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The Hollows of Time (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories) [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Christopher H. Bidmead
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Big Finish Productions Ltd (28 Feb 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844354474
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844354474
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 404,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By Victor HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
This is the fourth in the series of productions from Big Finish bringing scripts originally written for Colin Baker's sixth Doctor on TV but never made to life. It's a worthy enterprise, and some interesting nuggets have been brought to the surface. But some scripts were ditched because they just weren't much good, and this, I am sorry to say, is one of them and might have been better left lost.

That isn't to say there is nothing to enjoy here. Most of the actors turn in excellent performances, and Colin Baker in particular is a lot of fun. The feel of the eighties series is also recreated well. However, the plot, involving the tractators last met in `Frontios' and attempts by an evil genius villain to build a quantum gravity thingamajig is messy and confusing. It reminds me of all that was worst about Baker's doctor, and really does not work for me.

One for the fans I think. The casual listener would be better off starting with the excellent `Leviathan' or `Paradise 5' from the same series.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of Mr Bidmead's better efforts 2 April 2010
The synthesized pan-pipe music, so beloved of 1980s' TV sci-fi, immediately dates this full-cast audio adventure, and informs the listener that this is very much a period piece. Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor - having had a rennaisance on audio since he was ditched by the BBC - has a script that highlights all his incarnation's verbal pomposity and intellectual arrogance, and doesn't really showcase his characters' more appealing side at all. Peri, his 'assistant' (as they called the Time Lord's travelling companions then) has little of interest to do, especially as the story is told in flashback, and she spends most of it quizzing The Doctor about the events in Hollowdean. Most grating though is Susan Sheridan's impersonation of an eleven year old boy, Simon; incredibly the extras at the end of disc 2 feature several actors and crew (including Baker), raving about the actress' uncanny ability to speak like a pre-pubescent boy, but for me, Sheridan's puffed-up squeak is one of the things that is wrong with this story.

The potentially impressive but ultimately disappointing alien presence 'The Tractators' are brought back for their second Doctor Who appearance, but if anything they are even less-impressive this time around. The creatures are only ever referred to by other characters and never encountered alive, and one wonders why writer Chris Bidmead didn't make more of his creations. Overall this is a slow and disappointing installment in what has been on balance a very impressive series, and I just hope that PJ Hammonds' Paradise 5 (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories) provides a tonic to its predecessor's moribund production.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I am not the master and you will obey me 21 Mar 2010
By Paul Tapner TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Another Doctor who audio play in the lost stories range, which takes scripts from the mid 1980's that never got to the screen during Colin Baker's time in the role and brings them audio.

In this one the Doctor and Peri have been on holiday in a small English village where an old friend of the Doctor's lives. But they can't remember exactly what happened. Thinking hard they piece together a tale of strange experiments, sand creatures, and people devoted to a mysterious professor.

What exactly happened in the village?

The story would have featured the Doctor's arch enemy the Master had it been done on tv, but rights issues meant the character couldn't be used here. The character of the main villain of the piece does remain rather hidden throughout. If you spend your time thinking of them as the master, you might get distracted. But think of them as an engima and it works better.

It also features the Tractators, who were previously seen in a fifth doctor story on tv. Although they don't play as a big a role as you might expect.

Unfortunately, despite some quality performances from the cast, this one doesn't quite work.

The extras acknowledge that the first episode was too long to begin with, but even having been edited down slightly it still comes in at almost sixty minutes. And it takes a long time to get going. The flashback structure, with the tardis crew trying to work out what happened, was an addition to make this work on audio, but it does take a little getting used and it slows things down to begin with.

As do the scenes of the Doctor and Peri exploring and nothing much sinister happening. Only at the end of the episode do things really get going. Whilst the cliffhanger is very imaginative, the other big problem comes in here in that it's a very visual script so it doesn't have the impact it could.

Episode two is fifty eight minutes long and gets the story moving along okay, but with visual moments, one key scene happening in reported dialogue, and some time twisting moments you might have to struggle to keep up with, this is again one that might be better visually.

Not a terrible story by any means, but just not the strongest in the range.

There are fifteen minutes worth of interviews with cast and crew at the end of each disc. The ones on disc one are worth listening to for some interesting insights into the writing process for this range. And the ones on disc two for the full story of the villain in this. One point in these will make you say 'oh of course!' as one clever bit of writing is explained.

There's a trailer for Paradise 5 (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories) at the start of disc. Hopefully it will be a stronger release.
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