The Ninth Doctor and Rose stories continue on with a genuinely creepy and very original story despite being once again set on the Powell Estate and featuring Jackie Tyler for the second release in a row. We get a fun villain, a fun new guest character and a big dramatic Time War speech from The Doctor for oddly the first time in Eccleston’s long audio run, so let’s take a look…
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The latest Doctor Who Blu-Ray set has arrived, and sadly they used some pretty poor AI upscaling thing that makes the picture look… weird, even to my eyes that often doesn’t catch that sort of thing, to the point where I’ve taken screenshots from the DVD release instead, which kind of goes against the point of these reviews but oh well! While it does introduce the Zygons, a great alien race that oddly never reappeared on screen until 2013, many decades after this story, my favourite thing about it is that it’s pretty much a Third Doctor era UNIT story with the Fourth Doctor… and being set in Scotland. Still! It’s a great story, so let’s take a look at it!
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Here we have the second of the Barry Letts penned BBC Audio Dramas staring Jon Pertwee (playing The Doctor for the last time, sadly…), Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney. Once again Richard Pearce’s Jeremy Fitzoliver appears to ruin most scenes he’s in but now he’s joined by a whole host of over-the-top cheesy accents! Headphone users beware… Let’s take a look…
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I kind of feel odd repeating the sentence “another return to the Lost Stories range” at this point, it seems it’s just constantly back just with a very reduced schedule. At least this time we have an actual legitimately “lost story” as this was pitched for Season 26 and at least partially written for Season 27, even cited to be Sylvester McCoy’s regeneration story (though that obviously doesn’t happen here…) Why it wasn’t included in the “Season 27” set of Lost Stories ages ago I don’t know, but is it any better than those mostly poor stories? Well…
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Time to look at two full cast audio dramas starring Jon Pertwee, Elizabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney written by Barry Letts! Exciting right?! … Well, it should be, but sadly the stories also suffer from an awful comic book caricature companion known as Jeremy Fitzoliver. *shudder*. That being said out of the two stories Paradise of Death is the better one, so let’s take a look!
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“The Return of the Doctor” is the second in the new run of Thirteenth Doctor audio dramas and is an improvement over the first in a lot of ways. The previous story was more about setting up a new status quo with a very basic story, this is focused on the relationship between The Doctor and Yaz and does that extremely well, but I will admit the world they decided to do this on wasn’t all that interesting… let’s take a look!
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“The Last Queen of the Nile” is the titular story for this final box of this year’s Fourth Doctor Adventures and really goes out on a high. A “pure historical” (in other words our time travelling heroes and their timeship are the only sci-fi elements) which is rare for any non-Hartnell Doctor but even rarer four Mr. Baker, but it really succeeds in its goal of showing the “Whoniverse’s” version of Anthony and Cleopatra with real dramatic gravitas, while also not forgetting to have a bit of fun here and there. Let’s take a look!
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We take yet another trip to Peladon as our look at Third Doctor TV stories ends for now. The Monster of Peladon sees Jon Pertwee’s Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at the Citadel for more political satire / on-the-nose analogies, Ice Warriors and everyone’s favourite talking green penis Alpha Centauri. What’s that? You’re bored of the Alpha Centauri / penis gag?! Well, too bad, it’s impossible to resist, especially at six visual episodes…
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“Conspiracy of Silence” is the first part of the “Last Queen of the Nile” box, a two-parter compared to the titular story’s four, and honestly it does feel like they were worried a historical themed boxset wouldn’t sell so added this in so they could stick a recognisable monster on the front. That being said though this is actually quite a fun story, the first part shows us the story from the perspective of our main cast complete with Silence memory wipes, and then the second part is the same story again but fast-forwarding through repeated scenes while showing all scenes with the Silence in, completing the picture. It’s a fun idea, so let’s take a look!
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Normally I don’t do two very similar stories together like I’m going to here with the two Peladon stories, but when choosing the Third Doctor TV serials for this mini-marathon the Peladon stories were the ones I’d watched the least in their respective seasons, so… why not? “The Curse of Peladon” is a rare off-Earth story for the Third Doctor and Jo and also a rather unsubtle look at Britain entering the European Union, which was all the talk at the time (… That ended well…) but all that being said, is it still entertaining?! Let’s have a look…
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