History Awesome / BigFinishDoctorWho

* Ace, in “The Dark Flame”, fighting off ''zombies'' with the Doctor's ''umbrella'' while yelling at him to hurry up.
* "Afterlife": The Seventh Doctor, having just finished his "war" with the Elder Gods in ''Gods & Monsters'', is banishing a fire elemental that made the mistake of toying with the sort-of-but-not-anymore dead!Hex's memories, and decides to use her to send a warning back to her cohorts.

* "The Heavenly Paradigm" from the ''War Master Volume One'' boxset sees the Master and his "companion" Cole attempting to break into a secret Time Lord weapon storage, disguised as a mundane suburban house in Stamford Bridge in the 1970s. The guardian of the place is a Time Lord agent disguised as a kindly old lady, and she offers the visiting Master and Cole a cup of tea. Cole, fooled by the disguise, completely unsuspectingly drinks the tea, which turns out to be drugged and he passes out as a result. The Master, meanwhile, knew exactly who the old lady really was and what was going on all along, and when the agent realizes that he hasn't fallen for the bait, she confronts him at stazer-point. The Master is completely unintimidated by this and even smugly takes it all in stride. It is hard not to be compelled by witnessing him unleashing all of his most evil, diabolical intelligence and just basking in it:

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* For many, one of the most admirable things about Big Finish is their willingness to bring back the actors of the old series for actual, paying acting work. Almost all of them look back on their time in the series with pride and were happy to work with their characters again, particularly when they're allowed to [[CharacterDevelopment explore new depths the series originally wouldn't, or couldn't]].
** That the company managed to work with every surviving regular cast member from the classic series apart from one (Creator/JackieLane, who retired from acting not long after leaving the show in 1966) is very impressive.
* Not really a Big Finish example, but nevertheless awesome. In the prequel minisode to the 50th Anniversary Special, "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]", the Eighth Doctor says the names of all of his companions before he dies, calling them his companions and saluting them. Through this, the entirety of the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho expanded universe is now CANON IN THE TV SERIES AS WELL!!!
** That one was also kind of awesome because Creator/StevenMoffat ''finally'' got to write the Eighth Doctor. He attended the earliest writers' meetings with the original Big Finish team, but lost interest when he discovered they didn't have the licence for the "current" ([=McGann=]) Doctor, and between one thing and another never did do a Big Finish story. So not only did he finally write for [=McGann=]'s Doctor, he wrote the (admittedly very compressed) GrandFinale for Paul.
** Along similar lines, the events of the Dark Eyes storylines are clearly the opening salvos of the Last Great Time War, without mentioning it by name -- a brilliant meta on WritingAroundTrademarks, as nobody would know the name of the war yet.
** On that note, the years of Big Finish writers (many of whom, of course, are also TV series writers) sneaking in references to the show back when that was technically not allowed, like the Ninth Doctor's cheeky appearance in "The Kingmaker". And Creator/NicholasBriggs (as BF showrunnner) and Creator/RussellTDavies (as TV showrunner) throwing sneaky references across to events in each others' series. Just goes to show that whatever Creator/TheBBC might say about what's "official", ''Doctor Who'' writers will never care!
* The announcement that Kate Stewart as played by Creator/JemmaRedgrave from New Who would be having her own spinoff-it's even being marketed as the "First Big Finish Release from the 2005 Revival of ''Doctor Who''''.
** Made even better when Big Finish announced a ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' series too!
** The War Doctor getting his own series made the fandom estatic!
** And the companion series to the War Doctor series. "The Eighth Doctor: The Time War."
** And then the TENTH DOCTOR was announced as well!
*** And then, as if it couldn't get any better, ''[[Creator/BilliePiper Rose]]'' was announced for Series 2!
* Creator/DavidBradley and the rest of the cast from ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'' reprised their roles of The First Doctor, Ian, Susan and Barbara for two boxsets of The First Doctor Adventures in 2018!
* The fact that after the plans for her spin off did not take off ground, Rose Tyler gets her own series which explores her exploits and filling up the gap between the series 2 finale and series 4!
* Jenny, The Doctor's daughter got her own series in 2018! Even getting a companion of her own!
* In 2021 Creator/ChristopherEccleston will be reprising his role as The Ninth Doctor for the first time in years!
** Not only that, they also managed to continue the War Doctor adventures by making a prequel with a younger War Doctor, "War Doctor Begins" with Jonathon Carley ''excellently'' impersonating Creator/JohnHurt that you'd believe that it's actually the real man himself.
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* The announcement that Kate Stewart as played by Jemma Redgrave from New Who would be having her own spinoff-it's even being marketed as the "First Big Finish Release from the 2005 Revival of ''Doctor Who''''.

-->'''Time Lord Agent:''' I'm pointing a stazer pointed at your hearts. It is set to maximum. There will be no regeneration for you when I pull the trigger. And what do you have? ''(mockingly) A cup of tea!''\\
'''The Master:''' ''(smugly) Yes... (calmly puts down the cup)'' Are you scared yet?

** [[spoiler: Seven's]] brief cameo when Six is [[spoiler: on the verge of regeneration.]]

** That the company managed to work with every surviving regular cast member from the classic series apart from one (Jackie Lane, who retired from acting not long after leaving the show in 1966) is very impressive.

-->'''River Song:''' You’re not in love with me. I’m not involved. In love with me? You’re in love ''at'' me. And those are very different things... Oh, and even if you are, what am I supposed to do about it? Your feelings place no obligation on me... You do know that’s not how it works, right? I’m not like a reward card. You don’t build up points doing favors for me until you win a prize.

* "Davros" is one long [=MoA=] for you-know-who. He starts the story off ''freaking [[DeathIsCheap DEAD]]'', and by the end he's taken over the galaxy's biggest [[MegaCorp corporation]], pretended to be a {{Woobie}} to enlist the help of the CEO's [[UnwittingPawn wife]] in taking over the company, reduced the galactic stock market to a simple, foolproof equation and held the economy hostage by threatening to release said equation to ''everyone'', and dropped a '''nuclear bomb on the Doctor.''' [[note]]Of course it doesn’t work, but ''still.''[[/note]] [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent. Bastard.]]

* "The Heavenly Paradigm" from the ''War Master Volume One'' boxset sees the Master and his "companion" Cole attempting to break into a secret Time Lord weapon storage, disguised as a mundane suburban house in Stamford Bridge in the 1970s. The guardian of the place is a Time Lord agent disguised as a kindly old lady, and she offers the visiting Master and Cole a cup of tea. Cole, fooled by the disguise, completely unsuspectingly drinks the tea, which turns out to be drugged and he passes out as a result. The Master, meanwhile, knew exactly who the old lady really was and what was going on all along, and when the agent realizes that he hasn't fallen for the bait, she confronts him at stazer-point. The Master is completely unintimidated by this and even smugly takes it all in stride. It is hard not to be compelled by witnessing him unleashing all of his most evil, diabolical {{Magnificent Bastard}}ry and just basking in it:

* "The Last Adventure- The Brink of Death"; having been manipulated into a position where he's essentially a ghost in the Matrix as the Valeyard intends to remake all of Time Lord history so that he is the only Time Lord to ever exist, the Doctor uses the last dregs of energy available to him to essentially ''kill his own past self'', sacrificing his very existence in his current state to stop the Valeyard.
** [[spoiler: Seven's]] brief cameo when Six is [[spoiler: on the verge of regeneration.]]
--> ''It's far from being all over...''

* For those who are fans of the Sixth Doctor who are not happy that he did not get his own grand finale unlike most Doctors finally gets all the stories that shows what happened between Classic Series S23 and S24 which also leads to the Sixth Doctor finally getting his own grand finale years later which also makes the Sixth Doctor to be the only one to have an audio Regeneration story instead of it being on the TV show.

* The fact that after the plans for her spin off did not take off ground, Rose Tyler gets her own series which explores her exploits and filling up the gap between the series 2 finale and series 4.

* Not really a Big Finish example, but nevertheless awesome. In the prequel minisode to the 50th Anniversary Special, The Night of The Doctor,the Eighth Doctor says the names of all of his companions before he dies, calling them his companions and saluting them. Through this, the entirety of the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho expanded universe is now CANON IN THE TV SERIES AS WELL!!!

** On that note, the years of Big Finish writers (many of whom, of course, are also TV series writers) sneaking in references to the show back when that was technically not allowed, like the Ninth Doctor's cheeky appearance in "The Kingmaker". And Nicholas Briggs (as BF showrunnner) and Russell Davies (as TV showrunner) throwing sneaky references across to events in each others' series. Just goes to show that whatever the BBC might say about what's "official", ''Doctor Who'' writers will never care!

* The announcement that Kate Stewart as played by Jemma Redgrave from New Who would be having her own spinoff-it's even being marketed as the "First Big Finish Release from the 2005 Revival of Doctor Who''
** Made even better when Big Finish announced a Torchwood series too!

* David Bradley and the rest of the cast from [[Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime An Adventure in Space and Time]] will be reprising their roles of The First Doctor, Ian, Susan and Barbara for two boxsets of The First Doctor Adventures in 2018!
* Jenny, The Doctor's daughter will be getting her own series in 2018! Even getting a companion of her own!
* In 2021 Christopher Eccleston will be reprising his role as The Ninth Doctor for the first time in years!
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