Released October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Continuing with this lost season of sorts featuring the First Doctor, Steven, and Vicki, the TARDIS arrives on a mysterious and cloudy planet just as a human spaceship with its crew traveling in cryosleep while looking for habitable world to settle on does as well in Ian Potter’s ‘An […]
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Released October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW As Cardiff continues through its long night with the Black Sun arriving through the Rift and bringing sleep with it, Tom Foley’s ‘Night Watch’ closes out the first part of God Among Us with a surprising character piece that explores the internal demons and the deeper resolves alike that […]
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Released October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The beauty of the audio medium is that the stories are completely reliant on painting a picture in its audience’s collective eye with words and sound effects alone, yet the lack of a visual component is rarely ever celebrated quite so literally as it is in John Dorney’s ‘See […]
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Released October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Taking a step back from the overarching narrative of God Among Us, Guy Adams’s ‘The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood’ focuses on the enigmatic figure of Brent Hayden, a crusader out to unearth conspiracies who can appeal to the left and to the right alike. With his videos global hits […]
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Aired 28 October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW After an unplanned journey to an alien world and a harrowing journey into the recent past, the Doctor and her friends return to the present with stunning accuracy as the local spider population begins acting strangely in Chris Chibnall’s ‘Arachnids in the UK.’ For all of its potential, […]
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Released October 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With its series of Torchwood individual releases, Big Finish had on multiple occasions provided glimpses into life after the events of Miracle Day as Gwen Cooper fought to rebuild Torchwood Three in Cardiff with the help of Rhys and Andy. However, as full-cast productions set within earlier timeframes proved […]
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Released October 2003 As the concluding story of the original Unbound run, Nicholas Briggs’s ‘Exile’ finds itself in the uneviable position of following the masterful ‘Deadline,’ a benchmark that any more blithe comedy would struggle to meet. Working under the suggestion that the Doctor escaped the justice of the Time Lords, Arabella Weir takes up […]
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Released September 2003 While the Unbound range has already explored the nuances of the Doctor’s character and his lasting legacy to remarkable effect through the casting of different actors in the lead role and occasionally treading into far darker territory than is typical, Robert Shearman’s ‘Deadline’ does something far more profound by showing just why […]
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Released August 2003 With the Unbound series, the inevitable question was always going to be whether an individual story would choose to focus more on a continuity aspect, such as the Doctor never leaving Gallifrey as in ‘Auld Morality,’ or more on characterisation, such as with the morally devoid Doctor in ‘Full Fathom Five.’ Gary […]
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Released July 2003 The central premise of the Unbound range is that familiar characters and concepts can be explored in a wholly unique manner as novel performers step into the titular role of the Doctor. While the first two releases have been undoubted successes that have expertly highlighted what the range is capable of, David […]
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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.
