Doctor Who - The Sontaran Ordeal Review

Doctor Who:
The Sontaran Ordeal 
By Andrew Smith
Starring Paul McGann

The fourth and final disc in the Classic Doctors: New Monsters box set sees the 8th Doctor taking on the Sontarans. Yes the Sontarans.  When this box set was announced I was scratching my head why the Sontarans were included in this set as the Sontarans are as much Classic Who as the Doctors featured in Classic Doctors: New Monsters.  So I’m not so sure why they are featured in this set even if they are using the redesigned Sontarans they are still a Classic Who monster so that doesn’t really cut it when they could of used some other creature.

Doctor Who - Terror of the Sontarans Review

Terror of the Sontarans
By John Dorney and 
Dan Starkey
Starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie 
Langford

The Doctor and Mel are responding to a distress signal on a hostile alien world to find that the base that the signal originated from is deserted.   But they stumble upon a Sontaran that doesn’t seem all that mighty and appears to be afraid of something.  Soon another group of Sontarans have arrived searching for the missing research team.  The Doctor soon discovers that there is an evil on this planet that is more of a threat than a bunch of warmongering Sontarans something so evil that it drives humans and Sontarans mad that it eventually drives them to death.  So it’s up to The Doctor and Mel to figure out a way to save everyone human and Sontaran without getting killed in the process.

Doctor Who - Synopsis For Terror of the Sontarans

There are two Main Range releases this month and the first one finishes off the 7th Doctor mini trilogy with a showdown with the Sontarans.  You can order this release from the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/terror-of-the-sontarans-875

Once it was a mining facility. Then later its corridors rang with screams generated by grotesque military experiments. However when the Doctor and Mel arrive on a hostile alien world after detecting a distress signal, the base they find themselves in is almost deserted.

But not for long. Soon the Doctor's old enemies, the Sontarans, have landed, and are searching for the remnants of their previous research team. Before long they uncover evidence of strange occurrences on the planet. Of madness and death.

They are warriors bred for war, strong of spirit and unafraid of death. To fear the enemy is an act of betrayal. Nothing holds terror for the Sontarans.

Until now...

Written By: John Dorney and Dan Starkey
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Daniel O'Meara (Ketch), Jon Edgley Bond (Anvil Jackson/Technician Gyte), Andree Bernard (Tethneka/Carter/Thing #1 and #2), Dan Starkey (Field-Major Kayste/Skegg/Stodd), John Banks (Adjutant Commander Klath/Stettimer), John Dorney (Glarr). Other parts played by the cast.

Doctor Who - The King of Sontar Review (Mild Spoilers)

Doctor Who:
The King of Sontar
By John Dorney
Starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and Dan Starkey

The TARDIS has been manipulated by the Time Lords to take The Doctor and Leela to a place they had not planned on going to Dowcra base.  A base that earlier an Elite Sonataran Assignation Squad was defeated in trying to kill General Strang the greatest Sontaran in history. 

The Doctor wonders why the Sontarans would want to kill one of their own.  Especially since he does not wear any battle armor and is on a planet that is out of the way.  It appears that Strang is on the verge of having a terrible time travel device created for him by his scientist Rosato.  This could have devastating repercussions on the universe and it now becomes clear why the Time Lords diverted his TARDIS.