Released May 2010 The Companion Chronicles has once before linked with a concurrent trilogy within Big Finish’s monthly range with “The Prisoner’s Dilemma,” but Marty Ross’s “Night’s Black Agents” is the first to explicitly continue the narrative, here as “City of Spires” and “The Wreck of the Titans” are directly bridged with Jamie and the […]
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Released May 2010 As The Companion Chronicles approaches the end of its fourth series, Nigel Fairs once again tackles the directing, music, and sound design duties to bring the finale to his Leela trilogy, ‘The Time Vampire,’ to life. With Leela in her last moments of life and preparing to enter the land of her […]
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Released April 2010 As The Companion Chronicles once more turns to the early Third Doctor era with Simon Guerrier’s ‘Shadow of the Past,’ Dr Elizabeth Shaw likewise returns to UNIT for the first time in decades to unravel the past, exploring Vault 75-73/Whitehall and the housed remains of a spaceship that crashed in the Pennines […]
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Released March 2010 With ‘The Suffering’ opening a new means of storytelling with The Companion Chronicles by providing two companions’ voices concurrently, Nigel Robinson’s ‘The Emperor of Eternity’ follows suit by having both Victoria and Jamie present to recount their unexpected visit to China in 200 B.C. following the TARDIS’s collision with an asteroid in […]
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Released February 2010 Despite a simple premise regarding the format of The Companion Chronicles, there has already been a wealth of variability presented both in terms of framing devices and storytelling styles with characters both expected and not. With Jacqueline Rayner’s ‘The Suffering,’ the audio range ushers in a new era of possibilities as two […]
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Released January 2010 Debuting in the 1992 novel Love and War, Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield quickly became a quintessential companion for the Seventh Doctor before going on to star in her own successful range of novels and ongoing audio adventures. Yet although she has proven to be such an enduring and engaging character and despite […]
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Released November 2009 Within the narrative confines of one character relating a story to another, several early installments of The Companion Chronicles have toyed with that format to maintain intrigue and avoid the trap of simply having the story sound like a standard audiobook with little personal investment or intimacy. While varying degrees of success […]
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Released March 2019 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Much like with its fourth series of Bernice Summerfield audio adventures, Big Finish has dedicated the fourth run of its monthly Torchwood series to revisiting foes made famous in Doctor Who, beginning with the Fendahl in Tim Foley’s aptly-titled ‘Night of the Fendahl.’ Stories attempting to reintroduce lesser-known enemies […]
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Released October 2009 When the TARDIS arrives on the starship Myriad, the Doctor and Romana soon find themselves embroiled in the desperate affairs of the few remaining survivors of the planet Pavonis IV as they search for the fabled Doctor who saved their world once before so long ago. With their goal finally in reach, […]
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Released September 2009 As successful as The Companion Chronicles has been with providing a unique avenue for the Doctor’s many friends to relate missing adventures to a new audience, ‘The Mahogany Murderers’ proved that this audio range does not need to focus exclusively on companions who have traveled within the TARDIS. In ‘The Prisoner 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.
