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 … >
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 … >
The Star Cops are back for Blood Moon, a new monthly audio series. The brainchild of Blake’s 7 script editor and Doctor Who scribe Chris Boucher, Star Cops, the BBC’s 1987 futuristic police procedural came and went like a summer cloud. Behind-the-scenes problems, industrial action and an unhelpful timeslot did nothing to aid the show, … >
Christopher Eccleston stars with Alex Kingston across three stories in Star-Crossed. As his third series of audio adventures draw to a close, the Ninth Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet. Christopher Eccleston’s incarnation of the Time Lord will enjoy three audio adventures with Alex Kingston’s time-travelling archaeologist Professor River Song. River, who becomes the Doctor’s … >
Star Cops: Blood Moon lands between January and June 2024. Now in its fourth run, the audio revival of Chris Boucher’s Star Cops embraces a new mini-series format. The show, based on the short-lived BBC television series, is a smart police procedural. Set in the near future, it follows the activities of the Interplanetary Space … >
As Star Cops celebrates its 35th anniversary the audio producers release news of six more episodes. Fondly remembered by those who caught its original broadcast, and the fans it has gathered since, Star Cops was an engaging BBC police procedural set a few paces into the future. The show told the story of the International Space … >
Tom Baker goes Solo in his latest boxset of audio adventures. Solo is the latest outing for Tom Baker’s irrepressible Fourth Doctor. Set after ‘The Deadly Assassin’, so post-Sarah Jane, pre-Leela, it sees the Time Lord traveling without a companion. However, he makes a few allies along the way, naturally. Blood of the Time Lords … >
Big Finish continue the late-80’s police procedural in space with a Jack the Ripper style murder mystery Due for release in December 2021, Sins of the Father finds Moonbase under attack from a mysterious killer who leaves disturbing messages at each victim’s demise, and whom the Star Cops must unmask while they still can… Here’s … >
After starting to build an overall idea in The Paternoster Gang: Heritage 3, the current set of stories brings this sequence of boxsets to what feels an abrupt close. The three stories in set each fails to contribute to a coherent whole, and feels like a series of missed opportunities. The stories aren’t necessarily bad, they … >
The guiding principle of Star Cops, which continues to make the series so effective on audio, is that it should always be a police procedural which just happens to unfold in space. This latest trilogy of investigative adventures from Big Finish, which concludes the current series of adventures based on the planet Mars, embraces that … >