This is really interesting, thank you for the share. really :)

You're welcome. I can even recommend some stories. Believe me, there are a lot of brilliant stories done by Big Finish. Unfortunately, many of the earlier Big Finish stories are now only available through download via the BF website. Well, unless you pay exorbitant prices on eBay.

Does anyone want recommendations?

Thanks for pinning this, but there's been no reply yet.

Thank you for publishing this!
I have never listened to a BF audio story because I thought it would be hard for me to undertand (English is not my native language).
But now I want to start listening to some,do you have any recommendations for begginers? thanks!

Hmm...where to begin?

Well, like I said, many of the earlier stories, which include many of the good beginner stories, are now only available as downloads via the Big Finish website. And a lot of my recommendations will be from these first 50. I'll also take care to choose stories that more or less stand alone, as many of the more recent stories form a story arc, usually a three-part one.

Gimme a few minutes while I think up a list. It will be the best story for each Doctor from the Big Finish audios, along with a few for each of the best monsters and villains.

Okay, I've got a list. Keep in mind that these are the best audios in MY opinion, as well as excluding boxsets from each Doctor, and also trying to exclude those that require too much knowledge of a prior story arc to enjoy. As always, Your Mileage May Vary...

FIRST DOCTOR: The Time Museum: Ian Chesterton, long after he left the Doctor, wakes up with amnesia inside a mysterious museum. Aided and hindered by the enigmatic Pendolin, he must not only recover his memories, but save himself from relentless enemies...

SECOND DOCTOR: The Rosemariners: A story originally intended for the series in the late Sixties, Frazer Hines not only plays Jamie, but also the Doctor. Landing on an abandoned space station, the Doctor and his companions soon find themselves enmeshed in the machinations of the Rosemariners.

THIRD DOCTOR: Find and Replace: In the modern day, Jo finds herself accosted by an irritating alien Novelisor from Verbatim Six, Huxley. Huxley claims that Jo never met the Doctor, and that she was a companion to another time traveller, Iris Wildthyme.

FOURTH DOCTOR: The Crooked Man: A short but excellent story involving the Fourth Doctor, Leela, and a seaside town with dark secrets...

FIFTH DOCTOR: The Kingmaker: Comedic, but also quite dark. The Doctor, Peri, and Erimem (Erimem is an audio-only companion, a former Egyptian princess) try to find out exactly what happened to the Princes in the Tower, and find out some startling truths, including about the supposedly villainous Richard III...

SIXTH DOCTOR: ...Ish*: The Sixth Doctor and Peri end up at a university where the ultimate dictonary is being unveiled. But one of the top researchers is dead, an artificial intelligence is being driven insane, and the Doctor faces one of his worst enemies yet...

SEVENTH DOCTOR: Night Thoughts: The Seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex (Thomas Hector Schofield, an audio-only companion and a nurse) end up on a remote Scottish island once used for chemical weapons testing. Now, a research facility and mansion remain, staffed by driven and obsessed researchers. But dark secrets remain on the island. Very scary story, this one.

EIGHTH DOCTOR: The Chimes of Midnight*: The Eighth Doctor and Charley (Charlotte Pollard, an audio-only companion and self-styled Edwardian adventuress) land the TARDIS in an Edwardian house. Initially stuck in a shadow dimension outside of time, they are soon drawn into a time loop where the servants of the house die every hour on the hour, for three hours until midnight. And time itself is being distorted, with Charley having a link to her past in the house(this story does require a bit of knowledge of the story arc, but it's a bloody good story nonetheless. It's also, despite the synopsis, comedic as well as horrific).

DALEKS: Jubilee*: The inspiration for the TV episode Dalek, but far superior. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe (an audio-only companion, an older history teacher) land in the Tower of London while the TARDIS runs into temporal disturbances. They find themselves in an alternate history where Britain is at the head of a brutal, totalitarian empire. And in the Tower of London sits a lone Dalek, damaged and broken...

CYBERMEN: The Silver Turk: With Mary Shelley in tow (yes! Really!), the Eighth Doctor ends up at the Viennese Exhibition, where an automaton known as the Silver Turk plays people at chess. But the automaton is really a Cyberman, badly damaged, but still deadly...

THE MASTER: Mastermind: UNIT have the Master imprisoned deep within their top secret facility, the Vault, and two of their operatives have been summoned by an automatic system to interrogate him. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan...

QuatermassAU, You've made my night with this thread! I had no idea that there were so many audio recording out there. I will certainly start looking up your recommendations! Thanks so much for taking the time to post all this thoughtful information!

Thanks. They're bloody brilliant stories, many being better than most of what went into the TV series.

You'd also be surprised at how well Frazer Hines can mimic Patrick Troughton.

Can anyone recommend any really good Big Finish Audios. I've nearly finished the 8th Doctor Audios (Which have been just brilliant!)

See above for my recommendations.

Originally posted by QuatermassAU:

Charley, C'rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly: Friends, companions I've known, I salute you.

The above quote comes from The Night of the Doctor, the only other televisual adventure for the Eighth Doctor, and his last, just before he regenerated. But who are these people?

Believe it or not, these companions exist. As do others, like the Egyptian princess Erimem, the sly Victorian thief Thomas Brewster, compassionate and old history professor Evelyn Smythe, and skittish but resourceful nurse Thomas Hector 'Hex' Schofield.

They come from the Big Finish audios.

Big Finish is a British company that does audio dramas. While some could be considered audiobooks, the vast majority are like a television story, only without the pictures. Doctor Who is perhaps the biggest franchise it deals with, but it has many more.

In the main range of Doctor Who alone (leaving aside the other ranges, spin-offs, and the like), there are nearly 200 stories. In fact, including the other ranges, it is equal, if not greater than, the amount of stories shown on television. None of the new series Doctors are here, save for the Destiny of the Doctor range (and David Tennant appears in a few of the audios). Most of the stories feature the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors, although there is an entire range with the Fourth Doctor, and there are still stories with the first three Doctors.

Are there Daleks? Cybermen? You betcha! And more. Villains and aliens like the Master, the Sontarans, the Ice Warriors, the Toymaker, and the Meddling Monk.

There may not be any monsters who debuted in the new series, but there are plenty of new monsters and villains, like the enigmatic Viyrans, the malevolent organisation known as the Forge, the bizarre Divergence, the mercurial Word Lord Nobody No-One, the seemingly unstoppable Eminence and its Infinite Warriors, and the space pirates known as the Rocket Men. Villains and aliens who very nearly made it to the TV series also make an appearance, like the Rosemariners, Hecuba, and the Metatraxi.

Interested? Well, I've posted the url of the Big Finish website below, and I will answer any questions you might have, as best as I can...

http://www.bigfinish.com/

I have a game for anyone like me who is also a long time BigFinish listener. Make someone who has only seen one episode of Nu-who listen to Zagreus and watch their brain melt from their ears.