THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BERNICE SUMMERFIELD box set 5: BURIED MEMORIES
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BERNICE SUMMERFIELD box set 5: BURIED MEMORIES Lisa Bowerman: I love her! David Warner: he was always a good Doctor but this…this makes him a GREAT Doctor. Wow. Okay, there are some clichés in all the stories but they’re used to great effect and there are things in these four stories, especially DEAD AND BREAKFAST, that have NOT been used before in DW anywhere (as far as I know). All four stories are entertaining, fast paced and fun. THE PRIDE OF THE LAMPION is, like DEAD AND BREAKFAST and some of CLEAR HISTORY, laugh out loud funny. It hits Benny where it hurts and when she’s at her job: archelogy. The love/foe relationship between this grand, cranky, classic and non-classic Doctor and the ever loving, always the same Benny is just marvelous in this story as Benny might finally get the recognition she deserves. There’s also some cool twists and turns about the aliens here and how they were “created.” Marvelous and eye opening about Benny and pride and g...