A Quick Guide to Big Finish Classic Who- Peri part 1.

0:00 [Music] Time flies. Nothing's off the table. Since my last regeneration, I'm a bit unstable. Bomb fast. I need to prove my medal. So, I'm dragging Perry off to some place dreadful. It's Takonda or Telos or Shaw Ditch or or this place. Hello and welcome to the quick guide to big finish classic who Perry part one in case you missed the earlier videos. I'm going by companion because for most classic doctors big finish didn't have series as and the stories tended to jump around each doctor's timeline and as far as I can tell there's no official authoritative agreed upon timeline for adventures. So I've separated them out

0:46 by companion. Hopefully it'll make things easier for everyone and make it harder for me to miss any stories. Perry was Six's original companion. and she traveled with Five briefly, much less briefly on Big Finnish, but she's most connected with Sex. She's a botney student from Maryland who adored Five and enjoyed a less than friendly relationship with Six in the start. Well, we all know the fate of alien spy, but they eventually got themselves into a comfortable rhythm of mutual abuse. You even managed to burn dinner last night. Well, I have never said I was perfect. If you recall, last night I was supposed to have a cold sufferer. That was an unfortunate accident. You can't go out dressed like that. Why ever not?

1:33 You look dreadful. Ta. [Music] Yuck. Bit of an anti-limax after that journey. I'm grateful, Rich. What do you expect? Applause. I was contemplating taking you to the constellation of Andromeda. Why? Haven't been there recently. That's why. What about me? Don't I ever get a say in our destination? Where would the first lady suggested? Well, I don't mind. I will venture just one question, doctor. What precisely do you do in there? Argue mainly. I love Six and Perry. It's one of the few doctor companion relationships

2:19 that's not mentoring or best friends or bestiality. No, it's a sibling type relationship with all the shit-talking that entails. I am the doctor whether you like it or not. Now, I promised myself at the start of this project that if a script made it to 20 pages, I would split out. So far, the scripts have mostly floated around the 10 to 13 page mark. But this is our first part one because Perry is his longest running companion. But not only that, you see, years after she left slash her mind wiped slash some other stuff, she came back for yet more adventures. Several times. Once about 5 years older, this happens in Big

3:04 Finnish. Once in her middle age, seen in the short film The Eternal Mystery, which technically might be the same one from Big Finnish, but maybe she stayed for decades. Who knows? Or it might be two different versions. Or it could be the same one who had a long hiatus again. And then on top of that, you get the tails from the TARDIS one who might be one of those other ones. Or possibly more than one of those other ones. Thanks to Time Lord Shenanigans, there's about seven different versions of Perry, including one who died in mind warp, one who was possessed and killed someone, one who stayed with Brian Bless and Cron and had kids, one that moved to Earth with Brian Bless and became his wrestling manager. Not kidding about that. and when it was sent to Earth and her memories wiped. We'll meet a couple of these in audio, but for more information, check out Perry and the Piscone Paradox. Excellent story. Or just read the Doctor Who Wiki for hours

3:51 and still be confused. Now, apart from the several older Perry's, there's also the very young Lost Stories Perry. Stories that were meant for TV but got scrapped. Most of sixes and Perry's lost stories were from the originally planned series 23 that got replaced with the Trail of the Time Lord. Because The Lost Stories were intended for TV, I'm putting them in their own section, not their own video, just towards the end of my stuff with Perry. Chronologically, Six and Perry are very much in the violent stage of their friendship at this point. So, The Lost Stories come very early, but I won't be covering them just yet. You see, some more might yet be released, so I want to leave as much time as possible for them to do that. They can't really add any more stories to the regular releases that came out in 2001, but they can make new lost stories. Now, a number of these are extremely early, big finish, so you can

4:37 find them for cheap on their website. The CDs are only available secondhand, though. But you can also find some of these on Spotify for free. So, if you're new, who audio, check that out. Anyway, before I begin with The Big Finnish Adventures, I need to talk about BBC Radio's mid 80s for into Doctor Who. While the show was still being rested on TV between Colin Baker's two serieses, they produced Slip Back, which makes it one of the very few Doctor Who audio adventures produced while the starring actor was the incumbent. It was even written by Eric Seward, the script editor for most of Colombards, making it as close to official as an audio adventure can get. So, it's kind of a pity that it's ass. Slipback was 60 minutes long and featured six 10-minute parts and nothing worth listening to. The main villain is a computer with a

5:23 split personality because it doesn't like the voice it was programmed with. I think I kind of tuned out a few dozen times while listening to it. You realize you're asking me to lie? Oh, simply to make a mistake in your directions. If you do this thing for me, I'll reprogram your voice to whatever you want. Is that a promise? Cross my heart. There's also a disease that has 100% mortality and kills in seconds, which somehow hasn't wiped itself out yet. A hypochondriac spaceship captain who psychically gives his crew his imaginary diseases and a whole load of nothing. Oh, to a flashist mud scavenger. This fire title almost tears in my ears. That's precisely what it did to the

6:09 Hedron. Such was the mindbending stiltedness of the performance. The mucus in the Hedron's gullet evaporated. It was forced to regurgitate Rudolph. Just spread him out quite unharmed. Quickly down here. Who knows? We might get that lucky. If that creature finds your story as indigenable as I, I think you could be right. One of the few memorable parts is a dayx machina as the time lord stop the doctor from saving the day because the computer's already going to mess up its plan. Send itself and the ship it's on back in time randomly explode and then kickstart the big bang. You must stop. What? What is happening has always

6:55 happened. It is the key to all things. You talking about? I don't know. Explain and quickly. I haven't got much time. This ship, the Vipot Moore, has always traveled back in time. The Vipot Moore will materialize at the heart of the Monlock and explode. I can't believe it. It is true. The Vipot Moore will originate the largest explosion the universe has ever known. Without it, none of us would ever have existed. I was going to stop the Big Bang. I do love it when the plot could have sorted itself out if the heroes didn't bother getting involved. On the other hand, thanks to this being responsible for the big bang, that means in a kind of weird way Column's era never ended because the whole of history and everything is just

7:40 an epilogue to slip back, which does explain so much, but is oh so depressing. I don't want to say this story is minimal effort but a few years earlier Eric Seward had worked on Terminus Niss's swansong story in TV and it also featured actor Valentine Dial in a story about a terrible disease and a spaceship accidentally caused an explosion that caused the big bang. He ejects his fuel into a void and it exploded starting a chain reaction. But how big? Biggest explosion of all time. The big bang? Yes. Anyway, Slip Back isn't available in Big Finish, but it is available as part of a special BBC audio Doctor Who box set. And the last time I checked, there was a copy on YouTube if you want to check it out. Anyway, we start off six is Solo Big Finnish

8:25 Adventures with Whispers of Terror. The third main range release after Phantom's Mori with five and the Sirens of Time with five, six, and seven. This is so early they didn't even have the rights to either Six's theme music. It wasn't until partway with Through Evil's Time that they sorted that one out. now six more than any other doctor will get severe amounts of character growth thanks to big fan. This was mostly down to Colin Baker who always wanted him to soften over time. But since Whispers of Terror is the start of that journey, he's basically fullen 80s TV sex, which is no bad thing. Six is my second favorite doctor and it's a TV version I fell in love with. He's loud, childish, arrogant, opinionated, combative, unreasonable, driven, and theatrical. But he's also the closest thing the doctor has to a paladin incarnation. Not

9:13 in a religious sense, but of all the doctors, he is the least nuanced idea about good and evil and the most zeal in fighting that evil. This comes from his first TV story, and it is terrible. And he's deep in his post regeneration madness. But I really feel this clip's some sick sap for good and bad. villain, murderer, doctors on your head. Anyway, Whispers of Terror is pure TV sex, and it is glorious. The story is pure TV6, but with one massive improvement. The script isn't crap. Big Finnish is the most consistently good Doctor Who there is. And placing this story particular with six at his most TV next to the stories from that era really shows the difference in quality. Anoy 6

9:59 and Perry still in the arguing phase of the relationship. It's a dim and dusty corridor. Doctor, can't we just leave? Leave. Leave? You mean go away and never know. Wander for all eternity and never know where we were, what might have been, what was to come. Don't shout, doctor. There might be shout. I don't shout. People who have to resort to shouting to get what they want are merely demonstrating the inherent porcity of their argument. It's something that I never never All right, doctor. Point made, I think. Before they hit the sibling like shit-talking stage, arrive in the Museum of Oral Antiquities. Museum of Oral Antiquities. Eh, this sounds interesting. Is that a joke, doctor? If you like a sound museum, and

10:46 they find a body and shortly afterwards are found standing over said body. He's dead, isn't he? Oh, yes. He's certainly dead. And since you seem to have opportunity, let's discuss motive, shall we? The door killed him. We didn't. Well, I have to admit, I would expect murderers to adopt more subdued clothing and a less boisterous approach. Boisterous? Must mean you, Perry. Would you come this way, please? It turns out there's a murderous soundwave on the list. A murderous soundwave that's intelligent, angry, and probably quite mad. Tell me who this is. Tell me. Tell me what's happening down there, Paris. I I can't, doctor. I don't know. That noise. Tell me who I am. Tell me who have you. Hey, are you all right? Tell me who I am. Tell me who I am. Get away

11:34 from me. Who I am? No. No. [Applause] This is really making use of the fact that it's audio where some stories would maybe be cowed by the loss of visuals. This positively relishes an ad. From the location to one of the main guest characters being blind to a mini detective story involving audio files being changed to the soundwave impersonating other people's voices. This is a mission statement for Doctor Who and audio and it works beautifully. This was written by Justin Richards and he said that his main inspiration was what if the voice of her conscience that drove Lady McBth to suicide was actually real and placed in a really cool sci-fi

12:19 setting and it really works. The second Perry adventure is dot dot dotish. One of the more experimental six stories, one that fits him oh so well. Ish is about language. It's the far future and Six and Perry visit an intergalactic linguistics conference about an effort to catalog every word in the English language. So Six gets to rant and rave about amazing English is that parochial way that he has. It's all language. Dictionaries don't care about transatlantic differences. at their peril. You might touch on colonial illegitimizations momentally in the name of completeness, but it's English. And most of the cast are linguists or holograms or holograms of linguists. And what happens is a bit complicated, but essentially a mimemetic plague spreads

13:05 throughout the conference, reducing people's ability to comprehend language to one word, ish. is is doctor is doctor. [Applause] [Music] Oh, let me out. Is what's happened to you? He's finally become the mind destroying the faculty you want him to be. Is

13:57 ish. I was going to do the whole rest of the review like that, but even I realized that was a bad idea. Where whispers of terror relished in being an audio adventure, this relishes in Six's love of language. He's easily the most wordy doctor. This is partially Colin Baker's doing. When filming classic Kooey, we changed up some of the dialogue to include less well-known words. So, the kids in the audience would look them up in the dictionary and increase their vocabulary. That is the smell of death. Perry, ancient musk, heavy in the air. You gave me your word, you microphalic apostate. Fruit soft flesh peeling from white bones. Look at it this way. Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coaleses, reforms into other patterns.

14:46 Other worlds. Nothing can be eternal. That's interesting. Not to say arresting. The unholy, unbearable smell of Armageddon. A little gratitude wouldn't irretrievably damage my ego. It It stopped. No. Still functioning. The dog. It It stopped barking. There was silence deep as death. It's morbid. Possibly nothing quite so evocative as one's sense of smell, isn't it? In one big Finnish story with Mel, another character even describes talking with

15:32 six as like arguing with a sororus. And he was so right. I warn you, a verbal jewel against me, as you should remember, if you use the smallest fraction of your cereble cortex, can only end in ignamin for you. Igno what? Talking to you is like arguing with a thesaurus. It pays to enrich your word power. There's two great things in Ash. It's clear love of language. It's like listening to someone comment a dictionary fight. Welcome. Oh, hello, Symposiac. Perry Sympos Cordri, the convenor of this congregated cornucopia. Hi, I'm his translator. The doctor's known quite ubiquitously for his mastery of English. Oh, is that the case? Mastery of English. And the world building. We got scient computer

16:17 programs, living words, a hollow ghost, a word with the ability to destroy language itself, all sorts of mad stuff that even wanders into some pretty horrific stuff like the fate of one of the villains and defeating the ish by using the worst language possible. Americanisms or are you not the full shilling or a few nickels short of a dollar? We need to keep upping the stakes. Lieutenant Lieutenant aluminium. Aluminum glass. Glass. It's working. Perry, can you feel the ish losing control? Kister derriè. We must yield. Give way or there might be a jam. Jelly jello jelly underground subway underpass schedule schedule. Let's call the whole thing is is connected to a mythical word that's infinitely long. The theory says that

17:04 small words tend to have many meanings while long words have less and a word that's infinitely long will be so specialized that could affect reality itself. Well, extend the length of the word to infinity as the transcendentalist theorize and well no one knows what it means. Most likely the longest word which is known by the ostentatiously latinate name of the omni verbam exists as a kind of singularity of significance. In its presence meaning itself would warp and collapse. And let me guess, no one who's found the omni verb has ever lived to tell of it. As is apt for a story about language, this is technically the first story with the doctor says the word shed. If that

17:51 sounds weirdly adult for Doctor Who, remember before New Who began, books and audios were marketkedly more grown up because the fan base was generally people had already grown up and they wanted Doctor Who that grew up with them. So, pre205 or thereabout, you generally get bloodier, weirder, more experimental, and more sexual stories than afterwards. I mean, one of five stories makes explicit references to pubic hair. See, when I said knew who affected Big Finnish, this is the sort of thing I meant. There is no way in hell that today's Big Finnish would spend 90 minutes on language, language semi-zombies, going on about amazing English is, and having the doctor swear for the first time in the show's history. Perry, I usually disapprove of censorship, but what's this in Adidolf?

18:36 Well, we can't guarantee our immunity against the problem we're facing will last. The earpieces will filter out any instances of you know what that attempt to assail you and provoke repetition. You mean if we try to say Oh, good. Now, on your way. Honestly, this is incredibly original, uses the audio medium to its fullest, and is mostly excellent. The only real issues are the complete fating Six does to English. It's borderline nationalist act. The doctor's known quite ubiquitously for his mastery of English. Is that the case? Mastery of English? Well, I'd reverse the roles personally. It's English that has mastered me. See what I mean? Excuse me. Hello. It's all

19:22 language. Dictionaries don't care about transatlantic differences. at their peril. You might touch on colonial illegitimizations momentarily in the name of completeness, but it's English, the language of Chaucer. Chaucser well of Shakespeare. Shakespeare of me. The uninfracted tongue. That's the core of the endeavor. Get it wrong. And what would be the point? I am fine with the doctor loving English. He hangs it there enough. But I really should save that level of being a jackass for Gal of Frayan. If you're a fan of Black Adder, there's an excellently subtle reference. six briefly takes over the stage at the conference. He looked at me and said, "Sausage, sausage." And then he turned on his heel and stormed out.

20:09 That's a call back to the black of the third episode about Dr. Johnson reading his dictionary. Sausage. Sausage. Blast your eyes. I think you'll find he left sausage out of his diction. Perry's next two appearances with six were special half-length bonus releases. You see, at this point, Perry was mostly paired up with five, and six was mostly with Evelyn. There were a few years between Ish and these releases, so they were a special treat for the Six and Perry fans. The first was her final flight. Six is traveling alone in lands, well, more crashes on a planet that he's not familiar with. He falls off a mountain and wakes up next to Perry. You've been out cold nearly three days.

20:54 Three days? Posterous. Hang on. I know your voice. It can't be. Perry. Yes, doctor. It's me. What are you doing here? Now 20 years older. Well, how long has it been? About 19 20 years. I think this version of her because there are many survived the trial of a time lord married Brian Blessed and hated at then she escaped and found herself in this backwater planet just in time for the doctor to arrive. It's a medieval society because Perry and the doctor arrived from the sky they think they're sparats and they're worshiping the TARDIS. They believe it contains their goddess. She's being hailed as a gift from the gods.

21:40 Goddess? Actually, she's called Sahil. Well, it's been quite a while since the old girl was deified. I'll bet she's lapping up the attention. Actually, it's become rather more than that. Unfortunately, the TARDIS is damaged and is leaking Cronin radiation, speeding up and reversing time, healing or killing people brought to and ultimately evolving a mostly harmless virus to its final form. People are dying. Perry's sick and the doctor might have to kill the TARDIS in order to save the planet. Well, what will happen to the tortoise? Her interior dimensions will fold in on themselves until until until they reach a singularity. But where then? Tais graveyard.

22:30 I don't know. Someone once told me that every time a TARDIS dies, a black hole is born. I wonder if that's true. There's plenty more going on here that I'm not even going to touch on because while the main plot is a typical sci-fi story, medieval people meeting godlike technology and it going terribly, the other stuff is a lot twistier. Some bits kind of obvious, other parts not so much. Anyway, very solid episode. Nothing too stand out. Just pure well-made competence. When I saw you again, I I I thought you thought I might be able to get you back to your own time. When we first met, I thought all I wanted to do was travel. But after all this time, I've not found

23:17 anywhere that's come even close to how I felt when I was with my friends, my my family. I never imagined it could be so hard getting back to them. I understand. Recommended, just not showy. The second bonus was cryptobiosis. An odd little story where Perry the Doctor and the TARDIS on a ship to New Orleans is a murder and the doctor gets the blame. Naturally, we can all see the blood on his hands. As master mariner of this vessel, doctor, it is my duty to place you under arrest. Just a minute, doctor. This is ridiculous. I haven't murdered anyone. Crawford was dead when I got him. This isn't my life. Yet, it remains in your grip. though quite cleverly, it's a ruse

24:02 to force the doctor to investigate the murderers. Anyway, long story short, mermaids. There are mermaids in Doctor Who, and there's one trapped aboard the shamp. [Music] There's your secret balloon. Oh my god, she's a mermaid. The murderer plans on selling her to a freak show, and her friends and family want her back. This isn't terrible, apart from some accents, though I realize I'm kind of in a glass house on that one. It's just weird that there's mermaids in Doctor Who. But I suppose over time, literally everything else fantastical has been proved to exist in it. So, I don't know why I'm complaining. This is a taut script. Excellent atmosphere and sound effects with a satisfyingly dark ending for the

24:49 prick of a villain. Oh my god. You will be our circus attraction. Get back. Well, there's not too much else to recommend it for. Anyway, after those specials, Big Finish decided that five and six could share Perry. And with the raping, she once again became one of six's primary companions. And it sapped because the reaping concentrates in her far more than the average release does. Anyway, the raping will take a little bit of explanation. And a few years earlier in 2004, there'd been a standalone seventh doctor release called The Harvest. It was the future and introduced his first big Finnish companion, Hex, a Scouse nurse. Several years later, Joseph Lster, who wrote for

25:36 both Torchwood and the Sergeant Adventures, decided to use that story as a jumping off point to create a Lewis trilogy of Cyberman stories with the Harvest as part of the trilogy. taken the interesting approach that the doctor does not experience the events in the same order as a Cyberman or some other characters. So, he can listen to the stories in basically any order. And because it's a multi-part story sharing a bunch of elements, it allowed him greater continuity and to devote slightly less time to the Cybermen in each story, which meant he could do much more personal, emotional, and companion-based stories. The Gathering had the return of Janet Fielding as Tegan for the first time in audio, and the raping was all about Perry. The raping opens in the far future. A giant encyclopedia of media called the goggle box. No relation to the later TV show of

26:22 the same name. So where are we? The goggle box. One of the human race's great racist achievements. I embracing it already. Gogglebox is just an old cutesy nickname for TV. Harry's feeling homesick, so decides to find out what happened in Baltimore after she left. So I just sit here. Yep. Now, given this is an empty room with a chair in it, it's probably a good idea. Yes, smart. A resident of Baltimore has been found brutally murdered in St. An's graveyard. Would you like to hear more or go to the next headline? Ooh, yeah. Murder in the graveyard. Spooky. The local man, Anthony Chambers, a 40-year-old father of two, was computer, stop. Mr. Chambers, computer, let me out. Thank you for

27:08 choosing the 70. So, she and the doctor returned for the funeral and there's a lot of real life fallout because she kind of didn't tell her mother that she was going off traveling. Mom, so you decided to show your face then? Mom, I've save it, Perry. Today, for once, the world does not revolve around you. I'm sorry. Aren't we all? She's 18, was on holiday on the other side of the planet, and let her stepdad know before running off with some complete strangers. So, naturally, her mother's pissed off, and they are now divorced. The family stuff is handled very realistically. And Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 really shines as her mom. I can't believe he's dead. Mr. Chambers, I know it's wrong. How are Kathy and Nate taking it? How do you

27:53 think? Please don't. What do you expect? Look, go and get something to eat or something and we'll talk later. I've got a full house. Okay. Mom, where's Howard? Well, I did accuse him of being responsible for my daughter's death. That kind of thing tends to have a negative effect on one's marriage. Dead? He thought I was dead. She's going, "Not now, Perry." I never realized it before, but she kind of has the perfect voice for an American Doctor Who actor. Powerful, authoritative, and the kind of American accent that sounds like a British person attempting to do one. Your traveling destroyed my marriage. Don't say that. You're not a child. You can face the truth. You come to my hotel room and tell me that you'll find something to do. I come back from

28:38 the caves and Howard tells me you're going traveling with some English guys. He says he's left you on the boat and that you're fine. Then we go to fetch you and you're gone. We thought you'd drowned. Of course, he was more worried about some artifact you'd stolen. I didn't mean I didn't want to. It was an accident. Where did you go for 4 months? Where did you go? When were you thinking of coming back? Huh? Next month? Next year? 198687? When? This is basically Perion 6's Aliens of London with a lot more vitriol and minus the savane. Instead, it's a horror story with some good 80s zombie movie vibes. There's a few knowing and accidental winks to knew who apart from the aliens of London stuff. The cybermen are from the future. Their future really advanced. So, their plot involves taking people over by these earring things like

29:25 in Rise of Cyberman. This conversion of the dead like in dark water and even cybermen created by nanom machines are brought up. But where new who sometimes use these ideas for gimmicks, this really revels in the horror. Something moving where? Down there. Dad. Dad's grave. It was a a scratching from the coffin. Right. This stops now. Doctor, I don't know who you are, but this stops now. Do be quiet. Doctor, all of you be quiet. Just listen. Dad, nobody breaks free. One of you

30:11 with Where's Dad? That's him. He's become a cyber map. That's not Who are you? What are you? It is me. It is Dad. The villain is a really advanced cyber leader whose plan is ingenious and plays on the expectations of the audience and the doctor. He's genre savvy and how the doctor deals with him is just ingenious. I'm not going to spoil much, but I'd like to mention his ultimate fate because it's so beautiful. I want this done on TV. The doctor leaves him maybe the smartest Cyberman he's ever faced on Mond shortly before it's destroyed in the 10th planet where his own technological ancestors take him for cyber conversion. Welcome home cyber

30:58 leader. Enjoy your future. What's left of it? Goodbye and good riddance. What are you? Why are you inferior? You are defective. Affirmative. I need repairs. You are inferior. Negative. We are the Cyberman. He's being returned to primitive factory settings. A clean slate. Commander, you will take this unit for the processing. It's so fantastically cruel. A Shad from Neihoo series 12 should have had that ending. Much better than being blasted

31:43 by the master and inexplicably cloned and put into a replica of his own broken weathered armor. Christ part of the doctor was dumb. Anyway, the story ends with an epilogue that's just hilarious in its cruelty. So cruel it almost takes you out of the story, but it really explains the shift in Perry and Six's relationship and trial of Time Lord. Their closeness, less asserbic, less aggression. Is there any intelligent life here? Well, apart from me, you mean? Don't know. Should we find out? They both go through some crap here. This is a very der story that puts Perry in particular through some severe emotional ringers. The guest cast was mostly excellent. Claudia Christian especially. Well, it looks to me like a

32:30 big white egg. And that's your expert opinion. I said it was some kind of pod from space. No, Janine from Arkansas. Of course, it's from space. So, you think the Cyberman's inside? I do indeed. So, we should destroy it. You really are Perry's mother, aren't you? Honestly, put that girl near anything remotely unusual or dangerous, and she wants to hit it till it stops moving. You expose my daughter to dangerous to to danger. We We'll set that chapter later. Now, let's just concentrate on getting it open. But also worth noticing is Denise Brier as Mrs. Vanisingham, a family friend of Paris. British intelligence. I thought so. Not much guess past me. The way you drive along. Yes, that's it. Yes. I need

33:16 you to drive me to the police station. Fell's point. Face the road. Sorry. Yes. Yes, that's the one. I knew there was something about you. Is that why you're wearing that that uh Oh, yeah. I'm I meant to be undercover as an American. How exciting. Not because the performance is great. It It's not. It's kind of cartoony and doesn't fit the tone. But Brier was a legendary voice actor who had a career dating back to the 50s. She's probably most famous for voicing Zelda and Terrahawks. Who's the worst? I'm the worst. Everybody knows that I'm the worst and the meanest queen that's ever been bought. If I tried, I could be worse. Sadly, this is her only who role. Oh,

34:03 fun fact. We've all seen this meme. It's from an old 1970s British sitcom called It Ain't Half Hot Mom. Oh dear. Outside. Never mind. It's about British soldiers in India during World War II. They're a concert party. A group of soldiers there to put on shows to entertain the other soldiers. Kind of like a USO show, but without the fame. The character was Sergeant Major Williams who's dedicated to trying to get the concert party to the front line where they can hopefully die. Later on, Winter Davies was on Terrahawks with Denise Brier, but that's not the fun fact. The doctor quotes this in the raping. I am one of the last. Have all the Cybermen finally died? Oh dear, how sad. Never mind. That was Williams' catchphrase. Oh dear, never

34:51 mind. So now you know. Anyway, the reaping was excellent. Highly recommended. And the Cyberman plot continues in the gathering along with a couple of characters and I'll go into that in one of my fifth Doctor videos. I'll cover the harvest in my seventh doctor ones. Perry next turned up in Year of the Pig, one of my least favorite Big Finnish stories, not just Doctor Who of all time. Based on the cover, I was hoping for something inspired by a historical pig trial. You know, where people, usually medieval people, would try a pig for a crime, but like a weird 20th century version. But nah, there's shenanigans in a small holiday town in the Belgian coast as insufferable pricks are generally being insufferable. One of these insufferable pricks is called Toby the sensient peg. And he spends about half the story

35:37 sitting in his hotel room and eating. Right on time. Let's go through the bay. One pot of dargiling. One crystal bowl of sherbet bon bonss. Lemon and strawberry ones. One dish of macadamia nuts and dried figs. One plate of cucumber sandwiches crusts guillotined. Essier couldn't have cut them more cleanly. Essier had people to do that for him. They've forgotten the shortbread. Should I ring down? I think you'd better. I need something sugary to keep me alive until 11. Elsewhere, an insufferable man pretending to be detect was on the trail of Toby. I knew a girl who kissed like you. Maril Ferra, the trunk murderous of Sanjiman, strangled her victims with the cord of her silk dressing gown, but they all

36:24 went happily to the grave, or I should say to the left luggage department of the garden. Excuse me. My thanks, Miselle. You have just saved the life of Inspector Alonsos Shardalo. There's an insufferable old woman who's a fan of Toby. He made his fortune in various freak shows. I pride myself on my knowledge of the theatrical profession and its allied arts. Do you? I profess a passionate interest in the conjurers, prestige, prodigies, and few namblists of Europe. And yet your nare is not familiar to me. Well, my work has been a little further a field frequently. Do you know a place called Veros? Of course. It's one of the And islands. And the least insufferable

37:11 character, Toby's nurse, is just kind of hanging out, being less insufferable. There's a man in a deck chair with a huge pile of books all wrapped in brown paper. He's not exactly dressed for the beach. Spats the color of a poison bottle, yellow trousers striped like a humbuck. And he's eating a piece of cake. What kind? Battenburg. It matches the pattern of his waist coat. Sorry, I really tried to not be as blunt as this, but this really wasn't for me. Matthew Sweet, who wrote it, has a doctorate from Oxford in this period in history, and it is crammed full of minutia. You know, Perry, I think I'm lucky to have finally found myself a persona with sufficient

37:58 sensitivity to appreciate P. Usually I'm all for that, but it's a sort of G and Wister upper class English early 20th century Pratt historical minutia. And no, just no, not for me. Honestly, it kind of reminded me of the behemoth, but without flipping constants riffing everything. And the whole story has been hanging out with the rich [ __ ] at the ball. Having said that, well, it's not for me. It might be for you. So, here's the sort of stuff you can expect. Judge for yourself. Now, what can we do to amuse ourselves? We can't look through the window at the rolling scenery, can we? It's Belgium. It should be this next turning. Right

38:44 home, doctor. How are we doing for time? Well, if you keep it up at this rate, we ought to be able to overtake them at the next crossing. But how are we going to stop the train? I'm not sure. Ever read the railway children? I'm not waving my panties in the air for anyone. And after that, well, my last few incarnations haven't been great biblomaniacs. The third one, he was more interested in axle grease and looking in the mirror than the French classics. And as for my immediate predecessor, what about him? Well, he preferred cricket and fizzy lemonade to reading. Unless, of course, it was a boy's own yarn about some ya aristocrat yomping through the Brazilian rainforest, depriving the natives of their orchids. I've read that. Hello. Room service for you, Spector.

39:32 Hello. Nobody home, which makes it all easier for us to have a snoop around. That's what I was hoping for yet. Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't really feel physical pain. I understand that we gave up that little habit some time ago. Get off me. Hold still. How do you expect me to tie you up when you're struggling? So, [Music] I'd adventure that the trunk murderous herself couldn't have done a better job. Then, meet me back here. Right. Oh, hang on. Where is this Turkish steam bath? Turn right down that corridor, right at the end, left through the double doors with the stained glass elephants. Then follow the smell of stale sweat until you reach the door marked men's sauna

40:18 incorpor. You know what that means, don't you? something about the men's sauna offering corporal punishment. See you back here as soon as. So, now that you have an idea if you agree with me or not, here's some trivia. The insufferable old lady, Mrs. Boltitude, fan of Toby, was played by Morin O'Brien, who played Vicki, one of the first doctor's companions back in the 60s, and I didn't even recognize her voice. Obviously, she was about 45 years older, but I'm still impressed. Toby was voiced by Paul Brookke, who's basically been in everything in British TV between the 70s and the 90s. But if you watch my stuff, you might remember him from the Mad Death. And Toby's nurse was played by Aua Ando, who earlier that year played one of the cat nuns in New Earth.

41:04 And the next year was start to play Martha's mom. I am trying to not go into the plot for this because apart from really not liking it, there are twists and if you do end up liking it, I really don't want to spoil them for you. It certainly keeps you guessing. And one last thing. Six casually mentions Marvel characters Powerman and Iron Fist and an antique back number of Powerman and Iron Fist. He's explaining a very Douglas Adamsish thing where a freak event with an Iron Fist and Powerman comic and a science thing that brought its advertisements into existence. I was thinking that when you were looking through that telescope of yours. Did you know that in the middle of the 25th century, the world was flooded with X-ray spectacles? Well, they're just a con from the small ads. Indeed, they shouldn't have existed. People said they

41:50 were preposterous. Well, once they had a good look at their neighbors trolling about in their underwear, and they were preposterous. They had no place in the universe. They've been summoned into existence during an industrial accident at a plastics factory involving a matter synthesizer and an antique back number of Powerman and Iron Fist. Well, the company boomed for a year, but then business suddenly collapsed. Why? Sounds like a wonderful invention. Nobody knows how. The factory was completely destroyed by a rampaging horde of sea monkeys. It's probably my favorite part of the story. If you don't count the bit where six gets into a fight with Marcel P and has a minor breakdown over it. Don't worry, doctor. I'm sure he'll forgive you. Forgive me? Marcel P was one of the most notoriously

42:37 sensitive authors in the French cannon. I wasn't aware that he ever left his bedroom long enough to have dinner in a restaurant. He wouldn't even go to the theater, you know. He'd just lie there under his quilt and listened to the play being relayed over the telephone. Had to think, I grabbed him by the shoulders and called him Marcel. Well, yes. And breathe pork fumes up his nose and told him what I thought of Swan. Yes. How embarrassing. Well, try not to give it too much thought, doctor. You never know. The incident might end up in a book. I do hope not. Next was recorded time in other stories. Rather than one four-part story, this was four one-part stories like 100 with Evelyn. Now, some releases like this have a theme or a rough continuity joining them together.

43:23 This doesn't. It's just four short Doctor Who adventures. First is Recorded Time, a very silly little tale where the Doctor and Perry end up in the court of Henry VII, and he wants to make Perry's next bride. At the same time, a monk has a magic pen that writes things into existence, and Henry wants him to use it to make him immortal. Will you be my queen? Henry, we've only just met. Besides, you're already married. Together, we'll reign over everything, even time itself. Scrier, right? Of course, your majesty. All I can say about this is the monk's already writing stuff into existence for him. So why not write Perry into marrying him? Hell, why wasn't his first order make me immortal and make it so I

44:09 don't need to use the monk and the magic pen again? This is actually pretty good logical issues aside. The doctor is mistaken for a wandering jester because of his outfit and he ends up in the stalks which is just hilarious. Splendid. Now, let us see if I can hit your nose. I'd really rather you didn't if it's all the same. You for someone with a reputation for the greatness of his intellect, you really are a Philistine. Oh, the hour grows late and you begin to bore me. You'll forgive me if I'm not offended. I bid you a good night in the

44:54 stalks to contemplate what is to cross a king in love. And because the events are at Smith, it is very possible that 11 Amy and Rory had a good laugh and snuck past them when they were to lose Rory's phone charger. The second story is better. Paradox aside, basically the TARDIS receives a message from a destroyed planet with a mythically powerful armory and the message is from Perry. play. I've been asked to record a message to help you. But that we are prisoners if the alien voice. I know. What I don't know is why it's being broadcast from the legendary lost planet of Senos. Or how? Indeed. Naturally, figuring that this is going to happen

45:39 anyway, the doctor decides they should investigate. This is a very simple story of timy wimy stuff, but very competently handled. Though the villains, the evil Vuly are basically a stupider version of the Dravens. And how stupid are they? Well, like the Dravens, they're a matriarchal warrior species. But unlike the Dravens, they are so stupid they set their computer, which will do anything you tell it to, to accept any order from a woman. Any woman of any species, including woman prisoners called Perry. You are female. All females are valid. Really? [ __ ] This instruction cannot be countermanded. Stop. Transport these two guards to the planet surface and ship ignored. [Music]

46:25 I am a woman. Hear me roar. So yeah, them getting themselves killed at the end is too good for them. I really feel the third and fourth stories are the best in this set though. Three is a most excellent match. And [ __ ] it, I am going to spoil the hell out of this because this could make for an excellent dep. Perry is in Pride and Prejudice. It's a holiday type thing that involves brainwashing. So, she believes she's a character in pride and prejudice world. And these strides are too tackle tight. Officer BB, I can barely cruise. Of course, she has two sitters who want to marry her. The charming Mr. Darcy and the mysterious Dr. John Smith. I have hopes for a union of my own with the family.

47:10 Have you indeed? Well, I have heard Miss Perry holds you in high regard, but can such a lowly family be a suitable match for one of your lofty status? As I say, doctor, Miss Brown has fostered unfamiliar feelings in me. Please don't let me keep you. I have a mission of my own. We shall see whom fortune favors. Please forgive the interruption, Miss Brown. I have an obligation that cannot wait. Dr. Smith, Miss Brown, despite all appearance to the contrary, I have always had the highest regard for your um spirit and many other qualities which are not

47:57 unattractive. I am here to request your hand in marriage. Now, the doctor knows they're in a simulation. You see, he's trying to rescue Perry from it. And Darcy is a malevolent program, and through symbolically becoming his in marriage, she'll consent to become his in real life, and he'll be able to download into her body and run off and do evil, I assume. Of course, the program is constrained by the simulations, so it needs to get her to agree to marry him. And the program can do other works of fiction, too. So, what happens if someone starts integrating other classic literature into the story in an effort to defeat him? as in control the program by controlling the parameters that he can operate in. What's that in here? Cranon, the password. Oh, there's code being pulled

48:42 from the Hardy matrix. I can't see what's Hardy. You've got Thomas Hardy in here. Be lucky to get out alive. I'm afraid I have another request, Miss Petty. You see, I cannot bear to count the days till you become Mrs. Derville. I too cannot wait to take the Derville name. So why wait? What? Damn. Interference. Going to have to recalibrate. Leaving so soon, Dr. Smith. Ah, Mr. Heath Cliff. Now, is it? I'd have you

49:28 stay and join me in a game of chance. said you may. Then again, you may not. What is this, Sherad? You see, only now dare I own who I have been as well as who I am. You may know of Mo Flanders by reputation, late of the colonies. Funds were low. So, my ward and I set sail for England. It is really clever stuff and it even work as a better than average holiday story in Star Trek. Part four question marks is roughly as good. The doctor par and some other people are in a derelic ship. Or is it a base? Wherever they are, it's seen better days. Can you feel that? Some sort of

50:14 vibration under the floor. It's getting stronger. Get away from those pipes, both of you. Quickly. Stretch is increasing. Now, don't just stand there. Come on. The power is going on and off. There's ominous sounds and no one has any memory of who they are. Question marks is what everyone calls the doctor because whatever this is. I am not a what, Mr. Stone. I'm a who? Yes. And it looks like you always were. Sorry. The question marks on your collar. What question? Oh. Oh, yes. How odd. The acoustics are all wrong. [Music]

51:02 You really are a strange one. Plenty of the things we can recall. As if there are basic skills and knowledge ingrained within us. I wonder if I'm some kind of opera maestro. Diva, more like. Do you think that's true? You heard that, Vto? Not that. This is a classic example of people sussing at a situation piece by piece and making mistakes about who they and other people are based on evidence in front of them until it all comes crashing down with a devastating ending. And it's not a bad ending. It is a great ending. It's just bleak and crushing. Overall, Recorded Time is definitely more good than bad. And even the bad parts is worth listening to. Anyway, as part of the 50th anniversary

51:48 celebrations, a big finish put a set of disconnected stories set in 1963. Five got a riff and beetle mania. Seven at a story about the Kennedy assassination. And six, got 1963 the space race. One of my favorite big Finnish stories because it's completely [ __ ] insane. In fact, I'll dramatize the writing process with a couple of lines. You realize this idea is utterly ludicrous and cannot possibly work. Miss Petro, those are my favorite kinds of ideas. It's the USSR and the Soviets are having trouble with man space flight. The craft with one of the first human cosminauts has vanished on the side of the moon. Luckily, the doctor and Perry turn up and are instantly mistaken for some scientists/KGB agents so they can help out. And when the capsule finally does return to

52:34 Earth, it's not a person inside. Can you hear me? Over. Please let me out. Let me out up here. She's alive. Yes, it certainly sounds like it. Had shields have now been cut. Over. Then open the capsule. Get her out of there. Over. Opening hand. My god. I don't believe it. What is it? Miss Petro, report. Report. It It's absurd. Cosmonaut Talonov is gone. There's There's a dog inside her space suit. A

53:20 dog? It's Leica. Leica, the space dog now speaking perfect Russian with the missing cosminaut's voice and wanting revenge on mankind. There you go. That's better. Can stretch my legs. can. What are you doing? I must be free. Free? Christina, what's going on? All the animals have gone crazy. Yes, because they know that I'm here. What the? I recommend you run, human, if you don't want to be torn to pieces. Stay back. Stay back. You see, like was a bit miffed about being a stray dog and then being sent into space in a suicide mission. So when she got the chance via some space [ __ ] to harvest human

54:05 body parts to elevate all animal to human level intelligence and speech, she took it. But now it is time for a revolution. For animal kind to rise up and take this world. And now she means to wipe out slashfarm humanity for her transan animalist aims. No, my comrade, we will not kill them. Not yet. Not until we have what we need. Anyway, before along, she's using her paws to strap down and vivisect Russian soldiers to upgrade her comrades. What are you doing? What do you want with me? Your vocal cords and your brain. What? Comrade, pass me the surgical knife, could you? Thank you. Please

54:53 don't do this. You You don't have to do this. Don't worry, human. You won't suffer for very long. and handing out guns to any who can hold them. This is possibly the heaviest mix of ridiculous and horrific the Doctor Who has ever managed to produce. And that is saying something. All the monkeys are now armed. We are comrade Leica. Then it is time we went on the attack. Comrades, this world is ours for the taking, and we will take it by tooth and by claw, by sweat and by the blood of our enemies. Now, I know you're mad. I just wanted to make sure. It was interesting to see

55:39 Perry, the early 80s all-American girl behind the Iron Curtain, getting to see how the other half lives, flirting with a nice Russian boy who's noticed their accents a little Western. Do you have a girl backing Kiraov? Uh, no. No, just my parents. Where are you from? Your accent suggests you're not from Russia. No. Where does it suggest I come from? Somewhere in the West, I think. Possibly Latvian. Yes, that's it. Latvian. This is just [ __ ] amazing. Easily one of my favorite who stories because it just keeps amping up the crazy. You who thinks it's being zany when there's a dinosaur on a spaceship and or someone yells at the name of the episode, dinosaurs

56:26 on a spaceship. I'm riding a dinosaur. A spaceship. I know this is a semi-ensient black hole. A dog sitting off a nuke. A secret CIA moon base. Monkeys with rifles against a Soviet army. The dogs are driving a jeep around a base, dragging a pile of meat behind him like the pied piper, and a genocidal Leica. Do not kill the defenseless. We shall use them to give the rest of us mind and voice. But to those who would kill us, those who have captured and tortured us, we will show no mercy. Vengeance will be absolute in the name of Animal Kind. Animal kind. Just making the innocent space dog the

57:13 villain is madder than anything the TV show has ever done. [Music] Even this this might be the only time the doctor takes stock and tries to work out exactly how many versions of him are on Earth in a given moment. He knows that there's at least 11 versions of them on Earth right now. And it's not just a random number. Each of those doctors are in real stories on Big Finish or elsewhere. The majority are in light at the end. Big finishes giant multi-d doctorctor crossover for the 50th anniversary where the master takes on the first eight doctors though four five six seven and eight are the main characters but that's a crisis crossover so we'll be covering that in a special separate video. Anyway, I'm going to end this here. We're about a third of the way through Perry's sixth doctor adventures. So expect two more videos

58:00 with her and many more highlights because Perry's best adventure is yet to come. These releases are mostly very early big finish, so they're among the cheapest you can buy as downloads on their site or, you know, find for free in Spotify. Alas, the best of these, The Space Race, is also the newest, and unless there's a sale, it's basically full price. So, if you want a copy of it, I would really suggest looking for a secondhand physical copy. But, however you buy it, it is worth that. If you want to check out some good cheaper ones, I suggest and Whispers of Terror. The worst story is definitely you're the pig, but that really doesn't seem to be universal feeling, so that might just be a me thing. You might dig at it. Anyway, see you for Perry part two. One world's very like another. Even Earth's got

58:46 mysteries to uncover a causing a commotion. Got to help George Stevenson. What do you mean? You meet one a moral renegade time lady. Am I okay? This Spains me to say aloud, but I'm dripping sweat from my noble brow. Okay, we're