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Doctor Who Short Trips: Companions by Steve Lyons, Simon A. Forward, Nick Clark, Stephen Cole, David Bailey, Alison Lawson, Andrew Collins, Eddie Robson, Justin Richards, Simon Guerrier, Paul Magrs, Stephen Fewell, Peter Anghelides, Ian Potter, Gary Russell, Jacqueline Rayner, Andrew Spokes, Mark Michalowski

andrew_j_r's review

3.0

This is the second book in the Big Finish Short Trips anthology series, and it is a much better read than the first. For a start, the link is much more simple - in the first book, the link was that the stories were loosely connected to the signs of the zodiac, which always felt forced, and that the idea was much cleverer than those who delivered it. Thankfully, this is much better, with the link being that the tales are about companions. They are not all represented (apart from the tedious "Balloon Debate" which contrives to get them all together, and some do better than others - Ian and Barbara do really well - but there are an interesting mix of stories, including a nice one featuring the first Doctor, Steven and Sara - who interestingly does not appear in "Balloon Debate" and Liz Shaw does, and arguably Sara has more right to be called a companion than Liz as she actually travelled with the Doctor, whereas Liz was a part of the UNIT family in the same way as the Brig, Benton and Yates. But I digress. This was a much better read than volume one.

nwhyte's review

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