Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #375074 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

the return of tegan
An audio adventure for the fifth doctor who, in this case reunited with his tv companion tegan jovanka. actress janet fielding who played the latter has said this is the only audio she'll ever do, so this is a one off experience.

Tegan encounters the fifth doctor again, decades after she left the tardis. but one of her friends is involved with dangerous technology. and they might have met the doctor before. it's going to be a birthday to remember for tegan.

this is a direct sequel to earlier sixth doctor audio the reaping, and whilst it possibly could stand on it's own it may help to hear that one first. there are two episodes each of forty five minutes in duration, but they never feel overlong.

Plot wise this isn't quite as good as the reaping and deals mostly with loose ends from that story, but it's an engaging listen, with a great central pairing and some good supporting characters who are quite well played and written. And it follows on from the reaping in having the theme of choices. choices as in those that the people who get the chance to travel with the doctor have to make, whether it's before they join him, or when they leave.

And this is actually part of a loose trilogy because the one loose end at the end of this story ties in with an earlier seventh doctor story called the harvest. they're all well worth getting

Gathering nuts in May
The much vaunted return of motormouthed Aussie airline stewardess, Tegan Jovanka, actually turns out to be a bit of a damp squib. This audio is a sequel to The Reaping, but is nowhere near as good. The story takes place in present day Brisbane, where we meet Katherine Chambers, who left the United States and is now a doctor who also owns a pharmaceutical company. The company is of course a front for her secret plan which is to use the discarded cyber technology to try to save her brother Nate (crippled in The Reaping) and plans to create a super-computer capable of curing every illness. She happens to know Tegan who (conveniently) is a patient. Everything is going well until one day the Doctor turns up to find out what is going on...
Sadly, Janet Fielding has stated that this will be her first and last Big Finish outing and consequently the sub-plot to explain her demise is pretty poor and feels tacked on. The Fifth Doctor isn't given much scope to make an impression on the listener and the lack of actual Cybermen makes this a real disappointment.

The Gathering of Friends
Wow! When I heard a rumor, slightly over a year ago that Big Finish was negotiating with Janet Fielding for the 5th Doctor play, I was extatic but cautious because a rumor sometimes ends up being just that - a rumor. So of course I was overjoyed when Big Finish recently announced their September release includes this play and that Tegan will once again accompany the Doctor on another great adventure.
What is interesting about this release is that it's somehow linked with the 6th Doctor's play The Reaping which is also due to be released in September but days before this one.

Both plays even share similar introductions and the images on the cover appear symetrical. Another interesting fact is that Tegan shares a common friend with the Sixth Doctor's companion Peri, with the name of Katherine Chambers.

I've rated it with five stars because this is one release that a true Whovian has to have in his collection.

A must buy!