Doctor Who – Daleks: The Mutation Of Time
Doctor Who – Daleks: The Mutation Of Time – Written By John Peel & Read by Peter Purves and Jean Marsh – 5xCD (BBC Audiobooks)
As soon as ‘Mission To The Unknown’ finished, I plunged straight into ‘The Mutation Of Time’, the second half of the original ‘Daleks Masterplan’ story-arc. Okay, so you’re sitting there muttering to yourself and tutting about how I should have waited, and that by jumping in at the deep end and going straight from one to the other, there’s a significant risk of Dalek overdose, which could have potentially disastrous consequences for the average Doctor Who fan. But you know what? I don’t believe that you can have enough Daleks, and I don’t regard anyone reading this as “average”, you guys are better than that, and just like me, you can take any amount of Daleks any day of the week and twice on Fridays. Following on from the end of ‘Mission..’ and the Doctors (spoiler alert!) switcheroo, ‘The Mutation Of Time’, the Doctor and his Companions find themselves leaping (fair enough, the Tardis doesn’t exactly leap, but it sounds so much better than ‘travelling’ don’t you think?) between a sixties Police Station, a film Studio in the silent age (where the Doctor and Stephen end up playing Keystone Cops…Don’t ask…), a cricket match, fighting natives and Daleks alike in ancient Egypt, a planet consumed by volcanic activity before finally ending up where it all began, on Kembel, whilst trying to prevent the Daleks plans from coming to fruition, contending with an old adversary of the Doctor and Stephen (lovely little plot device and appearance for the fans) and dealing with the insane lust for power of the Earth traitor (shhh, more spoilers) Mavek Chen. But, it al sort of works out in the end though, it has to, it’s Doctor Who. ‘Mutation’ is the perfect sequel to ‘Mission…’, rounding off the ‘Masterplan’ arc nicely, although unlike ‘Mission..’, ‘Mutation..’ can’t be listened to as a standalone release, and you really need to have heard the previous part in order to understand what’s going on. If you haven’t, you won’t have the first clue about who’s after who, don’t what to what and who and, or, why they’ve done, and are doing, what they’re doing . Or something like that. Absolutely bloody fabulous…Tim Mass Movement
