Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 233 Static 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 4 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Written by Jonathan Morris Runtime 116 minutes Time Travel Past Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Ghosts, Time Loop Location (Potential Spoilers!) Abbey Marston, Earth, England Synopsis Deep in the heart of nowhere, near a place called Abbey Marston, there's a caravan site. The perfect place to get away from it all. Close by, there's a stone circle they used for human sacrifice in olden times. A little further afield, there’s an old RAF research station, where they did hushhush things in the War. There's only one rule: the use of radios, cassette recorders and portable televisions is strictly forbidden. People come here to get away from it all, you see. No-one wants to hear the noise. No-one wants to hear the voices in the static... No-one wants to hear the ghosts. 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 Sixth Doctor Flip Jackson Static Constance Clarke Show All Characters (4) How to listen to Static: Big Finish Audio Static 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 4 reviews 19 January 2025 · 296 words Review by thedefinitearticle63 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order. Previous Story: The Middle Really great story. The beginning is very tense, straight out of a classic horror movie. The setting and the general atmosphere is brilliantly unnerving and immediately hooks you in. There's a bunch of twists and turns and it's all really engaging. The Doctor and Constance go back to the past while Flip and the guest cast stay in the present. I love stories like this, where things are going on simultaneously in two different time periods and they link together. It's all very timey-wimey. The idea of the military using this phenomenon to resurrect dead soldiers for information makes for some interesting implications. I do like how at home Constance feels in this time period and this story is really interesting for her character. Most notably because, well, she dies. Not fully, she dies in the Doctor Who way which is "get revived immediately after with some gimmick" but still, I wasn't expecting this story to do anything like that. I'm curious to see how that affects her, I hope it's followed up on in later stories. I feel like the story falls apart a bit with the introduction of the Static. It turns this really cool unexplained mystery into "oh it's just aliens" which I always find to be the lazy way out. The fact that they appear so late doesn't help their case either and the ending just ends up feeling rushed. Still, the rest of the story more than makes up for it. Aside from the odd miss this run of stories has been really solid. Next Story: Cry of the Vultriss thedefinitearticle63 View profile Like Liked 0 24 December 2024 · 82 words Review by Guardax Spoilers This review contains spoilers! I so badly wanted to give this five stars as the well-realized mysterious setting and unnerving energy of the story are incredible. However, I unfortunately found it lacking in many surprises: by halfway through part two the story was obvious and there was a lot of wheel-spinning to get to the point where the villains show up at the end of part three. It takes a great TARDIS team and pushes them to their limits, but I wish it had more surprises. Guardax View profile Like Liked 0 24 November 2024 · 15 words Review by Rock_Angel 1 Wonderful use of horror but I did zone out a little effecting my rating sadly Rock_Angel View profile Like Liked 1 17 October 2024 · 183 words Review by Seagullslost 1 This is really quite interesting. A couple go to a small caravan site in the UK. Their relationship hasn't been great since the death of Joanna's sister Susanah. Maybe a few days away will help, except for the fact that there's no televisions allowed or in fact radios, telephones, tape recorders.... Its a nice set up - the middle of nowhere, the mystery of the issue with the tellys and telephones, and the Doctor/Tardis noticing some local disturbances. There's also an opening scene of whats to come, and Percy Till - the site manager who knows more than he's letting on. But the really engrossing part is that the story adds layers to the plot. A bit of a twist at the end of part one and you kind of think you know where this audio is going untill more complications are added. There's a lot more to it than it first appears. I suppose it has a bit of everything, time wimey, tragedy, an alien threat. Its more standout than the tipical adventure, and deals with loss and bereavment. Not bad. Seagullslost View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating62 members 4.13 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating86 votes 4.24 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating78 votes 4.25 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 100 Favourited 10 Reviewed 4 Saved 5 Skipped 0 Owned 9 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote