(Originally Written on TheTimeScales)

This is a story that I listen when Christmas rolls around.

It’s just such a breezy, feel good adventure. The Doctor and Mel are just perfection, it’s a shame we rarely saw something like this on screen. The comedy is on point. This is a consistently funny story. The plot is a generic fetch quest but that’s also kinda the point. It definitely helps that the trials of getting these treasures are so creative and funny. Banto and Sally-Anne are fun characters basically being bootleg, scamming versions of the Doctor and companion but they have enough substance to be actual characters rather than a parody.

Just… I love this one. It’s one of those stories that’s just so hard to hate. One of my favorite audios Big Finish ever released.