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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 29, 2016 5:27:47 GMT
The Dalek Generation: The Dalek Generation is a novel published in April 2013. Featuring the Eleventh Doctor travelling on his own sometime before he meets modern day Clara in The Bells of Saint John. Written by the voice of the Daleks himself Nick Briggs. The Doctor comes to Sunlight 349 where it is ruled by the Daleks as benevolent rulers. Of course the Doctor they are not what the Daleks are not what they seemed to be. Briggs wrote an enjoyable Dalek tale which include the Dalek Time Controller whom he had introduced on Big Finish. The children that the Doctor meets here makes for good stand-in companions and heartwarming and a bit sad of the ending.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 30, 2016 0:20:19 GMT
Lethbridge-Stewart: The Black Eggs of Khufu: Read Lethbridge-Stewart: The Black Eggs of Khufu from a free download: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7184308/Lethbridge-Stewart_Free_Download_The_Black_Eggs_Of_Khufu.pdf
Intriguing story which involved the said black eggs.
Exciting setting of the pyramids in Egypt.
Cute in-joke about a fez and on Lethbridge-Stewart thinking how it would of use to a certain old friend of his.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 1:23:56 GMT
Torchwood: Consequences
The Wrong Hands:
Third story.
Written by Andrew Cartmel .
Cartmel was the last script editor of "classic" Doctor Who.
In fact perhaps showing that he is not far from his Doctor Who memories, The Wrong Hands has Jack thinking Gwen was talking about the Doctor when she actually meant a GP.
Cartmel provides an enjoyable tale that involves an alien weapon, a baby seeking love and a teenage gang.
Gwen takes care of the said baby and The Wrong Hands being part of Consequences was released in October 2009, three months after Children of Earth where it was revealed that Gwen had become pregnant but we would not meet her daughter until Miracle Day in 2011.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 3:57:00 GMT
The Peterloo Massacre: The Peterloo Massacre is an audio story featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan. Written by Paul Magrs and directed by Jamie Anderson and released by Big Finish Productions in March 2016. It is the last in the 2016 trilogy featuring this TARDIS crew. Notwithstanding that The Peterloo Massacre was a real world event, this fittingly starred Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. Intriguing the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan coming to the historical setting of this story.
Of the guest characters I certainly did not take a liking to Mrs Hurley due to her misinterpreting what Nyssa was telling her in a conversation.
Enthralling cliffhanger of the first episode with the Doctor realising when they are and what is about to come.
The rest of the story maintained the sombre atmosphere of it as the said massacre comes and the immediate aftermath of it. The revelation of Peter, the brother of servant Cathy was certainly akin to a certain revelation to the 2005 TV episode The Doctor Dances. I already had a disliking to Mrs Hurley in the first episode and by the time of the concluding episode I found her to be much more unpleasant. She reminded me of Maria Kanakis, my old Year 10 History teacher who was just as stuffy as Mrs Hurley. A gripping story which worked by the effect of the said event that occurred and as the Doctor says it would bring about the changes to the world to come.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 4:16:37 GMT
We Are The Daleks: We Are The Daleks featuring the Seventh Doctor and Mel is an audio story from Big Finish Productions and released in July 2015.
It is the first of the 2015 trilogy with the Seventh Doctor and Mel. Written by Jonathan Morris, We Are The Daleks has Morris placing the Seventh Doctor and Mel in London of 1987.
It is a fascinating story on the Daleks teaming up with media mogul Alek Zenos in controlling the economy as part of their latest invasion plans.
Also fascinating how the Daleks use the computer game Warfleet as the key part of their plans and it is very The Last Starfighter.
A well played out premise of a story and the ending sure left things open-ended.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 5:56:41 GMT
The Companions Chronicles: Tales From the Vault:
Tales from the Vault opens the sixth season of The Companion Chronicles.
Written by Jonathan Morris and released by Big Finish Productions in July 2011. It introduced Captain Ruth Matheson and Warrant Officer Charlie Sato from UNIT played respectively by the 1996 TV movie companion actors Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso.
This is not their first Big Finish but it is the first time that they worked together on Big Finish. Neither of them could reprise their characters from the TV movie due to rights issues with it and hence why they are playing new characters here.
The premise has Charlie Sato, a new recruit to UNIT being shown the Vault by Captain Matheson. The Vault stores artefacts left behind by the Doctor's adventures on Earth. During this story Sato and Matheson played accounts made by companions Steven, Zoe, Jo and Romana I. Sadly this would turn out to be the final performance by Mary Tamm as Romana I before her death in on July 24 2012.
Fascinating how this story got structured and the accounts by the said companions got played out here culminating in the entrance of the villain Kali Carash. Impressive story telling with this story structure.
Incidentally Sato and Matheson are also names of characters from Torchwood, a secret organisation like UNIT.
Just as UNIT had Charlie Sato and Ruth Matheson, Torchwood had Toshiko Sato and Rex Matheson.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 8:47:01 GMT
Last of the Cybermen: Last of the Cybermen is an audio story featuring the Sixth Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
Written by Alan Barnes, it was released by Big Finish Productions in May 2015.
This is the second in the Locum Doctors trilogy.
In this story the Sixth Doctor switches places with the Second hence why Sixie is with Jamie and Zoe in this story.
Fascinating story especially with a Cyberman calling himself Lanky!
Interesting when Zennox told Zoe that the former was a member of the Brotherhood of Logicians and the Doctor and Jamie had met members of this brotherhood in The Tomb of the Cybermen a story that predates Zoe's adventures with the Doctor and Jamie.
Certainly a highlight was when Zoe became the Cyber Planner in this solid Cybermen story.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 9:40:02 GMT
You Are The Doctor And Other Stories
Come Die With Me: Second story in the You Are The Doctor And Other Stories. Written by Jamie Anderson. Guest stars SJA alum Juliet Cowan (Chrissie). Here she plays housekeeper Mrs Bryer. The Doctor and Ace arrived at a haunted house and certain shades of Ghost Light especially with Ace giving a reminder of how much she does not like haunted house. A very good mystery about the house with a very good villain in Norris. While many fans disliked her as Chrissie in SJA, Juliet Cowan was certainly very good and very sincere as Mrs Bryer and made for a good supporting character of this story. __________________
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 24, 2016 9:40:21 GMT
Last of the Colophon: Last of the Colophon is the fifth story of the third season of The Fourth Doctor Adventures. Also featuring Leela. Written by Jonathan Morris, directed by Nick Briggs and released in May 2014. Guest stars Blake's 7 legend Gareth Thomas as the villain Morax.
Thomas had made previous Big Finish appearances both in Doctor Who and reprising Roj Blake for the Blake's 7 range.
With Last of the Colophon he gets to work with Fourth Doctor Tom Baker and Thomas had played Blake in the Blake's 7 TV series during the Fourth Doctor's original TV run.
Last of the Colophon would prove to be Thomas' last Doctor Who Big Finish work as he died recently on April 13 2016.
An enthralling story and Thomas as Morax makes for a very good villain against Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor.
The story ends with the Doctor saying a pun to the adventure they just had.
In Memory of Gareth Thomas
1945-2016
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 25, 2016 4:21:09 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 1, 2016 8:10:03 GMT
Vampire Science: Vampire Science is the second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor series. Also featuring Sam Jones. Written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman. Released in July 1997. This is a book that I long wanted to read and I am glad I finally rectified in the reading of this book recently. I was surprised to discover that one of the characters here General Kramer had previously appeared in the fan video Time Rift where he met the Seventh Doctor and Ace and the Doctor was played by Vampire Science co-author Jonathan Blum. As it says in the title Vampire Science featured vampires and fascinating that this story begins in San Francisco in 1976 and then jumping to 1997. The one person who met the Doctor and Sam in both of these years was Carolyn and who has lived through these intervening years. From their exciting introductory sequence in 1976 before eventually leading to the climax in 1997, the vampires are very good villains in this story. The end of the novel certainly poses an interesting of what is to become of one of the vampires.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 14, 2016 22:58:17 GMT
The Diary of River Song: I Went To A Marvellous Party: I Went To A Marvellous Party is the second episode of The Diary of River Song. Written by Justin Richards. River comes to a party that has gone for a number of years when she stumbled upon a murder mystery. This is a rather enjoyable murder mystery plus it gave an indication that River was about to meet with someone that she and we are familiar with but not as familiar as we think he is
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 14, 2016 22:59:28 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 15, 2016 0:25:59 GMT
Little Rose Riding Hood: Little Rose Riding Hood is a story in Time Lord Fairy Tales.
As indicated on the title this is based on Little Red Riding Hood and it is told around Rose’s first meeting with the Ninth Doctor.
Listened to the audiobook of this story which was read by The Crimson Horror guest star Rachael Stirling. The choice of Rachael Stirling as the narrator of this story may have something to do with the fact that she herself was suggested to play Rose before it was ultimately given to Billie Piper.
Fascinating retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story and in retrospective now it seemed obvious what the fake grandma turned out to be.
Very good description of how the TARDIS dematerialised at the end.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 15, 2016 1:53:24 GMT
The Bride of Peladon: The Bride of Peladon is an audio story featuring the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem.
Written and directed by Barnaby Edwards and released by Big Finish Productions in January 2008.
The Bride of Peladon is a sequel to the two Peladon stories of the TV series and like those TV stories, The Bride of Peladon featured Alpha Centauri.
However whereas Alpha Centauri was voiced in the said TV stories by Ysanne Churchman, Alpha Centauri is played in The Bride of Peladon by Jane Goddard.
Despite Alpha Centauri being played by a different person, Goddard mimics perfectly Alpha Centauri's voice from that of her said TV stories predecessor Churchman.
Other guest stars includes Phyllida Law, Jenny Agutter, Christian Coulson, Yasmin Bannerman and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Law, Bannerman and Brodie-Sangster have all appeared in the NuWhoniverse.
As with the Peladon TV stories, The Bride of Peladon featured the Ice Warriors and Nick Briggs plays one of them Zixlyr. Briggs would get to play an Ice Warrior in the TV series in Cold War.
Bannerman would later play companion Roz Forrester in the Big Finish adaptation of the novel Damaged Goods. The Bride of Peladon is a very good sequel to the TV Peladon stories as it presented a good reminder of the political intrigues that goes on in this planet. Jenny Agutter is especially very good as the mysterious and villainous Voice and fascinating on the history of the Voice. The Bride of Peladon marked Erimem's departure due to her marrying a king. Funny that the story of Peri saying that when she leaves the Doctor it would not be because of her marrying a king. Yeah right.
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