The guest stars (including Owen Teale!) and a better than average script elevate this one a bit above the commonly used "something puts the characters in a convincing fantasy world and the hero has to snap them out of it" trope -- though basically this fridged Peri and Erimem and trapped the former in a horrible soap opera version of What Ladies Want. Ugh to that. Everything else was all right though. ( )

The Mind's Eye is a rather good drama about Peri and Erimem becoming literally entagled in mindwarping plants, whie the Doctor tries to sort out the politics of the mission investigating the planet. Owen Teale and Rebecca Front are great guest stars, and Thomas Sangster appears as Peri's stepson - both Morris and Bryant get a good chance to show their talents in a different context.

Mission of the Viyrans is out of sequence, in that it's a single-episode piece on the same CD set as The Mind's Eye but set after Erimem's departure. Again we have Peri's reality being bent, this time by a virus and by the time-travellers fighting it, and some exceptionally good material for Nicola Bryant, but the punchline somewhat weakens the story. ( )