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The Fourth Doctor at Nest Cottage #13
Doctor Who: Serpent Crest, Part 3-Aladdin Time
Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the third of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey.
Trapped underground, the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey encounter a small boy who claims to be Aladdin, in search of a fabled lamp. He joins them on their own quest, to find a power source in this weird domain and switch it off.
Many obstacles lie in their way. Vast rooms stuffed with exotic items give way to torch–lit tunnels and deadly precipices. Creatures of mythical proportions lie in wait. Peculiar atmospheres take their toll on them. Perhaps strangest of all, the Doctor’s multi–coloured scarf appears to take on a life of its own…
As friends are separated and uneasy alliances are formed, the strange environment attempts to claim them. Will the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey ever get back to Hexford? And will Aladdin discover who he really is?
With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey, Guy Harvey as Aladdin, Sophie Ward as the Storyteller, Terrence Hardiman as the Gryphon, Andrew Sachs as the Scarf, Simon Shepherd as the Magician, and Su Douglas as the Toad, Aladdin Time is the third of five linked stories written by Paul Magrs.
Trapped underground, the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey encounter a small boy who claims to be Aladdin, in search of a fabled lamp. He joins them on their own quest, to find a power source in this weird domain and switch it off.
Many obstacles lie in their way. Vast rooms stuffed with exotic items give way to torch–lit tunnels and deadly precipices. Creatures of mythical proportions lie in wait. Peculiar atmospheres take their toll on them. Perhaps strangest of all, the Doctor’s multi–coloured scarf appears to take on a life of its own…
As friends are separated and uneasy alliances are formed, the strange environment attempts to claim them. Will the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey ever get back to Hexford? And will Aladdin discover who he really is?
With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey, Guy Harvey as Aladdin, Sophie Ward as the Storyteller, Terrence Hardiman as the Gryphon, Andrew Sachs as the Scarf, Simon Shepherd as the Magician, and Su Douglas as the Toad, Aladdin Time is the third of five linked stories written by Paul Magrs.
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First published November 3, 2011
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August 4, 2017
Each instalment of this story is written in a different style. It works better than I would have thought and of course anything with the Doctor and the scarf is a good trip.
October 30, 2020
The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Wibbsey get sucked into the serpent's egg that has been infused with fantasy worlds created by the imagination of Andrew the boy in the last story, (cyborg Alexi Robatov having lost his memory from story 1 also, for those following).
They end up in the Arabian Nights - specifically Aladdin and this tries to be really clever paralleling worlds within worlds with stories within stories - Scheherazade being one of the imperfect narrators. Its a tad pretentious and too clever for its own good. What I wanted was an exciting story, which this really isn't because its too complicated.
The highlight is the doctor's scarf which comes alive at one point and becomes a snake demon which is just frankly cool. Aladdin is of course our ever changing boy Alexi-Andrew-Aladdin each time with no memory of his past. The episode is a real oddity and doesn't seem to fit very well with the previous two instalments.
The whole series is very disjointed. I really hope Magrs manages to tie everything together in the last story because as it stands Cybog Romanovs, a Victorian rectory and now Aladdin are really too far apart to gel into a continued narrative.
They end up in the Arabian Nights - specifically Aladdin and this tries to be really clever paralleling worlds within worlds with stories within stories - Scheherazade being one of the imperfect narrators. Its a tad pretentious and too clever for its own good. What I wanted was an exciting story, which this really isn't because its too complicated.
The highlight is the doctor's scarf which comes alive at one point and becomes a snake demon which is just frankly cool. Aladdin is of course our ever changing boy Alexi-Andrew-Aladdin each time with no memory of his past. The episode is a real oddity and doesn't seem to fit very well with the previous two instalments.
The whole series is very disjointed. I really hope Magrs manages to tie everything together in the last story because as it stands Cybog Romanovs, a Victorian rectory and now Aladdin are really too far apart to gel into a continued narrative.
January 17, 2012
Latest of the Serpent Crest series of Tom Baker audios, with the Doctor and Susan Jameson's Mrs Wibbsey trapped in an underground cavern filled with treasure and a boy called Aladdin (who appears to be the same boy from the two previous audios and is certainly also played by Guy Harvey). It's a bit of a run-around tale, whose most interesting idea is the Doctor's scarf coming to life and acquiring the voice of Andrew Sachs, and need not detain those who have not yet got into this series. I have better hopes for the coming Big Finish audios with Baker reunited with Louise Jameson and Mary Tamm.
January 27, 2013
A very clever progression of this series. The Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey are trapped inside a boy's imagination. The story of Aladdin, and of the Arabian Nights were put to good use and the Doctor's famous stripy scarf gets a well deserved starring role.
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