Category: The Fifth Doctor
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Big Finish Top 10 (2023)
Daniel Mansfield and George Hewitt look back on the best of Big Finish‘s output in 2023 It’s New Year’s Eve, and you know what that means… It’s time for Who Review‘s countdown of the top 10 Big Finish releases of the year! Did your favourite make the list? Read on to find out! Honourable Mentions…
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Who Review Awards (2023)
It’s Doctor Who‘s sixtieth anniversary year, and there have been lots and lots of amazing celebrations. We’ve had three new specials starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate; the debut of new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa and companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) in The Church on Ruby Road; the return of classic companions and Doctors in Tales…
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REVIEW | The Fifth Doctor Adventures: In the Night
After two slightly grim outings in April’s Conflicts of Interest (review here), the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa return for two more adventures in the latest Fifth Doctor Adventures boxset: In the Night. This time we’ve been treated to a four-parter and a two-parter, the first of their kind for the Fifth Doctor since all…
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REVIEW | The Audio Novels: Prisoners of London
The Audio Novels range continues with Prisoners of London, a seven-hour enhanced audiobook written and narrated by Matthew Waterhouse. As you might expect with Waterhouse as author, this story features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Adric and Nyssa and sees them arrive in a very different London to the one they know… Like The Dead Star before it (review here),…
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REVIEW | Once and Future: The Artist at the End of Time
Big Finish‘s eight-part celebration of Doctor Who‘s sixtieth anniversary continues with The Artist at the End of Time by James Goss. This is immediately a stronger story than the series opener, Past Lives (review here), with stronger themes, better character interactions and more exploration of the Doctor’s degeneration, which here sees him settle in his…
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A Fifth Doctor Top Five!
It’s Peter Davison’s birthday, so what better time to look at some of the fantastic audio adventures he’s featured in from Big Finish? Check out Who Review‘s top 5 below! 5. Circular Time Comprised of four, half-hour stories each based on one of the four seasons, Circular Time gives the Fifth Doctor some of his…
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REVIEW | The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest
For the Fifth Doctor’s first release of 2023, we slip into the gap between Arc of Infinity and Mawdryn Undead for two new adventures starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton. Unusually, these tales are three-parters, about 90 minutes long apiece, a structural quirk that has the benefit of giving us more time to…
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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 Fifth Doctor Adventures: Forty 2
Back in January, Big Finish began their celebration of the Fifth Doctor’s fortieth anniversary with the release of Forty 1 (review here), which saw our favourite Time Lord face off against Cybermen and Ice Warriors while being thrown across his own timeline by a mysterious force. Now Forty 2 concludes this storyline with a six-part…
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CAPSULE REVIEW | Doctor Who: The Eye of the Scorpion
The TARDIS is drawn off course, and arrives in Egypt, 1400 BC, where the great God-King Pharaoh has recently died. After saving a young woman from a bloodthirsty mercenary, the Doctor and Peri learn that she is Erimem, the next in line to the throne! Returning to Thebes with her, they discover that traitors are…
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