John Hurt as The War Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Doctor – Casualties of War audio review

With this final boxset of three stories, Big Finish marks the end of War Doctor’s story with a strong set of scripts brought to life by a superb cast, great directing and impressive sound design.  With John Hurt’s passing away, listening to these stories is all the more poignant; as fans we can but admire … >

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John Hurt as The War Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Doctor – Agents of Chaos audio review

Agents of Chaos is the third, three-disc boxset in Big Finish’s War Doctor series, with John Hurt once more in role as the Doctor we never knew existed.  This Doctor Who set takes the story deeper into the Time War and for the first time this version of the Doctor feels more capable of the … >

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Weeping Angels

‘Doctor Who’ audio review: Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 1

Big Finish finally releases one of the most anticipated titles from its extended Doctor Who licence this month: Classic Doctors, New Monsters – Volume 1. The concept is simple; four single-disc stories, each with a classic Doctor and a monster from the post-2005 TV series. All you need to know is the idea works very well on … >

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‘Doctor Who’ spin-off review: ‘The New Counter-Measures – Who Killed Toby Kinsella?’

July 2015, and after four popular box sets, Big Finish killed off the Counter-Measures team. The only survivor from the 1960s spin-off from Remembrance of the Daleks was Sir Toby Kinsella (Hugh Ross). Gone were Group Captain Ian ‘Chunky’ Gilmore (Simon Williams), Rachel Jensen (Pamela Salem) and Allison Williams (Karen Gledhill), and time has rolled … >

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John Hurt as the War Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Doctor – Infernal Devices audio review

With barely time to catch our breath since December’s epic Only the Monstrous, this second box set presents three further adventures for John Hurt’s missing incarnation of our favourite Time Lord.  Surrounded by terrific, thumping version of the theme, these stories ostensibly deal with attempts to employ super-weapons in the struggle against the Daleks. In … >

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‘Doctor Who’ spin-off ‘Counter-Measures’: Series 4 audio boxset review

Emerging from 1988’s Remembrance of the Daleks, the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group have been battling malign powers and misused technology for the sake of Queen and country since 2012. In this latest release, Group Captain Ian ‘Chunky’ Gilmore (Simon Williams), Professor Rachel Jensen (Pamela Salem) and Doctor Alison Williams (Karen Gledhill), along with their civil servant … >

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Domain of the Voord – Doctor Who Early Adventures 1.1 review

To launch Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, stories set in the programme’s formative years, Big Finish have taken us back to the very first season with Domain of the Voord. The story provides an outing for the show’s initial line up of the Doctor, his Granddaughter Susan and her schoolteachers Ian and Barbara. Mid-way though … >

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