2009 TOMS TARDIS AWARD WINNER
The Toymaker is hiding inside a ride in Blackpool and is just waiting for the Doctor hoping to get revenge after what happened in their previous encounter. The story was itself a pretty standard one. It works along the line of simple revenge and nothing more. The Doctor discovers that the Toymaker is the only one of his kind. I thought that was nice and gave him a human side to his character. The Doctor that we encounter in this story is not the one that Big Finish have been using for a decade but more like the one that that we knew on TV. Nicola Bryant plays the Peri that she did on TV which whilst is annoying is quite pleasing that there is continuity taking place. Together Baker and Bryant manage to perfectly recreate their 1985 relationship and not their 2006 one.
David Ballie was fantastic as the Toymaker. I was hoping for some continuity from the actor who played the Toymaker in The Magic Mousetrap. Having said that I’m glad they went with Ballie because he added something to the role that Michael Gough didn’t. Ballie’s voice was truly wonderful and the moments when he was angry were some of his best. I also thought that the character of Stefan was well played by Andrew Fettes. He was essentially the Toymaker’s dogsbody but was still very good and believable. I also thought that the character of Shardow was quite sad actually. Having being a prisoner of the Toymaker for 200 years you feel that he should be set free in one way or another.
Had this story actually been made then I think it would have been a pretty decent story. I found this story to be pretty standard and nothing more. I thought that for most of the story not much happened apart from the Doctor being trapped in a cell. When he did meet the Toymaker that’s when the story really picked up. Even though this story was Graham Williams it was John Ainsworth who made the adaptation to audio and he did a good job managing to make what probably would have been a large visual piece into an audio story that made sense.
As an opening to the Lost Season it was the most well known but I think that it’s the ‘what would have been’ thought that has been circling in peoples head for 24 years that has elevated people’s expectations (including mine) and people should treat this as a normal story.
- Best Lost Story
The Toymaker is hiding inside a ride in Blackpool and is just waiting for the Doctor hoping to get revenge after what happened in their previous encounter. The story was itself a pretty standard one. It works along the line of simple revenge and nothing more. The Doctor discovers that the Toymaker is the only one of his kind. I thought that was nice and gave him a human side to his character. The Doctor that we encounter in this story is not the one that Big Finish have been using for a decade but more like the one that that we knew on TV. Nicola Bryant plays the Peri that she did on TV which whilst is annoying is quite pleasing that there is continuity taking place. Together Baker and Bryant manage to perfectly recreate their 1985 relationship and not their 2006 one.
David Ballie was fantastic as the Toymaker. I was hoping for some continuity from the actor who played the Toymaker in The Magic Mousetrap. Having said that I’m glad they went with Ballie because he added something to the role that Michael Gough didn’t. Ballie’s voice was truly wonderful and the moments when he was angry were some of his best. I also thought that the character of Stefan was well played by Andrew Fettes. He was essentially the Toymaker’s dogsbody but was still very good and believable. I also thought that the character of Shardow was quite sad actually. Having being a prisoner of the Toymaker for 200 years you feel that he should be set free in one way or another.
Had this story actually been made then I think it would have been a pretty decent story. I found this story to be pretty standard and nothing more. I thought that for most of the story not much happened apart from the Doctor being trapped in a cell. When he did meet the Toymaker that’s when the story really picked up. Even though this story was Graham Williams it was John Ainsworth who made the adaptation to audio and he did a good job managing to make what probably would have been a large visual piece into an audio story that made sense.
As an opening to the Lost Season it was the most well known but I think that it’s the ‘what would have been’ thought that has been circling in peoples head for 24 years that has elevated people’s expectations (including mine) and people should treat this as a normal story.
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