By Justin Richards
Starring Tom Baker and Louise
Jameson
The year is
1907 and The Doctor and Leela are cut off from the TARDIS when the path they
are walking on is covered up by the ocean when the tide came in. Stranded on a small island The Doctor and
Leela find sanctuary in a castle where members of the Caversham Society have
gathered on the 100th Anniversary of the death of Mannering Caversham who was
the greatest Magic Lanternist who ever lived.
But things
aren’t as they seem as The Doctor discovers that Caversham was a
supernaturalist and might have conjured up a demon. The Doctor also discovers how Caversham
caught the demon and now that people are dying believes that someone might be trying
to conjure the demon and that would be bad for everyone in the castle and on
Earth.
The
Darkness of the Glass was a pretty good audio adventure. I really liked the paranoia feel to it as
everyone was trapped in the castle and worried about who or what was killing
them off one by one. It did have an
Agatha Christie feel to it especially if you have read And Then There Were
None. I did like the mystery of this
adventure as you wondered how The Doctor would figure out who was trying to
bring back the demon. It was also pretty
clever the way in which the demon was originally trapped and how they went
about to bring it back. I won’t say how
you’ll have to listen for yourself to find out.
The
Darkness of Glass had once again good performances from Tom Baker and Louise
Jameson as the gave the story that feel that it could have been in season 14 as
it had that Gothic feel to it. Justin
Richards did a wonderful job with The Darkness of Glass as it was a pretty good
mystery and suspenseful romp for The 4th Doctor and Leela and I can’t wait for
his next one.
Grade A
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