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

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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…

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Rose special edition for the 60th anniversary

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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…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3.1.2: Northern Lights

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Crashlanding to Earth, the Doctor encounters two key explorers… Robert Valentine gives us a celebrity historical for the middle story of the Pioneers box set, although, as with Hidden Depths’ Lay Down Your Arms, they’re celebrities that most people might struggle to recognise – which is a shame, given what we learn in this about…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 3.1.1: The Green Gift

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The Doctor, Callen and Doyle arrive on the Greenwood – could this be a suitable home for a boy and his dog? Roy Gill here continues the story of Callen and Doyle from Red Darkness at the end of the previous “season” of adventures for the 9th Doctor. I noted in the review of that…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Sixth Doctor Adventures 3.1: Broadway Belongs to Me!

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Behold America! With an exclamation mark! In their quest to discover what has happened to Hebe, the Sixth Doctor and Mel find themselves in New York, which seems to be as it should, in terms of recorded history (even if there are elements to it that come as a shock to Mel)… but a certain…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Second Doctor Adventures 2.3: The Shroud

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The Doctor and Jamie land on a planet which is not just dark but which seems to have a total absence of light… Bob Ayres concludes this year’s set of adventures for the Second Doctor and Jamie with a story that plays to audio’s strengths (and even has a lovely little joke about the black…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2.4.3: Red Darkness

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The Doctor arrives on Solis Kailya just in time to help Callen and his (talking) dog… Roy Gill wraps up this box set with a story that has some callbacks to earlier audio adventures for the 9th Doctor, but which stands very well on its own. It starts as something of a base under siege…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Sixth Doctor Adventures 2.3: Chronomancer

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The Doctor, Mel and Hebe take Professor Patricia McBride to a future Sheffield – with dire consequences. Spoilers And so the villain of the piece (indeed the whole four box-set arc) is revealed, and done in such a way that explains why they think their viewpoint makes sense, while never letting the audience have any…

Today’s Reviews: The Greatest Show?

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The latest Black Archive has some fascinating points – but an overreliance on one source… While the reader might not always subscribe to what’s being posited, the ideas are typically backed up with multiple credible and respected sources. It’s just unfortunate that this book begins with its weakest part. Click here to read Nick Joy’s…

Doom’s Day’s Dying Hours!

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The Big Finish portion of the Doom’s Day saga has been unveiled. Sooz Kempner makes her Big Finish debut in four full-cast audio adventures as part of the multi-platform Doctor Who story, Doom’s Day. The cover artwork and guest cast details are now revealed for Doctor Who – Doom’s Day: Dying Hours, a four-part audio…