Next is The Red House, featuring Six and Charley, one of the more unique Doctor/Companion pairings as Charley started off as an Eighth Doctor companion but found herself travelling with the Sixth Doctor. The whole story arc being that she has to keep her true identity a secret to protect the Web of Time, I'm not really a fan of how the story arc is executed, with Charley constantly making slip ups and stumbling over her words to make an excuse, and meanwhile the Doctor never presses her on the matter, it just makes both of them look idiotic. In the years since though when revisiting this part of Six's life, they've toned down Charley's slip ups, though in this story a whole ten seconds in she makes another bone headed remark that draws Six's suspicion. But that's the least of this story's problems.

This was scripted by Alan Barnes, Charley's creator, one of Big Finish's early main writers and one of the main writers for the comics. I don't dislike Alan Barnes or his works, but his best material really came from his early years at Big Finish, in later years his style has gotten to a point where I kind of groan when I see his name on the writing credits. Barnes style and tone for his stories is often very goofy and over the top, and it reflects a lot in the performances of the characters who give these very cartoonishly exaggerated performances, which in an audio is either gonna make you laugh or it's gonna irritate you. Granted The Red House isn't as annoying as most of his recent works, to do that the story would have to be set on Earth in the last few decades where characters drop pop culture references every few lines or so. But this still has some of his mannerisms like the reverse werewolves talking like stoned teenagers, the head of the police force having an unconvincing copper voice and Charley's muffled ranting and yelling for minutes on end. 'these seem like nitpicks but having listened to so many of his works in the last few years, it just really gets on my nerves whenever they crop up. The Valeyard's really the biggest saving grace, the story itself is fairly generic, the reverse werewolves concept's a bit confusing and the story has a very abrupt ending, easily the weakest of the set