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| What: | Helicon Prime (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: |  10 |
Frazer's Patrick Troughton is uncanny. Its almost spooky. There really was one point when i thbought it was Pat speaking. Man this guy knows his Troughton. And the story is good and well paced and yet again easily could mould into the season into which it is set.
| What: | Mother Russia (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
1: another marc platt tale full of his trade mark coolness
2: peter purves is back again and delivers a knockout performance as steven.
3: the sound and music score is even better than series one of the companion chronicles.
4: this is an engaging tale of old russia, dripping with atmosphere and could easily have been a missing adventure for William Hartnell.
| What: | The Beautiful People (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
1: THIS IS ONE OF THOSE GREAT STORIES THAT YOU COULD LISTEN TO EVERYDAY.
2: THIS PORTRAYS ALL THE ABSURDITY AND SILLINESS OF THE TOM BAKER LAALLA WARD YEARS.
3: LALLA WARD DOES A PERFECT TOM BAKER IMPRESSION.
4: THE STORY ITSELF IS WITTY AND CLEVER AND BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN.
5: SOME GOOD LIGHT RELIEF AFTER THE MORE HARD HITTING STORIES IN THIS CHRONICLES FIRST SEASON.
| What: | The Blue Tooth (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Season seven was a gritty and cool series in doctor who history. And the blue tooth could oh som easily slot into that hard hitting season of doctor who. the return of the cybermen, and at last a story with the third doctor facing off against them. long overdue. Caroline John is perfect as the storyteller.
| What: | Frostfire (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
The return of Maureen Obrien as Vicki. Do i really need to say anything else? well, ok...this is one of those long line of Marc Platt great Doctor Who tales. Satisfied?
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| What i love about this first and second. |
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| What: | Fear of the Daleks (The Companion Chronicles audiobooks) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
What i like is we get new stories with old Doctors. What a fresh and cool idea. The companion chronicles series has yet to really let me down. All the eight ive heard so far have been brilliant.
Fear of the daleks is the first second doctor tale for audio, and boy does it resonate Patrick Troughton's time on Doctor Who rite to its roots. This is such a great story. I love the mad scientists, the dippy daleks and all that that made the second doctor's tenure one of the best in the shows history. Wendy Padbury reads this story brilliantly.
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| The boy is........I WILL GIVE IT AWAY! |
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| What: | The Boy That Time Forgot (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
So we dont get Matt Waterhouse, who is actually wrongly accused of not being able to act. Instead we have Andrew Sachs acting as the five hundred year old Adric in this great tale. This is why i like the big finish range so much, the styles and stories are so fresh and inventive. All new storylines bringing back people from thbe doctor's past. Sarah Sutton again reminds me of why she was such a good companion. And Peter Davison really needs no praise. He is a great doctor. Bringing back Adric was a risky idea, it had to be handled right, and thank goodness it was. Paul magrs has done it again!
| What: | The Death Collectors (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 19 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
I think Stweart Sheargold has produced an even better tale than Red, and that was excellent enough. This really sounds like a claustrophobic adventure that could and should be on screen. Sylvester Mccoy leads a good cast in a gritty space goth opera style adventure. The dar traders are a good new monster that are bound to be back soon i expect. No complaints from me then. Katarina Olsson delivers another great performance as the computer Nancy. And Spider's Shadow is another tales of the unexpected esque story that really rounds off another great and different Doctor Who audio! Great!
| What: | Four to Doomsday (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
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| Rating: |  7 |
A forgotten gem in my opinion. I know this story isn't really well regarded by a lot of fans but I really enjoyed watching this again cleaned up on DVD. Top marks to Stratford Johns who really shines & some great sets. It's only a crap ending that spoils it. The extras are nothing really special. The first footage of Peter Davidson is a bit dull & there is a short but interesting interview from 1980 with the, then, new Doctor.
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| Heavy Breathing, Beeps, and Decay |
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| What: | The Death Collectors (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Doug, Pocono Summit, PA, USA |
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| Date: | Monday 15 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
"Death is merely a science, Doctor. Measure it correctly and a cure can be found."
If you decide to listen to The Death Collectors, get ready for a very strange eighty-five minutes. This story is really quite dark, featuring a companionless seventh Doctor, perhaps very near his end, with a couple of veiled references to the events of the t.v. movie.
Here we get a quarantined planet infected with "Decay," a crew that risks everything to violate the quarantine, and a handful of Dar Traders - strange beings who exist on the threshold of death and sound like The Shadow from (classic) season 16's The Armageddon Factor. Sound designer David Darlington has gone a bit crazy with sound effects in this one, and the incidental music matches the grim storyline. It all combines into a listening experience that frays the nerves a bit, though it is kind of interesting, and reminds me of the David Tennant story "42."
The one-part Spider's Shadow is a finishing coda in which the Doctor and a royal court are caught up in a "chaotic time loop."
Although a couple of the stories are reminiscent of the Troughton annuals (e.g. the Doctor and Liz shrinking themsleves down to explore the universes in an atom!), there is for the first time a feeling that the authors have watched the TV series, with many stories capturing the new, gritty feel of Earth-bound UNIT stories in the dramatic mould of the 1970 series. A rare book, but highly recommended. Really groovy illustrations and cover, too!
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| one of the best doctor who books ever!x2 |
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| What: | Ghosts of India (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Matthew, leeds |
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| Date: | Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Brilliant! Fantastic! Moving! One of the best doctor who books i have ever read! Donnas character has been explored superbly! So has the Doctors! Gandhis great! The story line on its own is fantastic! The 'half-made men' were a nice tuch! All in all i couldnt giv it lower than a TEN! All Doctor Who fans MUST read!!!
!!!WELL DONE MARK MORRIS!!!
| What: | The Doctor Trap (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Matthew, leeds |
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| Date: | Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
What can i say about The Doctor Trap? well:great, brilliantly written, but also confusing in parts. It has a brilliant plot but i didnt feel the character of Donna was explored very well!! Still great though! If you want to read this then please see it through to the end as it can get a little conusing!!
| What: | Peacemaker (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | C G Harwood, Dunedin, NZ, New Zealand |
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| Date: | Friday 12 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Absolutly brillant!!!! This book i could not belive how fast i read this book, I couldn't put it down. All the charecters were interesting and i cared about them all, even the enemy in this.
I loved the references to the past series (especialy The OK coral gunfight reference). I disagree with Tim, i found the book to be very funny at times.
If you new to these books read this one first. This is genuine Doctor who, that is not hard to follow.
No hesatation in giving 10 out of 10.
| What: | Planet of Evil (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 12 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
A classic. I can remember thinking that this was really creepy when I first saw it back in the 70's. Great story & wonderful sets. Buy.
| What: | The King of Terror (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 12 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
An interesting enough premise that never really gets going. You wait for it to kick in & it never does before it fizzles out.
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| Retro Sound Effects, Fake Zygons |
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When is a Zygon not a Zygon? When it's in The Zygon Who Fell to Earth.
I don't know... to my mind, Zygons just don't go so well with blatant comedy. The only televised Zygon story we have to look back on was one that was a bit gothic horror in character. Terror of the Zygons defined the race, and the Eighth Doctor book, The Bodysnatchers (referenced by the Doctor here in this story?), revisited the murky goth guise. To be fair, The Zygon Who Fell to Earth is not all funny stuff - it definitely has a dark side. But these just don't feel like the Zygons we know at all. (Hmmm - have I used the word "Zygon" enough in this review?)
In spite of that, the sound effects here are almost worth the price of entry alone - they're right out of Tom Baker's story. Groovy and nostalgic... hm.
An 'okay' story.
| What: | Grand Theft Cosmos (Eighth Doctor Adventures audios) |
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| By: | Doug, Pocono Summit, PA, USA |
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| Date: | Thursday 11 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
I really enjoyed Grand Theft Cosmos. It's a fairly simple, maybe somewhat familiar caper story - we have competing parties, one of which is the Doctor and Lucie, trying to get their hands on a rare, valuable and strange item. We also sort of get a bit of Great Train Robbery on the side, with a twist of the paranormal thrown in for good measure. And it's delectably set in the late 19th Century. With Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith, as well as a couple of other returning characters, it all adds up to a very tasty combination that I found thoroughly enjoyable.
But I think the most amazing thing about Grand Theft Cosmos is that Sheridan Smith wasn't even present with any of the rest of the cast when she performed her roles. Due to scheduling difficulties, she had to come in and read all her lines on her own (well, with Nick Briggs), which she did in an hour and a half, and then all of her parts were edited into the rest of the audio play in post. It's really amazing, because it all really flows seamlessly.
Funny, interesting, vivid and atmospheric... this being such an enjoyable story, so perfectly produced, and really offering nothing to nitpick about, I must give Grand Theft Cosmos a glowing 10.
| What: | Paradise Towers (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | Matt Saunders, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Thursday 11 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Loved this story for it's very dark side. Canabalistic old dears! Excellent. The plot and run arounds are such fun. Mel's best story.
| What: | Time and the Rani (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | Matt Saunders, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Thursday 11 September 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This was one of the first stories I ever watched and I liked it. It's a little silly, but it is an enjoyable story.
