‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Marathon – ‘Shada’

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How fitting that on the 8th of May – my birthday as well as a Bank Holiday – we look at another one of my favourite ‘Doctor Who’ stories from the Fourth Doctor era as well as the actual finale to Season 17 of the classic TV series. This is ‘Shada’, a six-part adventure by Douglas Adams, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as Romana and K-9, voiced by David Brierley. This story was never shown on TV in 1979, but thankfully it has been completed with animation and was released in 2017. You can check out the feature-length 2017 film version of ‘Shada’ on DVD, Blu-ray and Britbox and you can check out the exclusive six-part 2021 version of the story on Blu-ray.

Season 17 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Tom Baker on Blu-ray #6

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And we’ve come to the end of Season 17 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray with Tom Baker. To finish off, we’re taking a look at the lost story called ‘Shada’, which was meant to be the season finale to Season 17, but was cancelled due to strike action happening in 1979. My review on the original ‘Shada’ is based on the 2021 ‘definitive version’ of the story in the Season 17 Blu-ray box set. I’ve combined both my reviews on the 1992 VHS version and the 2017 movie version of the ‘Shada’ story for this review.

CD Reviews – ‘The Tenth Doctor and River Song’ (Doctor Who)

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Happy belated birthday David Tennant! 😀

Today, I’m sharing my reviews on the audio adventures featured in ‘The Tenth Doctor and River Song’ CD box set, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Alex Kingston as River Song! This has been an intriguing set of ‘Doctor Who’ audio adventures to listen to during the Covid-19 pandemic – please keep safe.

CD Review – ‘Donna Noble: Kidnapped!’

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Today, I’ve reviewed ‘Donna Noble: Kidnapped!’, an audio spin-off from new series ‘Doctor Who’ by Big Finish. It stars Catherine Tate, Jacqueline King and Niky Wardley. This has been a fun four-episode spin-off series to listen to, set between ‘Silence In The Library’/’Forest of the Dead’ and ‘Midnight’.

CD Review – ‘Infernal Devices’ (Doctor Who)

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And, would you know it? I’m back into reviewing another epic ‘War Doctor’ adventure! I didn’t think that would happen so quickly! Though considering I’ve written a War Doctor story recently for my blog (coming soon in August 2020), I shouldn’t be very surprised. Anyway, time for ‘Infernal Devices’!

Four ‘Doctor Who’ Stories with the Sixth Doctor and Flip

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“Happy Birthday Colin!”

Today I’ve added four new reviews to four ‘Doctor Who’ audio adventures by Big Finish. These stories feature Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Lisa Greenwood as Flip. Philippa ‘Flip’ Jackson was first introduced in ‘The Crimes of Thomas Brewster’. Here she reunites with Colin Baker’s Doctor for some adventures.

‘Doctor Who’ Marathon – ‘Extremis’

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It’s the first episode of ‘The Monks Trilogy’ in Series 10 of ‘Doctor Who’. The first episode is called ‘Extremis’ by Steven Moffat. This is what I consider to be a muddled trilogy of episodes in ‘Doctor Who’. The episode has the Doctor, Bill and Nardole discovering the Veritas at the Vatican, Italy where they also meet the alien Monks.

DVD reviews – Series 10 – Part 1 (‘Doctor Who’)

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I’ve now posted my DVD reviews on Series 10 – Part 1 of ‘Doctor Who’ on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. This includes reviews on the first six episodes from Series 10, starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor; Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts and Matt Lucas as Nardole.

Week 10aiv – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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It’s now time to take a look into the latest Fifth Doctor trilogy of Big Finish audio adventures of ‘Doctor Who’ that was released earlier this year in 2018. This is still part of the Week 10a run of stories in ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ mini-season of reviews for the Christmas period in 2018 this year! 😀

Week 10aii – ‘The Nyssa Challenge’

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We’re still on traveling back in time to Week 10 of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ in this mini-season of ‘Doctor Who’ reviews for the Christmas period in 2018! Today, we look at the second story in the 2017 trilogy of ‘Doctor Who’ audios starring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Adric – the Season 19 TARDIS team.