Released February 2009 Proving that The Companion Chronicles range with its combination of action and narration is every bit as full of variability and potential as any other, Big Finish takes the unique opportunity to further expand upon the concurrently-running Fifth Doctor Key2Time trilogy with Simon Guerrier’s prequel “The Prisoner’s Dilemma.” With Zara in the […]
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Released January 2009 As much as early Doctor Who succeeded because of the central mystery regarding a strange alien and his granddaughter who had at least a modicum of control over time and space, it wisely knew that a more human element was needed to anchor the audience within the fantastic worlds that were continually […]
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Released December 2008 The Companion Chronicles deftly proved through its first thirteen releases that Big Finish could successfully delve into the realms of the first four Doctors without those lead actors present to anchor events. However, with Stewart Sheargold’s ‘The Darkening Eye,’ a prequel to the Seventh Doctor full-cast drama ‘The Death Collectors,’ Big Finish […]
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Released November 2008 Sara Kingdom may not be a typical companion in the classic sense of the word, having only featured in “The Daleks’ Master Plan’ and meeting her demise in that same serial. However, Jean Marsh made such an impact as the Space Security Service agent who turned against Mavic Chen and thus helped […]
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Released October 2008 Given the commanding presence with which Louise Jameson revealed Leela’s imprisonment by and her elimination of the Z’nai in ‘The Catalyst,’ it comes as no surprise that Leela is the first companion to repeat as the focus in The Companion Chronicles. Now trapped alone in the complex with only the machines sustaining […]
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Released February 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The second third of God Among Us 2 draws to a close with David Llewellyn’s ‘Eye of the Storm’ with the entire team uniting to undertake a desperate mission. But as people turn to stone and water levels rise with an alien energy station sending out waves of lethal […]
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Released February 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Body swapping is one of the most trusted tropes in science fiction, forcing one character to experience life from the perspective of another and often growing as a person or at least gaining a deeper understanding of the other in the process. Tim Foley’s “Another Man’s Shoes” maximises that […]
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Released February 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Using recent events in London as a foundation, Ash Darby tackles the increasingly concerning issue of homelessness in Cardiff in ‘Hostile Environment’ in which people assume they’re doing good and helping out society by using an app to tag the homeless to send the help they need. There’s a […]
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Released February 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Of the many characters newly introduced and reintroduced throughout Big Finish’s many Torchwood audios, perhaps no one made such an instant and lasting impact as the enigmatic member of 1950s Torchwood One, Norton Folgate, who has utilised advanced technology to continue to be intricately involved in Torchwood’s affairs overtly […]
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Released September 2008 With Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney already starring in Pertwee-era installments of The Companion Chronicles, Katy Manning is the natural next choice, taking up narration duties as the beloved Jo Grant recalls an investigation into a temporal anomaly and an unstable alien artefact in Marc Platt’s ‘The Doll of Death.’ On television, […]
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A very slow story with a decent, if well, well-worn idea of a hidden alien menace using the emotions of…
Better than Forty 1, but drab, dull, boring and perhaps the most continuity heavy story BF have ever done. Plus,…
Now this is more like it. At first sight, another Dalek story is the last thing we need from WHO,…
This is the set that has finally ended my interest in Big Finish. it is so boring, so slow and…
Agreed. This is terrible, an insult to BF fans.
