The Devil’s Footprints provides a winter adventure for the Seventh Doctor and Mel; the Doctor has gone to see an old friend, a reverend and fossil enthusiast, only it seems like the devil is afoot, and H.T. Ellacombe is more…
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I Am the Master is the first of two seasonal Doctor Who: Short Trips for 2018, an October tale of the Master appropriate for Halloween. The story is unique in being written and performed by Geoffrey Beevers, the “corpse Master”…
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Supposedly every Doctor will get a box set in the next year as part of Big Finish’s twentieth anniversary celebrations. We don’t know the details on all of them yet, but the ones we know of so far all seem…
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“I think that after six box sets and 24 episodes, if Big Finish can’t produce something consistently compelling, maybe I need to finally call it quits.” So said me in my review of the previous UNIT box set, Cyber-Reality. But…
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Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost is the latest Big Finish Original, yet another amazing convocation of Big Finish talent. Eve Myles stars in a story she asked be made — after enjoying Guy Adams’s horror-themed Torchwood scripts, she wanted…
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Torchwood’s “Series Six” launches with God Among Us 1, which picks up from the cliffhanger ending of Aliens Among Us 3. The problem of the Sorvix has been back-burnered — now Torchwood is focusing on the Sorvix “god”, apparently loose…
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I wrap up my recent catching up on Bernice Summerfield by jumping ahead — or backwards, depending on how you look at it. Treasury is a special audiobook for Benny’s twentieth anniversary at Big Finish (the character made her audio…
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The fourth Bernice Summerfield box set has the pretty generic title of New Frontiers, but it might better have been called Advent, as the three stories take place during Legion’s winter holiday season, with the last story taking place on the…
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Legion establishes a new set-up for the Bernice Summerfield range. Benny is now living on the planet Legion, the furthest planet out in the galaxy, joined by her new friend and pupil, Ruth. Legion is also home to Irving Braxiatel…
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Big Finish may borrow from televised Doctor Who to excess, but it’s actually pretty restrained when it comes to pulling from tie-ins, even itself. So there’s always a little bit of frisson when Big Finish “crosses the streams” as it…
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I had sworn off Big Finish’s Ace/Mel strand after suffering through three mediocre stories in a row, but we here at Unreality Towers are unified in one belief: there’s no better writer of Star Trek novels than Una McCormack. And…
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At the end of Epoch, Bernice Summerfield received a message from Irving Braxiatel telling her that her son Peter was on a distant planet called Legion; Road Trip, the next box set in the series, consists of three standalone stories…
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Hour of the Cybermen (or The Hour of the Cybermen, as Colin Baker claims when he reads the credits) is the final instalment of 2018’s Sixth Doctor trilogy in the Doctor Who main range, but it’s also the middle instalment…
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Big Finish continues its range of The Avengers adaptations with Too Many Targets, a script by John Dorney based on a 1990 novel by John Peel and Dave Rogers. The selling point of the novel, and thus the audio drama,…
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Ian Potter is particularly good at two things as a writer. (Well, I reckon probably more than two, but let’s put the others to the side for the moment.) One is emulating the TV of the 1960s on audio: his…
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