Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 9

As I’ve repeatedly said over the course of this series, Sylvester McCoy really had the least to prove out of any of the original wave of Big Finish Doctors – his run wasn’t cut as absurdly short as Paul McGann’s, or as horribly mismanaged as Colin Baker’s, or as hit and miss as Peter Davison’s. I found the previous slate of Seventh Doctor audios I reviewed to be particularly weak; other than The Magic Mousetrap, which I loved, I thought them at best middling and at worst entirely skippable. Let’s settle in and take in another couple of mini-seasons (plus a Companion Chronicle) and see if things pick up; this time, we have more adventures with Ace and Hex, the unexpected return of a supporting character from a while back, and a diversion into the New Adventures timeline… Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code It is somewhere after Set Piece and before Original Sin – when the Doctor and Benny are travelling as a double act, Benny having now had enough experience with the Doctor that…