The Maltese Penguin (Doctor Who)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Robert Shearman Our price £7.05 (£9.99) New from £5.86 Used from £3.95 Pages: (Audio CD) ISBN: 1903654904 Pub: Big Finish Productions Ltd Pub date: 2002-11-14 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 442175

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Superb (0/1 people found this helpful)

Thoroughly enjoyable, this is what audio drama should be like, very few characters and one setting, and a cracking story that runs at just the right pace.

I can't write too much about the story without giving something away, simply put this is well worth a listen. Enjoy

Orson Welles would have been proud! (0/3 people found this helpful)

The title of this Big Finish audio adventure is a pun on the title of Welles' 1965 masterpiece based on a larger-than-life character from Shakespeare's Henry IV. This is highly fitting as it is a larger-than-life adventure and possibly the best Doctor Who original audio drama made so far.
The (Eighth) Doctor and his companion Charley Pollard arrive in a mysterious house where the scullery-maid promptly appears to drown herself. What begins as a seemingly straightforward 'whodunnit' becomes a creepy and claustrophobic foray into the recesses of Charley's mind and The both travellers' sanity.
The music is top-notch, the supporting cast excellent and McGann and Fisher (Charley) produce the goods like never before.

just brilliant... (0/3 people found this helpful)

right, so my fav big finish audios overall....um...

the holy terror
jubilee
scherzo
the chimes of midnight

common link? all written by Rob Shearman, definitely the best of the big finish writers. hes only closely followed by joe lidster and steve lyons. But to get back to chimes...

one of the creepiest and most mind bending of all the audios, one you have to concerntrate on to really get the jist of the plot. But if you can do this with ease, then this is a brilliant piece of writing. No, its as yet an unbeaten dr who story for me. totally wicked.

great acting. great twists, great monster in the shape of a house! great stuff!

Jubilant! (1/7 people found this helpful)

There is a lot of similarity between this 2003 audio play and the 2005 TV episode `Dalek'. Both were written by Robert Shearman. However, to view this as merely a now redundant prototype for the latter would be to do it a grave injustice. `Dalek' was in my opinion the best episode of the new series' so far, with a great performance by Christopher Eccleston, and great visuals. However, this play still has more depth which is what all the new TV series lacks throughout. Colin Baker is wonderful and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe again shows what a great foil she is to this doctor (a much better companion than Rose).

This is actually a really hard play to review! It is quite varied. At times I thought it was excellent, at times I lost interest. It definitely has flashes of brilliance, and yet did not leave such an overall satisfactory impression on me as other plays I have heard. It contains a few great plot twists, some wonderful dialogue and moments of humour. It also explores some good yet disturbing ideas - issues of choice and evil (see also 'Master').

This one scared me lots - and I like it!! (0/5 people found this helpful)

This play has excellent dramatic presentation, I especially loved the ending of Part 2, where the music ends it brilliantly.
I am 7 years old and to begin with this story scared the pants off me. My pants are still off me now actually, but that's because I'm a bit crazy.
Lucky it is an audio book rather than a DVD otherwise some of it would probably be too scary for me to watch.
The story is clever, scary and very funny in parts - especially all the different ways that people try to "commit suicide". Like one lady drowned herself in a basin while stnading up.
There are some good morals which is good for a story. One is that believing in yourself is important, that other people may try to change truth for you but that you don't have to believe what they say - truth is what it is, not what people try to pretend it is.

If you haven't already heard this story, you are missing out on a good one. Get it now!

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