Absolutely! I was thinking more down the road.
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I’ll throw in a couple of BBC series that I don’t think have been mentioned yet:
Sherlock Holmes starring Michael Williams and Clive Morrison
Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
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Already queued up on a spreadsheet you’ll be pleased to here.
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I didn’t think anyone else knew about them! I listened to their Springheel’d Jack stuff years ago and even got an advance preview of the third instalment because I said nice things about the series online.
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I will just emphasise that AudioLog was first and foremost a mini-project in advance of other larger potential Guide sites which was always primarily about the rest of Big Finish’s output. Whilst we love the enthusiasm for audio drama in this thread, we aren’t guaranteeing that every suggestion will end up on AudioLog.
As people are pointing out there is a HUGE amount out there to greater and lesser degrees of ‘professionalism’.
Big Finish will always take priority as that was the spark for this site. It’s likely we will start with companies with links to BF (like Bafflegab and Anderson Entertainment) before branching out beyond that.
Keep making suggestions (if nothing else it’s highlighting more audio drama to us all that we might not have heard of) but don’t expect to see it popping up on AudioLog that quickly!
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The ones released by BF are already on there. Are there other releases? (I ask because there are some Textbook Stuff and Sigmund Freud Files releases which aren’t available via BF).
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Too far removed from Doctor Who (spiritual successor or not) but they are, as I say, definitely coming to AudioLog.
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Through @deltaandthebannermen, @monkeyshaver reminded me of this. Never listened to it myself, but I feel like it’d fit.
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Here’s a more left-field shout Samuel Barnett’s Unknown
(Spotify)
Its a podcast audiodrama following Tom Price (Sgt Andy from Torchwood) and Samuel Barnett (Norton Folgate from Torchwood) basically go on a ghost hunt.
Its written by Scott Handcock and James Goss (also from Torchwood’s BTS team).
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Yep, the world of Audio Drama is so diverse. Lots in this thread I’ve never heard of. & once again a huge thanks to everyone’s hard work in creating AudioLog 
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Just remembered this!
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We have plenty of that kind of stuff on TG already. Live events that are no longer available, '60s stuff that you can’t get anywhere and so on.
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All of Bafflegab’s output is coming.
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I mentioned elsewhere these two:
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I’d love to see the Gunsmoke radio show on the site.
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I haven’t heard many non–Doctor Who audio plays to be honest, but I did listen to the 80s Lord of the Rings radio play series recently, which I thought was pretty good. That could be a decent addition to audiolog.
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The trio of His Dark Materials that the BBC did over twenty years ago? Daniel Anthony, Clyde in SJA, was in those as Will.
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I did find this site and they seem to have a bunch of old radio shows[1]
RadioEchoes.com - Series: Abbott And Costello Show
Edit there’s also some Dr. Who
legality/rights not sure ↩︎
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Two old-time radio shows that might be worth considering: hard-boiled police procedural Dragnet and The Halls of Ivy, a gentle comedy set in a small American college.
Most of the episodes are available in various places online and some are of better audio quality than others. The Halls of Ivy, lead by Ronald Colman, starts off weakly but gradually finds its feet. Dragnet is strong from the start.
A summary of Dragnet:
Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in American media history. The series gave millions of Americans a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.
This series ran from 6/3/49 to 2/26/57 on NBC at various times and days and starred Jack Webb as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Various partners throughout the show’s run were Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander). Webb was the creator/Director of the series and wanted everything to be as authentic as possible, down to the last sound effect. The stories were based on actual police files and “the names were changed to protect the innocent”. Dragnet broke a few radio taboos as well, such as dramatizing sex crimes. Children also were killed on occasion as in the episode “Twenty-Two Rifle For Christmas”. The series eventually went to television and ran there for many years. The familiar DUM DE DUM DUM, the first four notes of the opening theme composed by Walter Schumann, became a pop culture legend and was forever associated with Webb, Dragnet, and just plain getting in trouble.
The Halls of Ivy:
The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends and college trustees.
The series ran 110 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950 to June 25, 1952, with Quinn, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert Lee writing most of the scripts and giving free if even more sophisticated play to Quinn’s knack for language play, inverted cliches and swift puns (including the show’s title and lead characters), a knack he’d shown for years writing Fibber McGee and Molly. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee continued as a writing team; their best-known play is Inherit the Wind.
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A few years ago Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy, with comedy duo Trevor and Simon made a sci-fi comedy series called “Strangeness in Space” ( https://www.clareeden.com/strangenessinspace ). It doesn’t seem to be on TG already, so would it be a better fit for audiolog?
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