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Doctor Who The Early Adventures

3.4 - The Sontarans


The Doctor, Steven and Sara arrive on an asteroid. They find a group of Space Security Service people, but they appear to be from an earlier time than Sara. Otherwise its just the little matter of the Sontarans…


The mission of the SSS is to destroy a space cannon to allow human passage through the system. With the TARDIS crew getting involved, and the Sontarans aren’t making it easy.


I have heard a few audios with Steven and Sara, and I’ve enjoyed them. Though the stories are placed right in the middle of the Daleks Masterplan and it does stretch believability a little, but any fan of Big Finish isn’t going to let that be an issue.


There is a feel of the first Doctor era, where it took time for the adventure to take place - the journey during Marco Polo for instance. In avoiding he Sontarans they descend into a creator, travel though caves (a little reminiscent of that part in ‘The Daleks’). There’s the usual perils, danger, getting separated, the thought that one may have been killed etc.


With Dan Starkey as the voice of the Sontarans - a modern era actor, you might feel that it doesn’t quite fit in with the 60’s Doctor who. Likewise I kept thinking whether this story suited the style of stories from that period, but the fact is that I enjoyed it, and that’s what mattered.

A thumbs up from me.

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