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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
- Narrated by: William Hartnell, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Summary
The travellers arrive in the dangerous domain of the Toymaker, where their failure to win at a series of games could result in them becoming his playthings for eternity. Apparently innocuous nursery characters reveal deadly intent, and for companions Steven and Dodo the stakes are raised with every game of blind man's buff and musical chairs. The Doctor, meanwhile, is rendered invisible and given the challenge of completing the fiendishly difficult Trilogic game.
This fondly-remembered story, only one episode of which survives in the television archives, is narrated by Peter Purves who also played Steven in the story. Michael Gough is the Toymaker and Jackie Lane is Dodo, whilst Carmen Silvera adopts a number of roles.
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- Christopher Hedgcock
- 31-10-22
Fun creative story
So this is one of the many missing story’s from the classic era of dr who and it’s a good one that flys by without you realising it the only thing that bugs me with these digital releases is that when new audio sources come along they don’t attempt to fix up older releases as with episode 3 there are random points where the audio quality just randomly drops then picks up again like nothing happened I get these are releases taken from fan recordings (not that I’m against that I love that that’s a thing)but it’s still a bit odd
The only other thing which is a nitpick is that why is the last couple minutes of the previous story the ark included as a first chapter
Beyond all that though this is well worth your audible credit so go for it
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- skye man
- 17-07-18
A decent attempt to restore a lost classic
The story is told using the surviving audio of the lost serial but sadly it doesn't really work in audio form as the Celestial Toymaker was obviously a very visual story which doesn't really translate well this format
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Ned
- 02-06-07
Macabre & sinister fun
One of the more bizare Doctor Who adventures, The Celstial Toymaker sees the film actor Michael Gough put on a sinister turn as the eponymous villain. Played out like a demented gameshow, this imaginative little romp will delight casual listeners and dedicated fans alike.
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