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Despite the fact that Donna Noble is, in my estimation, one of the best companions from the Doctor Who revival, I admit to a certain amount of scepticism at Big Finish’s announcement of Donna Noble: Kidnapped!. Yes, I love Donna,…
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The Eighth Doctor’s Ravenous storyline had a number of small points whose larger meaning wasn’t evident until the story came to an end. One that still hadn’t been explained by the release of Ravenous 4 was Liv Chenka’s “missing year”…
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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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I started listening to Big Finish’s The Avengers: The Lost Episodes on basically a whim, and I’m glad I did: the range has provided me with 26 little slices of delightful 1960s melodrama, based on a television programme I haven’t…
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Who would have thought the Time War would be so ordinary? For years under Russell T Davies, the Time War was built up as this enormous, mythical event. Steven Moffat has largely stayed away from it during his tenure, but…
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Every instalment of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes is a mixed bag, in that I get to enjoy a set of high-quality stories oozing with 1960s atmosphere, but in that we also get closer and closer to exhausting the supply…
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In a year where Big Finish Productions has and will be giving us appearances by the War Doctor, River Song, and David Freaking Tennant, it feels slightly goofy to say that The Avengers: The Lost Episodes is one of the…
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The Avengers is another of those classic British television programmes I’ll never watch — but I’ll gladly consume the new adventures as produced by Big Finish. The fourth volume of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes pushes the series into new…
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Doctor Who fans like to have their gaps filled: how did Mel come aboard, where did Ace go, when did the Eighth Doctor regenerate. One long-existing gap in the Doctor Who canon has been the regeneration of the Sixth Doctor….
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Steed and Keel are back! The more of these boxsets of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes I listen to, the more I find myself enjoying them, and Volume 3 — despite some weaknesses — is no exception. Julian Wadham and…
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Despite having never seen The Avengers, I enjoyed Volume 1 of Big Finish’s The Lost Episodes, a compilation of fresh recordings of scripts whose original 1960s recordings are long lost — unlike 1960s Doctor Who, not even audio versions still…
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Before listening to The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 1, I’d never once seen an episode of the classic ITV spy series The Avengers, despite a vague desire to do so. I love Diana Rigg and Joanna Lumley as much…
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The latest Fifth Doctor/Tegan/Turlough/older-but-looking-younger Nyssa trilogy continues with The Lady of Mercia, a pseudo-historical by perennial Unreality SF favourite Paul Magrs. I was perhaps predisposed to like this story, as it takes place at an academic conference, a type of…
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Though the subsequent Lost Stories featuring the First, Second, Fifth, and Fourth Doctors were enjoyable, the original series of Lost Stories featuring the Sixth Doctor was not exactly awe-inspiring. (Let’s not even talk about the Seventh Doctor ones.) So it…
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I went into The Renaissance Man not expecting terribly much, not after Destination: Nerva. The fact that it was by Justin Richards didn’t help, who I find typically turns in solid, but workmanlike efforts. The beginning didn’t really sell me…
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