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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

by John Nathan-Turner and David Roden (BBC, 1993)

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A 14-minute charity special mashup with EastEnders seems a rather sad way for Doctor Who to have celebrated its 30th anniversary. The interchanging multi-Doctor, multi-companion plot is impossibly silly, but amidst all the rattling snippets some of the acting is surprisingly good.

 

 

42 Word Review: Doctor Who – The Nemonite Invasion by David Roden

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Doctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion

by David Roden (BBC Audio, 2009)

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Donna is afforded some romance but this WWII base under siege story is otherwise unremarkable; worse, its narrative throws off sparks of cliché and relies on the Doctor having wilfully unleashed an already contained menace (which he then — brainwave — seeks to re-contain).