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26 unusual facts about Big Finish Productions


Adrian Rigelsford

In 2004, Big Finish Productions produced the Rigelsford-written The Roof of the World as part of their range of Doctor Who audio plays.

Big Finish

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

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.

Colin Brake

Brake followed Escape Velocity with the Past Doctor Adventure The Colony of Lies in July 2003, and then with the audio adventure Three's a Crowd from Big Finish Productions in 2005.

Conrad Westmaas

Westmaas appeared in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who from 2003-2007, starred alongside Ciaran Griffiths in the 2007 short film The Visitor and in Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare's Globe.

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.

James A. Moore

Short Trips: Destination Prague - A Doctor Who anthology featuring the short story "Room for Improvement" (Big Finish Productions, 2007) ISBN 1-84435-253-6

Josette du Pres

The character then returned in the 2009 audio drama Final Judgement released by Big Finish Productions.

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Double Zero

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Double Zero is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the character Judge Dredd in British comic 2000 AD.

Judge Dredd: Wanted: Dredd or Alive

Judge Dredd: Wanted: Dredd or Alive is the first audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions based on the character Judge Dredd in British comic 2000 AD.

Julian Wadham

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

Keith Drinkel

He guest-starred in the Big Finish Productions audio adventures Doctor Who: Catch-1782, Sapphire and Steel: The School and Professor Bernice Summerfield: Timeless Passages.

Ken Bentley

He is best known for his work with Big Finish Productions, including their long-running series of audio dramas based on the popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who.

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.

Lloyd Rose

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

Maggie Evans

The character (as played by Kathryn Leigh Scott) has more recently appeared in a number of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.

Miles Richardson

Richardson also plays Irving Braxiatel in the long running Bernice Summerfield and Gallifrey audio dramas by Big Finish Productions.

Morton Judd

The audio drama Judge Dredd: Jihad, written by James Swallow and published by Big Finish Productions, featured two last remaining Judda, a clone of Dredd named Jonah and his sister, Pandora, leading a fanatical Judda cult.

Nev Fountain

He has also written several Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish Productions, including Omega, The Kingmaker, and Peri and the Piscon Paradox.

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.

Peter Anghelides

Anghelides also wrote several short stories for a variety of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips and Bernice Summerfield collections.

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.

Stephen Baxter

In February 2007, Baxter was announced as the author of what was to be the 100th story for Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio series.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Big Finish Productions has produced a series of audio dramas entitled The Confessions of Dorian Gray based on the Wilde character and starring Alexander Vlahos as Dorian.

Willie Loomis

The character (portrayed by John Karlen) has more recently appeared in a number of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.


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.

Alan W. Lear

When asked in 2001 to contribute a new version of Minuet in Hell for Big Finish Productions' range of audio dramas featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Lear extensively rewrote the play but due to the demands of the recording schedule producer Gary Russell completed the final episodes of the script and took a co-writer's credit.

Dodo Chaplet

Dodo also appears in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Bunker Soldiers, four short stories in the Virgin Decalog and BBC Short Trips, and the Big Finish Productions audio dramas Mother Russia, Tales from the Vault, and Return of the Rocket Men.

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.

Geoffrey Beevers

He has also appeared in some of the Big Finish Productions audio dramas based on Doctor Who (Dust Breeding, Master, Trail of the White Worm, The Oseidon Adventure, Mastermind and The Light at the End).

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.

Ian Collier

He also played Doctor Who companion Bernice Summerfield's father, Isaac Summerfield, in Death and the Daleks, and he guest starred in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio drama Excelis Decays.

Later he became the second actor to portray the villain Omega (the first being Stephen Thorne): Collier portrayed Omega in the Fifth Doctor serial Arc of Infinity and later in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Omega.

Jacqueline Pearce

She has more recently been associated with Doctor Who through her appearance in The Fearmonger as Sherilyn Harper, an audio drama by Big Finish Productions, and as Admiral Mettna in the webcast story Death Comes to Time.

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.

Lisa Bowerman

Since 1998, she has played companion Bernice Summerfield in the Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio plays, appearing in three Doctor Who audio plays opposite Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace, as well as in over 50 audio plays based solely on Bernice.

Mary Tamm

Tamm returned as Pandora in the second series of the Gallifrey audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions.

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.

Rory Jennings

His radio and audio credits include: Just Prose (BBC Radio 3), Feelings Under Siege (BBC Northern Ireland) and I, Davros (Big Finish Productions), in which he played the iconic Doctor Who villain Davros during his youth.

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.

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.

Vanessa Bishop

She has also had a short story published in one of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips collections.