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2012 - The Story continues…

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I kept a list of my immediate responses to the myriad of Big Finish discs I listened to in both 2010 (here) and 2011 (here). To keep tradition going I continue here and expect this year to be marked by both the addition of the Fourth Doctor and Blake’s 7 (and also Counter: Measures). Who knows! First up I know there will be main range, and the ranges mentioned above. Oh and some specials for the Sixth and Eighth Doctors! I’m excited already and it’s only January 6th! Also there was Davros Day (here)! Following the excellent March releases I invested in some earlier main range titles and also decided to add a best and worst of the year. I then fell for the UNIT: Dominion marketing and invested in the whole specials range.

April saw the relaunched website and another 1-50 sale which allowed me to get another bunch; June a sequence of random-ish two-day sales that got me lots of Companion Chronicles (and then a subscription) as did the DWM #448 special offer. July (thankfully according to my piggy bank!) saw just a solitary extra purchase in the David Tennant sale. Meanwhile in October I popped along to the Cult Publishers Expo and picked up a good handful of titles to plug gaps ahead of imminent releases.

November saw Colin in the Jungle and we ended the year with more solid releases. With the 12 Days of Christmas Sale and other bits there is already a backlog for 2013!

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2013 - the year of the Ice Warriors?

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Having enjoyed the Christmas Special The Snowmen, we now set our sights on the rest of the current season (to appear from April 26th I gather) and the emerging rumours. The one I am most pleased with is that the Mark Gatiss story set on a submarine (to be called The Cold War) will feature the Ice Warriors. This is cited in several places if you search around so I am pretty confident that this might be happening.

In any event I need to make a case for the Ice Warriors who I feel have been short-changed by the Classic series and are overdue another chance at impress.

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The one with (almost) a new companion - The Snowmen reviewed

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Another Christmas and this time (2012) the BBC brought us Steven Moffat’s The Snowmen. Billed as the story that would give the Doctor a new companion in the form of Jenna-Louise Coleman’s Clara and a new TARDIS interior, there was a certain weight of expectation on this episode, especially as we had already met Oswin in the Asylum of the Daleks. That with the various rumours and spoilers already circulating, this had the potential to be great; this also means that for many fans there was the danger that this might be the second turkey of the day.

If you want some spoiler packed option, please read on…

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Lost Stories Series 3 on offer this weekend

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Another December 2012 weekend offer sees the pre-Christmas temptation that is the Lost Stories Series 3 at its pre-release price of £70 for download and £80 for CD. The offer is just for the weekend of December 22nd - 23rd so be quick!

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It is written… 1,001 Nights reviewed

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December 2012 brought us the collection of short stories known as 1,001 Nights. This four story suite features the Fifth Doctor with Nyssa and is has an overall structure to it that makes this rather refreshing compared to other such collections that can be more arbitrary in their linking.

Having set the scene, is it a collection worthy of a sultan’s pleasure or a miserable set of tales a camel would be insulted to be in? Rest assured, dear reader, this is a set of tales worthy of Scheherazade.

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The Child reviewed

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More and more often, as I listen to a recent Companion Chronicle, I become more and more convinced that these are the true gems in the Big Finish Crown. The December 2012 release The Child by Nigel Fairs is one such story. Wonderfully and subtly performed by Louise Jameson and Anna Hawkes this is a work of sublime beauty and I heartily recommend it to any fan. What makes this the case? Read on…

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Snowmen Competition!

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If you pop across to Doctor Who News, you will find details of a competition! What you have to do is guess the number of viewers for The Snowmen to the nearest 10,000 and you can go to the Big Finish studios on January 21st to be at the recording of a Seventh Doctor story.

What a great prize!

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