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

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…

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

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

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…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon 2.1: Saltwater

Rose’s latest trip takes her to a world under multiple threats… Alison Winter’s surprising tale starts off the second box set of adventures for Rose Tyler, following her quest for the Doctor that forms the background to part of Series 4 of the TV show. If you’ve not heard this audio series before, then you’ll…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Fifth Doctor Adventures 4.2: Resistor

The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa come to the aid of an anti-communist band… Sarah Grochala’s two part story is an enjoyable linear tale, showing a side to the fifth Doctor we’ve not seen or heard before, and putting the team behind the Iron Curtain, a location not visited as often as it could have been…

Once Upon a Timelord–Tenth Doctor returns for Doctor Who graphic novel

Review by C.J. Bunce The 60th anniversary of Doctor Who continues with a return of the Tenth Doctor–and Martha Jones!  Martha is captured by monsters we haven’t seen before, the (someti…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Fifth Doctor Adventures 4.1: Pursuit of the Nightjar

Never meet your heroes… Tim Foley gives us the longer of the two stories in this latest box set of adventures for the TARDIS crew somewhere between Arc of Infinity and Mawdryn Undead, and there’s a great deal to admire in it. A lot of the time the focus is purely on our central trio,…

Review: Doctor Who: Books: The Illustrated Journey

by Daryl Joyce Telos, out September 8 Widescreen depictions of the Doctor’s travels over the last 60 years. Daryl Joyce’s artwork has been seen in many different media over the past few years, taking information from the original TV series of Doctor Who and extrapolating it to present imagery that is truly cinematic in scope.…

Review: Doctor Who: Big Finish Audio: The Sixth Doctor Adventures 4.3: The Wrong Side of History

The final confrontation with Purity… There’s a lot to tie up in Robert Valentine’s script for this conclusion to the Purity arc – although one element that seemed to have been announced in the PR for this release isn’t present (you’ll know it when you hear it). There’s plenty for all the key players to…