So I bought this on offer from Big Finish. It was really good. Two hours of great little stories from the 1st 8 doctors. Very enjoyable indeed. Nice bite sized stories that work very well on their own.
Doctor Who Short Trips volume 1
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I’ve been a Doctor Who fan as long as I can remember
A belated happy birthday to Peter Davidson
A happy birthday to the 5th Doctor. I think he was a very good Doctor actually, and whilst I didn’t watch all of his episodes, I’ve very much enjoyed his stuff on Big Finish, so it was very nice of them to put some of his stuff on sale for the weekend, and I picked up a few new stories.
Doctor Who Short Trips volumes 1-4
So these are the covers of the Short Trips volumes I got yesterday. These are relatively old, about 6 years I think. I’m looking forward to listening to them.
Big Finish Short Trips deal
Well the first deal today from Big Finish that was useful to me was the first 4 volumes of Short Trips. That’s a lot of stories so I thought I’d get it and give it a listen. Of course that deal has gone now, but it was a good one, or at least so I hope anyway.
I finished listening to Infernal Devices
And I really enjoyed it, enjoyed it a lot. It was a little disjointed in terms of the connection between the three stories. Even so, they were all good in their own right, each story that is. And it was a good follow on from the first story too. The cast was excellent to say the least and it was really great to hear David Warner in there with Mr Hurt.
In fact, the first story was quite unusual for a Dr Who story. I shan’t elaborate as it would really give the game away, but it revolved around David Warner’s character.
Anyway, I’m interested to hear the next set of stories in the series.
The War Doctor, Box 2 covers
Doctor Who, The Paradox Planet
Another good story in the latest 4th Dr series. I was really getting into this one when I was listening to it, then I discovered it’s a two part story! I can’t wait to find out the rest!
The War Doctor, Infernal Devices
I’ve only just got this even though it came out a little while ago, and, based on how good the first one was it should be pretty amazing actually. So I’m really looking forward to listening to it soon. Very soon I hope.
4th Doctor … The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
This really is a cracking 4th Doctor story. Just excellent. Like the old days really. A good chase around. A great villain, and I won’t say any more just in case you’re actually deciding to buy it and listen to it.
Anyway, as you can guess, I loved it.
Peladon Tales
In my ongoing plan to slowly acquire all of the 3rd Doctor DVDs, these are the two I bought next. Anyone who knows the third doctor will realise that I’m not doing this in any kind of order at all. At least, not so far. It has been a bit random, but I’ll probably start collecting in order quite soon.
However, these two stories came as a boxed set, so there was little choice in that.
The Curse of Peladon is the earlier story, and the first time that the 3rd Doctor visits Peladon. It’s a good story by any standards. Of course the production values are early 70s TV and that probably doesn’t stand the test of time. However, I really enjoyed it, especially because one of the main characters is played by the son of the second Doctor.
The second story was right at the end of Mr Pertwee’s time as the Doctor. It is another good one, in my view, and again, I enjoyed it a lot.
At some point I’m going to go through all of the 3rd Doctor stories in order, when I’ve got them of course, and that will be truly epic.
I am Ashley Elsdon 