There’s no stopping Big Finish as 2022 comes to a close, with last year’s lockdowns barely slowing their output of premium Doctor Who box sets. Only a few months after the superlative War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire (June 2021 – check out...
The presence of UNIT in Doctor Who across the years has always been a reassuring one – the suggestion that, in the Doctor’s absence, there’s always an armed force capable of meeting alien threats with guns and bombs rather than compassion and...
The (first) Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who won a deserved reputation for stakes-raising. Each consecutive season ended in a bigger impending calamity, a bigger emotional gutwrench, and bigger special guests – until 2010’s The End of Time...
Departures, sacrifice, and the proper way to say goodbye are all preoccupations of this latest Fifth Doctor set from Big Finish. Recorded pre-pandemic, and only arriving now following the conclusion of the Monthly Adventures range, these three tales...
A stealth prequel to the iconic (but lost) Patrick Troughton story The Abominable Snowmen, this Big Finish releases promises to show us how the Doctor first encountered Det-Sen, a monastery deep in the Himalayas. But is it a thrilling ascent into...
Big Finish brings us the first in its new Doctor Who ‘Audio Novels’ range, designed to bring audiobooks to life with just one narrator and a minimal use of music and sound effects. This package assures us that it’s still part of the long and proud...
The hero’s journey, in the context of storytelling, is generally understood to be a linear one: the call to adventure leads to trials and tribulations, then to saving the world – goals achieved, monsters vanquished, and self-actualisation...
Even by the standards of Doctor Who, a phenomenon which has always met the needs of its audience with books, toys, comics and more, fans of Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor have been spoiled for choice in the early months of 2021. As well as the deluxe...
A return to the First Doctor Adventures also means the return of the beloved David Bradley, perhaps now able to play the First Doctor in his sleep. Since portraying Doctor Who actor William Hartnell in 2013’s An Adventure in Time and Space, he’s...