REVIEW | The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress
Review by Daniel Mansfield After reuniting with UNIT in The Ministry of Death, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah head back out amongst the stars for three new audio adventures in Lethal Progress. Tim Foley’s Green and Pleasant Planet opens the set, seeing the Doctor and Sarah join a group of astronauts as they explore a…
REVIEW | The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Ministry of Death
Review by Daniel Mansfield After years of stories set later on in the Fourth Doctor’s TV tenure, Big Finish is throwing it back to Tom Baker’s earliest days in the TARDIS with The Ministry of Death. While many of Baker’s initial TV stories carved out their own identity, giving us a series of iconic sci-fi…
REVIEW | Torchwood: Fare Well
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Torchwood release Torchwood has been with us for twenty years, and it feels fitting that the Big Finish range should close out with Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd), barely a month after the Ianto Shrine in Cardiff Bay has been taken down. It’s certainly the end of an era, and Torchwood: Fare Well (Joseph Lidster)…
REVIEW | Rutans VS Sontarans: Rendition
Review by Daniel Mansfield Check out our review of the previous instalment in Rutans VS Sontarans here After the success of Sontarans VS Rutans, a four-part miniseries celebrating fifty years of the Sontarans, Big Finish is releasing a follow-up entitled Rutans VS Sontarans, which tells a new story in the centuries-old conflict between the Sontarans and the Rutans. Rendition by Tim…
REVIEW | UNIT – Brave New World: Knightfall
Review by Daniel Mansfield What happened to Ancelyn? That’s the question that’s been on everybody’s lips since Brigadier Bambera stormed back into the Whoniverse in Seabird One with a brand new team by her side. Well, three boxsets later, it’s finally time to find out where her pandimensional paramour has been, and what the future…
REVIEW | The Eighth Doctor – Time War Uncharted 3: Branches
Review by Daniel Mansfield Two years ago, in Reflections, the Eighth Doctor, Alex and Cass found themselves in a strange, Uncharted universe inhabited by belligerent flora, Time Lord Sontarans and the villainous, face-changing Hieronyma Friend. In this third boxset in the series, Branches, we finally get some answers to some of the big questions -…
REVIEW | The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Aegis
Review by Daniel Mansfield After a trip to 1920s London in The Violet Hour, it’s back to the future for the Thirteenth Doctor Adventures as, in the midst of the Aegis intergalactic defence expo, the secret of the mysterious Tourist following Team TARDIS is finally revealed. Noga Flaishon’s Aegis has a lot in common with…
REVIEW | UNIT Eras: Hostile Universe
Review by Daniel Mansfield UNIT Eras is a brand new anthology series, showcasing characters from across UNIT’s nearly sixty-year history. Rise of the Valiant by Andrew Smith kicks things off as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Jon Culshaw) finds his mission to Peru interrupted by the Dalek invasion seen in The Stolen Earth. Joined by Harry Sullivan (Christopher…
REVIEW | Zygon Century: Transformation
Review by Daniel Mansfield The second instalment in Zygon Century is here, giving us three more glimpses at a terrifying, century-long masterplan orchestrated by Doctor Who’s most iconic shapeshifters. Transformation comprises three sequels to the stories in Infiltration, the first of which, 1922: The Black Cadre, catches up with occult investigator Herbert Scott (Jonathan Rigby)…
REVIEW | The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Expulsion
Review by Daniel Mansfield One of the best things about Big Finish’s Doctor Who output is the tantalising glimpses it sometimes gives us into the ‘what might have beens’. There are the Lost Stories, recreating scripts considered for TV but ultimately abandoned; the new First Doctor Unbound series, giving the First Doctor and friends three…
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