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My review of the Big finish Doctor Who audio #86; The Reaping. Featuring Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri is now available at Amazon.com here.
This adventure leads directly into The Gathering which I will review at a later time. Suffice to say this is one of the best audio episodes featuring the Doctor and Peri that you will hear.
My Review of the Big Finish Doctor Who adventure Year of the Pig, featuring the 6th doctor and Peri is available at Amazon.com here.
It’s not one of the best adventures of the batch but still worth a look
Via the Corner the Daily Mail reports that the Rani will return to try to befuddle the new 11th doctor:
The 40-year-old is expected to play a Time Lady, the Rani, a glamorous but evil scientific genius, reprising a role played by actress Kate O’Mara in the 80s.
A source told the Express: ‘Gillian obviously has a massive sci-fi following and it’s felt it would be a major coup to have her appear in Doctor Who.
Gillian refers to Gillian Anderson of x-files fame. The story is also picked up by the telegraph as well so perhaps it is more reliable than the Joan Collins story from 2007.
I always liked the character of the Rani, lets see if she is half as good as Kate O’Mara.
Planet of the dead was a pleasant combination of comedy, drama and out of space adventure which had all the elements that makes Doctor Who fun. A familiar face, a dashing new character, comic relief and a big moral choice by the last character you would expect to have to make it.
The doctor finds himself on a bus with an assorted group of humans (shades of the God Awful episode Midnight) but lucky for us the similarities end there.
However the action begins with a robbery and the escaping thief getting on the bus before him with the police in pursuit. Luckily or unlucky for the thief the bus ends up through a wormhole and presto we are on a desert planet.
And if the potential of starvation or lack of water isn’t enough lets add a group of alien parasites ready to eat them.
And of course you get a voice menu system when you call unit.
David Tennant is his normal brilliant self, Michelle Ryan goes the excellent job as the Lady Christina. The rest of the cast is brilliant too but the real star of the show doesn’t appear till about half way in. Lee Evans as Dr. Malcolm Taylor who absolutely steals the show.
This show was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to see it on a proper TV set but in the US they tend to cut these shows a bit. So I’d watch it on the BBC site or if you can’t get the proxy server working try here.
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