Big Finish – Monthly Release: BF 222 – The Contingency Club – Phil Mulryne Free Audiobook

Written by Phil Mulryne
Read by Peter Davison; Matthew Waterhouse; Sarah Sutton; Janet Fielding
Format: MP3
Dramatization

Smythers RETURNS with the NEW Peter Davison adventure starring the full classic TARDIS crew, with Nyssa, Tegan, and the much-maligned Adric.

I’ve always felt badly for Matt Waterhouse. He certainly doesn’t sound like his teenage self in the audios and somehow is a lot more likable as an older version of himself, even though we are supposed to pretend he is not in his late 40s. Just like I frankly prefer the Big Finish version of Peter Davison with his throaty 60ish voice.

Apart from Paul McGann, he’s my personal favorite of the classical Doctors on audio.

From the BF website:

London, 1864 – where any gentleman befitting the title ‘gentleman’ belongs to a gentlemen’s club: The Reform, The Athenaeum, The Carlton, The Garrick… and, of course, The Contingency. Newly established in St James’, The Contingency has quickly become the most exclusive enclave in town. A refuge for men of politics, men of science, men of letters. A place to escape. A place to think. A place to be free.

The first rule of the Contingency is to behave like a gentleman. The second is to pay no heed to its oddly identical servants. Or to the horror in its cellars. Or to the existence of the secret gallery on its upper floor… Rules that the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are all about to break.