Doctor Who: Frozen Time

This gets off to a bad start when you realise that part of the basic set up is that the Doctor can survive more or less unharmed frozen in a block of ice for several million years. To be honest, this is a bit silly, and the story doesn't quite recover from it.

It's not that the story is entirely without merit, and there's some decent interplay between the Antarctic explorers that the Doctor encounters. (This is another companion-less story, presumably set shortly before the 1996 TV movie). There's also some tension as to exactly which of two classic alien monsters it is they've discovered - something that wouldn't work on TV, since you'd be able to see them - although I suspect most listeners will have worked it out long before the reveal.

It's the second half that really lets it down, consisting largely of running about on the snow, and an ending that is somehow both predictable and not terribly believable. There's enough good material elsewhere to earn it three stars instead of two, but, overall, I'd have to call it “average”.