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Review of Retail Therapy by dema1020

1 July 2025

So, my score for the final Ninth Doctor Chronicle is yet another 7. They are all about the same quality, though each for slightly different reasons. Bleeding Heart and Window on the Moor benefit from good stories but weaker performances, while the Other Side and Retail Therapy definitely benefit from the guest actors and Briggs seems to refine his impression a bit.

In all cases, the Ninth Doctor Chronicles are decent takes on this era and its adventures as pseudo audiobooks. It is nice that Eccleston is back, though, and I kind of am glad to have these out of the way so I can focus on Ninth Doctor Adventures going forward.

Retail Therapy is definitely enhanced by the presence of Jackie, and she gets some great character development here. The story around the Glubby Glubs feels far weaker and more along the lines of an average, early reboot era type of episode. It's a good enough episode, though I would say more in line with the average level of quality these Chronicles set, rather than this one standing out as it kind of does currently in the aggregate ratings.


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