Sat, 15 March 2008
Firts off sorry about my voice but I didnt want to let you guys down with no show even if I did do 3 last week... so heres you are. Notes on 5 of the Best Big Finsh CDs... Ill do more recommendations soon. 34. Doctor Who - Spare Parts - Download Price: £11.99 Technical Details Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor); Sarah Sutton (Nyssa); Sally Knyvette (Doctorman Allan); Pamela Binns (Sisterman Constant); Derren Nesbitt (Thomas Dodd); Paul Copley (Dad); Kathryn Guck (Yvonne Hartley); Jim Hartley (Frank Hartley); Ann Jenkins (Mrs. Ginsberg); Nicholas Briggs (Zheng / Cyber Voices / Radio Announcer / Citizen / Nurse); Alistair Lock (Minister / TV Commentator); Gary Russell (Philpott / Nurse) Writer: Marc Platt Recorded: 26 and 27 March 2002 Director: Gary Russell Released: July 2002 Music: Alistair Lock No. of Discs: 2 Sound Design: Alistair Lock Duration Disc 1 (59' 08"); Disc 2 (73' 50") Cover Art: Clayton Hickman Production Code: 6C/E ISBN: 1-903654-72-6 Synopsis On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity. And in the mat-infested streets, round tea-time, the Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in second-hand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses. And just between the tramstop and the picturehouse, their worst suspicions are confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour... Chronological Placement This story takes place between the television adventures, Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity and after the Big Finish audio drama STORM WARNING Cast: Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charley Pollard); Gareth Thomas (Lord Tamworth); Nicholas Pegg (Lt-Col Frayling); Barnaby Edwards (Rathbone); Hylton Collins (Chief Steward Weeks); Helen Goldwyn (Triskelion); Mark Gatiss (Announcer) Writer: Alan Barnes Recorded: 18 May 2000 Director: Gary Russell Released: January 2001 Music: Alistair Lock No. of Discs: 2 Sound Design: Alistair Lock Duration Disc 1 (50' 34"); Disc 2 (67' 11") Cover Art: Clayton Hickman Production Code: 8B ISBN: 1-903654-24-6 Synopsis October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R1010, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation. Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission, a mysterious passenger who appears nowhere on the crew list, a would-be adventuress destined for the Singapore Hilton... and a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. There's a storm coming. There's something unspeakble, something with wings, crawling across the stern. Thousands of feet high in the blackening sky, the crew of the R101 brace themselves. When the storm breaks, their lives won't be all that's at stake... The future of the galaxy will be hanging by a thread. Chronological Placement This story takes place after the 1996 TV Movie. THE ONE DOCTOR Technical Details Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor); Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush); Christopher Biggins (Banto Zame); Clare Buckfield (Sally-Anne Stubbins); Matt Lucas (Cylinder / The Jelloid); Stephen Fewell (Councillor Potikol / Assembler 2); Nicholas Pegg (Citizen Sokkery / Mentos); Jane Goddard (The Questioner / Queen Elizabeth); Adam Buxton (Assembler 1); Mark Wright (Guard); Alistair Lock (Guard) Writer: Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman Recorded: 28 and 29 April 2001 Director: Gary Russell Released: December 2001 Music: Alistair Lock No. of Discs: 2 Sound Design: Alistair Lock Duration Disc 1 (49' 03"); Disc 2 (73' 39") Cover Art: Clayton Hickman Production Code: 7C/R ISBN: 1-903654-56-4 Synopsis When the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction. So it's fortunate that the famous traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor is in the area, and doubly lucky that, with the help of his pretty young assistant, Sally-Anne, he manages to defeat the deadly creatures and save the day. But now it looks as though the Doctor¹s luck has run out. Who is the mysterious, curly-haired stranger who insists on causing trouble? What role does the feisty redhead Melanie play in his scheme? And what have they to do with the sinister alien cylinder approaching Generios? One thing is certain: for the Doctor and Sally-Anne, there¹s deadly danger ahead ... Chronological Placement This story takes place between the television adventures, The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani. KINGMAKER Technical Details Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor); Nicola Bryant (Peri); Caroline Morris (Erimem); Arthur Smith (Clarrie); Michael Fenton-Stevens (Mr Seyton); Stephen Beckett (Richard; Duke of Gloucester); Marcus Hutton (Henry; Duke of Buckingham); John Culshaw (Earl Rivers); Chris Neill (Sir James Tyrell); Katie Wimpenny (Susan); Linzi Matthews (Judith) Writer: Nev Fountain Recorded: 20 and 21 November 2005 Director: Gary Russell Released: April 2006 Music: ERS No. of Discs: 2 Sound Design: ERS Duration Disc 1 (69' 57"); Disc 2 (75' 46") Cover Art: Stuart Manning Production Code: 6Q/I ISBN: 1-84435-161-0 Synopsis Dr Who encounters one of the most notorious characters from the past, as he journeys through time to solve the great Historical Mysteries... Not surprisingly the Doctor becomes mixed up with Richard the third himself, as he tries to unravel the perplexing problem of who exactly killed the Princes in the Tower. Peri and Erimem also encounter a suspicious time traveller. Someone from the Doctor's own past. Someone who shouldn't really be there at all. So who did murder the Princes in the Tower? Perhaps it's best not to ask a question like that. You might not like the answer... Chronological Placement This story takes place between the television adventures, Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani and after the Big Finish audio adventure, . NIGHT THOUGHTS Technical Details Cast: Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace); Philip Olivier (Hex); Bernard Kay (Major Dickens); Joanna McCallum (The Bursar); Andrew Forbes (Dr O'Neil); Lizzie Hopley (Sue); Ann Beach (The Deacon); Duncan Duff (Joe Hartley) Writer: Edward Young Recorded: 7 and 8 November 2005 Director: Gary Russell Released: February 2006 Music: ERS No. of Discs: 2 Sound Design: ERS Duration Disc 1 (61' 38"); Disc 2 (63' 51") Cover Art: Lee Binding Production Code: 7W/C ISBN: 1-84435-167-X Synopsis I warn you, things could get very nasty here before they get better.' A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. Hex, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed by the nighttime appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition. Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed, preferring to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit. And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life. Chronological Placement This story takes place between the television adventures, Survival and the 1996 TV Movie, and after the Big Finish audio adventure, . |








