Earth based and having a cast of mainly human characters or human-looking characters even though budget obviously isn’t an issue here plus threw in plenty of fun twists and turns. Let’s take a deeper look!
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The Return of Jo Jones’ second and third story sadly follow on from the first in being perfectly fine but a bit dull and predictable. The two-parter format doesn’t help, but I’ve heard good two-parters before so it’s not an excuse really! Oh well, let’s take a look at “The Conservitors” and “The Iron Shore”, shall we?
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Hogan Reviews 