I really want to delve more into this range, but honestly its daunting. Is there like a list of arcs I can pickup and listen to with no previous requisites? I did think about the Erimem audios as there’s not many, can I just listen to them all back-to-back?
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Generally, yes. The companion arcs can be listened to back-to-back (Five and Erimem, Six and Evelyn, Eight and Charley).
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I’ve done the first, give or take 15, and all the Charley ones. A couple of randoms too but that’s really it for me tbh. I think tackling arcs might make it a bit less intense!?
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I wrote this some weeks ago
Just include whatever story I ommited for the companions in release order (I ommited a lot for Evelyn, for example) and you have the story arcs.
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Thanks! I do think it may be an easier way to get a bulk of them done.
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As well as @NobodyNo-One’s guide, THIS SITE has a good list of the ones that are in arcs unrelated to companions (e.g. the lead ins for Gallifrey or Dalek Universe)
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Starting with release 117, the Monthly Adventures switched to trilogies. So while some are part of (or formed) ongoing arcs, others were just standalone sets of stories. When I get to a computer, I’ll give you some examples of these.
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Standalone Trilogy #1: The Key 2 Time (MR#117-119): The Judgement of Isskar, The Destroyer of Delights, The Chaos Pool [Also included between 118 and 119 is the Companion Chronicles: The Prisoner’s Dilemma.]
Standalone Trilogy #2: The Stockbridge Trilogy (MR#127-129): Castle of Fear, The Eternal Summer, Plague of the Daleks
Standalone Trilogy #3: The Klein Trilogy (MR#130-132): A Thousand Tiny Wings, Survival of the Fittest, The Architects of History [The only prerequisite is Colditz (MR #25).]
Standalone Trilogy #4: The Land of Fiction Trilogy (MR#133-135): City of Spires, CC: Night’s Black Agents, The Wreck of the Titan, Legend of the Cybermen. [Night’s Black Agents is a Companion Chronicles release.]
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Honestly I think, with exception of some plot bearing stories like Zagreus, A Death in the Family etc most MR stories are more or less standalone. I think you can get more out of following the arcs and stuff but really by and large they really are just individual DW episodes. I wouldn’t get too worried and caught up on them all being one big story because though some of them are, they’re few and far between. It s like watching the TV series, you can dip in and out
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Did anyone ever felt confused when listening to Chimes of Midnight,I listened to it 3 times already and I still dont know what its all about idk maybe this story just isnt for me or im stupid.
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I can’t say that I truly know what’s going on in it either, but I still love it.
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Essentially Edith killed herself in 1930 after Charley’s death on the R-101 because Charley was the only one in the Pollard household who was nice to her and treated her like a person. Because Charley was saved by the Doctor, she didn’t die. In 1905, the Doctor and Charley arrive at Edward Grove where Edith worked in her youth. Because Charley didn’t die, then the reason Edith killed herself is null and void. Because Charley is both alive and dead, then Edith is both alive and dead, thus creating a paradox. This paradox creates a sort of time loop that causes the house Edward Grove to become sentient. However, he can only stay sentient if the loop is never resolved. Thus, he attempts to trap the Doctor and Charley in a limited two-hour time loop. Hope that simplifies it for you.
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Listened to Harry Houdini s War yesterday and forgot to mark it down, but I enjoyed it a lot! I’m not usually much one for a World War setting but I had fun here (even if some of the accents were dodgy even by BF standard… even Nicola Bryant was going a bit all over)
Next, to start the Marc Arc with Tartarus! I only know Marc’s name to be honest so excited to see what’s coming up here!
Can’t believe I have fewer than 20 releases to go until I’m done with the range 
and some of them are repeats for me as well, even still
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I really enjoyed Harry Houdini’s War and it actually really works with the other Houdini stories, especially Smoke and Mirrors. I talk about it a bit in my reviews.
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It has one of my favorite scenes for the Sixth Doctor. When he says goodbye to Peri.
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HHW was great. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Somehow, afterwards, it made me like the Doctor/Houdini pairing even though I’d never cared for it before. That was mainly due to my own research, but I wouldn’t have conducted that if it weren’t for the story.
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I do wonder if this was made just a few years later if we’d have gotten Sixie flirting with Houdini
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I really need to do 6/Charley,did any of u do it?
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I did. They are mostly great (the trilogies). The one off releases I’m not as much of a fan.
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They’re good. Patient Zero was my first Big Finish ever.
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