What did people make of the first box set? I get the impression this is more of a zombie invasion style story.
I'll be curious to get them as I'm somewhat of a completionist when it comes to the 8th doctor, though I wouldn't be surprised if he is only in one story in each set.
The Zygons have come to claim the Earth, and this time they're playing the long game. For the Black Cadre have a plan, a plan that will take exactly one hundred years to come to fruition.
From the streets of St Petersburg to the plains of Death Valley, the Zygon Century continues...
1922: The Black Cadre by Jonathan Barnes
From Munich to Dublin to an asylum in Dartmoor, the Zygons have agents everywhere, and their plans are growing in scope and ambition.
Can Herbert Scott, that long incarcerated investigator of the occult, do anything to stop them? Is his rescuer - the German heiress, Ilse Lange - all that she seems? And why are the Black Cadre so interested in a mysterious carnival, travelling the wilder reaches of the Cornish coast?
1968: An Incident in Death Valley by Lauren Mooney & Stewart Pringle
Fleeing her brutal human captors, and in hiding from the Black Cadre, the Zygon Vorvoren arrives at a run-down diner in the bowels of Death Valley. There, she finds a friend in Junie, a young waitress, and a town terrorised by a ruthless cult.
But just who is their mysterious leader, 'The Arkon'? And could he really hold the key to Vorvoren's liberation and revenge?
1974: The Caldwell Restitution by Ken Bentley
Agent Caldwell has been posted to the British Embassy in Moscow and ordered to investigate a rising star of the Communist Party. But Caldwell is a shadow of his former self, plagued by nightmares of the past and misty visions of the future.
As the Third Doctor enters the fray, human and Zygon plots collide, and Caldwell's visions threaten to endanger the world. Though neither man can remember the other, can the Doctor and Caldwell put a stop to the Zygon Century, once and for all?
From the 2019 Eighth of March special…
Leela to River Song:
“You have the spirit of a warrior and the hair of a two-year-old girl.”
Beat THAT, Reddit. I dare you…
Hi all, after finally deciding on getting the 11th Doctor range, I'm now in search of the very illusive 'Victory of the Doctor' box set.
Banging my head against the wall as I was going to purchase this when it originally released. I've now learnt my lesson!
If anyone is selling one, or knows someone this is/will be, please would you get in touch 🙂
Hoping to purchase one at a reasonable price.
I've been searching for months now 😔🫠
Thank you 🤞🏼
The Doctor and Peri are reunited with an old friend - or is he an enemy? Turlough insists he's changed since they last met. The trouble is, so has the Doctor, and he's not inclined to trust his one-time companion.
As they travel through Stuart England, Medieval France and Viking Denmark, can they forge a new relationship - or will Turlough's secrets force them further apart?
The Reckoning by Nev Fountain
When the TARDIS is stranded in the path of a neutron star, the Doctor, Peri and Turlough have to flee. They end up in seventeenth-century London, where another old friend, Christopher Marlowe, is trying to get out of a pact he's made. Marlowe's soul is on the line - but has Turlough also made a deal with the Devil... again?
A Crucible of Queens by Lizbeth Myles
In the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt, the Doctor and Turlough find themselves aligned with opposing factions. Turlough befriends Charles, the Dauphin of France, while the Doctor is tasked with healing his father, King Charles VII. But two powerful women are also in play: the Dauphin's adviser Yolande, Duchess of Anjou, and his estranged mother, Isabeau of Bavaria.
Can the TARDIS crew keep both queens happy - and keep their own heads?
The Curse of the Duergar by Julian Richards
Shieldmaiden Hervor braves the ghosts of her ancestors to claim her birthright, the sword Tyrfing. Made by the Duergar, the Dwarf kings of the below, the blade is cursed: once drawn, it must kill. Even the Doctor cannot resist the power of the sword, and to the horror of Peri and Turlough, he is forced to take a life...
Now if only Braxiatel was also in it!
I've wanted an easy way to rank all of the companions, and most websites just have either only New Who or only TV and they were ranked in a system of brackets, neither of which is what i wanted, and I recently found the website stor and so I made a quiz with every companion I can find / know.
to rank click: here
WANRING!: this takes a long time there are 171 companions.
My top 5 were:
Bill
Jamie
Jack
Evelyn
Steven
So I am starting some Torchwood audios and 15 minutes into the Conspiracy and it seems very different from the Doctor's audios. I have listened to a bit of the 8th Doctors but this seems so different. The 8th Doctor's dramas is like a tv show in audio form, but so far this seems like a book trying to be a Audio drama and not fitting quite well.
I suppose my question is, is it always like this? Just seems so clunky to Listen to even though im only 15 minutes in. Or does it become better over time?
I’m currently having a full relisten through of Jago and Litefoot from the start (still just as good on 2nd listen!)
When I get to the end of series 13 is the best listening experience to go to Series 14 narrated stories rather and the J&L Forever?
I remember J&L Forever being issued first following Trevor Baxter’s death, but as I recall the narrated series 14 picks up the cliffhanger from series 13. So I’d imagine listening order should be:
13=>14=>Forever
even though that’s not how there were released.
Does anyone who’s listened to it recently agree?
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If I had a million dollars I would make this story happen, but as it stands the idea is far too weird to ever be made.
It's called Colin Baker Unbound.
In the story a Faust-eaque villain is defeated by The Seventh Doctor. It then travels to the real world where it offers real life Colin Baker the chance to go back and continue his tenure as The Doctor without being fired by the higher ups.
Now our real world Colin Baker navigates this new timeline where he played the character for longer than any other actor but the show itself stagnated until the show was unceremoniously canceled in 2005 in the middle of a season. The BBC doesn't even bother to air the final parts of the current story. The very story where the big bad from earlier originates from.
Now in the present day Unbound Colin Baker tries to self fund a recreation of the final episode with the help of the only actor he could afford. A young man named David Tennant who never quite broke into the limelight in this timeline.
What do you think. Could this be... the dumbest story ever pitched?
Hopefully this doesn't fall under the piracy rule, as they were never full stories uploaded, but has anyone else noticed that a lot of the CGI scene reactions on YouTube have vanished?
Its not all of them, and a lot of the recons using action figures have survived, but Fraust66's videos all appear to have vanished, and at least one other animator who did scenes from Jubilee.
Is this due to a Big Finish or BBC Worldwide crackdown or just a couple of YouTubers coincidentally deciding to take down their work at similar times? Or is it just some new eccentricity of YouTube search function?
