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| A good idea but it was too long! |
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| By: | Harry Ross Gorman, Bromborough, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Saturday 5 September 2015 |
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| Rating: |   5 |
I thought this story had a very good central idea and I thought all the characters were great. The trouble is everything takes too long to happen and it took me several weeks (on and of) just to listen to it as I just got bored. I also think the 1st doctor early adventures needs a separate voice actor for the 1st doctor e.g. John Guilor who provided the excellent impression for the planet of giants dvd and the Day of the Doctor.
| By: | Andrew Munro, Corby, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Wednesday 22 March 2023 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
As has been mentioned by others this is a typical Doctor Who story which would have easily been picked out of the 1960's.
I believe the story is stretched too far and would have made a good 3 parts, keeping the action and suspense compact.
However, the acting is great including the supporting cast and Peter's 1st Doctor.
Would I listen again in a hurry?
No but that doesn't mean to say I didn't enjoy the ride back to classic who.
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| Good First Doctor Style Adventure |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Sunday 4 August 2024 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
The Bounty of Ceres is the closest to hard science fiction of any Doctor Who offering I have encountered. I have long thought that Doctor Who could have some hard science stories and that it would work well. The Bounty of Ceres justifies that opinion. Here we have Doctor One, Vicki, and Steven accidentally arriving on a base located on the planetoid Ceres. The Doctor has tried repairing the TARDIS, and the TARDIS has now broken down in a way that prevents the travellers from getting back inside. So, they go in search of help. The base is a mining installation, corporate owned, run by three people and a set of maintenance robots. Some things have been going wrong on the station, and one of the crew is more than a little paranoid. What follows, then, is classic Doctor Who of the 1960s, with the travellers at first being the subjects of suspicion, then winning trust, and finally helping to find a solution. Writer Ian Potter has done a very good job of plot misdirection, so that a listener thinks that one thing is happening, when in fact something else is going on. Peter Purves and Maureen O'Brien fall right back into their roles as if they had never left them, and Purves does a marvellous William Hartnell impression. He does not sound exactly like Hartnell, but he does have the rhythm and speech patterns of Hartnell down perfectly. I found this one quite well done.
