BBV Audio Productions
dubbed "Almost Doctor Stories"
(1998-2002)
Complete Set
256K
BBV was a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who (founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and/or actors from the series). The name of the company is short for Bill & Ben Video, "Ben" being the nickname of Bill Baggs's wife, Helen.
After a few earlier experiments, BBV began regularly releasing audio dramas on CD in 1998, under the umbrella title Audio Adventures in Time & Space. The mainstay of the CD line to begin with was a series starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred (the Doctor/companion team from the 1987, 1988 and 1989 seasons of Doctor Who) as a pair of wanderers in time and space named "The Professor" (McCoy) and "Ace" (Aldred) who so closely resembled the characters McCoy and Aldred had played on Doctor Who - even addressing each other by the same nicknames - that the BBC stepped in and their seventh outing, Ghosts, consequently introduced a number of changes to the characters that made the resemblance somewhat less close, the main one being that the adventures now featured "The Dominie" (McCoy) and "Alice" (Aldred).
The first of the Audio Adventures in Time & Space not to feature the McCoy/Aldred double act was Cyber-Hunt, the first BBV production to feature the Cyberons. A further Who-ish note was added by the introduction of an amnesic space traveler played by Nicholas Briggs, who some years earlier had played the Doctor in the Audio Visuals series of unlicensed fan audios. (He was dubbed "Fred" by one of the other characters after her pet goldfish).
BBV moved away from characters-who-might-be-the-Doctor (a field that, in any case, lost some of its appeal for fan audiences once Big Finish Productions began producing officially licensed Doctor Who audio dramas featuring the original actors reprising their incarnation of the character) and, following the success of the Auton trilogy, focussed more on stand-alone dramas featuring various Doctor Who alien races, licensed directly from the writers who created them. For some of those writers, the BBV audios have offered a chance to revisit their creations: for instance, the range includes a story by Pip & Jane Baker explaining what happened to the Rani (last seen in Doctor Who being abducted by a group of aliens that were also created by the writing pair), and a series of stories by Lawrence Miles about his history-spanning terrorist organisation Faction Paradox.
In 2002 BBV announced that they would not produce any more audio CDs, but would instead concentrate on their new DVD releases.
1. Republica Mark Gatiss The Time Travellers
2. Island of Lost Souls Mark Gatiss The Time Travellers
3. Prosperity Island Tim Saward The Time Travellers
4. The Left Hand of Darkness Mark Duncan The Time Travellers
5. The Other Side Mark Duncan The Time Travellers
6. Guest for the Night Nigel Fairs The Time Travellers
7. Cyber-Hunt Martin Peterson The Wanderer
SEASON TWO
STORY AUTHOR SERIES
8. The Last Mission Nicholas Briggs The Stranger
9. Eye of the Storm Arthur Wallis The Stranger
10. Ghosts Nigel Fairs The Time Travellers
11. Vital Signs Tim Saward The Wanderer
12. Only Human Mark J. Thompson The Time Travellers
13. The Choice Nigel Fairs Adventures in a Pocket Universe
14. Blood Sports Nigel Fairs The Time Travellers
15. Homeland Paul Dearing Zygons
16. The Search Nigel Fairs Adventures in a Pocket Universe
17. Absolution Paul Ebbs Zygons
18. The Root of All Evil Lance Parkin Krynoids
19. Silent Warrior Peter Grehan Sontarans
SEASON THREE
STORY AUTHOR SERIES
20. Cybergeddon Paul Ebbs Cyberons
21. Punchline Jeremy Leadbetter The Time Travellers
22. Old Soldiers Simon Gerard and Colin Hill Sontarans
23/24. Infidel's Comet Colin Hill and Simon Gerard
25. The Pattern Mark Duncan
26. I Scream Lance Parkin
27. Conduct Unbecoming Gareth Preston Sontarans
28. The Rani Reaps The Whirlwind Pip and Jane Baker The Rani
29. Race Memory Paul Ebbs Wirrn
SEASON FOUR
STORY AUTHOR SERIES
30. The Barnacled Baby Anthony Keetch Zygons
31. The Eleven Day Empire Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
32. The Shadow Play Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
33. The Green Man Zoltán Déry Krynoids
34. In 2 Minds Iain Hepburn Rutans
35. The Quality of Mercy David A. McIntee
36. Sabbath Dei Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
37. In the Year of the Cat Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
38. Movers Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
39. A Labyrinth of Histories Lawrence Miles Faction Paradox
Below is the corrected LINK for the Entire 4 Series of BBV Audio Productions
Series 1: 2. Island of Lost Souls Mark Gatiss The Time Travellers
It was called to my attention that #36 Sabbath Dei was missing, it has been found and replaced in the folder for download. The series is now complete at the original link above, but for those of you who downloaded Series 4 before it was fixed on 04112013 here is just #36 for replacement. ----------- R
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Thank you Rick! 11 minutes for the Lost Souls is a whole lot better than 5 hours for set 1 only needing #2.
The funny thing is that the 5 hours would not have gotten you what you wanted. When I checked the shows I missed that it was missing and didn't know it until your request. Now we both have the complete set. Thanks for noticing it was missing LOL. ------------------------------------------- R
Thank you for all of the new stuff! All of this is new to me, just about everything on here is new to me! One of these days I need to sit down and listen to some of it. LOL! I guess it is like when I collected over 5,000 albums. To bad I lived in a double wide and had to get rid of most of them.... I think I have a little over 400 now. I just seem to enjoy collecting!
Thank you!
it is in the Request and on the page with the original post. ----------------------------- R
oops! Was in the process of posting a 'thank you for sharing' for this and commented on some of the discussion and forgot to pull the trigger on the thank you.....well.....Rick...Thank you for sharing. :o)
You are welcome. I am in the process of downloading your missing episode request, hopefully it will complete. it is a torrent. I will let you know if it completes. ---------------------------------------------- R
Thankyou so much wonderful
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Thanks for keeping this great site available. Very helpful when we have HD failures.
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