Thread by @tansyrr

As requested by @jashcraft88, I am going to tell you about my faves of the first 50 @bigfinish #doctorwho audio plays which are all on sale right now!

bigfinish.com/collections/v/… @VerityPodcast

So here it is, my top 25 of the first 50 Big Finish Doctor Who plays, ranked in reverse order! Available not only for like $1.50 each right now, but also for free on Spotify!

#25: Creatures of Beauty - a clever Five+Nyssa play using non-linear narrative.

#24: The Shadow of the Scourge - surreal convention antics in a hotel with New Adventures style Ace+Benny+7.

#23: The Fires of Vulcan - Seven+Mel do Pompeii.

#22: Sword of Orion - Eight+Charley do Cybermen. Really very good.

#21: …Ish - Great horror/thriller about language and wordplay with Peri+Six. Yes, that’s really what it’s called.

#20: The One Doctor - very good Six+Mel packed with meta & humour.

#19: The Stones of Venice - surreal arty adventures with Charley+Eight in a future Venice.

#18: Bang-Bang-A-Boom - an Intergalactic Song Contest, Graeme Garden, a murder mystery and 7+Mel. This one’s super fun. I want to relisten to it right now.

#17: The Time of the Daleks - weird cool Shakespeare paradoxes with Eight+Charley

#16: Colditz — excellent Seven+Ace story introducing Elizabeth Klein (a future companion) with super bonus David Tennant. Downside: he’s a Nazi, they’re all Nazis. Very high Nazi quotient in this one.

#15: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor - spooky Cornish mystery, great cast, Sixth Doctor meets the Brig!

#14: And The Pirates - Six+Evelyn get a musical about pirates. A musical. About pirates. Also, Bill Oddie. Songs and Bill Oddie and pirates.

#13: Neverland - Eight, Charley, Big Dramatic Stuff plus Prez Romana, definitely worth your time. (This one’s helpful if you’re going in to Zagreus)

#12: Jubilee - very good Dalek+Six+Evelyn story by the very good Robert Shearman - this story has the bones of what became Series 1’s “Dalek” but it’s a great story in its own right. And actually completely different anyway.

#11: Master - marvellous, spooky tale of a dinner party, a secret revealed, and the ultimate murder mystery. Featuring the Seventh Doctor and the most iconic Big Finish Master, the one and only Geoffrey Beevers!

Top Ten of the first 50 #bigfinish #doctorwho plays coming shortly...

#10: Spare Parts. Most excellent Nyssa+Five, and one of the best all-time Cybermen stories. Hugely influential on New Who Cybus Industries storylines, so interesting at a meta level too. A bit grim, don’t listen to this one last thing at night.

#9: Davros - epic face off between Six and a certain reformed evil scientist. Can they work together to save the world? Who is the bad guy here?

#8: Storm Warning - really great intro to the fab Charley Pollard+Eight TARDIS team with a doomed airship and a set-chewing Gareth Thomas. An essential listen.

#7: Omega. A really clever story that explores and celebrates this Classic Who villain - and some great material for Peter Davison to get his teeth into.

#6: Zagreus - fascinating, bewildering, confusing, epic: this all star cast spectacular will boggle your brain and delight your senses if you have any taste at all. A love letter to Doctor Who, to Big Finish, and to audio storytelling. Sophie Aldred plays a duck!

#5: The Eye of the Scorpion - most excellent Egyptian drama, introducing great new companion for Five+Peri: the Pharaoh Erimem. A new era, thoroughly endorsed by at least two members of the @VerityPodcast.

@VerityPodcast #4: Seasons of Fear - lovely lovely perfectly shaped Doctor Who story, one of my fave uses of time travel in #DW plus v. good Eight+Charley. I love them. If you’re not in love with them yet as a Doctor Companion combo, this story should do it.

@VerityPodcast #3: The Marian Conspiracy - crunchy alt-historical introducing new Six companion Dr Evelyn Smythe, plus Queen Mary shenanigans. A great starting point for a quality era of Doctor Who.

@VerityPodcast #2: The Church and the Crown - one of my all time faves, a Musketeer story (history, not the novel) with Five+Peri+Erimem, the BEST Doctor Who trope (companion looks like a local royal!) and one of my fave historical ladies (Madame de Chevreuse, take your bow). I <3 historicals.

And now the absolute best story of the first 50 Big Finish Doctor Whos…

#1: Chimes of Midnight.

Really quite annoying how brilliant this story is, even 18 years later. Who is this Shearman chap anyway? Upstairs Downstairs pastiche, creepy horror + all the Christmas pudding you can eat.

Don’t eat the pudding. It’s just so bloody good.