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A long-running radio series produced by [[Big Finish]]. Starring the actors who play the Doctor on TV, and written and produced by some of the regular ''[[Doctor Who]]'' crew, the series is a well-loved and high-quality collection of the Doctor's adventures. The episodes are part of the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] (rather than the [[Whoniverse]] TV show canon).
After the [[Made for TV Movie]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/TVM the TV Movie
On top of that, there are also the "Lost Stories", stories intended for Classic Who but [[What Could Have Been|never made]], and the Companion Chronicles, two-man stories performed by [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|former companions]]. The Eighth Doctor temporarily left the main range from 2007 to 2011, where his stories were moved into his own series of eight, 40 minute tales, much more akin to the new TV series, and the Fourth Doctor currently stars in his own series.
[[Big Finish]] [[Exiled From Continuity|is not legally able to use any elements or characters]] from the revived 2005 series because BBC Audio holds the license for New Who audiobooks, but this doesn't really slow them down any. The occasionally sneaky reference is thrown in.<ref> Such as the Seventh Doctor telling a character the current TARDIS configuration was better than the "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash
Now has a [[Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap|recap page]] that is quite bare, so [[Needs More Love (Sugar Wiki)|contribute and help build it if you can.]]
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Davros's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2xxxaplz0 description of his imprisonment], turned [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Arc Number]]: The number 45 shows up frequently in "Forty-Five" in speech, writing, or other instances (such as soldiers carrying .45 caliber weapons). It is revealed that the appearance of the number 45 is caused by the engines of the CORDIS, a non-physical ship piloted by the Word Lord Nobody No-one, and is analogous to the sound made by the Doctor's TARDIS.
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Dark Space Eight from ''Bang-Bang-a-Boom!'' is clearly supposed to be ''[[Deep Space Nine]]''. The same drama mentions another station called Achilles 4 that is described as [[Babylon 5|the last best hope for peace.]]
* [[Character Development]]: A few characters, mostly the [[Big Finish]]-only companions, are given arcs in which to grow. The Sixth Doctor is also given an in-universe reason to [[Insufferable Genius|mellow out]], although he's still plenty boastful about himself afterwards, just less [[Jerkass|jerkassy]].<ref>The [[Big Finish]] character [[Christmas Cake|Evelyn Smythe]] was introduced as a 55-year old history teacher, who was intelligent, confident, and stomached precisely none of Sixie's ego-trips. Six later tells Mel that having Evelyn continually clip him round the ear significantly improved his people skills...from plain "Insufferable" down to "Mostly Sufferable", admittedly, but still an improvement</ref>
* [[Character Focus]]: A few. The loosely tied trilogy of ''Omega'', ''Davros'' and ''Master'' each focused on...well, the villains [[Driven to Villainy|Omega]], [[Mad Scientist|Davros]] and [[The Master (trope)|The Master]].
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Lady Lilian Hawthorne, a.k.a. "Janus", from ''The Veiled Leopard''.
** Raine Creevy, from ''Crime of the Century'' going forward, seems to be this too.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Governor Rossiter from ''Arrangements for War'' and ''Thicker Than Water''. Voiced by [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Evelyn Smythe. Awesome enough to mellow out Six.
* [[Cross Through]]: A few arcs will pit different Doctors against the same villain / species. Charley's arc is a particularly odd example, as she first meets up with Eight {{spoiler|and goes on to travel with Six}}.
* [[Cuckoo Nest]]: The 8th Doctor audio drama "Minuet in Hell"
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: One of the story elements in ''Spare Parts'', which is often considered one of the best Cybermen stories out there.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Eighth Doctor has his moments, particularly when he tells someone that he's ''really'' glad the guy's going to kill them all on purpose. Because he'd hate to think that someone would do something that monumentally stupid by accident.
* [[Determinator]]: As Eight will tell you, whatever happens, the Doctor does ''not'' give up. In ''Zagreus'', the fact that he ''might'' have given up, even for a second, not only {{spoiler|risks his injuries killing him, with no regeneration}}, but confused the ''hell'' out of his prior incarnations that were gathered around him.
* [[Downer Ending]]: ''To the Death''.
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* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: The Eighth, to the extent they should rename it [[Face Heel Turn|Face Ham Turn]] in his honor. Except for those times when he isn't, as in ''The Natural History of Fear''. Then he's just goddamn terrifying.
** Davros also, but that almost goes without saying.
* [[Eye Scream]]: In ''Night Thoughts'' something is going around and ripping out people's ''eyes.''
* [[Good with Numbers]]: ''The Boy That Time Forgot.'' Block transfer computations. That is all.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: Subverted (boy, is it '''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|ever]]''') with Queen Angvia, who's built like a butch Valkyrie and [[Large Ham|has the lung capacity to match]].
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'''Angvia''': The Universe can VAIT! I AM A ''VOMAN!!'' }}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: At the end of ''Arrangements for War'', the Sixth Doctor suffers a massive one following {{spoiler|the pointless deaths of Marcus and Krisztina, two young lovebirds he'd been befriending the past few months}}. He's a scant few milimetres of ignoring all the laws of time to undo it, before [[Cool Old Lady|Evelyn]] manages to stop him.
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* [[Identical Stranger]]: Apparently, Peri is a dead ringer for Queen Anne of France.
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]:
** ''Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you when you're sleeping...''
** ''Night Thoughts'' had... ''something''... whistling "Oranges and Lemons" while it went around ''[[Eye Scream|ripping out people's eyes.]]''
** ''The Chimes of Midnight'' likewise gave "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" this treatment. Sensing a pattern yet?
* [[Is That a Threat?]]: In ''The Faith Stealer'', the leader of a religious cult confronts the local Sheriff-equivilent.
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'''Carder''': Come come Bordinan, we're both adults here...''of course'' I'm threatening you. }}
* [[Just One Second Out of Sync]]: ''Time Works'' has The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz landing in the space between seconds used by the Time Keepers to make sure everyone stays absolutely punctual. Halfway through Part One, the Doctor ends up falling into the normal flow of events while Charley and C'rizz end up exploring the back corridors of time.
* [[Language Equals Thought]]: No one is allowed to ask questions in Light City in ''Natural History of Fear'' and Alternate Timeline!England in ''Jubilee'' bans contractions.
* [[Large Ham]]: It ''is'' [[Doctor Who]], what did you expect?
** Special mention to Sylvester McCoy in ''Unregenerate!'', where Seven comes down with a case of [[Obfuscating Insanity]]. You can almost ''hear'' the bacon frying.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Light City from ''The Natural History of Fear'' is a 1984-esque dystopia that mind rapes its citizens who dare ask questions.
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: A female alien forces the Seventh Doctor into this in ''Bang-Bang-A-Boom!''
* [[Motive Rant]]: The story ''Davros'' starts off with the title character giving an absolutely epic one, summing up his entire character masterfully.
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* [[Shakespeare in Fiction]]: Last seen getting plastered with the Fifth Doctor in ''The Kingmaker''. Then he became [["Close Enough" Timeline|Richard the Third. And vice versa.]]
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Seven in {{spoiler|''Night Thoughts''.}}
* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: An, erm,...''[[So Bad It's Good|reinterpreted]]'' Doctor Who appears in ''Jubilee''. Yes, it's Doctor Who within Doctor Who.
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'''Dalek''': {{smallcaps|Oh no! It is the Doc-tor! Scar-per! Scar-per!}} }}
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Classic example by the Seventh Doctor to an Eldritch Abomination in ''The Shadow of the Scourge'':
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* [[Street Urchin]]: Sometimes-companion Thomas Brewster.
* [[Theme Song Reveal]]: At [[The Stinger]] of ''The Girl Who Never Was'', Charley {{spoiler|has been stranded on a desert island, after foiling another Cyberman plot}}. Unbeknownst to her, the Eighth Doctor believes they've parted company and has continued on his merry way. She nonetheless hears the TARDIS landing and rushes inside...
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''{{spoiler|'''Sixth''' Doctor theme music starts playing}}'' }}
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise]]}}: ''The Natural History of Fear''.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: The Eighth Doctor in "Phobos". When facing a monster that feeds on adrenaline but is harmed by actual fear, the Doctor conquers it effortlessly by showing it his own mind. He starts by feeding it memories of all the things he's seen in the past, followed by all the evil he's seen from the future... and as a final blow, [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|all the things he's afraid he might do someday]]. The whole [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] takes several minutes, with the Doctor continuously mocking the monster throughout. Oh, and he does it ''while bungee jumping into the monster's transdimensional portal''.
* [[Wham! Line]]: The end of episode 2 of ''Dust Breeding'' features the surprise, out of the blue appearance by an old foe <ref> To expand, Anthony Ainley turned down the offer to reappear as
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'''[[Significant Anagram|Mr Seta]]''': {{spoiler|I am [[The Master (trope)|The Master]], and ''you will '''obey''' me''}}. }}
* [[World of Ham]]: ''The Stones of Venice'', with a side of [[Purple Prose]]. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|And it's GORGEOUS.]]
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in ''The Maltese Penguin''. Frobisher is trying to be the protagonist of a [[Hardboiled Detective]] story, and gets to a point where (in such a story) he'd be killed.
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''[[Most Wonderful Sound|The TARDIS materialises, saving him in the nick of time.]]'' }}
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