Doctor Who: I.D. and Urgent Calls

I.D. is a three-part story, featuring the 6th Doctor, but without any companions. It's a fairly routine story about a base under siege by deranged robots, although it obviously aspires to be rather more. In particular, as the title implies, it's supposed to be about the nature of identity, this being a culture in which it's possible to upload personalities, but, honestly, it's a fairly small part of the story. Quite well done, to be fair, but nothing remarkable. (3/5)

However, I.D. is followed on the CD by a short, 30-minute story, and this is actually rather better than the main feature. Ideally suited to the 30-minute format, the story consists of a number of phone calls made by a woman in 1970s Britain. We learn what's going on through her phone conversations with (mostly) the Doctor, but because we never actually ‘see' anything, we have to piece it all together from the clues provided, and even then, there are deliberate gaps left to our imagination. It's a clever character piece, providing Baker with the opportunity to show the Doctor in ways he never could on TV, and I personally liked the ambiguity about what's really going on. (4/5)

So, three-and-a-half stars, rounded up to four.