Like, here's the actual thing word for word:

"we had been locked in mental battle, as the mighty zor had struggled to absorb my knowledge of the galactic universe and solar system.
However, my resistance was more than the pescaton leader had anticipated, and his mental pressure was no match for the special powers I had been gifted with.
I found my way back to the surface, and escaped from the evil that had almost engulfed me on the planet of pesca."

(my editor brain really wants to fix that first sentence too... why is it "had"??? it should be "we were locked in a mental battle, as the mighty zor struggled to absorb my knowledge")

The Doctor: But what if my plan didn't work? Hadn't Zor proved himself to be invincible and all powerful?

um... no? There was no proof of that.

Also, the Doctor keeps saying that the Pescatons are evil, which.... feels really out of character.

also, Sarah Jane and the Doctor are simultaneously acting like they've been travelling together for ages AND like they've only barely met each other.

alright, now that's finally finished…

my main question is... how did this happen? How did the writer (who had written for Doctor Who before) end up writing something that was so garbage?

How did the producers not notice that something was wrong?

How did Tom Baker narrate and perform this without going "hold on a minute, this doesn't feel right."

Doctor Who and the Pescatons is, almost certainly, the worst Doctor Who story I've had the displeasure of experiencing

I've had to add a "don't listen" category to my guide, JUST for Doctor Who and the Pescatons.

I strongly suspect that it will be the only story on this page to get a "don't listen".

https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/audio-guide/#segment-1

I'm still looking for the following BBC audio dramas:

• Slipback (1985)
• The Paradise of Death (1993)
• The Ghosts of N-Space (1996)

If anyone knows of a way to get them (even if it's "pirating"), I'd appreciate it.

(I'm also looking for a way to get the BBV audio dramas, but I suspect that's going to be much more difficult, especially since BBV no longer exists.)

(I should say that while I am willing to pay some amount, I'm not willing to pay very much – I've heard that Slipback is really bad, and I've heard nothing about the other two.)

The Audio Dramas I was looking for are available on audible, which is something at least.

A friend gifted me a copy, so I'll be listening to them shortly...

I listed to the first episode of slipback – it's not amazing, but it's so much better than Doctor Who and the Pescatons... if only because it is internally consistent... and doesn't have terrible grammar... and has good performances... and is augmented by background music...

2 episodes in, and I actually don't know why it got such negative reviews... it doesn't really feel like Doctor Who, but it's not as horrible as I was lead to believe

I finished slipback. It basically answered the question "What if Doctor Who was written in the style of Hitchiker's Guide?"

The answer to that is "it would feel anticlimactic and not actually be that funny"

ok, I made a table of contents.

And I'm convinced it's completely useless – in order to use it at all, you need to know what you're already looking for, and then read through a list of 259 different segments. It would be easier to just search the page.

Coming up soon is Bernice Summerfield Series 1, and I want to know if Bernice Summerfield is the kind of thing I want to listen to. So I have 2 options:

Option A – buy Series 1
Option B – buy "Bernice Summerfield – The Story So Far", which is intended to be a good introduction to the range.

(continued...)

It makes more sense to get The Story So Far (especially since I have that advice in my guide) but:

Series 1 is 6 stories (2 hours each) for $50
The Story so far is 3 stories (1 hour each) for $20

Now, obviously $20 will be better if I don't like the series. But if I *do* like the series, $50 for 12 hours is way better value than $20 for 3 hours.

(oh yeah, and the $50 price for series 1 is for the CDs, including delivery, whereas The Story So Far is a download.)

The page is now significantly updated!

It's prettier, it's been proofread, and it has easy navigation between segments!

https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/audio-guide/

(I also listened to The Paradise of Death, which was good)

I've now ordered Bernice Summerfield Series 1... hopefully I enjoy it

Listening to The Ghosts of N-Space... it's weird to have a Doctor Who story that explicitly states that there is an afterlife, and that ghosts really are dead people coming back to try and fix what went wrong.

@lizardsquid Were the pescatons the ones who asked help? If so, why would they do that?

Is the doctor ever established as a mental powerhouse?

@BatElite yeah, the pescatons asked for help, and then when the Doctor refused (it's never explained why he refuses to help) their leader tries to have a mental battle with him.

And then the doctor just walks away, I guess??? I don't even know

@BatElite oh, and yes – timelords are established as having strong mental powers fairly early on in the series. In Season 1 of the TV show, in fact!

@lizardsquid Slipback and The Ghosts of N-Space are both on Audible.

@lizardsquid oh. As is Paradise of Death, but it's further down the search page than I was looking thanks to the Death In Paradise series of novels.

@lizardsquid
City of Death is same style but better (and actually script edited by Douglas Adams)

@DialMforMara I'm looking forward to it!

@lizardsquid she's basically the prototype for River Song, so I'm hoping so

@lizardsquid So The Story So Far is a synopsis of half the stories? Or shorter edits?

But if I know you you'll want to have as full a grasp as possible for you recommendation thing, and I'm guessing if you liked TSSF you'd want Series on afterwards, making $70?

I don't know what your finances are like at the moment but it seems expensive to me either way... :/

(Also weren't you looking out for when a shop got some other Dr Who thing back in stock?)

@lizardsquid I suppose it depends on what you're trying to go for with it? Are you going to try and judge it?

I don't know, heck.

@BatElite oh sorry, that is unclear!

The Story So Far is a specially released collection of brand-new stories, that are set at various times throughout the history of the show. It's designed to help get newcomers into the show, without being overwhelmed by the 21 seasons that have already been released