Maggie Stables


I listened to the first half of Big Finish‘s The Spectre of Lanyon Moor during a run today.  Starring Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor, travelling with Evelyn Smythe (Maggie Stables), The Spectre of Lanyon Moor includes the first meeting between the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) and this incarnation of the […]

9. The Spectre of Lanyon Moor


The sixth adventure in Big Finish‘s main range of Doctor Who audios, The Marian Conspiracy, sees the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) solo until he meets up with historian Dr Evelyn Smith (played by fan favourite Maggie Stables). The Doctor is tracing a dangerous “nexus” that takes him to a lecture […]

6. The Marian Conspiracy, episode 1


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



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


The Light at the End encouraged me to seek out Big Finish’s first multi-Doctor story from way back in 1999 and I began listening to the first part of The Sirens of Time last night to see how it compares to their latest multi-Doctor adventure. The following review may contain […]

1. The Sirens of Time


Actually, I couldn’t think of a better title to say “The Three Doctors, but not those three…”.  As I’ve recently been turning some of my CD collection into iPod tracks and having stumbled across a couple of audio Doctor Who‘s that I bought some years ago but didn’t listen to, […]

The Three Doctors – reloaded!