Crashed On Dido

      Another year, another run of The Fifth Doctor Adventures by Big Finish. This time Adric is along for the ride, completing the season 19 quartet. It's a team I like to describe as a dysfunctional family, and is one befitting of the box set's title: The Dream Team .   The era-appropriate variant of the cover art, designed by Ryan Aplin. The Merfolk Murders      Tim Foley has become a regular writer on this range, previously penning The Auton Infinity and last year's Pursuit of the Nightjar - which I previously gave a glowing recommendation - expectations are set high, this time stepping away from sci-fi and placing the Doctor and his friends into a more traditional murder mystery with The Merfolk Murders .     The team find themselves at the University of St Andrews in 1940 and meet the Merfolk, a society that spends the summer reading murder mystery stories, who soon have a real murder to discuss. The society's leader Athe...

    Following on from Conflicts of Interest , Big Finish's In The Night returns to the more well-trodden ground of two and four part stories while sticking with the format of one story set out in the wider universe, with the other set in Earth's history. However, this box set flips the script, with the adventure out into space framing itself as a historical adventure of the far future, and the Earth-bound historical being contemporaneous to this era of Doctor Who . The era-appropriate variant of the cover art, designed by Ryan Aplin Pursuit of the Nightjar      The first story of this release - Pursuit of the Nightjar - is written by Tim Foley, a name I could not have been more eager to see if I tried as he was previously responsible for The Auton Infinity , a story I have made no attempt to hide as my favourite Big Finish adventure, as well as Break the Ice which is one of the best from the Ninth Doctor Adventures range. Such a thing is a double edged...