Big Finish audio, released January 2007
Romana is traveling with Tom Baker’s Doctor and this is her story, her side of the adventure on a pleasure planet with something devastatingly wrong in the works. Naturally. Things seem a lot more obvious in the 4th Doctor adventures—the bad guys were quite obvious. It was humorous because of the obvious nature of the villains, though. It gets a bit silly with the bad guys and her tools at times.
I did think that her helper, Karna, was in on it for awhile as she kept turning up at the appropriate moments to save Romana from her predicaments. And the Doctor sure took his time shopping! It was fun to follow Romana around as she tries to solve the problem on her own and does so ultimately. Quite the little spa they stumble across! I just think Karna may keep up the sinister aspect to the spa but in a different way. Making everyone eat sweets instead until they’re sick and not allow them to get medical assistance. hehehe. very familiar that.
But overall a very fun listen. So worthy of 4 jelloids, though an argument could be made for a 3 jelloid rating because the plot moves along rather herky-jerky at times. And the orange bad lady just dashes in an out, doing the James Bond bad guy thing of throwing our heroin in a bad situation and leaving them to die. Ah-ha! Or get out of it, naturally. Stupid bad guys never learn, do they?
Romana (Lalla Ward) and Karna (Marcia Ashton)
writer: Jonathon Morris
director: Mark J Thompson