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The Third Doctor Adventures. 7.1 The Unzal Incursion Liz Shaw launches Hotspur, a new system to detect alien threats. The Fulcrum facility is training new recruits. An alien race call the Unzal is in contact with people on Earth and when Unit personal start turning against their superiors, The Brigadier, Doctor and Liz find themselves alone and on the run… With the main cast all being played by different actors, you might think Is it time to stop? but it still works. The accents are all played a little upper class and maybe they were but its just more noticeable when you’re anyalizing them. Liz Shaw does get a better chance to shine in this one. She starts off as the main scientist, with the Doctor looking on. What’s more at one point in the script she says, When did I stop being call Doctor Shaw, so righting some wrong there. This has all, the right ingreidents for a third Doctor story, the music, action, chases aeroplanes etc. It is a bit like the Torchwood plot where the heroes and ...
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Doctor Who The Companion Chronicles 8.1 Mastermind This is set in the Vault, with Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato, played by Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Tee Tso, better known for their roles in the TV Movie as Grace and Chang Lee. This audio is slightly unusual for a companion chronicle as it also stars Geoffrey Beevers as the Master. The Vault, if you’re not aware, is a UNIT  facility holding alien artefacts; its Ruth’s and Charlies job to guard it. It is a follow up to the Tales of the Vault, the earlier Companion Chronicle. I say that but they have featured in another audios. The Master is a resident of the Vault, only waking an hour every five years, and precautions have to be taken. They take the opportunity of his waking to find out how he ended up I the Vault. The Master narrates his life existing on Earth in his decayed form. With the cast doing different voices for the people the Master talks about, its easy to forget this is a companion chronicle and not a full cast audio. Esp...
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Doctor Who  The Lost stories Operation Werewolf This was one of those audios I’d seen, didn’t know much about but wanted to listen to. Micheal Troughtons 2nd Doctor I’ve quite enjoyed, so that was another draw for me. The Tardis team of the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe, arrive in Normandy a couple of days before D-day. They soon get separated, meet the resistance, Nazi’s, get brainwashed, and find the Nazis are developing Transportation equipment - so just the usual day to day stuff. Operation Werewolf, if you didn’t know was a plan by the Nazis to put agents behind enemy lines, so this runs with that idea. Its started well, but I lost interest as it went along. I went to a convention recently and Nick Briggs commented that, people complain that there are audios where not much happens, and that, that’s how the stories were. With this though I wasn’t gripped, I didn’t feel the story driving forward. There are some nice sequences, but I did have to remind myself of what the story was about....
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Blakes 7 Crossfire 2 4 The Scapegoat The Liberator crew are in the market for guns. However the old president is still clinging on to the idea of regaining power, and there a video of Villa confessing to his crimes, but that’s not Villa… It feels like a fairly normal set up, a contact the crew can buy the weapons from, a seemingly ordinary planet, the federation - or at least the old president lurking about and with that video of someone claiming to be Villa, is this a trap? After a bomb explodes it turns into one of those stories where everybody is separated and nobody is sure whose still alive. Each member gets to do something, some more than other perhaps, but it feels often the case where charter get sidelined since there’s no room for them to be in the plot. The old president is trying to kill two birds with one stone, regaining power and discrediting the Liberator crew. Its something Tarrant has to argue with a citizen about - that they aren’t terrorists but freedom fighters. Vil...
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Star Cops  Mother Earth The Ten Thousand Ton Bomb Devis interrupts a Mother Earth fanatic while planting a bomb, giving the Star Cops an opportunity to send Paul Bailey undercover in the operatives place. Nathan isn’t having an easy time either, the new station the Vasco da Garma, is about to have its grand opening, with all the dignitaries and security it involves. Things don’t go well uncover for Paul back on Earth, the audio starts with him getting a beating, you do feel for him. There is that tension of wondering whether he’ll get found out and if he will survive if he does. On the plus side Pal turns up, working security on her new job since leaving the Star Cops. I discovered while writing this that Linda Newton would have featured more but they were unable to track her down. With only two of the originals its nice to have her here. As usual there is more to whats going on than meets the eye. Moments of danger, and people wanting to discredit the ISPF. An enjoyable audio.
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Blakes 7 Crossfire 2 3 Erebus While working on Orac, Avon has discovered information, federation plans that could be of great use, all they have to do is obtain the disc on the planet Erebus. Erebus is where the old president is currently residing, and its Villa and Tarrant that have to go to the trouble of locating the data. As they do it occurs to the rest of the crew its all a little to easy, might it be a trap? It is! It comes early in the plot, and I’m not sure is was a good idea. It is a bit of a Blakes 7 trope all the effort they go through to end up no better off than they started. Knowing this so soon in the audio, take away a bit of the tension - you know its all for nothing. Dayna is somewhat uninvolved - I’m assuming due to taking the lead in the last episode, but it does feel conspicuous. There’s a lot of asking left or right in the script, so much so that at one point they even reference Stealers Wheel. And Avon being duped so easily is a bit out of character, but then Av...
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 Doctor Who Unbound Masters Of War This continues the from Sympathy for the Devil; David Warners ‘unbound’ 3rd Doctor and the Brigadier arrive on an alien planet where the Daleks are ruling the locals. The city it turns out is a Thal settlement on Skaro. The Daleks and Thals living together, albeit with the Daleks in occupation.Its not something we’re used to, so its in interesting spin on the idea. The Thals have a resistance which the Doctor befriends. David Warners Doctor is a little dry, but I’m surprised at how easily he’s ‘The Doctor’. Though he was introduced Sympathy For The Devil, there’s no need for a  ‘getting to know him’ period, but maybe its David Warner - such a great actor. As we find out more about this Skaro we hear videos of Dalek propaganda which features Davros - played by Terry Malloy, and he does it so well. Its the second half where he actually appears in person. And we get the Doctor meets Davros for the first time (well in this universe anyway),...
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