Doctor Who Book Club

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Sixth Doctor Adventures 4.1: The Girl in the Bubble

Added on August 31st, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

How pure is Purity’s world? The final box set of the Purity arc kicks off with a story by producer Jacqueline Rayner that starts with what we think is a bedtime story, but realise, at its heart, is a rather nasty way of reminding a little girl that she’s not made of the “proper stuff”…

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Review: Doctor Who: Books: The Daily Doctor

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by Simon Guerrier and Peter Anghelides BBC Books, out now A page-a-day guide to living your best Time Lord life, staying serene with your daily dose of the inspirational plans, pronouncements and principles that bring order this crazy and chaotic universe. The title of this Doctor Who book continues as ‘365¼ Whoniversal Meditations on Life and…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Stranded 4.3: The Keys of Baker Street

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Spoilers An attempt to rewrite Robin’s history goes horribly wrong… In many ways, this is the conclusion to the Stranded saga – or at least, the part of it that deals with the changes to history, and the abortive timelines. Roy Gill’s script takes 107 Baker Street and diminishes it around our lead characters, forcing…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Eighth Doctor: Stranded 4.2: Get Andy

Added on August 27th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Spoilers Andy Davidson is dead, blown up in an explosion. So how come he’s at the door of Baker Street? I’ve taken a couple of days to process Lisa McMullin’s script for this instalment of Stranded since listening to it. On the surface, it’s quite straightforward – there’s a determination to save Andy’s life by…

Review: Doctor Who: Books: Pull to Open

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by Paul Hayes Ten Acre Films, out now The inside story of how the BBC created and launched Doctor Who. When a book contains a foreword by Toby Hadoke, where said Doctor Who aficionado acknowledges being corrected by another author, you realise that the book in your hand contains a forensic level of accuracy and…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3.2.3: Run

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The Doctor assists an old friend who is running for office… Robert Valentine’s concluding tale for this set starring Christopher Eccleston sees Jane Goddard reprise her role as Alpha Centauri – although at a much earlier point in the hexapod’s life than we’ve met them before. This is an “AC” who is just embarking on…

Doctor Who–New book takes fans through a time portal to a place that wasn’t

Added on August 25th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Review by C.J. Bunce Have you ever experienced the Mandela Effect–that certainty that you’ve experienced something that is later proven to you that it actually didn’t happen? May…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Stranded 4.1: Crossed Lines

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Desperate to try to put things right, the Eighth Doctor embarks on a risky venture in the recent past… Matt Fitton takes up the pen for this first instalment of the final Stranded box set, picking up on the devastation wrought by the death of Andy Davidson in the previous adventure. The Doctor has a…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3.2.2: The Butler Did It

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The Doctor appoints himself sleuth in charge when a friend is poisoned… After the raw tension of the box set opener, James Moran’s detective tale is a huge amount of fun, as Christopher Eccleston displays other sides to his incarnation, notably his complete inability to take a hint that his presence is neither wanted nor…