It’s Saturday teatime in 1977 all over again
Ahead of this afternoon’s (1 Aug 2020, from 4pm UK time) Virtual Big Finish Day, we’ve details of a new companion for the Fourth Doctor, Naomi (Eleanor Crooks) and the return of Harry Sullivan (Chris Naylor). And Sea Devils! All the details so far are below. Rumour has it we may hear from Naomi before…
June the 8th and this week’s free Doctor Who download from Big Finish brings Beep the Meep in an adventure (part one) with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor. Details after the break, including some new low prices on bundles. Meep.
I gave my thoughts on Robert Valentine’s Fourth Doctor story Shadow of the Sun on CultBox. It’s a decent story I’d like to have heard over four parts — not the biggest gripe in the world! Brought forward from 2024 (what’s a little time travel amongst Doctor Who fans?!), it’s entertaining with a serious message.…
Big Finish has released Doctor Who: Shadow of the Sun the first (and surprise extra release) story recorded in lockdown. It’s a Fourth Doctor story with Leela and K9 set on a luxury star-liner that may just be going too close to a nearby star…
Big Finish has complete its first ever full-cast lockdown remote recording audio and it’s due for release in May! Robert Valentine wrote Doctor Who: Shadow of the Sun. It’s a Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9 story. The cast includes Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson and Fenella Woolgar. The full press release is after the…
When you do download the free Cosmic Masque X you’ll find the first article is my review of The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 9. I was rather flattered to see my byline at the front and hope you enjoy the review. *** Message Ends ***
The 2020 batch of Fourth Doctor Adventures comes to a close with Andrew Smith’s Quest of the Engineer. Andrew gets to write for Adric who he first introduced to us in the 1980 story Full Circle. Once more, by the magic of Big Finish, the Fourth Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric are lost in e-Space,…
February 2020 follows on from the previous month’s Purgatory 12 and Chase the Night with another pair of stories, first of which is The Planet of Witches. Writer Alan Barnes puts the Fourth Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 through their paces in a tale of magic and mayhem.
Jonathon Morris’s Chase The Night was released with Purgatory 12, and in some ways follows the same pattern: with exotic world-building and substantial peril but for this release, the focus (if there is one) is Romana. Beyond looking for deep insights (the plague of being a reviewer) Chase The Night is another strong release in…
The 2020 Fourth Doctor Adventures expand the period when the Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric were trapped in e-Space. January gave us two stories each taking two discs – very much the form of four classic TV episodes. First of these is a strong Marc Platt tale – Purgatory 12.
Big Finish has today released the first of two four-disc sets for the Fourth Doctor taking him back to e-Space! That means Romana, K9 and Adric. They’ve also released some details about February’s stories, and of course Adric must surely mean Andrew Smith?!
Big Finish has announced a surprise celebrity casting for January 2020’s Fourth Doctor release Chase the Night. It’s a Jonathan Morris story released as part of The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 09 Volume 1. Jane previously appeared in the Sarah Jane Adventures as Sarah Jane’s childhood friend Andrea Yates.
