The Five Doctors is a Doctor Who movie special that aired in 1983. I have never seen the movie, but when I saw this audiobook from the novelization, I just had to listen to it! Jon Culshaw narrates perfectly! I had so much fun listening to his performance!

The five doctors and several companions are kidnapped from their different times and all (well with the exception of the 4th doctor who is stuck in a time anomaly. This is because Tom Baker declined to be in the movie, and they used scenes from an episode to fill in his on-camera scenes) are thrown into the Death Zone, a very dangerous area on Gallifrey. They battle Cybermen, Daleks, Yeti, traps, illusions and even The Master! Great Classic Who adventure!

The audiobook is just under 3.5 hours long. The production quality is great, as usual with BBC Audio presentations.

I highly recommend this to anyone who likes Classic Who. Now I need to go watch the movie -- and even listen to the Riff Trax version. :) I never watched the movie because my favorite Doctor -- The Fourth -- wasn't in it much. Silly me! ( )

Fun fluff. Funny double vision about the story - I know that the reason the Fourth Doctor wasn't there was that Tom Baker had - a previous commitment? A contract dispute? Something - there was a reason the actor wasn't available. So the Fourth barely shows up (waaah, he's my doctor!), with in-story reasons given. And I think about it with double vision - the story reasons and the real-world reasons are both there and both true. Very Doctor Who-ish, actually! The misdirection on the traitor was a little too obvious; the Master's role is rather amusing. It's very interesting seeing more of the various Doctors and their companions - I don't know any of them well. Overall - not much to the story, but as I said, what there is is fun. ( )

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This one is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It is fundamentally very nice to have the old companions back (though poor Susan is a bit underused). The Gallifreyan plotting makes very little sense, as usual, but it is tremendous fun, and one feels that Dicks was enjoying this despite the extraordinary pressure he was under to produce it. Oddly enough it is the Fifth Doctor who comes across least memorably here. ( )