Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #469131 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Pun-ishingly good
I really enjoyed this audio story with its creepy setting in 1930s Brighton. It's a solid and dependable Earthbound mystery, which makes a change from some of the more exotic and frankly 'jargony' Big Finish audios of recent months.
Colin Baker - definitely the best audio Doctor - is on song again, as he investigates the horrible noises and eerie lights coming from somewhere under Brighton pier. With the great Roy Hudd playing music hall legend Max Miller, this is a real treat - plus it has zombies! What more could you ask for? The only fly in the ointment is the increasingly irritating sexegenarian currently hanging out with The Doctor (Evelyn Smythe) but this aside it is a fine audio with a top-notch cast firing on all cylinders.

I've got one for you
It's this new doctor who audio play, right? It's four episodes long, and it features the sixth doctor and his latest companion, evelyn smythe. They come to brighton in 1936, meet max miller, and enlist his help in dealing with some evil lurking at the end of the pier. And they manage to tie that nicely into real history.

There's some great recreation of the time period - you might want to look up the films that the character billy mentions he's been in, as you won't believe who he really is - and decent guest star acting, particularly from roy hudd playing the great stand up comic max miller.

But this one isn't as good as it could be, because the episodes are about five to ten minutes too long, and everyone spends a lot of time standing around talking about evil things without actually doing much about them. Particularly the actual villains.

So this is a pretty good story, but if it had been shorter and sharper, it could have been so much better

Mediocre, slow adventure
This story finds the 6th Doctor and companion Evelyn (who only left a couple of stories ago, but whatever) fighting against `pure evil' on Brighton Pier in 1936. Author Robert Ross has a nice setting, and a reasonable central conceit (the Doctor meets comedian Mix Miller) but sadly the actual story itself is a collection of unoriginal worn out clichés: evil aliens wanting to invade Earth, possessed characters acting like zombies, the Heroic Sacrifice of a supporting character to save the day - it's mind-numbing Doctor-Who-By-Numbers. Some reasonable performances, especially from `Hellraiser's Doug Bradley, but the unoriginal story and the slight plot stretched out over 2 hours makes this a disappointing seaside adventure.