Stories Audio Drama Gallifrey Gallifrey Episode 2 Square One 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 9 Statistics Quotes 4 Overview Released April 2004 Written by Stephen Cole Publisher Big Finish Productions Directed by Gary Russell Runtime 76 minutes Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Murder Mystery, Robots, Time Loop Synopsis "It's too late... time is coming for us!" In a climate of unease and mistrust, the great time-travelling powers of the universe are holding an historic temporal summit. The meeting will take place on a planetoid impervious to outside attack or internal subversion. But while President Romana walks a knife-sharp political tightrope into dangerous territory, Leela and K9 find themselves attending the summit in unexpected roles. They are hunting for evidence of Free Time activity, but find instead terrors of a different kind - time and time again... What impossibility stalks the planetoid? Who is manipulating time? Can Leela and Romana discover the truth - or will they find themselves sent back to square one for all eternity? Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Romana II Lalla Ward Leela Louise Jameson Narvin Seán Carlsen K9 Mark I John Leeson K9 Mark II John Leeson Hossak Servitors First Appearance Irving Braxiatel Miles Richardson Show All Characters (8) How to listen to Square One: Big Finish Audio Gallifrey: Square One Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 9 reviews 24 February 2025 · 88 words Review by BSCTDrayden Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! The time loop aspect is done very well and is extremely fun, and I was much more hooked by this than the previous episode. A murder mystery in a time loop is such a cool concept executed greatly. I do think the real criminals should have been much better foreshadowed, while the red herring was made too obviously a red herring. The biggest crime though is, as everyone else said, the blatant misogyny. Also hearing "slut" and "b*tch" in Doctor Who just feels wrong to me lol BSCTDrayden View profile Like Liked 3 3 February 2025 · 156 words Review by Jae Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Leela and Romana are brilliant in this one in my opinion and especially as a character piece on Leela it’s quite interesting. I do think this is an intriguing narrative to explore the objectification Leela faces, but I do feel as if she’s a bit too naive for it to really work well. With a few minor tweaks this could have been brilliant. Nonetheless, Leela’s intelligence and Romana’s trust in her carry this audio. Also I wasn’t quite expecting this series to be quite so explicit(for lack of a better word), but I like it. There’s again some political intrigue which is very cool, but mildly hindered by the fact that I keep forgetting who’s who. And it uses time loops and quite brilliantly too, I think. All in all, a strong story with strong characters and some problems, a bit weaker than the first for me though. Jae View profile Like Liked 2 20 January 2025 · 196 words Review by RandomJoke Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! Oh boi… this one was one I sat for a while, was it bad? No. Was it good? Also, no. Many already explained it quite well, while the Story itself is good, how Leela is handled is quite off-putting and feels very much like they forgot how smart Leela is and well putting her in this Situation is quite off-putting. While the Time Travelling Aspect of it all and the Idea on the Paper isn’t really bad, I think the Script needed a few reworking when it comes to the whole exotic dancer angel. For me, this is a perfectly well-made story in its execution. Louise and our Leads are great in it and do a great Job. There are some great Scenes, especially with Lalla and Louise. The Side Cast does a decent, solid Job, nothing too outstanding but nothing terrible. I appreciate that Gallifrey early on tries to touch on more explicit matters, but I think it was done in a very mixed Way. This one is a tricky one to properly articulate, all I will say is to give the Reviews from others a Read, they bring up plenty of great Points! RandomJoke View profile Like Liked 3 28 December 2024 · 10 words Review by mistwhisper117 2 How Leela was used in the story was fairly off-putting. mistwhisper117 View profile Like Liked 2 18 November 2024 · 249 words Review by JayPea Spoilers 8 This review contains spoilers! Yeah this is an interesting one. On the one hand, the time loop stuff is really interesting, I like the motivations of the main antagonist being wanting to do the right thing but for all the wrong reasons, I like the murder mystery aspect of it, especially with there being so many different things going on all with different explanations so it's one red herring after another. I like the reveal of what's really going on with this conference in the end. And then there's the misogyny. On the one hand, (at least most of) the explicit misogyny is from explicitly vile characters, and is never treated as a good thing which, you know, it shouldn't be. If you're going to have ex-o-tic dancers being called sluts and bitches in a story like this, it should be shown as a bad thing. But then there's the implicit misogyny. Leela is forced into this role as an exotic dancer against her will, forced to perform for the whims of others, and while she feels uncomfortable doing so and the misogyny directed towards her as she does is explicitly bad, it's still framed in an almost tantalizing way. If this were on TV, you can tell they'd be using Leela in this story as, to paraphrase a well known JNT quote, something the dads will enjoy. I really want to like this story, and I think without all that it'd be an 8/10, but with it, I have to give it a 6. JayPea View profile Like Liked 8 Show All Reviews (9) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating147 members 3.55 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating181 votes 3.73 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 275 Favourited 14 Reviewed 9 Saved 3 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite LEELA: But will we not seem out of place at your summit? I warn you, I am not wearing your shiny, chafing city-clothes for seven days. ROMANA: I don’t want you to. This is an undercover assignment. LEELA: Oh? ROMANA: And you will blend in beautifully just as you are. — Square One Show All Quotes (4) Open in new window