Big Finish just levelled up in AWESOME

[annathepiper]

So I’ve been following my Doctor Who Podcast boys for a while, and one of the awesome things they did a while back was to interview Scarf Doctor himself, Mr. Tom Baker. In that interview one of the questions raised was whether Baker would consider joining the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors in recording audio adventures with Big Finish. At the time Baker made ambivalent yet interested noises, and solarbird and I both were all OOH OOH YES PLEASE DO THIS.

People, it looks like Big Finish have indeed scored Tom Baker. There are going to be new Fourth Doctor adventures as of next year! With Leela as the Companion in the first set of them, and Romana I coming in for the second set!

I told Dara this last night, and watched her eyes get huge and her face light up. She then informed me that we need ALL OF THESE–given that Leela is her favorite Classic Who Companion and all! That set is due out in January 2012, so WOO! Yule present, baby!

So for those of you who like Scarf Doctor, GO TO. Hell, you should check out Big Finish if you haven’t already, because they do excellent work with the other Doctor adventures they offer as well–full cast plays with excellent sound effects and music. They have several productions in particular of stories that had been scripted for the TV show but never got produced, and so they call those “Lost Stories”. Great fun!

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Comments

[pippins_scarf]

I have such fond memories of Tom Baker. He was my very first Doctor :)

I think I'll have to rewatch some of his episodes on Netflix. It's been far too long!

[annathepiper]

solarbird and our housemate spazzkat were Doctor fans way way way before I was--so all of my earliest exposure was sort of half-assedly watching episodes while they were. But I never really signed on as an active fan until the show came back in 2005, at which point Christopher Eccleston TOTALLY had my attention. :)

But then I swung back to start properly appreciating the classic stuff. I got a great intro to all the previous Doctors by way of spazzkat"s collection of major Dalek episodes! And we have a local public broadcasting station that regularly runs Classic Doctor, which we watch a lot.

Tom Baker is very high in my approval of old episodes, though. I quite like him, and he's got a couple of my favorite Companions as well! When Liz Sladen passed away earlier this year I made a point of buying a couple of her episodes with Baker, and watching them.