Released July 2011 To open the sixth series of The Companion Chronicles, Big Finish has finally brought Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso from the Eighth Doctor’s sole television outing into the audio medium, by necessity casting them as new UNIT characters in order to avoid any existing rights issues stemming from that movie. Serving […]
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Released August 2011 Originally released as a digital download exclusive to readers of Doctor Who Magazine issue 419 in March 2010, ‘Freakshow’ by Mark Morris was later released as the final of three stories included in The Companion Chronicles: The Specials box set. Although The Companion Chronicles was originally intended to serve as a vehicle […]
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Released August 2011 Originally released as a digital download exclusive to readers of Doctor Who Magazine issue 411 in July 2009, ‘The Mists of Time’ by Jonathan Morris was later released as the second of three stories included in The Companion Chronicles: The Specials box set. With Jo Grant in the spotlight, the dark past […]
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Released April 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Through seven box sets that have easily and dynamically expanded upon the modern iteration of UNIT briefly highlighted in recent years of Doctor Who, Big Finish’s UNIT series has proven itself more than capable of interweaving classic and novel threats- both alien and human- with thrilling character drama. In […]
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Released August 2011 Originally included as twelve ten-minute segments included at the end of the Doctor Who audio releases ranging from 2009’s ‘The Magic Mousetrap’ to 2010’s ‘Survival of the Fittest,’ Marc Platt’s ‘The Three Companions’ is now compiled into one cohesive whole as part of The Specials collection. When Polly electronically tracks down one […]
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Released June 2011 Following a thrilling introduction to the captivating character of Oliver Harper who was on the run for a crime he dared not admit in ‘The Perpetual Bond,’ writer Simon Guerrier now takes his new trio of adventurers far into the future when Earth is a ruin and nothing more than an intergalactic […]
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Released April 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Few Doctor Who stories are quite as iconic as ‘The Green Death,’ a story that makes perfect use of the Third Doctor’s Earthbound format to discuss the very relevant topics of environmentalism and corporate power and that also sees the dramatic departure of beloved companion Jo Grant. Given the […]
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Released May 2011 Returning to season sixteen during the search for the six segments of the Key to Time, Peter Anghelides’s “Ferril’s Folly” sees the Doctor and Romana arrive on modern-day Earth in the small village of Norfolk. It is here that former astronaut Lady Millicent Ferril has established an observatory to track the meteor […]
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Released April 2011 Set some time after Liz Shaw left UNIT for Cambridge, the Third Doctor’s former companion calls on him to help investigate experiments with time dilation in ‘The Sentinels of the New Dawn’ by Paul Finch. When the two are thrust forward to the year 2014, however, promises of an ideal new era […]
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Released March 2011 When the Vist descend upon the Earth and claim an area of time for themselves in David Lock’s ‘The Forbidden Time,’ humanity enters a state of panic, knowing that a most terrible price must be paid to enter the immediate future. One woman has stepped into this future long ago, however, and […]
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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.
