The latest release in this range, Faithful Friends, is out (21.01.25). Anyone else a fan? I’m starting from the beginning.
This was great. 5 meeting the Weeping Angels in a ‘celebrity historical’ featuring Michelangelo! Loved it. Plus a great supporting cast, Matthew Kelly, Diane Morgan & Sacha Dhawan.
Loved the last couple sets! Once pay day comes Monday I’m gonna get the new one 
It’s one of those sets I keep meaning to get in on, but just haven’t yet
It’s a range I’ll probably get into eventually, I’ve heard good things!
A range I’d love to listen to more, as it combines monsters I know from the Revival, with Doctors who I haven’t listened to on audio.
So far I’ve listened to Fallen Angels and Judoon in Chains, and really enjoyed them!
They’re all good for the most and some are truly great. Fallen Angels is one of my favorites.
I’ve listened to the first set and really enjoyed it. It’s a fun premise they mostly deliver quite well on, even with quirky choices like having the Eighth Doctor go up against modern Sontarans.
The Eight/Sontaran story was great too, probably my second favorite of the first set after Fallen Angels.
To be honest my controversial opinion is that I wasn’t impressed by the first box set—of the four I thought only the Judoon episode was any good, and I really didn’t like the Sontaran ep—but all the other boxes I’ve heard, which are 3, 4 and the first episode of 5, were really fun!
The Queen of Clocks was definitely my favourite of the lot, though the Silent and Dream Crab two-parters were really great.
Looking forward to the rest of Faithful Friends! I’m also really interested in the Monk episode at the end of the boxset. Tim Foley has hyped it up well!
I love this range.
Starting as a quick way to have the Classic Doctors face New Who monsters, its somewhat unnecessary now, but that doesn’t stop it being fun.
Fallen Angels and The Queen of Clocks I’ve found to be the standouts, and am excited to start the new box set. Really like that they’ve used the Second and Third Doctors two, hoping to see One in the next one.
I haven’t heard a lot of them but those I have I mostly like. The Sontaran Ordeal and Day of the Vashta Nerada are quite good, Invasion of the Body Stealers is meh and I dislike the Silent duology.
I love If I Should Die Before I Wake and The Queen of the Clocks though.
Interesting range! I re-listened to everything before last year’s release. The Angel one is good, but the one with Eight, Charley and the Dream Crabs is my favourite. I like the Vashta Nerada stories as well. I’m going to listen to Faithful Friends tomorrow!
I’ve listened to sets one and two. Overall I’ve enjoyed them, but there are some ‘meh’ serials.
These are non-cannon ratings:
Listened to the first set a while ago, the Sycorax story with 7 was a complete dud but the rest were enjoyable. Fallen Angels is a fairly standard Weeping Angle story with some historical elements that elevate it slightly, Judoon in Chains is a creative court room drama that I need to revisit because I do not remember much about it besides that it’s great, and the Sontaran Ordeal is great exploration of 8s character and his place in the universe. I know a lot of people complain that the Sontarans aren’t a modern monster, which is fair, but the real villain of the story is the time war and its consequences, turning the pseudo-companions world into a never ending battlefield. This positions the Time War as more of a force of nature and I think that’s a great way to explore themes of war, putting the Doctor in a place of guilt for helping create something he can’t possibly fix. I do wonder why these sets never actually feature 4 modern monsters, with every set after this featuring the same monster for 2 separate stories/Doctors. Is it maybe some sort of legal issue? It just feels weird that they always do 4 stories with only 3 different monsters.
I’d guess it’s so that they can make the most out of the concept and maximise the number of box sets they can make.
I don’t really mind, either. The duologues that I’ve heard have all been really good!
Fun but not as good as the first one. It all gets a bit exposition heavy towards the end with a reveal/resolution that feels tonally out of touch with the rest of the story.
I’ve only done the first set but will be jumping to the latest one for reasons entirely unrelated to any of the characters featuring in them…
Can these be listened to in any order? Even within boxsets (of course not the two-parters)?
I ask because I really want to listen to Five Hundred Ways to Leave Your Lover (it sounds amazing) but don’t want to have to commit to listen to the whole box set just yet, as my backlog on other sets is huge.
Yes, all box sets are completely standalone, and the stories within them are also standalone (except for the two-parters in some cases), so you can listen to just Five Hundred in the newest one without having listened to the others. Familiarity with the Monks is a bonus to better understand the story, but I know that’s not an issue for you 
