Category Archives: Reviews

Week 49b – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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It’s New Year’s Eve today and it’s time for the second audio CD featuring the new TARDIS team of the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Marc, starring Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding and George Watkins. It’s time for two stories in this CD collection, including ‘Interstitial’ and ‘Feast of Fear’. Continue reading

Christmas DVD Review – ‘The Princess Bride’

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I’ve seen the movie ‘The Princess Bride’ on DVD! My best mate Stephen gave this to me for Christmas this year! I vaguely heard about the movie beforehand and believe I saw a little bit of it on TV once. Now I’ve seen it in full and had a really good time with it. It’s a good fairy tale comedy film! Continue reading

Week 49a – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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At last! We’re here with the first of the latest trilogy of ‘Doctor Who’ audios by Big Finish featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan. Today, it’s time for my ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review on the two-part bumper episode story called ‘Tartarus’ by David Llewellyn. 🙂 Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘The Second Oldest Question’ (Doctor Who)

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As we approach the end of 2019, it’s time for another ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review. Today, we’re on one of the latest ‘Doctor Who’ Short Trip audios by Big Finish, read by Sarah Sutton. I’m happy about this! 😀 It’s time for ‘The Second Oldest Question’ by Carrie Thompson. It stars the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Continue reading

Christmas DVD Review – ‘The Dog Who Saved Christmas Collection’

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Last year, my parents and I saw the ‘Santa Paws’ trilogy on DVD for Christmas. This year, my parents and I saw ‘The Dog Who Saved Christmas Collection’ on DVD for Christmas. My cuddly toy dog Cuddles saw these movies too! Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘Short Trips: Volume I’ (Doctor Who) UPDATED

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I’ve updated and extended my reviews on the ‘Short Trips: Volume I’ CD collection of ‘Doctor Who’ stories by Big Finish. This is part of the 2019 mini review season for ‘The Nyssa Challenge’. I decided to update my eight reviews on the eight stories in the collection since my original reviews weren’t that great. Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’

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We continue this year’s ‘Nyssa Challenge’ mini review season by looking into another collection of ‘Doctor Who’ short stories. Today, we look at ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’. This is a collection of 15 short stories as well as 15 essays looking into the scientific aspects of the ‘Doctor Who’ TV series. Continue reading

TV Review – ‘Call the Midwife’, Christmas Special 2019

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I hope everyone enjoyed themselves on Christmas Day! I certainly did with the presents I received and spending time with my family. I also enjoyed the things I watched on DVD and Blu-ray. Christmas Day was also a nice time to see the latest ‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas Special on BBC One at 7.30pm. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’

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As part of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ today, I’ve added my reviews on the rest of ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’. This includes stories from various ‘Doctor Who Annuals’ read by various ‘Doctor Who’ actors. These include Peter Purves, Anneke Wills, Geoffrey Beevers, Matthew Waterhouse and Nicola Bryant. Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘Doctor Who Annual 1983’

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And welcome back to ‘The Nyssa Challenge’! Yes, that’s right! It’s that time again to do another mini-season of ‘Doctor Who’ reviews on the latest Nyssa stories. This will be for the Christmas week in 2019 leading into the New Year of 2020. The stories reviewed will be mostly short story collections and Big Finish audios. They will include the audios that were released from September to November 2019. Continue reading