counter measures

Ian Potter has always been one of my favourite Counter-Measures writers, so I was glad to see him down as the writer of what looks to be the last Counter-Measures release for the foreseeable, The New Counter-Measures: The Hollow King….

The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group is back! Series Two of The New Counter-Measures follows the previous year’s box set up with a new set of four adventures for Sir Toby, Rachel, Ian, and Allison in the 1970s. On the extras, range…

By the end of Counter-Measures, I’d grown a little tired of the gigantic conspiracies despite my enjoyment of the basic premise of the series and its characters. Thankfully, Big Finish themselves seem to have realised this. Set ten years on,…

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…

The end of Series 3 of Counter-Measures promised dramatic events in Series 4, and that’s exactly what we get in the latest box set, which draws together a number of threads from across the previous three series, not to mention…

Earlier this year I investigated the first two series of Big Finish’s Doctor Who spin-off Counter-Measures; now, the third one is out, picking up from the end of the second (which saw Counter-Measures backer Sir Toby Kinsella outed as not…

The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group is back! Rachel, Ian, Allison, and Sir Toby return for a second set of 1960s adventures, adding new regular cast member Templeton to the mix. The second series of Counter-Measures seems to seek to distill what…

Picking up from the conclusion of the Doctor Who audio drama The Assassination Games is Series 1 of Counter-Measures, a new spin-off featuring the members of the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group of Remembrance of the Daleks fame. Like Jago & Litefoot,…

The 1963 trilogy comes to an end with The Assassination Games, which also serves as a bridge between television’s Remembrance of the Daleks and Big Finish’s spin-off Counter-Measures. It’s November 1963, and Group Captain Ian Gilmore has just encountered an…

Twenty years of Doctor Who at Big Finish, eh? Who would have believed it? Big Finish have been running just six years shy of how long the classic series itself did. When The Sirens of Time came out, it had…

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…

Some Big Finish ranges are never exactly what I want them to be, but fundamentally solid enough that I enjoy them anyway — Counter-Measures is probably a good example of this. Others, however, always seem to dance just on the…

A new Doctor Who trilogy for the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric begins with Kingdom of Lies. The story marks the main range debut of Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, two writers who have quickly ascended from The Early…

Alex Kingston as River Song returns in Series Two of The Diary of River Song, which delves deeper into the classic Doctor Who back catalogue. While Series One brought River face-to-face with the Time War-era Eighth Doctor, Series Two includes…

Big Finish seem to do two kinds of four-disc box sets. The first, like Jago & Litefoot or Doom Coalition, consists of four individual stories with loose links between them. The second, like Dominion or the original Dark Eyes, is…