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Week 8a – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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For the first time ever, we have a ‘Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season over the Easter period of 2024! 😀 This was supposed to be ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season from December 2023 to January 2024, but because of the busyness of 2023, thanks to ‘Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebrations, I wasn’t able to find the time to put it together, which is a shame. Continue reading

Audio Review – ‘Watchers’ (Doctor Who)

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It’s time for me to share my first ‘Doctor Who’ review in 2024! 🙂 Today, we’re checking out the Big Finish audio novel called ‘Watchers’, which is a story penned and performed by Matthew Waterhouse, the actor who plays Adric in the classic TV series and the Big Finish audios. The story features the Fourth Doctor and Adric as well as the Daleks, voiced by Nicholas Briggs. Continue reading

Tim Bradley’s Convention Memories and Reports – 2010-2023

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To celebrate Sarah Sutton’s birthday today, I’ve put together a list of all the conventions I’ve attended over the years from 2010 to 2023, which includes ‘Doctor Who’ conventions, multi-purpose conventions and a ‘Star Trek’ convention. You can check out my ‘convention memories’ blog posts and my convention reports by clicking on the images below. Continue reading

Convention Memories – ‘Big Finish Day 6’

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Today, I’m sharing my ‘convention memories’ of ‘Big Finish Day 6’ at the Copthorne Hotel Slough-Windsor in Slough on Sunday the 17th of January 2015, run by 10th Planet Events. I’ve attended a couple of 10th Planet Events conventions before, including ‘Project Motor Mouth 2’ and ‘Dimensions 2013’. Continue reading

Convention Memories – ‘Timey-Wimey 1’

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Happy 59th Anniversary, ‘Doctor Who’! 🙂

And yes! I’m sharing another set of convention memories to celebrate the occasion. Today, I’m sharing the time that I attended the ‘Timey-Wimey 1’ convention in Brighton in November 2014. This was to celebrate 51 years of ‘Doctor Who’, as the event took place on Sunday the 23rd of November. 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

DVD Reviews – ‘An Englishman on Gallifrey’ & ‘The Home Whovian’

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“Happy Birthday Sarah!”

To celebrate Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)’s birthday today, I’m sharing my reviews on two Reeltime Pictures productions connected to ‘Doctor Who’. In 2014, I purchased the ‘An Englishman on Gallifrey’/’The Home Whovian’ DVD, which contains two special documentaries looking into how ‘Doctor Who’ works in America. Continue reading

CD reviews – ‘The Flying Dutchman’/’Displaced’ (Doctor Who)

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It’s time for another ‘Doctor Who’ audio release by Big Finish! Today, we’re looking at two stories in one CD release! They are ‘The Flying Dutchman’ and ‘Displaced’, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Philip Olivier as Hex. I enjoyed hearing this TARDIS trio again recently. Continue reading

Convention Memories – ‘Big Blue Box 2’

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It’s time for another ‘convention memories’ blog post by me today and I’m sharing my memories of the first convention I attended in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’. And it’s also the first convention that I ever attended to not have Sarah Sutton there. I know! How shocking is that?! Continue reading

The Z’nai Trilogy of ‘Doctor Who’

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Today, I’ve added all of my reviews on ‘The Z’nai Trilogy’ of ‘Doctor Who’ on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. This is a trilogy of three linked Fourth Doctor audio stories in ‘The Companion Chronicles’ range by Big Finish. The three stories feature Louise Jameson as Leela and they’re all written and directed by Nigel Fairs. Continue reading