Audio Club: Unregenerate!

It’s time to listen to and discuss Unregenerate!

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This story isn’t bad persay, but as you can tell from the length of my review, there’s really not much to say on it.

One good idea but a story that feels like circling around a drain.

Full review here, if you enjoy, please leave a like

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To be honest, I’m not a fan of this one(

McIntee is a great writer, but this one didn’t hit for me.

I like the idea, and I guess I hyped myself up wrongly, because the cover and the name implied that it would be about regeneration lore, but instead I got something very very confusing(

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought this story had much more potential

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I remember quite enjoying this one and I always welcome 7/Mel stories. (Although they had more time on TV than 6/Mel, the Wilderness Years seemed to focus much more on 6/Mel and 7/Ace so I always loved having 7/Mel stories).

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Gave this one 3*. Don’t remember much of it now. Think it was basically fine but nothing terribly special

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The earliest Seventh Doctor story in the BF catalogue is definitely something. The best part of it is the delightful taxi driver. It’s good but quite overwhelming.

7/10

Unregenerate! is a dense, concept-heavy early Seventh Doctor adventure that leans hard into Time Lord politics, mind-swapping horror, and regeneration trauma. Sylvester McCoy excels as a fragmented, dangerous Doctor operating on the edge of sanity, while Bonnie Langford’s Mel proves herself as an unexpectedly capable investigator in her own right.

The story’s strengths lie in its tone, its ambition, and its fascinating central premise: a Time Lord experiment gone horribly wrong. But the plot ultimately strains under the weight of its own complexity. With too many threads, too much technobabble, and a final act that descends into narrative overload, Unregenerate! feels like a four-parter trying to squeeze in six episodes’ worth of ideas.

Still, it’s a worthy listen for McCoy fans, for those interested in Time Lord intrigue, or for anyone who wants to see what Doctor Who might have looked like if it had tackled post-regeneration madness with a bit more edge.

You’re welcome to read my full review below (spoiler alert):

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Unregenerate is a weird Story for me, I think I liked it? But honestly I am not 100% sure on that. It has great Ideas to it, one would even argue superb Ideas. It has a good Doctor/Companion Pairing, who I like, and it has an interesting setting to it and yet.. when I first finished it, I was like “That’s it..?”. It’s a weird Feeling, it’s competent and you’d think with its Ideas it would leave a bigger Mark on you, but it simply doesn’t.
McCoys Acting here is sadly one of his weakest Outings, I can see what he is going for, sadly it doesn’t work for me quite as well. Bonnie on the other Hand is much better and so is the Sidecast, but even those can’t really save the Story. I will say the earlier parts of it worked much better for me. Maybe it was the Atmosphere or the Intrigue to get the Questions answered, but I don’t know, those worked much better compared to like the final Part.

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Oh of couse, this one has got Jennie (Barbara) Linden in it! I forgot that!

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