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The Doctor needs a loan to pay a parking fine. Unfortunately, the day he visits the Galactibank is the same day a team of Selachian soldiers decided to stage an audacious armed robbery.
The Selachian Gambit is a heist story, with plenty of action, daring ploys and desperate procrastinations, with just enough menace from the brutal, aqua-supremacist Selachians - adversaries from one of the novel lines, making their second appearance in audio after the main range sharks-vs-Nazis play The Architects of History - to maintain the stakes.
Oddly, this title is listed as 'Frazer Hines performs... with Anneke Wills', and yet this is one of Polly's more proactive roles to date. If Hines takes the meat of the play, it is because he is called on to do double duty as the Doctor, with his celebrated Patrick Troughton. The interplay between the three companions - Poly, Jamie, and Ben - is a highlight of this play, with their somewhat blundering attempts at heroics working at odds to the Doctor's subtle plans and caution.
Next up, UNIT secret squirrelry with Liz Shaw in Binary.
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