Big Finish have now been around longer than the Original Series

[Rich Watson]

As of today they've just passed the time between An Unearthly Child and and Survival Part Three. And they've so much stockpiled (not just with Tom) that could stop recording today and still have multiple releases a month for the next couple of years.

And if you really want your mind blown someone (thankfully not me) worked out that the total run time of everything Doctor Who related they've released until the end of July is nearly SIX TIMES longer than the Original Series, the New Series, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Class combined.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

...which only serves to remind me that I'm waaay behind on my Big Finish audio plays!

 

[Captaindemotion]

Big Never Finish

 

[JD]

Damn, I knew they'd made a lot of Doctor Who, but I didn't realize it was that much.

 

[FredH]

...which only serves to remind me that I'm waaay behind on my Big Finish audio plays!

Oh, I gave up many years ago. Not that I could’ve afforded to purchase more than a fraction anyway, but it’s like what happened to me with the Pocket Books Trek novels, the Virgin New Adventures (and the BBC EDAs), the Bantam Star Wars novels (let alone the later New Jedi Order). After a not very long while there’s just too much to keep up with or catch up to, certainly if you’re also doing anything else.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The thing is I want to catch up but I can't afford regular purchasing (which is needed for the multiple ongoing series I want to follow). I love Big Finish and I want to support them as much as possible but I just can't right now.

 

[Captaindemotion]

The thing is I want to catch up but I can't afford regular purchasing (which is needed for the multiple ongoing series I want to follow). I love Big Finish and I want to support them as much as possible but I just can't right now.

They have quite a bit on Spotify and also the BBC sounds app

 

[Rich Watson]

They have quite a bit on Spotify and also the BBC sounds app

And they put older stuff on sale for steep reductions fairly regularly.

That said, they definitely take advantage of the completionist mentality of some fans.

In September alone they've got eight different releases:
David Bradley 1st Doctor.
4th, 7th & 13th Doctors.
Both Eric Roberts and Sacha Dhawan Masters.
Torchwood.
And Benny Summerfield.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

The thing is I want to catch up but I can't afford regular purchasing (which is needed for the multiple ongoing series I want to follow). I love Big Finish and I want to support them as much as possible but I just can't right now.

I remember saying twenty-plus years ago, "Doctor Who is an expensive fandom." All fandoms can be expensive, but Doctor Who is much more so than most.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

they also had alot more adventures in the big finish audio universe aka off screen more than the doctor and his companions has had on sceen

and i think there was more than 15 doctors and i guess about hundreds of companions depending on the many audio storys in big finish audios

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Here's where I'm woefully behind:

Thirteenth/Ninth Doctors releases this year
Fifth Doctor since at least a decade in the main range (except for his fortieth anniversary special, that one was wild)
Sixth Doctor in his box set era
Seventh Doctor in his box set era
Fourth Doctor since his COVID-era-recorded story with Leela
First Doctor with the miscast recast
All Third Doctor Adventures sans The Annihilators
Any TORCHWOOD stuff since BF cancelled the Captain Jack/Tenth Doctor crossover (my last release was the Michael Palin narrated one)
All War Doctor Begins
The numerous other spinoffs they'd done

So, basically a lot, but I am dutifully keeping up with the Eighth and Tenth Doctor releases, and also listened to the Second Doctor Season 6B stuff (basically: what a mess) they did. But it is so much. And also, I have this personal feeling that Doctors 4-7 have been kinda expunged, narratively and character-wise. its always fun to hear more of them, but their adventures feel much more like obligatory filler releases than anything essential or vital for their run. And I'm fine with recasts (David Bradley is great) but to pay for a fan-cast of a Third and War Doctor release seems too rich for me, the only exception for me was for the Annihilators because of the familial connection for the Second Doctor recast.

Whats crazy is, I'm considering doing a streamlined Blake's Seven run with the BBC/BF stuff, but it is a little intimidating.

 

[Steve Roby]

There is so much stuff from Big Finish. I keep a spreadsheet with several tabs to keep track of it. One tab is for the ranges featuring the Doctor, one for BF Doctor Who spinoffs from Bernice Summerfield to Smith and Sullivan, one for Blake's 7, etc. I track what's out, which ones I have, and which ones I've listened to. So each box set's stories get a row of their own, meaning the number of rows is higher than the official number of BF releases. The BF DW tab has roughly 1300 rows. I've heard 780 of those stories. Spinoffs has about 880 rows, or stories, and I've heard 388 of them. I've been mainly buying downloads for a long time now, so it's not as easy as "this is the pile of CDs I've heard and this is the pile of CDs I haven't heard," which worked for a couple of years.

I bought The Sirens of Time in 2001, but only really tried to get into a regular listening routine a few years ago, shooting for an hour a night. I tend to flit around between ranges to keep things fresh. As for the cost, I don't buy absolutely everything, but it helps that the mortgage got paid off back in 2019, and that I live alone now and don't have a hectic social life.