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 … >
Big Finish has treated Doctor Who fans to a feast of new releases this month. The Fourth Doctor Adventures 4.08: ‘Return to Telos’ Here we have the final release in this year’s Fourth Doctor Adventures. These star Tom Baker (of course) and also Louise Jameson as Leela. For most of the run they have … >
Pitched to the BBC in 1977 by Daleks creator Terry Nation as “the Dirty Dozen in space”, Blake’s 7 ran for four hugely successful seasons on BBC One. As the decades since its shocking series finale have passed, the show may be short on new admirers, but those who remember it do so fondly and … >
Back in 1961, the TV series The Avengers focussed on the stories of Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and John Steed (the recently deceased Patrick Macnee) was only the assistant. After one series, Hendry left and John Steed took centre stage, along came a string of female assistants and as the 1960s progressed the show … >
Tony Jones and Ian McArdell review this month’s new Doctor Who plays from Big Finish… Main Range 201: ‘We are the Daleks’ Kicking off a new trilogy of stories, and reuniting the Seventh Doctor and Mel, we find the TARDIS arriving in 1987 to a surprise – a thumping great Dalek shaped building present … >
Emerging from 1988’s Remembrance of the Daleks, the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group have been battling malign powers and misused technology for the sake of Queen and country since 2012. In this latest release, Group Captain Ian ‘Chunky’ Gilmore (Simon Williams), Professor Rachel Jensen (Pamela Salem) and Doctor Alison Williams (Karen Gledhill), along with their civil servant … >
Gareth David-Lloyd will return as original Torchwood character Ianto Jones in an official new audio drama later this year. The Welsh actor played Ianto for the first three seasons of the BBC sci-fi series, created by Russell T Davies. The character also appeared in Doctor Who in Season 4’s finale. The new story, titled Torchwood: … >