REVIEW | Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: False Friends
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures release When the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) receives a distress call from a tiny hidden planet, crying out his name in over 40 human languages, there’s nothing he can do to resist. Clearly someone out there knows exactly how to get the Doctor’s attention. That…
REVIEW | The Death and Life of River Song: War Widow
Review by Daniel Mansfield The best River Song boxsets of the past few years have all had one thing in common: they’ve been epic, four-hour stories written by a single writer, expanding River’s mythos in meaningful ways by focusing on her character rather than leaning on continuity or concept. War Widow is an odd beast…
REVIEW | The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: “The Second Death of the Daleks” by Alfie Shaw
Review by Daniel Mansfield Taking over the role originated by Peter Capaldi on television, Jon Culshaw stars as the Twelfth Doctor in a brand-new series of audio adventures from Big Finish Productions. Set in the gap between The Husbands of River Song and The Return of Doctor Mysterio, this run of six stories has been billed as the Doctor Who series 2016 never had. The new…
REVIEW | The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: “Duty of Care” by Christian Markham
Review by Daniel Mansfield SPOILER ALERT: this is a spoiler-free review of Duty of Care, but there will be spoilers for Wings of Steel, so read on at your risk! … … … Last time on Doctor Who, the Doctor and Ash fell foul of a Krillitane plot to use the Refiner to become all-powerful. In a shocking…
REVIEW | The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill
Review by Daniel Mansfield In a last-ditch move to evade the Time Lords, the Second Doctor and friends arrive on an alternate Earth where the First Doctor and Susan never arrived in 1963, and find themselves stranded. After two boxsets of almost impenetrable Dalek shenanigans, The Haunted Windmill takes the Second Doctor Adventures in a…
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures release Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides (Tim Foley) gives us fantasy space knights looking for a long lost ship paved with gold and haunted by the holographic ghost of an evil scientist…what more can we ask for? Sir Cal (Ben Arogundade), his wise…
REVIEW | The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: “Wings of Steel” by Alfie Shaw
Review by Daniel Mansfield SPOILER ALERT: this is a spoiler-free review of Wings of Steel, but there will be spoilers for The Beautiful and the Damned, so read on at your risk! … … … Last time on Doctor Who, Sky agreed to join the Doctor and Ash on their adventures, before being promptly murdered…
REVIEW | Space Security Service: Bret Vyon Lives!
Review by Daniel Mansfield Space Security agents Anya Kingdom (Jane Slavin) and Mark Seven (Joe Sims) return for a second boxset of audio adventures in Space Security Service: Bret Vyon Lives! As the title suggests, this set sees the return of Bret Vyon, the SSS agent originally played by the iconic Nicholas Courtney in The…
REVIEW | The Twelfth Doctor Adventures: “The Beautiful and the Damned” by Katherine White
Review by Daniel Mansfield When you start listening to The Beautiful and the Damned, you’d be forgiven for thinking: here we go again, another Doctor Who story about the perils of social media. Just you wait. Katherine White’s script starts off as you’d expect, with the Doctor and Ash arriving on a planet where everyone…
REVIEW | The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: “The Hallamshire Incident” by Rochana Patel
Review by Daniel Mansfield After May’s mid-season finale, Aegis, the Thirteenth Doctor Adventures hurtles past its halfway point with a more traditional tale. A UFO has crashed in Hallamshire Forest, and D.I. Patricia Menzies (Anna Hope) calls on errant P.C. Yasmin Khan and her alien associate the Doctor to investigate. And it’s a good job…
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