A Quick Guide to Big Finish Classic Who- Evelyn Smythe.

0:01 I am the very model of a Gary frame Buccaneer I have information on all things you carry free and hell's mystery I'm linked into the Matrix series exotonic circuitry I understand dimensional and relative chronometry I'm very well acquainted too with matters of the capital I'll give you a version chapter Killian protocol I've been into the dead soon and I played the game of Russia alone with pestilental monsters that I got a lot of hassle frogs electrons I understand which language and I speak every vernacular or conjugated verbs in every matter I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneers hello and welcome to the quick guide to Big finish classic Who evil and Smythe in case you missed

0:48 the earlier videos I'm going by companions because for most classic Who releases big finish didn't have series as the stories tended to jump around each doctor's timeline and as far as I can tell there's no official authoritative agreed on timeline for Adventures so separate them out by companion hopefully it'll make things easier for everyone and make it harder for them to miss any stories Evelyn was the original big Finnish companion and what a companion she was 55 years old ball she divorced cake making knitting loving history lecturer with a heart condition that she's hiding from the doctor she had a personality just as strong as six as she wouldn't be cowed by his speeches and wouldn't let herself be steamrolled by the force of his will I don't know for sure but I believe her personality was designed to

1:34 house train sex Colin Baker wanted him to evolve and become a Kinder figure and I was decided that a good way for this to happen in Universe was for him to meet someone who refused to give manenge forcing him to evolve into the big finish six we have today and it worked brilliantly Evelyn was played by Maggie Stables he got into acting after retiring as a French teacher hers is a brilliantly atypical journey to companion Dom she was to some local theater with Nick Briggs who kept in touch and litter Caster in one of the initial big finish releases the sirens a time and based on that she was offered evil on she retired from acting in 2013 and died the next year so Evelyn's time of the TARDIS was brief in big finish terms but vibrand now before we begin

2:20 these Adventures as in evelands can only either be bought second hand or downloaded directly from Big finishes website most of these are the earliest big finish releases so the city copies are expensive but the digital ones are among the cheapest they offer I'm not kidding when I say it's possible to spend more in a single City release a single Evelyn story than to buy a whole run and download so keep that in mind before starting a collection and downloads aren't a one-time deal and don't require anything special to play you buy it and you can download the MP3 copy as many times as you want unless things change a big finish you buy it it's yours forever Evelyn's first appearance was in the Marion conspiracy doing a history lecture when it's interrupted with the doctor she's a

3:06 temporal Paradox and the universe is dealing with it by a racing her you see one of our ancestors suddenly wasn't born and that won't do so the doctor decides to go back and set things right and over the doctor's complaints Evelyn decides to join them so I'm going to pop back to Elizabeth's court and find out what I can about him how well when you have a time machine anything's possible I see but wait there oh no certainly I mean I've only got a world to say but I'll I'll just wait here toothbrush toothpaste soap and what exactly are you doing I'm packing and may I ask why if you think I'm going to sit around here waiting to fade away you're very much mistaken could you pass me that tin of cocoa cocoa just behind the breadboard no but that's it thank you chocolate wasn't introduced to

3:52 England until the mid 17th century you know and I have no intention of going without my daily erection they find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy to assassinate Queen Mary older half sister of Elizabeth the First the issue is she some years away from dying and on the verge of a getting her mask or the Protestants this one's a pure historical and rather than inciting a grand Rebellion as the doctor usually does foreign to keep history intact now aerily big finish tatted towards more adult and experimental fare because pre knew who the show's almost entire fan base had grown up with the show and reached a dull turd and the people in charge wearing the stories wanted to evolve Beyond family entertainment this also happened in the books but where the

4:38 books usually resulted in weird edginess or unexpected sex scenes a big finish it usually meant experimental stories and Nuance I said usually necromanteer for instance here we have a Mary who is a genuinely good person who truly believes in doing the right thing unfortunately she believes that the right thing to do involves burning everyone disagrees with her at the stake anyway this is an excellent introduction for Evelyn in a great though a typical story well worth a lesson Evelyn's next story is suspect of Lanyon Moore where six finally officially meets the Brigadier thank you hello everyone I can smell coffee um allow me to introduce the uh yeah oh have you two met before we most certainly have Lethbridge Studio Rogue

5:25 how are you I'm extremely well thank you you know who I am to judge by the clothes the unexpected arrival and the manner of your greeting I can only conclude that I know exactly who you are I take it as a police box somewhere in the vicinity you're getting better at this aren't you Brigadier well I've had some experience haven't I it's good to see you Doctor the Merton dimensions in time but that doesn't really count because it's dimensions in time and this sort of crap happens in that our whole existence is being threatened by our Renegade Time Lord known only as the Rani he hates me she even hates children two of my earlier sales have already been snared in her vicious trap the Grumpy One and the florist you remember them and with the Spectra of lion and Moore is set in Cornwall and a local dick head has been siphoning the powers

6:11 when alien eggs and suspended animation but what happens when the alien wakes up again the finale happens that's what apart from the Brigadier being a main character what I love is that there's a bunch of Cornish history stuff thrown in I'm a history buff and I've never been to Cornwall but now I know what a Fugu is a type of ancient man-made tunnel that you find in Cornwall the story is villainous [ __ ] is hilariously one-dimensional badly quoting after Crowley and blathering about magic in his manor house it felt like a ridiculous sequence from a bad Hammer horror film but in a fun way especially when Evelyn started using her finely honed middle-aged middle-class Karen powers to get in some cutting verbal thrusts before the guy can start melting her eyeballs you please untie me I'll be

6:57 missed you know that doesn't really matter by the time people come looking I'll be in charge you're a big crackers aren't you am I it's also subjective isn't it who says I'm cracking I do and everyone I can think of offhand would agree if they were here now but they're not are they intellect ambition Innovation bravery the courage to move beyond the stifling parameters of social Conformity these have always been regarded as signs of Madness by the plotting majority he's starting to sound like Dr Faustus now do you know what happened to him my dear Dr Smythe religion is for people who believe in hell magic is for people who have been Magic what are you ranting about now you

7:42 really are crackers aren't you have you ever heard of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Door yes I think so something to do with that narcissistic charlatan who wrote awful poetry Crowley Alistair Crowley filed his teeth into points and called himself the Beast he was a bit of a joke really he was a prophet Dr Smythe his vision was the dissolution of universal morality rappish he wasn't a prophet at the very best he was a cut-price niche do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Lord where exactly a kind of feeble philosophy is that my students observe it every Friday night is just an excuse for a good party dressed up in a bit of medieval lingo you babbling inadequate as you're about

8:29 to learn I have made rather more of it than that I'm showing them but as I pointed out earlier you're crackers well my service May no longer be required but my blood cannot be taken from me so easily don't kids get above ourselves oh Chum you know you're baronet you know that makes you a commoner like me you might think I have no sense of history but I'm sufficiently up on the subject to know that your ancestors probably bought you your place on the lowest rung of the aristocracy I'm sure as Annihilation at the mind of the alien felt like nothing compared to those Burns anyway this is solid basic Doctor Who I'm just sad that after the Brigadier was mostly limited to the unit spin-offs until Nicholas Courtney died

9:16 he's recently been recast with impressionist John coulshaw though and started to pop up here and there so that's good and not before time after that there's the apocalypse element where six and Eve when meet Romana having returned to normal space after leaving e space where four are left from Warriors gate this is the first time Lala Ward reprized the role since leaving the TV show like I said dimensions in time doesn't count well I've seen him for an hour Vic but uh never dragged in it also marks six's first big finishing counter with the dialects this was second part of big finish's first cross promotion story arc the Dalek Empire starting with seven story The genocide machine going onto

10:01 fives the mutant phase and ending with Eight's time in the dial ax you don't need to listen to them all to enjoy the individual Parts though anyway this is the dialects at their most hardcore I won't spoil it for you but they have more brutal success in this story than they manage and hold Decades of TV who a Wham episode that accidentally sets at the time war and big finishes long-running Gallifrey spin-off all this and it actually explains the human retinal scan to open the eye of Harmony in the Megan movie Open the eyes and it even mostly makes sense this story is the typical crap time Lord's Norm but handled much better than usual that could sum up the stories a whole actually classic Who fallible Time Lord stuff mixed with new time War stuff but an improvement on both and I have one

10:46 weird complaint there's an important side character called trinket and the woman who plays her sounds distracting like Sarah something who plays Nissa sounds like the Daleks are throwing themselves against the doors correct frantic aren't they wait those explosions we heard self-destructing thing they did back on architrix or they must be doing more damage to the doors that way less dialects to deal with I suppose shows you how confident well how desperate they're starting to become he said he was a friend of yours luckily there's a trick to tell them apart the Dalek someone's completely destroyed trinket's Homeworld and she won't shut up about that well the master are

11:33 completely destroyed this is Homeworld and she eventually shut up about that doctor my world has been torn apart wiped out for all I know I know next is blood tied the first big finished sailorian story it's the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin is on the beagle and some say lorians are really [ __ ] off that humans on their plan had again it'd be nice if they came up with a new plot for them sometime this is pretty good but has some extreme problems some of the voice acting which is trying to be serious has amazingly silly accents bordering on the races sometimes I'm Greta Rodriguez foreign

12:21 my brother is not well he has not been acting himself Governor Lawson your brother is a traitor the silurian voice of the 70s is pretty much recreated this we need to study it the species is dangerous and hostile which the nerd me is incredibly happy about but the person listening to this in me found really hard to listen to after a while the ape creature called the doctor it seems to have heard of our people but that is impossible none of the other Apes have known about us how can this one acknowledge the others not you know what this means perhaps these creatures have met us before but how none of the

13:08 other Siberian Clans survived I did like Evelyn and sex and creating himself as Darwin will trying not to influence Sam only to be drawn into discussions and arguments but the origins of life and cuvia you have read Courier yeah of course he has observed that the fossil creatures exhibit a morphology as we approach the present the more closely resembled those of today but here is my dilemma go on people tells us that this world of ours is a mere 6 000 years old that the Lord created in six days that there was but one flood so to my mind these fossils should not exist

13:54 and yet why did the Lord bring such creatures into being only to destroy them evolution is a concept wasn't actually created by darwan it had been around for a century at that point so these sorts of discussions aren't quite as historical as they might sound at first blash also fun fact but this story reveals quite matter-of-factly the humanity was created by a sailorian mad scientist and it's deeply deeply hilarious to me that Humanity being the result of intelligent design only came up in a story featuring Charles Darwin Evelyn's next appearance is in Project Twilight the beginning of another Arc this time dealing with a recurring villain a vampire called Nimrod vampires are a thing in the who

14:39 universe and first appeared all the way back in the 80s but interestingly the extended Arc only really exists because reducers were so impressed with the performance from Stephen chance who played Nimrod and wanted to bring him back so you still haven't worked it out worked out what exactly I'm disappointed doctor your file back at the forge made for impressive reading I'm afraid In the Flesh you don't live up to expectation oh get over it just tell me why you have no qualms about persecuting these poor people Amelia really has woven her Spell on You hasn't she these poor people have more blood on their hands than most dictators see in a lifetime doctor Nimrod is the head of the forge and evil science organization working for British

15:26 intelligence think of it as Torchwood before Torchwood he's a vampire he's evil he hunts other vampires and has all sorts of cybernetic implants originally they wanted to use one of the audio visuals villains but they weren't allowed to so Nimrod was created instead one of the other gas characters is Cassie interesting because her son Thomas will later travel with the Seventh Doctor under the name Hax naturally evil in the dark are getting broiled with nimrod Orton or the related vampire Shenanigans thanks to some mysterious killings this is a gritty and grimy story with a sort of violence and death that the TV show wouldn't or couldn't touch equal parts vampires gangsters and Gothic an uncompromising but any of them I'm not the biggest fan of the Nimrod stories but six and Eve

16:13 when are in top form and emotionally the sense six into some interesting places next release was real time and it's the odd one out in the Evelyn stories because it really doesn't fit anywhere it was made with the BBC as a webcast some very basic animation for the fledgling BBC Doctor Who wear prazans it was 2002 the 40th anniversary was coming up and the BBC was making baby steps into trying to maybe make Doctor Who a thing again and a trio of these stories were made and none of them fit 100 into the respective continuities death comes to time with Sevan being the worst because it kills them and Ace becomes a Time Lord basically real time is a remake of Cybermen but being told in real time and it ends up in a hell of a cliffhanger because the Cyber controller

16:59 that's been fighting all along is Evelyn and the doctrine Evelyn just left her infected with a thing that will turn into a cyber controller let's take your face plate off look upon my face with your own eyes one last time [Applause] no it can't be Evelyn and then there was no follow-up and since Maggie Stables is dead and it was released over 20 years ago there's probably not going to be one so that's great I generally liked real time it's not the wittiest or cleverest script but it's got some good ideas The Twist is phenomenal there's some very nasty cyber violence on display and the cast is

17:45 great apart from Colin Baker and Maggie Stables there's Chang Lee from The McGann movie I realize that's not actually the actor's name but I cannot pronounce it and butchering it as badly as I would feels even more disrespectful than just calling him Chang Lee and most randomly of all in retrospect among the smaller rules we've a young Stuart Lee years before he let himself go wrote Jerry Springer the Opera and broke down the Walls between stand-up comedy and weird performance art foreign [Music] partner Richard Herring often one of the main characters in international women's day turns up too probably real times

18:33 most enduring Legacy was it introduced six's blue set you see the webcast animation had to be so simple that it couldn't handle its usual luck so they created the blue one in Universe the change happened because of misunderstanding between six and Eveland mixing up morning start of the day with mourning someone's died you see blue is the color of mourning and near cross the planet of Galactic funeral staff blue is the official color of mourning on necros and there's two different versions of the suit the solid blue real-time version seen in real time and the section figure or the patchwork version that recreates the compassion patterns and success usual code seen here in the cover of Spaceport fear which is ironic because space word fear is one of the few stories where it's explicitly stated

19:19 in the script what outfit 6 is wearing and he's wearing his usual multi-colored stuff I'm and this is the doctor stay back I haven't done anything nor have we did you bring summer I have been known to light up a room usually with his coat of many colors oh yes we make our clothes in the dark too oh Charming which makes sense because six stopped wearing the blue because it made a promise to mail in the wrong doctors the other doctor he's safe thank you nice well I suppose that's what experience

20:06 does for you and good company I I like this coat then I shall wear it again for you but that promise can be taken two ways one he'll stop wearing the blue from then on or two that'll wear the multi-colored outfit when with her I go with two but some people feel six in blue after the wrong doctors such as in the rain cloud man is a continuity error so where does six get the idea of getting a blue version of a certain well in a wing six Met 10 on a planet with blending light so to see these are Darkness torch and 10 common to the six's outfit looked blue in the beam of Dusk and that it looked good hello let's see if this thing works a shadow lab don't be ridiculous

20:53 I haven't seen a shadow lamp since I had a portion for absurd hats you're not wearing a silly hat are you it should cast to be machete cancel out some of the light then we can see what we're doing out here ah hello doctor oh oh it's you slimy you have a nerve going on about the hats Joseph Joseph with your Amazing Technicolor dream monstrosity it looks better under the shadow lamb tones of blue So Tan who wore blue told six to wear a blue who then remembered wearing blue as sex and did the same thing as tan this is called bootstrap paradox Google it and that's not even going into six's best outfit the purple one from the Ultimate Adventure the Sandman is

21:39 next and it's got a very interesting idea basically we get to see the doctor from the point of view of an old anime the gayari are a chameleon-like species who wants tried to genocide a harmless species called the kushkaru the galyari thought the Reverb and the doctor disagreed the doctor partly deliberately and partly by happenstance set himself up as a mythical figure to the gallery the Sandman they believe that he causes every bad thing that happens to them that he collects their skins that he stalks and prays upon them and they cannot look upon him without pain and death but now is the time to drop the charade unfortunately when he comes aboard their pneumatic space Fleet there's something killing and collecting skins and naturally they believe it's the work of the Sandman this is a great

22:24 bit of work I love seeing the doctor from another respect to have and comparing the galyari version of ants tall down through the generations to the doctor first-hand account there's a lot of great world building as they explore how a society is structured as an interconnected space Fleet works and even stuff about how the mundane can dovetail into math the actual plot isn't too interesting but it's it's really there as an excuse for the world and for the ideas to exist and it's a great world and it's full of great ideas Freighters mining ships manufacturers refineries whole vessels given over to living quarters they're all in there somewhere the visiting ships are hyperspace capable whereas the vast majority of galyari craft are not unlike any sensible Fleet they travel at the speed of their slowest components precisely

23:11 an exodus on this scale is measured in Generations people like Mr mordecan here are visitors in every sense growing up making a living and ultimately dying handing over to their progeny while the fleet moves on like parasites following a herd of elephants chosen a more flattering simile the show really needs to revisit how different groups would react to the doctor based on their interactions though the doctor really should have explained what really happened to Evelyn before they arrived so she wasn't quite so confused when he suddenly started climbing to the devil to a bunch of mostly Pleasant space lizards welcome orchestrator I think you'll know who I am I do Sandman you needn't grovel quite so much

24:04 it is a proud and ancient name well let's hope it lives to be even more ancient shall we I've had dealings with a number of orchestrators in my time and I found their level of cooperation far from satisfying am I going to have the same problem with you not from me I will respond to your demands but unconditionally impose conditions on me remember who you are dealing with soul look at me I cannot I said look at me please make your demands and I will sit with that my people comply but I beg you do not ask me that it is dead to look on you not in sentence I know it's painful

24:51 sometimes but the doctors know months Evelyn that is where you are very wrong the galliari have known me a lot longer than you isn't that so orchestrator it is true we all know the tales we grow up with them and we're the good reason so you see Evelyn I am every bit the monster they believe me to be fun fact Annika Wills who played Paulie on the TV show alongside the first and second doctors plays one of the antagonists reaction narosha so that's cool Jubilee is considered when a big finishes earliest triumphs scripted by Robert sheerman it was the basis for Dalek and knew Who series won but Dalek only took part to the rich tapestry of

25:37 Jubilee the doctor alone in the room facing the Dalek the powerful mad dick head he trapped the Dalek for years demanding its speak the dialect getting weirdly attached to the companion stuff like that it missed out and so much more like little people having pieces chopped off their bodies and sealed inside Dalek shells as the power mad [ __ ] pets in new pop Rochester you really mean you collect dwarves and make them get inside Dalek costumes for your entertainment say dance they sing and sometimes I pretend I fight them just as my great-grandfather did a hundred years ago I cannot fit sir what the cavity is too narrow I cannot get the door closed what

26:23 creatures Yankee he has sent me two bigger dwarf I am sorry sir it's the hand oh then we shall have to get rid of it shall we not Rochester you can't do not worry doctor remember I am not really evil I am just pretending this is all an act of course I want to be a good man you'll know that no or the parody trailer of a hollywoodized movie but the doctor defeating the dialects but in a time of perils and crises one man shall emerge to be the savior of us all what is that all ominous sound [Applause]

27:11 um Daleks I hate these guys oh no it is Daleks the Ultimate Adventure coming to a cinema near you soon your supervisor will inform you of the cinema to which you have been assigned attendance is compulsory by order of the historical instruction act all praise the Glorious English Empire or far far more death to the dollars [Applause] listen to me the dialects were genetically engineered to see all other life as a threat

28:02 beings are different humans have a choice what excuse do you have but the plot the doctrine Evelyn have found themselves in an alternate 2003 one where the English Empire rules the world after the great Dalek were of 1903 where the heroic Doctrine Evelyn delivered the world to the Empire's Hands by stopping the dollar convasion but didn't stop the English Empire from using Dalek Tech to conquer the world and now a century later the Daleks are a little more than a Kitsch memory in the dark for an evil and have been reimagined as an action hero and his glamorous lover and introducing plenty O'Toole as Evelyn hot lips smived oh

28:50 doctor now you have defeated the Daleks would you like to defeat me don't mind if I do and of course the doctor who fought in 1903 has spent all of that time trapped in the Tower of London imprisoned mutilated and driven mad by the Empire accidentally helped create Leo doctor I thought I'd never see you again forgive me for not getting up to greet you but you see they've cut off my legs why why did they do this to you oh it was my own fault they they told me if I kept trying to escape they'd be forced to do something drastic it's monstrous oh you mustn't blame them that they did

29:37 it with anesthetic and everything I didn't feel a thing and and they've told me if I cooperate you know they'll stick them back on again no that was a long time ago did you know I had a friend called Evelyn yes doctor I'm here no no no she died human beings can't last a hundred years you know for a while I had even to talk to and then then it was just her bones and they took them away from me too in time you're saying I died in here you humans are so fragile it's all right doctor I've come for you I'll take you away from this Dreadful place no no leave me alone

30:23 doctor the tower it's my home it may not look like much but it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside this is basically a massive meta fiction taken the dialects Dalek Mania Empire fascism xenophobia the media and it is spectacular that's all there is to add spectacular so I'll just give you some trivia Jubilee is so well regarded that it's still occasionally gets referenced a new who there's a recurring Pizza franchise called Jubilee pizzas named after the story and this was the first big finished story to use a travel time lord theme earlier on all the Doctor Who releases used to 70s Max I've not confirmed it but I assume it took a while to work at the music licensing next is Doctor Who and the Pirates and it is magnificent this is another a big

31:10 finishes experimental stories that's trying to do more with Doctor Who than the TV show basically eveon is barished in a colleague at a university and is telling her the story of how she travels someone called the doctor and met some Pirates but over time details change begins to space thing things up she tells and retells certain parts because in her excitement she accidentally put in continuity errors she gives the doctor a heroic sword for an death scene which didn't happen because the doctor turns up to join in the storytelling this sounds like it might be annoying but it's really not the matter weirdness of the story gets so much that the doctor decides to turn into a musical so we get a number of Doctor Who themed Gilbert and Sullivan Paradise hell the Cliffhanger in one episode is just at the doctor is shock horror going to sing

31:57 then you have never truly appreciated what it is to be a Buccaneer let me explain a few things to you for you see one could almost say that I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer oh no you are going to sing well yes I am [Music] this is just a silly silly silly Delight the name reference is a partly story Doctor Who in the silorians and the pirate Captain is played by the man the myth the goody billardi and I realize this won't mean much to many of you but

32:43 Artie is giving a full-on goodies performance the only way I can get through this black race ah it makes me wanna when it's soap look look you want to see our film or not yes please okay I'll wager the content of your old that red jasper will prove you wrong mind I'll take the contents of your hold whatever tell your men throw down their arms Captain unless you want every man

33:30 jacking them to taste yourself to in fact I'll feed you I don't like the sound of him red jasper I've never heard of him goodness he must be very unimportant in the overall historical scheme of things then I think that's the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard oh what's wrong with it don't worry my friend I shall produce for you some of the most unbelievably gory TV shows ever devised what don't worry I'm doing it for a perfectly good reason ah what's that because I like violence well Mr London on this ship you better learn to hold your tongue otherwise I'll hold it for you there's no need for violence perhaps you should just lock me

34:16 and Jim here into the hole too while you think about what to do with this I do this I could be useful I'm a very good cook cakes you know Everyone likes cakes I prefer skewering out eyeball and um prizing up today no please no leave her alone she's just an old woman who said that [Music] [Applause] whatever and only after four parts of ever

35:02 increasing over-the-top glorious meta silliness we find out why Evelyn's bothering her co-worker like that and it is both moving and spectacular this whole thing is just an absolute classic Lazarus is the second Nimrod story and instead of being a four-parter this is two two-part stories with Evelyn and six starring on the first and seven in the second Cassie from Project Twilight was turned into a vampire in that story and got left in the far north of Norway with the doctor's promise that he would find a cure for her now he has but Cassie you spent years Starving in the frozen tundra is now working for the forge the capture the doctor Nimrod tries to induce regeneration by a torture like project Twilight this is on the grizzlier end of who with Cassie dying

35:48 to free the doctrine Evelyn and the relationship and the verge of breaking down completely doctor where's Cassie we can't leave without her killed her Nimrod just shot her down why didn't you do something there was nothing I could do why didn't you let me do something what could you have done Evelyn he'd have killed you too no there must have been away there always is we have to go back for her Evelyn I'm sorry I don't always win

36:36 now shall I go and make us some cocoa is there any chocolate cake everything better with a cup of cocoa slice of cake because he's dead she isn't coming back Evelyn oh like it's even nastier in the second half with seven as years later we discover that six is working for Nimrod and the forge and seven has no memory all that anyway like I said before I'm not a great fan of the Nimrod stories but this one is too shorter and more

37:22 interesting stories than project Twilight and it sets up another all-time Class Act arrangements for war in this story Evelyn's on the verge of leaving the Tardis she can't handle the doctors emotionally closed off attitude to Cassie's death Evelyn and Cassie really connected in the previous story [Music] now I don't always win evening how are you I've been thinking doctor yes so have I and I have an excellent idea about here no thank you I'll stand not on ceremony I hope don't make light of this doctor no I'm sorry

38:08 truly I'm really not trying to I've spent the last few hours just thinking about things about Cassie and what happened to her and about your manner I can't change what happened I never can true I may in the past have found myself the Catalyst for events but cannot just go back and change what's already happened just to suit myself I know that doctor I'm not a fool no I'm sorry of course you're not but I still need time to think things through [Music] you've had more experience at this kind

38:54 of thing I can't just switch the emotions on and off between battles for the universe is that what you think I do Evelyn I'm sorry doctor that I I just thought you want some time on your own some not sure do you want to leave me I didn't think so in an effort to save their friendship six brings evil into the pun of villag a pleasant modern Australian world that's in the verge of International Peace Unfortunately they messed it up by Landing in the wrong place and talking to the wrong people and now they have to try and set things in the right course before an alien invasion arrives the Alien Invasion that in the correct timeline was easily repelled and further gelled the planet's countries together all usual Doctor Who

39:40 stuff but this time the doctor and Evelyn are using their future knowledge to engrage themselves into the society at the highest levels in order to create that future and then they follow follow the countries that they're manipulating and end up jailed as Invasion begins there is a bunch of good stuff here it could easily be stretched to a six hour TV mini series like flocks Evelyn ends up falling in love with the high-ranking military officer called rossitar who she will eventually leave the Taurus to be worth I don't blame her though Rossiter has played by Gabriel Wolf the man with the best voice in Doctor Who don't turn around don't look at me who are you I have so many names you pits your puny were against mine

40:27 kneel yeah before the might of sutang and then there's the ending oh man the ending basically six gets his own time or Victorious moment two people he spent months trying to help and protect are brutally murdered and he snaps he runs back to the Tardis barely aware of evil and even managed to keep up with him and he fully intends to change his own personal history so it doesn't [ __ ] up the planet in the first place [Music] were you just going to leave me back there what I I don't what the dead Evelyn they're both dead and

41:15 it's my fault directly my fault what are you gonna do mustn't happen not this time change things I've reset the time coordinates will land where we did before but an hour earlier I'll get to the river and send Marcus up to the Palace that way he can meet the princess without ever having met me and getting those ideas put into his head that's nothing it's time I stopped watching people die it's your coat your face I suppose I should watch this isn't right Evelyn this isn't the way it should be foreign

42:03 you mustn't and this was done years before Waters of Mars next is medicinal purposes featuring baby David Tennant it's 19th century Edinburgh and birken hair the country's most notorious Body Snatchers are hard at work they're not the main villains though that's Dr Robert Knox not the actual Dr Robert Knox who was living in Edinburgh at the time and working with broken hair but I made up one you see the guy calling himself Knox is a human from the far future who has acquired a tardis under the most exceptional circumstances and now he uses it to profiteer through time he set up a time left around Edinburgh to conduct medical tests on the people for some alien clients because it's a Time Loop that can die over and over again and as a bonus he can charge other aliens to watch all the suffering narx

42:49 has played with Leslie Phillips a UK light entertainment Legend with a career ding back to 1934. I live in Polish surroundings because my body desires it my surgery is less polished a kitchen may be filthy in the finest of hotels my culinary Delights could save human or indeed destroy it it depends on the research for such research I need specimens cadavers the fresher the better oh how horrible not as horrible as the damage that gut devouring alcohol you continually pour down your Swan like neck thus to your insides my dear child more recently you might have heard him

43:35 as the voice the Sorting Hat and Harry Potter the story includes an unusually Frank discussion of morality when someone like the doctor takes the Long View the big picture it's sort of thing the classic Who sometimes motioned towards and knew who runs away from screaming platitudes the universe does not break down into good guys and bad guys for example would you be honored to congratulate the medical Genius of Dr Christian Barnard who performed the first open heart surgery can't be comparing the two cases surely Dr Barnard saved lives only because birken hair had taken lives a century or so before I know Murder could never be condoned but if you take into account the medical benefit that others will take from their misdeeds it becomes almost acceptable

44:21 surely sounds like a gray area and I don't want to go into death is relatively although any individual death is regrettable in the bigger picture it can be seen in a positive light now there's a huge difference between that and advocating murder for the greater gain that was the excuse Hitler used but does the possibility exist that if 10 or 15 murders result in thousands of lives extended and one of those extended lives goes on to improve things even more that there's a justification historically speaking you condone it no no but I accept it with that you can really see the beginnings of Seven's approach to morality for mang on the he goes

45:08 further he doesn't just condone he arranges anyway this is a great story not one of the best but well worth a lesson though tenants performance as Daft Jamie a disabled real-life victim of broken hair occasionally skirts from sympathetic to a fan serve Jamie did you say Jamie looked at hand of Genie Genie famous would like to be famous well I used to know uh Jamie my boy it's an honorable name you have there a very honorable name is fearless a famous no not really he was important to my mind but then Fame isn't important it's what you do for others Jamie put himself in Mortal danger for me many times a very brave young man I never told him that pity pity is a very destructive emotion

45:56 indeed no Jamie Come Away yes there is salubrious doctor I suppose a nice wine bar was out of the question yes Dr important hello my dear chap how are you hey doctor friend yes the doctor is a friend hello Jamie how are you dear TV is fine thank you for asking come on doctor this is where Evelyn's timeline starts to get kind of screwy because it actually story is thicker than water which dealt with how she left the tired ass but since that won't happen for a while I'm gonna skip four to peer pressure this one set in the 1930s in Brighton which is kind of like England's answer to San Francisco basically the doctor and Evelyn hang out with a local seafront celebrities and

46:42 take down some malevolent aliens possessing dog Bradley and I really wish pen had to find a better story to the villanov there is good stuff here though it's just a bit tangential to the actual plot it really makes good use of the period and setting for instance Max Miller an early 20th century Music Hall comedian is one of the supporting care characters picked himself up in the course around went into a music shop said the man behind the counter do you sell mouse organs and the man said that's funny that's funny you should say that we had a little mouse in here yesterday and she wanted Mouse organs little man said I know who that was that was harmonica you don't work for the BBC do you because if you do I can change you know I can change until I get the check and then it's every comic for himself the

47:28 British Broadcasting Corporation often unforgiving to their finest assets but no Mr Miller alas not in my jurisdiction I fear ah never mind and listen please it's Maxie Maxie the costume isn't perfect but as an admirer of mine you've not done a bad job not a bad job at all I think he thinks you're a stalker doctor you know a fanatic and obsessive dressing like your hero and all that like I say most flattering actually in my address sense is my own unique I should say indeed unique although I must say perhaps an unintended half-save memory from my youth may have inspired my tailoring well now Dr steady on your

48:14 youth you're gonna be a bad name I'm only 40 you know musical was basically English Vaudeville and Max Miller has played excellently by Roy HUD an actor and comedian but he was also the president of the maximilar appreciation society and a maximilar biographer so if you want an unusual amount of accuracy in your Doctor Who story about Niche historical celebrities battling monsters then this is your story and brilliantly but bizarrely also appearing for Cameo is a young actor called Billy her name drops a couple of his rules films like I'm an explosive and while parents sleep which in real life actually featured early performances by Young William or Billy Hartnell you should be talking to Billy here really oh yes you've been in

48:59 pictures aren't you Billy I'm an explosive yes only put in pictures too I've never seen it don't worry son no one else has either what was the other one you just did while parents sleep yes that's the one parents were asleep the kids were in fact the whole audience couldn't keep their eyes open after peer pressure came the nowhere place which for some reason came with two different covers and if you bought the CD version you got one random way I think the Train cover is better the one with the door reminds me of Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madness anyway this is about something truly alien lovecraftian something that makes a dark to recoil like an animal close to fire something that it compares to falling into the pit of Hell they'll never get through that bulkhead now I they'll find a way I

49:44 think they'll tear themselves and the bulkhead apart trying to get to that door and I'm not waiting around to see my friends hi Captain then shoot me I'd rather die than stay here and watch your entire crew claw their way into nowhere you don't know that's going to happen according to you you're just as much in the dark as we are yes I am in the darkness and that's where I've been ever since I Glimpse what's in store for your planet your entire species something so alien to the nature of time and space that I was instantly repelled it's like an animal retreating from fire like the fear of falling into the pit of Hell almost as if something Primal was triggered within me you're not making any sense doctor hell it goes past off

50:31 crafting into junior where Thomas the Gory territory the Tardis goes forward a few hundred years by accident and where they should find a thriving space-based Humanity there is nothing and nothing so horrific that they instantly tracked on the cause in the past there's a human ship called the Valiant it's on the edge of the solar system its job is to defend the earth and the local human colonies against alien Raiders humanity is yet to discover Interstellar flight but it's on the horizon and in the Valiant a door has appeared a door on the inside of the hull leading to Nowhere a door that calls to people and if they answer they disappear inside and are never seen Again Naturally the doctrine even investigate the doctor scans it and works out that it's 50 billion years old even though it only just appeared Evelyn

51:17 however hears its colonistly barely say from going inside but she does see what's in there an infinite amount of faces screaming in pain instead of giant monstrous mouth so shall we go doctor what is it there was a mouth mouth a mouth that that's what I remember around all the screaming faces it was like gigantic mouth wide open and and that's where the words were coming from naturally the part of the ship containing the door ends up destroyed

52:03 and the door is left floating in space and continues calling people to add and they come in whatever craft they can anyway there was also the sound of a train coming from the other side of the door the doctor tracks it down to 1952 and they decide to give it a visit I'm gonna add my description there because it kind of goes off the rails after the bit in the train pun intended this really reminds me of Channel Zero strong start good imagery but it completely evolves into something that makes you feel like you've taken a bunch of Downers by the end so what's actually going on something incredibly silly and nonsensical but to be fair it's probably impossible to turn that concept and build up into something satisfying that actually makes sense do I recommend the newer Place half of that the first half

52:49 hearing Sixth and most of the story being completely [ __ ] terrified is fun though what frightened you Doctor um well there was something very wrong about the readings the readings for Earth yes you see I know your planet's history so well it's it's always like popping in on an old friend for tea but this time just for a second I I got this feeling that I'd stumbled in on strangers you know those dreams when you go back home your childhood home and Everything's changed you know it should be familiar but

53:35 not one thing is as you remember it should be no [Music] I don't have them maybe it's only time Lords not just me after that came 100 cleverly named because it was 100th release in the big finish Doctor Who Main Range it's four one-part stories with six and Eveland and each of them includes the number 100 for instance 100 BC is set in the year 100 BC and the Hundred Days the doctors but the darks are being poisoned and having 100 days to find a cure this is a great release and a wonderful place to dip in for new listeners each of the stories are totally very different and two of them were scripted by new Who TV

54:21 Legends Robert sheerman who wrote Dalek and Paul Cornell who wrote Father's Day in human nature slash the family of blood the only one of the four that I'm not a massive fan of is 100 BC which is just about silly I was wrong we weren't needed no hand of Fate on our shoulders usually the other way around but this time absolutely everything's gone right thank you Oh My Darling congratulations Aurelia you have a beautiful baby girl girl she shall be called Julia Julia Caesar

55:08 unlike sheerman's Moon private Wolfgang which is a ridiculous masterpiece he gets to go on living I get to never get Born This Way everybody's happy a Motown isn't happy he shot himself no it was probably an accident three times no I'm just messing around in my head ah no that doesn't sound like the actions of a happy man no it's a real shame about 100 BC it was written by Evelyn's crater Jacqueline Raynor who I usually like quite a bit she wrote Doctor Who and the pirates in the Marion conspiracy my favorite stories are the Cornell and Sherman ones the Hundred Days the doctor is a gentle look at the doctor's life from outside as he and Evelyn need to travel up and down his time stream to find it when it was poisoned so we get some introspection and we get to hear

55:53 about six's thoughts but his lives without all the blustering pretty girls possibly and you're a rather dashing young man and so what thin we agreed we could Grumble I didn't say stick the knife in he does irk you doesn't he oh not him the way the universe treated him being him was like a holiday very wonderful holiday so sure of himself always a step ahead but was prepared to do things I'd never do are you sure he seems a rather Jolly man well it looks

56:40 as if he's made another family for himself that's often when I'm happiest oh the prison company accepted those two the girl and the boy another Dashing Young chap and she looks as though she can hold her own she seems very grown up for one of your friends a present company accepted they look like brother and sister look he's waiting for them to do something to save the situation unlike him for what I've heard he was all blowing up planets and they call me the aggressive one they'll call you that the audience what those who pay attention to my travels you're hallucinating

57:26 there are people watching us or listening to us listening they say the pictures are better when you're listening and in the case of Californian time space visualizers that's often literally the case I'm talking about the time Lords how do we tell which one is you in a room where every man's wearing a frock coat I'm the one not carrying a gun and I'm playing poker you mean oh but there's two of you the same you it happens if the circumstances are safe then it can even be found especially with a game like that you can be pretty sure one won't remember the other's cards he looks nice will you stop saying that making it sound like you drew the Short

58:12 Straw Cornell apparently stopped working with big finish for a while because of this story from what I've read There was an email mix up and he inquired about the first draft he'd send 10 only tour they'd already recorded that but with as good as 100 days the doctor is I wonder what he could possibly have done to improve it for the second draft my own private Wolf Gang in the other hand is a piece of deranged art where every Gas part is played by impersonator John sessions basically in the future there's a roaring trade in Mozart clones who aren't happy with their lot in life so one of them decides to make the real Mozart Immortal so there won't be a market for his clones because even someone as talented as Mozart will eventually get stale my nose is itching and I'm going to have to listen to Mozart and the last thing I heard of his was that soundtrack for the remake of The

58:59 Italian Job I admit by your time his stuff had gone off the boil somewhat for me nothing was ever the same once he started using electronic drum kits once you've heard one ambient concept album you've heard them all Rob Sherman's stories of a tendency to start off like that silly and weird but as he put it in the making of interviews if he has more than one part it eventually turns into a bloodbath I was always aware that every time I try and do a big finish I try and write a comedy and they always end up running out of jokes and then they become really horrible and limbs start falling off and I write these terribly disgusting things and I just thought that even as I was doing my my little pitch I could see it getting darker and darker this story so I just suddenly at the end of the pitch

59:44 said I'm just stopping now I'm not going to say anything more because if I do it or they end up being disgusting and fortunately because it's 25 minutes long it doesn't ever get to that stage where it stops being funny I hope I can't imagine my own private Wolfgang getting all murderous but I've listened to enough of this stuff to know that he's not wrong the last story was bedtime story a serviceable and wonderfully dark story about a malicious alien getting revenge on the descendants of the person you heard that it's good but not much to write home about next is the Assassin the Limelight it's the sequel to both medicinal purposes and peer pressure as Dr Knox is working for the Indo the monsters from Pure pressure it's 1865 Knox is making inroads into the theater and has begun by murdering John Wilkes book Earth he's not going by Knox though

1:00:31 he's claiming to be a guy called Oscar Wilde which is what tips the doctor off because Wilde was 11 in 1865. Knox also was a slight problem apart from the doctor he's caught a mild case of death at some point in a slowly rodang not much else to say about this really it's not as good as medicinal purposes but better than peer pressure which is good because they have the same Rider and it's basically a hybrid of the two I am sad that Leslie Phillips never came back though oh fun fact Eric Lauren who played Mr diagris and two very slowly played human Dalek sack and Alex and Manhattan plays John Parker who was the guard and Judy outside Lincoln's box the night he was assassinated Parker was an Infamous

1:01:17 drunk who was found drunk at a nearby bar after the assassination he continued to drink and was assigned to guard Mary Todd Lincoln months afterwards she yelled at him for getting drunk then her husband was killed and he react to believing and getting drunk he was later fired from his job for getting drunk and falling asleep on duty and eventually drank himself to death none of this is pertinent I just love history after that was released to death in the family which explains how everyone dies so we're skipping that for now Avon's final appearance released were next three a Trilogy Of Adventures that brought back the very short-lived Fifth Doctor companion Thomas Brewster a Victorian criminal with heart of Fool's Gold because brister was a short-lived companion I'm going to cover that trilogy in a separate video dealing with six's other companions Stables retired

1:02:04 from acting a couple of years after recording that trilogy and died the next year giving the release an unintended modeling note that's been even worse because in the making of interviews in the final part of the trilogy industrial Evolution Colin spends the whole time gushing about how much he loves working with her and how it all is that she did health issues recently and yet soldiered on in the recordings you can really tell that six and Evelyn's close friendship murdered him and Maggie Stables biggest blessing of all is is my dear Evelyn Smythe played by Maggie uh who and I adore working with Maggie she's uh bless her she's had a tough year she's got crack ribs and things like that and she's still soldiers in here and she's even a little bit older than I am so uh I have every sympathy with her for

1:02:50 dealing in extremists with coming along and doing a bit of acting but she wants to do it and uh every word is a gem I love it at bits during the last few years for Life Stables made a town called Fortune a companion Chronicles companion Chronicles are shorter releases for the companion takes Center Stage usually recounting the story's events and voicing most if not all the characters they were created to give some new stories to the first second and third doctor companions but quickly expanded to the others what exactly a town called Fortune comes in the chronology is a little debatable but definitely happened after the nowhere place and probably not too long after evil makes a reference to recent events involving trains basically evil and six land the Taurus in a train heading out west discover that the

1:03:37 doctor is being blamed for a murder that happened years before and get themselves embroiled in a traditional story of a slave driving mayor a gold mine an unrecruited love I'm not a fan of Western so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I thought this was pretty boring the story was kind of man many of the characters were stereotypes and there wasn't much of the imagination I look for in good Doctor Who Maggie Stables though really throws herself into ad voicing almost everyone and while R6 isn't as funny as Nicola Bryant's you can hear that amazingness in the Widow's assassin she does a fine job thank you oh the smell of the Wild West Evelyn can't beat it the doctor declared the smelling question was an overpowering one of lever

1:04:22 we couldn't have been anywhere other than the baggage car the air was thick with dust moats dancing in the thin slices of sunlight that spilled through the gaps in the side panels the doctor slapped his hand hard on a large brown Belize have you ever stopped to appreciate and just how fun how fundamental little iron walls to the structure of early American society well I admitted I couldn't say I had and in order to cut short the inevitable dissertation I made my way towards the door recommend that if you like westerns or Pure historicals or if you're an even complete ass anyway as I'm trying to be roughly chronological with this video next up is thicker than water evil and Swan's song

1:05:07 for the sex doctor record and release between medicinal purposes and peer pressure and a sequel to arrangements for war though set some years later it opens with six traveling with male his final companion does something to visit the planet vilak from arrangements for war and we find out that Evelyn's now living there having married rosater the man she'd fallen for during that story we get flashbacks depicting even leaving the Tardis and her current testy relationship with sex as he turns up unannounced years later he reacted extremely badly to her decision to leave though he wasn't exactly surprised when she dared I won't take anything fresh start and all that hmm a good man come and speak to him oh actually I have

1:05:54 to um well there's a Bandits to say even villains you come and see me one day won't you just pop in please I wish you every happiness Evelyn I really do goodbye then doctor goodbye evening [Music] his bad reaction that leads directly into the wrong doctors where he tries to improve his mood by meeting male Airlie the last piece of chocolate cake and nobody to bake anymore [Music]

1:06:41 all the worlds are stage and all the men and women merely players they have their exits yeah exit Dr Smythe oh Evelyn [Music] they have their exits and their entrances it's time I think a time for peas pottage time for Miss Melanie bush and one man in his time plays many hearts because the whole other problem in a

1:07:26 whole other Adventure that I'll discuss in a whole other video anyway this is a rare thing a story set in a modern day-ish alien world where there's nothing weird going on no Alien Invasion no dimensional what's it's nothing the planet is rebuilding after the invasion in arrangements for War and the big plot flows from that the three countries of United Rossiter is the elected head there are various factions and they're fighting over what to do with the remaining alien tank and alien prisoners of war and inside it all there's a deeply personal story between six and Eveland while this isn't quite as groundbreaking as arrangements for war it's a hell of a good follow-up the flashbacks depicting Evelyn leaving really feel like a writer who noticed a classic Who Trope of companions randomly falling in love in a story and leaving at the end and decided to do it

1:08:12 realistically rather than as a way to avoid murdering the companion and it is done oh so well plus there's a nice Cameo from Seven at the end helping dovetail Evelyn into him and his companions ongoing story even listen to me there's something that has been praying on my mind her Charming husband once mentioned that you would never forgive me it's taken a while but I think I can show you something to try and balance that a bit more which will be very useful when we get to a death in the family and Evelyn's prominent eggs add oh fun fact Gary Russell the original big finish boss wrote a book about Ethan's latter days in the Tardis called instruments of darkness and it doesn't line up with this what makes this confusing is that Gary Russell was still

1:08:58 the boss a big finish when the story came out so you can't see it but I'm shrugging anyway a death in the family does feature Evelyn's death and it's of great importance to the plot but it's not really her story it's a 16-hour story told in two and she's a minor character now I don't mean it's crap because it's not it is spectacular it's just very big and constructed like a perfectly metatras but I'm getting ahead of myself this is a Seventh Doctor story and he's a very different guy from sex sexy is good-hearted and blustering like a loud suit of armor surrounding a kitten while servan is more like an Eldritch monster in the form of a gnome oh doctor hey see me

1:09:43 fear me pelvis to your Gods when they punish you when they stretch you on the neutron rack I'm still here no not a man not a human being I'm a complex space-time event I Am Lord president of Gallifrey The Traveler from Beyond time I am the Sandman the oncoming storm I am the car foreign destroyer of words sometimes

1:10:28 only sometimes I am your worst nightmare [Applause] I'm the doctor and I take care of my friends and saving on his own ridiculous plots going on usually all about lovecraftian beings and whatnot but this also picks up in a lot of plots from six's stories like I mentioned before one of Seven's companions is Hanks the son of Cassie from the Nimrod stories her death almost drove Evelyn and six apart anyway this story's villain is nobody no one a word Lord he's basically a Time Lord from alternate reality where language controls the fabric of reality not physics so think carrying out it's a very silly idea but incredibly well thought out in

1:11:15 context with definite rules and a lot of cleverness oh the powers this place is granting me Doctor Josh while we've been having our little chat 73 people use the phrase nobody tells me what to do an anxious General said no one has access to the silo room and a lorry driver who's a bad poet in his spare time came up with a line nobody stops the Earth spinning or tells the sun when it can shine I'm

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