Lizziw Hopley

Review by Jacob Licklider

Class is simply an odd series at its conception and connection to Doctor Who. Announced in 2015 as a spin-off, the reaction to it was overall negative and who could blame it? The only connection the show has is that it takes place at the same school as the first ten minutes of An Unearthly Child and that the Doctor shows up in the first episode. It ran for eight episodes in 2016, ended on a cliffhanger, and was quietly cancelled a year later. Major criticisms of the show were that it was generic and had characters closer to a soap opera than a science fiction program. The show was revived in 2018 by Big Finish Production with a deal to make 12 hour long episodes set during the series, though not following up on the cliffhanger and released their first six. It would not be until late April of 2020 that the other six would be produced and released as Class: Volume 3 and Class: Volume 4 and like most things in the Doctor Who universe that isn’t well received, Big Finish Productions have taken the potential Class had and allowed the actors to fulfil said potential.