Tag: Steven Pacey

The Zygon Who Fell To Earth

Doctor Who: The Zygon Who Fell To Earth

by Paul Magrs (Big Finish, 2008)

Audio drama cover: “Doctor Who: The Zygon Who Fell To Earth” by Paul Magrs (Big Finish, 2008)

 

A pleasantly small-scale invasion story with a focus on relationships, humbugged somewhat by overtly manipulative, aggressively heart-rending incidental music. Steven Pacey is a welcome addition to the voice cast, as is Tim Brooke-Taylor in his one, gloriously understated appearance for Big Finish.

Doctor Who: The Kairos Ring

Doctor Who: The Kairos Ring

by Stephen Gallagher; read by Steven Pacey (BBC Audio, 2021)

Audiobook cover: “Doctor Who: The Kairos Ring” by Stephen Gallagher; read by Steven Pacey (BBC Audio, 2021)

A novelette that would have benefited from a longer treatment. Gallagher is an accomplished writer peddling a nifty idea, but Romana has too little involvement (especially for a Doctor-less story) and the threat, having been built up, is vanquished rather too easily.

Doctor Who: Terminus

Doctor Who: Terminus

by Stephen Gallagher, writing as John Lydecker (Target, 1983); audiobook read by Steven Pacey (BBC, 2019)

Lydecker, John_Terminus

Gallagher’s second Doctor Who script gave rise to a gloomy, layered production rich in scenario and comparatively nuanced in its characterisations. The subsequent novelisation, far from the undemanding walk-through that young readers had come to expect from Target Books, proves equally accomplished.