Doctor Who

Following the first episode of the second Big Finish audio production, Phantasmagoria, I’ve been listening to the remaining three episodes over recent evenings and, last night, I finished the final episode.  For the most part, I’m glad it’s over. The positives are that it plays like an adventure that may […]

2. Phantasmagoria, parts 2-4

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Phantasmagoria is the second Doctor Who audio adventure from Big Finish, released in 1999, after their initial outing with The Sirens of Time.  Written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Nicholas Briggs, and starring Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), with David Walliams, Nicholas Briggs, Mark Gatiss, and others. […]

2. Phantasmagoria, part 1

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The Screaming Skull, by Jonathan Morris, continues with Mike Yates and his close friend, Lt Jane Lucas (Rachel Atkins) under the influence and control of Mr Rees.  Captain Matheson is able to break the control using the device Professor Jensen developed back in the 60s. Sato falls into the clutches […]

The Screaming Skull, cont’d

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The Screaming Skull is the third of four parts that makes up The Worlds of Doctor Who from Big Finish Productions.  Whilst the first part gave us Jago & Litefoot in Mind Games, and the second involved Counter-Measures in The Reesinger Process, The Screaming Skull involves UNIT Captain Ruth Matheson […]

The Screaming Skull

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Gilmore and Allison take the character development course at the Reesinger Institute, which involves treatments such as immersion therapy, isolation, and interrogation.  They’re kept apart except that the manage to sneak a secret rendezvous. They hear the clock chime, the one that keeps Gilmore awake at night.  They believe it’s […]

The Reesinger Process, cont’d

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It’s 1964, many years after Jago & Litefoot dealt with the nefarious Mr Rees and his Mind Games, and a couple of kids are seen playing where they shouldn’t be playing.  The ground beneath them is unstable, and they fall through.  In the hole, they find a curious device.  A little […]

The Reesinger Process

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Through Henry Gordon Jago, Litefoot learns that several people have been having nightmares about committing murders, but nightmares aren’t real — are they?  Between them, they link the people with nightmares to the murders and that they had all been previous placed under the “fluence” by Mr Rees.  When Rees […]

Mind Games, cont’d

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Mind Games is the first of four stories in the special Big Finish release The Worlds of Doctor Who.  Each of the adventures features a Big Finish range that incorporates either Doctor Who or one of several spin-off series, chosen from Jago & Litefoot, Counter-Measures, UNIT, and Doctor Who itself. The first […]

Mind Games

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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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