
2004
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3.46
Average Rating
33
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"Twelve stories of excitement and adventure in distant times and places!" - BBC Audiobooks (July 19, 2004) The Curse of Peladon by Brian Hayles read by Jon Pertwee (featuring the 3rd Doctor and Jo Grant) On a primitive planet, the Doctor and Jo encounter a delegation of aliens, including the Ice Warriors. Kinda by Terrance Dicks (read by Peter Davison) (featuring 5th Doctor, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa) A serpent at the heart of paradise poses danger for the TARDIS crew and a human survey team. Attack of the Cybermen by Eric Saward, read by Colin Baker (featuring the 6th Doctor and Peri) The Cybermen are intent on a plan to change history... by crashing Halley's Comet into Earth. Out of the Darkness
- read by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant Three gripping original short stories featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri. • Moon Graffiti by Dave Stone The Doctor and Peri become caught up in one of humanity's final fights for survival in the far future,battling against the all consuming power of the pararachnids... • Wish You Were Here by Guy Claperton The Doctor investigates the disappearance of an old friend in an alien holiday camp. Is Lakksis, the cheery robot redcoat, as innocent as he seems? • Vigil by Michael Collier When the Doctor and Peri arrive in Hastings, hideous deaths begin to occur. Can they really be linked in some way to a little girl in a coma? Short Trips - read by Nicholas Courtney and Sophie Aldred • Degrees of Truth by David A. McIntee (featuring the 3rd Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) Following the Devil's End incident, the Brigadier is contacted by Major Carver, the father of a young private who was vapourised by the gargoyle Bok. Carver demands to know why his son's body was never recovered, and, sympathising with his grief, the Brigadier allows Carver to accompany him to UNIT for a talk. • Freedom by Steve Lyons (featuring the 3rd Doctor, Jo and UNIT) An army of hypnotised salespeople storm Stangmoor Prison, attempting to rescue the Master. • Glass by Tara Samms (featuring the 4th Doctor and Romana II) An ordinary woman in Cambridge is haunted by the vision of an evil little boy's face which appears to her in every pane of glass she sees. By the time the Doctor and Romana show up, she's nearly gone mad with fear. • Model Train Set by Jonathan Blum (featuring the 8th Doctor) The Eighth Doctor isn't satisfied with his model train set any more, as it was built by his seventh incarnation as a model of clockwork timing, and that just isn't him any more. • Old Flames by Paul Magrs (featuring the 4th Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith) The TARDIS materializes near an 18th-century manor, where the Doctor nearly drowns in a frozen lake while following giant cat footprints. • Stop the Pigeon by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry (featuring the 7th Doctor and Ace) The Doctor and Ace investigate a missing tree in a housing development in Croydon, but Ace is attacked by a terrified man who's been transported through time twice for no reason he can think of. At that moment a talking pigeon arrives and transports both Ace and the man, Joe Dakin, through Time. The pigeon is part of a Virgoan probe, an emissary of a species of biomechanical shape-shifters who travel the galaxy trying to sort out temporal irregularities, and Joe Dakin is just such an irregularity. Incidental music from the original TV stories is also included. For PC and Mac users, this MP3-CD also features a special TARDIS-themed viewer screen, images from the original series, excerpts from other Doctor Who CD releases, web links and additional features.
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