DOCTOR WHO: ZAGREUS “I AM ZAGREUS!” Over the years since their DOCTOR WHO audio drama series began, Big Finish have put out some real corkers, and the odd catastrophe. Titles like SPARE PARTS and THE CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT have become synonymous with classy, well written adventures. With ZAGREUS, release number fifty, the fortieth anniversary special, …
“Im all you have in the world. We are all each other has.” For starters, Scherzo was never going to be anything approaching bad. Its written by Rob Shearman, he of THE HOLY TERROR, THE CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT, JUBILEE and DEADLINE fame. Four DOCTOR WHO plays that typify Big Finish? output- the quality, the style …
“IUI’m NakedU” “I’m trying not to think about it” For those in the know, this is Doctor Who’s fortieth year in existence, and, fittingly, BF are treating 2003 as one big party. Towards the end of the year we have treats galore- the fifth, Sixth and Seventh incarnations of the Doctor get to battle some …
“Evelyn?m sorry? don’t always winT It would appear that time lords are like buses. You wait a whole month for one to appear, only to get two at once. This is true in the case of the new Doctor Who release- Project: Lazarus, which stars both Colin Baker as the sixth Doctor and Sylvester McCoy …
Keanu Reeves, that great philosopher, once used a phrase that would be repeated unto him time and again. The one that is The One, though not linked in any way with the new DOCTOR WHO audio, has ensured I can use his phrase to describe ARRANGEMENTS FOR WAR by new writer Paul Sutton. Whoa. This …
This was always going to be one of the most difficult reviews I?e ever written for scifind. I mean this is THUNDERBIRDS. This is the (apparently) long-awaited big screen version of one of the great iconic shows of the 1960s, a series which, as much as DOCTOR WHO and THE AVENGERS, typified the spirit of …
Having always been a closet fan of this show (it was always on UK Gold after the Doctor Who repeats) I thought I might splash out and purchase the entire first season on disc. The problems with this set have been documented elsewhere (some players have trouble with the layer transition on the discs, following …
Review By Paul Mount, 5 out of 5 It? fair to say that my abiding interest in the science-fiction genre – or the fantasy genre or whatever label imaginative fiction is currently lumbered with ?is based firmly on a bedrock of a handful of classic television series, shows which are as much a part of …
Review By Paul Mount, 3.5 out of 5 BIG FINISH AUDIO REVIEW As all good DOCTOR WHO fans know, ?hada?is the ?ost?DOCTOR WHO story; not lost in the sense of all those half-written, commissioned and/or abandoned stories which litter the show? production history. No,?hada?the concluding story of the original series?seventeenth season, actually started filming but …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 They said it would be controversial. They said there’d be an uproar. They said there’s be questions asked in the Houses of Parliament. Learned clergeymen would be all over the television and in the Press railing against this disgusting, blasphemous so-called drama. But there was nothing. THE …
Review By Liam O Brien, 5 out of 5 THE OSCARS MAY HAVE BEEN AND GONE, THE BAFTAS MAY BE A DISTANT MEMORY, BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR AWARD NOT YET GIVEN OUT?T? THE FIRST ANNUAL SCIFIND AWARDS 2004! GRAB YOUR TUX, HAUL OUT THAT DRESS, AND GET READY FOR THE MOST GLAMOROUS ARTICLE OF …
Review By Liam O Brien, 4.5 out of 5 THE DALEK TIN CD Set ?e are your servants? Oh those poor misguided fools at the Beeb. In the early 70?, whilst DOCTOR WHO was still Jon Pertwee? show, the powers that be decided to purge the vaults of all their old shows by wiping the …