Light At The End…

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Comeback is the first of Big Finish’s Sarah Jane Smith adventures (not to be confused with the later TV series for the kiddie audience) starring the late Elisabeth Sladen begins as a bit of a disjointed affair. The first scene sees Sarah mourning over the loss of her Aunt Lavinia, […]

Comeback

February 6, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / Sarah-Jane Smith tagged Big Finish / Elisabeth Sladen / Nicholas Briggs / Sarah-Jane Smith / Terrance Dicks by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve been listening to the Big Finish free except from their audio classic The Invisible Man starring the late John Hurt last night. The excerpt is the first 20 minutes of the full 2-hour release that’s due out in February. I’m more familiar with various televised versions and movies of […]

The Invisible Man, excerpt.

February 5, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Reviews tagged Big Finish / David Rintoul / H.G.Wells / John Hurt / Jonathan Barnes / The Invisible Man by Jonathan Rudderham

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

February 4, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Fourth Doctor Adventures tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Energy of the Daleks / Louise Jameson / Nicholas Briggs / The Fourth Doctor / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

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

February 3, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Energy of the Daleks / Louise Jameson / Nicholas Briggs / The Fourth Doctor / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

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

February 2, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Fourth Doctor Adventures tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / John Dorney / Louise Jameson / The Fourth Doctor / The Wrath of the Iceni / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

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

January 27, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / John Dorney / Louise Jameson / The Fourth Doctor / The Wrath of the Iceni / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

Most of the story to The Renaissance Man happens in episode one, leaving the second episode to flounder a little. The cliffhanger of the Doctor and Leela being framed for murder goes nowhere and is dropped immediately, leaving space for some running down corridors, before the Doctor reveals that he’d already […]

4DA1.02 The Renaissance Man, cont’d

January 26, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Fourth Doctor Adventures tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Justin Richards / Louise Jameson / The Fourth Doctor / The Renaissance Man / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

The second of Big Finish‘s Fourth Doctor Adventures, from early 2012, has more of a standalone feel than the previous outing Destination: Nerva and doesn’t try to follow on from a previous story. It is clearly set in the “4th Doctor & Leela” time prior to K9, so it’s still set […]

4DA1.02 The Renaissance Man

January 25, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Fourth Doctor Adventures tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Justin Richards / Louise Jameson / The Fourth Doctor / The Renaissance Man / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

Having finished Destination: Nerva, I summarise it as it starting well and ending well, but the middle is just a typical “infection/contagion” story. Probably a good thing that it didn’t stretch to a four-parter. Still, it’s a fairly safe story to begin his series with. After the final episode, there […]

Destination: Nerva, cont’d

January 24, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Destination: Nerva / Doctor Who / Louise Jameson / Nicholas Briggs / The Fourth Doctor / Tim Treloar / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

The first of the Fourth Doctor Adventures, from 2012, is a whole different affair to The Sirens of Time, the most recent Big Finish story I listened to. More self-assured than the their early days, this Big Finish product is quite enjoyable from the first moment. I’ve just listened to the first […]

4DA1.01 Destination: Nerva

January 14, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / The Fourth Doctor Adventures tagged Big Finish / Destination: Nerva / Doctor Who / Louise Jameson / Nicholas Briggs / The Fourth Doctor / Tim Treloar / Tom Baker by Jonathan Rudderham

I’m trying to find time to listen to some of my many Big Finish audios. I’m using the Big Finish app on my iPad mini, listening to one episode per night before bed if it’s not too late. The other day, I started on one of the earliest adventures I […]

4. The Land of the Dead

January 10, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Doctor Who / Peter Davison / Sarah Sutton / Stephen Cole / The Fifth Doctor / The Land of the Dead by Jonathan Rudderham

Modern superheroes are all fast-paced action movies, which is great but rarely gives you time to think or breathe. In 1978, they didn’t have much in the way of special effects and so had no choice but to take it steady. The contrast works to its benefit. The plot is […]

Dr Strange (1978)

November 1, 2016 in Movies & Films / Reviews tagged Dr Strange / DVD / John Mills / Peter Hooten / Superheroes by Jonathan Rudderham