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 | Between Time Monster and 3 Doctors... |
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| What: | Verdigris (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Jay, Canada |
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| Date: | Sunday 7 December 2003 |
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| Rating: |   8 |
Hilarious and camp, fits well between it's gaudy tv neighbours and even manages to fuse the worlds of The Tomorrow People and Doctor Who into one bizarre story! Twisted, brilliant, and fun.
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| Not quite what I expected but... |
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Troughton is one of my favoirte actors to play the Doctor. I was happy to see anything about him. Unfortunately, this tape only features a poor quality amature interview video tape of Troughton at a convention. For some reason I thought this one would have included footage from American PBS station appearances. Apparently, that will be on another video.
It had a few interviews with actors that worked with him. It was interesting, but not as much as I was hoping for.
| What: | Illegal Alien (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Gibbs, England |
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| Date: | Thursday 4 December 2003 |
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| Rating: | 1 |
This is a poor book. The writers have no spark, no originality and no idea. It is a bit sad to see ideas that were used in the programme before the writers were even born rehashed time and time again.
The book also suffers from the awful 7th Doctor and Ace. I suppose it is good that McGoon is not actually playing the Dr, but overall it is not good characterisation.
I can believe that idiot JNT was planning to make this tripe for season 27. It is just such a JNT outing, old enemies, no new ideas, old plots reused, crap, crap, crap.
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| Great adventure! Great story! |
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A few more quid and a bit of a trim and this could have been a half decent movie release. Love that fact is on film not video, gives it a much more professional quality on DVD. The Autons are great, with one purpose, they are more or less early versions of the terminator. The let down has to John Pertwee’s struggle with the “intelligence” at the end of episode four, So bad it is good.
Classic well worth the buy for fans, SCFI lovers and others.
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| A Great Start for Big Finish |
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The anniversary gets the large format, non-fiction celebratory tome it desrves! As gorgeous to look at as The Legend is, which of us has bothered to actually read it cover-to-cover? The Inside Story could also be called The Untold Story, as we get to read tales and trivia previously unheard (although the Eyepatch episode is in there) about new Doctor Who being made here and now. Once you get over the weird sensation that such a huge book is feather-light, and the fact that the photographic reproduction isn't as high quality as the PDF previews might've led us to believe, you can sink your teeth into the real meat of the book - the text! Revelations and titbits about the first 50 stories, some quite controversial opinions and exposes of in-house fighting that the BBC would never dare admit publicly in one of their own publications. You'd have thought there would be little to distinguish the recordings of the individual stories (no tales of freak weather conditions forcing last minute script rewrites, co-stars having to slap each other because of the cold, or German nudists swimming to the rescue here), the sense of the series' growth really comes through. As David Banks was so found of proclaiming (though sadly not yet on a BF audio) "Excellent!"
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| Flip-Flop has it's Ups-n-Downs |
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| What: | Flip-Flop (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | The Core-Man, Tampa, FL USA |
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| Date: | Monday 24 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
What an interesting concept. Two CDs four episodes, where either CD can be played first. It makes the story very intersting. The dowside is that once you listen to one CD you know how the other CD is going to be, since it has to lead back to the first CD.
All in all, it's an interesting story that should be listened to twice (one way than the other), but not one of CDs that should be played more than a few times.
| What: | The Crooked World (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This book is funny and clever combining cartoon charcters with real death and destruction. The doctor is very well protrayed as well as the cartoons are very well protrayed.
| What: | The Final Sanction (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Yes the aliens from the murder game are back and this book is another good book from Steve LYons. although not as good as his others this is still a enjoyable book.
| What: | The Murder Game (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
I agree with the review above steve lyons is the one of the best writers.
Here he plays with the black and white years again and produces a book you wish you could watch. The charcters are yet again well drawnout
| What: | Salvation (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
I love this book and felt the charcters are so well written and retains the era very well but i did not like the begging felt it was a bit boring. Apart from that one of the best BBC books.
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| best 6th doctor story ever |
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best 6th doctor story ever
loved it was extremly exciting and realy enjoyed it my fave story would have been the first one full circle seeing how adric came into doctor who and the marsh men were 1 of doctor whos best monsters.
| What: | The Invisible Enemy (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | Olly, UK |
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| Date: | Friday 17 October 2003 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
Looking back it was probably the beginning of the end of the classic period of Dr Who. The 15th season was the interim between The Key to Time (long winded) and the previous batch of quality SJS and Leela stories. The story is sound, the characters reasonable, with a new companion added - K9. Added probably due to the impact of R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars a couple of months earlier, he bailed the Dr out more times than I care to remember. A worthy companion?! Worth a view, anyway, and remember "Contact has been made".
| What: | Snakedance (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Monday 13 October 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This is a good story apart from elighment and mawydrn undead.
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| A good story (For the baker times) |
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| What: | Vengeance on Varos (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Monday 13 October 2003 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
I like this. Its probaly 2nd best colin story. Its clever and orginal and i love the end line
A fantastic Book.
Probaly one of the best if not the best.
The sixth doctor works well without a companion and works well with the Brigader and the mystrey is very well done. 10/10
| What: | Doctor Who Yearbook 1992 (Marvel Yearbooks) |
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| By: | Mark Stevens, Vancouver Island, Canada |
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 October 2003 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
It's a handy book. This volume (1992) has the chronology of all the shows, the titles, dates, writers, etc. It's good for a quick reference. It's hardcover, so you can toss it around. There is an interesting comic strip with 3 different doctors in it. It ties in to the Sea Devils, I believe. There are also 4 or 5 short stories, one by John Lucorrotti (sic). I picked it up cheap on ebay, and would love to get more (cheap being my middle name).
| What: | Seeing I (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Benjamin Evans, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 October 2003 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
Seeing I is probably my favourite Doctor Who novel, largely because Kate Orman seems to have captured the essence of the new Doctor's character. He is an innocent, inquisitive, excitable and at times immature. She takes what we saw and loved of Paul McGann's creation in the telemovie and acclerates it.
Sam undergoes tremendous development in this book, no longer the fairly nondescript activist teenager we know from the previous novels. Her flight from the Doctor and the reasons behind it give ample opportunity for her to find herself, and perhaps for the first time we get to see a companion as they would be, outside the Doctor's influence. Sam becomes in this story, and now remains, one of my favourite characters in Doctor Who fiction.
Without giving anything away, Seeing I manages also to tackle the oft-debated issue of the Doctor's sexuality with a soft touch. I may be biased in that my opinions on the matter are catered for, but in the end, he isn't interested in sex at all. He loves his companions as his friends, and like the bond between Holmes and Watson, that doesn't mean it can't be a powerful force. As Liz Sladen once said, wouldn't you do anything for your best friend?
Oh, and while Kate does the usual thing of putting the Doctor through sheer hell, she must like McGann better than McCoy - he goes through the psychological wringer rather than having something explode out of his hearts. This aspect of the book is also a favourite, because in attacking the Doctor in his weak point she highlights his central traits all the more.
I have read this book multiple times, and the only fault I can pick with it is that the I seemed a bit "token alien race" to me, somewhat like an insectoid Borg. However, they're well used, and any Whoniverse mythology takes a back seat to the characters and the story. A sterling example of why Orman is my favourite Doctor Who author.
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| Not terrible, but disappointing |
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[I wrote this back when I first read the book, shortly after its release; I've edited it a bit.]
War of the Daleks isn't inherently bad, in fact I thought some of the ideas were very good, but several things irked me about the book.
John Peel insists on re-writing Dalek history when it was perfectly good as it was; why? A lot of time has gone into expanding the Daleks as a race with a real history - their creation, the war with the Thals, their civil war etc. As alien menaces go, they are considerably fleshed out, and most fans I know quite like their established history. So why not add to it, rather than changing it? This is something of a Who tradition, particularly where the Doctor himself is concerned; changes to his history occur, but usually they are minor and are made to allow additions which add to the richness of his character. To change so much in a single book seems...rude.
I always enjoy Davros as a character, but continually frustated to find he has little purpose or is under-exploited in most of his appearances. He is certainly a central and important figure in Dalek history, but for the most part his creations seem to get along just fine - better, even - without him.
Once again the Doctor has made a terrible mistake. This is a trend in the BBC books that I dislike (see The Bodysnatchers for another example), and it's even worse this time because it's not the eighth Doctor's mistake, but his predecssor's - the incarnation best known for his meticulous planning and scheming. It's not that I think the Doctor should be infallable, but to suddenly make such irreversibly bad mistakes - particularly in the endgame of one of his more celebrated plans - seems counter to his character, and indeed to the lineage of "smart heroes" which he exemplifies.
Maybe I need to read this book again, but while the basic sotry is enjoyable, it seems to take away from the Dalek mythos, rather than add.
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| Too Much To Cover In Too Little Time |
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The final installment of the first series of Sarah Jane adventures reveals at last just who is behind her being framed and hounded. Probably, it will not be a surprise to most of you since you know the cast lists of the series. Let's just say that she is as nasty as she was in 1975. Peter Miles, who has made a small career out playing nasties in Dr. Who and its spin-offs returns for another interesting performance. As Steve Martin once said about himself, "This guy's good." The main problem with the story is its scope, crossing both England and India, running from the 1940s to about 2002, both tying up the plot against Sarah and advancing an unsuspected dastardly scheme, there is just too much happening in 1 hour.
