The Rocket Men have been one of the most interesting foes created for the Doctor’s audio adventures. This scourge of the galaxy have evoked a Saturday morning picture-serial sensibility with their mercenary antics on two occasions in the Companion Chronicles range. This third outing expands their world, introducing us to “The Asteroid”, a seemingly impregnable … >
Big Finish has released The Worlds of Big Finish, because it can. Over the many years since their first ever audio, many ranges have come and gone, and even if some of them come from the universe of Doctor Who, they don’t rely upon it for their vitality. With The Worlds of Big Finish, writer … >
Blake’s Heaven, edited by John Davies, is a book written for and by Blake’s 7 fans. It is the latest in a sequence started with You and Who which was the brainchild of JR Southall. Any profits from its release are donated to the BBC’s Children in Need. The idea is simple, have a book … >
Sometimes it’s easier to tag Doctor Who as science-fantasy rather than science-fiction. After all, there’s not a lot of lab-coat methodology you can apply to ‘remembering’ someone back into the universe, or using lightning to transmit your DNA into hybrid Dalek-People. And we won’t mention the words ‘moon’ and ‘egg’. But it’s a show that … >
‘Ghost Trap’ is the fourth in a series of new Doctor Who short stories read by an original cast member. This time Louise Jameson recreates Leela and the Fourth Doctor in a Nick Wallace story. The story is set early in Leela’s time with the Doctor, and as the title suggests is a creepy tale … >
The Liberator Chronicles from Big Finish are a regular set of boxsets, each of three CD releases telling new stories for the Liberator crew. Unlike the full-cast series, these stories each have two main narrative voices though in recent releases these are often supplemented with additional, minor characters. They have always been interesting, entertaining and … >
Big Finish has just released its latest set of novel adaptations, the first of which is ‘Damaged Goods’. A Seventh Doctor story starring Sylvester McCoy accompanied by two new-to-audio companions Chris Cwej (Travis Oliver) and Roz Forrester (Yasmin Bannerman), the significance of this story is in its origin – the original New Adventure story was … >
In ‘Truth and Lies’ the quest for missing crewmember Dayna comes to a conclusion as the Liberator crew have tracked her to the obscure planet Appalion Five. Of course, nothing is straightforward… Justin Richards, the series script editor, wrote this final piece and took great care to balance the story, giving the regular crew plenty … >
Just as Terry Nation famously retained rights over the Daleks, so did Henry Lincoln & Mervyn Haisman over their characters and creations who starred in ‘The Abominable Snowmen’ and ‘The Web of Fear’. The latter tale, of course, famously featured the debut of the Doctor’s long-standing ally Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart – best known to Doctor … >
‘Art of…’ books are often a bit something-and-nothing: pretty to look at, nice to flick through, but otherwise a shallow experience destined to be left on the shelf or under the coffee table. So it’s always nice to encounter one which exceeds expectations, and delivers you more than big glossy pictures and a sprinkling of … >