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Post by themeddlingmonk on Sept 14, 2017 19:28:27 GMT
The condensed version of The Mutant Phase that came with years ago. Other than that, UNIT : Extinction in 2015 and then Chimes of Midnight either at the beginning of this year or the end of last year. I've only really gotten into Big Finish properly fairly recently compared to most.
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Post by mrperson on Sept 14, 2017 19:58:20 GMT
It was one of McGann's series. I recognize the episode every time I relisten but I can't place it right now. I recall some scene involving a carousel (maybe?) that was actually something else in disguise.
Either way, I hadn't heard of Big Finish and had in fact just started to get into the rebooted series, which I'd only discovered because I was down with the flu and lying on the sofa, flipping channels. I think I was, ahem, looking for pirated streaming of other new series episodes but somehow came across either a legitimate or pirated version of the McGann audio. At some point, I noted the company name - Big Finish - and decided that since I found I liked the reboot, I'd check out BF. I saw that the early MR was really cheap so I subscribed for twelve eps. "Why not?", I thought, "it's less than I might spend on at even a mid-range restaurant."
By the next day I was sucked in, having listened to something like 4 eps in a row while borderline catatonic...
I think that all happened a several months before Season 5 of the reboot aired. Or, no, Season 6. Season 6, because I remember watching everything up to the date via illegal streaming, then I discovered we had access to streaming over Netflix, convinced the wife to give it a try, and then marathoned it again with her.
(Additional backstory: at some point approaching or during high school, I decided that I'd outgrown Doctor Who, that it was just for kids, etc; funny how immaturely deciding that one is too mature for things is more or less a universal teenage experience....
Stopped watching and didn't think about it until the accidental discovery of the reboot).
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Post by mrperson on Sept 14, 2017 20:02:01 GMT
First radio show/drama: Firesign Theatre.
The parents used to play it on long car trips. A comedy show, if memory serves, including sketches involving a "Mr. Danger"
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Post by eric009 on Sept 14, 2017 22:23:16 GMT
the goon show for me got me into trouble I join the cub scouts because I loved the character of bluebottle who was a little cub scout who ends up being killed a lot of the time played by Peter Sellers when you are 11 you join the scouts, they find out how old I was on my 12th birthday I still remember all the fuss still makes me smile and as BF Sarah Jane Smith a friend of mine had got a copy of it did not like it as there was no dr in it, so I borrow it and like it got the whole lot and now 900 downloads later and £8,000 poorer lol
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 22:27:21 GMT
It was one of McGann's series. I recognize the episode every time I relisten but I can't place it right now. I recall some scene involving a carousel (maybe?) that was actually something else in disguise. Maybe The Natural History of Fear with the spinning top?
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Post by Faith on Sept 14, 2017 22:27:33 GMT
That's a really good question, and I'm not entirely certain. I started listening to audiobooks from AudioGo about the same time.
That said, it was most probably Primeval, given my perpetual love of Nyssa. Might have been Zagreus, though. (Which I appreciated a lot more when I finally listened to Neverland first and then Zagreus and Scherzo on a re-listen.)
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Post by aemiliapaula on Sept 14, 2017 22:29:36 GMT
Night of the Whisperer was my first Big Finish story.
Radio: there was a station out of Boston that used to play old time radio on saturday nights. So probably either the Shadow or Fibber McGee and Molly.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 14, 2017 22:44:23 GMT
It was one of McGann's series. I recognize the episode every time I relisten but I can't place it right now. I recall some scene involving a carousel (maybe?) that was actually something else in disguise. That sounds like The Scapegoat. I think someone puts some form of perception filter around the TARDIS to make it look like a carousel (I can't remember the details, but there's definitely a carousel involved ).
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Post by mrperson on Sept 14, 2017 23:02:20 GMT
It was one of McGann's series. I recognize the episode every time I relisten but I can't place it right now. I recall some scene involving a carousel (maybe?) that was actually something else in disguise. Maybe The Natural History of Fear with the spinning top? No, definitely not that. (One of the very best episodes in the MR, imo) I know for certain it's from his range. If I happen to remember this when the next relisten occurs, I'll have to report it.
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Post by elkawho on Sept 15, 2017 1:54:03 GMT
Dark Eyes, which was a terrible choice for my first BF. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing box, but I don't think it was great for my first.
My first radio play...hmm. When I was a small child I had a Muppets record. It was the Muppets: The Frog Prince. I listened to it over and over. Kermit and Mr. Sweets and Robin and so many others. Before the Muppet Show and Ms Piggy, Fozzy and the rest. I don't remember who played the princess, but I sure did love that record.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 15, 2017 12:26:03 GMT
As I mentioned on another Thread a couple days ago, it was the double bill of Silver Lining/ The Coup. As for radio shows I remember my whole family sitting around our breakfast table listening to "Dad and Dave," an already ancient Australian radio series, being repeated on breakfast radio. I'd also stay up and listen to repeats of "Night Beat," featuring hard-boiled journalist Randy Stone. This was in the 70s and after the beginning of the end of radio programmes as a thing in Australia.
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Post by theotherjosh on Sept 15, 2017 12:35:31 GMT
According to the Big Finish App, if I sort by order of purchase, my first from Big Finish was He Jests at Scars, in large part because I had read about it on another board and I was really intrigued by the concept.
My second story was Zagreus, which, as we all know, is an ideal introduction to the world of Big Finish.
My first radio play was an Orson Welles/Agnes Moorehead production of The Shadow. It was Christmas Day and I was just a little kid. It was one of the few stations not playing Christmas Carols.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 15, 2017 12:48:40 GMT
First BF was the stargate one with Daniel Jackson (1.1 I think) in 2008.
First radio was probably BBC local radio my mother had playing in the kitchen something like 35 years ago (she still plays the same station in the kitchen to this day).
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Post by pawntake on Sept 19, 2017 11:20:11 GMT
For me it was "The Stones of Venice" broadcast on Radio 7(Radio 4 extra)as it now is.It was brilliant, did not realise at the time it was BF,thought it was BBC.My 1st BF purchase was "the Adventures of the Perfidious Mariner"DL in 2012.Since then I have not looked back(Audio being my favourite media)Many Many DLS later I am happy but skint.
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Post by theother on Sept 19, 2017 22:02:54 GMT
My first Big Finish audio was Last of the Titans which came free with Doctor Who magazine.
I had no idea how long aho that was but thanks to being able to outsource some of my memory to the internet, I can say with relative certainty that that particular issue came out in February of 2001.
At the time I had not put together the fact that Big Finish was its own company and was releasing these audios regularly. I thought it was just a random one-off that came as a bonus with the magazine.
It was a couple more years until I figured I could get more of these wonderful audios. But with me being in the US, they were a bit hard to come by. They trickled in by dribs and drabs at birthdays and Christmas.
Fast forward several years and the CDs are starting to edge me out of my bedroom.
Wow almost 17 years ago. I had no idea to been so long.
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Post by bountybob on Sept 20, 2017 8:10:15 GMT
My first BF was Council of Nicea.
First radio, I'm not sure, but one of my earliest memories was that of "Your's Truly, Johnny Dollar." I can't swear that it was the first that I heard though.
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Post by aztec on Sept 20, 2017 8:55:29 GMT
Despite being British, I had never heard of Big Finish nor listened to an audio drama until late 2013/early 2014(?) when I listened to a repeat of Situation Vacant on BBC Radio, I was blown away by McGann's performance in The Night Of The Doctor- I hadn't seen the TV Movie at the time and just wrote of the 8th Doctor as a failed one and done the George Lazenby of Doctor Who (though in fairness, On Her Majesties Secret Service is one of the best bond films, Lazenby is actually rather good in it considering his inexperience as an actor/going up against Connery...) but in those seven minutes he immediately convinced me that he was A) a great actor and B) Someone who just understood on a fundamental level the character of the Doctor.
I read a lot of fans talking about something called 'Big Finish Productions' and the importance of those names the Doctor mentioned before he regenerated, I found out about the audio dramas and was fascinated that were was a whole other area of Who I had never heard about, eventually my eagerness to find out more about the 8th Doctor lead me to catch a few repeats of the EDA's Series 4 on BBC Radio a few weeks later, I was shortly hooked and soon afterwards registered an account at Big Finish, my first purchase was Storm Warning. And 200+ stories purchased, three years later here I am, McGann is my Doctor and I only wish I had found out about BF earlier...
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Sept 30, 2017 18:13:01 GMT
the first Big Finish I listened to was the Rennaisance Man (It was 2013 and there was lots of excitement over the anniversary and seeing Tom Baker's face tempting me from the shelves of Waterstones combined to persuade me to give Big Finish a try - I couldn't find Destination:Nerva so tried the second release instead)
first radio ? I can't say for certain (especially as I assume music programs, etc don't count) I do remember hearing Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy episode 5 BUT I had probably already heard a number of repeats of Goon Shows and I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again
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Post by doomlord on Sept 30, 2017 21:39:44 GMT
The Sirens of Time back in late summer of 1999. It wasn't until Storm Warning a couple of years later that I bought and listened to another one.
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Post by Star Platinum on Sept 30, 2017 23:57:07 GMT
Chimes of midnight, I fell asleep half way through it.
I’d been up for about 20 hours at that point.
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