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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 4, 2020 9:52:53 GMT
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-short-trips-blue-boxes-1945
Death stalks the phone lines.
UNIT’s been inundated with prank calls. Bored, the Doctor agrees to help Liz investigate. Quickly immersed in the world of phone line hackers, it is revealed that they’re being killed, one-by-one. With the death toll rising, the Doctor will have to use all his cunning and wits to defeat a foe he can’t even talk to.
He’ll also have to use a blue box. Just not the one you’re expecting.
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Post by mark687 on Nov 4, 2020 11:48:54 GMT
Cheers for the Poll
OK story and its an experience hearing a narrator who sounds like a cross between Ian Glen and John Humphreys doing an approximation of Jon Pertwee.
Regards
mark687
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Post by constonks on Nov 7, 2020 23:52:16 GMT
So other than the fact that the conclusion felt a wee bit swift, I rather enjoyed that. A look into a strange real-life subculture, a tinge of the Third Doctor's Season 7 trapped sadness, some good Liz Shaw banter all in a sort of who-or-what-dunnit.
As for the narrator, he's not a perfect Pertwee but he does have a very nice storytelling tone. I haven't listened to his reading of the Sarah Jane story yet, but BF should definitely toss him some more work.
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Post by thegreendeath on Nov 8, 2020 3:59:09 GMT
Loved the phone phreaks backstory and thought it slotted great into Season 7, letting it be a techno-thriller first and straight up science fiction later. The narrator didn’t sound like Pertwee but did a good job narrating. Overall I liked this one a lot and felt it perfectly fit the Short Trips format.
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Post by Ian McArdell on Nov 11, 2020 9:08:49 GMT
My take on Blue Boxes is now up at CultBox - in short, this was lots of fun, a great little Short Trip. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 12, 2020 10:22:56 GMT
Agreed with constonks that the ending felt a bit swift, but a great choice of narrator and a wonderful premise for a story that was carried out quite well.
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