June 30th, 2018
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Big Finish UNIT The New Series – Revisitations
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
Kate Stewart and her UNIT team investigate and confront alien attacks on the planet Earth in this new 5 disc boxset.
7.1 and 7.2 Hosts of the Wirrn by Chris Chapman
7.3 Breach of Trust by David K Barnes
7.4 Open the Box by Roy Gill
Deploying November 2018
Directed By: TBA
Cast
Jemma Redgrave (Kate Stewart), Ingrid Oliver (Osgood), James Joyce (Captain Josh Carter), Ramon Tikaram (Colonel Shindi), more details to follow
Producer David Richardson
Script Editor TBA
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
Categorised under: Big Finish, CD, spin-offs
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Doctor Mysterio
July 4th, 2018 - 10:09pmNow Big Finish are dipping their toe into the Star Trek Universe, what are the chances of any Trek spin offs or cross overs? Maybe UNIT could come into contact with Section 31…
Anonymous
July 6th, 2018 - 12:50amCannon in the whoniverse is questionable anyway, so why not…
MatBlakemoon
July 8th, 2018 - 10:14amThey did those crossover comics, and as someone previously said Canon is debatable so I feel like they could easily. I’d love to see stuff like that, just light hearted stuff not meant to be taken too seriously, just dan service
Demdike@CultLabs
June 30th, 2018 - 11:12pmIs it just me or do the Big Finish story writers have more exciting and less convoluted stories to tell than what we see on tv with Doctor Who?
I mean, how much more excited would we be as fans to find out the Wirrn are returning than say having to suffer rubbish (in my opinion) like The Girl Who Lived and The Woman Who Died?
The Outcast
July 1st, 2018 - 11:36amYeah, Big Finish usually tends to have better stories or story ideas than what we’ve had on TV in the last few years. That is likely in part to the fact they need to make good stories to make a profit.
Jamie D
July 1st, 2018 - 7:52pmId much rather have new stories with new characters than bringing back the Wirrn or the Zarbi for the sake of nostalgia and appealing to a very narrow spectrum of old fans.
Anonymous
July 1st, 2018 - 9:08pmYeah but the wirrn were in 1 TV story in the 70s, its refreshing to see Big Finish bring them back rather than have the constant Dalek/Cyberman/Sontaran/Zygon/Silurian combo that we’ve had over the past few years.
Demdike@CultLabs
July 1st, 2018 - 11:09pmNew fans would be ignorant of them so would seem fresh to them anyway, surely?
Anonymous
July 2nd, 2018 - 3:34amYes but classic fans may feel let down as we couldnt expand on them much at first. First, we would have to get the new viewers caught up to date with what these creatures are (ie. Many of the issues people have with the silurians in series 5)
Demdike@CultLabs
July 2nd, 2018 - 6:18pmI think most fans issue with the Silurians was they looked nothing like the original ones.
J45ON96
July 3rd, 2018 - 12:32pmLet’s not forget, by the way, that the Audio medium has no budget! Stories can be as blockbusting as possible without the worry of a visual effects budget, or a budget at all, for that matter! Just the cast, and a script, and a good combo of director/sound editor/composer!
100,000BC
July 5th, 2018 - 8:00pmInterestingly when radio 4 extra have repeated specific runs of Big Finish Adventures, they have omitted the following stories:
Hothouse, Wirrn Dawn, The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web, The Feast of Axos, The Nightmare Fair, Mission to Magnus, The Hollows of Time and The Macros…
All but The Macros feature obscure classic monsters/villains (some of their repeats of the 5th Doctor omit The Cradle of the Snake although the original run included it – and by obscure I mean for the casual viewer, ie ones which haven’t appeared in the new series)
Clearly for the ‘casual listener’ market, extra continuity baggage is not ideal.
THE ERGON
June 30th, 2018 - 10:21amThese spin off boxsets like UNIT from the New Series are very good. And Wirrn this time. Love those Osgood knowing references to old enemies etc with her knowledge through the old UNIT files and the cast just gel so well together. Maybe they could get Josh and colonel Shindi into the next TV outing.
Anonymous
June 30th, 2018 - 10:25pmI’d say the best you could hope for from Josh and shinbi in the tv series would be a minor cameo. If the TV show ever wants to focus on unit personel other than kate and osgood, they will create their own original characters.
THE ERGON
July 1st, 2018 - 10:16amCameos would be fine just as an acknowledgement to Big Finish, although i have to say i would much rather have had UNIT as a TV spinoff than any Class or Torchwood.
In the know
July 1st, 2018 - 8:53pmUNIT won’t be returning for the new tv series