Archive for October, 2012
Midnight in the museum of terrors!
011 months ago
The sixth series of Big Finish Companion Chronicles kicked off with Tales from the Vault by Jonathan Morris and directed by Lisa Bowerman. This release is worthy of note for two particular reasons: firstly, the narrative characters are played by Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso who were in the Eighth Doctor TV episode The Movie; and secondly, it is told as a set of four very short tales that link together at the end.
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Comfort and Joy in the jungles of Venus
011 months ago
As part of the Doctor Special Releases for 2012, Big Finish have included a whole range of titles for all tastes and pockets. Released in October, a whole month early, is the Jonathan Morris story Voyage to Venus which is the first of two single disc tales for the Sixth Doctor plus Jago and Litefoot. Maybe we’ll get more next year?
This story apparently fits straight in after the fourth J&L boxset; I haven’t heard that but I was certainly not hampered in my enjoyment. How was this Ken Bentley directed story? Why not read on for my review…
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Cuddlesome on SoundCloud
012 months ago
You may or may not know but Big Finish have start dabbling with the use of SoundCloud. At the moment (October 2012) it is mostly for podcasts but they have posted one of the free podcasts that were on the main website in August 2011.
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UNIT: Dominion - a review
212 months ago
It’s finally here (as of October 23rd 2012), the first of the Doctor Who Special Releases, UNIT: Dominion. This Nick Briggs written and directed story (co-written with Jason Arnopp) features the Seventh Doctor and Raine along with a much welcomed return for Klein. This along with many new UNIT faces, some new monsters, multi-dimensional mischief and a the Other Doctor from the future is a rocking four disc story with a fifth disc packed full of extras.
I review it after listening to each disc so there are spoilers (but not the big ones) and also partly-informed opinions.
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BBC Webcasts
012 months ago
If you scout around the more obscure parts of the BBC Doctor Who website, you might stumble upon some old webcasts for classic Who. These pre-date the re-launch and I have no idea how long they might be available (other things have vanished in the past).
Available for your delectation are:
- Scream of the Shalka: Richard E Grant as the Doctor
- Shada: re-cut for the Eighth Doctor and not identical to the Big Finish release
- Real Time: a cyberman tale for Evelyn and the Sixth Doctor. The December 2002 Christmas bonus release was a CD version of this.
Advent of Fear - a review
012 months ago
Another free short story available from the BBC Doctor Who site (so why haven’t you downloaded it yet?!) and again it is a Mark B. Oliver tale set around Christmas, this one called Advent of Fear.
Of the three I have read so far (Snowfall and Attack of the Snowmen included) this is my favourite for a number of reasons outlined below
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Ian Levine’s Dalek Master Plan
41 year ago
And now for something completely different - a project to produce something that might be truly wonderful, Ian Levine’s proposal for an animated Dalek Master Plan. I shamelessly lifted the gorgeous picture of Hartnell as the First Doctor from a posting on this topic on the JR Southall blog ‘Watching Doctor Who‘.
As JR’s post covers, Ian is looking for a source of funds for this - maybe anyone reading this who scoops a lottery jackpot might see this as a worthwhile investment?
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