“Merlin’s Trap” was the big draw for this Halloween set as it’s the debut of Jon Culshaw’s Twelfth Doctor impersonation, and thankfully while not as perfect as his Brig it’s miles better than Jacob Dudman’s attempt, so I’ll happily take it given the Twelfth Doctor era is a personal favourite of mine. Ignoring that aspect though, is the story any good? It’s… fine, doesn’t break any new ground etc but I will say at least they got the horror aspect a bit more involved here. Let’s take a look!

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The next story in the Halloween boxset (skipping over Doctor-less spin-offs for my wallet’s sake) is an Eighth Doctor / Audacity story that focuses on the classic “children’s folklore comes to life” idea but with the folklore of an alien tree-like species instead. It’s a perfectly good one-hour story but once again it feels more sci-fi than horror, which given the whole idea of this Halloween boxset was “spooky stories for Halloween” is a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, lets take a closer look…

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The “Wicked!” boxset’s second and third story sadly aren’t much better than the first one, which given the interesting premise of the boxset is a bit of a downer. Each story looks at the young Ace from a different perspective, which is a good thing to do with the box’s premise, but they don’t offer any interesting plot on top of it which makes them just dull stories that happen to feature a young Ace in them. Oh well, let’s take a look!

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“Backwards and in Heels” is the first story in the “Wicked!” boxset that takes place directly after Ace’s debut TV story “Dragonfire”, which is weird that it’s taken this long to get around to it when you think how long they’ve been doing Seventh Doctor audios… Anyway, the story being the first in the set means this is Ace’s first ever adventure and for that we get a very odd and not particularly exciting story. Let’s take a look…

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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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