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 … >
With a leap and a bound Big Finish has opened the door on the Time War, the gap between so-called classic and modern eras of Doctor Who. Executive producer Nick Briggs has been on record many times stating the Time War could never be tackled. How wrong he was, and how well he demonstrates how … >
A busy month for Big Finish started with the release of The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 1. In the absence of Jon Pertwee, Tim Treloar takes the part of both a narrator and the Third Doctor, alongside Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. The boxset consists of two 2-CD stories. … >
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 … >
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 … >
Some Doctor Who stories have characters so well written and cast that they leave you wanting more. Like Jago and Litefoot before them, the team from 1988’s Remembrance of the Daleks cried out for their further exploits to be chronicled. Now three series in, Group Captain Ian ‘Chunky’ Gilmore (Simon Williams), Professor Rachel Jensen (Pamela … >
‘Shadow of Death’ is the second Doctor entry in this year-long ‘Destiny of the Doctor’ celebratory series.
This re-rendering has the effect of raising the stock of a much-derided story.
In any countdown of favourite Doctor Who stories, ‘City of Death’ always lands somewhere near the top of the pile.
‘Snake Bite’ is the last audio story to feature recently departed television companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams.