The Limited Edition release of Masterful is, well, masterful. For eight discs and nine whole hours, you get to revel in almost every era of the Master in their broadcast form. All the delicious evilness, the madness, the cruelty, even the good looks. It’s all there. Encased in the Limited Edition is four stories: the titular Masterful; three-hour epic Terror of the Master; and Short Trips I Am…

The covers for Big Finish’s celebration of the Master, to commemorate 50 years of the Doctor’s best enemy, have been revealed, as have extra details of Masterful‘s limited edition deluxe set. The latter will also include Short Trips: I Am The Master and Short Trips: The Switching (both previously available on download only), and Terror of the Master by Trevor Baxendale, a brand new, narrated…

Coming in January 2021, marking the 50th anniversary of the Master’s first appearance in Doctor Who, Masterful will unite 8 incarnations of the Doctor’s greatest frenemy – and sees the return of John Simm! The audio adventure is a deluxe limited edition 8-disc set from Big Finish Productions in association with BBC Studios. 

In his Big Finish debut, actor John Simm will reprise the role of…

So, you’d like to listen to some Eighth Doctor stories from Big Finish, you’ve popped over to the website, looked at The Collected Eighth Doctor page, found there are (as of the end of May 2018) a mere 106 titles ranging over the past 17 years, and thought – where do I start? Luckily, we’ve got your back! We’ve also suggested different ways to listen, and pricing where available. It should be…

It’s amazing the difference a few weeks can make. Back in December, this intrepid reviewer took the reigns to dissect the much awaited release for the Eighth Doctor in The Time War: Series 1. While the release was pretty damn marvelous, it was where one felt the line regarding the Time War may perhaps be better left at the obscurer end of Doctor Who lore. Rather than exploring every avenue of the…

Well now, just when you thought the Eighth Doctor’s adventures couldn’t get any more epic, Dark Eyes 3 comes along and pulls the rug out from under the listener’s feet. Following on from the cliffhanger of Dark Eyes 2, this new set of four adventures for the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann), Molly O’Sullivan (Ruth Bradley), and Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) serves up a larger plot with the Master and the…

MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW… The Doctor Who Universe is ever so lightly changed in the wake of recent years. The 50th anniversary, especially, introduced new Doctors, discovered long-kept secrets, and, perhaps most excitingly of all, we got to see the Eighth Doctor on our television screens once more. It was fleeting, shocking, and heartbreaking all in less than ten minutes; some might say that the…