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Post by coffeeaddict on Mar 16, 2017 20:07:30 GMT
I found them dipping into my wallet, I figured it was easier to let them keep going and started listening to the audios.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 20:36:22 GMT
'You've Never Heard It So Good' was their tagline in DWM as I recall (still my favourite). I avoided Big Finish to begin with because I felt that Doctor Who and audio did not go together if previous efforts were anything to go by. 'Slipback' was particuarly bad, I felt - surprising since the writer was the script editor who spent such a lot of time slating JNT; when he was allowed to write without JNT as producer, he came up with ... this? I digress. The two Jon Pertwee stories were interesting, but took advantage of the limitless format of audio to such an extent that their fantastical settings and situations bore no relation to Docor Who at all, especially the Third Doctor's era.
So I skipped 'Sirens of Time' and 'Phantasmagoria', but relented and bought 'Whispers of Terror' because of Colin Baker. Colin had said he wanted to soften the Sixth Doctor - so would Big Finish write for the bombastic TV version, or go with Colin's wishes? A bit of both as it turned out, and 'Whispers' was an instant favourite with me, which lead to me buying the first two, and most of the subsequent two-hundred and twenty odd!
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Post by Alex on Jun 29, 2017 11:01:35 GMT
I think my first was the free Mists of Time in Doctor Who Magazine. Great story but it didn't get me onto the bandwagon. Then at a convention (Flight Through Time: The Three Doctors) Nick was on a BF stall and I bought Cyberman 2. This was hard to listen to and subconsciously I thought I was skipping as I hadn't listened to the first series. I still haven't listened to it all. Listened to some of the Eighth Doctor Adventures on Radio 4 and checked out the website. 'Ordered' all the free releases and pre-ordered the Dark Eyes range and then took part in most of their sales since and now my collection is almost half complete.
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Post by lenyjr on Jul 3, 2017 3:15:07 GMT
I bought Sirens of Time at a convention in NYC, I'm not exactly how long it had been out for, but I had probably read about it in DWM but that was it for a little while. Then in May 2000, on a trip to the UK I went to The Who Shop and picked up releases 2-6. For the next couple years, I had the Who Shop send me the latest releases (and they had a couple of them signed) before I started subscribing directly through BF. I've been subscribing ever since and have also picked up many (but not all) of the spin off ranges plus things like Blake's 7, Theeeeeeee Avengers, Tomorrow People, Sapphire & Steel.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 18:04:47 GMT
I have a crush on the tenth doctor and wanted more stuff on him .. heard of the tenth doctor adventures volume 1 . after listening to that I was interested in listening to the eighth doctor .. picked up the eighth doctor adventures.. loved lucie's character and the rest is what I am today..spending a good chunk of my income on big finish
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Post by Bazoolium on Aug 25, 2017 18:10:32 GMT
I heard Architects of History in Radio 4 and then bought some releases on Amazon.
Then I discovered the BF website and the rest is history.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 6:00:20 GMT
I read the article in DWM announcing the launch of the range. Boring I know.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 6:02:49 GMT
I came from the dark side, I was a Dr Who fan but didn't get DW magazine as I was unemployed and couldn't afford things like that and found some in about 2004 on a torrent site, I was intrigued and downloaded a few, and eventually a lot. Over time as I got a job I found myself in the position where I could afford to buy a few, then a few more, and eventually more and more. My BF account currently says I have access to 626 downloads, and I have 79 on order (and that's not including all of the many things I have bought elsewhere). I have subesquently bought everything I pirated and much more. I totally get that pirating is a bad thing in many ways and am therefore hypocritical for having done it, but without it I might never have got into Big Finish and I think that is a relationship which has benefitted us both, plus I have also got at least 5 other people into BF over the years all of whom now have very large collections too I am not justifying that I did a bad thing by pirating it, but, in this case it didn't work out oo bad for BF. Don't feel bad, you've done a good thing. Many people give up torrenting, few would go to the effort of buying all those audios they've already got illegal copies of. We can only hope more people follow your example.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 26, 2017 9:16:56 GMT
I read the article in DWM announcing the launch of the range. Boring I know. Same here
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 15:40:35 GMT
At a convention in 2007 where they were giving away cassette copies for free - IIRC they had The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, Winter for the Adept, The Apocalypse Element, The Fires of Vulcan, The Shadow of the Scourge, The Holy Terror and The Mutant Phase.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 16:01:23 GMT
For me I had just started getting the, at the time, newly released classic series DVDs, and that really reawakened my love of Doctor Who after it had gone into hibernation during the wilderness years, briefly popping its head out for the TV movie, or the odd rerun, but mainly snoozing away as a pleasantly nostalgic memory but little more. After the TV movie fizzled, I figured that was it, and the show wasn't coming back, and just as with Survival a few years earlier, I moved on. But it wasn't until the DVD releases started that I realised how much I (still) loved the show, and how much I missed it, too. I devoured those DVDs, but at (usually) one release a month it was going to take years and years before they released them all (and it did).
In the meantime I'd read an article in one of the UK sci-fi magazines of the time (SFX maybe?), about brand new Doctor Who stories with some of the original cast members, made for audio. Pretty much the only experience I had with the audio drama medium was listening to Hitchhiker's Guide as a special radio broadcast that I somehow heard about when I was a kid, and tuned in to (and enjoyed). But outside of that, nothing. Still the lure of brand new Doctor Who adventures with the original cast was too strong, so not really having any clue what I was letting myself in for, I started with The Sirens of Time, Phantasmagoria, and Whispers of Terror, and I haven't felt short of Doctor Who to enjoy ever since.
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Post by sherlock on Aug 26, 2017 16:18:09 GMT
DWM. I've been aware of Big Finish for many years but only last year decided to invest.
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Post by eric009 on Sept 16, 2017 15:05:06 GMT
radio 7 8th dr cannot remember which story somewhere around storm warning as listen to about 700+ storys now
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Post by Ela on Dec 19, 2017 17:43:19 GMT
I found them dipping into my wallet, I figured it was easier to let them keep going and started listening to the audios. Yeah, but before that, how did you find them?
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Post by tardybox on Dec 20, 2017 21:43:01 GMT
Family got The Church and the Crown on CD ages back, and I listened to it religiously whenever I was cleaning my room (along with a bunch of the missing Episode soundtracks). Took me years to actually wonder if there were more (and who that Erimem person was, too!) and eventually started collecting... But The Church and the Crown will forever hold a special, childhood-memory place in my heart!
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Post by 8doctormcgann on Dec 20, 2017 22:15:08 GMT
I saw The Light at the End on Amazon. Looked interesting so asked for it for Christmas. I am glad I did. (My wallet is not...)
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