Doctor Who: The Mind's Eye

The basic premise of this audio play is not an unusual one in science fiction, and, in fact, the new TV series has done variants of it more than once since this was released. The Doctor's companions are trapped in imaginary worlds conjured from their own desires, and will die if the Doctor doesn't manage to persuade them that it's all in their heads.

And yet, this is quite well done. Erimem, in particular, has a story that feels like it could be a regular DW episode, and the insight into Peri's mind works quite well, too. In between this, we have the Doctor, unaffected by the maguffin, interacting with the occupants of a base on a remote jungle planet, and not quite sure which, if any, of them might be the good guys.

Of course, being a base, it has to come under siege at some point, though this is really rather irrelevant to the story. And, it's also worth noting that the ending telegraphs events in the next 5th Doctor play, The Bride of Peladon.

Before that, though, there is a one-part play tagged on the end here, and set, somewhat oddly, just after tBoP. It has a somewhat similar theme to the main feature, being about mind control and so on (not an unusual theme in the 5th Doctor's TV run, either, to be fair), and it works well enough, with a particularly strong performance from Nicola Bryant, given far better material here than she was in the great majority of her time on the show proper.