sentences:  Vanessa Bishop reviewed it favourably for "Doctor Who Magazine", singling out Simon E Power's sound design for special praise.Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping gave the serial (at the time in the form of the 1992 VHS reconstruction) a mixed review in "The Discontinuity Guide" (1995), saying; 
  
  Patrick Mulkern reviewed the 2017 partially reconstructed version for "Radio Times".Mulkern thought that despite "pockets of magic to enjoy" it was a "sprawling but far-from-epic serial."