Released May 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Unfortunately for the Doctor, attempts at holidaying for rest and relaxation and to show his companions the wonders of the universe rarely result in anything resembling a peaceful respite, the TARDIS’s uncanny tendency to materialise in the middle of conflict- known or unknown- often consuming his attention. Visiting the […]
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Released May 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Big Finish ably proved all the way back in 1999 during Doctor Who’s television hiatus just how well the classic series could transfer to the audio medium, giving a dynamic second life to beloved characters while allowing nuanced and meaningful characterisation and development that didn’t always have the chance […]
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Released December 2011 The fiftieth audio release in any range is understandably a monumental reason for reflection and celebration, yet while The Companion Chronicles has provided some of the strongest Doctor Who material in any medium due to stellar characterisation and brilliant ideas, Big Finish and writer Terrance Dicks have surprisingly eschewed any sort of […]
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Released November 2011 Serving as the concluding act to the Oliver Harper trilogy that opened with ‘The Perpetual Bond’ and continued with ‘The Cold Equations,’ Simon Guerrier’s ‘The First Wave’ finds the TARDIS and its crew caught in the inevitable path of their own history as they arrive on the planetoid Grace Alone. With the […]
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Released October 2011 The central bond between the Doctor and his companions is rightfully at the forefront of many Doctor Who stories, highlighting how a being from an all-powerful and seemingly omniscient race can come to care not only for the sanctity of time and the universe at large but for another individual as well. […]
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Released May 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Following a stunning beginning to the fifth volume of The Third Doctor Adventures that proved that the Brigadier and Liz Shaw still have so much to offer in a convincing and satisfying manner, Guy Adams’s ‘The Scream of Ghosts’ takes the next logical step in further developing this beloved […]
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Released May 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW No era of Doctor Who has been hit quite so hard by the passage of time on its leading men and women as the Third Doctor’s, Katy Manning the remaining lead connection to such a beloved and unique time that spawned so many classic serials while reinventing itself on […]
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Released September 2011 Every character who has left the Doctor’s company has an immensely intriguing tale to tell, but perhaps nobody’s is quite as exciting as Zoe Heriot’s given how she must reconcile her eidetic memory with the glaring gap that stems from the fact that she can’t remember just why she did not take […]
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Released August 2011 Making only his second appearance in The Companion Chronicles, Doctor Who legend William Russell headlines John Dorney’s ‘The Rocket Man.’ Enjoying a rare chance to relax when landing on an idyllic floating city above the planet of Jobis, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki soon confront the sadistic menace fronting the nefarious […]
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Released May 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The internal drama stemming from trying to find and accept oneself in a world and universe that constantly seem to be pushing back is an always-fascinating one, and few characters in the Doctor Who universe encapsulate this so resonantly as Mags, lycanthrope from the planet of Vulpana and former […]
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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.
