Eccleston’s wonderful performance and the fizzing promise of further adventures with Big Finish is what makes this box set worthwhile. This story though will not be the pinnacle.

The upside of this final episode is that the resolution at the core of the plot is rather clever. If you showed me the first episode of Ravegers, then the final 10 minutes of episode three id think Briggs was onto a winner… it’s just a shame that the journey between those two points is drab. As Grafty mentions upthread it is NUTS that given how much of the plot revolves around VR games - The Doctor never ends up in one. Wouldn’t that have been a perfect episode 2? Instead we end up on well worn “timey wimey” ground.

With this first box set it would have been perfect to have three distinct stories for the 9th Doctor to flex his muscles across. Instead, we got one great 45 minute adventure needlessly stretched out over three instalments, leading to a soggy middle.

This Big Finish intro has been handled better than the 4th Doctor’s but not as strong as the 10th or 8th’s.