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Doctor Who: The Doomsday Contract

by Derelict Space Sheep on January 14, 2022 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Doomsday Contract

by John Lloyd; adapted by Nev Fountain (Big Finish, 2021)

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.

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

by Derelict Space Sheep on April 6, 2016 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

by Dan Abnett (BBC Audio, 2008)

For Doctor Who aficionados this is Paradise Towers meets The Long Game, plus a satire on bureaucracy. Unfortunately, this latter element is ipso facto less than riveting, and once overcome leaves nothing but the standard Tenth Doctor recourse to resolution via knob-twiddling.