Jonathan Rudderham

The first story of the second season of the Fouth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish opens with a strange weasely man taking his fiancée home to meet his aunt and guardian.  It isn’t long before we discover that the aunt isn’t just giving her approval for the upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, […]

4DA2.01 The Auntie Matter

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The final episode eventually reveals the Master’s real plan.  It’s a typical over-complicated plan with the necessary apocalyptic consequences to resolve a relatively minor problem.  Very Master-like.  And the Doctor solves all the problems in a typical non-apocalyptic sideways look at the danger. In all, this has been a great […]

4DA1.06 The Oseidon Adventure, cont’d

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The Oseideon Adventure continues directly on from Trail of the White Worm. It’s not entirely necessary to have listened to the previous adventure prior to this one, except that the cliffhanger that begins the adventure would be a little confusing if you come into it fresh. The non-spoiler review is […]

4DA1.06 The Oseidon Adventure

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Now this is more like it! Whether it’s because this story continues on a second CD, thus making it a four-parter (I guess), is something that’ll be made clear later however, the first episode is much better than anything else of this first season of the 4th Doctor Adventures from […]

4DA1.05 Trail of the White Worm

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After multiple attempts to get to see Butley, and running away, and trying to see him again, The Tao Connection kind of fizzles out on its own due to a disagreement between the villains. It didn’t really need Sarah-Jane and her team to be involved in this one at all.  […]

The Tao Connection, cont’d

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This, the second in Big Finish’s Sarah-Jane Smith Adventures, continues in much the same way as the first.  Now that the characters have been introduced, it plays out just like a regular episode of a series.  The characters are a little more familiar now, so the audio has a “Midsomer […]

The Tao Connection

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The Daleks’ plan turned out to be slightly different than I surmised, with the energy being used to create an energy cocoon around the Earth to use gravity to throw the moon out of orbit and cause such destruction on Earth that the humans will be made extinct before they […]

4DA1.04 Energy of the Daleks, cont’d

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The Energy of the Daleks from Big Finish is an example of how the two-episode limitation shows itself up, like a nooWHO episode, of being too short.  Even though each episode is 30 minutes, giving us a 1hr adventure, rather than 45 minutes on TV, you can tell that the […]

4DA1.04 Energy of the Daleks

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I listened to the rest of The Wrath of the Iceni last night and, sadly, it doesn’t improve much. There is no real plot to the story beyond the Doctor getting locked up, escaping (thanks to a woman), caught, locked up again, escaping (thanks to Leela), etc, before he finally […]

4DA1.03 The Wrath of the Iceni, cont’d

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I started listening to the third instalment from the 4th Doctor’s first season of Big Finish adventures last night. It starts of with a pretty good premise – the Doctor and Leela land, who knows where, as the Doctor continues educating the savage.  They hear the sound of battle, and […]

4DA1.03 The Wrath of the Iceni

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