Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Even with its smaller casts, the main range of Big Finish’s Torchwood has succeeded not just in further developing the known characteristics of beloved characters but in exploring and fleshing out certain aspects and nuances that never had the opportunity to flourish on television but that were always present […]
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Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW After nearly five years apart in Big Finish’s main range, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant instantly rekindled their superb chemistry and recaptured the nuances of their time together as the Sixth Doctor and Peri in ‘Memories of a Tyrant’ as the beginning of a trilogy continuing with Andrew Smith’s […]
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Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With the collected stories of Time War invariably leading to the Eighth Doctor’s decision upon regeneration to become the warrior whom his future selves would refuse to speak of, writer John Dorney boldly reintroduces the Valeyard- introduced long ago as an amalgamation of the Doctor’s darker aspects from somewhere […]
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Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Although the Eighth Doctor has not yet chosen to sacrifice his title to join his people in the devastation of the Time War, the Time War saga has thus far brilliantly highlighted how far the Time Lords have deviated from their trusted non-intervention policies and the sense moral superiority […]
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Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Whether intended or not, war has countless consequences on both very grand and very intimate scales, and Time War 3 continues its look at the actions of individuals suffering from a cosmic battle they cannot hope to comprehend in Lisa McMullin’s ‘The Famished Land.’ Arriving in the Vale of […]
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Released August 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Following two box sets in the Ravenous saga and another that reunited the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller once more in a series of missing stories, Big Finish now returns to the depths of the Time War with the Doctor closer than ever to dropping his name and taking […]
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Released June 2014 As The Companion Chronicles in its monthly format draws to a close with John Dorney’s ‘Second Chances,’ so, too, does Zoe’s arc first introduced in ‘Echoes of Grey.’ When a news report triggers memories of a dangerous adventure with the Doctor and Jamie, Zoe senses an opportunity for redemption to rectify her […]
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Released May 2014 Continuing with the immensely engaging prospect of Jo Grant traveling with transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme as first shown in ‘Find and Replace,’ writer Paul Magrs now takes this most unexpected duo into the glamour of Hollywood in 1930s Los Angeles in ‘The Elixir of Doom’ where monster movies are all the rage […]
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Released April 2014 As one of Doctor Who’s many serials with its visual component all but lost, ‘The Savages’ remains one of the franchise’s lesser-known instalments despite it marking the end of Steven Taylor’s tenure aboard the TARDIS as he opted to stay behind to help mediate a society facing a crossroads. Picking up that […]
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Released March 2014 Following their departure from Nero’s Rome, the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki arrive in the early twentieth century whereupon Vicki receives a dire warning that she will die if she leaves the TARDIS. Given an audience by a local psychic who claims to be able to contact the spirits of those […]
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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.
