Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to

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and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on

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science fiction properties. These include '' Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', ''

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'', '' Dracula'', ''

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'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', ''

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'' and '' Torchwood''.

History

Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the

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, a series of novels from

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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. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''

The Sirens of Time ''The Sirens of Time'' is a 1999 audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was the first Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the series and became the first in the company's '' Ma ...

''. ''Doctor Who'' and spin-offs have remained the main part of the company's output ever since, although they have since diversified. Many of those initially involved in Big Finish had worked on the

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fan series of unlicensed ''Doctor Who'' audio plays. The name of the company was taken from the episode "The Big Finish" of the 1989-1993 ITV series '' Press Gang''. On 25 July 2019, Big Finish made a statement about equality and diversity in response to requests from fans wishing the company to make a statement on the views expressed by a few individuals they have worked with. The company stated that it is committed to ensuring that those working for the company are protected from discrimination due to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, pregnancy or maternity leave, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation.

Organisation

Until July 2006, Gary Russell served as producer of the ''Doctor Who'' audios. When Russell left the company, Jason Haigh-Ellery and

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took joint responsibility as Co-Executive Producers. Briggs now bears creative responsibility for Big Finish's ''Doctor Who'' range, along with script editor Alan Barnes. David Richardson holds the title of senior producer across all ranges, organising the schedules across the company's output, as well as having creative producer responsibility for ''

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'', Lost Stories, and the spin-off '' Jago & Litefoot''. The Chairman and co-executive producer of the company is Jason Haigh-Ellery.

Big Finish Day

Big Finish Day is a fan convention featuring guest appearances by Big Finish actors. On 11 June 2011, Tenth Planet Events hosted the first Big Finish Day in Barking. On 11 February 2012, a second one was held. As of September 2015, there have been seven Big Finish Days, with more planned.

Downloads

In February 2008, Big Finish launched a new download service through their website, which would provide audio plays in MP3 format, free of any DRM. They currently provide the large majority of their catalogue in MP3 and M4B format, with very few outstanding exceptions. In late April 2008, Big Finish released a download subscription service that mirrors its physical CD service. In addition, those who purchase Big Finish productions on CD through the company's website receive access to a complimentary download of the story. In September 2008, they released their first free downloadable play. '' UNIT: The Coup'' had previously been given away with an issue of '' Doctor Who Magazine''. On February 8 2017 they announced the Big Finish app.

Available releases

''Doctor Who''

The ''Doctor Who'' audio plays have, to date, featured seven of the ten living actors to play the character of the Doctor in the series ( Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant), 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 Pertwee's dialogue from the fan-produced ''Doctor Who'' video "Devious". The actor John Hurt also recorded appearances as the

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for Big Finish prior to his death in 2017. ''

Destiny of the Doctor ''Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctor'' is a series of audiobooks produced by Big Finish Productions for AudioGo. They were released monthly through the first eleven months of 2013 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of United Kingdom, British te ...

'', produced in conjunction with AudioGO, who were rights holders to the 2005–present series, marked the first time Big Finish produced storylines featuring the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors to mark the 50th anniversary of the franchise. In February 2015, Big Finish announced that following a licensing deal with BBC Worldwide, they had been permitted to produce an audio series entitled '' UNIT: Extinction'', starring

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played by Jemma Redgrave. The debut of the character on audio marks the second time Big Finish have been actively permitted to utilise material introduced in the 2005 revival. In May 2015, Big Finish announced a new series of '' Torchwood'', featuring

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( John Barrowman). Since this announcement. In 2017, Big Finish announced six new stories of ''

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'' featuring original members of the class, as well as a story starring Ace ( Sophie Aldred). On 27 June 2015, it was announced that Big Finish would produce a line of stories featuring River Song and the Eighth Doctor, as well as stories from

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( Ian McNeice) and his interactions with the Doctor. Further it was announced that a special set would be released featuring classic Doctors (in this case, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors), with new series monsters ( The Weeping Angels, the Judoon, the

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, and the Sontarans). The latter story will also connect into the Time War. According to Big Finish's website in May 2018, their license was expanded to feature properties set during the Twelfth Doctor's era up until '' Twice Upon a Time''. This has allowed Big Finish to explore more recent characters and areas from ''Doctor Who'', as seen in '' Paternoster Gang''; ''Jenny, The Doctor's Daughter''; and ''Tales from New Earth''. Developments in the 2005 revival TV series also impacted the availability of certain characters. For example, Big Finish was no longer allowed to use the character of Davros, following his return to the series in 2008, although this restriction has since been lifted and Davros returned to Big Finish in ''

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'' (January 2012). Prior to the character's being featured in the new series, he had been used in several plays, portrayed by Terry Molloy, who played Davros in three TV serials in the 1980s. In a 2008 podcast,

explained that all scripts are sent through the TV show's offices in Cardiff to prevent any potential conflicts in continuity. The return of Sarah Jane Smith to the continuity of the TV series, and subsequent '' The Sarah Jane Adventures'' spin-off, resulted in the character's no longer being available to Big Finish (forcing the cancellation of an ongoing ''Sarah Jane Smith'' audio series). According to Briggs, permission from Russell T Davies, producer and creator of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', had been secured that would have allowed the character (and actress Elisabeth Sladen) to return to Big Finish for a series of stories alongside Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, but Sladen's illness and death in April 2011 put an end to those plans. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of ''Doctor Who'' in 2013, Big Finish created a series in the style of ''The Companion Chronicles'' range titled ''

'' narrated by companions throughout the show's history. In addition to this, Big Finish released a multi-doctor story featuring all surviving Doctors of the classic series and almost every companion in ''

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''. Big Finish also published 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 licence was granted to Big Finish, who took over the name and produced them until their licence to publish such stories was revoked in the spring of 2009. Big Finish currently continues to produce audio-only Short Trips productions. In 2016, Big Finish's licence to produce ''Doctor Who'' audios was extended to 20 June 2025. In 2019, Big Finish reached its 20th anniversary of producing ''Doctor Who'' audios and released a special: ''The Legacy of Time'' which combined several spin-offs, including UNIT, '' The Diary of River Song'',

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and ''Counter-Measures''. Other celebratory releases included the third series of '' Ravenous'' (featuring almost all Eighth Doctor companions); fourth series of ''Ravenous'' (featuring multiple incarnations of the Master; the sixth Series of the ''Early Adventures'' (in which the

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encountered the Second Doctor, as well as using the character of Katerina for the first time); '' The Diary of River Song'' series 5 (the first appearance of

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' Master since the 1996 film and the return of

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). In August 2020, Big Finish announced a new series of audios beginning release in May 2021, featuring Christopher Eccleston reprising his role as the Ninth Doctor (for the first time since his departure from the series in 2005). In December 2021, Big Finish announced that their license to produce Doctor Who audios was extended until the 31st of March 2030. In June 2022, Big Finish announced that in November of the same year, the prices of all unreleased boxsets as of that month would see an increase in price due to the rising costs of production and supply costs. These new prices are yet to be announced as of the 15th of September 2022.

Doctor Who spin-offs

Other spin-offs include the ''

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'' series (with Lalla Ward as Romana, Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as K-9); the '' Dalek Empire'' series; the '' UNIT'' series; the ''

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'' series starring Katy Manning; the ''

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'' series and the ''

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'' 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, or had been a woman), collectively titled ''

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''. This has allowed them to cast other actors in the role of the Doctor, including Sir

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, Arabella Weir and David Warner. In 2013, following the death of original Romana actress

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, Big Finish introduced a previously unknown third incarnation of Romana, played by American actress Juliet Landau. Other spin-off series include ''Jago & Litefoot'', featuring

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( Christopher Benjamin) and

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(

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), characters from the 1970s storyline '' The Talons of Weng-Chiang''; ''Counter-Measures'', featuring a group of scientists featured in 1988's '' Remembrance of the Daleks''; ''Vienna'', focusing on an assassin named Vienna Salvatori (played by former ''

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'' actress

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( Sylvester McCoy) and Elizabeth Klein ( Tracey Childs, who first appeared in ''

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'') and later became focused on UNIT from the revived series, featuring Kate Stewart ( Jemma Redgrave and Osgood ( Ingrid Oliver), as well as guest characters Jo Grant, River Song ( Alex Kingston) and Doctor Chin Lee (

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, who first appeared in '' the Ambassadors of Death''). Two TV spin-offs from the ''Doctor Who'' universe have been continued in audio form by Big Finish: '' Torchwood'' and ''

'' which has featured the return of several characters from the original cast: Gwen Cooper ( Eve Myles), Owen Harper (

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), Toshiko Sato ( Naoko Mori),

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( Gareth David-Lloyd), Rhys Williams ( Kai Owen), Andy Davidson ( Tom Price), Suzie Costello ( Indira Varma),

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( James Marsters) and Bilis Manger ( Murray Melvin) have all reprised their roles in ''Torchwood''. Characters from ''Doctor Who'' have also appeared in ''Torchwood'' audios, including Yvonne Hartman ( Tracy Ann Oberman) and Jo Grant. Big Finish have also created several new characters of Torchwood in their continuation of the series from Miracle Day, most notably Tyler Steele (Jonny Green). Starting with January 2017, Big Finish also began releasing the "Torchwood One" series set before the events of Doomsday (Doctor Who). Other writers for Big Finish include

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and '' The League of Gentlemen's''

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, who have also written for the 2005 relaunch of the '' Doctor Who'' television series. Shearman's 2005 TV episode " Dalek" has been acknowledged as being based upon his Big Finish storyline '' Jubilee''.

''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. The ''Judge Dredd'' series drew heavily upon Big Finish's repertory company established through their ''Doctor Who'' series with many actors crossing over such as

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(who voiced Dredd),

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, Mark Donovan and Teresa Gallagher who voiced Chief Judge Hershey. The series would also feature many special guest stars such as '' The League of Gentlemens

playing Judge Death, ''Doctor Who'' companion actress Nicola Bryant (who would also direct ''99 Code Red!'') plus '' Blake's 7'' star Stephen Greif as Efil Drago San. Writers for the series included David Bishop, Dave Stone and James Swallow.

''Blake's 7''

In July 2011, Big Finish obtained a licence to produce audiobooks and novels based on the BBC television series '' Blake's 7''. On 1 February 2012, the first collection of audiobooks, ''Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles'', was released featuring original cast members from the television series. Eleven more followed. Since then five series of full cast audio dramas have been released.

''Earthsearch''

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'' was a

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radio series written by

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which was later adapted as a science fiction novel. However, his prequel novel ''

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'' was adapted by Big Finish and is being broadcast by the Digital radio station BBC 7. ''

'' stars a number of actors from the ''Doctor Who'' range —

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, Nicholas Courtney and Colin Baker.

Former releases

''The Tomorrow People''

Big Finish also produced and sold 5 seasons of ''

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'' audios until renewed licence negotiations failed in late 2007, the range was withdrawn in total in December 2008.

''Sapphire & Steel''

Big Finish produced and sold three seasons of '' Sapphire & Steel'' audios until their licence expired. Unusually their production included none of the TV actors, instead

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played Sapphire (replacing Joanna Lumley) and David Warner played Steel (replacing David McCallum), although David Collings did reprise his role of Silver from the TV series in several releases.

Other productions

Big Finish has released audio dramas based upon other works as well, including ''

'', ''

'', '' Captain Scarlet'', ''

'', '' The Avengers'' and '' The Picture of Dorian Gray''. In 2016, Big Finish produced and released its first series of '' The Prisoner stories'', written and directed by

and starring Mark Elstob in the Patrick McGoohan role. In July 2018, Big Finish released audiobook versions of the first two novels of the '' Star Trek: Prometheus'' trilogy. Narrated by Alec Newman, these releases adapt ''Fire with Fire'' and ''The Root of All Rage'', with the third story--''In the Heart of Chaos''-- released in December 2018.

Awards and nominations

World records

References

External links

Big Finish Productions Official website''Big Finish Productions'' official YouTube channel
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