The Ninth Doctor #16

'Old Friends: Way of the Burryman' (2022) from The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Series 1.

As a bit of an informal introduction to the Brigadier for me, minus one little First Doctor short story, I suppose a lot of his connection with Nine and their references to their past is a bit lost on me, but I still enjoyed their conversations together. The setting of Scotland with the Burryman and the Forth Bridge is an interesting piece of history with all of the related accidents, and I suppose turning those lost people into Cybermen would be sort of fun maybe if there wasn't a Cyberman story literally two stories ago in these box sets. But the presence of Kreel is quite well done here, even if Nicholas Briggs' performance kind of makes him sound like General Grevious, and as a cliffhanger the reveal is cool. This is generally a pretty solid first-part in a two-parter that doesn't overall work for me unfortunately.