Tag Archives: Jonathan Morris’

Doctor Who: The Entropy Plague, Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Mark Strickson, Alastair Mackenzie, Catherine Skinner, Robert Duncan, John Voce, Chris Finney.

Decay is a state of mind for which even The Doctor struggles to hold back at times, the sheer weight of history acting as a melancholic anchor for him to grasp hold of when all is against him. His collection of travellers past and present, those he has lost, those he has loved, all acting as the living embodiments of the Memento Mori he carries around with him in his little blue box; decay is something he runs from, never looking back, never going back for old companions in case he sees the futility of life. Entropy in the end is the toughest enemy The Doctor has and one that he cannot hope to defeat forever.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Last Of The Colophon. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Gareth Thomas, Jane Goddard, John Voce, Jessica Martin, Blake Ritson.

The last of any species is one that surely deserves to be preserved for as long as possible, especially when they are the cause of the extinction of their entire race.

The Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Colophos, a dead, seemingly barren world which is just dust and sand. The chance to relax is offered but there is something deadly lurking in the background and the Doctor and Leela, along with the crew of the survey ship The Oligarch have to fight for their lives against an enemy who revels in being unseen.

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(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: 1963: The Space Race. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish 179.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Karen Henson, David Shaw-Parker, Tom Alexander, Stuart Denman, Samantha Beart.

If the end of the 1960s was the supposed era of free love, enlightened thinking, ugly military intervention and the culmination of the space race between the Soviet Union and The United States then the beginning of the decade could be viewed as calculated insanity, a planet being taken to the absolute brink, musical genius, a steel nerve by undoubtedly the finest President in 20th Century America and the start of the sprint to be on the moon first.

Doctor Who: 1963: The Space Race. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish 179. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Fate. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 174.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, Sarah Douglas, Alistair Mckenzie, Anjella Mackintosh, Jez Fielder.

Never mind a woman scorned, when a Tardis gets rejected, she really does have a long time to brood and plot her revenge on the one person she has bonded with, namely the Doctor.

Doctor Who: Prisoners Of Fate. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 174. full post

(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Spirit Trap. Series One, Big Finish. Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Janet Henfrey, Lex Shrapnel, John Ainsworth.

The third instalment of Jago and Litefoot’s adventures in the dark world that shrouds the Victorian era takes a spiritual turn in the Jonathan Morris’ The Spirit Trap.

This penultimate story of Series One sees a slightly reduced cast from the previous two episodes tackle the Victorian world of spiritualism that has been captured in everything from romance, crime, even Victorian Lesbian drama and whilst not hitting the heights of the opening couple of tales in which Gordon Henry Jago and Professor George Litefoot have become institutions to the world of Doctor Who, is an interesting take on the field and one that is enjoyable and worth being involved in the initial series.

Jago And Litefoot, The Spirit Trap. Series One, Big Finish. Audio Play. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)