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Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this time, we ve got three Season 6-era stories and one yarn from Season 4 and one Continue reading Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 2
When Virgin lost the licence to do Doctor Who novels, that could have been it editor Rebecca Levene could have wound things down and let the line die. That, however, wasn t the path that Virgin took. After all, the whole reason the BBC wanted to take back the licence was that the novel line Continue reading Doctor Who By Other Means: The Benny New Adventures, Part 1
It s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review of their Eighth Doctor Adventures line, the novel landscape for the BBC Books-led fraction of the Wilderness Continue reading The BBC Past Doctor Adventures: From Neptune To London
Time once again to check in on Big Finish s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjoyed a set of four Companion Chronicles split evenly between those featuring the original TARDIS crew of the Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara, and those featuring Sara Kingdom, the latter using a rather Continue reading Doctor Who: Speak Up, Chesterfield! – The First Doctor Audios,…
Now that I ve put the New Adventures (bar for the Benny-led ones), Missing Adventures, and the Doctor-featuring Decalogs to bed and put the Virgin Books era of official Doctor Who fiction behind me, it s time to move on to the BBC Books-led era of Wilderness Years novels. Before I get into this, a word on Continue reading The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: From an Eightfold Reunion To a Retcon War
Last time we checked in on the Doctor Who Magazine comics continuity, we took in the first half or so of the Eighth Doctor s tenure in the comics. This was an era of long, ambitious story arcs which saw the comics giving the concurrently-running BBC Books novel line a run for its money; we left Continue reading Doctor Who Comics: The Eighth Doctor (Part 2)
The story so far: after Doctor Who s 2005 return was a storming success, BBC Radio 7 (and its successor station BBC 4 Extra) decided they want to get in on that sweet TARDIS action, and struck a deal with Big Finish to produce a season of stories featuring Paul McGann s Eighth Doctor, as honed during Continue reading Doctor Who: Sounds of the Eighth Legacy, Part 5
As I ve repeatedly said over the course of this series, Sylvester McCoy really had the least to prove out of any of the original wave of Big Finish Doctors his run wasn t cut as absurdly short as Paul McGann s, or as horribly mismanaged as Colin Baker s, or as hit and miss as Peter Davison s. Continue reading Doctor Who: Seven s Sonic Seasons, Part 9
The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who were a game of two halves, with the TV movie marking half time. In the first half, the Seventh Doctor enjoyed a continued incumbency, even though Sylvester McCoy wasn t getting much regular work out of that status; Continue reading Doctor Who Comics: The Eighth Doctor (Part 1)
As an onboard medic with a major French merchant shipping company, Doctor Bataille had the opportunity to see the world and meet a range of fascinating people. One regular passenger of his was an Italian silk merchant by the name of Carbuccia, who Bataille had always thought of as being an accident-prone but basically harmless Continue reading Palladian Rhapsody: The Return of Léo Taxil