Doctor Who: The Doomsday Contract
by John Lloyd; adapted by Nev Fountain (Big Finish, 2021)
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Originally commissioned during Douglas Adams’ tenure as script editor, The Doomsday Contract exhibits a Hitchhiker’s tonality but without quite the same zest. Tom Baker gives it some welly but the denunciation of bureaucracy via reductio ad absurdum seems a bit old hat.