Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With Big Finish, collisions between the classic and modern iterations of Doctor Who have become increasingly common, with heroes like River Song and Strax as well as villains like the Weeping Angels and the Vashta Nerada bridging the divide. However, aside from the Tenth Doctor in the televised special […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Of the many characters that Big Finish has introduced to the Torchwood universe both in its official continuation of the television story and in its individual releases designed to flesh out the long history and many branches of the organization, perhaps none has instantly stood out and made such […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Torchwood on television, although featuring an ensemble cast, was unquestionably a showpiece for Captain Jack who had obviously debuted on Doctor Who before it. During that time, however, the natural charm, naivety, determination, and everyman nature of PC Andy Davidson made the supporting character one of the memorable and […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW No classic Doctor Who relationship has been quite as tumultuous and- with the help of Big Finish- ultimately well-developed as that between the Sixth Doctor and Peri. With the Doctor physically assaulting Peri following his regeneration in ‘The Twin Dilemma’ to seemingly abandoning her when she fell victim to […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Myrna Kendal was once one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, and she now spends her time on chat shows reminiscing about everything with the exception of the unfinished film that would mark the end of her acting career. When the TARDIS arrives at one particular chat show in Stuart Manning’s […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW When a plea for help sends the Doctor and Peri to the Earth colony Rusina, they soon find themselves entrenched in a society fixated on individual popularity in Jacqueline Rayner’s ‘Like.’ While Peri discovers the genuine benefits of being liked, however, the Doctor quickly uncovers the far darker side […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW As Big Finish’s monthly Doctor Who range begins to draw to a close, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors who have been mainstays since the very beginning appear poised to break out into more diverse ranges that offer an even greater variety of storytelling opportunities. As a likely preview […]
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Released August 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Two-part, double-bill releases have become increasingly common in Big Finish’s Doctor Who monthly range in recent years, allowing for the often-quicker storytelling stylings of the modern television series and the company’s many other audio ranges to intersect with the classic era. At the end of the Fifth Doctor’s previous […]
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Released July 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Big Finish’s latest anthology release, Time Apart, finds the Fifth Doctor separated from his companions and looking to find support and consolation through the history of Earth. Steve Lyons opens this release with ‘Ghost Station’ and Peter Meier patrolling the border of East Berlin far beneath the streets in […]
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Released July 2020 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Joining the 51st-century bounty hunter Calypso Jonze to track down a mind parasite capable of turning its host’s nightmares into reality, the Doctor, Flip, and Constance in Robert Valentine’s ‘The Lovecraft Invasion’ find themselves in 1937 Rhode Island in the presence of weird fiction author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. As […]
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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.
