The Wishing Beast, which confronts Six and Mel with two mad old ladies and a collection of persecuted ghosts, really shouldn't work, but it does. Somehow the cast, which includes Jean Marsh as one of the mad old ladies, make Paul Magrs' script really zing. Great stuff.

The Vanity Box is a slightly humorous coda to The Wishing Beast, but the humour is based on the premise that old ladies from Salford sound a bit funny, and so does Colin Baker when he tries to imitate them. This turns out to be a rather weak premise. ( )