Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #512040 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-06
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Back from the dead
As Scaroth said, this is a first-rate Big Finish audio adventure, and superior to its companion piece 'Project Twilight'. Strong performances, a coherent script and an enigmatic villain; oh and two incarnations of the Doctor, well that's just the icing on the cake.

And now, a review for THIS story!
"I'll survive Doctor, I always do". So speaks the enigmatic `Nimrod', when The Doctor encounters him once more in disturbing circumstances...Despite the somewhat grating presence of The Sixth Doctor's sexagenarian companion, Evelyn Smythe, the 45th original audio drama from Big Finish is an entertaining and well-produced yarn, featuring The Doctor's latest nemesis: Nimrod. First encountered in the play: `Project: Twilight' he is a vampire-human hybrid; masterminding the unearthly experiments being conducted at nefarious secret organisation: `The Forge'. Unusually, this double CD contains two separate but linked stories featuring two different Doctors. In the first, The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on an unnamed planet and meet their old friend Cassie, a reluctant vampire. They soon discover that she is working for Nimrod, who captures The Doctor and attempts to force him, through torture, to regenerate, in order that Nimrod might learn the secrets of The Time Lords' greatest achievement. The second disc introduces The Seventh Doctor who arrives at The Forge only to realise that Nimrod is now conducting cloning experiments using DNA from The Sixth Doctor which he acquired whilst torturing him...
The second disc is more satisfying; the first merely setting the scene for the events which will be played out on disc two. Baker and McCoy reprise their now familiar roles as The Sixth and Seventh Doctors, whilst Stephen Chance provides a very `Masterish' villain with the amoral `Nimrod'. Maggie Stables is less irritating than usual as Evelyn and the rest of the cast are competent, particularly Adam Woodrofe's `Sergeant Frith', who has more depth than it seems at first. The story is bog-standard but is by no means dull and the production is as good as ever.

I'll survive Doctor...I always do
"I'll survive Doctor. I always do."

Unfinished business.

A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.

A hunter longs for recognition and power.

A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.

And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...

Welcome to the Forge.

A sequel to Project: Twilight, this story once again pits Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor and Sylvester McCoy's Seventh incarnation against the enigmatic and morally ambiguous vampire hunter Nimrod, played by Stephen Chance and his unwilling protege, Cassie.

Somewhat experimental in nature - the way it incorporates two incarnations of the Time Lord - the story is listenable to but basically nothing to write home about.