Released April 2003 Following a successful encounter with the Ice Warriors in ‘The Dance of the Dead,’ the fourth series of Big Finish’s Bernice Summerfield range looks to further incorporate the large roster of famed Doctor Who villains, beginning with the long-present but little-seen Rutans and their eternal conflict with the Sontarans as first introduced […]
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Released March 2003 In the derelict remains of the lost Grid 4 Mining Station, an ancient alien mirror known only to a few rests. Professor Bernice Summerfield finds herself trapped within that artefact in Stewart Sheargold’s ‘The Mirror Effect,’ alone and haunted by fears and reflections of her safe world turned against her and a […]
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Released October 2002 In the aftermath of the special release ‘The Plague Herds of Excelis,’ Bernice finds herself hung over and wishing for death when the spaceship she has been smuggled upon meets disaster in Stephen Cole’s ‘The Dance of the Dead.’ Barely alive and forced to team with a party of Ice Warriors and […]
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Released June 2002 Taking Professor Bernice Summerfield into the realms of motherhood is one of the bravest and potentially most dramatically satisfying narrative changes that Big Finish could have made with the character, especially given her rough history with ex-husband Jason in a marriage that was somewhat underexplored in Bernice’s Virgin novels but who now […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Torchwood One: Before the Fall proved unequivocally that the London-based operations of Torchwood as headed by Yvonne Hartman and staffed in part by one Ianto Jones prior to the fall of Canary Wharf was a locale and era brimming with potential storylines. With Tracy-Ann Oberman and Gareth David-Lloyd sharing […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The seventh televised episode of Torchwood, ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ allowed Toshiko Sato the opportunity to discover firsthand just how complicated humans can be as she tried to reconcile thoughts and actions with an alien pendant that allowed her to hear the thoughts of others. With Toshiko still hurting from […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The pure historical genre of Doctor Who is alive and well thanks to the tireless efforts of Big Finish, and just as ‘The Great White Hurricane’ in The First Doctor Adventures Volume One sought to explore the distinctly non-British blizzard of 1888 New York, ‘The Barbarians and the Samurai’ […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The resounding success of David Bradley as William Hartnell and then as the First Doctor in An Adventure in Time and Space and ‘Twice Upon a Time,’ respectively, practically demanded that he be allowed to more thoroughly explore this character and his many nuances in further stories. With The […]
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Released August 2015 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Almost twenty-nine years after the first episode of ‘Time and the Rani’ showed the Sixth Doctor regenerating into the Seventh while collapsed on the TARDIS console room floor above the planet of Lakertya, ‘The Brink of Death’ finally details the events- with Colin Baker’s direct involvement as opposed to […]
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Released August 2015 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The Last Adventure reaches its penultimate instalment, ‘Stage Fright’ by Matt Fitton, in which the Sixth Doctor and Flip visit Victorian London to expand Flip’s cultural and historical knowledge in what becomes a spectacular blending of eras as the two confront none other than theatrical impresario Henry Gordon Jago, […]
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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.
