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

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…

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

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

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…

Dangerous Manoeuvres on Gallifrey

Big Finish has released details for the second box set in the ongoing Gallifrey: War Room saga, due for release in September. Louise Jameson (Leela) and Ken Bones (the General) reprise their TV Doctor Who roles in four new full-cast audio dramas. The cast also includes Chris Jarman (as Rasmus), Carolyn Pickles (as Ollistra), Beth…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Once and Future 4: Two’s Company

The Third Doctor gets a letter delivered. Jackie Tyler gets a job offer. Lady Christina gets a friend. Harry Sullivan gets duped. On paper this shouldn’t work. The ongoing plot surrounding the Doctor’s degenerations is wrapped up in a clash with a familiar face in a new situation and three old companions interacting in new…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Fifth Doctor Adventures 3.2: The Edge of the War

Nyssa is cycling through the French lanes; Tegan is running a bar… and the Doctor is nowhere to be found… Jonathan Barnes pens the second story in the Conflicts of Interest box set for the season 20 TARDIS team, and it’s a suitably labyrinthine tale that reminded me of some of Marc Platt’s early work…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Interlude: The Haunting of Bryck Place

A house in Tudor times is being haunted… by Ace… Georgia Cook’s 80-minute audiobook interlude for the Seventh Doctor and Ace hits the spot in a number of ways, not least (with one small exception – psychic paper? Really?) in being a very good evocation of the period in which it’s set in Doctor Who…

Today’s Reviews: Isolation Below There

There’s a spooky feel to the first of the new Ninth Doctor tales: Christopher Eccleston has shown a real flair for this side to his Doctor, trying to help but refusing to be fobbed off by excuses when he knows that he’s not being told the whole story. Click here to read our full review…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3.1.3: The Beautiful Game

The Doctor has to ensure a critical moment in football history happens as it was meant to… Katharine Armitage’s story to conclude the Pioneers set is an unusual one, with a mix of tone that verges from comic – the way in which the Doctor shoehorns in as many references to football as he can…

Rose special edition for the 60th anniversary

A very special illustrated edition of Russell T Davies’ novelisation of Rose will be arriving in shops on 23 November, Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary. The text from the 2018 Target edition will be accompanied by all new paintings by Robert Hack. In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the…