Archive for May, 2012
1 year ago
Special Offers for June!
You can’t leave Big Finish alone for a moment! I just posted on the DWM special sale with DWM 448 (here) and now they announce more goodness for June. Apart from impending bank balance damage this may tip me towards a splurge on some random Companion Chronicles despite my earlier “I’ll get some subscriptions one-day” attitude. What next!
Fantastic special offers on the way…
June will be a month of special offers at bigfinish.com, with a series of two-days offers appearing throughout the month
It all begins at 6pm on Friday June 1st until 8am on Monday 4th June, with a celebration of the nomination of three Big Finish productions in the Scribe Awards, which honour excellence in media tie-in writing.
The three Big Finish nominees are:
Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
Katy Manning plays Jo, in this story by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott. The CD and download will be on offer for £5.Dark Shadows: The Lost Girl
Kathryn Leigh Scott plays Josette, in this story by D Lynn Smith. The CD and download will be on offer for £5.Highlander – Series Two Box Set
Valentine Pelka, Richard Ridings, Marcus Testory and Peter Wingfield return as The Four Horseman. The episode All The King’s Horsemen by Scott Andrews has been nominated. The boxset and download will be on offer for £20.Also, June 5 and 6 will see an astronomical phenomenon called the Transit of Venus… In recognition, Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – The Transit of Venus will be available on CD and download on these two days for just £5. The story is performed by William Russell as Ian Chesterton, and the acclaimed script is by Jacqueline Rayner.
Further exciting special offers for June will be announced soon!
1 year ago
DWM 448 Special Sale
Tucked away in this weeks (released May 20 2012) DWM #448 (the Ian Chesterton cover) is not only the code for the free download of the Revenants (as mentioned here) but also the same code gets you access to a very different Big Finish sale - this one lasts until the end of August! The theme is also ‘something of everything’ as far as I can tell. Oh, and those of you crawling the web (and upping my read count thanks!) please buy your own copy - £4.50 and the wonderful Revenants for free with some decent articles, how can you go wrong?
Anyway, the sale comprises the following (each at £5, no bundle price):
- Companion Chronicles:
- Here There Be Monsters: The First Doctor with Susan, Ian and Barbara (Series 3, story 1)
- The Memory Cheats: The Second Doctor with Jamie and Zoe (Series 6, story 3)
- The Doll of Death: The Third Doctor with Jo (Series 3, story 3)
- The Pyralis Effect: The Fourth Doctor with Romana #2 (Series 4, story 4)
- Main Range:
- Circular Time: The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa (#91)
- The Nowhere Place: The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn (#84)
- Night Thoughts: The Seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex (#79)
- Other:
- Situation Vacant: The Eighth Doctor (Eighth Doctor Adventures Series 4 Story 1 [reviewed here])
- Shada: The Eighth Doctor with Romana #2 and K9
- The Tao Connection: Sarah Jane Smith
An interesting mix covering lots of topics with several temptations. A churl might mention that Shada is always £5 and the CC’s with series pricing are not a lot more, however as a range of temptations that will be around until the end of August I think Big Finish should be congratulated.
Roll on the Summer Sale!
Klein Trilogy Sale May 2012
81 year ago
So for one weekend (May 26-27 2012) we have a special offer from Big Finish to get the Klein Trilogy for £9 each or £25 the lot. The link is here (link now removed as offer ended) but the question is - should you get this?
The offer coincides with the transmission on Radio 4 Extra ( a UK station) of the episodes though in abridged form. The real question (for those in the UK) is edited version for free or full versions (with CD if wanted) for £25. To help think that through (and I haven’t been listening to the broadcasts) I give some background…
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The Revenants free download
Announced on May 23rd, anyone who gets Doctor Who Magazine #448 gets the code to download a free copy of The Revenants a Companion Chronicles adventure. It features Ian Chesterton and at that price what are you waiting for?! Which is nice! Update - September 2013 - if you missed this it will also be available on the extended version of Light at the End.
Are we ever going to fall-out with Torchwood?
01 year ago
Set after Miracle Day I was initially worried as to what this might mean for our intrepid heroes as I am not sure where the show is going to evolve.
The main nod to continuity is that Gwen pops up but is in the US after Miracle Day and in fact more importantly is this is also set after Children of Earth and it is the destruction of the Torchwood Hub that caused an egg-shaped alien artefact to be blown into the Cardiff sky and land in the allotment shed of young Yasmin. What you are asking now is was it any good?
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EDA (Novels) - 13 to 24
01 year ago
I have been reading the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the series of spin-off novels produced by the BBC that ran from 1997 to 2005. I have decided to produce some micro-reviews as I go through mostly so I remember what I thoughts as I read them, there being no real chance I will ever be able to tell them apart by the time I reach #73! Once I reach the end of the Samantha Jones arc I may well allow myself the space to think about her in the round.
I have decided to review them in dozens as that seems an appropriate level of chunkiness; the first dozen were reviewed here. Without further ado here are The Placebo Effect through to Autumn Mist.
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Voyages with the Sixth Doctor!
We now know that the two specials featuring the Sixth Doctor will be November’s Voyage to Venus and December’s Voyage to the New World. The names alone conjure up (to me) the dark novels of CS Lewis (Perelandra aka Voyage to Venus) and I am really looking forward to these.
The astonishing experimental price (£5 each in advance or £1 download) or even bundled into the 2012 specials make these a must purchase. They also feature Jago and Litefoot so might finally tip me into collecting that range as well!
For now feast your eyes on the art work
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