Top 10 Best Fourth Doctor Audio Dramas

When these stories get it right, you are not just hearing another adventure. You are stepping into a world where ancient horrors, oddball humor, and sudden bursts of cosmic wonder all pile into the same TARDIS trip. That is the magic of this era, and on audio it still hits like a jelly baby with a hidden explosive.

What makes the best ones rise above the rest is how completely they pull you in. You want the sharp wit, the eerie atmosphere, the clever plotting, and that unmistakable feeling that chaos is only one grin away. A great Fourth Doctor audio drama should make you laugh, raise your eyebrows, and then make you very nervous about whatever is waiting in the next corridor.

The Top Ten

  1. The Trouble with Drax

    Bonkers multi-Drax. Absolute delight to listen to.

  2. The Foe from the Future

    Everything terrifying about time travel, as the Doctor is put in a desperate situation where there seems to be no good way to win, along with a nice balance of appealing allies and detestable enemies, even if we learn enough about Jalnik to sympathize with what he might have been if he hadn't been manipulated and twisted.

    Sublime lost story that so should have been made. With a killer part 5 cliffhanger.

  3. Doctor Who and the Star Beast

  4. The Doomsday Contract

  5. Someone I Once Knew

  6. The Perfect Prisoners

    A neat resolution to Ann Kelso's storyline.

  7. How to Win Planets and Influence People

  8. Shadow of the Sun

  9. Requiem for the Rocket Men

    A neat resolution to the threat of the Rocket Men, and such minor amusing moments as how exactly K9 should refer to the Master.

  10. The Ghosts of Gralstead

    11. The Newcomers
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    The Friendly Invasion

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    The Ark

    13. The Contenders

  13. The Crowmarsh Experiment

  14. The English Way of Death

    A brilliant story all around.

  15. The Auntie Matter

  16. The Sons of Kaldor

  17. Doctor Who and the Iron Legion

  18. The Justice of Jalxar

    This is such a guilty pleasure and a brilliant story for Jago and Litefoot.

  19. Gallery of Ghouls

    This is very, very good light relief.

  20. Return to Telos

  21. Out of Time

  22. The Valley of Death

  23. The Wrath of the Iceni

    The historical Tom never had on TV. Utterly superb storytelling.

  24. The Romance of Crime

  25. The Fate of Krelos

  26. A Full Life

  27. Destination: Nerva

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