Maureen O’Brien

Big Finish‘s 200th main range adventure sees the merging of two eras of Doctor Who. The Secret History sees Steven (Peter Purves) and Vicki (Maureen O’Brien) team up with the fith incarnation of the Doctor (Peter Davison). The first episode opens with a magical scene, the type that we watch […]

200. The Secret History

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I’ve always been a little reluctant to delve into the Big Finish range of The Companion Chronicles.  When it comes to Doctor Who, I prefer the live-action TV series. In the absence of that, a full-cast audio serves almost as well.  The idea of an audio with a single voice […]

CC1.01 Frostfire

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Finally reaching the end of The Mythmakers, I have to conclude that that it’s not one I could recommend to anyone.  The poor-to-horrible audio makes it difficult to understand, and the CGI animation struggles to convey what’s going on. The story itself didn’t keep […]

87. Death of a Spy, 88. Horse of Destruction

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … I watched the first two episodes of the CGI’d The Myth Makers, but I have to admit to another case of disappointment.  Again, a story I’d always wanted to watch (because of the title and the setting), but it’s not doing a lot for […]

85. Temple of Secrets, 86. Small Prophet, Quick Return

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … This final episode of is the CGI animated version created by Who Recons, with fairly poor audio. The episode ends fairly predictably, without us ever knowing enough about either the Drahvins or the Rills to get an handle on what they’re about.  The TARDIS […]

83. The Exploding Planet

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … This episode exists in its original live-action version, and it is so much better to get an understanding of what the story is all about. As much as the audio is clearer, and seeing the characters, together with the Doctor running about, what the […]

82. Air Lock

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Galaxy Four continues thanks to the CGI version created by Who Recons. With the audio getting steadily worse and the CGI animation struggling to fill in the blanks, this is a very difficult episode to get through. Fortunately, it appears that precious little actually […]

81. Trap of Steel

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Doctor Who, season 3 begins … Galaxy Four is one of the many early Doctor Who adventures that no longer exist in the BBC archives.  Other than audio-only, some enterprising fans have made it possible to “watch” the adventure.  The version I’m watching uses a version of CGI created by […]

80. Four Hundred Dawns

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The Doctor gets the Monk to lead him to his TARDIS, where they meet up with Vicki & Steven.  Hartnell is clearly revelling in working with an actor of Peter Butterworth’s standard, and is enjoying the scenes they have together. There’s talk about not […]

79. Checkmate

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … A continuation of the previous episode, with the Doctor reaching the village before Vicki & Steven.  The monk tends to one of the villagers (the monk’s “accidental” anachronisms – like mentioning penicillin, and then blood transfusions – doesn’t really do the character justice). The […]

78. A Battle of Wits

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Not the best episode, but they make up for Hartnell’s absence quite well and the cliffhanger at the end is great. The Vikings come to town (“Tell the other 10,000 to stay off-camera!”), which leads to a fairly poorly choreographed/rehearsed fight in the woods. […]

77. The Meddling Monk

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is still in a contemplative mood over the loss of Barbara & Ian.  Vicki tries to console him.  They’re interrupted by a noise from the living quarters, and they fear a Dalek got on board. The introduction of Steven […]

76. The Watcher

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