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What’s not to like right? It is my favourite genre of fiction by a long way indeed.
Another amazing story from Big Finish. It’s always great to hear Geoffrey Beevers as the Master, and excellent to hear Michael Keating in a Doctor Who story.
This was an excellent story too. There’s real depth in this one, and the development of Leela’s character is really interesting too. In fact this whole series has been excellent so far. I’ve been very impressed, and this story isn’t any different.
I’d forgotten this little known BBC science fiction series. I say series, it only lasted for one season and then the BBC decided (in their infinite wisdom) to cancel it. I’ve no idea why as it was actually very good, or at least I thought it was anyway. The basic premise is that a group (about 7000 to be precise) humans end up on this life supporting world and are trying to make a life for themselves, and of course each episode is about their struggles.
There were only eight episodes made, which was a real shame as it was very good indeed. It deserved another series. It deserved to get finished, but as usual the BBC can’t be bothered to follow through on any science fiction series. They did the same to Survivors (which was really good), it seems that they just can’t do science fiction at all, or rather, they can make it, but they don’t understand that it takes people a little while to get into these kinds of shows and they need to stay the distance and not give up almost immediately.
So I’m watching it again and remembering how good it was and what a let down it was when it ended, or rather it didn’t end. It just stopped. I’m sure that the BBC will do it again at some point. I just wish they wouldn’t, especially when it’s a good story and worth watching.
So I’ve watched the whole of season 1 of Space 1999. It was good, I enjoyed it. It is slow, philosophical, and sometimes very strange, but I still enjoy it. The question is, what do I do next?
The most likely outcome is that I’ll buy season 2 on iTunes as it’s very cheap. There are another 24 episodes and then that’s it. Nothing more, but I’d like to see them and follow the whole thing through.
Quite a different story for the 4th Doctor. An interesting story really. I think I might need to listen to it at least one more time before I really decide what I think of it.
Another great Blake’s 7 story from Big Finish, which follows on very nicely from the previous episode. I’m hooked on these now!
I really should have subscribed to the latest Blake’s 7 series. It is excellent. I love that it’s a full cast drama rather than a narration. These stories are so like the original TV series that they’re a joy to listen to.
I listened to this again today, a great story, a really good jaunt back to the original series. I think I’m going to have to give in and start buying the latest series.
Having just watched Survivors (the last BBC version) for the third time (I think), I hear today that Big Finish are releasing a version of the classic TV series as an audio book. Their series 1 will be 240 minutes long and features, amongst others, Louise Jameson.
I don’t begrudge big finish, it’s just that they seem intent on releasing excellent content that I want to buy, resulting in me having to spend loads of money with them. On the one hand I don’t want them to stop, and on the other, actually I don’t want them to stop at all. I’d rather they just kept it up as it goes.
The Revenants was a bonus story on the end of the Big Finish 50th anniversary story “The Light at the End”. I’d meant to listen to it ages ago and just hadn’t got to it, so today I put that right. It’s a companion chronicles story from the 1st Doctor and it’s very nicely put together and is completely in keeping with the 1st Doctor’s stories and style. I liked that. It has a sense of continuity about it.
I actually quite enjoyed it, although I don’t think I’ll be rushing out to get other 1st Doctor companion stories any time soon. Even so, I can see the attraction. It was a good listen. But then, what else would you expect from Big Finish?
Another excellent story in the 4th Doctor adventures from Big Finish. It picked up from the last episode and kept the pace going the whole way through. It’s a classic story type for Doctor Who as well. Thoroughly enjoyable. Every minute of it.
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