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I’m on record with my antipathy for Yee Jee Tso’s audio performances, and normally I’d’ve skipped The Turn of the Screw… but I am indeed a completist when it comes to the Eighth Doctor, and so here I am. Eddie…
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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…
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I’m not going to lie, I picked up Simon A. Forward’s Doctor Who: Short Trips download Mel-evolent solely because of the title. Bonnie Langford narrates a first-person story from Mel where she and the Sixth Doctor discover a magic mirror…
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The H.G. Wells Big Finish Classics releases have finally come to their belated end with The Martian Invasion of Earth, an adaption of The War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds is surely Wells’s most adapted work, having…
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Static brings Big Finish’s latest trilogy featuring the Sixth Doctor, Constance, and Flip to a close. After a pure historical and a sci-fi adventure, Static takes this team to twentieth-century England for a go at a horror story. At a…
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When reviewing Series Two of The Diary of River Song, I wrote, “Though going in I was a little apprehensive about how Doctor-heavy the set would be, it actually ended up working out quite well. I’m curious to see if…
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The Middle is the middle story of the latest Sixth Doctor, Constance, and Flip trilogy in Big Finish’s main Doctor Who range, so the title is functional, at least. (It is unrelated to the The Beginning from The Companion Chronicles and…
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I’m not a fan of recasting in Doctor Who, on the principle that it is a bit of a nonsense. Who is the Third Doctor except “the Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee”? Tim Treloar may be a good actor…
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The Behemoth marks the beginning of a new trilogy for the Sixth Doctor, the first to feature the new TARDIS team set up at the end of Quicksilver: Flip Ramon née Jackson and Constance Clarke. Marc Platt’s story brings the…
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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…
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The Doctor has had a number of near-misses with the Time Lord presidency: The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, and The Five Doctors all feature the Doctor almost becoming president, but scarpering off to avoid his responsibilities. But what…
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I’m not gonna lie. King Lear has always been one of my least favourite Shakespeare tragedies. I was tempted to give its Big Finish Classics production a miss. But I was like, if anything can make me like King Lear,…
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The finale to Torchwood: Aliens Among Us wraps up Torchwood’s “Series Five”, but there is clearly more to come. The new team continues to be put through its paces — especially considering the surprise appearance of former Torchwood One boss…
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It seems that Big Finish’s “two-in-one” trilogy had a double meaning. Each set is two-in-one not just in the sense of having two stories in one, but also in having two characters in one: Dalek Soul, Vortex Ice, and now…
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Each part of Big Finish’s trilogy of “two-in-one” stories has a slightly different way of linking the two stories together. In the case of the Sixth Doctor and Flip in Vortex Ice and Cortex Fire, that way is no link…
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