Customer Reviews

he's back - By: Paul Tapner, 24 Aug 2008
eighth & final audio playin the current series of adventures for paul mcgann as the eighth doctor who & sheridan smith as his companion lucie miller. who share an excellent chemistry together & are a delight to listen to.

this one runs for forty seven minutes or so, & the disc concludes with roughly twenty minutes of interviews with cast & crew.

this play follows on from the end of the previous one, sisters of the flame, & although there is a lot of information given at the beginning that might help new listeners understand what is going on you are better off having heard the previous playin order to get the most out of it.

and what's going on can be seen from the title of the disc. someone is trying to bring back evil time lord morbius, last seenin the fourth doctor story the brain of morbius broadcast on the bbcin 1976 & released on dvd this year.

but you don't need to have watched that to get into this.

over the course of the episode the doctor & lucie attempt to foil this, escaping death traps, disregarding the laws of timein a wonderfully cavalier manner, & launching desperate & daring plans. the pace never lets up for a moment & it carries the listener along, not least thanks to some wonderful dialogue for the leads.

it even manages to be quite epicin scope evenin scenes where there are three characters standing reacting to thingsin a room.

and it ends on a big cliffhanger. you may think you will see the cliffhanger coming, but even then things develop. & a powerfully emotional scene follows. but make sure you keep listening to the end of the disc.

thank goodness the inlay says there will be another season next year. this is a very good end to a strong audio season