Aired 12 November 2006 The first four episodes of Torchwood have varied dramatically in terms of plotting and characterisation, leaving the leads as fairly unknown quantities who have yet to develop a true chemistry. Opening quite stunningly with an elderly woman quietly walking through a forest at night to avoid waking an unknown group of […]
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Aired 05 November 2006 It’s only natural that a spin-off series should want to explicitly ground itself within the world and events of its parent franchise even given the wholly distinct tones and stylings of Torchwood and Doctor Who. Using the fall of Torchwood One in London during the events of ‘Army of Ghosts’ and […]
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Released February – November 2009 The mysterious and transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme returns for a four-story second series of adventures aboard the Number 22 to Putney Common after a brief but rocky first series that only hinted at the true comedic, outlandish, but also emotional potential of this brashly unique character and the worlds in […]
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Aired 29 October 2016 Following a shaky second episode that missed the mark with the execution of its central concept and characterisation of its leads, Torchwood delivers a much more confident and well-balanced outing in ‘Ghost Machine’ by Helen Raynor as the driftwood always coming through Cardiff’s rift once more comes into focus. Although no […]
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Aired 22 October 2006 Following an exciting premiere that unashamedly introduced Gwen Cooper to the moral greyness of Cardiff’s Torchwood Three and its operatives in a world secretly filled with alien beings and technology, ‘Day One’ by Chris Chibnall follows Gwen on her first mission while becoming the first episode in the expanded Doctor Who […]
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Released November – December 2005 Iris Wildthyme, that self-proclaimed transtemporal adventuress and “righter-of-wrongs, wronger-of-rights, meddler, artist, writer, glamourpuss, occasional Time’s champion, and very old flame of the Doctor” has been a recurring fixture in the Doctor Who spin-off media since her bold audio and written debuts in 1998. With intriguingly conflicting pasts and a brash […]
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Aired 22 October 2006 Doctor Who triumphantly returned to television screens in March 2005, spectacularly immersing viewers in the flashy, dramatic, and emotional world of a Time Lord ridden with survivor’s guilt continuing his eternal quest to right wrongs and show others a better way of life. With an instant popularity that would soon surge […]
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Released May 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The latest run of The Fourth Doctor Adventures comes to a close with ‘The Age of Sutekh’ by Guy Adams, culminating the groundwork displayed in ‘Kill the Doctor!’ as the ancient Osiran tries to re-establish his hold in reality as Drummond takes on the glittering gold spectacle of his […]
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Released May 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Throughout the Doctor’s many travels and life-threatening attempts to right injustices, perhaps no sentiment has followed him as frequently as gratitude as that of the title of Guy Adams’s first half of the conclusion to the current run of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, ‘Kill the Doctor!’ Arriving on the […]
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Released May 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Using time as an actual storytelling device within a story beyond simply a framing measure was something that the classic series of Doctor Who did all too infrequently and something that Big Finish has proven adept at integrating with mostly great success. In ‘The Bad Penny’ by Dan Starkey, […]
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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.
