Monthly archives: June 2017

After leaving the train, Holmes & Watson rejoice in their escape as they head to the city and the British Embassy.  On the road they’re stopped when Watson sees, surrounding them, many fields just streaming with crops of the odd blue flower that he first saw in Afghanistan. Their rejoicing comes […]

3.04 The Sowers of Despair, cont’d

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It’s 1919 by the time of the fourth story in the Big Finish audio epic The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes.  Holmes is well retired by this time, whilst Watson is enjoying a slower pace of life with his third wife.  Set some 16 years after The Bermondsey Cutthroats, The Sowers […]

3.04 The Sowers of Despair

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Continuing The Adventure of the Bermondsey Cutthroats, Watson awakes in delirium, bound to his favourite chair, unable to move or to speak.  A blonde-haired man that laughs a lot at his predicament is watching the door, his back to Watson.  The woman who drugged him, goads him, torturing him with […]

3.03 The Bemondsey Cutthroats, cont’d

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The third adventure in The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes by Big Finish opens by doing what it says on the tin.  A woman is being interrogated and then tortured and killed by judicious use of knives by a poetry-loving woman and her knife-wielding cohort. Following the opening theme, Dr Watson […]

3.03 The Bermondsey Cutthroats

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As expected, once The Gamekeeper’s Folly moves to the Gamekeeper’s village, the pace increases.  Immediately on leaving the train, Holmes & Watson encounter the author friend of Jim Hinderclay’s daughter who’s giving an impassioned lecture on her recent lively book, a book that features a woman that Holmes believes is the […]

3.02 The Gamekeeper’s Folly, cont’d

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The second of four adventures of The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes from Big Finish, starring Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes and Richard Earl as Dr Watson, is a more traditional Sherlock Holmes adventure that spends the first third of its duration in Holmes’ rooms with the client telling Holmes & Watson of his troubles. The […]

3.02 The Gamekeeper’s Folly

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Continuing The Guttering Candle from The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes with Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes, Richard Earl as Dr Watson, and John Banks as Inspector Lestrade, Holmes uses his flair with disguises to infiltrate a circus troupe as a ringmaster.  He ingratiates himself with a friend of the dead man, and […]

3.01 The Guttering Candle, cont’d

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According to the Big Finish blurb, The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes, the third “volume” in their Sherlock Holmes range, is described as “Four decades. Four cases. One solution.”.  On beginning my journey into this box-set, I cannot as yet either confirm or deny that summary.  What I can confirm is […]

3.01 The Guttering Candle

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The second episode of Masters of War is a full 90-minutes long, and you’d think that was too long for the second half of a story.  However, that’s not the case here.  The duration helps to ensure that each key character – the Doctor (David Warner), the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), […]

Masters of War, episode 2

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The eighth story in Big Finish‘s Doctor Who Unbound range is a sequel to Sympathy for the Devil which saw an alternative version of the third Doctor (David Warner) teaming up with a retired Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) during a time of crisis exasperated by the machinations of […]

Masters of War, episode 1

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Whilst trying to prove who he is to the Brigadier, who hasn’t seen the Doctor since his second incarnation, they hear a plane overhead as it heads towards the hills and crashes.  They hear it, but don’t see it.  When the Brigadier talks of a scientist that defected, the Doctor wonders if […]

Sympathy for the Devil, continued…

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Sympathy for the Devil is the second adventure in Big Finish‘s Doctor Who Unbound range.  This range poses a number of “What if..?” scenarios on Doctor Who, such as What if… the Doctor and Susan had never left Gallifrey? or What if… the Doctor had not been UNIT’s scientific advisor?  […]

Sympathy for the Devil

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