If you’re a fan of the Master, it’s a great time to also be a fan of Big Finish. The past year or so has seen two War Master sets, a Master-themed River Song set, the Master appearing in UNIT,…
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The Diary of River Song began with River meeting the Eighth Doctor, then continued with the Seventh, and so on — but now River has met all the classic series Doctors who work with Big Finish. So, for Series Five,…
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God Among Us 2 continues Big Finish’s ongoing post-TV adventures for Torchwood — the so-called “Series Six”. As always it contains four stories, each of which stands alone, but across them the masterplan slowly advances. In terms of individual stories, this…
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The Syndicate Master Plan draws to a close with its second volume, collecting half of one story and two full others. Tom Baker and Jane Slavin are back as the Doctor and Ann Kelso, with John Leeson’s K9 thrown into…
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Ravenous 3 continues the latest Paul McGann Doctor Who saga, and it also continues to confirm my reservations about the overarching storyline. The more the Ravenous are developed, the more certain I am that they’re simply just not interesting, yet…
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You might be surprised — I suspect Big Finish themselves were, given the way Series One ended — but The War Master is back for three more series of renegade Time Lord villainy courtesy of Derek Jacobi. The Master of…
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Following on from 2017’s The Hero’s Quest, Fox Yason Productions has released a box set of four more Fighting Fantasy audio dramas. It seems to have no over-arching title (or cover art!), but it picks up on the end of…
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The Syndicate Master Plan evolves the change in format introduced in The Fourth Doctor Adventures’ seventh series, box sets for Tom Baker instead of individual releases. But this season adds two new somethings on top of that. The first is…
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Survivors Series Eight continues Big Finish’s audio exploration of what happened after the original programme ended, this set promising — at long last — an encounter between Abby Grant and the son she’s been questing for since 1975. (Well, they…
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Another day, another semi-obscure tie-in range of audio dramas. Fox Yason Productions is Richard Fox and Lauren Yason, sound designers and musicians on so many Big Finish stories; they’ve launched a series of audio dramas based on Fighting Fantasy, a…
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One of Big Finish’s best kept secrets is the quality of Peter Purves and Maureen O’Brien. Oh, it’s known to anyone who was paying attention to The Time Meddler, but it’s easily forgotten amidst the epics Big Finish puts out…
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Entanglement is the third story of Series Five of Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, and this block’s only historical story. The TARDIS lands the Doctor, Steven, and Vicki in 1930s Cambridge, where an election for Master of Sedgwick College is…
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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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