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Su’Kal foregrounds the story which percolated in the background of the last few episodes; the fate of an ancient Kelpian ship. Trapped in the heart of the Verubin Nebula, it was apparently the source of the ‘The Burn’; the cataclysmic event which destroyed interstellar travel. When a life sign on board is discovered, Captain Saru … >
Genetics of the Daleks is a surprise spin-off audio drama for Time Lord Victorious multi-platform story. As well as being a Big Finish play, it also sets up Escape Hunt’s A Dalek Awakens adventure too. On Ice Bound for a new world, the passengers of the Starship Future are in cryosleep, looked after by a … >
Mutually Assured Destruction is Big Finish’s third full-cast Time Lord Victorious drama. It concludes the trio of stories which form their main contribution to the Doctor Who multi-platform crossover event. Following the TLV timeline, this tale happens after the novel All Flesh is Grass, and it is soon clear that the unlikely alliance between the … >
Plight of the Pimpernel is the first of two December releases for Big Finish’s monthly adventures range. While Doctor Who has visited the French Revolution before, both onscreen and on audio, we gain a different perspective here as the story riffs on the fiction of Baroness Orczy and her dashing hero, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The … >
Terra Firma, Part 1 provides another of Discovery’s lengthy pre-credits sequences, as the medical plight of the former Terran Empress Georgiou is set out. While the whole crew have time-travelled to the future, she has also hopped dimensions. Apparently, the body may tolerate one or the other, but not both – according to the Federation’s … >
The Tenth Doctor and River Song is David Tennant’s latest outing with Big Finish. While the redoubtable Ms. Song has enjoyed numerous audio adventures in her own right, it was through the eyes of the Tenth Doctor that we first met her on a fateful trip to The Library. On-screen, they met again in The … >
Unification III — Here at CultBox, we know a memorable Star Trek: The Next Generation episode title when we see one. Consequently, it was a thrill to find this week’s Discovery was a sort-of sequel to an eventful story from way back when. November 1991, to be precise. Famously, Unification Parts 1 & 2 brought Admiral … >
Rhys and Ianto’s Excellent Barbecue is latest Torchwood audio drama and features another odd couple pairing. Rhys Williams and Ianto Jones had few interactions on-screen and the pair could not be further apart; the former is an earthy no-nonsense lorry driver and long-suffering husband to Gwen Cooper, the latter Torchwood’s suit-wearing coffee boy, keeper of … >
Shadow of the Daleks 2 is comprised of four single-episode stories, concluding the Fifth Doctor’s puzzling encounter with the Time War; the temporal conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks of which he should have no knowledge. Seemingly compelled to meet the same faces over and over, the Doctor leans more and more of … >
Released this week, the latest of Doctor Who Magazine‘s “Bookazine” specials is rather special indeed. Rather than focussing on the televised Doctor Who, it features reprints of the Dalek comic strips from TV Century 21. First published between 1965 and 1967, The Daleks comic strips were devised by Terry Nation and largely written by David … >