Just as the worry was setting in that More Short Trips would be significantly weaker a collection than the original Short Trips, Gary Russell’s “64 Carlysle Street” comes to make a great little historical piece.  Russell clearly understands how to use the team of the Doctor, Steven, and Dodo, and that is to present them all as mischievous as they were in The Gunfighters, slowly integrating themselves in the title household: the Doctor by invitation, Dodo as a maid who can’t keep her mouth shut and really isn’t fit for being in service, and Steven as the eccentric chauffeur for the Doctor.  That takes up just enough time before the story shifts into one essentially about possession and exorcism which shouldn’t really work for the TARDIS team Russell is using, but it reads far closer to the hypnosis in The War Machines than say The Exorcist, leaving us with this great little story to shift the collection.  8/10.

Wasn’t really the most hooked by this story

An interesting narrative structure, though not the most engaging plot; I do love outsider POV, and the multitude of perspectives on the TARDIS team makes for a satisfying tale indeed.