Kaldor City - Magic Bullet Productions

Category: Doctor Who, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Blake's 7 Doctor Who

Written by Magic Bullet Productions
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320 Kbps

The Kaldor City audios were just one more Doctor Who spin-off series that thrived in the interregnum between the Virgin New Adventures and Russell T Davies. Based on the works of Chris Boucher, they threw together everything they could that he still owned the copyright to: the world and characters of The Robots of Death (1977) rubbed shoulders with Blake’s 7 (through psychostrategist Carnell, from Weapon (1979), and a there-but-for-the-grace-of-copyright-law Kerr Avon), and when that wasn’t enough the death-god Fendahl (from Image of the Fendahl (1977)). Then, right at the end, (Storm Mine (2004) by Daniel O’Mahony) they just gave up and got downright weird instead. Just a shameless attempt to extract a few pounds from that notoriously lucrative Doctor Who/Blake’s 7 crossover market.

Except that Kaldor City remains one of the best, the most consistent, intelligent, entertaining of any of the Doctor Who spin-offs, telling a meticulously crafted story episode by episode with none of the dips in quality that even the best of its peers suffer. Poke a finger at your New Adventure library, your Big Finish CD collection, and count six consecutive stories. No matter where you started, you’ll find at least one that you think could’ve been better, or maybe shouldn’t even have been published at all. Not so with Kaldor City: everything fits, everything builds, and - in the end - everything makes a perfect kind of sense.