Released July 2009 Simon Guerrier’s ‘Home Truths’ was unequivocally one of the standout successes of the third series of The Companion Chronicles, giving Sara Kingdom life once again in a most unexpected manner and definitively proving just how exciting a framing narrative could be. Unsurprisingly, then, the fourth series opens up with a sequel to […]
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Released June 2009 To close out the third series of The Companion Chronicles, Mary Tamm returns to her incredibly impactful but brief role as the first incarnation of Romana in Nigel Robinson’s ‘The Stealers from Saiph.’ As the Doctor and she relax in 1929 Antibes, ominous warnings from astrologer Madame Arcana threaten their idyllic respite, […]
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Released May 2009 Given the undisputed success with which the early installments of The Companion Chronicles delved into the earlier eras of Doctor Who that Big Finish could not bring to life with an authentic full cast, it’s no surprise that the company looked to expand upon its format with experiments such as giving Sara […]
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Released April 2009 When freak weather conditions overtake London and a tube train is discovered buried in snow while dozens of people are found instantly frozen in Hyde Park during a typical July heatwave, UNIT is called in to investigate. Yet as Jo Grant and Mike Yates disobey orders to pursue a street magician witnessed […]
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Released March 2009 Arguably the greatest tragedy in the long history of Doctor Who is the sheer number of episodes that no longer exist in the visual medium, audio recordings and fragmentary still images fortunately remaining but only hinting at the productions as a whole. With no companion’s material hit as hard by that purge […]
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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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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.
