Andy Lane

The final 75 minutes of The Third Doctor Adventures, volume 1 consists of behind-the-scenes interviews for both stories.  The most interesting of the two is listening to discussons of how it came to be that Tim Treloar was chosen to play the third Doctor, and how Treloar prepares his voice. The […]

Behind the Scenes of The Third Doctor Adventures volume 1

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In the final episode, the cliff-hanger from The Havoc of Empires, part 3 is resolved when it turns out that the dangerous carnivorous deadly alien eels can be thwarted by hiding behind a cargo box. Jo rescues the Doctor from his guards and they each take a gun to shepherd the […]

The Havoc of Empires, part 4

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The third part of Big Finish‘s The Havoc of Empires, by Andy Lane, continues with the Doctor being arrested as the guilty saboteur.  Jo and Mike try to assuage the accusation that they’re involved as well. The Chalnoth see the sabotage as a direct attack against their Regent and want […]

The Havoc of Empires, part 3

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Following on from The Havoc of Empires, part 1, by Andy Lane, part 2 sees our heroes cut off from the TARDIS once again (not that they’d leave a situation unresolved anyway, even though they keep saying that getting to the TARDIS is their goal). Jo, as Alex, begins investigating […]

The Havoc of Empires, part 2

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The Havoc of Empires, by Andy Lane, is the second story in Big Finish’s The Third Doctor Adventures, volume 1 box-set from Big Finish.  Featuring, as before, Tim Treloar as the voice of the Third Doctor and narrator, together with Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. […]

The Havoc of Empires, part 1

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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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It’s not often that I fork out on non-canon Doctor Who adventures, so this is a bit of a rarity for me. Big Finish‘s audio adventure The Mahogany Murderers sees the return of two characters from Doctor Who who, although only appearing in one adventure and only working together in […]

cc3.11 The Mahogany Murderers

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