Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Big Finish Audio Drama of the Week - Week 3 - The Diary of River Song - Series 1!

This weeks Audio Drama of the week is actually a recently released box set about The Doctor's adventurous wife, Professor River Song.  The box set contains four stories.

Synopses:

1.1 The Boundless Sea by Jenny T Colgan

River Song has had more than enough excitement for a while. Deciding the universe – and her husband – can look after themselves, she has immersed herself in early 20th century academia, absorbed in writing archaeological theses.
But when a mysterious tomb is found in a dry, distant land, excitement comes looking for River.
Can Professor Song stop any more members of the expedition from dying? What deadly secrets lie buried within the crypt? And will British Consul Bertie Potts prove to be a help, or a hindrance?

1.2 I Went to a Marvellous Party by Justin Richards

River Song always enjoys a good party, even when she’s not entirely sure where or when the party is taking place. But the party she ends up at is one where not everything – or indeed everyone – is what it seems…
Being River, it doesn’t take her too long to go exploring, and it doesn’t take her too long to get into trouble. The sort of trouble that involves manipulating other civilisations, exploitation, and of course murder.
River is confident she can find the killer. But can she identify them before anyone else – or quite possibly everyone else – gets killed?

1.3 Signs by James Goss

River Song is on the trail of the mysterious, planet-killing SporeShips.
Nobody knows where they come from. Nobody knows why they are here. All they do know is that wherever the SporeShips appear, whole civilisations are reduced to mulch.
But River has help. Her companion is a handsome time-travelling stranger, someone with specialist knowledge of the oddities and dangers the universe has to offer. For Mr Song has a connection to River’s future, and he would never want his wife to face those perils alone…

1.4 The Rulers of the Universe by Matt Fitton
 
As shocking secrets are exposed, and a grand plan for the universe is revealed, River decides it’s time she took control of events once and for all.
Out in deep space, a clandestine society faces off with an ancient and powerful alien force – but, for River, there’s an added complication.
The Eighth Doctor has been caught in the middle, and she must make sure her future husband can arrive at his own destiny with all his memories – not to mention his lives - intact…


 
 
 
 


Reasoning - IT'S RIVER SONG, WHY NOT!!!

Friday, January 22, 2016

A Message to Big Finish Productions

Dear Big Finish Productions,

     I have been a huge fan of your audio dramas for a very long time and listen to at least one of your audio dramas every day.  I am sending you this message to let you know that if you are ever in need of any ideas for future audio dramas, I have got a few suggestions that I think you will like and would appreciate it if you let me know if you like this plan.

Sincerely,

Doctor Who Big Finish Reviews

Thursday, January 21, 2016

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Big Finish Audio Drama of the Week - Week 2 - Animal by: Andrew Cartmel

Synopsis - Margrave University in 2001, and Raine Creevy is enjoying her first trip into the future.
For the Doctor, there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student Scobie and his followers?
With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend Brigadier Bambera and the forces of UNIT in a battle for the future of the whole world.

 
 
 Reasoning - I chose this audio drama because this audio in particular really exposes the "Cartmel Masterplan", being written by Andrew Cartmel himself.  In this drama, the side of the Seventh Doctor that the masterplan proposed shines with a more darker and mysterious essence.  Brigadier Winifred Bambera returns in this audio portrayed by the one and only Angela Bruce.  I recommend this audio drama to anyone who is a fan of Battlefield, the Seventh Doctor, or the Cartmel Masterplan.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Big Finish Audio Drama of the Week - Week 1 - Planet of the Rani by: Marc Platt

The first Big Finish Audio Drama of the Week is "Planet of the Rani" by: Marc Platt.  Every week, an audio drama or audio drama box-set will be chosen as Audio Drama of the Week.

Synopsis - Miasimia Goria was a quiet planet, an ancient world of bucolic tranquillity… until the Rani arrived with ideas of her own.
She planned to create a race of new gods… gods that she could keep on her leash, but those plans went horribly wrong.
Now, she languishes in the high security of Teccaurora Penitentiary, consigned there by her arch enemy and old student colleague, the Doctor.
But the Rani, always resourceful, ever calculating, knows things about the Doctor’s past that he would rather forget. She wants revenge, even if it takes a hundred years… and then she has other unfinished business.
The ruins of Miasimia Goria await…


Reasoning - I chose this audio drama because I am a huge fan of the Siobhan Redmond incarnation of The Rani.  I like the dynamic between The Rani and the Doctor and the relationship between The Sixth Doctor and his companion Constance Clarke.  The story is gripping and I recommend this story to anyone that is a fan of the Sixth Doctor era and a fan of The Rani.

Chronological Order for the Eighth Doctor

Here is the Chronological Order for the Eighth Doctor as played by Paul McGann.  To find out more about the chronological order, see the "Chronological Order for the Fifth Doctor" post.

Doctor Who - The Movie
Doctor Who - The Company of Friends: Benny's Story
Doctor Who - The Company of Friends: Fitz's Story
Doctor Who - The Company of Friends: Izzy's Story
Doctor Who - The Company of Friends: Mary's Story
Doctor Who - The Silver Turk
Doctor Who - The Witch from the Well
Doctor Who - Army of Death
Doctor Who - Shada
Doctor Who - Storm Warning
Doctor Who - Sword of Orion
Doctor Who - The Stones of Venice
Doctor Who - Minuet in Hell
Doctor Who - Invaders from Mars
Doctor Who - The Chimes of Midnight
Doctor Who - Living Legend
Doctor Who - Seasons of Fear
Doctor Who - Embrace the Darkness
Doctor Who - The Time of the Daleks
Doctor Who - Neverland
Doctor Who - Zagreus
Doctor Who - Scherzo
Doctor Who - The Creed of the Kromon
Doctor Who - The Natural History of Fear
Doctor Who - The Twilight Kingdom
Doctor Who - Faith Stealer
Doctor Who - The Last
Doctor Who - Caerdroia
Doctor Who - The Next Life
Doctor Who - Terror Firma
Doctor Who - Scaredy Cat
Doctor Who - Other Lives
Doctor Who - Time Works
Doctor Who - Something Inside
Doctor Who - Memory Lane
Doctor Who - Absolution
Doctor Who - The Girl Who Never Was
Doctor Who - Blood of the Daleks Part 1
Doctor Who - Blood of the Daleks Part 2
Doctor Who - Horror of Glam Rock
Doctor Who - Immortal Beloved
Doctor Who - Phobos
Doctor Who - No More Lies
Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 1
Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 2
Doctor Who - Dead London
Doctor Who - Max Warp
Doctor Who - Brave New Town
Doctor Who - The Skull of Sobek
Doctor Who - Grand Theft Cosmos
Doctor Who - The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
Doctor Who - Sisters of the Flame
Doctor Who - The Vengeance of Morbius
Doctor Who - Orbis
Doctor Who - Hothouse
Doctor Who - The Beast of Orlok
Doctor Who - Wirrn Dawn
Doctor Who - The Scapegoat
Doctor Who - The Cannibalists
Doctor Who - The Eight Truths
Doctor Who - Worldwide Web
Doctor Who - Death in Blackpool
Doctor Who - An Earthly Child
Doctor Who - Situation Vacant
Doctor Who - Nevermore
Doctor Who - The Book of Kells
Doctor Who - Deimos
Doctor Who - The Resurrection of Mars
Doctor Who - Relative Dimensions
Doctor Who - The Four Doctors
Doctor Who - Prisoner of the Sun
Doctor Who - Lucie Miller
Doctor Who - To the Death
Doctor Who - The Great War
Doctor Who - Fugitives
Doctor Who - Tangled Web
Doctor Who - X and the Daleks

Chronological Order for the Seventh Doctor

Here is the Chronological Order for the Seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy.  To find out more about chronological order, see "Chronological Order for the Fifth Doctor" post.

Doctor Who - Time and the Rani
Doctor Who - Unregenerate!
Doctor Who - Red

Doctor Who - Paradise Towers
Doctor Who - Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
Doctor Who - Flip-Flop

Doctor Who - Delta and the Bannermen
Doctor Who - The Fires of Vulcan
Doctor Who - Dragonfire
Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol
Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis
Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Doctor Who - Battlefield
Doctor Who - Ghost Light
Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric
Doctor Who - Survival

Doctor Who - Thin Ice
Doctor Who - Crime of the Century
Doctor Who - Animal
Doctor Who - Earth Aid
Doctor Who - The Fearmonger
Doctor Who - The Genocide Machine
Doctor Who - Dust Breeding
Doctor Who - Colditz
Doctor Who - The Rapture
Doctor Who - The Harvest
Doctor Who - The Veiled Leopard (Part Two)
Doctor Who - Dreamtime
Doctor Who - LIVE 34
Doctor Who - Night Thoughts
Doctor Who - The Settling
Doctor Who - No Man's Land
Doctor Who - Nocturne
Doctor Who - The Dark Husband
Doctor Who - Forty-Five: False Gods
Doctor Who - Forty-Five: Order of Simplicity
Doctor Who - Forty-Five: Casualties of War
Doctor Who - Forty-Five: The Word Lord
Doctor Who - The Magic Mousetrap
Doctor Who - Enemy of the Daleks
Doctor Who - The Angel of Scutari
Doctor Who - Project: Destiny
Doctor Who - A Death in the Family
Doctor Who - Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
Doctor Who - Robophobia
Doctor Who - The Doomsday Quatrain
Doctor Who - House of Blue Fire
Doctor Who - Protect and Survive
Doctor Who - Black and White
Doctor Who - Gods and Monsters
Doctor Who - Last of the Titans
Doctor Who - Excelis Decays
Doctor Who - Project: Lazarus (Parts Three & Four)
Doctor Who - Master
Doctor Who - The Sirens of Time
Doctor Who - Valhalla
Doctor Who - Frozen Time
Doctor Who - The Death Collectors
Doctor Who - Spider's Shadow
Doctor Who - Kingdom of Silver
Doctor Who - Keepsake
Doctor Who - A Thousand Tiny Wings
Doctor Who - Klein's Story
Doctor Who - Survival of the Fittest
Doctor Who - The Architects of History
Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion Part One
Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion Part Two
Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion Part Three
Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion Part Four
Doctor Who - The Shadow Heart

Chronological Order for the Sixth Doctor

Here is the Chronological order for the Sixth Doctor audio dramas.  The Sixth Doctor is played by Colin Baker.  To know more about the chronological order, see the "Chronological Order for the Fifth Doctor" post.

Doctor Who - The Twin Dilemma Doctor Who - Attack of the Cybermen
Doctor Who - Vengeance on Varos
Doctor Who - The Mark of the Rani
Doctor Who - The Two Doctors

Doctor Who - Davros
Doctor Who - Cryptobiosis

Doctor Who - Timelash
Doctor Who - Year of the Pig
Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks
Doctor Who - The Nightmare Fair
Doctor Who - Mission to Magnus
Doctor Who - Leviathan
Doctor Who - The Hollows of Time
Doctor Who - Paradise 5
Doctor Who - Point of Entry
Doctor Who - The Song of Megaptera
Doctor Who - The Macros
Doctor Who - The Guardians of Prophecy
Doctor Who - Power Play
Doctor Who - The First Sontarans
Doctor Who - Whispers of Terror
Doctor Who - ...ish
Doctor Who - The Reaping
Doctor Who - Recorded Time
Doctor Who - Paradoxicide
Doctor Who - A Most Excellent Match
Doctor Who - Question Marks

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe

Doctor Who - The Wormery
Doctor Who - Excelis Rising
Doctor Who - The Maltese Penguin
Doctor Who - The Holy Terror
Doctor Who - Her Final Flight
Doctor Who - I.D.
Doctor Who - Urgent Calls
Doctor Who - The Acheron Pulse
Doctor Who - The Marian Conspiracy
Doctor Who - The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
Doctor Who - The Apocalypse Element
Doctor Who - Bloodtide
Doctor Who - Project: Twilight
Doctor Who - The Sandman
Doctor Who - Jubilee
Doctor Who and the Pirates
Doctor Who - Real Time
Doctor Who - Project: Lazarus (Parts One & Two)
Doctor Who - Arrangements for War
Doctor Who - Medicinal Purposes
Doctor Who - Pier Pressure
Doctor Who - The Nowhere Place
Doctor Who - 100: 100BC
Doctor Who - 100: My Own Private Wolfgang
Doctor Who - 100: Bedtime Story
Doctor Who - 100: 100 Days of the Doctor
Doctor Who - Assassin in the Limelight
Doctor Who - The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
Doctor Who - The Feast of Axos
Doctor Who - Industrial Evolution
Doctor Who - The Curse of Davros
Doctor Who - The Fourth Wall
Doctor Who - Wirrn Isle
Doctor Who - The Condemned
Doctor Who - The Doomwood Curse
Doctor Who - Brotherhood of the Daleks
Doctor Who - Return of the Krotons
Doctor Who - The Raincloud Man
Doctor Who - Patient Zero
Doctor Who - Paper Cuts
Doctor Who - Blue Forgotten Planet
Doctor Who - City of Spires
Doctor Who - The Wreck of the Titan
Doctor Who - Legend of the Cybermen
Doctor Who - The Wrong Doctors
Doctor Who - The One Doctor
Doctor Who - Juggernauts
Doctor Who - Catch-1782
Doctor Who - Thicker Than Water
Doctor Who - The Wishing Beast
Doctor Who - The Vanity Box
Doctor Who - Spaceport Fear
Doctor Who - The Seeds of War

Big Finish Chronological Order for the Fifth Doctor

Understand that the release order of the audio drama is not the chronological order.  Here is a list that I found on a closed forum on the Big Finish website that helps listeners to organize their collection in timeline order.  This can be done by referencing other audio dramas as an event that has already happened but has or has not been released yet.  This list is for the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison and his Companions from across his timeline. the titles in red are the episodes of the television show with the blue being the Big Finish audio dramas.

Doctor Who - Castrovalva Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday
Doctor Who - Kinda
Doctor Who - The Visitation
Doctor Who - Black Orchid
Doctor Who - Earthshock
Doctor Who - Time-Flight

Doctor Who - The Land of the Dead
Doctor Who - Winter for the Adept
Doctor Who - The Mutant Phase
Doctor Who - Primeval
Doctor Who - Spare Parts
Doctor Who - Creatures of Beauty
Doctor Who - The Game
Doctor Who - Renaissance of the Daleks
Doctor Who - Return to the Web Planet
Doctor Who - The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
Doctor Who - The Boy That Time Forgot
Doctor Who - Time Reef
Doctor Who - A Perfect World
Doctor Who - Castle of Fear
Doctor Who - The Eternal Summer
Doctor Who - Plague of the Daleks
Doctor Who - The Demons of Red Lodge
Doctor Who - The Entropy Composition
Doctor Who - Doing Time
Doctor Who - Special Features
Doctor Who - 1001 Nights

Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who - Omega
Doctor Who - The Burning Prince
Doctor Who - The Elite
Doctor Who - Hexagora
Doctor Who - The Children of Seth

Doctor Who - Snakedance
Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead
Doctor Who - Terminus
Doctor Who - Enlightenment

Doctor Who - Cobwebs
Doctor Who - The Whispering Forest
Doctor Who - The Cradle of the Snake
Doctor Who - Heroes of Sontar
Doctor Who - Kiss of Death
Doctor Who - Rat Trap
Doctor Who - The Emerald Tiger
Doctor Who - The Jupiter Conjunction
Doctor Who - The Butcher of Brisbane
Doctor Who - Eldrad Must Die!

Doctor Who - The King's Demons
Doctor Who - The Five Doctors

Doctor Who - The Five Companions
Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep
Doctor Who - The Awakening
Doctor Who - Frontios

Doctor Who - Excelis Dawns
Doctor Who - Resurrection of the Daleks
Doctor Who - Phantasmagoria
Doctor Who - Loups-Garoux
Doctor Who - Singularity

Doctor Who - Planet of Fire
Doctor Who - Red Dawn
Doctor Who - Exotron
Doctor Who - Urban Myths
Doctor Who - The Eye of the Scorpion
Doctor Who - The Church and the Crown
Doctor Who - No Place Like Home
Doctor Who - Nekromanteia
Doctor Who - The Axis of Insanity
Doctor Who - The Roof of the World
Doctor Who - Three's a Crowd
Doctor Who - The Council of Nicaea
Doctor Who - The Kingmaker
Doctor Who - The Gathering
Doctor Who - The Veiled Leopard (Part One)
Doctor Who - Son of the Dragon
Doctor Who - The Mind's Eye
Doctor Who - The Bride of Peladon
Doctor Who - Mission of the Viyrans
Doctor Who - The Key 2 Time: The Judgement of Isskar
Doctor Who - The Key 2 Time: The Destroyer of Delights
Doctor Who - The Key 2 Time: The Chaos Pool

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani

What is Big Finish Production

Big Finish Productions is a company based in the United Kingdom that is most known for releasing audio dramas from Doctor Who and it's most notable spin-off (a series that is set in the same universe as the main show with one or more characters from the original show) Jago and Litefoot.  Doctor Who audio dramas are released individually and in box-sets.  These releases are in many different categories and of many different story types.  These audios can be found on www.bigfinish.com.

Doctor Who Big Finish Review Introduction and Review Requests


Below is the audio dramas that I own that are made by Big Finish Productions.  Big Finish Productions is known for their Doctor Who, Bernice Summerfield, and Jago and Litefoot ranges.  Let me know what you want me to review and comment on recommendations and requests.

 

Jago and Litefoot – The Mahogany Murderers

Jago and Litefoot – Series 1

Jago and Litefoot – Series 2

Jago and Litefoot – Series 3

Jago and Litefoot – Series 4

Jago and Litefoot – Voyage to Venus

Jago and Litefoot – Voyage to the New World

Jago and Litefoot – Series 5

Jago and Litefoot – Series 6

 

Doctor Who – The Yes Men

Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Boxset (Psychodrome & Iterations of I)

Doctor Who – The Nightmare Fair

Doctor Who – The Wormery

Doctor Who – Trial of the Valeyard

Doctor Who – The Maltese Penguin

Doctor Who – Pier Pressure

Doctor Who – 100

Doctor Who – The Condemned

Doctor Who – The Widow’s Assassin

Doctor Who – Masters of Earth

Doctor Who – The Rani Elite

Doctor Who - Criss-Cross

Doctor Who – Planet of the Rani

Doctor Who – Thicker than Water

Doctor Who – The Juggernauts

Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor – The Last Adventure

Doctor Who – We Are The Daleks

Doctor Who – Crime of the Century

Doctor Who – No Man’s Land

Doctor Who – The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield – Volume 1

Doctor Who – The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield – Volume 2 – The Triumph of Sutekh

Doctor Who – Theatre of War

Doctor Who – Damaged Goods

Doctor Who – UNIT Dominion

Doctor Who – The Company of Friends

Doctor Who – The Silver Turk

Doctor Who – Embrace the Darkness

Doctor Who – Scherzo

Doctor Who – The Twilight Kingdom

Doctor Who – Faith Stealer

Doctor Who – The Next Life

Doctor Who – Terror Firma

Doctor Who – Other Lives

Doctor Who – The Girl Who Never Was

Doctor Who – Blood of the Daleks

Doctor Who – Horror of Glam Rock

Doctor Who – Immortal Beloved

Doctor Who – Phobos

Doctor Who – No More Lies

Doctor Who – Human Resources

Doctor Who – Dead London

Doctor Who – Max Warp

Doctor Who – Brave New Town

Doctor Who – The Skull of Sobek

Doctor Who – Grand Theft Cosmos

Doctor Who – The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

Doctor Who – Sisters of the Flame

Doctor Who – The Vengeance of Morbius

Doctor Who – Orbis

Doctor Who – Hothouse

Doctor Who – The Beast of Orlok

Doctor Who – Wirrn Dawn

Doctor Who – The Scapegoat

Doctor Who – The Cannibalists

Doctor Who – The Eight Truths

Doctor Who – Situation Vacant

Doctor Who – Lucie Miller

Doctor Who – Dark Eyes 1

Doctor Who – Dark Eyes 2

Doctor Who – Dark Eyes 3

Doctor Who – Dark Eyes 4

Doctor Who – Doom Coalition 1