April 24th, 2012
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Justyce Served – A Small Start with a Big Finish
JUSTYCE SERVED – A Small Start with a Big Finish
By Alun Harris & Matthew West
Due for release September 2012.
All authors’ profits to go to Amnesty International.
Audio Visuals – Adventures in Time & Space were a series of fan-produced Doctor Who audio plays made as part of a non-profit making venture. The series ran for nearly 10 years becoming more polished and professional with each play.
The Doctor was played in the pilot by Stephen Payne but for the rest of the run by Nicholas Briggs whose incarnation also played a couple of brief cameos in the comic strip for Doctor Who Magazine.
Michael Wisher was a regular performer and both Nabil Shaban and Peter Miles made appearances as well. Scripts came courtesy of Gary Russell (who later went on to produce the final season of AVs), Nicholas Briggs, Jim Mortimore, Andy Lane, Alan W. Lear and many others, while others went on to appear in and contribute creatively to BBV, Bill Baggs’ video company whose productions included, among others, a remake of the Audio Visual play More than a Messiah.
Justyce Served benefits from the contributions and support of many AV team members including Gary Russell, Nicholas Briggs, John Ainsworth, Bill Baggs, Patricia Merrick, Nigel Fairs, Jim Mortimore, Tim Keable (who also provides the new artwork as seen on the cover), Richard Marson, Alistair Lock, Nigel Peever and many others, this book charts all 27 plays and acts as both an episode guide and a production journal bringing us right up to date with the launch of Big Finish in 1998 and their subsequent acquisition of an official license to produce Doctor Who audio plays, some of which were based on Audio Visuals plays (The Mutant Phase, Minuet in Hell, Sword of Orion, Cuddlesome and more).
Due for release in Sep 2012 and can be pre-ordered from the Miwk shop at www.miwk.com
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the TARDIS
June 1st, 2012 - 5:20pmWeren’t Cuddlesome and Sword of Orion originally part of this range before Big Finish re-did them?
McGann is the Doctor
April 25th, 2012 - 8:14amWhat is this ? ❓
booboo
April 25th, 2012 - 8:48amThis is the story behind Adventures in time and space, fan made audio drams which you could buy in cassette tape , some of those involved work on doctor who now and big finish (eg Nicholas Briggs, Gary Russell) – they were full cast with effects and are actually very good.
If i ever get time i will do a feature. I may be wrong but i thought i read somewhere those involved wanted it left in the past, perhaps someone has more info
I seem to have CD cover but dont ever recall it being available
The Monitor
April 25th, 2012 - 9:23amYou are probably right, about “being left in the past” feeling. That understandably might apply here as one could surmise that they then had better resources to make Mutant, Sword etc, which therefore invalidates the original. However, here is a book about it, which really draws attention to those who know nothing about it.
The trouble is with a book is that people will be all the more desperate to hear them, which begs the question of a rather large CD box set…
booboo
April 24th, 2012 - 8:03pmI actually have these – they were very good i thought
The Monitor
April 24th, 2012 - 9:28pmYou have done well to get them. I bought Big Finish from day one, and the more Who-related BBV items before (and during for a while), but I have never seen these on sale. Some scripts were adopted for Big Finish I believe.
I would love them to re-release some.