Category Archives: Audio

Week 49a – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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At last! We’re here with the first of the latest trilogy of ‘Doctor Who’ audios by Big Finish featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan. Today, it’s time for my ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review on the two-part bumper episode story called ‘Tartarus’ by David Llewellyn. 🙂 Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘The Second Oldest Question’ (Doctor Who)

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As we approach the end of 2019, it’s time for another ‘Nyssa Challenge’ review. Today, we’re on one of the latest ‘Doctor Who’ Short Trip audios by Big Finish, read by Sarah Sutton. I’m happy about this! 😀 It’s time for ‘The Second Oldest Question’ by Carrie Thompson. It stars the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘Short Trips: Volume I’ (Doctor Who) UPDATED

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I’ve updated and extended my reviews on the ‘Short Trips: Volume I’ CD collection of ‘Doctor Who’ stories by Big Finish. This is part of the 2019 mini review season for ‘The Nyssa Challenge’. I decided to update my eight reviews on the eight stories in the collection since my original reviews weren’t that great. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’

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As part of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ today, I’ve added my reviews on the rest of ‘The Doctor Who Audio Annual’. This includes stories from various ‘Doctor Who Annuals’ read by various ‘Doctor Who’ actors. These include Peter Purves, Anneke Wills, Geoffrey Beevers, Matthew Waterhouse and Nicola Bryant. Continue reading

Book Reviews – ‘Doctor Who Annual 1983’

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And welcome back to ‘The Nyssa Challenge’! Yes, that’s right! It’s that time again to do another mini-season of ‘Doctor Who’ reviews on the latest Nyssa stories. This will be for the Christmas week in 2019 leading into the New Year of 2020. The stories reviewed will be mostly short story collections and Big Finish audios. They will include the audios that were released from September to November 2019. Continue reading

CD/Vinyl Review – ‘The Chimes of Midnight’ (Doctor Who)

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It’s Christmas time! 🙂 And it’s time to share with you the first of four Christmas-related reviews for the year 2019 whilst my ‘Advent Calendar’s still going on. We’re starting off today by looking at the ‘Doctor Who’ audio adventure called ‘The Chimes of Midnight’, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Continue reading

CD Review – ‘The Silver Turk’ (Doctor Who)

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With Series 12 of ‘Doctor Who’ nearly upon us and the fact that the Cybermen and Mary Shelley are going to be in it, you have to wonder whether a ‘Doctor Who’ story with Cybermen and Mary Shelley ever happened before…yes it did! It’s time for ‘The Silver Turk’ starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Julie Cox as Mary Shelley. Check out my review for this story before Series 12 comes along. 🙂 Continue reading

CD Review – ‘The Rosemariners’ (Doctor Who)

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As we’re in the final week of November, why not begin closing the month off with another new ‘Doctor Who’ review on my blog today! It’s time to take a look at the Lost Story by Big Finish called ‘The Rosemariners’, featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. It stars Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury with special guest stars David Warner and Clive Wood. This four-part story is by Donald Tosh! Continue reading

Week 1 – ‘Star Wars Review Season’

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And welcome to the first instalment of the ‘Star Wars Review Season’!

Yeah, I decided not to call this ‘Star Wars Film Review Season 2’ as I originally had in mind to a couple of years back. That’s because the four ‘Star Wars’ reviews I’ve got lined up for this month aren’t all focused on films. The reviews are on two movies; one TV special and one ‘Star Wars’ novel I’ve read and heard. Continue reading

CD Review – ‘The Dalek Contract’/’The Final Phase’ (Doctor Who)

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Here we are another random ‘Doctor Who’ review from my Amazon days to add to my blog. Today, I’ve added my review on ‘The Dalek Contract’/’The Final Phase’, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Mary Tamm as Romana and John Leeson as K-9. This is a four-part story is by Nicholas Briggs. Continue reading