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2 unusual facts about Big Finish


Big Finish

Big Finish Productions, a British company that produces books and audio plays based on science fiction properties

Big Finish Games, the production company behind the Three Cards to Midnight adventure game


A Life in Pieces

A Life in Pieces is a Big Finish original novella collection, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Characters of Blake's 7

Stephen Greif performed the role of Travis in the programme's first series, but declined an offer to return for the second series (but returned to play Travis in the Big Finish Liberator Chronicles audio drama story "Promises" written by Nigel Fairs).

In 2012, Big Finish approached Paul Darrow to write a Blake's 7 novel set after Gauda Prime dealing with the life of Avon after the death of Blake; Darrow agreed and his novel Lucifer was released in both printed and audiobook (read by Darrow, ISBN 978-1-78178-110-4) form in June 2013.

Eddie Robson

His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips.

Ella Kenion

guest starring an episode of Big Finish's Doctor Who Wrath of the Iceni, where she played Boudica, Celtic queen of Britain with Tom Baker.

Ian Briggs

He has also contributed a short story, The Celestial Harmony Engine to the Doctor Who anthology Short Trips: Defining Patterns, released by Big Finish in March, 2008.

Jacqueline Rayner

Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventure novel Oh No It Isn't! for the audio format, the first release by Big Finish.

Jim Mortimore

He is also the writer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play The Natural History of Fear and their Tomorrow People audio play Plague of Dreams.

Julian Wadham

Currently, he is re-creating the role of John Steed in Big Finish's new audio series The Avengers - The Lost Episodes.

Lee Binding

Binding's graphical work on Doctor Who started with the Big Finish audio releases, before moving on to designing the website for the relaunched Doctor Who TV series in 2005.

Present danger

Present Danger is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Eddie Robson, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Secret Histories

Secret Histories is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Mark Clapham, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Short Trips: Dalek Empire

Short Trips: Dalek Empire is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Nicholas Briggs with Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Simon A. Forward

Having a successful novel behind him, Simon contacted Gary Russell about the possibility of writing for Big Finish's range of audio adventures.

The Celestial Toymaker

The Nightmare Fair was later released in 2009 as an audio play by Big Finish, featuring the two of the original TV cast, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, and with David Bailie as the Toymaker.

The Dead Men Diaries

The Dead Men Diaries is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Paul Cornell, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Monster of Peladon

A potentially divergant continuity established by Big Finish's audio plays has the Third Doctor returning to the planet again in the Companion Chronicles story The Prisoner of Peladon, which features David Troughton reprising his role as King Peladon.


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Audio Visuals

Nicholas Briggs has worked for both BBV and Big Finish as an actor and as a writer; he also worked on additional Doctor Who-related/inspired productions for Reeltime Pictures and, beginning in 2005, provided vocal work for the new Doctor Who series.

Bernice Summerfield

The paperback novels proved uneconomic and Big Finish stopped publishing them, subsequently re-launching their Benny books in hardback with the anthology A Life of Surprises.

Counterintelligence Service

Internal Counter-Intelligence Service, fictional British military organization from the UNIT audio plays by Big Finish

Erimem

As well as appearing in the Big Finish audio dramas, the character of Erimem featured in the Telos novella Blood and Hope by Iain McLaughlin.

First Doctor

In the Big Finish audio drama "The Light at the End" the First Doctor is portrayed by William Russell who also played Ian Chesterton in both the show and the audio dramas.

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan

The Doctor Who audio play The Wreck of the Titan, released by Big Finish Productions in May 2010, is partly inspired by this novella, and features the characters of John and Myra.

Hugh Skinner

He also starred opposite Alexander Vlahos in an episode of the radio play The Confessions of Dorian Gray: The Heart That Lives Alone (2012) and in Missing Persons: The Winning Side (2013), both released by Big Finish Productions.

LIVE 34

The entire play is presented in the style of a factual radio broadcast, and to that end the play is devoid of the Doctor Who theme music (although snatches of the McCoy era version of the tune can be heard in parts of the "tuning" sequences at the start of the episodes) as well as incidental music, or trailers for future Big Finish releases.

Lloyd Rose

Following the popular reception for her novels, Rose also wrote an audio adventure for Big Finish Productions, Caerdroia (Big Finish, November 2004).

Nargun

The Nargun is one of many aboriginal monsters that feature in the short story The Song of Old Man Bunyip by Richard Freeman in the anthology Bernice Summerfield: Secret Histories (Big Finish Productions 2009)

Nick Wallace

His first published work was the short story Five Dimensional Thinking in the Big Finish Productions Bernice Summerfield short story collection, Life During Wartime (Big Finish Productions, 2003), edited by Paul Cornell.

Nicola Bryant

In the summer of 2009 Bryant filmed an improvised documentary style film for Australian director Ben Briand for the European arm of a travel company as well as recording eight stories for a missing season of audio adventures for Big Finish's range of Doctor Who CDs.

Peter Anghelides

This led, in November 2002, to the production of his first audio adventure for Big Finish, the play Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.

Short Trips

Big Finish Short Trips, a series of 29 Doctor Who short story collections published by Big Finish Productions.

Steven Wickham

He and has appeared in numerous Big Finish Audio dramas, in many guises, most notably Doggles (under the pseudonym of Sam Stevens) and Joseph in the Bernice Summerfield series and Chancellor Valyes in the Gallifrey series.

The Darkening Eye

This is the first play to feature the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan together, as Matthew Waterhouse was not willing to perform for Big Finish at the time.

The Stones of Venice

The Stones of Venice (audio drama), an audio play by Big Finish Productions based on the television series Doctor Who