Released January 2007 Second only to the Daleks, no alien menace had as prolific of an impact on early Doctor Who as the Cybermen, the horrific and emotionless results of the Mondasian peoples’ desperate attempts to survive that then became dedicated to converting others to ensure the spread and legacy of their cybernetic race. Yet […]
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Released January 2007 ‘Frostfire’ instantly showed what The Companion Chronicles is capable of, hinting at what happened to a beloved companion from the past after departing the Doctor while affording a very intimate look at an era long since passed. The second release, ‘Fear of the Daleks’ by Patrick Chapman, highlights the Second Doctor era […]
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Released January 2007 At a time before Tom Baker had joined Big Finish and the only substantial audio output of Doctor Who featured the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors, The Companion Chronicles range opened up innumerable possibilities by allowing further exploration into the characters who originally brought the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Doctor […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The advent of River Song to Big Finish’s ever-expanding lineup has allowed for a continuing and immense exploration into this fascinating character who has been so intimately involved with the Doctor’s many incarnations, including several much earlier than her on-screen introduction would suggest. Naturally, such close association with this […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The first volume of The Syndicate Master Plan draws to a close with Guy Adams’s ‘The False Guardian’ as the TARDIS lands on a desolate world that the Doctor finds hauntingly familiar. Inside a strange complex an enigmatic director heads dangerous experiments, and the Doctor and Ann soon find […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW At its core, Doctor Who is a programme meant to educate just as much as to entertain, whether through pure historical adventures on Earth or more far-flung adventures that serve as allegories to real-world situations. Over the course of time, those ideas have merged somewhat as science fiction and […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Following a strong opening to the first volume of The Syndicate Master Plan that effectively introduced new companion Ann Kelso and some of the nefarious powers that acted as an entry point to something altogether more sinister and dangerous, Phil Mulryne’s ‘Planet of the Drashigs’ unexpectedly offers a more […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Big Finish has become increasingly keen to release box sets of adventures across its many ranges in recent years, often allowing for expansive tales- or at least significant portions of expansive tales- to unfold across many serials in a more deliberate and developed fashion. Yet while even the Fourth […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Since first releasing Doctor Who stories in 1999, Big Finish has proven time and time again that it is both willing to further develop established televised eras and to take both characters old and new alike into uncharted territory. Yet despite Peter Davison’s tenure slowly becoming more fully developed […]
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Released January 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Released over a year following the second series of The New Counter-Measures and with no immediate plans for any further stories featuring this furtive organisation barring a guest appearance in the upcoming celebratory release The Legacy of Time, Ian Potter’s ‘The Hollow King’ represents the de facto finale of […]
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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.
