god this is stupid. loving how learman thinks The Commoners arent good enough for shakespeare, and yet she isnt an anti-stratfordian. just not well thought through

The Time of the Daleks is one of the most boring Doctor Who stories I have ever experienced. It has some interesting ideas, Daleks quoting Shakespeare is an experience and this is Paul McGanns first audio adventure with them, but the story is unfortunately extreme uninteresting and not very good. Richards is normally a good writer but this is one of his few misses.

Boy, this one is dull. A very, very messy plot, weird characters... Just not good, sadly. We get a little explanation for why there were Dalek noises in 'Seasons of Fear', and we get some more information on the Web of Time problem at the end of story, but this story is not essential.

This one is pretty disappointing for me, having McGann facing against the Daleks in Audios for the first time leaves a lot to be desired. There are many great Ideas thrown in here, sadly some of them were done so much better in other Stories, such as “Evil”. There are some fun bits here with the Daleks, but it’s just quite unmemorable and quite dull.

After the last few audios with the Eighth Doctor kind of went over gangbusters with me, this one in comparison felt a little lacking.  It's still pretty good - I like how we are clearly building to something with Charley and the Doctor, while it also stands alone nicely as a Shakespeare-themed Dalek story.  I feel like this sort of thing could have gotten gimmicky very quickly but I found the experience mostly entertaining, even if the idea felt a little overdone by the end.  It doesn't help matters that the idea of Daleks posing as false saviours feels a bit done to death at this point, but, to Time of the Daleks' credit, this is a relatively early example of that type of story.  It worked for me more than it didn't and I would recommend this one even if it feels like a step down from the last few entries in the main range.