Anneke Wills narrates an appropriately Troughton-era Doctor Who story… Jamie is injured while walking on the Moons surface.
The Doctor and his companions seek help at a weather station base.
At the base they meet Director Hobson, his deputy Benoit and a crew of international technicians.
They operate the Gravitron, a gravity machine which can control the Earths weather conditions.
Jamie is placed in the sick bay just as a mysterious disease breaks out.
Some of the technicians and the Gravitron itself begin to behave strangely.
Hobson blames the Doctor and his companions deciding their arrival at the base is more than coincidence.
The Cybermen are behind the mysterious virus which they are using to manipulate humans to operate the Gravitron.
The Doctor realises the Cybermen have a gravity imbalance.
While the base crew repair the Gravitron, the Doctor and his companions quietly slip away…
The storytelling is varied with the use spacesuit intercoms and electronic tannoy voices where appropriate.
It would have been around 100 minutes in duration.
A very effective prologue describes the genesis of the Cybermen.
Much is made of describing the base and the Gravitron machine which would have passed without comment on television.
Anneke Wills captures the TARDIS crew voices well, especially Troughtons thoughtful, sometimes rather gloomy persona.
Wills Jamie however, sounds unintentionally comic.
Wills seems to relish the chance to provide the many different accents of the international base crew.
She seems particularly fond of Hobsons gruff Yorkshire accent.
The overall package is impressive but, in truth, the story is quite slight and feels somewhat padded.
Written by Gerry Davis Read by Anneke Wills 4 CDsRunning time:4 Hours 20 Mins approx.
Rating:
3 out of 5
