Category: Tenth Doctor
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REVIEW | Once and Future: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50
Doctor Who‘s sixtieth anniversary extravaganza from Big Finish continues with The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50, the fifth instalment in the eight-part Once and Future saga. This is a great little story, giving us some nice (and, most importantly of all, not forced like in some of the previous stories) character pairings and an interesting, if simple, plot. This story…
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Big Finish Top 10 (2022)
Every New Year’s Eve at Who Review, we count down our top ten Big Finish releases of the past year… and this year is no different! Did your favourite release make it to the #1 spot? Read on to find out! Honourable Mentions Before we get onto the countdown, let’s take a look at a…
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Who Review Awards (2022)
2022 has been quite the year for Doctor Who. We’ve had three new adventures for the Thirteenth Doctor on television, culminating in her explosive regeneration story: The Power of the Doctor. Not one but two new Doctors have been announced, in David Tennant‘s Fourteenth Doctor and Ncuti Gatwa‘s Fifteenth Doctor. Big Finish have released hours…
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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 | The Year of Martha Jones
For a whole year, Martha Jones travelled the world, telling stories of the Doctor in the hopes of ending the Master’s reign of terror. Now, thanks to Big Finish Productions, we get to hear exactly what she got up to during that year. The wait is over, Freema Agyeman is back and The Year of…
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REVIEW | The War Master: Self-Defence
The Time War incarnation of the Doctor’s greatest enemy returns, in a boxset of four new audio adventures! Self-Defence is the first War Master boxset since 2017’s Only the Good to feature four writers, which will, I hope, give us a nice variety of stories compared to the more closely-linked episodes in the more recent…
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REVIEW | Doctor Who – Out of Time 3: Wink
Over the last two years, the Out of Time range has pitted David Tennant‘s Tenth Doctor not only against a series of his most dastardly enemies, but against previous Doctors, with Tom Baker and Peter Davison‘s incarnations of the heroic Time Lord having made appearances fighting the Daleks and Cybermen (review here) with their future…
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REVIEW | Doctor Who: Peladon
Fifty years after our first visit, we return to the planet Peladon for four new audio adventures. Journeying from the reigns of King Peladon and Queen Thalira, to the uncharted future of this far-off world, this new boxset promises political intrigue, adventure, and the return of many, many old friends. But is it any good?…
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Big Finish Top 10 (2021)
Just like that, we’ve reached the end of another year, and, as usual, we’re going to be taking a look back at the top ten Big Finish releases of the last twelve months. It’s certainly been quite an exciting year for audio drama, with the long-awaited return of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor; the…
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REVIEW | Torchwood: Empire of Shadows
Harvey Edwards tackles the latest Torchwood release, which sees the return of a familiar face… Despite Big Finish having a number of releases exploring 19th Century Torchwood, 1950s Torchwood, 2006 tv-era Torchwood, and 2016-current Torchwood, James Goss‘s Empire of Shadows is only their second release (after 2016’s The Torchwood Archive) that delves into the organisation’s future. This release…
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