M039 - Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

I'm not familiar enough with the classic series to know if the (silly) title of this play is a reference to the McCoy era Who, but I do know that playing the spoons is. And you have to be sure that a story where playing the spoons is central to the climax will not be one of the Doctor's serious moments. This is actually a good thing, because I've preferred McCoy's Doctor in the funnier stories.

When the TARDIS appears in the halls of an exploding ship with a dead crew, there is nothing the Doctor and Mel can do but run and hope. Luckily the nearby space station teleports--sorry--transmats them onboard, thinking they are the new command crew. Rather than spend the story in the brig, the Doctor and Mel take on their new roles and fall into a story that is Star Trek meets Agatha Christie behind the scenes of an intergalactic song contest.

A curious and bizarre cast of characters including an annoyingly-voiced mouse quickly become the dwindling cast of an "And Then There Were None" situation of mounting murders. The silliness of the play is amped up as every time someone gets to say, "It was murder!" a chorus of organs does the old-timey radio dum-dum-dummm. And it goes further when the organs are cut off by someone saying, "He's not actually dead."