Doctor Who – Destiny of
The Doctor
Vengeance of the Stones
By Andrew Smith
Performed By Richard
Franklin
Two fighter jets are on a
training exercise when one of them disappears.
UNIT has been called in to Scotland and The Brigadier and The Doctor
enlist the help from a local lieutenant named Mike Yates. Mike Yates knows the area pretty well and is
soon helping The Doctor investigate a stone circle. The stones are over a thousand years olds
but The Doctor and Mike Yates seem to think that there is something unusual
about them. The Doctor soon discover
that aliens have been harnessing the power of the stones and want to extract
revenge against the humans for what they have done to them when they first
arrived thousands of years ago. So it’s
up to The Doctor to stop the aliens from destroying the Earth and to save a
young lieutenant who has a promising future.
I absolutely loved
Vengeance of the Stones. It was a really
good story and we get to see some insight on how Mike Yates ends up joining
UNIT. The previous two stories have been
Doctor heavy but this one is centered more on Mike Yates. I thought this was a pretty good change of
pace as The Doctor did have a fair amount of time in this story but it was good
to see how Mike Yates got his foot in the door and became a regular in the UNIT
stories we have all seen on TV. It was also interesting to see him confront
the aliens and what his reaction would be to them. It was also interesting to see how he would
react to The Doctor when he discovered that he was an alien.
Vengeance of the Stones is
a pretty good UNIT story and I could see this story on TV during the Pertwee
era during the Seventies. Andrew Smith
does a wonderful job capturing the feel of that era and the characters were
done really brilliantly by Richard Franklin who does a pretty good Brigadier impersonation.
So far the Destiny of The Doctor series
has been top notch and a good 50th Anniversary celebration for the
good Doctor and you should be getting these audios and give them a listen.
Grade A –
