Tag: Nigel Fairs

Doctor Who: The Time Vampire

Doctor Who: The Time Vampire

by Nigel Fairs (Big Finish, 2010)

Audio drama cover: “Doctor Who: The Time Vampire” by Nigel Fairs (Big Finish, 2010)

Two episodes of untethered timey-wimeyness, deliberately written to be explicable only in retrospect. All very clever, but it doesn’t make for a great listen. Louise Jameson narrates as Leela, and she and John Leeson play all the parts (including a sketchy Doctor).

Doctor Who: The Abandoned

Doctor Who: The Abandoned

by Nigel Fairs & Louise Jameson (Big Finish, 2014)

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A superbly imaginative and dark concept, engendering a bottle episode that would have topped the TV ratings. The story, however, has too ambitious and disorientating a visual element for audio. The production lets the script down by not streamlining its cacophonous madness.

 

 

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