In the autumn of last year, I decided to do a rewatch of the Doctor Who television series (all of them). Part way through, I happened upon a very funny quotation attributed to a Diamanda Hagan, in some TH-cam thread or other. I thus discovered this channel - and the excellent Quick Guide to Classic Who, with its optimal balance of information, affection and irreverence. And now there’s this - which I have already found most informative. I’ve long been an ardent enthusiast of televised Doctor Who, but only recently became aware that it had also such a huge resource of audio drama - a catalogue so bewilderingly vast that I had no idea that I had myself - accidentally - become recently involved in it. A discerning guide like yourself will no doubt prove invaluable in charting some sort of path through the labyrinth. In fact, so impressed was I by the Classic Guide that I actually wrote down a list of phrases that had amused me. Here’s a handful of them. They are in no particular order, and they may be difficult to fathom out of context, but what is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it: ‘A race of man-hating, genocidal, possibly Lesbian go-go dancers.’ ‘Unlike most musicals, this one has only one song’ ‘If I showed you any more, the actor might chew through your walls, right through the screen, even though he’s long dead’ ‘And the companion is back to being stupid’ ‘No one can out-act this man when there’s foam involved’ ‘Leela: the only companion more likely to stab you than Jamie’ ‘Battled hardened disco-robots’ ‘Half of ABBA, crossed with a Christmas cracker’ ‘Meringue-faced future Doctor’ ‘Vanilla made flesh’ ‘Tom Baker looks like he’s fighting the urge to slit his wrists’ ‘And that’s only in part because of Jo’s jacket’ ‘This is a must-see … but it’s also f***ing terrible’ Magnificent work - a great way to introduce DW to the uninitiated - and hugely entertaining to the … initiated. Oh Ry In Eye Key Ooh Ley! 😁
Such kind words! Taken aback that my preferred Hartnell successor saw and liked my videos! I hope you enjoy this guide just as much, but knowing my upload speech you'll really be 450 years old when I finally get to 1!
@@DiamandaHagan 450, eh? So I’ll be travelling with Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling; and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will have just come out. Excellent! Well, Diamanda - I may call you Diamanda, mayn’t I? You don’t mind, do you? I didn’t think you would - yes, your videos have been a source of great enjoyment. And in the area of ‘my’ Doctor Who (i.e. Letts/Hinchcliffe), I found myself almost invariably agreeing with you. Which is nice. Other things that spring to mind are: 1. Your touching encounter with Bernard Horsfall - who I once did a radio play with. He clearly had a well-rehearsed Deadly Assassin response prepared, but tended to get a bit John Merrick (‘Everybody’s been very kind!’) if you asked him about anything else. I wanted to talk about one of the most disturbing scenes of the 1970s - when he grabbed a standing metal ashtray and smashed up his television in the opening episode of The Changes. ‘Oh, yes… I think we didn’t film that in… no, we were in, er, Birmingham, was it?’ ‘Bristol.’ ‘Bristol. Ha. Yes… Bristol. Good heavens…’ Lovely chap. And so tall! The most enthusiastic DW supporting actor I ever worked with was Philip Madoc, who seemed to remember EVERYTHING about The Brain of Morbius - and The War Games - and even the bloody Krotons! I don’t think I asked him about The Power of Kroll - can’t think why… 2. Reminded of the prevalent myth (circa the year before you were born!) that the UK didn’t know the Cybermen were going to be in Earthshock. I can’t speak for the entire nation, but on Merseyside, the Radio Times (with the listings for the next week obv) was delivered every Monday. Thus, on THAT (episode 1) Monday, we had the following week’s edition with the ‘Cybermen Are Back’ article in it - so the Doctor Who fans at my school (all two of us!) were ecstatic all day. I LOVE spoilers - so it was ‘excellent!’ And thankfully - for once! - the unsurprise was worth waiting for! 3. Also - your Nigel Kneale (without whom etc) video is excellent too. I would say to anyone - if they haven’t time to watch the actual stuff - they should watch your videos! 👍😁
@@stephennoonan8417 Oh Bernard Horsefall, he was so nice. I watched The Changes recently and didn't even notice it was him in it, I think I was too amused by it basically being a kids version of The Walking Dead (all the post-apocalyptic danger and survival). I'm thinking I might do a video on it because in a very weird way it kinda works for a gonzo metaphor for modern Britain. I think my fave Doctor Who spoilers are the stories that have shock reveals of secret villains whose name was in the title but that's just me :) Thanks for the kind words about the Kneale video, he was so talented (have you heard Tom Baker reading his story about the frog taxidermist??)
@@DiamandaHagan You HAVE to do a vid on The Changes; I’ll be inconsolably disappointed if you don’t. It went out on Mondays, concurrent with Ark in Space, Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks - in the days when children’s television was made by slightly sadistic nut jobs. It’s also part of that strand of ecological doom-mongering (a fresher narrative idea then) that gave us The Green Death in Doctor Who and Penda’s Fen in Play for Today. That’d be a good one to review. No reductive finger-wagging there, but a surreal phantasmagoria of sinister industrial experiment, awakening teenage sexuality, folk-horror … and Elgar. Quintessential 70s bonkersness. Tom Baker used to say, ‘If you underestand the play it’s no good’ - which possibly makes Penda’s Fen a masterpiece. Chris (Kinda) Bailey used to say, ‘The explanation’s always thinner than the thing’ - which always put me in mind of The Changes, where the singing pylons, demented Luddites and peripatetic Sikhs were a bit let down by the dénouement explanation of an environmentally friendly rock that talks Latin. The last really good eco drama on British telly was probably Edge of Darkness in 1985 … Yes, titular spoilers of cliffhangers. Mostly Dalek stories spring to mind, but the prize probably goes to Pertwee’s inexplicable surprise at discovering a Dalek when he’d arrived on the planet (of them) after recently escaping from them and hanging out with a bunch of Thals for the whole episode. The only surprise returns that really were a surprise were the Sontarans at the end of episode 4 of Invasion of Time… And there was the reveal of the Master in episode 3 of Keeoer of Traken - which really worked in 1981. Anything to do with Nigel Kneale or Tom Baker reading interests me - so the combination of both is extremely appealing. I’ve heard one about a kid’s photograph, but not a frog taxidermist… an omission I hope to rectify. 😁
As someone who has a constant on and off again with Dr Who but tends to enjoy the more batshit high concept of classic I was only ever vaguely aware of Big Finish. I feel foolish now definitely going to check some of these out as I work on college projects. Thanks!
You mimicked my own thinking there on Colin Baker. Much improved, there. Easily my favourite Big Finish Doctor. They wrote him far, far more competently than the television show did... though that is not exactly the highest bar. Incidentally, I work as a call centre manager for a market research company, and one day while floor walking I heard an interviewer say the name 'Colin Baker'. Respondents for that project were supposed to be on the wealthier side, so I thought 'nah can't be'. I went to the desk, listened in for a second, just long enough to hear him speak. Within two syllables I knew it was him. Interviewer wasn't handling the call well either, so I very probably almost got escalated to Colin on the phones. Can you imagine how awkward that would have been? :)
Rory stories are REALLY good. LIke no, they are some of the best, most heartwarming stories big finish produces because Rory is that perfect a protagonist. In the second boxset he becomes best friends with Lancelot who is 100% in love with Rory and their friendship (Rory sadly doesn't reciprocate) is amazing. I actually teared up at the end of Camelot boxset.
Big finish is the main source of my Doctor Who fandom and probably why 8 is my personal favorite of the doctors. I actually got into them on your suggestion in the original guide videos so I'm excited to see where you go with this.
@@DiamandaHaganI’m still in remission, and count my blessings everyday! Big Finish means the absolute world to me, maybe even more then televised Doctor Who. I can’t wait to see your take on it!
I love these quick guides to Doctor Who I've watched your other series a ridiculous amount of times now. They really added to my enjoyment of who. And I'm excited to hear what you have to say about big finish.
Oh cool I remember watching the Quick Guide back in the day when it was coming out. Contributed a lot to my appreciation for Classic Who at a time when I was still a noob to the franchise. Doing it again but with Big Finish this time is gonna be fun, especially now that I’m knee deep in Who yet still fairly lacking in knowledge on this corner of the franchise.
"Nearly." Interesting. I hadn't known about the series side of things with RTD. All I did know what that series's revival prematurely ended the Divergent Universe story arc for the Eighth Doctor
I really enjoyed Big Finish's audio dramas of Judge Dredd. Toby Longworth is spot on as Dredd, and in "Judge Dredd: Solo", he plays 23 characters. Simon Pegg and Mark Gatiss make guest appearances in that series as well.
You have no idea how hyped I am for this. Your Quick Guide To Classic Who series were one of the main reasons I managed to get into Classic Who over 7 years ago. So thanks SO MUCH for that! And thanks so much for doing this! Big Finish has been such a passion of mine for nearly as long as I've been a Whovian (Especially the McGann ones, Stranded is AMAZING!!!). So I can't wait to see what you do with this new guide series. Best of luck to you!
Huzzah! New Classic Doctor Who companion videos from Diamanda! I sometimes relisten to the Classic Who guide as I work. I'm looking forward to what you have to say about Big Finish.
Can’t believe you listed Dudman’s 12 impersonation, yet failed to mention the even more ropey Briggs’s version of 9 XD But yeah, good luck covering all this madness from a company whose motto really should be “Big Finish: For the love of giving every ancillary character some box sets”
There aren't enough words for how excited I am for this, I am both excited and terrified to hear your opinion of Doctor Who and the Pirates or the Lass that Lost a sailor or the best Doctor Who story in any medium ever.
Honestly never thought I'd say this, but thanks RTD for not stopping Big Finish, like I get I should be grateful he brought WHo back but honestly... ehh I'm just burned out on New who I guess... I miss the slower pace of the old stuff and the less continuity to keep track of, which whne your main character can go anywhere and do anything good luck HAVING a continuity...
I go back and fourth on whether i love or despise masterful or an absolutely un love with it, because the first half is... ironically, masterful, but I feel it really goes off the deep end when they rub out of itnresting interactions
I was wondering if you'd get sroung to doing big finish content. It'll be interesting interesting to see how you do the visuals for your reviews. I've been doing still images and creating scenes out of cut outs when I have to. Its time consuming but it's fun
There was a minor effect TV Who returning had on big finish, it cut short the divergent arc in the eighth doctor stories as they decided to end all ongoing arcs to create a fresh start in the main range - leading to the absolute clusterfuck that is The Next Life
You missed out the BBV pirate audios, i mean there's K9, and the Mistress who is totally not Romana 2, or the Time Travelers played by Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred are the Professor and um Ace...
I’ve recently started getting into big finish and got some big finish vouchers for my birthday but I’ve got no idea on what to spend them on hopefully this video series will help me with that
If you don't want to wait for the videos I'd suggest getting some early stuff on download (cheap and some of their most interesting stuff). The Evelyn/6 and Peri/ Erimem/ 5 stuff are faves of mine and complete (unlikely to have any extra adventures added).
I’ve only listened a few audios but saw a lot of review over series of Big Finish and in my opinion, the sixth doctor is the most improved doctors. He’s benefited from Big Finish more.
AWWW FUCK YEAH! loved your content for years, and quick guide to classic who was what converted me from *stock rtd era fan* to actual Doctor who fan. i'd seen quite a few episodes of classic before i saw your series (around 2013-2014 ish i remember it being pre-series 8) but i was still overall ignorant to the whole series and how good it was. I still overall disagree with your takes on new who but after getting really into big finish during lockdown i'm glad i get to see you talk about this! Personally 7 + Ace monthly stuff, the Evelyn and 6 adventures, some of the EDA's and 8th doctor monthly's and Torchwood aliens among us rank up there for me as my favourite stuff they've done.
@@DiamandaHaganonly seen flip in the fourth wall, and 1 other one I can't remember the name of, thought she was aight but felt to me too much like Rose crossed with ace. Liked constance in the story I saw her in although again can't remember the name, she was more unique imo. Still not glad we never got Evelyn + frobisher + 6.
@@ms.antithesis Give the Flip and Constance joint adventures a go, they really shine when put together. Static, Scorched Earth and the Behemoth in particular.
I got lended a bunch of audios a while back and timehacked was amongst then, I am so glad I didn't have to buy it to realise how bad the 12 impression is
I love scrolling past my friends monthly range collection and just stealing random cds from them (give then back eventually obvs) but you find some of the best wacky episode concepts that I'd love if the show was more attuned to
I'd actually say Davison is most improved by Big Finish and I don't even like his Doctor. Davison even acknowledged in one of the inteviews that he was horribly miscast when he played the Doctor on TV and had no idea what the Hell he was doing with the character but returning to it now he's actually old and mature enough to play the character properly he's a lot mor comfortable with the mantle. In contrast Colin always was the Doctor, always was perfect for the role and already had a decent pile of TV stories. Big Finish just made him even better.
My main problem with Doctor of War was that the Daleks didn't fucking die! I was hoping for a series based around a Time War with an actually legitimate threat like the Great Vampires, Racnoss or Faction Paradox.
Have you seen the Doctor who world of wonder yet? Also everyone who do you think Neil Patrick Harris is playing in the 60th ( I think that it's the Celstiael toymaker)
I hate to sound harsh but I do not gravitate towards Stephen Noonan's First Doctor, I much prefer David Bradley, yes he sounds nothing like Hartnell but he does perfectly capture the spirit of the First Doctor through his own performance When it comes to these recastings you either need someone who's spot on with their impression like Jacob Dudman, Frazer Hines or Tim Trealor, or someone who may not sound like the Doctor but captures their spirit like Bradley or Michael Troughton. Stephen Noonan sounds more focused on trying to be an exact impersonation of Hartnell rather than give his own performance as the character as his impersonation doesn't work At least for me anyway
My dear Daniel, there are far harsher sounding things you could have said than that; and I like the word ‘gravitate’ in any context. What Stephen is doing with the performance is certainly not to everyone’s taste; and - as a fan who has previously experienced severe disappointment himself with aspects of the programme - he is extremely sympathetic to their reservations. He always tries to read every comment made about it - partly from an insistence on hearing bad news immediately, but also out of a belief in ‘the power of facing’,or in the hope of learning from ‘just criticism’. Very best wishes to you though, Daniel. And I’ll seriously consider what you have said. SN 😁
@@stephennoonan8417 Thank you sir, I appreciate knowing I've not been too harsh in what I've said, it can be very easy to go overboard with negative criticism. And it's not really fair to give a final verdict when you've only done one release so far. I do hope my current opinion will improve over time. And in the end whatever I may say and however you take on board whatever feedback, so long as you're doing what you enjoy that's the most important thing. Very best wishes to you too sir
@@danieldunn613 Oh, that’s all right, Daniel. It’s a curious thing to survey the range of responses the work has received - from deeply unimpressed like yourself to the positively adulatory. I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I do enjoy it, yes. And it may be irrational of me, but it might surprise you to learn that I (almost) enjoy the negativity as much as the positivity - because any sort of uniformity is just, well, paralysingly dull, boring and tedious. I suppose the ideal is to hear somebody I respect say, ‘Not bad at all.’ What I would encourage - and no doubt the likes of Briggs and Haigh-Ellerry would approve of this economically 😉 - is that auditors listen to a whole story rather than just clips or trailers before they make a judgment. I’m sure you have, Daniel - and, as I say, I’m sorry it’s not to your taste. But I appreciate your perspective. Very best wishes, Stephen. 😁
Dreyfus was never The Master he was just A Master, and frankly the only reason his Master even existed is cos Big Finish hadn't yet decided to use Jon Culshaw as the Delgado incarnation, in short I found his Master boring and I won't miss him
It’s even worse when Masterful gave the Master’s first incarnation a way more interesting characterisation than the Destination Wars did. I wish we got that squeamish version of the Master who constantly kept trying to moralise his actions from the get go.
I think its because hes doing his own take on it. I can kind of understand that. Its his dad he's being asked to imitate. I wouldn't want to do an impression of my dad.
yo i thought the exact same thing and checked the comments to see if anyone thought the same! Like I really liked Diamanda's old classic who guide vids so wanted to watch this but somehow they've picked up a really weird way of talking since then
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In the autumn of last year, I decided to do a rewatch of the Doctor Who television series (all of them).
Part way through, I happened upon a very funny quotation attributed to a Diamanda Hagan, in some TH-cam thread or other.
I thus discovered this channel - and the excellent Quick Guide to Classic Who, with its optimal balance of information, affection and irreverence.
And now there’s this - which I have already found most informative.
I’ve long been an ardent enthusiast of televised Doctor Who, but only recently became aware that it had also such a huge resource of audio drama - a catalogue so bewilderingly vast that I had no idea that I had myself - accidentally - become recently involved in it.
A discerning guide like yourself will no doubt prove invaluable in charting some sort of path through the labyrinth.
In fact, so impressed was I by the Classic Guide that I actually wrote down a list of phrases that had amused me. Here’s a handful of them. They are in no particular order, and they may be difficult to fathom out of context, but what is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it:
‘A race of man-hating, genocidal, possibly Lesbian
go-go dancers.’
‘Unlike most musicals, this one has only one song’
‘If I showed you any more, the actor might chew through your walls, right through the screen, even though he’s long dead’
‘And the companion is back to being stupid’
‘No one can out-act this man when there’s foam involved’
‘Leela: the only companion more likely to stab you than Jamie’
‘Battled hardened disco-robots’
‘Half of ABBA, crossed with a Christmas cracker’
‘Meringue-faced future Doctor’
‘Vanilla made flesh’
‘Tom Baker looks like he’s fighting the urge to slit his wrists’
‘And that’s only in part because of Jo’s jacket’
‘This is a must-see … but it’s also f***ing terrible’
Magnificent work - a great way to introduce DW to the uninitiated - and hugely entertaining to the … initiated.
Oh Ry In Eye Key Ooh Ley!
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Such kind words! Taken aback that my preferred Hartnell successor saw and liked my videos! I hope you enjoy this guide just as much, but knowing my upload speech you'll really be 450 years old when I finally get to 1!
@@DiamandaHagan
450, eh?
So I’ll be travelling with Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling; and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will have just come out. Excellent!
Well, Diamanda - I may call you Diamanda, mayn’t I? You don’t mind, do you? I didn’t think you would - yes, your videos have been a source of great enjoyment.
And in the area of ‘my’ Doctor Who (i.e. Letts/Hinchcliffe), I found myself almost invariably agreeing with you. Which is nice.
Other things that spring to mind are:
1. Your touching encounter with Bernard Horsfall - who I once did a radio play with. He clearly had a well-rehearsed Deadly Assassin response prepared, but tended to get a bit John Merrick (‘Everybody’s been very kind!’) if you asked him about anything else.
I wanted to talk about one of the most disturbing scenes of the 1970s - when he grabbed a standing metal ashtray and smashed up his television in the opening episode of The Changes.
‘Oh, yes… I think we didn’t film that in… no, we were in, er, Birmingham, was it?’
‘Bristol.’
‘Bristol. Ha. Yes… Bristol. Good heavens…’
Lovely chap. And so tall!
The most enthusiastic DW supporting actor I ever worked with was Philip Madoc, who seemed to remember EVERYTHING about The Brain of Morbius - and The War Games - and even the bloody Krotons!
I don’t think I asked him about The Power of Kroll - can’t think why…
2. Reminded of the prevalent myth (circa the year before you were born!) that the UK didn’t know the Cybermen were going to be in Earthshock.
I can’t speak for the entire nation, but on Merseyside, the Radio Times (with the listings for the next week obv) was delivered every Monday.
Thus, on THAT (episode 1) Monday, we had the following week’s edition with the ‘Cybermen Are Back’ article in it - so the Doctor Who fans at my school (all two of us!) were ecstatic all day.
I LOVE spoilers - so it was ‘excellent!’ And thankfully - for once! - the unsurprise was worth waiting for!
3. Also - your Nigel Kneale (without whom etc) video is excellent too.
I would say to anyone - if they haven’t time to watch the actual stuff - they should watch your videos!
👍😁
@@stephennoonan8417 Oh Bernard Horsefall, he was so nice. I watched The Changes recently and didn't even notice it was him in it, I think I was too amused by it basically being a kids version of The Walking Dead (all the post-apocalyptic danger and survival). I'm thinking I might do a video on it because in a very weird way it kinda works for a gonzo metaphor for modern Britain.
I think my fave Doctor Who spoilers are the stories that have shock reveals of secret villains whose name was in the title but that's just me :)
Thanks for the kind words about the Kneale video, he was so talented (have you heard Tom Baker reading his story about the frog taxidermist??)
@@DiamandaHagan
You HAVE to do a vid on The Changes; I’ll be inconsolably disappointed if you don’t.
It went out on Mondays, concurrent with Ark in Space, Sontaran Experiment and Genesis of the Daleks - in the days when children’s television was made by slightly sadistic nut jobs.
It’s also part of that strand of ecological doom-mongering (a fresher narrative idea then) that gave us The Green Death in Doctor Who and Penda’s Fen in Play for Today.
That’d be a good one to review. No reductive finger-wagging there, but a surreal phantasmagoria of sinister industrial experiment, awakening teenage sexuality, folk-horror … and Elgar. Quintessential 70s bonkersness.
Tom Baker used to say, ‘If you underestand the play it’s no good’ - which possibly makes Penda’s Fen a masterpiece. Chris (Kinda) Bailey used to say, ‘The explanation’s always thinner than the thing’ - which always put me in mind of The Changes, where the singing pylons, demented Luddites and peripatetic Sikhs were a bit let down by the dénouement explanation of an environmentally friendly rock that talks Latin.
The last really good eco drama on British telly was probably Edge of Darkness in 1985 …
Yes, titular spoilers of cliffhangers. Mostly Dalek stories spring to mind, but the prize probably goes to Pertwee’s inexplicable surprise at discovering a Dalek when he’d arrived on the planet (of them) after recently escaping from them and hanging out with a bunch of Thals for the whole episode.
The only surprise returns that really were a surprise were the Sontarans at the end of episode 4 of Invasion of Time…
And there was the reveal of the Master in episode 3 of Keeoer of Traken - which really worked in 1981.
Anything to do with Nigel Kneale or Tom Baker reading interests me - so the combination of both is extremely appealing. I’ve heard one about a kid’s photograph, but not a frog taxidermist… an omission I hope to rectify.
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how long did that take you? Took me 34 days and I DO mean ALL of them, All 13 doctors, and Torchwood and Sarah Jane!
I've missed that intro song. ❤
The Time Bandits music for the Time Lords Intro.. fitting.
Been a long time since I've heard that intro.
Glad to be back.
Pure joy. I'm very fortunate to have friends working in BF, and the company has always been a source of creative joy for me. Thank you Hagan :)
As someone who has a constant on and off again with Dr Who but tends to enjoy the more batshit high concept of classic I was only ever vaguely aware of Big Finish. I feel foolish now definitely going to check some of these out as I work on college projects. Thanks!
You have lot to choose from, and there's more than a couple of free stories available for you to start off with!
You mimicked my own thinking there on Colin Baker. Much improved, there. Easily my favourite Big Finish Doctor. They wrote him far, far more competently than the television show did... though that is not exactly the highest bar.
Incidentally, I work as a call centre manager for a market research company, and one day while floor walking I heard an interviewer say the name 'Colin Baker'. Respondents for that project were supposed to be on the wealthier side, so I thought 'nah can't be'.
I went to the desk, listened in for a second, just long enough to hear him speak. Within two syllables I knew it was him.
Interviewer wasn't handling the call well either, so I very probably almost got escalated to Colin on the phones. Can you imagine how awkward that would have been? :)
Rory stories are REALLY good. LIke no, they are some of the best, most heartwarming stories big finish produces because Rory is that perfect a protagonist. In the second boxset he becomes best friends with Lancelot who is 100% in love with Rory and their friendship (Rory sadly doesn't reciprocate) is amazing. I actually teared up at the end of Camelot boxset.
I love that he's completely oblivious for most of it
The first 12 doctors teaming up to fight covid. How did I not know this about this sooner?
1-13, plus War :). Lockdown: Doctor's Assemble is a fun time!
Big Finish has some really good 40K stuff too. Seems like a good company.
Big finish is the main source of my Doctor Who fandom and probably why 8 is my personal favorite of the doctors. I actually got into them on your suggestion in the original guide videos so I'm excited to see where you go with this.
Oh, as a massive big finish fan since the late 90’s, I’ve been waiting oh so patiently for you to really discuss Big Finish 😊😊😊
- Christopher -
Oh hey, Christopher! Glad to se you again!
@@DiamandaHaganI’m still in remission, and count my blessings everyday!
Big Finish means the absolute world to me, maybe even more then televised Doctor Who. I can’t wait to see your take on it!
God ive missed that classic quick guide intro
Going off companions will be interesting considering that Charley Pollard travelled with Six, but started with Eight.
YES!! i never expected to see these covered and i love it
Fantastic and what a mellifluous voice
Ant p uk teacher retired
Oh ho, fuck yeah! *claps hands*
This is the series I never knew I needed so much! Roll on your Colin video 👍
More like 10 Colin videos :D
Wonderful. I can’t wait - I hope you have Evelyn in there somewhere.
She's getting probably the single longest 6 video! Peri's getting 2 though (SO MANY STORIES).
Great breakdown of Big Finish's catalogue. Subscribed and excited to see more
Sean Pertwee should be the Undound Doctor
I love these quick guides to Doctor Who I've watched your other series a ridiculous amount of times now. They really added to my enjoyment of who. And I'm excited to hear what you have to say about big finish.
So glad to see this. Thank you.
Oh cool I remember watching the Quick Guide back in the day when it was coming out. Contributed a lot to my appreciation for Classic Who at a time when I was still a noob to the franchise.
Doing it again but with Big Finish this time is gonna be fun, especially now that I’m knee deep in Who yet still fairly lacking in knowledge on this corner of the franchise.
"Nearly."
Interesting. I hadn't known about the series side of things with RTD.
All I did know what that series's revival prematurely ended the Divergent Universe story arc for the Eighth Doctor
I looked in to Big Finish on your recommendation and I loved them!
Mostly the Six stories, so I'm happy you're looking at them, lol
I really enjoyed Big Finish's audio dramas of Judge Dredd. Toby Longworth is spot on as Dredd, and in "Judge Dredd: Solo", he plays 23 characters.
Simon Pegg and Mark Gatiss make guest appearances in that series as well.
Very cool. Looking forward to this run!
You have no idea how hyped I am for this. Your Quick Guide To Classic Who series were one of the main reasons I managed to get into Classic Who over 7 years ago. So thanks SO MUCH for that! And thanks so much for doing this! Big Finish has been such a passion of mine for nearly as long as I've been a Whovian (Especially the McGann ones, Stranded is AMAZING!!!). So I can't wait to see what you do with this new guide series. Best of luck to you!
Hell yeah, finally! Can't wait to see you cover the 8 audios, I have some very strong opinions on those
Huzzah! New Classic Doctor Who companion videos from Diamanda! I sometimes relisten to the Classic Who guide as I work. I'm looking forward to what you have to say about Big Finish.
Can’t believe you listed Dudman’s 12 impersonation, yet failed to mention the even more ropey Briggs’s version of 9 XD
But yeah, good luck covering all this madness from a company whose motto really should be “Big Finish: For the love of giving every ancillary character some box sets”
There aren't enough words for how excited I am for this, I am both excited and terrified to hear your opinion of Doctor Who and the Pirates or the Lass that Lost a sailor or the best Doctor Who story in any medium ever.
WOOOOOOT
Yes! So excited!
Honestly never thought I'd say this, but thanks RTD for not stopping Big Finish, like I get I should be grateful he brought WHo back but honestly... ehh I'm just burned out on New who I guess... I miss the slower pace of the old stuff and the less continuity to keep track of, which whne your main character can go anywhere and do anything good luck HAVING a continuity...
I look forward to seeing a video sometime in the future about how Big finish made people love the 13th doctor
The Day Today skit was hilarious 😁 good vid!
Thank you for these, by the way. I was able to get into Doctor Who thanks to your overviews.
I go back and fourth on whether i love or despise masterful or an absolutely un love with it, because the first half is... ironically, masterful, but I feel it really goes off the deep end when they rub out of itnresting interactions
Great review
I was wondering if you'd get sroung to doing big finish content. It'll be interesting interesting to see how you do the visuals for your reviews. I've been doing still images and creating scenes out of cut outs when I have to. Its time consuming but it's fun
Fucking awesome. Awesome to the max
There was a minor effect TV Who returning had on big finish, it cut short the divergent arc in the eighth doctor stories as they decided to end all ongoing arcs to create a fresh start in the main range - leading to the absolute clusterfuck that is The Next Life
You missed out the BBV pirate audios, i mean there's K9, and the Mistress who is totally not Romana 2, or the Time Travelers played by Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred are the Professor and um Ace...
I make my list of audios by companions too
Elliot crossley 10th has been spot on, he also did voice of 10th in doctor who parody.
I’ve recently started getting into big finish and got some big finish vouchers for my birthday but I’ve got no idea on what to spend them on hopefully this video series will help me with that
If you don't want to wait for the videos I'd suggest getting some early stuff on download (cheap and some of their most interesting stuff). The Evelyn/6 and Peri/ Erimem/ 5 stuff are faves of mine and complete (unlikely to have any extra adventures added).
I’ve only listened a few audios but saw a lot of review over series of Big Finish and in my opinion, the sixth doctor is the most improved doctors. He’s benefited from Big Finish more.
AWWW FUCK YEAH!
loved your content for years, and quick guide to classic who was what converted me from *stock rtd era fan* to actual Doctor who fan. i'd seen quite a few episodes of classic before i saw your series (around 2013-2014 ish i remember it being pre-series 8) but i was still overall ignorant to the whole series and how good it was. I still overall disagree with your takes on new who but after getting really into big finish during lockdown i'm glad i get to see you talk about this!
Personally 7 + Ace monthly stuff, the Evelyn and 6 adventures, some of the EDA's and 8th doctor monthly's and Torchwood aliens among us rank up there for me as my favourite stuff they've done.
How do you feel about 6 and Constace+Flip tho!
@@DiamandaHaganonly seen flip in the fourth wall, and 1 other one I can't remember the name of, thought she was aight but felt to me too much like Rose crossed with ace. Liked constance in the story I saw her in although again can't remember the name, she was more unique imo. Still not glad we never got Evelyn + frobisher + 6.
@@ms.antithesis Give the Flip and Constance joint adventures a go, they really shine when put together. Static, Scorched Earth and the Behemoth in particular.
@@DiamandaHagan will do
Oh no, this is gonna kill her...
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*slowly opens popcorn*
Sean Pertwe should play an unbound Doctor
I got lended a bunch of audios a while back and timehacked was amongst then, I am so glad I didn't have to buy it to realise how bad the 12 impression is
Ohhh Yeah~
a video on the AVs would be cool
Gallifrey is dev still my fav Big finish spin off series
I love scrolling past my friends monthly range collection and just stealing random cds from them (give then back eventually obvs) but you find some of the best wacky episode concepts that I'd love if the show was more attuned to
I'd actually say Davison is most improved by Big Finish and I don't even like his Doctor. Davison even acknowledged in one of the inteviews that he was horribly miscast when he played the Doctor on TV and had no idea what the Hell he was doing with the character but returning to it now he's actually old and mature enough to play the character properly he's a lot mor comfortable with the mantle.
In contrast Colin always was the Doctor, always was perfect for the role and already had a decent pile of TV stories. Big Finish just made him even better.
My main problem with Doctor of War was that the Daleks didn't fucking die! I was hoping for a series based around a Time War with an actually legitimate threat like the Great Vampires, Racnoss or Faction Paradox.
Have you seen the Doctor who world of wonder yet?
Also everyone who do you think Neil Patrick Harris is playing in the 60th ( I think that it's the Celstiael toymaker)
Ubot in ww1
Where did you get the video with the elves
I hate to sound harsh but I do not gravitate towards Stephen Noonan's First Doctor, I much prefer David Bradley, yes he sounds nothing like Hartnell but he does perfectly capture the spirit of the First Doctor through his own performance
When it comes to these recastings you either need someone who's spot on with their impression like Jacob Dudman, Frazer Hines or Tim Trealor, or someone who may not sound like the Doctor but captures their spirit like Bradley or Michael Troughton. Stephen Noonan sounds more focused on trying to be an exact impersonation of Hartnell rather than give his own performance as the character as his impersonation doesn't work
At least for me anyway
My dear Daniel, there are far harsher sounding things you could have said than that; and I like the word ‘gravitate’ in any context.
What Stephen is doing with the performance is certainly not to everyone’s taste; and - as a fan who has previously experienced severe disappointment himself with aspects of the programme - he is extremely sympathetic to their reservations.
He always tries to read every comment made about it - partly from an insistence on hearing bad news immediately, but also out of a belief in ‘the power of facing’,or in the hope of learning from ‘just criticism’.
Very best wishes to you though, Daniel. And I’ll seriously consider what you have said.
SN
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@@stephennoonan8417 Thank you sir, I appreciate knowing I've not been too harsh in what I've said, it can be very easy to go overboard with negative criticism. And it's not really fair to give a final verdict when you've only done one release so far. I do hope my current opinion will improve over time. And in the end whatever I may say and however you take on board whatever feedback, so long as you're doing what you enjoy that's the most important thing.
Very best wishes to you too sir
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Oh, that’s all right, Daniel.
It’s a curious thing to survey the range of responses the work has received - from deeply unimpressed like yourself to the positively adulatory.
I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
I do enjoy it, yes.
And it may be irrational of me, but it might surprise you to learn that I (almost) enjoy the negativity as much as the positivity - because any sort of uniformity is just, well, paralysingly dull, boring and tedious.
I suppose the ideal is to hear somebody I respect say, ‘Not bad at all.’
What I would encourage - and no doubt the likes of Briggs and Haigh-Ellerry would approve of this economically 😉 - is that auditors listen to a whole story rather than just clips or trailers before they make a judgment.
I’m sure you have, Daniel - and, as I say, I’m sorry it’s not to your taste.
But I appreciate your perspective.
Very best wishes,
Stephen.
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Dreyfus was never The Master he was just A Master, and frankly the only reason his Master even existed is cos Big Finish hadn't yet decided to use Jon Culshaw as the Delgado incarnation, in short I found his Master boring and I won't miss him
They shoulda sked Tipple heh
It’s even worse when Masterful gave the Master’s first incarnation a way more interesting characterisation than the Destination Wars did. I wish we got that squeamish version of the Master who constantly kept trying to moralise his actions from the get go.
Oof that Michael Troughton voice 😬 Frazer Hines’ is so much better
I think its because hes doing his own take on it. I can kind of understand that. Its his dad he's being asked to imitate. I wouldn't want to do an impression of my dad.
“Yes Jamie, that is a big one”
Can’t watch this because of the way your accent goes weird at the end of ever sentence very distracting
And my accent is weird to begin with.
yo i thought the exact same thing and checked the comments to see if anyone thought the same! Like I really liked Diamanda's old classic who guide vids so wanted to watch this but somehow they've picked up a really weird way of talking since then