Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Two more wonderful stories.

Tom Baker has said that he enjoyed working on The Ark in Space more than any other story, and it's easy to see why – several good actors to play against, grand sci-fi concepts, action, mystery...

It's basically the best subset of classic Doctor Who.

The Sontaran Experiment is fun and interesting, and it left me wanting more – I'm very glad they decided to make a 2 episode story this season.

I say that there's nothing to deal with, but that's an over simplification. Prior to the audio dramas starting, there were:

• 40 books published featuring the 8th doctor's adventures, set directly after the TV movie
• Two *separate* series of comic strips, a total of 20 stories.

But for the most part you can just say that the order of the stories is:

1. The Movie
2. Books
3. Comics
4. Audio Dramas

and each of those is completely separate

What makes these especially interesting is that the writers have free reign: with the other Doctors, all the stories have to somehow fit in with the established timeline shown on TV, but the only 8th Doctor TV story was the movie, which showed the first few hours of his life, and ended with him leaving alone in the TARDIS. There's no sequence of companions to deal with, and there's no difficulty adding in an essentially infinite number of adventures set after the movie

I've finished a few more audio dramas since I last posted an update, 2 of which (The Holy Terror and The Mutant Phase) were very good.

But, exciting news: the next audio dramas in the list are ones starring Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor.

I'm really looking forward to these, I love (what little I've seen of) Paul McGann's portrayal of the Doctor, and I'm eager to see where this series takes the character.

I'm going to be doing option 2 – the situation with audiobooks is much simpler than the situation with audio dramas.

Plus: if I'm in the mood for listening to an audio drama, I'm not necessarily in the mood for an audiobook, and I think that probably applies to other people too.

Plus plus: I can also make a list for the novels this way, without making it difficult for people to also find the audiobooks.

nya!

good nyorming!

The original version of the sylvester McCoy title sequence cost £20,000????

holy moly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjwasdw9Kb0

Which should I do:

option 1: Add the audiobooks to the list, thus meaning I have to re-do all the segment numbers

option 2: Add the audiobooks to a seperate page, with notes about which segments they should be in

option 3: do nothing

hmmm..... maybe I *should* add the original-to-audio audiobooks to this list...