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| The Church and the Crown (Doctor Who) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Publisher: Big Finish Productions Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £13.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 95663
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1903654750
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781903654750
ASIN: 1903654750
Publication Date: November 1, 2002
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 And now, a review for THIS story! October 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"I'll survive Doctor, I always do". So speaks the enigmatic `Nimrod', when The Doctor encounters him once more in disturbing circumstances...Despite the somewhat grating presence of The Sixth Doctor's sexagenarian companion, Evelyn Smythe, the 45th original audio drama from Big Finish is an entertaining and well-produced yarn, featuring The Doctor's latest nemesis: Nimrod. First encountered in the play: `Project: Twilight' he is a vampire-human hybrid; masterminding the unearthly experiments being conducted at nefarious secret organisation: `The Forge'. Unusually, this double CD contains two separate but linked stories featuring two different Doctors. In the first, The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on an unnamed planet and meet their old friend Cassie, a reluctant vampire. They soon discover that she is working for Nimrod, who captures The Doctor and attempts to force him, through torture, to regenerate, in order that Nimrod might learn the secrets of The Time Lords' greatest achievement. The second disc introduces The Seventh Doctor who arrives at The Forge only to realise that Nimrod is now conducting cloning experiments using DNA from The Sixth Doctor which he acquired whilst torturing him...
The second disc is more satisfying; the first merely setting the scene for the events which will be played out on disc two. Baker and McCoy reprise their now familiar roles as The Sixth and Seventh Doctors, whilst Stephen Chance provides a very `Masterish' villain with the amoral `Nimrod'. Maggie Stables is less irritating than usual as Evelyn and the rest of the cast are competent, particularly Adam Woodrofe's `Sergeant Frith', who has more depth than it seems at first. The story is bog-standard but is by no means dull and the production is as good as ever.
 Historicals...give me more..... September 5, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Historicals are great in Doctor Who. The Massacre and The Aztecs are two gleaming examples of history. And even pseudo historicals like The Time Warrior and The Visitation are very well designed with enjoyable characters. And yet from the Highlanders the total historical faded from our screens, which is a real pity. And im still waiting for a historical to appear on screen as yet in the otherwise brilliant new series...
But ah big finish seem at least to know that historicals are good! And The Church and the Crown is a good play to highlight entertaining history. A real swashbuckling romp with good characters. Set in Paris, this audio also sounds very good too. Good solid direction and sound make this a fine story. Well cool! I dare you to listen to this story and not think its brilliant....
Excellent historical romp October 17, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
"A nation divided
"A Queen's life at risk
"A net of conspiracy closing in...
"Sometimes being a time travelling adventurer just isn't easy...
"For a start there's a temperamental TARDIS that lands a few thousand years off course in 17th Century Paris. But why shouldn't the Doctor, Peri and their travelling guest Erimem take a look around the city on the morning of King Louis' annual State Ball?
"As Peri becomes embroiled in a plot to kill Queen Anne and smash the unity of the Church and the Crown, the Doctor finds himself duelling Musketeers on the streets.
"With Peri missing, Erimem catching King Louis' eye and a Musketeer's sword at your throat, could things get any worse?
"Probably..."
"The Church and the Crown", by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright, is an engaging historical adventure, somewhat more apocryphal than the historicals of the Hartnell years but much in the same vein - there is no sci-fi on offer here despite the Doctor, his companions and their arrival in the TARDIS.
As such new companion Erimem, as opposed to falling into the cliched "bewildered new companion" role, instead gets to show her strength of character by bluffing her way ino the guise of "Princess Erimem of Carnak", and actively helps the Doctor as events become more chaotic, gaining his respect to the extent that he feels able to leave her keeping an eye on things back at King Louis' palace whilst he goes off to set the world to rights, and in the process earning a permanent role in the TARDIS crew. "The Church and the Crown" is a good showing for Caroline Morris' character.
"The Church and the Crown" contains a supporting cast largely of unknowns, with no particular "special guest star". However, there's not a bad performance among them. Andrew Mackay sounds a lot like Simon Pegg in the role of the arrogant and petulant King Louis, and Michael Shallard puts in an excellent performance as the sneering Cardinal Richelieu. Nicola Bryant also deserves a special mention for her double role as Peri and Queen Anne, and in the case of the latter Bryant gets to perform in something closer to her natural accent for once, which is very refreshing.
The script is strong and features a good mixture of humour and adventure. "The Church and the Crown" is best described as a romp rather than an emotional masterpiece, but it's a very well-written romp and is most definitely above average.
swash some buckle! June 30, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
an audio story for peter davisons doctor who, on this occasion accompanied by nicola bryant as his companion peri [familiar from tv] and caroline morris as erimem [a companion created especially for audio, who first appeared in earlier story eye of the scorpion].
The story runs for four episodes each of roughly twenty five minutes and is spread over two discs.
In this story the tardis lands in medieval france, and the tardis crew get caught up in a plot that could have come from the works of alexander dumas [there's a funny reference to him] and old historical doctor who tales from the 60's, as the old plot device of one companion looking exactly like an important person is used.
There's no science fiction in this story aside from the tardis. the history isn't entirely accurate. but none of this matters. Because it's fun! It's a hugely entertaining swashbuckling romp, and well worth a listen
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