Yearly archives: 2017

Holmes and the Ripper is the third adventure in the first season of Big Finish‘s Sherlock Holmes range, and the first to feature Nicholas Briggs as Holmes and Richard Earl as Dr Watson following from a couple of Roger Llewellyn one-hand adventures. Apparently, Nicholas Briggs played Sherlock Holmes on stage […]

1.03 Holmes and the Ripper

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I finished Big Finish‘s adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, plus the interview extras, last night. It’s pretty clear that Sherlock Holmes is a labour of love for these guys, particularly Nicholas Briggs.  Being producer, director, and title star could plunge the series into a “god complex” scenario but, […]

2.03 The Hound of the Baskervilles, cont’d

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I am sure that everyone must know, by now, of the dreadful curse of The Hound of the Baskervilles that is said to blight the family of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) is consulted when the last surviving member of the Baskerville family arrives in England to take up […]

2.03 The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The documentary/interviews from the Big Finish Blake’s 7 adventure Warship is well worth a listen.  There’s a little bit too much of “we don’t often meet each other, but everyone’s wonderful” and “the script was wonderful”.  In fact, everything was “wonderful”. However, between all of that, there’s some fun input […]

Blake’s 7 : Warship, cont’d

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Warship, from 2013, was Big Finish‘s first full-cast audio adventure of Blake’s 7. Starring the late Gareth Thomas as Blake, together with Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Jacqueline Pearce, all returning to their roles as Avon, Vila, Cally, Jenna, and Servalan, and joined by Alistair Lock […]

Blake’s 7 : Warship

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My review of All-Consuming Fire ends in a typical Doctor Who / explosion style ending. Once it was over, I found myself wondering what Sherlock Holmes and Watson were really doing in the story.  After the second episode, they contributed little.  In the third episode, Benny took over for Sherlock […]

8. All-Consuming Fire, cont’d

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The second episode of Big Finish‘s adaptation of All-Consuming Fire continued from the first, beginning with a “mission report” from Ace who doesn’t seem to be very involved in the adventure right now. The usual issues with audio adventures arise, such as not really being sure what certain noises and […]

8. All-Consuming Fire, cont’d

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All-Consuming Fire is a Big Finish audio adventure based on the original 1994 Andy Lane Doctor Who New Adventures novel as adapted by Guy Adams, and features the 7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in a Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) adventure. The story opens with the Sherlock Holmes music followed by Watson (Richard […]

8. All-Consuming Fire

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Working through my collection of Big Finish audio dramas, I’ve been listening to The Speckled Band starring Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes, and Richard Earl as Dr Watson. My only previous experience of this pairing was a 10-minute Christmas freebie given away in the past and, to be honest, it […]

The Speckled Band

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Previously … The Assassination Games And so, 1963: The Assassination Games ends with the expected running about, gunfire, explosions, etc.  Suitably epic stuff that would no doubt have looked good on the small screen. Ultimately, though, you come away with the sense that the author got lost in his own narrative […]

1963: The Assassination Games, finale

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Previously … The Assassination Games, episode 3 I listened to the first half of the last episode of 1963: The Assassination Games last night, but was too tired to continue it. This half of the episode tells us precisely what’s going on, what the whole plot is, what everyone’s doing, and […]

1963: The Assassination Games, episode 4

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Previously … The Assassination Games, episode 2 I’ve listened to the third episode of 1963: The Assassination Games now and, sad to say, I’m having a tough time with it. It comes across like a political talkfest.  It feels like the writer has gone to great efforts to give the […]

1963: The Assassination Games, episode 3

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