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The Big Finish machine keeps on churning out the goods this week! As we near less than a month until it’s release, the cover for Fourth Doctor adventure, Doctor Who – Suburban Hell, has been released (coincidentally, it can be seen at the top of the article)! The illustration is done by long time Big Finish and BBC illustrator Anthony Lamb and is another fantastic piece in the eyes of this writer.
The adventure finds the Doctor and Leela crashing a dinner party:
“Somewhere in a suburb of North London, there’s a crisis. More than a crisis, a positive disaster: Belinda and Ralph are expecting four for supper, and there’s no Marie Rose sauce for the Prawns Marie Rose. All in all, the evening couldn’t possibly get any worse…until the doorbell rings, bringing the Doctor and Leela to the dinner party. They’ve got a crisis, too – temporal ruckage has sent the TARDIS to another time zone entirely. Meaning they might have to endure a whole evening in Belinda’s company. But the Doctor and Leela aren’t the only uninvited guests tonight. There’s a strange fog falling, out in the road. And in that fog: savage blue-skinned monsters, with dinner party plans of their own. Because it’s not Prawns Marie Rose on their menu – it’s people!”
A couple things standout; firstly, I had to google “Marie Rose sauce” and learned that it is what Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly called “fancy sauce” in Step Brothers. Secondly, dinner parties and the Doctor never seem to work out, do they (i.e. Christmas dinner with Oswalds or any occasion at Jackie Tyler’s flat)? The latter notion more relevant than the first, obviously, but it will be interesting to see if this party ends on a happy note.
Truthfully, the story concept had me at people eating, “blue skinned monsters” and I’m pretty stoked to see how the audio plays out. It releases next month, but can be preordered now. What do you think, dear readers? Fancy a dinner date with the Doctor, prawns, and blue monsters? Or is the concept a little far fetched for you? Let us know!
(Off topic: ‘Suburban Hell’ would also make a fantastic band name. I’ve made a mental note of that. – NK)(I’ve already pinched it – Ed)
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