Doctor Who - Audio Details

The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval.  The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered.  Obviously it isn’t the sort of thing which would happen there every day - just every few years or so.

Soon after the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers from heaven, they become vital to opposing factions in their struggle for power.  But will they be merely the acolytes of the new order - or will they be made into gods themselves?

Evil id growing deep within the crypt.  And the pair soon find out that they will be lucky to escape their new immortality with their lives.

When I was a teenage fan, I was a bit snobbish about the comic strip - if it wasn't on the telly, it didn't count.  (Besides, I could never quite work out how to read it - do you look at the picture first, or the speech bubble?)  1985 changed all that - Doctor Who was put on suspension, and if I wanted to get my fix of new adventures during those long eighteen months I had to turn to Doctor Who Monthly instead.  It was there I found Fribisher - and what a revelation he was!  He reminded me why I had become a fan in the first place - Frobisher was witty, he was smart, and he was clearly having the time of his life ludicrously disguised as a penguin travelling in a spaceship ludicrously disguised as a police box.  In short, he was as brilliant and bold as the programme itself.

Having had him convert me singlehandedly to the joys of the comic, it's a real thrill at last to be able to put a voice to the pictures of Frobisher.

"All hail Frobisher!  All hail the big talking bird!"

Robert Shearman, August 2000