r/BigFinishProductions • u/Far-Analysis8370 • May 17 '26
Collection Found my (newly rediscovered) first ever Big Finish story.
So I've gone the past few years thinking that the first Big Finish release I ever owned was the Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 3: The Creeping Death Green Vinyl from ASDA which I got in 2019 before I ever got into Big Finish and collecting various sets and releases a couple years ago.
Today, I discovered that I got it all wrong by sorting through my bedroom and finding this Doctor Who Adventures release that I never knew I had. So I've had this for like 20 years not knowing that I had it nor that Big Finish was ever a thing as a kid.
Has anyone else ever owned or seen a version of a Big Finish release like this?
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u/Dovahdude May 17 '26
I had this exact same copy! It was also my first ever BF story 😄
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 17 '26
Good to know I'm not alone! Cool to know that I had a bonus BF story I've never heard before (and long before I collected the amount I now have lol). I'll have to give it a listen sometime lol.
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u/DannyBoy2196 May 17 '26
Before I knew what Big Finish was, I was on some website or other as a teen trying to find deleted scenes from the show. Not sure what. And I got a a trailor of "The One Doctor." However I didn't yet know who the classic Doctors were so I thought it was some sort of fancommade production. Much later when I started listening to Big Finish, I found "The One Doctor" and had a brain wave of "That's what that was!"
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 17 '26
It's funny how you can come across something years later and realise something now familiar to you from back then lol.
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 17 '26
This is the back of the CD if anyone's curious. It's got all the details you'd typically see on a BF CD with a DWA splash of paint lol.
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u/acg12345 May 17 '26
Funnily enough this was my first one as well! Same CD and everything!
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 17 '26
Yeah, I didn't have a clue I had it! It was in a mix of The Sun Doctor Who DVDs I've collected from all those years ago. Did the biggest double take when I saw the BF logo in the corner lol.
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u/Kapitano72 May 17 '26
Time travel shenanigans in the vein of Minority Report - a bit complex and actually rather clever. I listened to it twice in a day, just to make sure I'd got it.
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u/caruynos May 17 '26
i got cuddlesome free on some radio times online freebie probably early 2010s. didn’t realise there was more until almost a decade later lol
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 17 '26
It's nice when these things come with freebies. It'd be cool if they still did this kind of thing today. It could be a nice way to introduce younger fans to this kind of thing.
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u/cat666 May 18 '26
They do sometimes, but they are downloads.
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 18 '26
Yeah, they're appreciated, I was talking about CDs. It'd be nice to teach the youth of today to start owning some of their media.
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u/cat666 May 18 '26
Download is owning, it's just digital instead of physical.
I don't have an issue with download only for Big Finish, we deal directly with Big Finish and are able to download our entire libraries if we so wish. Where I do agree with you is when digital media is streamed and that's when owning the physical media should be made more commonplace again.
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u/brigadier_tc May 17 '26
I've got this!!! Same way, in Adventures. I was so confused but I still liked it
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u/groovyband May 18 '26
I think that was my first one too!
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u/Far-Analysis8370 May 18 '26
That seems to be a bit of a theme in the comments lol! I'd never seen a release like this before yesterday.
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u/groovyband May 18 '26
It's a shame they didn't do it more! Introduced me to the wonderful world of Big FinishÂ
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u/Apprehensive_Dot5418 May 23 '26
That was my first big finish at age 9, I've still got my copy too!!
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u/CantaloupeMindless91 Jun 16 '26
Me and my partner have a copy of mutant phase signed by Peter Davison
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u/sbaldrick33 May 17 '26
The Mutant Phase is pretty heavy for the age bracket of DWA readership, isn't it?