2021 Awards: 'Doctor Who'

 

TV Episodes

5) The Vanquishers

4) Survivors of the Flux

3) Revolution of the Daleks

2) War of the Sontarans

1) Village of the Angels

 

['Eve of the Daleks' will be part of 2022's awards]

Big Finish Audios

10) The Year of Martha Jones

9) The Eleven

8) The Doomsday Contract

7) The Lost Resort and Other Stories

6) Master !

5) The Tenth Doctor and River Song

4) The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Respond to All Calls

3) Masterful

2) Out of Time: The Gates of Hell

1) The End of the Beginning

Other Merchandise

5) 'Orcini' One-Shot Comic  (Cutaway Comics)

4)  'Dalek Terror' RSD Limited Edition Vinyl

3) Target Novelisations:  Dalek.The Crimson Horror/The Witchfinders

2) B&M Big Chief Studios Dalek Invasion Mini Bobble Set

1) 'DW: The Collection - Season 24' DVD Boxset

2021 Awards: Introduction

Looking back at my musings at the start of the year, I end in much more positive mood. The 'new normal' is becoming more, well normal; and theatres, cinemas and signing events have all returned for brief periods, albeit with understandable limitations. My awards will be in the same three categories: 'Doctor Who', 'Sherlock Holmes' and Theatre/Film.

Sherlockian Audio Reviews - 'Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles' (Audible Original)

 

Writer(s):   Cavan Scott & George Mann

 

Narrator/Holmes & Watson:   Colin Salmon/Stephen Fry

 

Summary: An ancient curse has awoken on Dartmoor, the members of the Baskerville family hunted by a spectral hound of Hell. With Sherlock Holmes busy in London, Doctor John Watson is sent to protect the new lord of the manor as fear and superstition run wild in the ancient countryside. Can Watson overcome his own terror to discover the truth behind the legend before the hound strikes again ?  The classic novel reinterpreted as a dark folk horror in six parts, free to Audible members.

 

Review: As with Scott and Mann’s last Sherlockian Audible Original  (reviewed here), I so wanted to enjoy this. However, yet again it went on too long (over five hours) meaning that although they were able to include sequences usually deleted from dramatisations, they also needed to add a lot of extra stuff as well. Episode 4 contained almost no canonical content at all, and Episode 1 moved slowly to allow the final line to be ‘They were the footprints of a gigantic hound’. They also introduced another recurring character played by Meera Syal, who just popped up every so often to make spooky pronouncements and turn the local villagers against the new Baronet. Colin Salmon made excellent work of Holmes’ speechifying, but I quickly got fed up of the way Stephen Fry’s Watson felt that he had to respond to each and every jibe made to him by Holmes (less is most definitely more). Stick to Stephen Fry’s reading of HOUND as part of ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection’. 

 

Rating:    (3/5) 

 

Link to audio:  https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Hound-of-the-Baskervilles-Podcast/B09LVT5BBV