Doctor Who: Big Fifth-ish, Part 9

Pin a fresh sprig of celery to your lapel, it’s time to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures again! The Key 2 Time concept might have been a bit weak in its own right, but it did pioneer the “mini-season” approach Big Finish would take with their monthly range in one form or another until it came to an end. No weird one-off companions that Big Finish would love to turn into a spin-off series here – we’re going to be focused on televised companion line-ups, though not always in the form you might expect… Castle of Fear The Doctor has decided that a nice Christmas in Stockbridge is called for; opting against going to the 21st Century to avoid awkwardness after her encounter with Andrew in Circular Time, the duo instead swing by the village in 1899, where they catch the local mummer’s play. Such things often have little local variations to the formula handed down over the years; for instance, the Stockbridge variant does not merely include the stock mummer’s play character…