Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 12

Time to don our coats of many colours once more for another round of Sixth Doctor audio stories. Last time, we bade a fond farewell to Evelyn, as we took in the last audio dramas that Maggie Stables had managed to record before she retired from acting for good. Prior to this, Stables’ involvement had become patchier than it had been in Big Finish’s early days, her declining health perhaps contributing to prior experiments in the way of stories where Old Sixie is travelling alone, or with short-term companions like the Land of Fiction’s simulacrum of Jamie. Now, however, Big Finish were faced with a decision: did they keep the Sixth Doctor stories going with solo jaunts, short-run companions, and the odd story with Peri or Mel, or would they introduce a new long-term companion to further flesh out the gap between The Trial of a Time Lord and Business Unusual? Of course, they went for the latter option – and this go around I’ll be covering the mini-season of stories which introduced…