"unit:" review

Big Finish has mainly featured two different incarnations of the Master on audio. Geoffrey Beevers’s cadaverous Master from The Keeper of Traken returned in 2001’s Dust Breeding in a new post-Anthony Ainley version that went on to appear in Master…

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…

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….

To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of its Doctor Who license (The Sirens of Time was way back in July 1999, if you can believe that!), Big Finish released another deluxe edition along the lines of the super-classy The Light at…

Back in 2011, the Doctor encountered the Daleks for the first time in a long while, and they managed to take from him two of his friends, not to mention his great-grandson, sending him into a spiral of depression. Four…

Who would have thought that 2013 would be the year where we’d have Paul McGann as the Doctor on television… and not on audio? Though he may have joined the fray in The Light at the End, it’s been over…

In his producer’s notes for Big Finish’s Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special, The Light at the End (standard edition, as that’s all your humble reviewer can afford — also, he wasn’t really excited by the idea of photos of Colin…

Klein is back! Hot off the success of UNIT: Dominion, everyone’s favourite not-a-Nazi is puttering along at UNIT with her new assistant, Will Arrowsmith, when up pops the Doctor, tiring and nearing the end of his seventh life. Persuasion begins…