#big finish productions

[catboycephalopod]

HOLY SHIT!!! Big Finish has resurrected their Novel Adaptations Range after SEVEN YEARS; They're adapting the first Virgin Missing Adventure novel "Goth Opera"! If you're a fan of the Wilderness Years books or of the 5, Nyssa, and Tegan TARDIS team you should check it it out! It's releasing in July and you can preorder it now, LINKS BELOW!

The VNAs and EDAs are a pretty niche corner of Doctor Who fandom these days so its really fucking cool to get more love for these stories and this era of the series (although they haven't adapted any BBC books yet). It'd be REALLY sad if they retired book adaptations because of meh sales so if you're even remotely interested feel free to check out the links below! THE CONTINUATION OF THIS RANGE GETS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO EIGHTH DOCTOR BOOK ADAPTATIONS. I NEED FITZ AND EIGHT YOU GUYS.

Link to Goth Opera page: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-goth-opera-2998

Link to previous Novel Adaptations: https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who---novel-adaptations

#doctor who #dweu #doctor who expanded universe #nyssa #virgin missing adventures #tegan jovanka #5th doctor #peter davison #big finish #big finish productions #classic doctor who #virgin new adventures #bernice summerfield

[kittybricks]

I’m so married to them. They’re my evil codependent wives.

#doctor who #8th doctor fanart #8th doctor #charley pollard #charlotte pollard #8charley #eighth doctor #eighth Doctor fanart #big finish #big finish productions

[defiant-art]

portrait I did of the war master

3/27/24

#the war master #war master #doctor who #big finish #nuwho #derek jacobi #dw #big finish productions #art #my art #fanart #drawing #digital art #artists on tumblr

[careforthemadconductor]

Right, who the fuck is running big finish instagram

#big finish #sixth doctor #classic who #doctor who #big finish productions

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #750

The Doctor's favorite version of the song "Memory Lane" is the one performed by Rowlf the Dog and Gonzo.

Sources:

The Muppet Show. Episode 219: Peter Sellers. January 1, 1978.

"Incongruous Details" in Short Trips: The Centenarian. Simon Guerrier. Big Finish Productions. 2006.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #the Muppet Show #doctor who #Gonzo #gonzo the great #the great gonzo #rowlf #rowlf the dog #Big Finish Productions #Simon Guerrier #Short Trips: The Centenarian

[vintage1981]

Actress and Author, Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows, Passes at 84

Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died October 12 in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84.

Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family.

“I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”

Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey on Oct. 27, 1938, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Albert, was an attorney, and her mother, Ann, was active in civic groups.

She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Vassar — she roomed with Jane Fonda there — and Rhodes College in Memphis, where at 19 she served as Wink Martindale’s assistant on his WHBQ-TV show, Dance Party. She then earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show.

During breaks in production, Parker acted on Broadway in September 1968 in Woman Is My Idea, which lasted just five performances, and in the early Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.

And toward the end of the daytime serial, she and fellow castmembers including John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

In 1972, Parker relocated to Los Angeles and went on to appear on episodes of such shows as Medical Center, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (as a witch) and The Incredible Hulk, where she played David Banner’s first wife in a flashback sequence in the pilot.

In her later years, Parker turned to writing and teaching — her novels include Angelique’s Descent (1998), The Salem Branch (2006), Wolf Moon Rising (2013) and Heiress of Collinwood (2016). The books proved popular among Dark Shadows‘ still-devoted, conventions-attending fan base, as well as devotees of romance and horror genre novels.

Parker kept in touch with her co-stars including Scott, Selby, Roger Davis, the late John Karlen and others throughout her life, particularly once the conventions became annual events in the late 1980s through the 1990s and up to the 50th anniversary celebration in 2017.

Many of the original cast, including Parker, recorded a series of Dark Shadows audio dramas in the 2000s released by Big Finish Productions. They also reunited for a “Smartphone Theatre” Zoom-style, Covid-era performance of A Christmas Carol in 2021 and, on Halloween night 2020, a YouTube/Zoom Dark Shadows cast reunion.

Parker is survived by second husband Jim Hawkins, daughter Caitlin, sons Rick and Andy, and their wives Miranda and Celia; and grandson Wesley.

#Lara Parker #Dark Shadows #Dan Curtis #Jonathan Frid #The Incredible Hulk #Kojak #Kathryn Leigh Scott #Big Finish Productions #David Selby #Grayson Hall #Angelique Bouchard #Angelique Bouchard Collins #Barnabas Collins

[unifiedintelligencetaskwhores]

Fun fact! Many libraries in the US offer FREE audiobooks through Hoopla , and yes, that includes Big Finish Productions. All you need is a library card

#doctor who #classic doctor who #big finish #big finish productions

[raspberry-gloaming]

Hello, people! I'm someone who is Very Very Very intrigued and interested by the Gallifrey audio dramas (lore! political intrigue! found family! Gallifrey as a place and culture!) but unfortunately can't buy them.

And I've had a look and I don't believe any of them are on Spotify and the only free one I could find on the big finish website was only available free for a week that has long since passed 😭. Sooooo please help a girl out if you know of any links, or websites, or...? Help please reading the wiki pages isn't enough I'd love to listen.

#doctor who #gallifrey #big finish #big finish gallifrey #gallifrey audios #doctor who eu #gallifrey big finish #audio drama #audio book #big finish audio #big finish productions #big finish doctor who #whoniverse #dw #doctor who audios #dw audios #doctor who extended universe

[master-missysversion]

Yknow as much as I love The Bekdel Test i was lowkey dissapointed they didn't lean into the amazing frenemy relationship River and Missy couldve had

#missy doctor who #river song #big finish productions #the bekdel test

[jennyandvastraflint]

Trespassers excerpt audio used!!! I'M SO NORMAL I SWEAR :) (im lying)

THEY'RE JUST. THEY- THEY-

#AFTER THREEEEEE YEARS #I STARTED VIOLENTLY SOBBING AT THAT SCENE BTW :) #madame vastra #jenny flint #jenny and vastra #jenny x vastra #the paternoster gang #vastra x jenny #trespasser spoilers #trespassers rogue's gallery #doctor who #big finish #big finish productions #paternoster gang #strax #my edit #my edits

[vintagesapphicsandtea]

WAKE UP NEW PATERNOSTER GANG AUDIOS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED

#the paternoster gang #vastra x jenny #jenny x vastra #madame vastra #jenny flint #big finish productions #paternoster gang

[madfantheyinablueblog]

In celebration of Beep the Meep returning to Who, I'd like to share one of my favourite moments from the audio adaptation of his debut comic strip.

#'I have a Teensy weensy surprise in my secret pouch' #[Cocks gun] #beep the meep #doctor who #Dw #doctor who spoilers #Dw spoilers #Doctor who eu #doctor who extended universe #doctor who expanded universe #classic who #Big finish productions #4th doctor #Tom baker #Jack listens to big finish

[doctorkinktraveller]

DARK GALLIFREY - P1-3 MORBIUS

#new doctor who #big finish productions #dark gallifrey #morbius #gallifrey

[magical-grrrl-mavis]

I love the Big Finish audios, but I had a hard time forgiving them for this transphobic bullshit in 2003

In the studio (and Nicholas Briggs') defense, they've certainly definitely changed for the better

I rather like the referring to one's assigned gender as a "shot in the dark."

#tw suicide #tw transphobia #big finish productions

[thepasteldreamers]

Currently listening to Dark Eyes 3 by Big Finish for the first time (please no spoilers) and my opinion has been the same since day one of listening to Dark Eyes. They could NEVER get Eight, Molly, Ten and Donna in the same room because the world would explode from all the sass. ESPECIALLY with Donna and Molly together.

#doctor who #doctor who big finish #big finish productions #doctor who audio drama #I love Molly O’Sullivan so much #dark eyes probably wasn’t the best eight story to start with #Molly O’Sullivan #Donna Noble #eighth doctor #tenth doctor #doctor who slight spoilers

[dalesramblingsblog]

Relistening to The Apocalypse Element, a couple of things strike me:

This is probably about as good as you could expect a "Daleks invade Gallifrey" story to get. It's almost entirely spectacle-based, but it just about manages to paper over its shortcomings by moving at an unbelievable rate of knots... until the final episode where it basically just devolves into the Doctor trying to do some Very Intense Engineering to solve the problem. (Why yes, this did come out just one month after Cole's other big "showstopping invasion of Gallifrey" story in The Ancestor Cell, why do you ask?)

Cole's script also just seems very muddled on the issue of whether xenophobia and isolationism are bad or simply justified responses to real external threats. Take the cliffhanger to Part Two, where the "Monan" ship is revealed to contain Daleks. I get what the story is *trying* to do here, in having Vansell's opportunistic greed be shown up as Bad, but when you get down to it there is an element of "Don't allow refugees in because they might actually be providing cover for a group of belligerent and armed aggressors," which feels... poorly aged, particularly in a story that features at least two instances of what can accurately be described as "Dalek suicide bombings." (And really I'm probably affording Cole too much credit here, because I suspect any comment on Vansell's morals is strictly secondary to allowing him to say the line "The Daleks are invading Gallifrey!")

#doctor who #big finish productions #the apocalypse element #stephen cole