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Once and Future – Big Finish confirm DW 60th Anniversary series guests

Doctor Who: Once and Future will feature the final performance of David Warner as the Doctor.  Back in November, audio producers revealed their plans for Doctor Who‘s 60th Anniversary year; Once and Future promises an epic multi-Doctor, multi-part adventure to celebrate the show’s six decades. Revealing the story’s intriguing premise, their original announcement confirmed the … >

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Torchwood: Double Part 1 audio review

It’s another new era for Torchwood, as 1970s head Roberta Craven deals with an oily Auton threat Since landing on audio in 2015, Big Finish has been industriously filling out the Torchwood timeline past and future. However, the closest we’ve come to the 1970s is ‘The Dollhouse’, a one-off Charlie’s Angels inspired tale based in … >

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Doctor Who – Once and Future – Big Finish reveal 60th Anniversary plans

The eight-part adventure stars multiple Doctors in a special ‘degeneration’ story.  After various hints, Big Finish have announced a celebratory series for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary in 2023. Their plans sound epic: Once and Future, is an eight-part series featuring all the television Doctors who work with them; the series promises to “… revisit the … >

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The Diary of River Song Series 10

The Diary of River Song Series 10 audio drama review

Two Rivers and a Firewall sees Alex Kingston’s impressible time-travelling adventuress Professor River Song notch up her tenth solo boxset.  Free of Doctorly encounters, she instead meets an impossible version of herself, wins an auction, accepts a shopping invitation and spends some time in her digital afterlife. The Two Rivers The set begins with River … >

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Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 3 audio review

Welcome to Classic Doctors New Monsters 3: The Stuff of Nightmares.  “There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things! Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!” So said the Second Doctor. While his monstrous foes often only make a single onscreen appearance, we often … >

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Jaunt: A Viewer’s Guide to THE TOMORROW PEOPLE – book review

The revised edition of Jaunt tackles three iterations of The Tomorrow People on screen, plus much more.  If you mention The Tomorrow People to a fellow cult television fan, the response often differs depending on their age. For many, it’s the much-loved 1970s children’s series, while for others it’s the 1990s version. More recently, in … >

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The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond War Games audio review

Michael Troughton inherits his father’s role as Big Finish enliven a niche of Doctor Who continuity. A greying Second Doctor working for the Time Lords with an older Jamie in tow? While fans delighted at Patrick Troughton’s return for ‘The Two Doctors’, building on his appearance in the show’s 20th Anniversary Special, it was a … >

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Doctor Who 60th Anniversary – Tennant and Tate are returning

Ahead of filming, the BBC have announced David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s participation in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebrations.  It’s only been a week since we learned that Ncuti Gatwa will be the next Doctor. Now, the BBC have followed the news with the announcement that two of the show’s former stars are returning; … >

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Doctor Who: Stranded 4 audio drama review

With Stranded 4, the Eighth Doctor’s time trapped in London comes to an end in familiar territory and a story telling experiment comes to an end When Big Finish released Stranded 1, a way to tell a different type of story by fixing the TARDIS in place, they picked London in 2020. Fact overtook fiction, and … >

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Doctor Who – The Eighth Of March: Protectors of Time review

For International Women’s Day 2022, Big Finish have created three more adventures led by Doctor Who‘s female heroes.  Back in 2019, Big Finish celebrated International Women’s day with a special release: The Eighth of March. It took the opportunity to bring some of the Doctor’s female allies to the fore in adventures of their own. … >

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