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Summary: Siv meets Swiss cheese
Review: The TARDIS lands near the Thames estuary, and the Doctor and Sarah find strange things afoot (and afin, as it turns out). A scientific expedition investigating a meteorite has vanished and something savage is stalking the riverside...Based on a Doctor Who adventure released on an LP record in 1976, 'The Pescatons' is very reminiscent of Victor Pemberton's earlier 'Fury from the Deep' (perhaps crossed with 'The Seeds of Doom', one of the album's contemporaries). The realisation of the Doctor's fourth incarnation is incomplete (his piccolo, for instance, showing that Mr. Pemberton had the second incarnation still in mind), and Sarah is reduced to a generic companion. The Doctor's first audio adventure, and it's adaptation, are nothing to write home about. The advantage of the book is that Mr. Pemberton has the opportunity to add a lot of detail that I don't recall from the album (which I haven't owned for years, and didn't find memorable...), so this may be the preferred way to experience this story.
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Summary: Retread of an earlier story
Review: The TARDIS lands near the Thames estuary, and the Doctor and Sarah find strange things afoot (and afin, as it turns out). A scientific expedition investigating a meteorite has vanished and something savage is stalking the riverside... Based on a Doctor Who adventure released on an LP record in 1976, 'The Pescatons' is very reminiscent of Victor Pemberton's earlier 'Fury from the Deep' (perhaps crossed with 'The Seeds of Doom', one of the album's contemporaries). The realisation of the Doctor's fourth incarnation is incomplete (his piccolo, for instance, showing that Mr. Pemberton had the second incarnation still in mind), and Sarah is reduced to a generic companion. The Doctor's first audio adventure, and it's adaptation, are nothing to write home about. The advantage of the book is that Mr. Pemberton has the opportunity to add a lot of detail that I don't recall from the album (which I haven't owned for years, and didn't find memorable...), so this may be the preferred way to experience this story.
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Summary: Siv meets Swiss cheese
Review: When the TARDIS lands near the Thames, the Doctor finds himself harrassed by fish-people, flash-backs, and under mental attack. This is a collection-rounder-outer. It is not a good story. The fourth Doctor isn't the Fourth Doctor. The story is so FULL of holes. In one scene, two people are saved by the Pescatons: they're not eaten. The doctor thinks maybe it had something to do with their mindpower or something. Yet when dim fishies find a fourteen-year-old, they take him. (What happended to him? Last we see of him, the Pescatons are taking him somewhere, before the doctor defeats them. What happended to him?) And those two people weren't spared so they could cry wolf and bring people with brain power, the Pescatons bring attention to themselves rather easily. Well, you know what cartoons, comics, and media in general have shown us over the years. If you're really cool, you'll never die or get hurt. Look at Snake-Eyes. I could go on forever, but I'll say one more then have my peace. Everyone calls Sarah, 'Sarah Jane'. Ah, well. At least it's not as annoying as when 'the Doctor' is allways called "Doctor Who" in 'Doctor Who and the Zarbi'. In short, boring, hole-filled story, flat, untouchable people, buy this book to complete your collection.
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