Big Finish General Discussion

DI Menzies, WHO??

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In my head she’s in loads of audios but she’s actually only in like three of the Six&Charley ones, she’s a Mancunian police officer who is so so done with the Doctor and his nonsense. She’s wonderful <3

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Yeah I only know her from Legacy of Time tbf :sob:

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Related to John?

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From the podcast, courtesy of Erik from the discord! Just reiterating what we already knew/suspected regarding download only releases/ranges.

Benji Clifford: We got one more here from Chris Autin. Subject is Star Cops. "Dear Nick and Benji, I’m over the moon that there are going to be more episodes of Star Cops coming soon but why are they going to be download only? I realize that this is the trend now and perfectly understand why this approach is taken for new ranges. Why on earth do it for the continuing series that people have been collecting on CD? Did you really have to do this? Are you being served? Thanks for listening - Chris. "

Nick Briggs: Right, thank you Chris. It’s a tricky one. I know what you mean, it kind of… It creates a kind of hiccup but the trouble is that it’s a very low selling range. But we do love it and it’s just the difference between it um… making enough money to cover its costs and not and the see… you know, we took the CD costs off and then the budget made sense so it was purely for economic reasons. So sorry about that, I know you’re probably thinking “Oh, surely it can’t make that much of a difference,” but it really does uh, yeah, sorry about that, uh, no, sincerely, sorry. That’s it for this week’s emails, keep them coming they’re brilliant

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You making me listen to her stories now lol

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I don’t remember if her stories are any good (I think they’re at least fine) but she’s great :slight_smile:

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Menzies is one of those characters that fans, for a period of time, desperately wanted as a permanent companion in the audios. I’ll be honest and say, although I liked her well enough, I never saw the appeal that much. Although, that said I’d have rather her as a companion than Mary Shelley.

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Companion, maybe not, but one of those side characters who turns up literally all the time for some reason, YEAH!

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The doctor even said he’d invite her if he wasn’t busy with Charley

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This week’s Randomoid Selectotron release, which gives you a 25% discount on a BF release, is Gallifrey Series 4…

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maybe for those of you who did the audio club but never continued? This is your sign (also Gallifrey S4 is seriously amazing, it’s my favourite of all of them)

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It’s worth it just for the opening dream sequence and Interrogator General Leela alone… But for serious the two middle episodes, Disassembled and Annihilation are two of my favourite stories of all time. And not just because I’m in love with Leela. though that does factor in…

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The bts of the dream sequence is also incredibly funny

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I’ve got that outtake saved and listen to it whenever I really need a quick pick-me-up. Favourite thing about all of Gallifrey and it’s not even in the actual series. Never, ever fails to make me feel better

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I agree she works better as a “that’s a pity we could never match our schedules, isn’t it?” companion-who-never-was role. Would be down for more DiMenzies anyway. I hope she pops up in a Flip/Constance story whenever we get them back.

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It seems like Big Finish are working on a way to release the rest of the Subscriber Short Trips, which is great because i want to listen to them all

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Do u guys think BF already has things planned for 2028?

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Id assume so?

I think they said somehere they have their release schedule planned for the next 3 years (cant remember where I saw that mind so may be misremembering). Plus we know theyve started making more 4, 6, and 7 stories to prepare for the worst.

With 4s back catalogue being from 2018 this year, theoretically they could have stories (for the fourth Doctor) ready for 2032.

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We’ve just reached 2021 for the 4DA recordings iirc

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