Probably my favourite series

Apologizes if this is not a appropriate post for this subreddit, but does anyone know if Noga Flaishon ever apologized for thoses tweets? I was looking around but couldn't find anything.

The Master is in hiding from the Time War, and since he knows his days are numbered, why not revel in a few new forms of wickedness?
Whether at a futuristic nursing home or in a fleeing scavenger ship, on a darkness-shrouded planet or guesting in the bright lights of a TV studio, there's an evil deed for every occasion...

The Unstately Home by Alison Winter
The super-rich elite residents of Aurora Mansions, a high-tech luxury retirement village and nursing home, have every imaginable comfort and amenity in their golden years. But the Master, posing as a cognitive hypnotherapist, is keen to demonstrate that no amount of money can provide sanctuary from the troubled mind... especially when he's inside it.

Dead Man's Pulse by Mark Bowsher
The Master is dead. For now, at least. But even a dead Time Lord is valuable during a Time War and when a gang of scavengers steal the Master's body, their ship is targeted by a psychological energy weapon. They are forced to revive the Master to gain his help, but his cooperation comes at a high price...

The Devil in the Detail by David K Barnes
On a colony world in perpetual night, young scientist Lyle Godwin is determined to give power back to the people. He's beating the energy companies at their own game - but why does the Master want to help him do it? The devil... is in the detail.

In His Anecdotage by Matthew Sweet
The Master is publishing his memoirs - You Don't Know Jackanapes - in which he offers himself as a reformed character and spills secrets from the UNIT years. Talking to veteran investigative journalist Jeannie Keen, she questions him about government cover-ups, and he tells her, out of the blue, that he has seen a UNIT file showing she has a twin sister living in a nursing home in Wexcliffe-on-Sea. Only it's not a nursing home, it's a UNIT safe house.
The Master offers to team up with Jeannie, apparently interested in helping her with the story. But what is the secret of Ashburton Lodge? And what's behind the Master's most unreliable of memoirs?

edit - I apologise for all the trauma I have caused.

Last month I pre-ordered today’s War Master boxset as a download, but it’s not showing up in the app. I checked the website and according to it I have it. I tried updating my iPhone, in case that was the issue, but it didn’t make any difference. Should I contact their customer support?

https://www.bigfinish.com/collections/v/halloween-at-big-finish

Feel free to leave any recommendations from the sale below!

If so where and did she actually meet one in person

I see this was an issue weeks ago but I still have this issue on my iPad, I get why it might be happening on my older iPhone 7 but my iPad is pretty new and I literally just updated the app and it’s still exactly the same. Anything I have downloaded on the iPad works fine, it’s just everything else, when I try to download anything it immediately says ‘failed to initiate download’, and as people have mentioned weeks ago there’s no covers. I just wanna know if this is still an ongoing problem with the app. 😓

Metallica's Obey Your Master would be perfect for Dark Gallifrey or any other War Master story

Can’t decide which one to get in the sale. The Brain Drain seems more thematically linked as early Season 7, but Intelligence for War seems Liz Shaw centred and Liz didn’t really get much development on-screen or much depth to her character. What do you think? Or do you have another story you think would fit better?

Introduction

Hello all and welcome back to the Big Finish Podcast Notes! Hope you've all had a lovely week.

I've been dealing with some health issues for the past several months. It started with physical pain (which I'm still dealing with), but once I got into the doctor at the end of August he found some other symptoms of an as-of-yet undiagnosed, unrelated condition that could be very serious. We haven't ruled anything out yet, but scans and bloodwork have been encouraging.

During this time I have gotten very behind on my listening. While my true backlog of Big Finish is just over 1,000 hours, I always try to keep up with new releases. But in this time, those have stacked up like crazy (I think it reached 30 hours at one point). But I'm trying to be more positive and am finally kicking it into gear. I've nearly caught up on my backlog, and it's nice to get such a comforting thing back in my life.

Podcast

Podcast Notes

• Benji cannot reveal any Big Finish Day guests, but strongly encourages people to attend even if they just want to come and hang out. There will be plenty of guests but there's no pressure to chat with anyone.
• The first Young Bond: SilverFin box set is mostly set at Eton, while the second starts diving into Scotland.

Random Tangents: Jonathon Carley would be hopeless as a spy.

Production Interviews: The War Master: Deeds Without Name

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: Young Bond: SilverFin Part 1

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. There are currently technical issues with the Randomoid Selectotron, so it will be stuck on the last release from the 26 June podcast for the foreseeable future. This release is The Companion Chronicles: 7.6 The Child.

Big Finish News

New Releases

• The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers is released on 20 October (DTO: £19.99 | DTO + CD: £24.99)
  • Synopsis: The Doctor and Jo visit a remote Russian outpost in 1890, the paradise world of Paratel and the frozen moon of Dorix, encountering a creature torn between dimensions and a genocidal stratagem devised by the Daleks. As she continues her second TARDIS odyssey, Jo Jones is loving every moment of it. Mostly.
    • The Beasts of Sakhalin Island by Jez Fielder (4 parts) The Doctor and Jo are drawn to Sakhalin Island in 1890, where the dramatist and writer Dr Anton Chekhov is chronicling the plight of the inmates in the penal colony there. But something else is arriving on the island... A strange infection develops and the howls of a tortured beast can be heard...
    • The Planet Killers by Andrew Smith (2 parts) Arriving on the tranquil world of Paratel, the Doctor and Jo quickly discover that they've landed in the middle of events involving planetary destruction, ruthless exploitation of minerals, slavery and betrayal. A merciless Dalek plan is in motion, and the struggle to defeat them will cost many lives.
• The Audio Novels: The Missing Hour is released on 22 October (DTO: £19.99)
  • Synopsis: June 1940 and the island of Malta is under constant bombardment. Flight officer Roddy Wright is one of a handful of Hurricane pilots helping to defend the island. He knows the odds are against him. So, too, does his daughter. In fact, Barbara knows that there are just days - hours - until her father goes missing in action. She can't alter history. But until that fateful hour, how can she resist spending more time with the father she lost so long ago? What could possibly go wrong?

Trailers

• The Fugitive Doctor: Running Wild
• Young Bond: SilverFin Part 1

Cover Reveals

• Star Cops: Conflict: Final Gambit

News, Announcements, Videos, and Blog Posts

• Spoiler warning! Doctor Who: False Friends interview - A behind the scenes video featuring guest stars Máiréad Tyers and Joe Pitts.
• Behind the scenes at Doctor Who: The Planet Killers - A behind the scenes video of this set, featuring students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School who were given the opportunity to join this audio production.

Out of Print This Week

• Class Volume 03
• Class Volume 04
• The Third Doctor Adventures: The Quintessence

Sales and Recommendations (As a reminder, bulleted stories are recommended by me, and those in bold are my favorites)

• The Third Doctor Adventures: Up to 50% off the entire Third Doctor Adventures range! (Ends 25 October)
  • The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 04
  • The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 05
  • The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 07
  • The Third Doctor Adventures: The Annihilators
  • The Third Doctor Adventures: Intelligence for War
• Class Sale: Up to 50% off the all five Class releases at Big Finish to celebrate its anniversary! (Ends 25 October)
  • I own these but have not listened to any yet, so I cannot offer recommendations.
• October Offer: Spend £66.66 or more to get 13% off of your order with checkout code DEAL [does not include bundles and preorders] (Ends 31 October).
• DWM632 Offer: 50% off a select number of releases. Use the discount code POTATO at checkout. (Ends 31 October)
  • The Diary of River Song Series 06
  • Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1
  • Paternoster Gang: Heritage 1
  • Wicked Sisters
• DWM635 Offer: 50% off a select number of releases featuring Ace. Use the discount code WICKED at checkout. (Ends 31 January)
  • Gallifrey: Time War 1
  • Tenth Doctor, Classic Companions
  • The New Adventure of Bernice Summerfield Volume 02: The Triumph of Sutekh
• Colditz for Free! Click this link and use code KLEIN25 when prompted to unlock a free download of The Monthly Adventures: Colditz (Ends 31 January)

Big Finish Book Club: Discounts on a specially selected Big Finish audio drama every month. October's selection: Callan Volume 01 for just £9.99 on DTO or CD + DTO.

Free Excerpt: Every month a 15 minute excerpt is chosen from an upcoming release to download for free. October's selection is The Audio Novels: The Missing Hour Part 1 (Excerpt). Just click on the link and use this month's code MALTA.

Free Day Friday: Every week, Big Finish highlights an excerpt from their Big Finish For Free! collection, and offer 25% off the full release using a unique sale code. This week's selection: The Avengers: Tunnel of Fear. Use discount code SPYRING at checkout to save 25% off the full release of The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 06 (Ends 25 October).

Big Finish Release Schedule

• 27 October - The War Master: Deeds Without Name
• 29 October - Young Bond: SilverFin Part 1 and Part 2

Community Reviews via TARDIS Guide:

What Big Finish I Was Listening To This Week: Finished up Circuit Breaker -- Full Circuit was good fun but sort of a comedown after The Kaleidoscope. Short Circuits felt kinda just tacked on/filler. Also listened to The Third Doctor Adventures: Planet Killers and finished The Fourth Doctor Adventures: A New Occupation, as well as Office Space from the new Halloween box set (AMAZING).

General Doctor Who / Non-Big Finish News

Official News

• New screenings have been added for The Satan Pit on 28 November, following high demand for the original 23 November screening.
• Bring home a piece of the TARDIS. Propstore is selling roundels from the 14th/15th Doctor's TARDIS following its dismantlement.

The Rumor Mill

• None

Media/Merchandise

• Doctor Who: Corruption of the Daleks is released on 20 October.
• Doctor Who: The Official Doctionary has been updated and released on 22 October.
• Doctor Who: Tales of the TARDIS, a collection of eight stories set aboard the Memory TARDIS, is released on 22 October.

June 1940 and the island of Malta is under constant bombardment.

Flight officer Roddy Wright is one of a handful of Hurricane pilots helping to defend the island. He knows the odds are against him.

So, too, does his daughter. In fact, Barbara knows that there are just days - hours - until her father goes missing in action.

She can't alter history. But until that fateful hour, how can she resist spending more time with the father she lost so long ago? What could possibly go wrong?

Just an observation, is anyone else as surprised as me that there isn't any Torchwood sale for the 20th Anniversary of the series?

Maybe I missed something on the podcast, and I know Torchwood has been in many recent sales, but I'm genuinely surprised the anniversary didn't get so much an acknowledgement on the Big Finish Twitter.

https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/class

Feel free to leave any recommendations from the sale below!

I got the CD for Master a bit ago and the insert says it takes place between Project Lazarus and The Sirens of Time. Does anyone who has the CDs for Omega and Davros know what stories they fall between? I can't find any pictures online.

I'm mainly curious about what the old CDs say.

Just checking if anyone has received notifications that their CD copies have been dispatched.

Hey! I've finally decided to start listening to the Main Range. I've decided to follow the 8th Doctor stories with Charley in chronological order. So far I've listened to the following, guided by the TARDIS wiki's Eighth Doctor Timeline:

• Storm Warning (Main Range 16).
• Sword of Orion (Main Range 17).
• The Man Who Wasn't There (Short Trips 6.11).
• Repercussions... (Short Trips paperback).
• The Stones of Venice (Main Range 18).

My question is, is it worth it following every single one of these audios featuring Charley and the Doctor in order? Or is it more enjoyable to stick to the Main Range audios and skip the short trips and other audios? This also applies to when soon enough Audacity joins 8 and Charley: should I listen to those when the time comes chronologically, or only come back after I've finished all of the Main Range stories with them? Thank you for your suggestions!!

The Doctor and Jo visit a remote Russian outpost in 1890, the paradise world of Paratel and the frozen moon of Dorix, encountering a creature torn between dimensions and a genocidal stratagem devised by the Daleks.

As she continues her second TARDIS odyssey, Jo Jones is loving every moment of it. Mostly.

The Beasts of Sakhalin Island by Jez Fielder (4 parts)
The Doctor and Jo are drawn to Sakhalin Island in 1890, where the dramatist and writer Dr Anton Chekhov is chronicling the plight of the inmates in the penal colony there. But something else is arriving on the island... A strange infection develops and the howls of a tortured beast can be heard...

The Planet Killers by Andrew Smith (2 parts)
Arriving on the tranquil world of Paratel, the Doctor and Jo quickly discover that they've landed in the middle of events involving planetary destruction, ruthless exploitation of minerals, slavery and betrayal. A merciless Dalek plan is in motion, and the struggle to defeat them will cost many lives.