Some Doctor Who stories don’t have mind-bogglingly original premises. Aquitaine has the Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan investigating an abandoned spaceship, killer plants, slightly mad robots, and time paradoxes. All of these are things you’ve seen or heard on Doctor Who before. But the script by Scarifyers team Simon Barnard and…

Series 4 of Counter-Measures ended with the team all dead: Rachel Jensen, Ian Gilmore, Allison Williams, all dead. Only their architect, the slimy Sir Toby Kinsella, was still alive. That was the end of the series. Now we have The New Counter-Measures, a new series from Big Finish. Who Killed…

The Waters of Amsterdam launches 2016’s main range Doctor Who releases from Big Finish, with a story by Jonathan Morris taking place in the aftermath of Arc of Infinity, with the TARDIS crew, recently rejoined by Tegan, still hanging out in Amsterdam following the defeat of Omega. Only, who should…

Mark Gatiss’s Nightshade is a Doctor Who novel that didn’t do a whole lot for me, so I wasn’t particularly excited when I learned that Big Finish was adapting it for audio. I hate to assign motives, but if the book has a popular reputation, I suspect it’s because it…

The Blame Game is the first of a few Doctor Who: Short Trips stories to be narrated by Rufus Hound, who debuted as the Meddling Monk in last year’s The Early Adventures: The Black Hole. This one has the Monk coming to visit the Third Doctor shortly after the beginning…

Una McCormack and Peter Purves are two of Doctor Who’s greatest talents, so putting them together is an irresistible combination. Short Trips: This Sporting Life (not to be confused with the 1963 William Hartnell film This Sporting Life, nor the very best Decemberists song The Sporting Life) covers the events…

Short Trips: The Curse of the Fugue brings Sheridan Smith back to Doctor Who as Lucie Miller for the first time since she went to her dramatic end in 2011’s To the Death, as the narrator of a 33-minute short story featuring Lucie alongside the Eighth Doctor. I forgot how…

I had sort of half-guessed that Series Ten of Jago & Litefoot would be the last. I was completely wrong, of course. Series Twelve actually comes out next month, and Series Ten made sure to end in such a way that you knew the Adventure Continues: who should turn up…