REVIEW | The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour
Review by Daniel Mansfield The Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz’s audio adventures continue with The Violet Hour by Rafaella Marcus. After the rip-roaring, explosive Ride or Die, this is a slower-paced, more atmospheric tale, taking us to the murky underbelly of London, 1926, a place of music halls, séances and an unearthly power. The first half…
REVIEW | Doctor Who – Short Trips: Impeccable and Other Stories
Review by Daniel Mansfield The Short Trips range returns with a boxset of six new bite-sized audio adventures for various Doctors and their companions. The eponymous Impeccable, written by Georgia Cook, opens the set, giving us a new tale for Eric Roberts’ Master as he navigates life as suburban husband Mark. While the reveal of…
REVIEW | The Third Doctor Adventures: The Imposters
Review by Daniel Mansfield Within the first half an hour of The Imposters, the Doctor and the Brigadier discover alien technology at an all-girls school; Sarah Jane butts heads with Mike Yates’ officious replacement, then breaks into a top-secret space tracking station; a Saturday night all-in wrestler defeats his opponent with Venusian karate live on…
REVIEW | The First Doctor Unbound: Return to Marinus
Review by Daniel Mansfield After facing off against the Meddling Monk in September’s Knights of the Round TARDIS, the Unbound versions of the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan return in the second of three movie-length, Technicolour-inspired audio adventures. As its title suggests, Return to Marinus is a sequel to the 1964 episode The Keys…
REVIEW | The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Cloud Eight
Review by Daniel Mansfield I really wanted to like this story. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper as the Doctor and Rose – check. The brilliant Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle of The Quintessence fame on writing duties – check. An intriguing dystopian premise – check. Despite all these delicious ingredients, something must have gone wrong…
REVIEW | Torchwood: Everyone’s Dead on Floor 3
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Torchwood release. We are rapidly approaching the end of the Torchwood Monthly Range (don’t cry, don’t cry, we survived Exit Wounds and COE, we can get through this), and with every character facing their final hurrahs, the stakes for giving them the perfect send-off are high. Sometimes cruel, sometimes kind, and always with…
REVIEW | The Audio Novellas: The Time-Splitters/Dimension 13
Review by Daniel Mansfield Spinning off from the popular range of Doctor Who Audio Novels is a new series of shorter narrated tales from the Whoniverse – The Audio Novellas. This first collection opens with Colin Brake’s The Time-Splitters, a First Doctor, Steven and Dodo story narrated by Peter Purves. Brake gives us a story…
REVIEW | Christmas: It’s A Wonderful War and Other Stories
Review by Daniel Mansfield In the absence of a Doctor Who Christmas special on TV this year, it’s down to Big Finish to celebrate the season, and what better way than with a four-part audio anthology of festive delights? Opening story Unholy Night by Noga Flaishon sees Michelle Gomez’s Missy thrust into a Hallmark movie……
REVIEW | The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dare You
Review by Daniel Mansfield The third instalment of Big Finish’s new Ninth Doctor Adventures range rounds off a trilogy of adventures that sees the Doctor and Rose face alien threats on the Powell Estate. This time, they’re up against Hellion, a mischievous gremlin who can get into people’s heads and make them do things they…
REVIEW | The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Causeway
Review by Daniel Mansfield Over the past two years of Eighth Doctor Adventures, there have been hints, whispers, mentions of something called the Causeway. In this new boxset of audio adventures, the Doctor, Charley and Audacity find out what exactly the Causeway is… and for one of them, life will never be the same again.…
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