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Big Finish
is a British company that produces audio plays, mostly Sci-Fi and licensed from franchises originating in other media. Not to be confused with Grand Finale. Named after Steven Moffat's Press Gang.
Their productions include audios for:
- Doctor Who (see Big Finish Doctor Who)
- Spin Offs with their own pages are Sarah Jane Smith, Gallifrey, Bernice Summerfield (shared with the original novels), and Iris Wildthyme. See the Big Finish Doctor Who page for a full list of spinoffs.
- Adam Adamant Lives!
- The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
- The Avengers (1960s) (Two series: The Lost Episodes, recreating the mostly-incomplete first season and The Comic Strip Adaptations, set during the Steed and Mrs. Peel era.)
- Blake's 7 (see the audio plays)
- Callan
- Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- The Confessions of Dorian Gray
- Dan Dare
- Dark Season
- Dark Shadows
- Earthsearch
- Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD strips
- The Omega Factor
- Pathfinder
- The Prisoner
- Sapphire and Steel
- Sherlock Holmes
- Space: 1999
- Star Cops
- The Stargate-verse
- Stingray
- Survivors
- Terrahawks
- Thunderbirds
- Timeslip
- The Tomorrow People (1973)
- Warhammer 40,000
- The Ciaphas Cain story "Dead in the Water"
- UFO (1970)
They have also produced audio adaptations of various classic literature including The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man, and several wholly original productions including:
- ATA Girl, a WWII drama
- Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost, a gothic horror
- Cicero, a thriller set in Ancient Rome
- The Human Frontier, a science fiction serial
- Jeremiah Bourne in Time, a time travel-adventure series
- Shilling & Sixpence Investigate, a murder mystery
- Transference, a crime thriller
- Acting for Two: You'd be hard pressed to find a Big Finish story, that didn't have at least one actor playing multiple parts.
- Production Posse: A great number of actors, writers and directors have regularly contributed to several Big Finish productions, despite many of them not being permanent members of the company. Acting wise, two of the most prolific mainstays are Lisa Bowerman, and the late David Warner.
- Shared Universe:
- The majority of their audio series take place in the Whoniverse, being that they are all Doctor Who spin-offs, with some unrelated series have a few references to Doctor Who.
- Big Finish created a loosely connected shared world for their Sherlock Holmes, Dark Shadows and The Confessions of Dorian Gray series. The Confessions series is what mainly connects the three through crossovers and Character Overlap, as Holmes appears in "Ghosts of Christmas Past" and voiced by his Big Finish actor Nicholas Briggs, and Confessions has numerous references to Dark Shadows, with Dorian Gray himself appearing in "The Darkest Shadow" and voiced by his Confessions actor Alexander Vlahos.
- What Could Have Been:
- There was nearly a range based off of the cult American sci-fi show Firefly, which never happened either due to money or rights.
- Had John Hurt not passed away, he was very much prepared to more stories with Big Finish beyond his signature role as the War Doctor. Playing the title character in The Invisible Man gave us taste of what it could've been.
