Customer Reviews:
 HIGHLY ENTERTAINING.....4 and a half stars October 7, 2007
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Urgent calls really makes this package. It is such a cleverly written one episode gem, it should be made into a television story. Considering theres only two main stars its a great yarn. Doctor Who never seems to be lagging or lacking anything. Always new writers come on board and add onto the many adventures the good Doctor has had. And here is a prime example of a great mini adventure.
Im not saying ID isnt good, in part two and three it is, its just the first part of this story thats a little too long, and doesnt have an over abundance of great moments or interest. But from the end of episode 1, things get far better. Colin Baker is excellent of course, and those who say this seems to be a slide back to his catty edgetv days need to think that maybe this story is set before his vastly humanised other big finish audios you know. Dont take it all out on him for goodness sake. and another good thing in id is the return of the great Sara griffiths, shes so good in her role on Delta and the bannerman, and shes great here too, its just a shame she couldnt have had her delta accent on this play, but she plays too serious a role i suppose...still a pity though. The scandroids do have good voices too, this just would have been better if it was a two part story, But it is still far more interesting than nearly all rubbish on tv these days, but then again thats not hard. Doctor who is never totally rubbish! Never...
 Highly Enjoyable Adventures September 30, 2007
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The second from Big Finish I've purchased, and again I have to say it's highly enjoyable. This is (as has been mentioned) in effect two in one. First is ID, a three-parter and then Urgent Calls, a single part story.
ID sees the Doctor arrive - unsurprisingly - alone on a distant rubbish dump. Although at the time he is unaware of where he is. Set in the Earth's future, the dump is full of old computers and other technology still full of data, which is extracted. The Doctor discovers the Lonway Clinic, which does personality surgery. This alone the Doctor finds disturbing, and soon after his arrival Scandroids used to gather the data end up turning mad and killing any human it connects to to provide "priority data". From there the story develops quite interesting and excitingly, by no means stretched or concised to fit into the three episode format. Very enjoyable, and interesting to find the Sixth Doctor working alone, which seems odd to me, but actually works really well!
Then there is the single episode Urgent Calls. Through a number of wrong numbers and coincidences, the Doctor finds himself speaking to a girl from the 1974s, however the seeming innocent wrong number, has more to it than it would appear.
The whole CD is incredibly good, preferable to Big Finish's previous Renaissance of the Daleks and strongly recommended!
Information May 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Another audio adventure for the sixth doctor who. Although this is a little different to previous ones as it's actually two stories. One lasting three parts. Another of just one part in duration.
In the three part story, the doctor arrives on a world where a vast amount of computer and robotic technology has been dumped, creating one big landfill of the stuff. People live here, and survive by selling what they can find. Elsewhere on the planet there are researchers, who are looking into the work of a scientist who has vanished. When people start to go missing, and robots behave in odd ways, the doctor has to face a deadly threat to the people of the world.
This story is in three twenty five minute long episodes. The first one takes a while to get going and seems over familiar, and doesn't really grab. But things take a different turn in part two which is thoroughly involving. All the supporting cast really come into their own, and produce good characters with some very good performances. You will probably see the end of episode two coming, but that's not a problem as the story is so involving. You have to pay close attention to part three as there's a lot of technical explanations for what's going on. It does also cover a few interesting themes that make the listener think about them, and that's always good. So despite a slightly weak start, this goes on to become an above average story.
The one part story on the disc is urgent calls, in which the doctor is in 1970's britain, and answering a ringing telephone leads him to discover a threat to the human race. And into an interesting relationship with an ordinary woman.
An excellent two hander play, as it consists almost entirely of conversations between the doctor and the lady, and they develop a quite touching relationship. There's hints that the doctor is doing something bigger that you never quite get to find out about, although this will evidently be dealt with in future one parters on future stories. It's possibly a few minutes too long, but as a look at how the doctor affects the lives of the people he encounters, it's really very good.
All in all an above average audio and well worth listening to
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