William Russell

Domain of the Voord continues in the same way as the first episode and played out largely like a typical “First Doctor Adventure”.  We do lose Barbara and the Doctor for the biggest chunk of the middle of the story, and Ian and Susan are separated.  Ian gets thrown in […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episodes 2-4

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The TARDIS lands on a sailing ship on an alien world that is mostly ocean, with one major land mass (this isn’t Marinus).  At first taken for stowaways, and then spies, and then sources of information, The Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan become separated from the TARDIS when they’re taken […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episode 1

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Following on from its sixth segment, Short Trips (Volume 3) from Big Finish again continues with a short interlude which is, this time, narrated/voiced by William Russell who does a fair job with Hartnell’s voice.  The First Doctor (with Susan) befuddles the android with a simple trick – the android is […]

Short Trips, volume 3 : segment 7

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Short Trips (Volume 3) from Big Finish begins with a short 5-minute piece narrated/voiced by Nicholas Briggs.  The 7th Doctor and Ace are in a gray space, where everything is gray, and there’s no sign of the TARDIS. There’s a gray door guarded by a gray android. The Doctor tells […]

Short Trips, volume 3 : segment 1

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The second adventure in the sixth series of Big Finish‘s range of Doctor Who Companion Chronicles is performed by William Russell.  The Rocket Men is very much a “first era” adventure, from a time before the series knew what was to come with Time Lords, Gallifrey, and all the other […]

CC6.02 The Rocket Men

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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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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … After Ian rescues the Doctor, what follows is an episode of everyone sitting around waiting for the plot to unfurl around them.  A rather muted end to a rather muted story. The Doctor comes up with some gadget doohicky reason for the “time track” […]

69. The Final Phase

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