Bringing the TARDIS to a costal spot in the early 1900s, ‘The Darkness of Glass’ begins with the tone of a very traditional Doctor Who tale for the Fourth Doctor and Leela. Leaving K-9 behind, the time travellers find themselves knocking on the door of an isolated castle and joining members of The Caversham Society, … >
Picking up directly from the cliffhanger ending of ‘Mistfall’, the opening part of this return to E-Space Trilogy, we find the Fifth Doctor and friends in pursuit of a vital TARDIS component which will allow them to return to their native universe. Crash landing in an icy medieval realm, they abandon the TARDIS moments before … >
Released as eBooks across 2014, the ‘Time Trips’ stories invited a group of well-known writers to come and play in the Doctor Who universe. The eight stories have now been collected into a hardback volume, wrapped with an additional dust-jacket tale. With each writer choosing their Doctor and period of the show, and only eight … >
With Dark Eyes 4, Big Finish brings a set of award winning Eighth Doctor stories to a close. Each of the Dark Eyes releases consists of four CDs of audio drama, and this final set was jointly written by Matt Fitton (who wrote Dark Eyes 3) and John Dorney (recently seen on Only Connect and … >
Best known for his contributions for the modern Doctors on screen, Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts contributed this pair of ‘Missing Adventures’ to the Virgin book range in the mid-nineties. Adapted for audio by John Dorney, both stories both pair Tom Baker’s Doctor with Lalla Ward’s Romana II and K-9, the first time this line-up … >
The full cast, single-disc audio Ghost Ship is the latest Blake’s 7 story Big Finish has released in their second series of classic adventures, this latest written by Iain McLaughlin. There is an overall theme of the search for Dayna (this is set during Blake’s 7 Season C), but that is all but incidental to … >
This release continues the Doctor Who spin-off range Gallifrey and is interesting for several reasons. First is Juliet Landau in the role of President Romana, taking over from Lalla Ward. Juliet first appeared in the sixth Gallifrey boxset and the ‘Companion Chronicle’ story ‘Luna Romana’. The second point of interest is the main foe, revealed … >
Continuing to work their magic on The Avengers’ mostly incomplete first series, this latest boxset from Big Finish provides four further tales adapted from surviving scripts by writer John Dorney. Featuring Dr David Keel (Anthony Howell) as much as they do the enigmatic John Steed (Julian Wadham), the former’s medical practice and connections often provide … >
‘Little Doctors’ is a download only, short story written by Philip Lawrence, read by Frazer Hines and directed by Lisa Bowerman. It is the second in a new series and titles are available separately or as a subscription. Running at just over thirty minutes, this story finds the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe on the … >
In a sequel to his 1980 television tale, writer Andrew Smith has delivered the TARDIS back into the pocket universe of E-Space. Returning to Alzarius, home of his tragic boy companion Adric, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough promptly find themselves immersed in the unusual ecology of the planet when they encounter a mission … >