 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Dr Who the Time Vampire CD (Dr Who Big Finish Companion) (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Latest Doctor Who companion chronicle. These are a range of talking books that feature an actor who played a companion to the Doctor on tv returning to the role to read an all new story for their character. These are usually two part stories complete on one disc with the main actor reading the narration and doing all the voices save for one which will be done by a guest actor.
This one sees Louise Jameson return to the role of Leela, who she played opposite Tom Baker's doctor back in the 1970's.This is the third companion chronicle she'd done, following The Catalyst (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles) and Empathy Games (Dr Who Big Finish Companions). The three form a loose trilogy, as an aged leela who is prisoner of evil aliens waits for death and tells tales of her past. But there's enough exposition in this that you don't need to have heard the other two in order to get into it.
The two episodes on this one run for roughly thirty five minutes each. Leela tells of how the Doctor decided to build a new version of K9 when the original began to act erratically [a bit of continuity that never really needed to be filled in] and how she and the robot dog encounter a strange etheral creature inside the TARDIS that sends them and the Doctor careering through time.
Thus the bulk of the first episode has them going all over the place into strange situations trying to understand what is going on. This could get confusing but it hooks the listener and makes you want to know what will happen next and what the ultimate explanation is. All this leads to a decent cliffhanger as the Doctor realises they've landed in the middle of a very bad day.
There's more of the same in part two. The phrase 'timey wimey' coined by the new series, is an apt description. Guest voice actor John Leeson returns to the role of K9 and also voices another character who is well written with some believable motivation. The creature that is causing this is well created via good music and sound that makes it sound like something from realms beyond what we'd know.
The last ten minutes of part two have to wrap up the story and finish this trilogy also. They do this in a very neat manner that will make you want to listen to the cd again as you'll now see it in a different light. And it's also rather moving at times. Although it can feel like it goes on for a little bit too long.
But all in all a clever little bit of Doctor who and a fitting end to Leela and this trilogy.
Theres a trailer for the next story in the range after part two, and four minutes of chat with cast and crew right after that. Although that track being just 3;56 minutes long means they don't get the chance to say quite as much as you might like.
This one sees Louise Jameson return to the role of Leela, who she played opposite Tom Baker's doctor back in the 1970's.This is the third companion chronicle she'd done, following The Catalyst (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles) and Empathy Games (Dr Who Big Finish Companions). The three form a loose trilogy, as an aged leela who is prisoner of evil aliens waits for death and tells tales of her past. But there's enough exposition in this that you don't need to have heard the other two in order to get into it.
The two episodes on this one run for roughly thirty five minutes each. Leela tells of how the Doctor decided to build a new version of K9 when the original began to act erratically [a bit of continuity that never really needed to be filled in] and how she and the robot dog encounter a strange etheral creature inside the TARDIS that sends them and the Doctor careering through time.
Thus the bulk of the first episode has them going all over the place into strange situations trying to understand what is going on. This could get confusing but it hooks the listener and makes you want to know what will happen next and what the ultimate explanation is. All this leads to a decent cliffhanger as the Doctor realises they've landed in the middle of a very bad day.
There's more of the same in part two. The phrase 'timey wimey' coined by the new series, is an apt description. Guest voice actor John Leeson returns to the role of K9 and also voices another character who is well written with some believable motivation. The creature that is causing this is well created via good music and sound that makes it sound like something from realms beyond what we'd know.
The last ten minutes of part two have to wrap up the story and finish this trilogy also. They do this in a very neat manner that will make you want to listen to the cd again as you'll now see it in a different light. And it's also rather moving at times. Although it can feel like it goes on for a little bit too long.
But all in all a clever little bit of Doctor who and a fitting end to Leela and this trilogy.
Theres a trailer for the next story in the range after part two, and four minutes of chat with cast and crew right after that. Although that track being just 3;56 minutes long means they don't get the chance to say quite as much as you might like.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
The television Doctor Who stories Underworld and The Invasion of Time have some great ideas, but are ultimately poor products because of production values and inconsistencies. The Time Vampire, therefore is perhaps cursed for being set between these two stories. There are some good concepts introduced in the first episodes (as with Underworld) but episode two becomes incomprehensible and perhaps needed to be visual rather than audio.
The author clearly admits in the interview afterwards that it was his intention for this story to be listened to more than once to fully understand it, however it just simply is not interesting enough to bother, unlike say later complex narrative stories such as Peri and the Piscon Paradox (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles) or The Rocket Men (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles).
Louise Jameson is a talented actress and her narration and different accents are the only good thing you come away with from this. K9 is not liked by everyone, and this story will do no favours for the companion.
This is a story not to be recommended to newcomers to Companion Chronicles. I may have the fourth Doctor as my favourite and the only Doctor Who model in my lounge is a K9 one, but I think Big Finish need to forego any K9 stories for the next 5-10 years and focus on the Hartnell companions which in the last two years has proved very successful.
I want to give this story 2 stars, but it is from a weaker era of the programme, and perhaps ironically, there is some unintentional homage as this weak and incomprehensible story is just like The Invasion of Time. For that reason, and for the pleasure of listening to Jameson, I will elevate my score to three, as perhaps when I do eventually relisten, I will as the author eludes get more out of this, although in reality I am sure the relisten is supposed to be soon after the first. .
The author clearly admits in the interview afterwards that it was his intention for this story to be listened to more than once to fully understand it, however it just simply is not interesting enough to bother, unlike say later complex narrative stories such as Peri and the Piscon Paradox (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles) or The Rocket Men (Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles).
Louise Jameson is a talented actress and her narration and different accents are the only good thing you come away with from this. K9 is not liked by everyone, and this story will do no favours for the companion.
This is a story not to be recommended to newcomers to Companion Chronicles. I may have the fourth Doctor as my favourite and the only Doctor Who model in my lounge is a K9 one, but I think Big Finish need to forego any K9 stories for the next 5-10 years and focus on the Hartnell companions which in the last two years has proved very successful.
I want to give this story 2 stars, but it is from a weaker era of the programme, and perhaps ironically, there is some unintentional homage as this weak and incomprehensible story is just like The Invasion of Time. For that reason, and for the pleasure of listening to Jameson, I will elevate my score to three, as perhaps when I do eventually relisten, I will as the author eludes get more out of this, although in reality I am sure the relisten is supposed to be soon after the first. .
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
In a story that sees our heroes investigating a tempera incursion Leela initially confronts a constantly changing face coming out of the console as featured in the cover illustration in a sequence that is a worthy precursor to the subsequent adventure. Leaving the confines of the TARDIS Leela and K9 encounter a group of tourists strolling around an ancient ancestral house. A seemingly innocent initial scene develops well with the sudden removal of the roof of the royal gallery hall and Tripods like machines appear causing chaos and death on those below. Now it is good having a knowledgeable tour guide on hand to convey historical details of the area with John Leeson doing worthy double duty as both K9 and the Dutch inflected tour guide Holland. Additionally I like the initial inclusion of orange haired woman tourist Vara which affords Louise to demonstrate her talent for rendering a believable Irish accent. The second episode takes our intrepid trio to an adjacent Znai sky city where the dramatic tension and excitement of this title strengthens greatly. Once again it is another impressively commendable performance by Louise Jameson whose measured emotively passionate vocal delivery to the scripted lines is an absolute joy. The main selling point naturally will undoubtedly be the first audio story appearance of K9 rendered by original vocalist John Leeson whom also succeeds in the ultimately chilling Holland. At 73mins in length supplemented by 5 mins of CD extras accomplished audio story writer Nigel Fairs has crafted another pleasing premise suitably embellished by worthy sound design and with two actors on such fine form this is certainly one of the strongest most satisfying Companion Chronicles titles you will find in the range. THE TIME VAMPIRE is a very enjoyable title that I unreservedly recommend you nab a copy of this impressive audio story.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
