Mike
Tucker brings his skill of writing for the Seventh Doctor and Ace partnership
to the new Big Finish range of Doctor Who audios. The first episode is
a great piece of Doctor Who; exciting, mysterious and the Daleks manage
to achieve a level of scariness not achieved very often during their many
television appearances.
Episodes
two and three unfortunately don't match up to the promise of the first.
There is far too much time given over to listening to the Daleks underlining
their plans and Ace and the Doctor get very few scenes together, with Chief
Librarian Elgin (definitely a marble or two missing) stepping into the
space usually occupied by the Doctor's sidekick.
On the whole though the story works and could easily have slotted into
season twenty-six of the tv serial.
Quoted from the CD cover:
'The library on Kar-Charrat
is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but a
few select species. The Doctor and Ace discover that the librarians have
found a new way of storing data - a wetworks facility - but the machine
has attracted unwanted attention, and the Doctor soon finds himself pitted
against his oldest and deadliest enemies - the Daleks!'
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The Doctor
Ace
Bev Tarrant
Librarian Elgin
Cataloguer Prink
Dalek Voices
Phantom Voices
Writer
Director
Music
Producers
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Sylvester McCoy
Sophie Aldred
Louise Faulkner
Bruce Montague
Nicholas Briggs
Alistair lock
Nicholas Briggs
Daniel Gabriele
Mike Tucker
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Jacqueline Raynor
Gary Russell
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You can order direct from The
Big Finish Website by secure server or by mail order.
£13.99 CD, £9.99 Cassette
£1.51 additional for international shipping
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Extract from The Genocide Machine episode 1 in wav format.
Please note that to minimize
file size these extracts are mono recordings from a stereo source. The
original cd or cassette recording is of much superior quality.
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The Ruins: 28 seconds mono: zip 377kb.
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