Let me get this blog back on track with three quick Big Finish
reviews. first up, Fanfare for the Common Men by Eddie Robson, directed by Barnaby Edwards. The first in the Big Finish 1963 trilogy.
The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa are in 1963 to see the Beatles but no
one seems to have heard of them. Instead the band that was mentioned in passing by
Susan in the very first episode of Doctor Who have taken their place in history and the Doctor wants to know why.
On the plus side the music in this story is fantastic. Howard
Carter has come up with some catchy pop tunes that sound just right for the
period and he's helped by some great performances by Mitch Benn, Andrew Knott and David Dobson as the band
members with those familiar Liverpudlian accents. Having said that the rest of
the story rather left me cold. The Doctor and the Nyssa investigate and
discover the inevitable alien who is meddling with time, and although it is the
standard four episodes long it just whizzed past without leaving much of an
impression on me.
Not a terrible story but the pairing of the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa
is one of the least interesting teams that have Big Finish currently have. Let
me be generous and call it a 3 out of 5 mop top haircuts story.
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