With a couple of straight-up sci-fi stories under their belts, Big Finish Productions continues its long-awaited series of Fourth Doctor Adventures with something different from the Doctor Who toolbox: the historical adventure; more specifically, the historical adventure in which an injustice from Earth’s past leads to a debate about the ethics and desirability of changing history. The Wrath of the Iceni drops [...]
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A Woman Scorned (A review of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play The Wrath of the Iceni )
Posted: March 19, 2012 by Brian in Audio Review, Doctor WhoTags: Big Finish, Fourth Doctor, John Dorney, Leela, Louise Jameson, Nia Roberts, Tom Baker
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The Audio Trek Continues
Posted: March 13, 2012 by J. Marcus in Audio Review, Science FictionTags: Cliff Eidelman, Film Scores, Soundtrack, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Last week Intrada released another expanded Star Trek score on CD. This time it is Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country by Cliff Eidelman. With this entry, almost all of the original Star Trek film scores have been released in full except for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (though an expanded score was released for [...]
Knowledge Is Power (A review of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play The Renaissance Man )
Posted: February 9, 2012 by Brian in Audio Review, Doctor WhoTags: Big Finish, Fourth Doctor, Ian McNeice, Justin Richards, Leela, Louise Jameson, Tom Baker
In January, Big Finish Productions kicked off its long-awaited series of Fourth Doctor Adventures with Destination: Nerva, a flawed but listenable audio drama that overcame its shortcomings through the novelty and excitement of hearing Tom Baker and Louise Jameson back in the Doctor Who saddle. In light of that admittedly underwhelming debut, I feared its [...]
The Fourth Doctor Lives! (A review of Destination: Nerva )
Posted: January 10, 2012 by Brian in Audio Review, Doctor WhoTags: Big Finish, Fourth Doctor, Leela, Louise Jameson, Nicholas Briggs, Raquel Cassidy, Tom Baker
In 1999, a company called Big Finish changed the world of Doctor Who forever when they released their first audio play, The Sirens of Time, a fully licensed, legitimate Doctor Who adventure starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors respectively. In the twelve years since then, they [...]