Tag Archives: Sylvester McCoy

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 1. Big Finish Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Soun and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Hattie Moran, Nicola Walker, Mark Bonnar, Ewan Bailey, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Gunnar Cauthery, Matthew Cottle, Esther Hall, Caroline Langrishi, Sylvester McCoy, Lizzie Mounter, Harry Myers, Ramon Tikaram, John Voce, Bethan Walker, John Woodvine, David Yelland.

Doctor Who: Once And Future: A Genius For War. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Beth Chalmers, Esmonde Cole, Terry Molloy, Yasmin Mwanza, Stephen Noonan, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

The Time War is a moment in science fiction history that sends waves of anticipation and excitement down the spine of those to whom understand the sheer significance it afforded the fanatics and dedicated buffs of the long running British series Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: Once And Future: The Artist At The End Of Time. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Georgia Tennant, Colin Baker, Abi Harris, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, John Telfer, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

We denigrate the artist during their lifetime, and only appreciate them when they have passed. The poorer the artist, the more their work is valued after they have departed this world, it is an exchange we barter for where we can, with hand on heart, say we have supported a starving artist, but it is delivered at the expense of a fat profit and unimportant conscience.

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Rufus Hound, Ewan Bailey, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

Stories are important, they are magical, they are a link to our past and our determination to see the future shaped in our image. Once a story has been silenced it becomes myth, the unspoken, the heritage of the speaker denied…but some tales persist in Time, they become the backdrop to our society, to our history and the dream that such days can once more return.

Doctor Who: The Power Of The Doctor. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Sophie Aldred, Janet Fielding, David Bradley, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Jo Martin, David Tennant, Sacha Dhawan, Jemma Redgrave, Jacob Anderson, Bradley Walsh, Patrick O’Kane, Joe Sims, Sanchia McCormack, Danielle Bjelic, Anna Andressen, Richard Dempsey, Jos Slovik, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Bonnie Langford, Katy Manning, William Russell, Simon Carew, Jon Davey, Mickey Lewis, Chester Durrant, Felix Young, Richard Price, Andrew Cross, Matt Doman.

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition, The Eleven. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Mark Bonnar, Robert Bathhurst, Caroline Langrishe, Bethan Walker, Ramon Tikaram, John Banks, Sylvester McCoy.

Everybody is susceptible to the crowded thoughts that linger in the mind, after all the brain is a curious mystery, an enigma that is hard enough for one soul to carry across their natural lifespan, let alone a being to whom eleven would be enough to drive even the very best of us completely and utterly mad.

Doctor Who: We Are The Daleks. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Nicholas Briggs, Kirsty Bestermamn, Angus Wright, Mary Conlon, Robbie Stevens, Ashley Zhangazha, Lizzie Roper, Dominic Thornburn.

Every human on Earth has the capacity to become something they detest, something that lingers in the dark realms and festers, seething with hatred, jealousy, rage and revulsion, a creature to whom the simple pleasures enjoyed by others become something of ridicule because they are not like us. This trait is something we overpower every day, something we must steer away from lest the terrifying notion of Fascism looks up and sees an opening in the crack and crawls like a demented pregnant Black Widow Spider, one filled with insanity and corrupted thought into the lives of everyone it touches. It is the Dalek that lingers in us all and appears without hesitation if pushed.

Doctor Who: The Defectors. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Katy Manning, Richard Franklin, Neil Roberts, Barnaby Edwards, David Graham, Rachel Bavidge, Jez Fielder.

One of the more interesting factors about Doctor Who is the ability to mix things up once in a while and play a different type of game, a game in which nobody except the writer really knows what’s going on and in which the vagueness, the small hints, of it all can be tantalising and fruitful. It can of course go horribly wrong or at best come out of the Tardis like a mixed blessing.

The Hobbit, The Battle Of The Five Armies, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Lee Pace, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Billy Connolly,  Graham McTavish, Ken Stott, Ian Holm, Sylvester McCoy, Ryan Gage, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Adam Brown, Aiden Turner, Manu Bennett, Hugo Weaving, Dean O’ Gorman, Christopher Lee, James Nesbitt, Stephen Fry, Mikael Persbrandt.

Doctor Who: Signs And Wonders. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Amy Pemberton, Jessica Martin, Warren Brown, Jemma Churchill, Rory Keenan.

There are times, admittedly as rare as a Gallifryian rocking horse needing to excuse itself to go to the toilet, when the most manipulative of all the incarnations of The Doctor is just that little too calculating for his own good, that’s when the listener knows that they are in for a really decent ride of a story line with the Seventh Doctor and perhaps it is fitting that long standing writer Matt Fitton is the deliverer of all the problems heaped upon Hector, The Doctor and Ace in the very cool audio drama, Signs and Wonders.