The Pescatons
The Doctor and Sarah arrive on the fog-shrouded coast of England and are attacked by a monster roaming the dunes. Several local expeditions in search of a meteorite that fell into the nearby Thames have gone missing, and when the Doctor investigates he discovers that earth is once more facing invasion, but this time from the nasty aquatic Pescatons from the planet Pesca. The Doctor visited Pesca long ago and knows that their leader, Zor, is the key to their power, but Zor himself holds some sort of mesmeric influence over even the Doctor, and the invasion commences.
This was actually the first Doctor Who adventure to be recorded on audio; done in 1976 by Argo records and starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, The Pescatons is a two part adventure only recently re-released under the BBC Audio banner.
And it's kinda lame.
It's got all the elements there with the fourth Doctor and Sarah as a team, there's an invasion, there's monsters.... but it doesn't hold together very well with such a minimal cast (the only other character to have a voice is Zor, everything else is narrated by Tom Baker). Standards at the time were a bit different than today with Big Finish churning out adventure after adventure, so the sheer novelty of having Doctor Who on an LP was probably the big selling point.
The script was delivered by Victor Pemberton, and elements of his 1968 adventure, Fury From The Deep, can be found here, right down to the Doctor playing a piccolo when he finds himself getting edgy. There are always going to be niggling points with dialogue, but I have to ask why Pemberton had Sarah ask the Doctor how old he was when just a few stories ago in Pyramids of Mars he revealed his age at around 750 years. And why is Sarah called Sarah Jane all of a sudden? And what's up with the wierd materialization sound of the TARDIS? And when did the fourth Doctor visit Pesca without Sarah? Questions abound.
No good answers mind you.
Onwards.
NEXT EPISODE : SYSTEM SHOCK
This was actually the first Doctor Who adventure to be recorded on audio; done in 1976 by Argo records and starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, The Pescatons is a two part adventure only recently re-released under the BBC Audio banner.
And it's kinda lame.
It's got all the elements there with the fourth Doctor and Sarah as a team, there's an invasion, there's monsters.... but it doesn't hold together very well with such a minimal cast (the only other character to have a voice is Zor, everything else is narrated by Tom Baker). Standards at the time were a bit different than today with Big Finish churning out adventure after adventure, so the sheer novelty of having Doctor Who on an LP was probably the big selling point.
The script was delivered by Victor Pemberton, and elements of his 1968 adventure, Fury From The Deep, can be found here, right down to the Doctor playing a piccolo when he finds himself getting edgy. There are always going to be niggling points with dialogue, but I have to ask why Pemberton had Sarah ask the Doctor how old he was when just a few stories ago in Pyramids of Mars he revealed his age at around 750 years. And why is Sarah called Sarah Jane all of a sudden? And what's up with the wierd materialization sound of the TARDIS? And when did the fourth Doctor visit Pesca without Sarah? Questions abound.
No good answers mind you.
Onwards.
NEXT EPISODE : SYSTEM SHOCK
Labels: Sarah Jane Smith, The 4th Doctor
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