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…
REVIEW | The Eleventh Doctor Adventures: The First Question
Review by Daniel Mansfield Can lightning strike twice? That was the question on everybody’s lips when, last year, Big Finish announced this new series of Eleventh Doctor Adventures starring Miles Taylor in the title role. Big Finish’s previous Eleventh Doctor recast, Jacob Dudman, defied all the odds and gave us one of the best series…
REVIEW | The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Pandemonium
Review by Daniel Mansfield The mystery of why the Doctor and Rose keep returning to the Powell Estate deepens in Pandemonium by Katharine Armitage, as they discover the place overrun by figures from throughout history. The Doctor barely has time to complain that he’s back on Earth before he launches headlong into investigating why all…
REVIEW | The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Helter Skelter
Review by Daniel Mansfield In the latest Fifth Doctor Adventures boxset from Big Finish, we revisit the tail end of Peter Davison’s tenure as the Doctor for three new stories with companions Tegan and Turlough. Opening and closing the set are a pair of tales by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle, which take the TARDIS…
REVIEW | Rutans VS Sontarans: Betrayal at the House of Sontar
Review by Daniel Mansfield 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. Betrayal at the House of Sontar by John Dorney is…
REVIEW | Torchwood: Curtain
Gabrielle Ketley reviews the latest Torchwood release. As the Torchwood: Monthly Range approaches its final bow, David Llewellyn’s Torchwood: Curtain gives us a creepy, campy romp in a theatrical setting, with equally theatrical characters. Many years ago, the Palace Theatre burned down on the opening night of ‘Mephisto’, a retelling of Faustus that featured “a mixture of classic…
REVIEW | The First Doctor Adventures: Beware the City of Illusions
Review by Daniel Mansfield After previously reuniting with Vicki and Steven long after their TARDIS travels were over, the First Doctor concludes his series of visits to old companions in Beware the City of Illusions as he bumps into Polly Wright. This time, though, there’s a twist… he hasn’t met her yet! While Stephen Noonan…
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…
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