Category: Fourth Doctor
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REVIEW | Once and Future: Past Lives
Big Finish‘s celebration of Doctor Who‘s sixtieth anniversary begins! Past Lives is the first instalment in the eight-part Once and Future series, which sees the Doctor flung back into his previous bodies by a degeneration weapon, meeting old friends and enemies along the way. This story sees the Doctor settle in his fourth incarnation (Tom…
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REVIEW | The Fourth Doctor Adventures: New Frontiers
After two boxsets of the Fourth Doctor travelling solo, Tom Baker reunites with Louise Jameson for two new four-part audio adventures. But the Doctor and Leela aren’t alone- they’re joined by Nerys Hughes as Margaret Hopwood, who we first met in last year’s The Ravencliff Witch (review here). We left that story feeling decidedly neutral…
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REVIEW | The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Nine
It’s time for our second dose of Doctor number four this year, as Tom Baker returns for three new audio adventures in The Nine! Still travelling solo following the departure of Sarah Jane Smith, this boxset sees the Doctor encounter mysterious tanks on the front lines of the First World War, Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake…
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REVIEW | The Tenth Doctor: Classic Companions
The Tenth Doctor reunites with some old friends in The Tenth Doctor: Classic Companions! Read on for our thoughts. 1. “Splinters” by John Dorney After finding his old friend K-9 floating in space, the Doctor arrives in the middle of an endless forest, where he bumps into another old friend: Leela, warrior of the Sevateem.…
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REVIEW | Classic Doctors, New Monsters: The Stuff of Nightmares
The Classic Doctors, New Monsters range returns with The Stuff of Nightmares, a collection of four new audio adventures which pit Doctors from the classic series of Doctor Who against monsters from the post-2005 series. This set sees Tom Baker, Colin Baker and Paul McGann return to the range alongside Tim Treloar in his Classic…
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REVIEW | Doctor of War: Genesis
Doctor Who: Unbound returns! For the first time in fifteen years, Big Finish takes a sideways step into an alternate Doctor Who timeline, exploring what would happen if the Fourth Doctor did destroy the Daleks on Skaro, before regenerating into an incarnation known as the Warrior. Colin Baker stars in these three new audio adventures,…