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Post by dannybl on Dec 30, 2017 12:44:51 GMT
Hre are mine:
1. The War Doctor 4: Casualties of War
2. Doom Coalition 4
3. UNIT Assembled
4. The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 4: The Ruler of the Universe
5. The Lives of Captain Jack (particularly Wednesdays For Beginners)
6. Time In Office
7. The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume 2
8. Short Trips : All Hands on Deck
A particuarly good year for Voluime 4s! What are yours?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 13:08:46 GMT
My top ten... in no particular order.
The Star Men
The Contingency Club
Zaltys
Alien Heart - Dalek Soul
High Price of parking
Time in Office
Static
Eighth Doctor : Time War
War Master Vol.1
The Haunting of Malkin Place
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 13:37:17 GMT
Dark Shadows - Dreams of Long Ago. I would include all these marvellous DS anthologies, but I've picked this one especially mainly because of the magnificent Old Acquaintance, written by Matthew Waterhouse and performed by the mighty David Selby. If you get a chance to hear this, do. Mad as a box of frogs and scary too.
Can I include The First Doctor Adventures Volume 01? Although schedules for January 2018, it was released on Christmas Day and is absolutely wonderful. I just love David Bradley.
Doctor Who - Static.
Survivors Series 7 - excellent, even by Survivors' usual high standards.
Torchwood - Aliens Among Us - possibly the release series of the year for me.
Doctor Who - The Skin of the Sleek/The Thief Who Stole Time.
The Third Doctor Adventures - Volume 3. Tim Treloar is BF's Third Doctor, and so far his stories have been brilliant.
The Prisoner 2 - continuing the very high standards of series one, I hope this isn't the last we hear from Number 6.
Companion Chronicles - Across the Darkened City.
Torchwood - Before the Fall.
The Invisible Man.
The Avengers Lost Episodes Volume 7. I still miss this excellent series.
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Post by mark687 on Dec 30, 2017 13:44:09 GMT
Again in no Oder
TW Corpse Day
DW MRS
Static
Time in Office
Beheamouth
The Middle
Dalek Soul / Day of the Vashta Nervda (CDNM Vol 2)
War Doc 4
War Master
8th Doc Time War
4DA The Silent Scream
(If War Master and 8th Doc Time weren't so good 10DA Vol and Doom Coalition 4 would've made the cut and special mention goes to DW ST J&L revival such a brilliant celebration/ tribute to one of the old school gents of Who and acting in general)
Regards
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Post by Digi on Dec 30, 2017 13:52:59 GMT
Refresher on some 2017 releases, skimming through my own account:
January
DW Monthly Range #221: The Star Men
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.01: The Beast of Kravenos
Torchwood One: Before the Fall
Graceless IV
February
Cicero
DW Monthly Range #222: The Contingency Club
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.02: The Eternal Battle
The Invisible Man
Dark Shadows: Phantom Melodies
DW The War Doctor: Casualties of War
March
The First Men in the Moon
DW Doom Coalition 4
Torchwood 13: Visiting Hours
DW Monthly Range 223: Zaltys
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.03: The Silent Scream
DW Short Trips 7.3: The Jago & Litefoot Revival, Act 1
Charlotte Pollard: Series 2
April
DW Short Trips 7.4: The Jago & Litefoot Revival, Act 2
DW Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Vol. 3: The Helm of Awe
Torchwood 14: The Dollhouse
DW Monthly Range #224: Alien Heart / Dalek Soul
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.04: Dethras
Jago & Litefoot Series 13
The Omega Factor Series 2
May
The Shape of Things to Come
DW The Ninth Doctor Chronicles
Torchwood 15: Corpse Day
Dark Shadows: Dreams of Long Ago
DW Monthly Range #225: Vortex Ice / Cortex Fire
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.05: The Haunting of Malkin Place
UNIT: Assembled
June
The Lives of Captain Jack
Torchwood 16: TORCHWOOD_CASCADE_CDRIP.TOR
DW Monthly Range #226: Shadow Planet / World Apart
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.06: Subterranea
DW Companion Chronicles 11.x: The First Doctor Vol. 2
Marilyn & Sinatra
Survivors Series 6
July
The Island of Dr Moreau
Torchwood 17: The Office of Never Was
DW Monthly Range #227: The High Price of Parking
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.07: The Movellan Grave
DW Classic Doctors, New Monsters Vol. 2
August
Hamlet
Torchwood 18: The Dying Room
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us, Part 1
DW Monthly Range #228: The Blood Furnace
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.08: The Skin of the Sleek
The Prisoner Vol. 2
September
The Time Machine
DW Monthly Range #229: The Silurian Candidate
DW Monthly Range #230: Time in Office
DW Fourth Doctor Adventures 6.09: The Thief Who Stole Time
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield Vol. 4: Ruler of the Universe
October
DW Monthly Range #231: The Behemoth
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us, Part 2
King Lear
DW The Eighth Doctor: The Time War Series 1
November
DW Monthly Range #232: The Middle
DW Tenth Doctor Adventures Vol. 2
Survivors Series 7
UNIT: Encounters
December
DW Monthly Range #233: Static
The War Master: Only the Good
DW First Doctor Adventures Vol. 1
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Post by ollychops on Dec 30, 2017 16:39:41 GMT
I haven't listened to everything released this year, but from what I have listened to these were my favourites:
Doom Coalition 4
The Jago and Litefoot Revival
Corpse Day
UNIT: Assembled
The Lives of Captain Jack
Classic Doctors, New Monsters Vol. 2
Time In Office
Tenth Doctor Adventures Vol. 2
The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius
Static
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Post by sherlock on Dec 30, 2017 18:06:30 GMT
No particular order my top 5:
The War Master
All Hands on Deck
Eighth Doctor: The Time War
Time in Office
Classic Doctors, New Monsters 2
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Post by rran on Dec 30, 2017 18:13:06 GMT
If I have to pick my top 5, they would be -
Tenth Doctor Adventures v2
Eighth Doctor - Time War
Static
Doom Coalition 4
UNIT Assembled
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Post by shallacatop on Dec 30, 2017 18:31:32 GMT
I’m not going to pick sets, but rather specific stories:
The Diary of River Song 2.2 - Five Twenty-Nine
The War Doctor 4.1 - Pretty Lies
Classic Doctors, New Monsters 2.1 - Night of the Vashta Nerada
Doom Coalition 4.1 - Ship in a Bottle
The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 1.1 - The Ship of Theseus
The Tenth Doctor Adventures 2.2 - Sword of the Chevalier
Short Trips 7.03 / 7.04 - The Jago & Litefoot Revival
Short Trips 7.05 - Falling
Short Trips 7.06 - How to Win Planets and Influence People
The War Master 3 - The Sky Man
That’s my top ten in no particular order; it’s been a great year for Big Finish on the whole. Honourable mentions to:
Short Trips 7.09 - A Heart on Both Sides
Short Trips 7.10 - All Hands on Deck
Companion Chronicles 11.3 - The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Early Adventures 4.2 - The Outliers
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Post by relativetime on Dec 30, 2017 20:32:49 GMT
My top ten in order of release:
Corpse Day
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The First Doctor Volume 2
Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 2
The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 3
The Outliers
The Eighth Doctor: The Time War Series 1
The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 2
Static
The First Doctor Adventures Volume 1
Honorable mentions to The Invisible Man, Aliens Among Us Parts 1 and 2, The Ninth Doctor Chronicles, Time in Office, The Middle, and The War Master: Only the Good. It was hard to leave them off the list.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 21:11:15 GMT
The HG Wells range has been glorious. The Invisible Man is one of the best things they've ever put out.
It has generally been a good year for the main range, the Seven/Mel/Ace trilogy aside - great to more from Matthew Waterhouse, the 'double bills' trilogy worked very well, and The Middle was probably the overall highlight.
Other highlights:
Across the Darkened City
Jago & Litefoot Series 13
The Skin of the Sleek/The Thief Who Stole Time
The Outliers
The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 2
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 22:58:56 GMT
Doom Coalition 4 (with a shout out to the entire saga.)
Everything Torchwood
Bernice Summerfield: Ruler of the Universe
UNIT: The New Series
Cicero
War Master (and he's back next year! Squee!)
Special mentions to releases I listened to this year, but weren't released this year: Jago & Litefoot, Blake's 7: Liberator Chronicles.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 23:17:32 GMT
I feel like I should mention the lack of main range releases. Colin is 'my' main range Doctor and I haven't got around to listening to his yet. (His era - because of its vaeiey in companions - not his Doctor.)
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Post by number13 on Dec 30, 2017 23:24:24 GMT
I feel like I should mention the lack of main range releases. Colin is 'my' main range Doctor and I haven't got around to listening to his yet. (His era - because of its vaeiey in companions - not his Doctor.) Then you have three fabulous gifts waiting from Old Sixie - audio gold, gold and gold.  Each story is excellent and for me 'Static' is the MR release of 2017 (and that's in a very strong year for the MR.) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 23:43:03 GMT
I'm only going to do a top 7 because I've still not caught up with, though I have bought, all the year's Dark Shadows and I'm hoping they'll take up a few spaces. Ditto Static. In no order:
The Invisible Man - A sad release coming weeks after John Hurt's death but easily the best of the Wells adaptations so far. While ohn was always great as The War Doctor, the stories themselves were a bit sci-fi 101 and didn't use the character in as many interesting ways as it could so I'll probably cherish this as John's best work at BF, if not his most iconic.
The Silent Scream - Lovely 4DA which uses the setting and the premise of the story wonderfully. You couldn't seperate the time and place from the plot. Everyone involved was clearly having a blast and some lovely references for fans of early cinema.
Corpse Day - The best Torchwood single discer of the year. Very much one of the gruesome mid-season standalone eps that would subvert what "monsters" are.
Across the Darkened City - The CC boxset wasn't all gold but if the stories still came out as single discs this would be talked about a LOT more. Lovely premise, wonderfully written and Purves sells it so well. Dalek as companion?
Aliens Among Us Part 2 - With the solid first box letting us get used to the new status quo, this set got on with the stories. And 4 smashers they were too. Deliveroo drivers, Murray Melvin meets JG Ballard, turning poor PC Andy into a despised racist....this was terrific. I'm on record as saying I think TW is better when Barrowman isn't front and centre and I think this further bears that out.
The Middle - It's one of my favourite Main Range stories in years. Chris Chapman with this and The Memory Box has instantly gone to the top of my "what's he gonna do next?" list. A lovely story with quite a remarkable guest cast. The story fits this TARDIS team perfectly. I love it when the story is written for the characters and not just "generic Doctor and companion".
The War Master - See the thread for my thoughts. Shocked at the ending, loved the plummy but personable performance and it's the best BF theme tune since J&L launched!
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Post by mark687 on Dec 30, 2017 23:51:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 12:07:46 GMT
I feel like I should mention the lack of main range releases. Colin is 'my' main range Doctor and I haven't got around to listening to his yet. Each story is excellent and for me 'Static' is the MR release of 2017 (and that's in a very strong year for the MR.) It was a very strong year for the Doctor Who Main Range, from the Fifth Doctor and Adric releases at the start of 2017 to the marvellous Sixth Doctor with Constance & Flip stories to round the year off, it was quality all year long in the Main Range. I had to amend my list to include other releases as I could have permed any ten Main Range titles from the thirteen as my favourites of 2017. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Dec 31, 2017 17:31:09 GMT
It's been such a great year I may have to make it a Top Twenty, and I still haven't even heard all of the selections.
All of the Dark Shadows releases this year would have to go in my Top Ten - my obvious bias for the range aside, every one of them has been top notch - but I could probably pick as many from the Torchwood releases as well.
Then there's The War Doctor, The War Master, 3DAs, 10DAs, UNIT: Assembled and UNIT: Encounters, as well as fantastic stuff in the 4DAs, Short Trips, and Companion Chronicles and Early Adventures ranges, and last but not least the Monthly Range which has been at least as full of outstanding audios as it was last year. I'm hugely impressed with all of the 5th Doctor, Nyssa, Adric and Tegan stories as well as Static, and Time In Office could actually be my favorite release of the year, just a total delight.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 1, 2018 8:17:26 GMT
Fantastic year for audio drama, too many to mention, but Static, Time War, The Helm of Awe, The War Master & The Middle were my Top 5.
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Post by glutamodo on Jan 1, 2018 8:38:39 GMT
When I saw this thread I was immediately thinking "why is there no poll attached?" but I think there were just too many titles for the 50-line poll limit.
I have a hard time picking specific favorites. Which is because, overall, I thought that BF did a smashing job of things in 2017...
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