Yearly archives: 2014

Recently, Big Finish did a Companion Chronicles sale.  The reduction in price to £5 wasn’t a big enough reduction to entice me to buy too many of them, but I had heard many good things about one such adventure and so I stumped up the money for… Peri and The […]

Peri and the Piscon Paradox

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“Playtime – check! Walkies – check! Training – check! Supper – check! Toilet – check! Right, time for another kip…” — Summer, author of the Best-selling book “It’s A Dog’s Life (at least, that’s what we tell our hoomons so that we have a cushy time of it).”.

Doggie Checklist

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In UNIT : The Coup, the first of Big Finish‘s UNIT adventures, Lethbridge-Stewart is wheeled out to be the public face of UNIT during a time of transition.  The UK branch of UNIT is ceding authority to a new organisation (given recent events in the news, the unfortunately-titled ISIS). As Lethbridge-Stewart prepares […]

UNIT : The Coup

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In Big Finish‘s audio adventure Helicon Prime, Jamie (Frazer Hines), recalls a tale in which he and the 2nd Doctor were caught up in a murder mystery on Helicon Prime but all is not quite what it seems and the Doctor appears to be distracted. The story (Jamie remembering the incident) […]

CC2.02 Helicon Prime

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I finally found the time to start listening to some Big Finish audios, and chose The Selachian Gambit last night.  This was offered for £2.99 recently in recognition of the similarly themed bank job TV episode Time Heist. The audio and the TV episode have a lot in common.  Neither […]

CC6.08 The Selachian Gambit

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