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...
Mr Colchester is my favourite Torchwood character. Fans of the four-series TV spin-off from Doctor Who might be confused by that name. But anyone who has listened to the ‘fifth and sixth’ series of Torchwood at Big Finish, will know what...
It’s been over three years since the first series of Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. In the meantime, the character has featured in The Legacy of Time – Big Finish’s celebration of twenty years of Doctor Who audio drama – opposite the Fifth Doctor in...
Timejacked! is a rousing three-part adventure through space and time, in the purest sense of the word. The second volume of Twelfth Doctor Chronicles visits alien worlds and alternate pasts, with a big, time-gone-wrong storyline and a charming pair...
In theory (this reviewer having only heard three of the eight box sets released so far), The Diary of River Song wouldn’t appear to be one of Big Finish’s most compelling or essential ongoing series. There isn’t a central narrative to follow, no...
Parasite, the first Torchwood Soho set, ended with a change to the status quo. Norton Folgate (Samuel Barnett), one of the few survivors of the recent destruction of Torchwood – one of many demises for the ill-fated organisation – headed off with...
Sontarans are coming back to the Doctor Who universe in a big way, with the second episode of series 13 (AKA Flux), War of the Sontarans, featuring their first big villainous return since 2009’s The Sontaran Stratagem, complete with new...
The second of two volumes of The Third Doctor Adventures this year, sees Tim Treloar as the brilliantly recast Third Doctor in two new adventures at Big Finish. Katy Manning joins him as companion Jo Grant in a story that serves as a sequel /...
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...
Both as a character onscreen and as the lead of her own spinoff series on audio, Missy has been a runaway success. Michelle Gomez is an absolute riot in a role that one struggles to imagine anyone else inhabiting, and the situations in which Missy...