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Post by matthewsee on Jun 10, 2013 22:00:08 GMT -5
Blackout is an audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. Written by Oli Smith and released in September 2011 and narrated by Stuart Milligan (who appeared in the TV series earlier in the year playing US President Richard M. Nixon in the season 36 opener The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon). Blackout is also the name of a BBC TV series that had starred Ninth Doctor Chris Eccleston. Blackout takes place in 1965 New York which sadly would become the setting for Amy and Rory’s swansong The Angels Take Manhattan albeit earlier in the timeline in the 1930s. Unlike The Angels Take Manhattan, Blackout does not feature the Angels. It instead has New York City having a blackout just like it says in the story title. It was caused by the presence of aliens who also employ the use of a disease on the populace. In this story Amy and Rory are separated from the Doctor for much of it but the Doctor wasn’t alone in his scenes without them as he was accompanied by Clint the cab driver. Clint, from the way he is characterised by Milligan’s narration, sounds he could have been a good stand-in companion for the Doctor in the TV series. Overall it is not a bad story to pass the time.
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