retro-the-best....: [New post] Doctor Who audio releases from Big Finish July-December

Thursday, August 25, 2011

[New post] Doctor Who audio releases from Big Finish July-December

Doctor Who audio releases from Big Finish July-December

dailypop | August 25, 2011 at 9:01 am | Tags: doctor who big finish audio adventures, doctor who peter davison colin baker sylvester mccoy paul mcgann | Categories: Big Finish | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-316

There has been a lot of activity over at Big Finish including their relaunch of Blake's 7, the upcoming Bernice Summerfield box set and the Tom Baker Doctor Who audio adventures. But I just wanted to run down a few of the ongoing releases including the new Eighth Doctor stories and the continuation of the Lost Stories, this time with Peter Davison.

The Seventh Doctor meets Nostradamus, re-encounters the Voc Robots from Robots of Death and his deepest fears. Only one Sixth Doctor adventure is in the solicitations, but it's an anthology of four exciting stories. The Eighth Doctor and new companion Mary Shelley embark on a new series of adventures that brings back the Cybermen and more.

The Lost Stories look especially interesting as they feature tales written by Peter Ling (The Mind Robber), Barbara Clegg (Enlightenment) and Christopher Bailey (Kinda and Snakedance), almost all of which are regarded as classics in the Whovian circles.

Lots more information below. By clicking on the order here link under each title's details, you can also listen to a trailer when one is available.

149. DOCTOR WHO: ROBOPHOBIA

AUTHOR: Nicholas Briggs
RELEASE DATE: 31 July 2011

CAST:

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Nicola Walker (Liv Chenka), Toby Hadoke (Farel), William Hazell (Bas Pellico), Nicholas Pegg (Selerat), Dan Starkey (Cravnet), Matt Addis (Tal Karus), John Dorney (Leebar/Computer Voice)

SYNOPSIS:
Nothing has ever been officially confirmed, but there is a rumour that on a Sandminer, bound for Kaldor City, the robots somehow turned homicidal and nearly wiped out the entire crew. Can that really be true?

The robot transport ship Lorelei has a cargo of over 157,000 robots on board, all deactivated. So even if there were any truth in the rumour of that massacre, there'd still be no danger. Surely, there wouldn't...

But then, the Doctor witnesses a murder.

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/149-Doctor-Who-Robophobia

150. DOCTOR WHO: RECORDED TIME AND OTHER STORIES

AUTHORS: Catherine Harvey, Richard Dinnick, Matt Fitton, Philip Lawrence
RELEASE DATE: 31 August 2011
CAST:

Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown)

Recorded Time: Paul Shearer (Henry VIII), Laura Molyneux (Anne Boleyn), Philip Bretherton (Scrivener), Rosanna Miles (Marjorie)

Paradoxicide: Raquel Cassidy (Inquisa), Joan Walker (Centuria/Ship), James George (Barond), Laura Molyneux, Rosanna Miles (Volsci)

A Most Excellent Match: Rosanna Miles (Tilly), Philip Bretherton (Darcy/D'Urberville/Heathcliff), Paul Shearer (Cranton)

Question Marks: Raquel Cassidy (Destiny Gray), James George (Greg Stone), Joe Jameson (Arnie McAllister)

SYNOPSIS:
Recorded Time by Catherine Harvey
The TARDIS travellers find themselves at the court of Henry VIII, where the tragic Anne Boleyn will soon be discarded by her King in favour of the lovely Perpugilliam Brown. Or so it is written…

Paradoxicide by Richard Dinnick
On the legendary lost planet of Sendos, the Doctor and Peri find themselves caught up in the hunt for the cache of galaxy-busting super-weapons stored inside its fabled Armoury.

A Most Excellent Match by Matt Fitton
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of a mind of her own must be in want of a husband. But which of Miss Peri Brown's rival suitors will be the one to win her hand: handsome Mr Darcy, or the mysterious Doctor?

Question Marks by Philip Lawrence
Five survivors of an unknown catastrophe wake to find themselves caught in an inescapable trap. But can the oddly-dressed man in the question-marked collar work out what's really going on before time runs out – for good?

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/150-Doctor-Who-Recorded-Time-and-Other-Stories

151. DOCTOR WHO: THE DOOMSDAY QUATRAIN

AUTHORS: Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie
RELEASE DATE: 30 September 2011
CAST:

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), David Schofield (Nostradamus/Conclave Leader), John Banks (Brors/Captain of the Guard/Bernardo), Caroline Keiff (Garilund/Computer Voice), Derek Carlyle (Kren/Second Nuncio), Nicholas Chambers (Larrett/Milo/First Nuncio)

SYNOPSIS:
"When the river is gone, ships shall sail in the sky, monsters bring fire from the heavens. All will fall into a grey and endless sea, and Doomsday has come."

Florence, the sixteenth century. No one thought to pay much attention to the prophecies of the so-called seer Michel de Nostradame, otherwise known as Nostradamus. Until the canals of Venice dried. Until the soothsayer's sayings started coming true…

Because Master Nostradamus is right, in all respects. The end of the world is nigh. The ships are coming. The monsters are coming. The fire is coming. There's only one thing he didn't see coming, in fact: the sudden apparition of a certain strange Doctor, in his even stranger TARDIS. Today, the Earth dies screaming. And all the Doctor can do is watch.

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/151-Doctor-Who-The-Doomsday-Quatrain

152. DOCTOR WHO: HOUSE OF BLUE FIRE

AUTHOR: Mark Morris
RELEASE DATE: 30 September 2011
CAST:

Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Timothy West (Dr Magnus Soames), Amy Pemberton (No 18), Miranda Keeling (No 5), Ray Emmet Brown (No 16), Howard Gossington (No 12), Lizzy Watts (Eve Pritchard/Mi'en Kalarash)

SYNOPSIS:
aquaphobia n. An abnormal fear of water, or drowning.

blattodephobia n. The morbid fear of cockroaches.

catoptrophobia n. Fear of mirrors, or seeing one's own reflection.

There's a whole ABC of horrors at Bluefire House – as four young people, drawn together to this tumbledown hotel at the edge of nowhere, are about to discover. But whatever the ancient and foul thing that has emerged from the wilderness to drag them here, speaking of it will only strengthen it.

The Doctor alone knows what lurks at the heart of Bluefire House. But the monster of his childhood dreams is coming. The Mi'en Kalarash is coming…

Just this once, the Doctor's afraid.

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/152-Doctor-Who-House-of-Blue-Fire

153. DOCTOR WHO: THE SILVER TURK

AUTHOR: Marc Platt
RELEASE DATE: 31 October 2011
CAST:

Paul Mc Gann (The Doctor), Julie Cox (Mary Shelley), Gareth Armstrong (Dr Johan Drossel), Christian Brassington (Alfred Stahlbaum), David Schneider (Ernst Bratfisch), Gwilym Lee (Count Rolf Wittenmeier), Claire Wyatt (Countess Mitzi Wittenmeier), Nicholas Briggs (The Cybermen)

SYNOPSIS:
Roll up! Roll up! To the great Viennese Exposition, where showman Stahlbaum will show you his most wonderful creation, the Silver Turk – a mechanical marvel that will not only play for you the fortepiano, the spinet and the flute, it will play you at the gaming table too!

But when the Doctor brings his new travelling companion Mary Shelley to nineteenth-century Vienna, he soon identifies the incredible Turk as one of his deadliest enemies – a part-machine Cyberman.

And that's not even the worst of the horrors at large in the city…

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/153-Doctor-Who-The-Silver-Turk

154. DOCTOR WHO: THE WITCH FROM THE WELL

AUTHOR: Rick Briggs
RELEASE DATE: 30 November 2011

CAST:

Paul McGann (The Doctor), Julie Cox (Mary Shelley), Simon Rouse (Master John Kincaid), Andrew Havill (Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude Portillon), Serena Evans (Agnes Bates), Lisa Kay (Beatrix), Alix Wilton Regan (Finicia), Kevin Trainor (Lucern/Cornet Swallow)

SYNOPSIS:
A shrieking, killing nightmare erupts from an overgrown well, hidden in the grounds of an old house, Tranchard's Folly – and Mary Shelley, the Doctor's latest travelling companion, rescues teenage twins Finicia and Lucern from the clutches of the monster.

But a TARDIS trip in search of the origin of the horror goes terribly wrong when the Doctor, Mary and their two new friends find themselves stuck in the middle of a seventeenth ncentury witch scare.

While the Doctor investigates the strange lights at Vetter's Tor, and the twins go in search of an artefact from the Hecatrix Dimension, Mary confronts the secrets of her past… and her future. The truth will out: Master Kincaid, the terrible Witch-Pricker himself, commands it!

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/154-Doctor-Who-The-Witch-from-the-Well

3.01 DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES - THE ELITE

AUTHOR: John Dorney, from a story by Barbara Clegg
RELEASE DATE: 31 October 2011
CAST:

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Joe Coen (Aubron), Ryan Sampson (Thane), Derek Carlyle (Alaric), Joannah Tincey (Stemp), John Banks (Garthak), Ellie Burrow (Ella)

SYNOPSIS:
The Doctor offers Tegan and Nyssa a trip to the paradise world of Florana, but instead the TARDIS takes them to a domed city on a planet scarred by warfare. A world where everyone is young, and fighting for the glory of the Elite...

Hidden away in The Cathedral of Power, the High Priest is watching. It knows the Doctor, and his arrival changes everything...

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/301-Doctor-Who-The-Lost-Stories-The-Elite

3.02 DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES - HEXAGORA

AUTHOR: Paul Finch, from a story by Peter Ling and Hazel Adair
RELEASE DATE: 30 November 2011
CAST:

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Jacqueline Pearce, (Queen Zafira), Toby Hadoke (Mike Bretherton), Richard Mark (Lord Jezzavar), Dan Starkey (Lord Zellenger), Sean Brosnan (Astorius)

SYNOPSIS:

TBC

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/302-Doctor-Who-The-Lost-Stories-Hexagora

3.03 DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES - THE CHILDREN OF SETH

AUTHORS: Christopher Bailey and Marc Platt
RELEASE DATE:31 December 2011
CAST:

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Honor Blackman (Anahita), Adrian Lukis (Byzan), David Warner (Siris), Vernon Dobtcheff (Shamur), Matt Addis (Albis), Emerald O'Hanrahan (Mira), John Banks (Radulf Varidi)

SYNOPSIS:
TBC

Order here: http://www.bigfinish.com/303-Doctor-Who-The-Lost-Stories-The-Children-of-Seth