In the last six months or so, Big Finish has treated us to a wealth of modern Doctor Who related titles, including Torchwood, Churchill, The War Doctor and River Song. Now the stakes are raised with the much-anticipated return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, complete with Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. And a … >
In another busy month for the Doctor Who audio wizards, the Torchwood range featured the return of technical specialist Tosh for an adventure in ‘Zone 10’. April also provided the much awaited New Adventures adaptation, this time bringing the Seventh Doctor and Ace to the 1960s for Mark Gatiss’ atmospheric novel ‘Nightshade’. While The Fourth … >
In another busy month for the Doctor Who audio producers, ‘Doom Coalition 2’ saw the return of the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen. This second volume brought them face to face with the Voord, delivered another encounter with Mark Bonnar’s fearsome unhinged villain ‘The Eleven’ and granted Eight a further brush with River Song. Kicking … >
It seems there is no such thing as a quiet month for Big Finish! After the excitement of January’s River Song and Churchill audio debuts, February saw the return their impossibly glamorous home-grown heroine Vienna Salvatori, as well as Eve Myles back as Gwen Cooper to round out Torchwood’s first audio season with ‘More Than … >
“I thought we might need a gang,” says the Doctor in ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’. “Never really had a gang before. It’s new.” He’s totally lying, of course. Although it may feel that the enduring Doctor Who line-up is that of the Time Lord and a single, feisty female companion, there have actually been various … >
Kicking off a new year of Doctor Who audio adventures, ‘The Diary of River Song’ became an unexpected Christmas present when it was made available to download early off the back of her festive television appearance. The first volume of ‘The Churchill Years’ arrived too, offering adventures for the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors – … >
“Did you mention the rules?” asks the Eleventh Doctor in ‘The Time of the Doctor’. “Now, listen, bit of advice. Tell me the truth if you think you know it, lay down the law if you’re feeling brave. But, Daleks, never ever tell me the rules!” Well, sorry, we’re going to… The Doctor has mentioned … >
For fifteen years now, Big Finish have been delighting Doctor Who fans with their documenting of unseen adventures for the Fifth to Eighth, and most recently, Fourth Doctors. In 2015, though, they became more ambitious than ever, be it by developing their Novel Adaptations range or creating a long sought-after UNIT spin-off or – and … >
2015 was a pivotal year for Doctor Who on audio. Big Finish, the audio drama company who hold the rights to make classic adventures on audio, had their remit widened to encompass New Series elements up to the end of Matt Smith’s tenure. During the year, the company celebrated the release of their 200th Doctor … >
While the Troughton-era Early Adventure, ‘The ISOS Network’, may have been bumped to January, there was still plenty going on in the world of Doctor Who audio this month, including the release of the first ‘War Doctor’ Box Set ‘Only the Monstrous’ and the return of Torchwood One’s Yvonne Hartman in ‘One Rule’. Very much … >