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Celebrating Tie-Ins

Celebrating Tie-Ins #8: The expanded universe – past, present, and future

April 6 2013

TV tie-ins. Where would fans be without them? Why, they might be forced to wander, lost and friendless, through the vast wasteland of televised repeats until the beginning of the next season; or, worse yet, stranded alone in the purgatory…

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Graceless review

January 9 2011

Abby and Zara were created by the mysterious Grace to help save the universe in the Doctor Who: Key 2 Time audios, then left to fend for themselves. Abby, the good sister, was heavily influenced by her travels with the…

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Doctor Who: The Demons of Red Lodge and other stories review

December 24 2010

In the spirit of previous Big Finish releases like Forty-Five and The Company of Friends, The Demons of Red Lodge and other stories is a compilation of four 25-minute stories featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Unlike previous compilations, however,…

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Doctor Who: Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge review

December 9 2010

With a mysteriously appearing Alaskan island, an expedition seeking the hidden Lurkers, and a mild-mannered author that everyone describes as the most dangerous man alive, Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge has all the hallmarks of a classic Hinchcliffe-era Who yarn. At…

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Doctor Who: A Death in the Family review

October 3 2010

One of the many great things about Big Finish is that it periodically introduces listeners to some extremely talented new writers. In November 2008, Big Finish released Forty-Five, a series of four one-part Seventh Doctor adventures to celebrate Doctor Who‘s…

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Doctor Who: Project: Destiny review

September 25 2010

In June 2003, Big Finish released Project: Lazarus, culminating in the tragic death of Cassie Schofield, whom the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe had promised to protect. In June 2004, we met Hex – Thomas Hector Schofield – a nurse…

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Doctor Who: The Cradle of the Snake review

September 7 2010

Having enticed Janet Fielding back to reprise her role as Tegan Jovanka alongside Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Big Finish couldn’t possibly let the opportunity for a new story about the snake-like mind…

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Doctor Who: The Whispering Forest review

August 18 2010

Reunited after the events of Cobwebs, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, and Nyssa arrive in a mysterious alien forest at night. In an effort to aid Nyssa’s quest for information on Richter’s syndrome, the Doctor has “suggested” to the TARDIS…

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Doctor Who: Cobwebs review

July 23 2010

Continuing its string of returning companion arcs, Big Finish’s July Doctor Who release sees Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, and Peter Davison reunite for the first time since the 1980s as Tegan, Turlough, Nyssa, and the Fifth Doctor. Set…

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Doctor Who: Legend of the Cybermen review

June 20 2010

The Sixth Doctor/Jamie trilogy winds to a close this month with Legend of the Cybermen… now, with added Zoe! Yes, that’s right. Wendy Padbury joins Frazer Hines in a Doctor Who story for the first time since The Five Doctors,…

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Doctor Who: The Wreck of the Titan review

May 17 2010

The Sixth-Doctor-and-Jamie Big Finish trilogy continues in May with The Wreck of the Titan, in which the Doctor’s attempts to show Jamie the classy side of time travel with a holiday on the Queen Mary, which, unsurprisingly, goes wrong in…

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Doctor Who: City of Spires review

April 20 2010

In one of two much-anticipated Doctor/companion reunions at Big Finish this year, City of Spires sees Frazer Hines return to the role of Jamie McCrimmon, playing opposite Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor. The first of four Sixth Doctor and Jamie stories, City…

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Doctor Who: The Architects of History review

March 16 2010

The Architects of History, the third and final instalment of the Klein trilogy, finds us some considerable time after the events at the end of Survival of the Fittest. Elizabeth Klein has stolen the TARDIS, leaving the Seventh Doctor stranded,…

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Doctor Who: Survival of the Fittest review

February 22 2010

After the events of A Thousand Tiny Wings, Elizabeth Klein is now travelling with the Seventh Doctor. February’s Big Finish offering consists of a one-part story, Klein’s Story, in which Klein relates how she came to possess the TARDIS in…

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Doctor Who: A Thousand Tiny Wings review

January 26 2010

In 1950s Kenya, a group of women shelter in a remote farmhouse during the Mau Mau uprising, hoping to escape the violence until the British Army arrives to restore order. One of these women, Doctor Elizabeth Klein, recognises the small…

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    • classic literature
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    • Deus Ex
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    • Superman
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  • Spin-offs from tie-ins

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    • Charlotte Pollard
    • Erimem
    • Graceless
    • Iris Wildthyme
    • The Minister of Chance
    • Vienna
  • and

    • non tie-ins