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0:00 foreign [Music] well it's been a while but I finally
0:45 decided to add something to my quick guide to Classic who you see ever since I completed the guide there's been a lot more big finish released and I've managed to get and listen to a lot of that so I've decided to take a separate look at big finishes classic Who but first an introduction big finish were formed in 1998 and kinda grew out of one of the many Doctor Who fan production communities in this case the audio visuals in the mid 80s nearly 30 fan audios were produced without consent to the BBC but they also never bothered the makers about ad the first producer of the AVS was Bill Baggs who would later create officially licensed fan Productions through BBV which I talked about in my quick guide video about non TV who between 1959 and 2005. they were licensed characters or certain monsters
1:30 and basically make low budget direct to video films which we saw legally and this wasn't a unique Arrangement real time was another company doing this and in 1995 they probably made the most important of these semi-official fan films when they introduced the brigadier's daughter Kate in a story called downtime later on BBV branched out into non-doctor Who projects like the airzone soloshan a terrible environmental Thriller that starred Colin Baker featured for their living doctors and baby Alan later on they produced The Stranger a series about a mysterious stranger played the Colin Baker who traveled around with his companion played by Nicola Bryant later on they reveal that he was called Solomon and definitely wasn't a Time Lord because I didn't want to piss off
2:16 the BBC The Stranger story more than a messiah was even adapted from an AV Story the same name several other AV stories were later adapt in other media including a handful for big fanash mostly early McGann release as anyway the main doctor of the AVS was played by Young Nick Braggs most famous the TV fans for voicing the Daleks Cyberman judun zygon and Ice Warriors Briggs was also one of the series's main writers there's copies of all the AV releases on YouTube if you want to give them a lesson and let me know if you'd like me to give them their own video on this ridiculously gigantic project anyway just over a decade after the AV series finished its last producer Gary Russell set up big finish decaying to do a hybrid of the AV some BBV in real time
3:01 officially licensed Doctor Who audio stories not just Doctor Who but that's the main thing I don't like the video productions they're even able to get the license to use the doctors themselves the first release was a 1998 a series with Bernie Summerfield a popular novel based companion of the Seventh Doctor Who starred Lisa Bowerman both a character and act or a big finish regulars to this day Barrowman's also become one of the regular directors in 1999 they brought the doctors in with the Sirens of time which United five six and seven in a multi-doctor story like no other because it was audio they each got an episode in a different setting five was on a U-Boat in World War II six was an academic present location on a space station and servan wasn't a newly
3:46 deserted Planet then they all teamed up in episode 4. not long after Paul McGann joined as the eighth doctor which was a coup because he was still the incumb band now because five six and seven had definite beginnings and ends to their TV stories and multiple companions their Adventures were generally self-contained at least at the start but McGann was open-ended so it was the first big Finnish doctor that you really needed to listen to in order his Adventure started sometime after the TV movie probably leaving a space so fans can insert books and comic stories in there if they want and the release is continuity heavy as new who Gary Russell stayed as creative head of bigfo national 2006 but he's been active since he laughed directing the new who animated miniseries's Dreamland and the infinite Quest and has
4:32 been working for Doctor Who magazine his replacement is bigfinnish showrunner was Nicholas Braggs who's been doing it ever since in 2012 a big finish was able to convince Tom Baker to return to the role before fourth doctor and hundreds of Adventures later he's still going strong and amazingly barely signs any older most of the time and they just appeared out of nowhere you say first I knew was when I heard the lead that does the papers screaming couple of hours past uh six o'clock it must have been robot Romans in Stockbridge at 6 00 a.m exactly more to the point I'll grub robot Romans in Stockbridge in 1879 past 100 A.D A.D and then some years later they announced that they'd reached an arrangement with the BBC to produce some new who staff at the time of writing
5:18 this David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston had been added to the root of usual doctors and even John Hurt did some War Doctor stories they are the license to use 11 and 12 but so far Smith and Capaldi haven't said yes and Jacob dodman plays both now dudman's alive in a spectacular I could be a curator I'd be great at curating I'd be the great curator I could retire and do that I could retire and be the curator of this place but it's 12 not so much stop waving that thing around before you damage something I could say the same to you only as this is a screwdriver and that's a gun I'm more likely to fix something oh shut up
6:04 smart mouth oh it's not just the mouth nice to have my intellect appreciated other doctors have been similarly recast to varying levels of success Jonathan Carly plays a much younger War Doctor having first played the part in a YouTube lockdown multi-doctor Extravaganza and 2020. sorry I'm late everyone what have I missed um well it's funny you should mention that um the world is ending and my Tardis needs saving that is all and are those some adorable pictures of cats not now time Gramps we've got to get a move on wait wait wait let's just take a moment yes get your breath back probably had to come up some stairs good seeing you all the doctors working together to solve a problem Tim trollore plays three
6:50 are you sensing something again like the Gulf not quite for a moment I found this house to be the most repellent thing I'd ever seen but we ought to seek shelter at least if you feel there's something dangerous we're on our guard I see the front door now watch your step Sarah it's terribly popular and there's been a number of alternate ones and twos with former companions William Russell Peter pervs and Fraser Hines often stepping into the rules in earlier days but now they've pretty much settled in Michael trouton son of Patrick for two oh
7:36 didn't you exile you look good next summer a cheese roll oh notify the Tardis and get away before I turn into a block of ice and Stephen Noonan for one I knew that it hasn't been easy for you since um well since Stephen left having no one better cranky old fuss pot like me to talk to hmm don't be silly doctor you're the most interesting person I've ever met yes well I suppose I can be quite engaging on occasion but at the same time the companion voiced versions will
8:22 probably crop up again thanks to series just like the companion Chronicles and the Early Adventures which we'll talk about later I'm not saying nothing but the David Bradley first doctor stories big finish produces a truly astounding amount of Doctor Who related stuff I mean the recently released a series that featured Missy timing it with two versions of the meddling monk they have a whole series with the Peter Noster gang they've done stories with a lone Centurion and Lady Christina for some reason they have whole series is depicting the time war with the eighth doctor the War Doctor and even the war Master starring Derek Jacoby and recently they even started doing an alternate reality version of the time War set up early when the fourth doctor actually pressed the wires together after his big do I have the right speech in Genesis of the Daleks and wipe them
9:08 out of course seconds later Sarah Jin and Harry were gunned down with the cow LEDs and the doctor was fatally wounded and was informed that because his actions the Thousand khalids teamed up and decided to kill the time Lords so time War that's it Chris it's war war has broken up this is poor that's it yes it's War from now on the day-to-day will be providing the most immediate coverage of any War ever fought on the front line and in your face Donald Bethlehem standing by Douglas heard the day-to-day smart bombs have nose mounted cameras this is smart bomb Stephen and that is Susanna gekaloys I'll be reporting from inside the fight like some crazy Trojan
9:55 and keeping an eye on everything that's going on out there at the day-to-day newspipe Douglas trox I Am the Doctor the first the weather from Sylvester Stuart good evening anyway 4 regenerates into an alternate Fifth Doctor Who's the War Doctor Papa Colin Baker amazing opening aside this series really isn't great but it does have this absolute Banger of a theme song foreign
10:41 [Applause] [Music] Baker repriced his role as four for the have I the Right scene alongside City Miller Liz slain's daughter Sarah Jane because that's by far the best part of the whole thing let's touch these two stands together and the Daleks are finished have I that right to destroy the dark she can't doubt it but I do just touch these two strands together and the Daleks are finished have I that right destroy the Daleks you can't doubt it well I do there's also non-time or alternate reality stories in the Unbound range showing things as diverse as what if the third doctor was a woman what if the doctor was a bastard what if the
11:28 doctor was a different bastard what if the doctor was a human right to writing something called Doctor Who what if they cast one of the guys who turned down the role of first doctor before Hartnell was asked and of course what if the doctor was David Warner it's a good question Warner played his alternate reality doctor on and off for the rest of his life and apparently we'll be meeting the Ninth Doctor in the 60th anniversary release but apart from all that alternate reality stuff we've got the aforementioned companion Chronicles which started out as a way to get the 60s and 70s companions involved without making them play someone else or have them be old and stuff it's a story is told by the companion where they voice most people usually alongside one or two other actors it's like a hybrid between an audio drama and a dramatic reading and includes frankly when the best
12:15 doctor whose stories ever done Perry and the piscon Paradox which you'll be covering later on in my fifth doctor videos the companion Chronicles eventually led to the Early Adventures again a mix of Audio Drama antibiotic reading but closer to an audio drama the feature two companions who alternate narration and one of them plays the darker the narration perfectly recreates the effect of listening to an old lost 60s whose story without a narration to make up for the lack of visuals The Early Adventures really do feel authentically 60s down to the writing performances sound effects and my personal favorite the fact that characters will be taken are the story for whole episodes at a time which perfectly recreate to actors in the 60s would go in holiday for a week so the
13:01 character would be knocked out or jailed or something like that for an episode you might have noticed that big finish has a truly mind-blowing amount of stuff and releasing a truly mind-blowing amount of stuff is how you end up with something like a masterful all a story where age incarnations of the master including Gomez Sim Eric Roberts Jeffrey beavers the last surviving classic Who Master Jacoby big finishes bold version an alternate reality one from the David Warner stories a really young master in his first Incarnation and a robot pertaining to be Anthony ainley just hang out and be evil Miss grunt what listen what we're all the master
13:50 [Laughter] in fact the only living Masters who aren't tenants are Gordon Tipple who was in one shot in the began movie Sasha Dewayne who they didn't have the license to use yet and James Dreyfuss who big finish instantly stopped hiring when he turned out to be a dick hopefully I've made you see that whatever flavor of who or who would Jason stuff you like there is something for you in big finish it's a giant and oh so varied but these videos can't cover it all I don't know the time or money for that so what I'm gonna do is concentrate in classic Who doctors plus McGann these are the quick guys to classic Who after all but after that who knows who knows knew who
14:36 doctors were going to mention from time to time though there's been classic I knew who doctor crossovers there's a whole series of releases about new Who monsters but in classic doctors the walls between the two shows are very thin at Big finish or you might be wondering if the return of 10 TV effect had big finish back in 2005 and the answer is nearly according to Russell he was contacted by someone higher up in the BBC who discovered the big finish exist at and sent by memo about these people doing Doctor Who stories and how they needed to be stopped so Davies harshly agreed with the guy said he'd deal with it personally and then promptly ignore that because he liked big finish and he wanted them to continue doing what they were doing anyway to begin with I'm going to concentrate on sex because this project
15:21 grew to me spending about six months listening to a lot of his audios plus he's arguably the quintessential big finish doctor no doctor actor has been as dedicated to the audio Rangers Colin Baker and no doctors had his reputation improved as much by ad in fact before new who arrived in the scene there was a shining short period where on the back of the audios alone Colin would sometimes win best Dr fan poles now as he alluded to earlier it is kind of hard to make the chronology a big Finnish classic Doctor Who stories they wanted to keep the audience from getting bored so they'd mix it up with the TV companions sometimes the doctor would be traveling alone and eventually big finish would introduce their own Companions and sometimes just sometimes they would bring a companion back after
16:07 they left in the TV show basically classic who left a lot of spaces for stories and big finished filled them all but often they left it a bit vague on the exact order of the stories sometimes it's basically impossible to tell where they come except a Clues and dialogue a characterization for instance 6 gets nice with age seven gets darker it just gets more broken and five eventually doesn't have niss around anymore but honestly that isn't a big deal it's quite handy actually I like dipping into something based on the title alone without necessarily having to worry about an ongoing plot or not being 100 sure who the companions obey it keeps things interesting but that's not to say they're continuity free though there is some and there's more of it with time most the classic doctors have a little
16:54 seven as more and eight is the most but I'll talk about that in respect to videos anyway instead of going series by series because for the most part that's not really a thing in class a cute big finish or chronologically because that way Madness lies I'm instead gonna go by Companions and put them all in different videos with the doctor traveling with short-term companion as another video and the doctor traveling alone is another anyway that was my intro to the quick guide to Big finish classic Who join me next time I'm gonna make me start with all 6A mystery [Music]
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