Daleks

Fear of the Daleks
Previously … Frostfire … The second of Big Finish‘s Companion Chronicles range is Fear of the Daleks, a 2nd Doctor story narrated by Zoe (Wendy Padbury).  Like the first offering, the story is told from the point of view of modern/older Zoe.  In this instance, she’s bothered by memories of […]

CC1.02 Fear of the Daleks

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The second episode of Masters of War is a full 90-minutes long, and you’d think that was too long for the second half of a story.  However, that’s not the case here.  The duration helps to ensure that each key character – the Doctor (David Warner), the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), […]

Masters of War, episode 2

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The eighth story in Big Finish‘s Doctor Who Unbound range is a sequel to Sympathy for the Devil which saw an alternative version of the third Doctor (David Warner) teaming up with a retired Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) during a time of crisis exasperated by the machinations of […]

Masters of War, episode 1

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … We now get to the “city” part of Mechanus and meet the Mechanoids.  I understand that the Mechanoids were an attempt at replicating the success of the Daleks.  I can’t honestly see how they expected that to happen.  Daleks may have had trouble getting […]

75. The Planet of Decision

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Landing at last on Mechanus, the TARDIS crew encounter a planet of living plants – not too dissimilar to one of the locations from back in The Keys of Marinus. Not entirely convinced by the “light stick”, but more confused that the Doctor’s own […]

74. The Death of Doctor Who

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Otherwise known as “the one in the haunted house”.  Having watched it before, this episode holds very little rewatch value except that William Hartnell and William Russell seem to be having a grand old time pretending it’s real. More should have been made of […]

73. Journey Into Terror

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … More silly music leads us into the Doctor realising that they’re being followed through the timestream by the Daleks. We see inside the Daleks’ time machine, and are introduced to some comedy Daleks – the one that hesitates while replying to one of the […]

72. Flight Through Eternity

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … I’m not sure what the episode title has to do with this episode, but it’s a valiant attempt at doing a one-story episode.  The plot is little more than the crew meeting the alien race, the Daleks issue ultimatum, the alien race holds the […]

71. The Death of Time

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … A great start to the 6-part The Chase and an immediate improvement on the previous story. Beginning with a fun TARDIS sequence, enjoyable because we get to see the crew interacting without any jeopardy, the episode opens with the Doctor fixing the Time/Space Visualiser […]

70. The Executioners

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