With its single-nonsensical-proper-noun title, Dethras evokes early John Nathan-Turner stories with similarly obscure names like Meglos, Logopolis, Castrovalva, and Kinda. And like a lot of those stories, Dethras is based…
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The fourth H.G. Wells Big Finish Classic is an adaptation of his 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, written by frequent director, infrequent writer Ken Bentley. The adaptation stars…
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James Goss’s The Silent Scream brings the Fourth Doctor, Romana, and K9 to Hollywood, a Hollywood in the midst of metamorphosis from silent film to “talkies”. The Doctor wants to…
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Was someone out there sad that although the Fourth Doctor met the Sontarans when travelling with Harry and Sarah, and with Leela (twice!), he never did so with the Second…
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The Beast of Kravenos launches a new series of Fourth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish, these ones supposedly set before Season 18 (as opposed to the last set, which was…
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I would have never dreamed that Big Finish would adapt H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution as part of its Classics range. For one thing,…
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The First Men in the Moon is actually the only one of Big Finish Classics’s H.G. Wells releases based on a scientific romance I haven’t read, but based on this…
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The Invisible Man launches a subseries within Big Finish’s Classics range of audio dramas: six adaptations of H.G. Wells novels, released across the course of 2017. As someone whose academic…
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After the success of last year’s Classic Doctors, New Monsters release (and the placing of “Volume One” on its cover), a second box set was, thankfully, inevitable. Once again, four…
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Here at Unreality Towers, we like the Meddling Monk in all his incarnations: Peter Butterworth, Graeme Garden, and Rufus Hound, we’ll take them all, they’re all brilliant. Hound proved himself…
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The CD extras of Quicksilver are, I think, inadequate, because they fail to really explain the story’s central draw. Listening to them, Matt Fitton’s thought process seems to mostly run,…
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The most recent Sixth Doctor and Constance trilogy continues with Jamie Anderson’s Absolute Power. Anderson has been doing a lot of directing for Big Finish of late (including both other…
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