While less “Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions” and more “David Tennant and whoever else is available with recording equipment because it’s the pandemic” this boxset still appealed to me, I do like it when “Classic Who” meets “New Who”, but I have to say these two stories did not live up to expectations. “Splinters” had a fun twist that I saw coming and generally felt a bit too close to some other recent stories, and “The Stuntman” was just plain weird, and not in a good way. Oh well! Let’s take a look…

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Following on from the original “Forty” boxset is the rather stupidly titled “Forty 2” which makes it sound like it’s called 42 whenever you read it out but I can assure you that it carries on the original box’s plot thread and finishes up the celebration of 40 years of the Fifth Doctor well. That being said it’s all one long story so it really could’ve just been called “The Auton Infinity” but I guess they wanted to make sure people knew it continued from the first one. ANYWAY, enough title talk, is the story good? Thankfully given its runtime, yes. Yes it is. Let’s take a good look, shall we?

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The 2022 “companionless” run of Fourth Doctor stories comes to a close with this bonus two-part story that was stuck on the end of “The Nine” boxset for reasons to do with the price change or boxet format change… something like that. Anyway, what’s it like? Well, that will depend on how familiar you are with Mervyn Peake and his works. I, for one, wasn’t familiar with him at all. Oh well! Thankfully the story is still a fun way to spend an hour, I just felt like there were probably a lot of references that went over my head…

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Shellshock is a bit of a mixed bag as it does a good job of showing how horrible and pointless World War I was on BOTH sides of the trenches but its also full of cliché German accents and a pretty plain alien plotline. Well, let’s delve deeper… which is funny because a key part of the plot is soldiers being pulled underground, you see… *ahem* Anyway…

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The Dreams of Avarice is a fun story that puts The Nine in the spotlight as the central villain, rather than the usual Eleven. As a campy kleptomaniac he certainly brings a different energy to the proceedings, and The Doctor teaming up with a bumbling Detective for the adventure gave it a different vibe as well. Let’s take a closer look!

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The latter two thirds of “Into the Stars” are on opposite ends of the fun scale, though neither are terrible or amazing, more “poor and good”, the contrast is rather stark. “Last of the Zetacene” is far too blunt with its message and has no interesting characters where as “Break The Ice” felt like a script right out of Russell T. Davies’ playbook complete with likable cast being hounded by a fairy-tale like monster on a space station. Want to know more? Click onwards!

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The next set of Ninth Doctor Adventures goes from Earth-based to space-based, putting a title on … well, what Doctor Who does all the time anyway. Salvation Nine is a good example of taking a simple idea of “The Ninth Doctor meets the Sontarans” and giving it a bigger spin than you’d otherwise have to, taking a deeper dive into the clone race than perhaps has ever been taken…

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Getting a new Eight Doctor and Charley story is always special for me, they were the lead duo I loved listening to when I first got into Big Finish Doctor Who audio, but I have to say this next story in “Classic Doctors, New Monsters: The Stuff of Nightmares” was disappointing. I get where they went with it and it was well written and performed but I just didn’t get on with it for most of its runtime… Want to know more? Read on!

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Continuing to look at the third “Classic Doctors, New Monsters” set titled “The Stuff of Nightmares” with the first of two stories that feature the “Dream Crabs” that feed off human brains while stimulating dreams for them as they do so. It was a fun (and obviously horrifying) concept for the Twelfth Doctor Christmas story they came from, but do the creatures work a second time round in the excellently titled “Together in Eclectic Dreams”? Let’s see…

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The second story in “Classic Doctors, New Monsters: The Stuff of Nightmares” is once again not anything of nightmares, instead it’s the Tivolians, the race from the Eleventh Doctor era that is infamous for have no backbone to the point where they’re happy to be conquered by invading races. A funny concept and they fit well into a Fourth Doctor story (though maybe a bit later in his run?) but that’s two in the row that doesn’t live up the subtitle, meaning it’s literally referring to the creatures in the last two tales… Anyway, let’s have a look at this one!

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