Category Archives: Audio

Week 35 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

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It’s time to revisit another one of my favourite ‘Doctor Who’ audios featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa in this year’s ‘Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season for 2021-22. It’s time to revisit ‘1963: Fanfare For The Common Men’, which was originally released back in September 2013 to celebrate 50 years of ‘Doctor Who’. Continue reading

Week 24 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

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For today’s instalment of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ 2021-22 mini-review season, it’s time to revisit the first three episodes of the Big Finish audio anthology of ‘Doctor Who’ called ‘Circular Time’, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. This was my first encounter with Big Finish back in 2008 and my life hasn’t been the same since. 😀 Continue reading

Week 15 – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ UPDATED

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‘The Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season of 2021-22 continues as we revisit a ‘Doctor Who’ story that is not well-liked by the fans. It’s time to take another look at ‘Time-Flight’! My review on the TV story was updated most significantly in January 2019 as part of my updated Blu-ray reviews on Season 19 of ‘Doctor Who’. Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘Short Trips: Companions’ (Doctor Who) UPDATED

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And welcome to ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season from December 2021 to January 2022! We’ve had some new Big Finish audios featuring Sarah Sutton in 2021 including ‘The Lost Resort and Other Stories’ and ‘The War Master’ story ‘Killing Time’. I’m looking forward to sharing my thoughts on those audios as we go from the Christmas period of 2021 leading into the New Year of 2022. Continue reading

Audio Reviews – ‘The Tony and Cassandra Collection’ (Dark Shadows)

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“Merry Christmas Sarah!”

For this year on Christmas Day, I’m sharing my reviews on ‘The Tony and Cassandra Collection’ of ‘Dark Shadows’ audios by Big Finish! I’ve created a new page for ‘Dark Shadows’ too. I’ve reviewed ‘The Tony and Cassandra Collection’ so that that I can check out the first four stories before revisiting ‘The Devil Cat’ featuring Sarah Sutton as a guest star in it. Continue reading

Novelization/Audiobook Review – ‘Doctor Who – Frontios’

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I’ve checked out the first of two purchases I made at the ‘Bedford Who Charity Con’ back in October 2021. I hope to share my review on ‘The Roundheads’ soon in January 2022. For now, I’ve read and listened to the ‘Doctor Who’ Target novelization/audiobook of ‘Frontios’, written and read by Christopher Hamilton Bidmead. This story features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough. Continue reading

New ‘Plague of the Daleks’ Photo

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It’s been a while since I did one of these. It’s time to share another new ‘Doctor Who’/Nyssa/Sarah Sutton photo I’ve discovered recently. Here’s a behind-the-scenes photo featuring the cast of the Big Finish audio drama ‘Plague of the Daleks’, the third instalment of ‘The Stockbridge Trilogy’. I’ve added this new photo to my review on the story on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. Continue reading

Vinyl Review – ‘Echoes of Extinction’ (TLV) (Doctor Who)

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Happy 58th anniversary ‘Doctor Who’ and welcome everyone to the thirteenth and final instalment of the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ review season!

One time, I said I was going to check out and review the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ series of ‘Doctor Who’ for an Easter review season. Those plans changed and here we are! For the final instalment of ‘TLV’, let’s check out ‘Echoes of Extinction’ by Alfie Shaw, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor with guest stars like Burn Gorman, Kathryn Drysdale, Paul Clayton, Mina Anwar, Inès de Clercq and Arthur Darvill. Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘Genetics of the Daleks’ (TLV) (Doctor Who)

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And welcome to the twelfth and penultimate instalment of the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ review season of ‘Doctor Who’!

As we draw to a close with the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ series of ‘Doctor Who’, let’s take a look at another Big Finish audio adventure, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. This is ‘Genetics of the Daleks’, an audio adventure by Jonathan Morris. This story also features Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks and guest stars like Pippa Haywood, Clive Mantle, Nina Toussaint-White, etc. Continue reading

Season 18 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Audiobook

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Having recently checked out the Target novelization/audiobook of ‘Meglos’, I’d like to share my reviews on the Target novelizations/audiobooks featured in Season 18 of ‘Doctor Who’. I’m pleased all the audiobook versions of the Season 18 Target novelizations have been made. Hopefully the same will be done for Season 19 with the remaining novelization of ‘Kinda’ to be made as an audiobook. Continue reading