Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. They are best known for their Doctor Who line; other properties include 2000 AD characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog; Dark Shadows; The Tomorrow People; Sapphire & Steel; and The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x858, 45 KB) Summary The logo for Big Finish Productions, producers of science fiction audio plays, particularly those based on the science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. ... A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... Cover of the first issue of 2000 AD, 26 February 1977. ... This article is about the the comic-book character. ... Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons. ... Dark Shadows was a gothic television soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. ... The Tomorrow People was a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979, and revived for a three-season series in the 1990s. ... Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. ... The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is a graphic novel written and drawn by Bryan Talbot. ...

The Managing Director of the company is Jason Haigh-Ellery. The company name, "Big Finish", comes from the title of an episode of Press Gang. Jason Haigh-Ellery is a director of a number of successful companies including a publishing firm, an internet company, and a direct mail company. ... Press Gang was a British childrens television comedy-drama, which ran for forty-three episodes in five series from 1989 to 1993. ...

History and organization

Many of those involved in Big Finish had worked on the Audio Visuals fan series of unlicensed Doctor Who audio plays. Audio Visuals is an unlicensed Doctor Who fan audio series of the 1980s. ... Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ...

Big Finish began with a series of audio plays adapted from New Adventures. These were a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed Doctor Who stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. Big Finish then obtained a (non-exclusive) license to produce official Doctor Who plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story The Sirens of Time. Doctor Who and spin-offs have remained the main part of the company's output ever since, although they have since diversified. The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... The Sirens of Time is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The company's first foray into books also came through Benny and a series of paperbacks. This range was later abandoned, but the company then obtained a (non-exclusive) license to do hardback Doctor Who short story collections. They subsequently returned to Benny books and other Doctor Who spin-offs, but have kept with the hardback format.

Until July 2006, Gary Russell served as producer of the Doctor Who audios. When Russell left the company, Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs took joint responsibility as Executive Producers. Briggs now bears creative responsibility for Big Finish's Doctor Who range, along with script editor Alan Barnes. Sharon Gosling now holds the title of Producer, with organizational and administrative responsibilities. Gary Russell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK) is a freelance writer and former child actor. ... Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin offs. ... Alan Barnes is a writer and editor, particularly noted for work in the field of cult film and television. ...

Doctor Who

The Doctor Who audio plays feature four of the surviving lead actors to play the character of the Doctor (Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann) as well as many of the regular supporting actors over the many years of the programme. The late Jon Pertwee's voice is featured in the 40th Anniversary story Zagreus. His part in the story was pieced together from snippets of dialogue (from the fan-produced Doctor Who video "Devious") recorded prior to his death. Peter Davison (born April 13, 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriots All Creatures Great and Small and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. ... Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986. ... Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy (born August 20, 1943) is a Scottish actor. ... Paul McGann Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959 in Surrey) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (July 7, 1919–May 20, 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was a British actor. ... Zagreus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Of the other surviving Doctors, Tom Baker has declined invitations to return to the role, and Big Finish's licence, which has been extended to 2007, only covers the original Doctor Who series. As such, Big Finish are unable to feature any material from or references to the new series, which prohibits Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant from appearing as the Ninth and Tenth Doctors respectively. The extent of the restriction remains unclear, as the character of the Ninth Doctor makes a silent "off-screen" appearance that affects the plot of 2006's The Kingmaker, and is obliquely referred to by the Eighth Doctor and an unknown alien in trailers for the radio broadcasts of the Eighth Doctor adventures. Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, from The Masque of Mandragora Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. ... Christopher Eccleston Christopher Eccleston (born on February 16, 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for his roles in several high profile prestige films and television series and for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. ... David Tennant, the stage name of David McDonald, (born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor, from Bathgate in West Lothian. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Kingmaker is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The return of Doctor Who to television in 2005 did not have an immediate impact on the audio plays, save that the grouping of Eighth Doctor adventures into "seasons" ceased and subsequent releases starring McGann were folded into the regular releases featuring previous Doctors. McGann, who appeared as the Doctor in a 1996 telemovie yet never got a television series of his own, concluded his fourth and last continuous audio "season" with the release of The Next Life in 2004. Doctor Who is a television movie based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Next Life cover by Steve Johnson. ...

Six of the earliest Eighth Doctor dramas were broadcast in BBC 7's The 7th Dimension slot between August 2005 and January 2006: these were Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, The Stones of Venice, Invaders from Mars, Shada and The Chimes of Midnight. (Minuet in Hell, originally released on CD between The Stones of Venice and Invaders from Mars, was judged unsuitable for the timeslot.) All six of these stories are being rebroadcast on BBC7 beginning in July 2006. BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ... Seventh Dimension is the BBCs regular radio slot for science fiction, fantasy and horror. ... See Severe weather terminology for a comprehensive article on this term and related weather terms. ... Sword of Orion is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Stones of Venice is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Invaders from Mars is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Minuet in Hell is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

In September 2006, Doctor Who Magazine announced that Big Finish would be producing a new eight-part audio miniseries featuring the Eighth Doctor and new companion Lucie Miller (played by Sheridan Smith), set later in the character's chronology (i.e., after he has parted ways with "current" companions Charley Pollard and C'rizz). The miniseries will be broadcast on BBC 7 beginning on New Year's Eve 2006 and subsequently released on CD. Each episode will be 50 minutes long; most will be one-part stories, with two-parters beginning and ending the miniseries. Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Sheridan Smith (born 25 June 1981) is a British actress. ... India Fisher, who provides the voice for Charley Pollard Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Conrad Westmaas, who provides the voice for Crizz Crizz is a fictional character played by Conrad Westmaas in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The canonicity of Big Finish's productions in relation to the television series is unclear. Unlike, for example, Paramount Pictures which has a rule that only live-action televised or filmed Star Trek productions are canonical, the BBC has never made such an announcement regarding Doctor Who (the BBC's charter prohibits situations where television viewers must be required to purchase merchandise in order to follow the storyline). As such, the Big Finish audio productions (and print spin-offs) exist in a "grey area" in terms of canon. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ...

Big Finish also publishes a series of short story anthologies taking place in the Doctor Who universe under the overall title of Short Trips. Three Short Trips collections were published by BBC Books in the late 1990s, before a hardback short story anthology license was granted to Big Finish, who took over the name and have produced them ever since. The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short stories published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...

Big Finish has also produced a number of short, single episode plays which have been released exclusively with issues of Doctor Who Magazine. To date, this has included several Doctor Who stories, as well as stories from the UNIT and Bernice Summerfield series. Most of these DWM releases have also included behind-the-scenes audio featurettes and previews of regular releases (including on occasion complete sample episodes).

Characters, actors and villains

Along with the Doctors from the original series, most of their companions have returned. These include Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), Turlough (Mark Strickson), Peri (Nicola Bryant), Mel (Bonnie Langford), and Ace (Sophie Aldred). With Janet Fielding's reprisal of her role as Tegan Jovanka for one play, The Gathering, all the surviving actors who have played the companions of the respective Doctors to appear in Big Finish have appeared, with the exception of Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric. Sarah Sutton as Nyssa (from Snakedance). ... Sarah Sutton (publicity portrait). ... Mark Strickson as Turlough (from Mawdryn Undead). ... Mark Strickson (born 1961 in Stratford-upon-Avon) is a British actor best known for his role as the character of Vislor Turlough on the cult television series Doctor Who. ... Peri Brown, full name Perpugilliam Brown, is a fictional character played by Nicola Bryant in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Nicola Bryant (publicity portrait). ... Melanie Bush, or simply Mel, is a fictional character played by Bonnie Langford in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Bonnie Langford Bonita Melody Lysette Bonnie Langford (born 22 July 1964) is an English actress and entertainer. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Sophie Aldred (publicity photo from 1992) Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of the Doctors assistant Ace in the television series Doctor Who. ... Janet Fielding (publicity portrait). ... Tegan Jovanka is a fictional character played by Janet Fielding in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Gathering is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Matthew Waterhouse (born 19 December 1961 in Hertford) is a British actor best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Adric is a fictional character played by Matthew Waterhouse in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The audio plays have also introduced their own companions. These include Doctor Evelyn Smythe (played by Maggie Stables), Erimem (Caroline Morris), Charley Pollard (India Fisher), C'rizz (Conrad Westmaas) and "Hex" (Philip Olivier). The character of Professor Bernice Summerfield, from the spin-off novels, has also appeared, and stars in her own line of audio plays, written by a number of authors including her creator Paul Cornell. Frobisher, a shape-changing alien stuck in the guise of a penguin created in the mid 1980s for the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, has appeared in two stories, portrayed by Robert Jezek. Dr. Evelyn Smythe is a fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Maggie Stables, who voices Dr Evelyn Smythe Maggie Stables is a British actress who plays the part of the companion Evelyn Smythe in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... Erimemushinteperem, or simply Erimem, is a fictional character played by Caroline Morris in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Caroline Morris is a British actress who plays the part of the companion Erimem in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... India Fisher, who provides the voice for Charley Pollard Charlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... India Fisher, who provides the voice for Charley Pollard India Fisher is a British actress. ... Conrad Westmaas, who provides the voice for Crizz Crizz is a fictional character played by Conrad Westmaas in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Conrad Westmaas, who voices Crizz Conrad Westmaas is a British actor who plays the part of the companion Crizz in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... Philip Olivier, who provides the voice for Hex Thomas Hector Schofield, nicknamed Hex, is a fictional character played by Philip Olivier in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Philip Olivier Philip Olivier (born 1980 in Liverpool) is British actor whose most notable role was that of Timothy Tinhead OLeary, in the soap opera Brookside. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... Paul Cornell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Paul Cornell (born July 18, 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction. ... Frobisher is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in the 1980s. ... Modern Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For extinct genera, see Systematics Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Robert Jezek is a British actor who plays the part of the companion Frobisher in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. ...

Other spin-offs include the Gallifrey series (with Lalla Ward as Romana, Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K-9); the Dalek Empire series; the UNIT series; and the I, Davros series. Big Finish have also produced a series of Doctor Who plays based on alternative scenarios (for example, what if the Doctor had never left Gallifrey), collectively titled Doctor Who Unbound. This has allowed them to cast other actors in the role of the Doctor, including Sir Derek Jacobi and David Warner. A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ... Lalla Ward (publicity portrait from 1990). ... Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Louise Jameson Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951) is a British actress, most famous for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the mysterious Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... John Leeson (born March 1943 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England) a British actor who played the voice of K-9 on the television series Doctor Who from 1977 to 1981. ... K-9, or K9, is the name of several robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Sir Derek Jacobi plays Gracchus in Gladiator. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister characters. ...

A number of new villains have also been introduced, which include Nimrod, the deputy director of a United Kingdom "black ops" military research establishment known as the Forge. Thus far, Nimrod and the Forge have appeared in two Doctor Who audios, namely Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus, both written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright. There were hints of the Forge's influence in the subsequent audios Cryptobiosis, written by Elliot Thorpe and The Gathering by Joseph Lidster. Other writers for Big Finish include Rob Shearman and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, who have also written for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series. Nimrod is a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, which are based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Project: Twilight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Project: Lazarus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Cavan Scott is a British writer of science fiction audio plays, best known for his collaborations with Mark Wright. ... Mark Wright is a British writer of audio plays, best known for his collaborations with Cavan Scott. ... Cryptobiosis is an ametabolic state of life entered by some lower organisms in response to adverse environmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and oxygen deficiency. ... Born in 1971, Elliot Thorpe is a freelance scriptwriter and lyricist. ... The Gathering is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Robert Shearman appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Robert Shearman (also credited as Rob Shearman; born February 10, 1970 near London, England, United Kingdom) is currently best-known as a writer of Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish, and for his ongoing association with Jarvis & Ayres Productions (Martin Jarvis and... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham, England) is an English actor and writer. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ...

Former adversaries of the Doctor who have reappeared in the audio plays include the Master, the Cybermen, the Daleks, the Nimon and the Silurians. The Sea Devils made an appearance in the Bernice Summerfield play Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas. The Master is a supporting fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The name Silurians refers to a fictional race of reptile-like beings in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Sea Devils are a fictional race of amphibious reptile-like beings in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

2000 AD

Between 2002 and 2004, Big Finish released eighteen audio plays featuring characters from the British sci-fi comic strip anthology magazine 2000 AD. These consisted of sixteen Judge Dredd stories with two additional plays featuring characters from the Strontium Dog strip. Cover of the first issue of 2000 AD, 26 February 1977. ... This article is about the the comic-book character. ... Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons. ...

When initially announced, the intention was for the series to consist of stories based upon three strips with Rogue Trooper joining Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog. The first story to feature Rogue Trooper was supposed to be Nordland Calling by Gordon Rennie, but this was abandoned due to difficulties in creating the character’s unique personalities in the audio medium successfully on Big Finish’s limited budget and cast. 2000 AD [ prog 228, the first appearance of Rogue Trooper. ... Gordon Rennie is a former music journalist turned comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. ...

The Judge Dredd series drew heavily upon Big Finish’s reparatory company established through their Doctor Who series with many actors crossing over such as Toby Longworth (who voiced Dredd), Clare Buckfield, Nicholas Briggs, Mark Donovan and Teresa Gallagher who voiced Chief Judge Hershey. The series would also feature many special guest stars such as the The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss playing Judge Death, Doctor Who companion actress Nicola Bryant (who would also direct 99 Code Red!) plus Blakes 7 star Stephen Greif as Efil Drago San. Writers for the series included David Bishop and Dave Stone. Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio and television. ... Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin offs. ... Welsh actor Mark Donovan Mark Donovan (born 12 October 1968 in Aberdare, Wales, in the United Kingdom) is a character actor best known for grotesque roles in productions such as Shaun of the Dead, Black Books, and Murder Investigation Team. ... Judge Barbara Hershey is a fictional character, part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. Shortly after her graduation from the Academy of Law, Judge Hershey was the surprise choice to join the crew of the Justice 1... See: The League of Gentlemen (novel), by John Boland The League of Gentlemen (film) starring Jack Hawkins and made in 1959. ... Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham, England) is an English actor and writer. ... Judge Death and his lieutenants Fear, Mortis and Fire - artwork by Brian Bolland Judge Death is a fictional character of the Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD. He is the leader of the Dark Judges, a sinister group of undead law enforcers from the alternate dimension... Nicola Bryant (publicity portrait). ... Blakes 7 was a BBC science fiction television series created by Terry Nation that ran four seasons from January 2, 1978 to December 21, 1981. ... Stephen Greif (born August 26, 1944) is an English actor. ... David Bishop is the New Zealand born editor of British comics the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD. Generally agreed to have been the man who began to reverse the steep decline in sales suffered by both titles in the early 1990s, Bishop has been responsible for discovering many... Dave Stone is a British writer. ...

For the Strontium Dog audio plays, Shaun Of The Dead star Simon Pegg was cast in the leading role of Johnny Alpha with Longworth voicing his partner Wulf Sternhammer and Mark McDonnell taking on the role of Middenface McNulty. Despite critical acclaim, the sales of the first Strontium Dog release, Down to Earth, were disappointing and Big Finish focused almost exclusively on the better-selling Judge Dredd series. Writer Jonathan Clements would pen another Strontium Dog story for the series though with Fire from Heaven before the sixteenth play in the 2000 AD range, Pre-Emptive Revenge. This featured a crossover, with Johnny Alpha teaming up with Dredd in the aftermath of the Judgement Day storyline. Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy, or rom zom com as it dubs itself, released in 2004 (9 April in the United Kingdom, 24 September in the United States). ... Simon Pegg as the title role in Shaun of the Dead Simon John Pegg (born February 14, 1970) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. ... Categories: 2000AD characters | Stub ... Archibald Middenface McNulty is a fictional character from the 2000 AD series Strontium Dog. ... Jonathan Clements Jonathan Clements (1971- ) is a British writer and translator. ...

The final release in the 2000 AD series was a Judge Dredd play entitled Solo by Jonathan Clements, notable for star Toby Longworth voicing every single part through a combination of his own vocal dexterity and special effects.

No futher releases are planned at this time.

Earthsearch

Earthsearch was a science fiction novel by James Follett which was adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4. However, his prequel novel Earthsearch Mindwarp was adapted by Big Finish and is being broadcast by the Digital radio station BBC 7. Earthsearch Mindwarp stars a number of actors from the Doctor Who range — India Fisher, Nicholas Courtney and Colin Baker. Earthsearch: A Ten-Part Adventure Serial in Time and Space is a BBC Radio 4 science fiction series written by James Follett, comprising ten half-hour episodes broadcast between January and March 1981. ... James Follett (NB: not Follet) is an author and screenwriter (born 1939). ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Earthsearch: Mindwarp is a 3 part radio series based on the Mindwarp novel by James Follett. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ... Earthsearch: Mindwarp is a 3 part radio series based on the Mindwarp novel by James Follett. ... India Fisher, who provides the voice for Charley Pollard India Fisher is a British actress. ... Nicholas Courtney Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on December 16, 1929) is a British television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986. ...

See also

• List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish

This is a list of audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. ...

External links

• Big Finish Productions Official website
• The Tertiary Console Room - CD review website
• The DiscContinuity Guide - guide to the Doctor Who audio plays
• The Forge website