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.…
REVIEW | Torchwood: The Flawless Man
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Torchwood release Cursed video tapes, mysterious knocking, ‘he is coming’ written on the walls of a dead man’s flat, and Sergeant Andy Davidson. Does it get any better than this? Torchwood: The Flawless Man (Stewart Pringle & Lauren Mooney) opens with the recording of a police interview. Night Watchman Martin Binns (Rhys Jennings)…
REVIEW | The Third Doctor Adventures: Operation Vengeance
Review by Daniel Mansfield Written by the Third Doctor himself Tim Treloar alongside Big Finish executive producer Nicholas Briggs, Operation Vengeance is an action-packed romp that takes us from an alien planet inhabited by people made of light to the midst of World War Two. Treloar’s Doctor is joined on this adventure not only by…
REVIEW | Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories
Review by Daniel Mansfield Opening Big Finish’s inaugural Doctor Who Halloween anthology is the titular Sea Smoke, written by Whoniverse newcomer Jonathan Sims. Taking the First Doctor and Dodo to the Scottish island of Ulfsay, this story sees the time travelling twosome investigate horrific transformations caused by the burning of something that looks like kelp……
REVIEW | The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Last Days of the Powell Estate
Review by Daniel Mansfield We saw the Powell Estate’s past in Father’s Day, its present in countless stories (most recently in August’s Snare) and now, in this second episode of the latest Ninth Doctor Adventures series, we get a glimpse at its terrifying future. When the Doctor and Rose arrive on the Estate in 2036,…
REVIEW | The Lost Stories: Alixion
Review by Daniel Mansfield Back in 2011, Big Finish released four Lost Stories audios based on the episodes planned for the ultimately unmade 1990 series of Doctor Who. Fourteen years later, another unproduced story written for Season 27 joins the Lost Stories range – Alixion, by Robin Mukherjee. Despite the script having been lengthened from…
REVIEW | The First Doctor Unbound: Knights of the Round TARDIS
Review by Scott Lopes Knights of the Round Tardis, by LR Hay, starts a new chapter in the series centered around the versions of the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan first seen in An Adventure in Space and Time, with the newly added twist of it being Unbound. Despite this, Knights of the Round…
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