And so July 2013 brings us to the end of the second series of Fourth Doctor Adventures and the final outing for Mary Tamm’s Romana. This is also the fourth of the stories in which Tom Baker’s Doctor gets to spar with David Warner’s Cuthbert, vainglorious villain from the Conglomerate and his allies the Daleks! When…
The Fourth Doctor Adventures second series approaches the final furlong with Nick Briggs taking us back to Cuthbert and the Conglomerate with The Dalek Contract. The title evokes memory of the AudioVisuals story The Destructor Contract in which Cuthbert first appeared; beyond that this is actually the follow up to The Sands of Life (Cuthbert Annals I) and War Against the…
The Fourth Doctor Adventures continue the story started in The Sands of Life (reviewed here in The Cuthbert Annals I) with War Against the Laan again written by Nick Briggs. So far the quality of the 4DA has been very high and I was keen to know if the standard would continue. As a quick reminder, the…
Nick Briggs takes over the Fourth Doctor Adventures with the first of four stories which he writes and directs all featuring Cuthbert and The Conglomerate. For those who don’t know these are both imported from the world of AudioVisuals though unlike other AudioVisuals (e.g. Sword of Orion) it is only the character who has appeared rather than a…
Frequently voted one of if not the best Doctor Who story of all time, The Caves of Androzani is again one of those stories that I must have watched but have little memory of. As I mention elsewhere (here) I drifted away from Who in the 1980s so it is about time I re-visited this story…
