Aired 01 January 2007 Following in the footsteps of the modern run of Doctor Who, the first series of Torchwood ends with a two-part serial, the first tasked with setting the scene and delving into the characters before the second deals with the true effects and aftermath of a catastrophic event. Returning after the wonderful […]
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Aired 24 December 2006 The second half of the first series of Torchwood has increasingly relied on human emotion to fuel its stories with science fiction elements incorporated more as framing or background devices rather than as the main narrative centrepiece, and the episodes have certainly been all the stronger for it. Doctor Who companion […]
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Released August 2013 The third series of Iris Wildthyme began to experiment more with placing the bombastically eccentric presence of the eponymous transtemporal adventuress and her firm companion Panda into more traditional storylines, making well-worn tropes all the more powerful by accentuating the duo’s particular means of experiencing and resolving problems both big and small. […]
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Aired 17 December 2006 A plane named Sky Gypsy that went missing during a flight in the 1950s lands in modern Cardiff after passing through the rift, and the three occupants’ attempts at reorientation and reintegration into a society that has changed so much become deeply intertwined with the lives of Torchwood Three’s members in […]
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Aired 10 December 2006 Russell T Davies’s tenure on Doctor Who is famed for, among so many other things, establishing the recurring notion of an entire serial with limited appearances from the Doctor and/or companion in order to ease production schedules. In ‘Random Shoes’ by Jacquetta May, the majority of the Torchwood Three team is […]
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Released June 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Georgia Moffett made an instant impact as Jenny in the aptly-titled Tenth Doctor serial ‘The Doctor’s Daughter,’ playing the artificial creation of the progenation machine destined for military achievement with a brilliance, flirtatiousness, and lust for life and adventure that evoked the spirit of her unwitting father, the Doctor, […]
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Aired 03 December 2006 The ultimate fate of Suzie Costello in Torchwood’s premiere has easily been one of the most shocking moments of the series so far, proving that nobody is safe or immune to the infnluence of emotions and temptations in the dangerous world in which the organisation that proclaims itself to be outside […]
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Aired 26 November 2006 With varying degrees of success and finesse, each of the Torchwood Three team members except Toshiko Sato has prominently featured in one or more of the early run of episodes. ‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ rectifies that situation and tells the tale of Tosh giving in to temptation and using a mysterious pendant […]
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Aired 19 November 2006 It’s easy for a science fiction show to use aliens and their technology to create parables about the strengths, weaknesses, and evils of humanity, but much less rarely are contemporary humans without enhanced measures the true culprit of any meaningful conflict or evil within these programmes. After a series of up […]
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Released August 2012 Iris Wildthyme is unquestionably one of the most singularly unique properties within the Big Finish catalogue, using wildly varied tones that are unafraid to tread into pantomime and farcical territory but never foregoing a genuine sense of empathy and emotion beneath Iris’s gaudy façade. Katy Manning has epitomised everything that this outlandish […]
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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.
