Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Rec/Guide for Beginners

Right, so, the Very First audios by Big Finish are generally not considered as the best, so you may not find many recs from the beginnings of Big Finish’s Doctor Who monthly line. NOT EVERY AUDIO WILL BE HERE GUYS

What you will find here are my personal picks, and some “story arcs” that are looped together that span multiple incarnations of the Doctor.

Five solo

  • Omega
  • The Gathering [Tied with ‘The Reaping’, with Tegan]

Five and Nyssa

  • Winter For The Adept
  • Spare Parts
  • Creatures Of Beauty
  • Circular Time
  • The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
  • The Boy That Time Forgot
  • Castle Of Fear
  • The Eternal Summer
  • Plague Of The Daleks
  • The Demons Of Red Lodge And Other Stories

Five and Turlough

  • Loups-Garoux
  • Singularity

Five, Turlough, Tegan, and Nyssa

  • Cobwebs
  • The Whispering Forest
  • The Cradle Of The Snake
  • Heroes of Sontar

Five, Peri, and Erimem

  • The Eye Of The Scorpion
  • The Church And The Crown
  • The Axis Of Insanity
  • Three’s A Crowd
  • The Council Of Nicaea
  • The Kingmaker
  • Son Of The Dragon
  • The Bride Of Peladon

Six solo

  • ID; Urgent Calls
  • The Wormery [with Iris Wildthyme]

Six and Peri

  • …Ish
  • The Reaping [Tied with ‘The Gathering’]
  • Year Of The Pig

Six and Jamie

  • City Of Spires
  • Wreck Of The Titan
  • Legend Of The Cybermen

Six and Evelyn [not tied to larger story arcs]

  • The Marian Conspiracy
  • The Spectre Of Lanyon Moor
  • Bloodtide
  • Jubilee
  • Doctor Who And The Pirates
  • Medicinal Purposes
  • 100
  • The Feast Of Axos [with Thomas Brewster]

Six and Mel

  • The One Doctor
  • Catch-1782
  • The Wishing Beast; The Vanity Box

Seven and Mel

  • The Fires Of Vulcan
  • Bang-Bang-A-Boom!
  • Unregenerate!
  • Red

Seven and Ace

  • Dust Breeding
  • Colditz
  • The Rapture

Seven, Ace, and Hex

  • The Harvest
  • Live 34
  • Night Thoughts
  • No Man’s Land
  • The Dark Husband
  • Forty-Five
  • The Angel Of Scutari

Seven solo

  • Valhalla
  • Master

Eight and Charley [not necessarily in association with larger story arcs, but… well]

  • Storm Warning
  • The Sword Of Orion
  • The Stones Of Venice
  • Minuet In Hell
  • Invaders From Mars
  • The Chimes Of Midnight
  • Embrace The Darkness

Eight, Charley, and C’rizz [pronounced CARE-iz — set after a larger story arc]

  • The Creed Of Kromon
  • A Natural History Of Fear
  • The Twilight Kingdom
  • Faith Stealer
  • Caerdroia
  • The Next Life
  • Terror Firma
  • Other Lives
  • Something Inside
  • Memory Lane
  • Absolution

LARGER STORY ARCS

Charlotte Pollard arc

Eight and Charley [set after Embrace The Darkness, leading directly to The Creed Of Kromon]

  • Neverland
  • Zagreus [Five, Six, Seven and Eight]
  • Scherzo

Eight and Charley [cont’d after Absolution]

  • The Girl Who Never Was

Six and Charley [cont’d after The Girl Who Never Was]

  • The Condemned
  • The Doomwood Curse
  • Brotherhood Of The Daleks
  • Patient Zero
  • Paper Cuts
  • Blue Forgotten Planet

Cassie Schofield/Nimrod/”The Forge” arc [with stories that may help understand the final one]

Six and Evelyn

  • Project: Twilight
  • Project: Lazarus [with Seven]
  • Arrangements For War
  • Thicker Than Water [with Mel]

Seven, Ace, and Hex

  • Project: Destiny
  • A Death In The Family [with Evelyn]

Key2Time/Black Guardian arc

Five and Amy [no, not that Amy]

  • The Judgement Of Isskar
  • The Destroyer Of Delights
  • The Chaos Pool
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  4. hithah said: Thank you SO much for this! I’ll absolutely be referring to this as I start working my way through the world of Big Finish. In particular I’m really grateful for the explanation of the story arcs. That’s where I was particularly confused. Thanks!
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