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Post by omega on Jun 17, 2018 23:58:01 GMT
DOCTOR WHO - MAIN RANGE » 79. NIGHT THOUGHTS Released February 2006Synopsis'I warn you, things could get very nasty here before they get better.' A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. Hex, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed by the nighttime appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition. Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed, preferring to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit. And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life. Written By: Edward Young Directed By: Gary Russell CASTSylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace); Philip Olivier (Hex); Bernard Kay (Major Dickens); Joanna McCallum (The Bursar); Andrew Forbes (Dr O'Neil); Lizzie Hopley (Sue); Ann Beach (The Deacon); Duncan Duff (Joe Hartley)
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Post by omega on Jun 18, 2018 0:01:42 GMT
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Post by Hieronymus on Jun 18, 2018 3:01:15 GMT
One of the creepiest DW stories ever done.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jun 18, 2018 7:38:52 GMT
Brilliant
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 18, 2018 7:57:06 GMT
One of my favourites, tense, atmospheric, dramatic, terrifying & one hell of a ending, this story would never see the light of day on tv, this is R rated Doctor Who & i loved every single second of it.
5/5.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 18, 2018 8:20:15 GMT
*Will you walk into my Parlour"
Proper Gothic Chills, Excellent performances by the leads and Lizzie Hopely in particular (one of her earliest BF Credits?)
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Post by omega on Jun 18, 2018 8:26:45 GMT
*Will you walk into my Parlour" Proper Gothic Chills, Excellent performances by the leads and Lizzie Hopely in particular (one of her earliest BF Credits?) Regards mark687 She was a former companion in Terror Firma, the only performed story with Gemma Griffin. |
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Post by omega on Jun 18, 2018 8:33:55 GMT
A properly atmospheric piece that loses a bit of the atmosphere at the end when the explanations need to come. All the tropes of a haunted house (isolated location, group of people with a dark secret, a couple of wildcard characters, a killer using a costume to off other characters, secret lab), but you get so creeped out that it doesn't matter. Add to that the taxidermy, traditionally an unnerving decoration anyway, which provides the killer with a perfect hiding place in plain sight.
The horror movie twist ending is out of nowhere.
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Post by sherlock on Jun 18, 2018 9:10:27 GMT
A creepy, atmospheric horror story. Some of the temporal explanations at the end kind of spoiled the atmosphere, but the final scene...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 10:07:33 GMT
Night Thoughts is one of the best Big Finish Seventh Doctor stories ever... and brilliant to listen to on a cold winter's evening.
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2018 11:55:39 GMT
I bought this one in the Hallowe'en sale one year and listened to it late at night, on Hallowe'en, alone in a dimly lit room... I'm sure my hair actually tried to stand on end a few times!  Great acting and some genuinely chilling moments, if there's a scarier Doctor Who audio than this, I've not heard it.
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Post by Ela on Jul 5, 2018 20:09:51 GMT
*Will you walk into my Parlour" That part rather cracked me up.  It was an interesting concept and story, but not one that totally convinced me. Still an entertaining listen. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 7:42:47 GMT
This had so many great ideas and was genuinely quite creepy.I really enjoyed it it was the first one i had listened to that had included hex and i really enjoyed the character in fact it reminded me of all that was great about Sapphire and Steel on tv.small locale group of people and very atmospheric
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 6:33:11 GMT
Was it 2006?
my first introduction to BF found on a shelf in Forbidden Planet and never looked back.I would go in every week and see what else they would have?I had never heard of Hex and was interested in his character from what I got from this audio although I knew Phil from days on Brookside
genuinely unnerving tale and quite adventurous for BF would they get away with it nowadays I don’t know.Brilliantly atmospheric and creepy and a great one for cold dark nightstick still remain a firm favourite even to this day.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 7:26:15 GMT
I bought this one in the Hallowe'en sale one year and listened to it late at night, on Hallowe'en, alone in a dimly lit room... I'm sure my hair actually tried to stand on end a few times! Great acting and some genuinely chilling moments, if there's a scarier Doctor Who audio than this, I've not heard it.
Have to agree I don’t think I have heard a creepier tale and full of horror moments that would make HAMMER be proud,but also a great cast with distinguished vocals no wondering who said what.From the moment the Tardis crew step out the doors the claustrophobic atmosphere of the island sets in.Brilliant and to th9nk he never wrote another Edward Young Lizzie Hopley is the only one of the cast (apart from the regulars)who did more BF she is a brilliant writer too. |
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Post by slithe on Jan 1, 2021 13:33:26 GMT
I bought this one in the Hallowe'en sale one year and listened to it late at night, on Hallowe'en, alone in a dimly lit room... I'm sure my hair actually tried to stand on end a few times! Great acting and some genuinely chilling moments, if there's a scarier Doctor Who audio than this, I've not heard it.
Have to agree I don’t think I have heard a creepier tale and full of horror moments that would make HAMMER be proud,but also a great cast with distinguished vocals no wondering who said what.From the moment the Tardis crew step out the doors the claustrophobic atmosphere of the island sets in.Brilliant and to th9nk he never wrote another Edward Young Lizzie Hopley is the only one of the cast (apart from the regulars)who did more BF she is a brilliant writer too. This is genuinely one of the creepier Doctor Who stories I've listened to. It is well scripted and well casted with the regulars and guest cast well served here. I put this at the beginning of the move towards the more 'Darker' 7th Doctor - I always get the feeling that the Doctor knows more than he lets on with this and leaves Ace/Hex to pick up the pieces. The Doctor is also quite keen to start playing mind games with Hex here... Manipulative streak shines through here. Very good. Could easily be adapted as a TV episode. |
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Post by theillusiveman on Jan 1, 2021 13:41:17 GMT
Have to agree I don’t think I have heard a creepier tale and full of horror moments that would make HAMMER be proud,but also a great cast with distinguished vocals no wondering who said what.From the moment the Tardis crew step out the doors the claustrophobic atmosphere of the island sets in.Brilliant and to th9nk he never wrote another Edward Young Lizzie Hopley is the only one of the cast (apart from the regulars)who did more BF she is a brilliant writer too. This is genuinely one of the creepier Doctor Who stories I've listened to. It is well scripted and well casted with the regulars and guest cast well served here. I put this at the beginning of the move towards the more 'Darker' 7th Doctor - I always get the feeling that the Doctor knows more than he lets on with this and leaves Ace/Hex to pick up the pieces. The Doctor is also quite keen to start playing mind games with Hex here... Manipulative streak shines through here.
Very good. Could easily be adapted as a TV episode.Ironic because its actually based on an unmade McCoy Script predating The Lost Stories Range by about 5 years |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 13:47:47 GMT
Have to agree I don’t think I have heard a creepier tale and full of horror moments that would make HAMMER be proud,but also a great cast with distinguished vocals no wondering who said what.From the moment the Tardis crew step out the doors the claustrophobic atmosphere of the island sets in.Brilliant and to th9nk he never wrote another Edward Young Lizzie Hopley is the only one of the cast (apart from the regulars)who did more BF she is a brilliant writer too. This is genuinely one of the creepier Doctor Who stories I've listened to. It is well scripted and well casted with the regulars and guest cast well served here. I put this at the beginning of the move towards the more 'Darker' 7th Doctor - I always get the feeling that the Doctor knows more than he lets on with this and leaves Ace/Hex to pick up the pieces. The Doctor is also quite keen to start playing mind games with Hex here... Manipulative streak shines through here. Very good. Could easily be adapted as a TV episode. It would have made a fantastic episode but I doubt they would have done it..the whole eye thing-I was surprised they did the empty eye socked thing in the Capaldi story in 201... never mind allowing it back then...personally I would have loved it but many would not have. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2021 3:20:21 GMT
Just listened to it for the first time.
Harrowing. Thats all there is to say really.
10/10
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Post by Kestrel on Apr 7, 2021 5:23:18 GMT
This was a bit of an odd one. I loved the atmosphere, but when I think on the underlying logic of the story, I find it confusing. If it's purely a horror story, then the logic doesn't matter as much, but it doesn't really feel entirely like a story to me, so I get hung up on the details--most glaringly the twist ending. How did the dead sister's soul, for want of a better term, inhabit the body of a stuffed rabbit toy? And why? Was the Time-Zombie-in-the-Bear really that, or was it misdirection, and the stuffed rabbit was manipulating everything in secret? Some random thoughts: - The first episode has some extremely stilted dialog. It all feels very... artificial. It's almost as though the Doctor knows far more than he's telling--which doesn't turn out to be the case, as far as I can tell--but ultimately just seems to be clumsy writing. Thankfully the later episodes have much better dialog--or at least move quickly enough that any similar artificiality is difficult to notice.
- Ace has a fantastic line where she says something to the effect of, "playing Florence Nigjtingale is more up Hex's alley than mine." A lovely bit of foreshadowing form Angel of Scutari (also known as the best Hex story) which won't be released for 30 or 40 or so more monthlies... where Hex winds up meeting (and usurping) Florence Nightingale. Absolutely brilliant.
- Whole explanation for time zombies is pretty nuts.
- The Doctor says, "We're not vigilantes!" But, you know, that's precisely what they are. As such, this line feels odd with the 7th Doctor--it'd fit much better in Colin Baker's mouth, as he really has a knack for this kind of utterly oblivious lack of self-awareness.
Really enjoyed the story overall. Not sure I'd like it so much as a pure horror, but the time travel element was both unexpected and welcome. I've already finished the big "Hex arc," but this story makes me very glad that this particular TARDIS team kept getting stories even after they split up. |
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