Released June 2017 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW As The First Doctor Volume Two draws to a close, Guy Adams with ‘The Plague of Dreams’ attempts to channel the most ambitious attempts of the early years of Doctor Who when, despite the technical limitations confronting the production staff, budgetary and practical shortcomings were embraced in the spirit […]
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Released June 2017 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Following an opening that recaps the beginning of ‘The Tenth Planet’ and hints at an ongoing arc for The First Doctor Volume Two that has yet to be revealed in full, the Doctor, Polly, and Ben land in Lewes in the late 1950s just in time to celebrate Guy […]
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Released June 2017 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The very concept and format of The Companion Chronicles allow characters and ideas to come to the forefront in manners not seen or attempted on television, its stories thus constantly treading into new and occasionally ground-breaking territory. With Steven separated from the Doctor and Vicki on the planet Shade […]
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Released June 2017 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With The Companion Chronicles returning to the William Hartnell era for its latest collection of four stories in The First Doctor Volume Two, it’s fitting that ‘Fields of Terror’ by John Pritchard should return to the historical format with a new angle on the events and times as portrayed […]
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Released June 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Continuing with the journey of Jamie’s education that has been the underlying driving force of The Second Doctor Volume One and with the exploration of the differences between Jamie’s mindset and that of more advanced people that came to prominence in ‘The Integral,’ Rob Nisbet’s ‘The Edge’ takes the […]
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Released June 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW When tempers boil over in the TARDIS, the Second Doctor struggles to help Jamie and Zoe resolve their differences about the resolute and fixed nature of right and wrong, and the isolated Aspen Base that finds itself under siege puts their beliefs to the test in the most dangerous […]
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Released June 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Civilisations rise and fall, and few planets have seen this happen more often than Amyrndaa. The Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria land on this beautiful and idyllic planet teeming with life but none of it intelligent in ‘The Story of Extinction’ by Ian Atkins, joining a survey team to discover […]
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Released June 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW A year after The First Doctor Volume One successfully brought The Companion Chronicles range back into the public consciousness with a successful if all too brief four-story set that once more wonderfully captured the spirit of and developed the themes and characters of that beloved era with its small […]
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Released June 2015 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Steven Taylor long ago left the company of the Doctor to become the king of an alien world, but it’s now many years since he gave up his throne and chose to live in isolation in the mountains far out of the sight and minds of his people. As […]
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Released June 2015 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The historical genre remains one of the most endearing and unique aspects of the First Doctor era, and even as elements of science fiction began to encroach on the genre as time progressed before roles flipped and history began being used as a background for science fiction, there still […]
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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.
