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Big Finish: Monthly Range #95
Doctor Who: Exotron and Urban Myths
Exotron (A Three-Part Story)
'The Farakosh attack us - and my Exotrons defend us.'
On a distant colonial outpost of Earth, a group of terraformers is under threat from the planet's most fearsome predator: the giant carnivorous Farakosh. All that stands between the colonists and a grisly death are the Exotrons - huge robots equipped with devastating firepower, designed by the outpost's leader, Major Taylor.
But all is not as it seems. How are the Exotrons controlled, and where did the colonists find the resources to build them? The Doctor wants answers and Taylor is reluctant to provide them.
Meanwhile, outside the compound, the Farakosh are massing...
Urban Myths (A One-Part Story)
In an expensive restaurant somewhere on Earth, three gourmets plan their evening. First item on the menu: the death of the Doctor.
'The Farakosh attack us - and my Exotrons defend us.'
On a distant colonial outpost of Earth, a group of terraformers is under threat from the planet's most fearsome predator: the giant carnivorous Farakosh. All that stands between the colonists and a grisly death are the Exotrons - huge robots equipped with devastating firepower, designed by the outpost's leader, Major Taylor.
But all is not as it seems. How are the Exotrons controlled, and where did the colonists find the resources to build them? The Doctor wants answers and Taylor is reluctant to provide them.
Meanwhile, outside the compound, the Farakosh are massing...
Urban Myths (A One-Part Story)
In an expensive restaurant somewhere on Earth, three gourmets plan their evening. First item on the menu: the death of the Doctor.
Audio CD
First published May 30, 2007
About the author
Paul Sutton
73 books5 followersPaul Sutton is a writer who has written for Big Finish Productions audio and collected novella range. He has written for the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors in Big Finish's audio story range and also a novella part of A Life in Pieces a Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield series.
Sutton also wrote two linked audio stories Arrangements for War and Thicker than Water which introduced the planet Világ and were part of the exit stories for Evelyn Smythe.
Sutton also wrote two linked audio stories Arrangements for War and Thicker than Water which introduced the planet Világ and were part of the exit stories for Evelyn Smythe.
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April 19, 2022
"Common amongst amateur fisherman, you know!"
June 2, 2022
Exotron was pretty engaging. It really felt like the robot was there. And The Doctor is pretty upset about it killing a creature that’s like a big hyena. I quite like the cover art, which has a retro sci-fi feel. Urban Myths was fine but the ending was kinda lame and, one could argue, dated. The CD extras with Nicholas Briggs traveling is kind of odd but has a nice soundscape, weirdly enough.
May 29, 2018
Underwhelming, unfortunately, as there are some cool ideas here in Exotron, but they are not fleshed out very well. Urban Myths fares a bit better, but also ultimately fails due to the style of the storytelling. For a more detailed review, visit www.travelingthevortex.com (episode #369)
January 11, 2021
Didn't enjoy this as much as some of the other big finish productions. Still enjoyable but not quite so gripping this time.
February 27, 2023
Exotron is probably a 2.5, but Urban Myths is closer to a 4.
December 12, 2023
Exotron ***
Urban Myths ****
Urban Myths ****
October 5, 2024
I'm not a fan of bundling stories like this, as it makes rating them hard. Exotron was pretty decent, but I didn't care much for Urban Myths.
May 3, 2015
Another decidedly average offering in the Big Finish audio series, this concerns a remote outpost on a desert planet using robots to defend itself from hostile native lifeforms. It's a base under siege story that tries to ring some changes on the basic format, but doesn't get very far in doing so.
Exotron is, however, another 3-part story, accompanied by a half-hour offering, which in this case is "Urban Myths". It's often been the case that these B-audios are actually better than the main offering, and that's true here, too... although, in this case, not by much. There is at least some fun with an over-the-top interpretation of what the Doctor's arrival meant for a particular planet, but what looks like it might be a reflection on different viewpoints of the same events peters out at the end into something rather less.
On the whole, not too bad, but nothing much to get excited about.
Exotron is, however, another 3-part story, accompanied by a half-hour offering, which in this case is "Urban Myths". It's often been the case that these B-audios are actually better than the main offering, and that's true here, too... although, in this case, not by much. There is at least some fun with an over-the-top interpretation of what the Doctor's arrival meant for a particular planet, but what looks like it might be a reflection on different viewpoints of the same events peters out at the end into something rather less.
On the whole, not too bad, but nothing much to get excited about.
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April 8, 2009Exotron has Five and Peri arrive on a newly colonised planet with apparently hostile aliens; but the real problem is the colonists' robots, and the fact that the chief scientist is the military leader's ex-wife. It's a fairly standard sf setting but the cast (including guest stars John Duttine and Isla Blair) take a decent script and do it well. Very enjoyable.[return][return]I was prepared to like Urban Myths as a funny piece about the Doctor and Peri feeding the Celestial Intervention Agency an antidote to their misremembering of recent history over dinner. Then unfortunately it ends with a really stupid and offensive joke about Peri waitressing all evening, which killed any charm it might have had.
December 9, 2012
The episode is set on an Earth colony in the future. Terraformers suffer frequent attacks from a native species, the Farakosh, and rely on robots to protect them. Ultimately the Doctor discovers that the robots are cyborgs, using the minds of soldiers presumed dead, connected together telepathically, and that their presence is what had been disturbing the Farakosh in the first place.
March 13, 2013
Exotron- The Doctor and Peri land on a research planet. There are machines made to protect the humans from a telepathic wolf race. One is reacting to the other. Can the Doctor stop a race from going extinct? Urban Myths- The Doctor and Peri try to stop a planet from global chaos. Time Lords come to judge him.
October 14, 2013
The story of exotron was alright but it felt like fairly mediocre scifi and I must admit Peri and 5th Doctor are not my favourites and so I found this a bit dull. The best part was the tragic love story which is not something one normally says in Doctor Who. Urban Myths I did find quite fun though. I am quite fond of the CIA and there were some great moments, like the gun store in the TARDIS.
April 8, 2015
Five finds himself surrounded by giant dogs and robots in the 3 part Exotron. The short story Urban Myths concerns the origins of the title.
July 25, 2019
Nicola Bryant and Peter Davison were fantastic as always, but this is not my favorite 5 and Peri tale.
May 22, 2020
Two excellent 5th Doctor and Peri stories.
March 21, 2015
I love "Urban Myths"! I love it!!
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