Released December 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Big Finish has had undoubted success creating spinoffs from both televised and audio Doctor Who serials when a character, group of characters, or concept captures the audience’s imagination, and Counter-Measures from 1988’s ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ has certainly not been an exception, initially developing as a sort of proto-UNIT […]
Read More
Released February 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The Gallifrey series has always been one of Big Finish’s most important, proving from the outset that characters old and new could carry a prolonged and developing narrative set firmly within the crux of the Doctor Who universe without the involvement or opinion of the Doctor to influence the […]
Read More
Released July 2016 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The fourth and final series of the initial iteration of Counter-Measures ended in momentous fashion with Group Captain Gilmore, Professor Rachel Jensen, and Dr Allison Williams seemingly dead and Sir Toby Kinsella unwilling to recognise or acknowledge even a fleeting association with those individuals or their covert group and […]
Read More
Released July 2015 The third series of Counter-Measures ended with a monumental tease hinting at the breadth of the international conspiracy threatening to undermine the heroic team as gunfire and brainwashing resulted in a complete upending of the usual norms. With half of the team manipulated to accept new faces as familiar friends and the […]
Read More
Released July 2014 Counter-Measures confidently burst onto the scene with a superb mixture of character-based drama steeped in science fiction and Cold War paranoia, taking the intriguing proto-UNIT group from ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ and creating an incredibly engaging series with a tone all its own. Indeed, while all of the main characters continue to […]
Read More
Released June 2013 The first series of Counter-Measures deftly brought the covert 1960s world of government, politics, military, and science to life, evoking the time period with excellent use of sound design, dialogue, and classically trained actors. With a shift from technology and social control to the people themselves, the second series arrives to further […]
Read More
Released February 2018 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW This is a city of ghosts, a place rich in macabre history that tour guide Leanne revisits twice nightly as she leads interested parties to the Hanging Yard, the Witching Pool, the Screaming House, and the ever-mysterious catacombs. Unfortunately for Leanne, the ghosts here are all too real, and […]
Read More
Released July 2012 ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ to this day remains one of the most enduring classic Doctor Who serials, a reminder of what had originally made the franchise so beloved at a time when viewership and cultural significance were on the decline while also innovating with classic foes and introducing dynamic supporting characters alongside […]
Read More
Released June 2017 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness made an instant impact when he confidently and flirtatiously burst onto the scene alongside the Ninth Doctor and Rose, so much so that he would quickly go on to headline Torchwood when given a second (and more) chance at life. Yet given the presence […]
Read More
Released April 2017 Series twelve of Jago & Litefoot seemed to provide a perfect culmination to the duo’s investigations of infernal incidents, revisiting the range’s very beginnings and bringing the main characters closer than ever before as lingering loose ends were addressed and satisfactorily resolved without a traditional cliffhanger ending. Series thirteen proves that there […]
Read More
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.
