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Dalek Empire series, Nicholas Briggs has said that he wants to tell stories set not after Dalek Empire, but during it. With the Daleks’ invasion of the Milky Way taking place over many, many years, Briggs saw the scope to examine all its different angles; to tell tales that dwell not necessarily on the war’s shaping events, but on the men and women whose lives were affected by them. Yet every time a Dalek Empire sequel was announced, listeners’ reactions would always be the same: “what happens next?” It was only when Briggs drove Dalek Empire III to its emphatic ending that he was able to dip back into timeline of his original series and begin his first major digression...

                                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

Every now and again I get an itch to watch every single Doctor Who story, and when I start to scratch it, early classics such as Marco Polo and The Aztecs fuel my desire to see the thing through. Season 2, however, has always given me pause, and no serial more so than The Web Planet – a serial so reviled that it holds the unwelcome distinction of the being the only classic series DVD that I didn’t watch as soon as I’d bought it. This is the story that About Time claims looks like 1920s television. The story where a Zarbi walks straight into the...

                                                           

 

 

 

Tasked with scripting a serial that would see both Turl-ough and Kamelion part ways with the Doctor, the Master killed off “for good”, and a new companion introduced, it isn’t surpris-ing that Peter Grimwade’s Planet of Fire went through countless drafts before going before the cameras. Yet, whilst producer John Nathan Turner’s extensive shopping list...

                                                           

 

 

 

As a rule, I don’t include reviews of individual short st- ories on the site, primarily because it would be something of a nightmare logistically, not to mention disproportionately time-consuming. Museum Peace, however, is probably going to be the only exception that I’ll ever make. With its audio adaptation running for over forty minutes...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

John Dorney’s Solitaire had one of the warmest recept-ions of all the Companion Chronicles. Interestingly though, his second Big Finish release was actually his first script, Solitaire having appeared on the shelves early following a scheduling shake-up. In fact, it had been on the strength of Dorneys Ech-oes of Grey script that his Solitaire commission came about, and so...

                                                           

 

18TH AUGUST 2010

 

 

 

1. Along with the other historicals of the year, it props up Season 2.

 

The Romans is one of those experimental stories that Doctor Who tries out every now and then that actually works. It’s much more akin to the quality of Season 3 than anything else in Doct-or Who’s second season, but I’m glad that it’s where it is becau-se it really boosts the merits of....

                                                           

 

 

 

Doctor Who’s twentieth season drew to a close in Mar-ch 1983 with the broadcast of an outwardly inoffensive little pseudo-historical adventure from the pen of Terence Dudley, The King’s Demons. The run had originally been designed to conclude with Eric Saward’s fiery four-parter The Return, which would have seen the fifth Doctor finally lock horns with...

                                                           

 

 

 

form of an anthology, telling stories set within the timeframe of the first two Dalek Empire series. He even invited the likes of Clayton Hickman and Robert Shearman to pitch story ideas, only to be flummoxed when they told him that they didn’t really want to revisit the first two series; they wanted to find out what happened next. He was then even more astounded when they told him that they didn’t want to write Dalek Empire III – they wanted to hear it.  So began Nicholas Briggs’ Dalek Empire III...

                                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

Whilst the debut of an audio-exclusive companion is now a far more regular occurrence than it once was, it’s still always a cause for tremendous excitement, particularly when the listener doesn’t actually know who the new companion is going to turn out to be. Situation Vacant takes the inspired approach of pres-enting the listener with four aspirant assistants...

                                                           

 

 

 

Nicholas Briggs has somehow wound up with one of the most impressive curricula vitae in the known Whoniverse. He can claim to have written not only the first Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish, but many of Big Finish’s finest since, and he just happens to the voice of the Daleks too. More recently, he’s overseen Big Finish’s transformation from a relatively humble concern catering to a niche market into a multi-range, multi-platform be-hemoth capable of encompassing franchises as diverse as Stargate, Robin Hood and even Robert Shearman. But before all that, there was a little boy with a Dalek fixation; a little boy that would grow up to create...

                                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Banquo Legacy is an exceedingly unusual book, even for Doctor Who. Penned by incoming editor Justin Richards and frequent contributor Andy Lane, this unique offering fuses time-honoured mystery and horror with artron inhibition fields and ran-domiser codes, creating a novel that unsteadily straddles two genres, teetering precariously...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

After winning a fan poll to become the first Doctor Who video release, Revenge of the Cybermen has had a rough few decades. To say that it doesn’t enjoy the loftiest of reputations these days would be understating things just a tad, as of all the Cybermen tales out there, it is Revenge that often gets the worst roasting. And whilst in the past I’ve taken on the mantle of apologist for notorious adventures such as Time-Flight...

                                                           

 

 

 

Revenge of the Cybermen and Silver Nemesis are seld-om found in any fan’s Top Five Cybermen stories, and so it’s little surprise that 2 Entertain have resorted to marrying them up, wrapping them in a sleeve emblazoned with dazzling Cyber imagery, and releasing them as an exciting-looking Cybermen-themed box set. But whereas...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

Although you’ll probably think that I’m insane, I much prefer the two gorgeous episodes of The Rescue to the six-part Dalek blockbuster that preceded it. As far as I can see - and I must have seen it about fifteen times - this serial epitomises 1960s Doctor Who, ticking all of the right boxes. The regulars are on top form, the direction is stylish, the writing is crisp and the lightning is magnificent. The latter is especially important as the success of a black and white...

                                                           

 

 

 

Steve Lyons’ Space Age is a wonderfully packaged litt-le book. The quirky title inevitably provokes a certain image in the mind - a Jetsons-like futurama where silver-clad citizens whiz about on jet packs all day, while their Flash Gordon-esque servo-robots take care of the domestic drudgery – which Black Sheep really pander to with their cover design and choice...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

The two Peladon serials are commonly regarded as bei-ng amongst the finest of the third Doctor’s tenure, The Curse of Peladon in particular. I think it speaks volumes that DVD book-let scribe Sue Cowley couldn’t confine her adulation for this four-parter to just a single column of text, her scant word count burg-eoning with applause for the myriad twists and turns...

                                                           

 

 

 

Given the popularity of The Curse of Peladon amongst viewers, and particularly the cost-effectiveness of producing a serial for which most of the costumes and prosthetics already existed, the production team decided that they’d send Jon Pertwee’s Doctor back to Peladon for his penultimate televised adventure. Brian Hayles was again commissioned to pen...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

Stepping out from under The Shadows of Avalon must have been a daunting prospect, but with The Fall of Yquatine author Nick Walters comes bounding out of the darkness with a thoughtful and provocative adventure that, at its best, measures up to even the most highly regarded eighth Doctor adventures. As the first story to see the Doctor and Fitz travelling...

                                                           

 

 

 

Having been won over in recent years by the likes of the superb Something Inside and the peerless Prisoner of the Daleks, I’d almost forgotten all about Trevor Baxendale’s early Doctor Who output and my lack of interest in it. The master of the middle of the road tie-in, Baxendale’s vast curriculum vitae boasts numerous classic series novels - none of them poor...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

Originally written for Tom Baker’s Doctor, The Song of the Space Whale was Doctor Who’s 1980s sub that never got off the bench. It warmed up a few times, and even came painfully close to making it onto the pitch, but each and every time its number came up, authors Pat Mills and John Wagner found so-me unassailable obstruction before them. As such, when David Richardson decided to resurrect The Space Whale...

                                                           

 

 

 

The last of Old Sixy’s Lost Stories comes from the pens of buxom horror star Ingrid Pitt and her partner Tony Rudlin. After appearing in the fifth Doctor serial Warriors of the Deep, the seductive Queen of Horror quickly put pen to paper and sub-mitted a number of story ideas to the production office, one of which - The Macromen – was commissioned for Season 22 before eventually being dropped, for what...

                                                           

 

 

 

 

When the Doctor Who production team promised to bring the Daleks back, they didn’t even pretend that it was going to be anything but spectacular. What a shame then that The Dalek Invasion of Earth lacks the oomph that the finest Doctor Who stories have, constituting six episodes of tedium with the occ-asional moment of triumph. This serial is sold on its location work, and it’s only on location that we are treated to scenes that truly live up to their potential. The locations chosen really drive home the idea of an alien menace stalking you in familiar sur-roundings. London is beautiful city full...

                                                           

 

 

 

After the first pioneering Dalek serial and its even bet-ter sequel, The Chase is often regarded as something of an embarrassment. A foolhardy foray into the daft world of Dalek humour, Terry Nation’s fourth script for the series is one of his most contentious, yet still not one that even the most ruthless of reviewers could destroy without pity. Aptly named, this...

                                                           

 

 

 

Okay, so it’s not Doctor Who, but it’s Rob Shearman. So- me might say that’s even better. Whilst the Time Lord’s adve-ntures are confined to all of time and space as we know them and the boundaries of the family format, Shearman’s stories are pent only by the limits of his extraordinarily dark and delicious imagination; limits that I feel he hasn’t even come close to push-ing yet. What I have...

                                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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