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“I think that after six box sets and 24 episodes, if Big Finish can’t produce something consistently compelling, maybe I need to finally call it quits.” So said me in my review of the previous UNIT box set, Cyber-Reality. But…

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…

Producer David Richardson and script editor Matt Fitton must have had a brainstorm, because two of their ranges made the same move at the same time: just like the last two series of Survivors, the newest UNIT box set is…

I wrote in my review of UNIT: Silenced that Big Finish’s take on UNIT seems to work best when character-focused, and least well when action-focused. The former plays to the strengths of audio; the latter not so much. The next…

Speaking of how television programmes tend to improve after shonky first seasons, A.V. Club critic Zack Handlen says this is partially down to “the simple fact of accrued character history. First seasons have to struggle a little to get us…

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…

The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce in the post-Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart era has been tricky for Doctor Who, both on screen and on audio. The television series gave us a successor for him in Brigadier Winifred Bambera in Battlefield, but…

UNIT: Dominion is probably a first for Big Finish: one, four-hour long story. Zagreus and The Next Life come close, and there have been other boxsets, but Dominion is one big story, told in one release. Dominion also reunites the…

Big Finish may borrow from televised Doctor Who to excess, but it’s actually pretty restrained when it comes to pulling from tie-ins, even itself. So there’s always a little bit of frisson when Big Finish “crosses the streams” as it…

2018’s multi-Doctor trilogy takes a slightly different format to previous ones. Instead of being released sequentially at the end of the year, this year’s trio will be staggered across it. The theme this year is that of a new UNIT…

Since 2006’s Blood of the Daleks, Big Finish have followed the life of the Eighth Doctor relatively continuously, as he travels with Lucie, then Tamsin, then Molly, and now Liv and Helen. His adventures have moved from seasons of eight…

What times we live in, eh? Because Big Finish has released something I’d have never thought likely: a four-disc box set featuring SIR DEREK JACOBI AS THE MASTER! Derek Jacobi has played the Master twice before, but he was an…