Released May – October 2004 Following two truly superb series laden with raw emotion and devastating consequences in an unending battle that inflicted so much pain and death, Dalek Empire 3 faces the incredibly tough task of replicating those highs in a new time featuring a wholly new cast of heroes and without the Dalek […]
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Released January – April 2003 With the Daleks untethered from the family-friendly restraints of Doctor Who, Dalek Empire emerged as a powerful and gritty saga contrasting the seeming inevitability of the Daleks’ merciless advance with the ever-present inkling of hope and free will that fuels the beleaguered and oppressed soul, treading into areas of moral […]
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Released April 2006 With a long-standing series of coincidences revealed to be anything but as Sarah’s fated role as the Herald of the Orbus Postremo comes more into focus, the second and final series of Big Finish’s Sarah Jane Smith comes to a close with ‘Dreamland,’ a quieter and more character-driven piece that sees Sarah […]
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Released March 2006 Basing an entire series around a doomsday cult with two conflicting chapters that has collectively only recently discovered that Sarah Jane is the very foundation of its beliefs is a grandiose notion that necessarily entails the need for monumental actions and events on a global scale while simultaneously maintaining the delicate balance […]
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Released February 2006 With Sarah’s role in an ancient prophecy revealed as two conflicting chapters of the Orphans of the Future cult vie for her acceptance and with the introduction of Harry Sullivan’s stepbrother, Will, who just so happens to work at the Antarctic expedition studying global warming that Sarah is partially funding, ‘Buried Secrets’ […]
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Released November 2005 The first series of Sarah Jane Smith featured five different writers crafting an arc that stayed as much rooted in the past as it did looking to the present and beyond, the resulting path to the return of Hilda Winters and the setup for continued confrontations against her associates being an uneven […]
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Released November 2002 After an uneven journey that peaked with the tense grittiness and immediacy of ‘Test of Neve,’ the first series of Sarah Jane Smith comes to a close with ‘Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre’ by Peter Anghelides. The one aspect that the series has undoubtedly excelled with as it has progressed is lending credibility to […]
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Released October 2002 It’s unreasonable to expect a series tied together by an overreaching arc to exclusively deal with the components of the arc without exploring more standalone tales to highlight different aspects of the characters amidst distinct circumstances and situations. For an investigative journalist, these stories will undoubtedly entail a mystery of some sort, […]
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Released September 2002 With the first two releases of Sarah Jane Smith hesitantly taking the beloved character into the modern day with a foot still planted firmly in the familiarity and intimacy of the 1970s, writer David Bishop delivers the first truly powerful instalment as all pretenses are dropped and Sarah Jane finds herself in […]
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Released June – December 2001 Plans and dreams for a Dalek-led franchise without the Doctor present had been circulating since the earliest days of Terry Nation’s creations’ televised success and popularity, but after a failed American spin-off attempt- the unproduced pilot script also being adapted for the audio medium in ‘The Destroyers’- it took until […]
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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.
