Crashed On Dido

      In the September of 2024, the Fifth Doctor Adventures range promises a six-part adventure of grand proportions, written by James Kettle. Though at the time of writing this review, The Great Beyond is still a short way off, so what better time than now to look at Kettle's previous experience writing for the Fifth Doctor with The Blazing Hour . The era-appropriate variant of the cover art, by Tom Webster.      In the far future, the planet Testament is the backbone of the human race, providing them with the vast amounts of power they need to travel the stars and continue to expand. Under pressure to keep profits going up and growing fast, an experiment is being carried out to exponentially increase its power output, an experiment that researcher Ellison believes will go horribly wrong. The Doctor and companion Turlough arrive, and before long all hell breaks loose.      The first part is a wonderful introduction to the world of the...

    As this year's run of The Fifth Doctor Adventures features the Doctor's season 19 companions, Vislor Turlough finds himself left out of the action once more, a situation all too familiar to fans of his television stories, and one that this year's entry into the Interludes series plays into. The Doctor and Tegan are out there saving the day but Meanwhile, Turlough ...   The cover artwork, designed by Rafe Wallbank.        Written by Jonathan Blum, the story drops you into the deep end of a typical Doctor Who adventure, with the Doctor breathlessly trying to explain the situation - a virus that allows victims to be remotely controlled - to the Over-Secretary, the usual  bureaucracy . Unfortunately for Turlough, the Over-Secretary is from his homeworld Trion, from where Turlough is an escaped political prisoner they'd be keen to get back. Turlough has to weasel his way out of being sent home and out of the Over-Secretary's grip, without th...