Aired 27 February 2008 As Owen reflects on his troubled adjustment to his new state while talking with a suicidal woman, ‘A Day in the Death’ by Joseph Lidster offers without any doubt the strongest character study of Torchwood’s complex doctor yet. This is a man who is constantly dying as he lives the same […]
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Aired 20 February 2008 Death is rarely a permanent condition in science fiction, Captain Jack Harkness providing the perfect example within the Doctor Who universe as a man who once died but now finds himself unable to no matter what circumstances befall him. With Owen dead from a gunshot wound and Martha about to perform […]
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Aired 13 February 2008 The arrival of Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones to Cardiff’s Torchwood Three was easily one of the most anticipated aspects of this second series of Torchwood, and J.C. Wilsher’s ‘Reset’ finally brings her aboard to help solve the strange mystery behind a spate of recent deaths. Martha, of course, has a […]
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Aired 13 February 2008 As science fiction shows continue to amass in numbers and episode counts, it’s understandably more difficult to deliver a sequence of truly novel ideas. At the same time, however, that means that there is a whole host of previously successful storylines just waiting to be revitalised with a novel spin, and […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW ‘The Helliax Rift’ introduced an engaging new version of UNIT led by Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Price fueled more by military that made the organisation quite distinct from the version he so fondly remembered from his own time acting as its scientific adviser. With Daniel Hopkins acting as the tempered […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With the Twelve harbouring a dark secret that even she may not remember and that could turn the tide of the Time War forever, the Doctor under Ollistra’s command must captain a submarine to see just what lies beneath the sea on a world where energy weapons do not […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW For a character that was introduced with amnesia and who has been defined so heavily and by necessity through his non-televised stories, it’s quite surprising just how often the Eighth Doctor has been the victim of amnesia through his many travels. While Guy Adams precariously flirts with that premise […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Audaciously opening with an Ogron stepping out of the TARDIS onto Gallifrey and rather politely claiming to be the Doctor, ‘Planet of the Ogrons’ by Guy Adams quickly sets itself up to be something quite unique. Following this with the introduction of the Twelve as she crosses paths with […]
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Released July 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The introduction of the War Doctor for the fiftieth anniversary special ‘The Day of the Doctor’ introduced a man struggling to reconcile his ideals and title he once held so dear with the terrible courses of action he had pursued as the ravaging battle between the Time Lords and […]
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Aired 06 February 2008 It was almost an inevitability that Rhys who has for so long lived his life on the fringes of Torchwood through his tortured but true relationship with Gwen would inevitably come to find out the truth behind his fiancée’s chosen career, and his growing suspicions that he has not been told […]
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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.
