Stories Audio Drama The Fourth Doctor Adventures The Fourth Doctor Adventures Episode 7 The Abandoned 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Friday, July 11, 2014 Written by Nigel Fairs, Louise Jameson Publisher Big Finish Productions Runtime 77 minutes Time Travel Unclear Location (Potential Spoilers!) TARDIS Synopsis The Point of Stillness. A place the Time Lords are forbidden to go. It cannot be drawn, it cannot be whispered, it cannot be thought. And yet somebody is very keen to reach it. Deep within the TARDIS, something unusual is happening. One of the ship's oldest secrets is about to be revealed, and once it is, nothing will ever be the same again. As danger materialises deep within the ship, spectral strangers lurk in the corridors and bizarre events flood the rooms, someone long-forgotten is ready to reappear. The Doctor and Leela are soon to discover that their home isn't quite the safe stronghold they thought. 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 Fourth Doctor Leela Marianna Show All Characters (3) How to listen to The Abandoned: Big Finish Audio The Abandoned 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 1 review 21 March 2025 · 133 words Review by BSCTDrayden After three straight stories of the most boring, generic Doctor Who possible we finally get something new and unique! And it's the most incomprehensible and annoying story ever. I admire ambition and experimental storytelling but I literally didn't know what was going on in part 1. And even when it was explained immediately in part 2 it was just.... not too interesting? But even worse than being hard to follow, every single side character in this is annoying. Like actively pissing me off. By the end I consciously chose to not focus on the audio any more cause I was irritated. Who decided to make them this bad and this important!? There's some attempts by Jameson here to add to Leela's characterisation but when that's lost in all this nonsense it's hard to care really. BSCTDrayden View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating39 members 2.82 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating95 votes 3.20 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating74 votes 3.10 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 82 Favourited 2 Reviewed 1 Saved 0 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote