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Despite being missing from the BBC’s vaults since the purges of the early 1970’s, ‘The Power of the Daleks’ remains top of many a Doctor Who fan’s wishlist. Thanks to BBC Worldwide, the story has been granted new animated visuals to accompany the lovingly recovered soundtrack and is available to purchase in the UK from … >
Despite being missing from the BBC’s vaults since the purges of the early 1970’s, ‘The Power of the Daleks’ remains top of many a Doctor Who fan’s wishlist. Thanks to BBC Worldwide, the story has been granted new animated visuals to accompany the lovingly recovered soundtrack and is available to purchase in the UK from … >
After last week’s terrific study in grief, Class picks up on the events which launched BBC Three’s new Doctor Who spin-off last month; that of the Shadow Kin threat and the precarious status of April’s heart. While we have been following the lives of Quill and the Coal Hill students, the Shadow Kin have been working … >
Wrapping up in style, with warm sunshine and sandy beaches, the series finale concerned the fate of some long lost Caribbean booty, namely a pistol and emerald ring belonging to the infamous pirate privateer Captain Morgan (yes, like the rum). Although Hooten had struck out on his own, leaving Lady Alex to her impending marriage, … >
While Torchwood has been off our screens since 2011’s Miracle Day, the show has maintained a loyal fan base and was successfully resurrected on audio by Big Finish in September 2015. To celebrate its tenth anniversary The Torchwood Archive weaves a tale through the history of the organisation, from its Victorian roots to the distant … >
S. J. Kinaid’s beautiful, and at times brutal, new novel takes place amid the rarefied setting of a Galactic Imperium. The Diabolic follows the story of a designer humanoid, created and conditioned to protect the daughter of a rich Senator. At a young age, the savage Nemesis is purchased and bonded to the gentle Sidonia … >
Nine weeks after their rather fractious adventure in Moscow, which resulted in a bust up between the pair, we pick up with Hooten on the trail of another fabled item; this time the wish-fulfilling Chintamani jewel. Searching in the Cambodian jungle, Tomb Raider style, he is on the trail of artefacts which hold clues to … >
After a busy series opener and a slightly less frenetic, if rather gory follow-up, Class settles in to its weekly pattern with ‘Nightvisiting’, which draws its beautifully macabre premise from the notion of the dead returning to visit those left behind. Despite seeing a fair amount of death on the show already, the episode focused … >
In another busy month from the Doctor Who audio producers, we celebrate Torchwood’s Tenth Anniversary with the special release ‘The Torchwood Archive’ and John Hurt returns in another trio of adventures for the ‘The War Doctor Volume 3: Agents of Chaos’. Also, those stalwart Victorian investigators of the infernal, Jago & Litefoot notch up their … >
Both Hooten (Michael Landes) and Alex (Ophelia Lovibond) get to grips with elements of their past this week, as the show comes to Moscow on the trail of a (possibly mythical) 51st Imperial Fabergé Egg. Meeting with an old contact who claims to know the egg’s location, some more of Hooten’s mysterious backstory is brought … >