Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #372895 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-31
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

fast train to terror
Onboard a spaceship at the edge of the solar system, there is a door. People are hearing things. And this makes them desperate to go through the door. To whatever lies beyond..

The sixth doctor is aware that something is very wrong in the universe. So he heads to the ship to investigate.

And his investigation takes him to a steam train in the 1950's, which has a very important passenger on board...

The aim of this story is to put the doctor into a situation that he can't understand or control, and see how he reacts to it. And it succeeds in that respect, the doctor being almost as terrified of what's going on as the humans who are facing it with him.

You spend three episodes wondering what's beyond the door. The answers, when they come in part four, do at first feel familiar to certain tv stories, but then develop further into something rather unique. Although you may have to think a while about them, and certainly about how things are resolved.

And after that comes a powerfully emotional tardis scene with the doctor and evelyn trying to deal with what has just happened. It's memorable stuff, and it's a pretty good story

Nowhere near as good as you might hope
A mysterious door and the sound of a bell ringing, lead the Doctor and Evelyn from a spaceship in the year 2197 to a train in 1952. Why does Evelyn keep hearing the words 'Time's End'?
Not as intriguing as that little plot summary suggests; The Nowhere Place is one of Colin Baker's weaker audio outings as the nomadic Timelord.

The Nowhere Place
'The Nowhere Place' is essentially a spooky story in space, with a mysterious door periodically opening and drawing the crew of a spaceship through it into...nowhere. A nicely bizarre offbeat idea, though sadly this is one of those Big Finish stories that doesn't quite have enough ideas for a double-CD play: once the initial premise is set up the entire first disc consists of the Doctor and companion Evelyn getting arrested, locked-up, running around in circles without advancing the play anywhere. It's not until disc 2 that we get some variety with a side-trip to a 1950's locomotive before the story is wrapped up in a mass of technobabble. All in all though this story is still recommended for it's originality - it just takes it's sweet time getting anywhere...