Doctor Who Book Club

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Doom’s Day: Dying Hours (spoiler & spoiler-free)

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

Spoiler-free review Doom’s day is almost over. Time is running out. This could be the end. The multi-platform story about an assassin’s final 24 hours is tackled by Big Finish for the four hours from 8pm, and boasts the impressive production values we’ve come to expect from their full-cast audio plays, but is this too…

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Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 3.1: Sink or Swim

Added on September 26th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Rose awakes from the most recent jump – without her cannon… Lizzie Hopley starts off this latest box set of adventures for Rose Tyler as she plies her way across the multiverse in search of the Doctor, in the backstory to Series 4. The last set ended on a cliffhanger, with Jackie making it home,…

An extra tale for the 11th Doctor and Valarie

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

There’s going to be an extra adventure for the 11th Doctor with a surprise bonus episode, due for release in November 2023. He took her apart, and she told him she was fine. She lied. He saved their world, and told them they’d be safe. He was wrong. Since October 2022, Jacob Dudman and Safiyya…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 2.3: The Rogue Planet

Added on September 19th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Rose and Jackie arrive on a world where the latter is famous… Producer Emily Cook contributes this script to wrap up the second box set – and prepare things for the third. It’s a terrific tale that begins as a strong character piece, examining the relationship between the Tylers, and morphs into a taut race…

Review: Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (40th Anniversary Edition)

Added on September 18th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

BFI, 16 September 2023 A big-screen showing of the newly-restored Doctor Who 20th Anniversary special, attended by members of the cast. The BFI Doctor Who events are hot tickets within the fan community, and this was no exception, having sold out before booking was available to the general public. These events follow a tried and…

Review: Doctor Who: Vinyl Who: The Tom Baker Record Collection

Added on September 18th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Demon Records A limited edition vinyl collection of Tom Baker audio recordings. If you’re a Doctor Who fan of a certain age, it’s highly likely that you’ll already have bought most of the content of this four-disc boxset before – as original vinyl or cassette or subsequent digital re-issue – but when the product is…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: UNIT Nemesis 2.2: Power of the Dominators

Added on September 14th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Hear the Dominators come to Earth. ++Command accepted++ Kenneth Grant accepts the command to pen this taut tale that works as a strong ensemble piece, highlighting the strengths of the UNIT team and their out-of-time members, Naomi Cross and Harry Sullivan. This is picking up on an as yet unheard adventure featuring the latter two…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 2.2: Now is the New Dark

Added on September 13th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

Rose and Clive find themselves on a world which doesn’t seem to have progressed beyond Tudor times – yet the Doctor is there… AK Benedict’s instalment of Rose Tyler’s multiversal adventures has some great misdirection in it – at least as far as Rose herself is concerned; as listeners, we’re aware of how some of…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: UNIT Nemesis 2.1: The Man from Gallifrey

Added on September 10th, 2023 by tiki god | No Comments | Report Post

The Vulpreen make their move… The second Nemesis set begins with a fast-paced tale from Andrew Smith that swiftly reminds us of the key elements – Jacqui McGee has been lost through the mysterious Arch, and the Eleven is in UNIT custody – and throws the titular CIA operative into the mix (and yes we…