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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. With the Dalek Invasion of Earth, or The War Games, you’re there, feeling the tension, will they get caught? Are they going to defeat the bad guys? Whereas with this, stuff happens.


There are a few twists, but none of them really come to anything. There is another Doctor - a scientist that been sent over, so just mistaken identity. Jamie meets a possible descendant, but nothing remarkable.


Its 6x25 minutes episode, and a nice touch is the episode title being read out. The 25 minute episode lenght has been kept to, and I do think that helped. Being able to stop at a convent place is a bonus with the cliffhanger reprise. And some episodes in other audios have been very long.


Some of the British upper class accents are a little off - putting an R in office. And a German using the American pronouncation of laboratory.


I did have to remind myself that this was a lost story not part of the ongoing 2nd Doctor series.


Others seem to have quite enjoyed this, but for me it lacked a little oomph.

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