The Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz land on audio at Big Finish

Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill reprise their roles for The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures.   Time flies and not just in the TARDIS! The ground-breaking Thirteenth Doctor began her travels back in 2017, and we said goodbye to her in October 2022. Her tenure gave us three seasons, the latter foreshortened by a global pandemic, and a … >

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Star Cops: Blood Moon 2 audio review

Star Cops Blood Moon 2 concludes the current storyline across three monthly episodes.   Star Cops, the police procedural set a couple of steps into the future, is now enjoying its fourth series on audio. The show has gone from strength to strength with Big Finish Productions, mixing legacy and new characters, all dealing with the … >

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The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Metamorphosis – audio boxset review

Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross enjoy three more adventures with the Tom Baker’s Doctor.  Flexing the format a little, the latest Fourth Doctor audio boxset contains three 2-part adventures. The first brings the Doctor face to face with the Toymaker, albeit in a new different form. The second is a fantastical affair – a celebrity … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed – Doctor Who audio review

In his final boxset (for now), Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor encounters River Song for a trio of Star-Crossed audio adventures.  The formidably flirty Professor River Song has caught up with most of her husband’s faces. Since concluding her television adventures, she’s rattled though his regenerational back-catalogue in her own audio series. She’s also hooked up … >

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The Quin Dilemma – Doctor Who audio review

Big Finish celebrates forty years of the Sixth Doctor, surrounding him with many of his companions.  Remarkably, four decades have passed since we first met the bombastic Sixth Doctor. Initially self-righteous and quite unlikable, dressed in a technicolour nightmare, there was a plan to peel back his layers over time. Colin Baker arrived during a … >

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Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 4 audio review

Four classic Doctors take on monstrous creations from the mind of Moffat in Classic Doctors New Monsters 4: Broken Memories.  Across their countless adventures, the Doctor often runs into foes they have met before. Classic Doctors, New Monsters gloriously exploits this fact by imperilling pre-2005 Doctors with threats from the modern series. As the range … >

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The War Doctor Rises – Big Finish announce further Time War adventures

Jonathon Carley plays the young version of the late Sir John Hurt’s grizzled incarnation. Audio producers Big Finish have announced a new series starring the War Doctor. The character is a morally compromised regeneration of our favourite Time Lord who forsakes his name to fight in the Time War against the Daleks. He was originally played … >

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Sontarans vs Rutans: Born to Die – Doctor Who audio review

We’ve enjoyed adventures with the Eighth and Third Doctors, now it’s the turn of the Sixth and Charley Pollard.  The third story in this mini-series which explores the endless conflict between the clone warrior Sontarans and the shape changing Rutan host takes us away from Earth. In terms of the Sixth Doctor, it takes place … >

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