When John Hurt was cast in Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary tale, ‘The Day of the Doctor’, it was terrific coup for the programme and proof of how high its stock had risen since its triumphant return to our screens in 2005. His curmudgeonly and reticent take on the Doctor, or indeed the missing incarnation of … >
Big Finish has announced twelve new full-cast Doctor Who audio plays featuring John Hurt as The War Doctor. Hurt’s Doctor was introduced in 2013’s ‘The Name of the Doctor’ and featured alongside the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in the 50th anniversary special, ‘The Day of the Doctor’. Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery commented: “I … >
It has been another bumper month on audio for Doctor Who fans, with two main range releases and the return of the Early Adventures, now featuring the Second Doctor. Tony Jones and Ian McArdell review this month’s new Doctor Who plays from Big Finish… Main Range #203: ‘Terror of the Sontarans’ Rounding out their … >
Big Finish has announced today that a second season of brand new Torchwood audio stories will be released next year. The first instalment of Torchwood: The Conspiracy was released yesterday and Season 1 continues next month with Torchwood: Fall to Earth, starring Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones, followed in November by Torchwood: Forgotten Lives with … >
It has been a number of years since Captain Jack Harkness last stood in a flappy greatcoat looking pensive on a Cardiff rooftop, but ‘The Conspiracy’ drags us straight back to the early days of Torchwood. While the television programme could be wildly uneven in tone from week to week, David Llewellyn’s audio tale is … >
A busy month for Big Finish started with the release of The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 1. In the absence of Jon Pertwee, Tim Treloar takes the part of both a narrator and the Third Doctor, alongside Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. The boxset consists of two 2-CD stories. … >
The latest audio revival from Big Finish is a series that enjoyed just a single ten-episode run on BBC One in the summer of 1979. The Omega Factor followed the story of journalist Tom Crane, whose psychic abilities brought him into contact with the secretive Department 7. Staffed by a team which included physicist Dr … >
Back for a fifth season, and embracing a zippy new format (as trialled in ‘The Worlds of Big Finish’), the Number 22 to Putney Common has returned. For the uninitiated, her driver is the erstwhile Iris Wildthyme, trans-temporal adventuress, bon viveur and occasional sparring partner of the Doctor. For these stories, she is accompanied by … >
Big Finish have released a trailer for the opening instalment of their new Torchwood audio series. Torchwood: The Conspiracy features the return of John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness. > Order The Conspiracy on Amazon. The official synopsis reads: “Captain Jack Harkness has always had his suspicions about the Committee. And now Wilson is also … >
Big Finish has treated us to something very special in the form of ‘The Sixth Doctor – The Last Adventure’. Brought forward from September, this is a four-disc story telling how the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) schemes across the Sixth Doctor’s (Colin Baker) incarnation. We know in advance that this is the story which will regenerate … >