It’s good fun though and the ending is nicely open so we can expect a return of the Bloomsbury Bunch at some point. It’s hard to say much more about this – including performances – without spoiling. I won’t spoil this for everyone, but I did find the similarities to our heroes a little over-coincidental, but it was funny at points. There’s an added complication in that the beings responsible for this, which is more of an accident than deliberate villainy. Although as I cast my mind back, they’ve always been a little pompous.Ī Photograph to Remember plays on the fashion for spiritualism there was in the Victorian period to weave an adventure out of people returning from the dead. I adore Dan Starkey’s Strax even if it does make Sontarans difficult to bring back to television as out and out villains. The main cast are excellent picking up from the television appearances, which are now some time ago. The story has its fair share of period Cockneys. He’s also very good at getting the balance between comedy and drama nicely balanced. Jonathan Morris is one of my favourite Big Finish writers and he does a fine job of creating the first adventure that may set the pattern for the rest of the series to come. He has a rather nasty assistant played by Julia Hills. How has this information come to Fabian Solak (Alan Cox*) come upon this knowledge and what is going on in his Millwall factory. The first, which I think is my favourite, features electric cars that shouldn’t exist. So, the Boxed Set is made up of three stories: The Cars That Ate London!, A Photograph to Remember and The Ghosts of Greenwich written by Jonathan Morris, Roy Gill and Paul Morris retrospectively.

They are a three-being investigation team who Scotland Yard seem to rely on when cases go beyond the confusing and into the downright strange. Suffice it to say Jenny is more than a Maid, Strax more than a Butler and Madame Vastra and Jenny more than just good friends. I won’t waste too much time outlining all the relationships as I’m assuming anyone reading this will be familiar with the Paternoster Gang from television. So, we get Madame Vastra, Silurian Detective (Neve McIntosh) Strax, Sontaran Butler (Dan Starkey) and Jenny, Human Maid (Catrin Stewart).

This is the first Big Finish Boxed Set featuring The Paternoster Gang as a whole. Tony Cross visits Paternoster Row in Victorian London as he listened to The Paternoster Gang: Heritage 1, out now from Big Finish.

The Paternoster Gang by Jonathan Morris