Yearly archives: 2018

The Fifth Doctor Box Set from Big Finish sees a return to the early days of the Fifth Doctor’s adventures. His companions are all present, including Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and, for the first time, Adric (Matthew Waterhouse).  The set consists of two four-part adventures, plus a behind-the-scenes […]

Psychodrome

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This Sporting Life is the fifth story from Big Finish‘s sixth series of Doctor Who: Short Trips, this time featuring the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, and Dodo.  The title is a play on the 1963 Richard Harris film This Sporting Life which featured, among others, William Hartnell. This Sporting Life […]

DWST6.05 – This Sporting Life

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Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life from Big Finish is an audio adaptation of the second of David Stuart Davies’ one-man stageplays as performed by Roger Llewellyn and directed by Nicholas Briggs.  This second play covers some of the same ground as the previous one, Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, […]

Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life

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In The Last Act, Sherlock Holmes reminisces on his life in the aftermath of the passing of his dear friend John Watson. The first act of The Last Act sees Holmes taking the listener through an almost auto-biographical potted history of his time with Watson, complete with snippets and memories […]

Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act

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Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl are back as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in The Adventure of The Fleet Street Transparency from Big Finish.  Available as a standalone download for £2.99 or as part of 6. Sherlock Holmes: The Master of Blackstone Grange, this adventure takes place sometime before Holmes’ […]

6.X The Adventure of The Fleet Street Transparency

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I’ve always considered the Philip Hinchcliffe/Robert Holmes era of Doctor Who as being one of consistently high quality.  There isn’t really a bad story there. Its strength and its weakness is of drawing on genres that were exploited by the likes of Hammer Horror around the same time.  Some might […]

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents, volume 1

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David Bradley did a sterling job bringing the emotional struggles of William Hartnell, the First Doctor, to the screen in the BBC docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time.  The accuracies of the docudrama to one side for a moment, one can’t help to have been caught up in the […]

1DA1.01 – The Destination Wars, part 1

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Following from The Haunting, episode 1, episode 2 of Jago & Litefoot & Strax : The Haunting from Big Finish begins with the resolution of the cliffhanger.  The cliffhanger of Jago being accosted by Multravers and her gun results in … Litefoot and Strax finding Jago in a confused state, […]

The Haunting, episode 2

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I’m not always enamoured of the modern version of Doctor Who and I have such a large collection of Big Finish audios that it’ll be some time before I have the enthusiasm to buy into their offerings from the current era.  But what to do when the modern era mixes […]

The Haunting, episode 1

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Henry Gordon Jago (Christopher Benjamin) and Professor George Litefoot (Trevor Baxter) have experienced a much welcome and long overdue resurgence, thanks to the audio adventures of Jago & Litefoot from Big Finish.  They have had many adventures over a number of box-sets, and they’ve straddled forth to meet and journey […]

4DA2.04 The Justice of Jalxar

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Domain of the Voord continues in the same way as the first episode and played out largely like a typical “First Doctor Adventure”.  We do lose Barbara and the Doctor for the biggest chunk of the middle of the story, and Ian and Susan are separated.  Ian gets thrown in […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episodes 2-4

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The TARDIS lands on a sailing ship on an alien world that is mostly ocean, with one major land mass (this isn’t Marinus).  At first taken for stowaways, and then spies, and then sources of information, The Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan become separated from the TARDIS when they’re taken […]

EDA1.01 – Domain of the Voord, episode 1

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