Foe and Valley – Lost Stories with the Doctor and Leela 10/24 of Tim Bradley’s Amazon Advent Calendar 2014This review is for Timelord 007, who is a Tom Baker fan of `Doctor Who’.I enjoyed this box-set of audios from Big Finish very much. I bought this in April 2013 to celebrate the Tom Baker era of `Doctor Who’ for the 50th anniversary.I was delighted to hear back in 2011 that Tom Baker would be returning to do some Big Finish audio adventures with the Fourth Doctor. I hadn’t realised though that there would also be an additional box-set of adventures with the Doctor and Leela as part of the `Lost Stories’ range. This was really exciting as we would get to hear two original stories meant for television made into audio. Not only that, but they would be full-length adventures with Tom Baker’s Doctor. This really pleased me as I was disheartened about `The Fourth Doctor Adventures’ being single CD releases with two-part stories in them. This was different with this box-set and because they were original stories and it felt like `Saturday Teatime in 1977 all over again!’This is a 6-disc CD box set. The two stories are `The Foe From The Future’ and `The Valley of Death’. ` There’s also a bonus disc containing CD interviews with the cast and crew.I was delighted to hear Tom Baker and Louise Jameson as the Doctor and Leela again. It feels very full of Tom Baker stuff in both adventures for `Doctor Who’ fans. I’ve recently had the CD box set cover of `The Fourth Doctor Box Set’ signed by Louise at a convention in Brighton.`THE FOE FROM THE FUTURE’The Foe From The Future’ is a epic six-part adventure spread across the first three discs of this CD set. This first story in the box-set is a thrilling, exciting adventure from the mind of Robert Banks Stewart, adapted by John Dorney. It’s pretty violent and brutal in places but it’s very engaging and action-packed. It’s probably my favourite of the two stories from this box-set.Robert Banks Stewart wrote for `Doctor Who’ during the 1970s, penning the classic Tom Baker stories and . This story `The Foe From The Future’ was meant to be the season finale of Tom Baker’s third season in `Doctor Who’. But due to other work commitments, Robert Banks Stewart wasn’t able to complete the story and had left a note to script editor Robert Holmes apologising that he couldn’t complete it. So instead of finishing the story himself, Robert Holmes replaced `The Foe From The Future’ and came up with `The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ as the season finale.Many years later, Big Finish decided to adapt `The Foe From The Future’ into an audio drama for the Lost Stories range. With consent and agreement from Robert Banks Stewart, John Dorney was chosen to turn this six-part TV story into an audio drama. John Dorney became popular with Big Finish over the years in terms of writing and acting, and was indeed a fitting choice to adapt Stewart’s story into audio. John took on the challenge with great enthusiasm and manages to echo the spirit of the TV stories by the original author including `The Seeds of Doom’.John had a challenge when it turned out Part Six was never written by Robert Banks Stewart as he only completed the first five episodes and left it on a cliff-hanger. So Part Six is written entirely by John Dorney from Robert Banks Stewart’s notes. John made a conscious decision of setting this story directly before `The Talons of Weng-Chiang’.`The Foe From The Future’ is a story set in the contemporary society of 1977 were this story to be made for television. The Doctor and Leela come to the village of Staffham in Devon, England. Something odd is going on, as the village is haunted by the mysterious goings-on of a strange mansion in the heart of the countryside. The manor called the Grange is run by the mysterious Professor Jalnik who nobody’s never seen.Determined to solve the mysterious apparitions of highwaymen and claviers appearing out of thin air, the Doctor and Leela get caught in a web of events as Earth’s history is unravelled. Can they stop the cannibalistic menace of Jalnik before it time runs out?The influence of this story is very Robert Banks Stewart as John Dorney intended for it to be when adapting the story into audio. The contemporary atmosphere is very evident in this story as was in `Terror of the Zygons’ and `The Seeds of Doom’. The action-packed aspects of the story are very well-handled and there’s also the familiar element of nastic horrific and brutal violence in the story as Robert Banks Stewart is very well known for which put me in mind of `The Seeds of Doom’.There’s also the time-travel elements which are handled very well and if this story were made it would have…
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Foe and Valley – Lost Stories with the Doctor and Leela 10/24 of Tim Bradley’s Amazon Advent Calendar 2014This review is for Timelord 007, who is a Tom Baker fan of `Doctor Who’.I enjoyed this box-set of audios from Big Finish very much. I bought this in April 2013 to celebrate the Tom Baker era of `Doctor Who’ for the 50th anniversary.I was delighted to hear back in 2011 that Tom Baker would be returning to do some Big Finish audio adventures with the Fourth Doctor. I hadn’t realised though that there would also be an additional box-set of adventures with the Doctor and Leela as part of the `Lost Stories’ range. This was really exciting as we would get to hear two original stories meant for television made into audio. Not only that, but they would be full-length adventures with Tom Baker’s Doctor. This really pleased me as I was disheartened about `The Fourth Doctor Adventures’ being single CD releases with two-part stories in them. This was different with this box-set and because they were original stories and it felt like `Saturday Teatime in 1977 all over again!’This is a 6-disc CD box set. The two stories are `The Foe From The Future’ and `The Valley of Death’. ` There’s also a bonus disc containing CD interviews with the cast and crew.I was delighted to hear Tom Baker and Louise Jameson as the Doctor and Leela again. It feels very full of Tom Baker stuff in both adventures for `Doctor Who’ fans. I’ve recently had the CD box set cover of `The Fourth Doctor Box Set’ signed by Louise at a convention in Brighton.`THE FOE FROM THE FUTURE’The Foe From The Future’ is a epic six-part adventure spread across the first three discs of this CD set. This first story in the box-set is a thrilling, exciting adventure from the mind of Robert Banks Stewart, adapted by John Dorney. It’s pretty violent and brutal in places but it’s very engaging and action-packed. It’s probably my favourite of the two stories from this box-set.Robert Banks Stewart wrote for `Doctor Who’ during the 1970s, penning the classic Tom Baker stories and . This story `The Foe From The Future’ was meant to be the season finale of Tom Baker’s third season in `Doctor Who’. But due to other work commitments, Robert Banks Stewart wasn’t able to complete the story and had left a note to script editor Robert Holmes apologising that he couldn’t complete it. So instead of finishing the story himself, Robert Holmes replaced `The Foe From The Future’ and came up with `The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ as the season finale.Many years later, Big Finish decided to adapt `The Foe From The Future’ into an audio drama for the Lost Stories range. With consent and agreement from Robert Banks Stewart, John Dorney was chosen to turn this six-part TV story into an audio drama. John Dorney became popular with Big Finish over the years in terms of writing and acting, and was indeed a fitting choice to adapt Stewart’s story into audio. John took on the challenge with great enthusiasm and manages to echo the spirit of the TV stories by the original author including `The Seeds of Doom’.John had a challenge when it turned out Part Six was never written by Robert Banks Stewart as he only completed the first five episodes and left it on a cliff-hanger. So Part Six is written entirely by John Dorney from Robert Banks Stewart’s notes. John made a conscious decision of setting this story directly before `The Talons of Weng-Chiang’.`The Foe From The Future’ is a story set in the contemporary society of 1977 were this story to be made for television. The Doctor and Leela come to the village of Staffham in Devon, England. Something odd is going on, as the village is haunted by the mysterious goings-on of a strange mansion in the heart of the countryside. The manor called the Grange is run by the mysterious Professor Jalnik who nobody’s never seen.Determined to solve the mysterious apparitions of highwaymen and claviers appearing out of thin air, the Doctor and Leela get caught in a web of events as Earth’s history is unravelled. Can they stop the cannibalistic menace of Jalnik before it time runs out?The influence of this story is very Robert Banks Stewart as John Dorney intended for it to be when adapting the story into audio. The contemporary atmosphere is very evident in this story as was in `Terror of the Zygons’ and `The Seeds of Doom’. The action-packed aspects of the story are very well-handled and there’s also the familiar element of nastic horrific and brutal violence in the story as Robert Banks Stewart is very well known for which put me in mind of `The Seeds of Doom’.There’s also the time-travel elements which are handled very well and if this story were made it would have…