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The Pursuit Of The Nightjar


Doctor Who : The Fifth Doctor Adventures - In The Night



The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan arrive on a ship, to the Doctor’s delight the ship is the Nightjar. The tale the Nightjar is one the Doctor heard many years ago, and is the stuff of legend. Captain Gobin’s 3 year solo mission to take medical supplies to a war torn colony, followed by the Nemesis, itself crewed by captain Eslo, trying to stop him. As the Doctor knows Gobin succeeds and his act ends the war, that is until the TARDIS materialises.


I won this cd in a raffle at the Big Finish Day in Derby, the the Fifth Doctor is kind of my Doctor. I always seem to look forward to his releases more than others.


This is the kind of story I really enjoy - a space one. But not the Star Wars kind, more the 2001/ Alien type. A lone ship in the desolate depts of deep space, though this isn’t quite the hard core level those are - this is Doctor Who after all.


This is a fixed event story, so what happened has to happen, and of course what drives the plot is the fact that it would appear that it isn’t. There is something the Doctor picks up as not right - its ore of a backgound element as trying to keep the ship going is the main focus.


For the most part its just the three member of the TARDIS in this. There are the two captains Gobin and Eslo, though they’re minor parts, but are the key part of the story. The limited cats does help with the nature of the audio.


Tegan seems a little more timid, not so much the ‘mouth on legs’ maybe with the Doctor and Nyssa being the brains she’s a bit out on her own and befriends a drone like robot.


I really quite enjoyed this, it held my attention, had moments of tension and danger and a few reference to the past. Its not the most stand out story, but does everything right. My only criticism would be that I did see the resolution coming sometime around part two, but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment as there was another unexplained strand that wasn’t quite what I though it would be.

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