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Doctor Who - The Third Doctor Adventures Volume Three

Starring Tim Treloar, Katy Manning, George Watkins, John Banks, Amy Newton, Nicholas Briggs, Robin Weaver, Iain Batchelor, Robert Hands, Richard Derrington, Ian Cunningham & Jake Dudman. Features the episodes: -The Conquest Of Far by Nicholas Briggs. -Storm Of The Horofax by Andrew Smith. Directed by Nicholas Briggs. After two very successful previous volumes, it was a dead cert that Tim Treloar was going to be back as the Third Doctor for another set of adventures. And this third set is something very special: for the first time since, incredibly, 1974, the Third Doctor is back up against the Daleks! As well as that, we have a good old-fashioned Earth-based story alongside it. And while I'd say that this third volume wasn't quite as strong as the second set (released last November), this third volume has two enjoyable, and, at times, surprising stories, that are an enjoyable recreation of early 1970's Doctor Who. The first story, The Conquest Of Far, is cer

Torchwood - Aliens Among Us 1

Starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen, Paul Clayton, Alexandria Riley, Jonny Green, Stephen Critchlow, Rachel Atkins, Ruth Lloyd, Sophie Colquhoun, Rhian Marston-Jones, Lu Corfield, Rhys Whomsley, Sharon Morgan, David Sibley, Sam Beart, Anthony Boyle, Sam Jones & Wilf Scolding. Features the episodes: -Changes Everything by James Goss. -Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy by James Goss. -Orr by Juno Dawson. -Superiority Complex by AK Benedict. Directed by Scott Handcock. Torchwood is back! After securing the Torchwood licence in 2015, Big Finish have quickly proven themselves adept at producing new and interesting Torchwood material. After successfully celebrating Torchwood's 10th anniversary last year, Big Finish have now gone one step further: producing an official continuation, an official fifth series, to follow on from Miracle Day. And, despite several people bemoaning the fact that 'it's not on TV', this has gone down a storm. After the

Hamlet

Starring Alexander Vlahos, Miles Richardson, Tracey Childs, Terry Molloy, Daniel Brocklebank, Deirdre Mullins, Samuel Barnett, Jolyon Westhorpe, Geoffrey Breton, Barnaby Edwards, Youssef Kerkour, Alex Jordan & James Joyce. Written by William Shakespeare & Adapted by Justin Richards. Directed by Scott Handcock. This is something new. Big Finish have, for nearly ten years now, being releasing adaptations of classic literary works, starting with The Phantom Of The Opera back in 2008. Since then, they've tackled a huge range of texts: Stevenson's Treasure Island, Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Stoker's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, even Doyle's The Hound Of The Baskervilles for their Sherlock Holmes line. But this is something very different to those productions: because, until now, Big Finish have never tackled Shakespeare before. Sure, they've dallied in that period of history before, with Shakespeare himself guesting in two Doctor Who re