Big Finish: top titles of 2012 (50% sale)

Saturday, 19 January 2013 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Big Finish have revealed the top ten titles in their listener poll for 2012:

1. Love and War
2. Gods and Monsters
3. The Curse of Davros
4. The Emerald Tiger 5. Protect and Survive
5= Destination Nerva
7. Voyage to Venus 8. The First Sontarans
8= The Wrath of the Iceni
10. The Butcher of Brisbane

As part of a celebration of the list, Big Finish are also offering five of the top titles at 50% off this weekend. Stories on offer are Love and War, Gods and Monsters, The Last Post (Companion Chronicles), Destination Nerva (Fourth Doctor Adventures), and The First Sontarans.

FILTER: - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: October Update

Saturday, 27 October 2012 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Big Finish have updated their details for releases in their Doctor Who range this month, including an early release of an adventure originally planned for November:

The five-disc box set Doctor Who – UNIT: Dominion finds the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) taking on invading forces from another dimension. Luckily, he has the help of UNIT, including former companion - and former Nazi! - Dr Elizabeth Klein, his trusty safe-cracking companion Raine Creevy and... another version of himself!

A massive event of a story running to approximately four hours (plus an hour of behind-the-scenes material), Doctor Who – UNIT: Dominion also stars Tracey Childs as Klein, Beth Chalmers as Raine and Alex Macqueen as the Other Doctor. It's written by Nicholas Briggs and Jason Arnopp and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

Originally starting its life as one of Virgin's Doctor Who: New Adventures novels, Love and War was now-TV-Who-writer Paul Cornell's second novel for the range, and the one which introduced Bernice Summerfield, a stalwart of Big Finish's audio output literally from day one.

Doctor Who: Love and War is an audio adaptation by Jacqueline Rayner of that novel, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Benny's creation. It finds the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) visiting the planet Heaven, where they meet Professor Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) and discover dark deeds afoot that will change the Doctor and Ace's relationship forever... The three-disc set includes a special prelude plus an extensive behind the scenes documentary.

Finally, a whole month earlier than scheduled, is Doctor Who – Voyage to Venus. The story finds Victorian investigators of infernal incidents Jago and Litefoot off on a jaunt with the Sixth Doctor, in the aftermath of their latest series of adventures in their own spin-off series. Their first stop is the planet Venus, mentioned on several occasions in Doctor Who but not actually visited - and what a wealth of strange creatures both fair and foul it brings!

Colin Baker once more plays the Sixth Doctor, while Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxer again embody the olden-days adventurers Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot as they're taken out of the comfort zone of their own time and space for the first time!

Voyage to Venus is available now at a special bargain price, and all three titles are included in the Special Releases bundle offer (extended until December) that also includes the new epic Eighth Doctor tale Doctor Who: Dark Eyes (out in November) and another story starring the Sixth Doctor with Jago and Litefoot – Doctor Who: Voyage to the New World (out in December).

Visit Big Finish's website for full details on special offers.

FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: Companion Chronicles Offer

Friday, 24 August 2012 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Big Finish have announced a special offer this weekend for the first season of their Companion Chronicles.

The four stories comprising the series are Frostfire (Maureen O'Brien as Vicki), Fear of the Daleks (Wendy Padbury as Zoe), The Blue Tooth (Caroline John as Liz), and The Beautiful People (Lalla Ward as Romana); they can all be purchased via the Big Finish website.

FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

Big Finish: special offers

Saturday, 16 June 2012 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Big Finish continues its month of special offers this weekend with a celebration of the popular duo Jago and Litefoot; both their first audio appearance in The Companion Chronicles: The Mahogany Murderers and the first complete series of adventures are available at a reduced price between now and 8:00am 18th June.

This is followed by a celebration of The Celestial Toymaker, with the character featuring in The Lost Stories: The Nightmare Fair, The Magic Mousetrap, and The Companion Chronicles: Solitaire; the three stories are available to purchase separately or in a special bundle deal between 6:00pm 17th June and 8:00am 20th June.

Sara Kingdom (as played by Jean Marsh) is the focus of the next offer, with Home Truths, The Drowned World and The Guardian of the Solar System available on offer between 6:00pm 19th June and 8:00am 22nd June.

Finally, Doctor Who: Short Trips volumes one, two, three and four will be on special offer between 6:00pm 25th June and 8:00am 28th June. The series features tales read by William Russell, David Troughton, Katy Manning, Louise Jameson, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sophie Aldred and India Fisher.

Note: All times are cited in BST

FILTER: - Merchandise - Audio - Special Offers - Big Finish

T-Shirt roundup

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 - Reported by Chuck Foster

This week sees a few Doctor Who inspired t-shirts available to purchase online, and a number of retailers have kindly offered Doctor Who News readers a discount code when ordering their design!

Qwertee have launched the latest in their popular Doctor Who designs; created by "zerobriant" and "rtofirefly", the t-shirt is only available for two days.

The 'My Regeneration Tour' is live on stage! Fresh from their last performance at Satellite 5, The WHOs are the greatest band of all -Time-! Paul McGann's sonic screams wail out across the universe, accompanied by killer licks from Tom Baker on lead guitar, and a smooth groove from the bass guitardis of Matt Smith! And you can expect David Tennant to EX-TER-MI-NATE his drum solo with the precision of a Doctor.

Doctor Who News readers may claim a 40p/50¢ discount off the t-shirt by using the code doctorwhonews.net when ordering.

Other Tees are currently running a t-shirt design based upon the Beatles' iconic Abbey Road; designed by "NanaLArt", the t-shirt is available for the next four days.

I really like The Beatles and I really like Doctor Who. I decided to make an equation full of awesome! I know the Abbey Road theme has been done before but if you haven't put Daleks on a meme then you're not doing it right!

Doctor Who News readers may claim 50 cents off the price of the t-shirt by using the code WhoNewsPage when ordering.

If you missed the chance to get Procrastinate when this was available as an offer for Doctor Who News before, it is now available to purchase from 604republic, which is a semi-permanent item in their catalogue.

This Dalek has decided to replace his typical cry of “Exterminate” with something a bit more relaxing, after all, the exterminate part can always get done tomorrow.

Doctor Who News readers may claim 10% off their order by using the promotional code DOCTORWHONEWS at checkout.

Sharksplode have released a design by Joel Watson based on an idea by Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Wil Wheaton, entitled "Fighting Time Lords".

It is both timey-wimey and spacey-wacey.

FILTER: - Merchandise - Special Offers

Doctor Pooh - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

Monday, 30 May 2011 - Reported by Chuck Foster

"Once upon a time (and some dimension in space), in the Hundred Acre Wood.."

Europe's largest daily T-Shirt website Qwertee have launched their latest Doctor Who inspired design; it is created by artist/designer robpwood.

This is a limited edition print which will only be available to purchase for two days (i.e. until 11:00pm Wednesday 1st June).

Readers of Doctor Who News will be able to take advantage of a special 40p/50¢ discount off the usual £8/€10/$13.50 price of this t-shirt - simply enter this promotional code when ordering:

 
            Q-DoctorWhoNewsPage

The t-shirt can be ordered from the Qwertee website.

Meanwhile, we are once again delighted to announce a competition in association with Qwertee - full details are on the Competitions page.

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Mirror Giveaway

Saturday, 7 May 2011 - Reported by Chuck Foster

The Mirror is running a promotion from today to give away figures from the Character Building range of LEGO-compatible toys.

Over the course of the next six days the paper will carry tokens that can be redeemed at either Sainsbury's or Toys'R'Us; Saturday kicks off with the 11th Doctor, followed by a Yellow Eternal Dalek on Sunday and Amy Pond on Monday.

You can watch an advert for the giveaway via the Mirror's YouTube channel.

(with thanks to David Brodie)

FILTER: - Merchandise - Character - Special Offers

Procrastinate - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

Thursday, 7 April 2011 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Europe's largest daily T-Shirt website Qwertee have launched their latest Doctor Who inspired design; it is created by graphic designer Crystal, who said: "Daleks need some down time too ya know! I mean…trying to destroy the Universe is hard work!"

This is a limited edition print which will only be available to purchase for three days (i.e. until 11:00pm Sunday 10th April).

Once again, readers of Doctor Who News will be able to take advantage of a special 40p/50¢ discount off the usual £8/€10/$13.50 price of the t-shirt - simply enter this promotional code when ordering:

 
            DoctorWhoNewsPage

The t-shirt can be ordered from the Qwertee website.

Meanwhile, we are delighted to announce a competition in association with Qwertee to win a t-shirt of your choice from their back catalogue - full details will appear on the Competitions page next week.

FILTER: - Merchandise - Competitions - Special Offers

The Crack - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

Sunday, 27 February 2011 - Reported by Chuck Foster

Europe's largest daily T-Shirt website Qwertee have launched a new Doctor Who inspired design, featuring the Doctor and Amy peering through the Crack. It was created by animator Billy Allison, who said: "an idea I thought of while watching Dr Who ... why don't they just have a look inside? I thought, maybe not a good idea but still :D"

This is a limited edition print which will only be available to purchase for three days (i.e. until 11:00pm Wednesday 1st March).

Readers of Doctor Who News will be able to take advantage of a special 50p/50c discount off the usual £8/€10/$13.50 price of the t-shirt - simply enter this promotional code when ordering:

 
                   TheDoctorWhoNewsPage

The t-shirt can be ordered from the Qwertee website.

When it comes to the world of online t-shirt stores Qwertee.com is a little bit different in that we are the UK and indeed Europe’s first daily t shirt store. Qwertee is very simple: we sell one t shirt, for one day only, for one incredible price. Every day at 11pm we put a new tee on sale for 24 hours only (or less if it sells out) for the amazing price of £8/€10/about $13. Our shirts are about as limited edition as you could imagine: after 24 hours they are gone from Qwertee forever, never to return again. So if you see a tee you like you need to act fast before it is too late!

We work with some of the finest artists/designers both local and international to bring you an amazing new design every day of the year. But rather than deciding what to print ourselves, it is the Qwertee community members that decide what we print. Artists submit their designs, Qwertee users vote for what they like and the most popular designs are printed and put on sale for 24 hours. The artist then gets paid a €1 commission for every shirt that sells. We welcome all kinds of designs on Qwertee: from funny, pop culture and parody to more serious artwork. Qwertee want to offer something for everybody and with the shirt a day system, the next design is never far away, so you’ll always find something that suits you.

Though our shirts cost a mere £8/€10 (less if you use our discount codes) they are ethically produced, made of supersoft 100% ringspun cotton and are hand printed locally in the UK/Ireland. They also feature screen printed tags and are shipped in environmentally friendly 100% degradable bags. These are the kind of features you’d normally associate with much more expensive tees but it is just a small part of Qwertee’s commitment to providing you with a great quality product at a ridiculously low price. We ship to everywhere in the world and our shipping rates (from €1.35 with €3 worldwide delivery) are the best around.

As well as our commitment to amazing tees we also aim to provide the best service of anywhere you have ever shopped, online or otherwise. When it comes to customer service, we will do whatever it takes to make sure you are happy. We provide you with detailed sizing charts and comparisons with popular brands to make sure you get a great fitting shirt. We offer free returns and will reply to your emails within 24 hours or less, even at the weekends.

Finally we like to think of Qwertee as being one of the friendliest online communities so whether you want to check out today’s design, talk about tees or anything else in our forums, or just drop by to have a look around, you’ll be made very welcome at Qwertee.com. See you soon!

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Big Finish: top titles of 2012 (50% sale)

Big Finish: October Update

Big Finish: Companion Chronicles Offer

Big Finish: special offers

T-Shirt roundup

Doctor Pooh - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

Mirror Giveaway

Procrastinate - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

The Crack - Qwertee T-Shirt Offer

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